What was his undoing? Please tell me some supervisor caught him hiding in the bathroom.
:D. Yep, it’s the bean bag game. All the posters advertising the event feature anthropomorphic corn on the cob characters.
I’d never heard of this type of “Cornholing”, so imagine my surprise to be sitting in a tiny redneck church (rural WV) when “Brother Wendell” got called up to say a few words before the sermon:
“Ah cain’t believe we cain’t fahnd a dozen or so guys lahk m’self for some good cornholin’ fun! Now, we gots a cornhole sign-up sheet back by the girl scout cookie table, an’ ah want some uh you ree-tired boys ta git on back thar right after the service an’ putcher name down. Enny you younger guys who’ve ever cornholed, we’d welcome you, too.”
“Thank you, Brother Wendell. I do hope we will all take your words to heart. Today’s gospel reading …”
It’s been so dead at work for so long that it’s become a habit to log on, check e-mail and spend my day at the Dope. I now have work this week, and I’m so addicted to the Dope that I can’t stop coming here. Must.Focus.
Yah, cornholing means something really different 'round these parts. I admit, I snickered.
OK, we have acquired a new executive team in the past four months. One of their “things” is that managers should move out of their offices, and then the offices can be turned into meeting rooms, which we do need more of. On the whole, whatever.
Only the managers, instead of using the meeting rooms to have confidential conversations, which they still need to do, stand around in quiet corners having whispered conversations. I hate whispered conversations. I always feel left out. I want to stand up and say in a loud voice “No whispering!”
(I am only making this lame workplace post because I am once again in a situation where I have nothing to do at work and I am so bored! Last week I let my boss know that I was not busy, so she gave me an additional 5 minutes worth of work. Whoop-de-effin’-do.)
Roddy
I was not actually aware that cornholing could refer to a bean bag game until recently…I knew it referred to a non-ass-related game, but I didn’t know it was a family-friendly game.
I hate whispering, too - it’s like people who stop talking as soon as you come into the room. I know chances are great that they aren’t talking about me in either case, but it makes me paranoid. 
Long ago, someone on this board ranted about the presence of Scentsy products in the workplace (specifically, I think the boss had a Scentsy oil burner?). I will admit, I underestimated the power of this product until today. One of the ladies placed a large “sampler” bag on a table in the break room; it was filled with tiny containers, each containing a dollop of scented goo. The stench wafting up out of that bag was overwhelming; I don’t know how anyone was able to eat lunch in there. While the current Safety Initiative prohibits the use of mug or oil warmers, I can only imagine that someone will see fit to purchase some room spray and use it to hose down the bathroom. 
Hey, at least she gave you work… I’ve had a couple of bosses who insisted in giving more work to people who weren’t getting their other work done, rather than to those of us with time in our hands. Very efficient, not.
Has anybody noticed (those of us who don’t block ads) that there are now ads on the page for cornhole bags and wooden cornhole games?
We have a supervisor at work who has been going through hell since the beginning of the year. So. Much. Personal. Drama. A lot of stuff outside her area of control, and she’s really been a trooper through most of it. But the latest? Hubby is having an affair and is leaving her, and this has completely pushed her off the deep end.
And when I say off the deep end, I mean OFF. THE. DEEP. END. She can’t take any more time off (well, she can, and her manager and HR strongly suggested it, but it would be unpaid due to her already using up all her PTO with the various other crises she’s faced), so we’re all stuck walking on eggshells around her. She has to have other supervisors sit in on her one-on-one meetings with her team members, because she literally cannot control what comes out of her mouth and as a result has inappropriately chewed out several people recently; this means that she’s taking other people away from their work because she’s untrustworthy, AND is stressing out her underlings who never know if she’s going to lose her shit at them.
We’re an office of mental health professionals, and we’re all about meeting people where they are, and being sympathetic and supportive, and understanding that sometimes folks just aren’t going to be working up to snuff. I of all people can totally understand living in that ‘one foot in front of the other’ world, going to work because the alternative is to sit at the house and ruminate, but I really wish she’d just take a week or two to get her head screwed back on, rather than subject us to her turmoil.
Dear Employer:
I am feeling extremely disrespected right now.
I know it’s not personal, I’m just one of many cogs in the wheel, but it’s very frustrating.
Details matter-- when you move the day of the week that I need to turn in my requests for time off earlier, and the day of the week that I find out what my weekly schedule is later . . . it’s annoying and disrespectful. It would be really nice to know before the last minute what my hours are on Sunday in particular.
Also, I was suppose to attend a training session today that apparently did not exist.
I didn’t want to attend said training session, but I’m a little worried that missing the one I was scheduled for means I won’t get to attend any of the training sessions for this thing, and that also makes me feel unvalued and disrespected.
also–and mostly unrelated-- I get the whole “The Best Offense is a Good Defense” strategy analogy-- but I don’t get the link to the computer based scheduling, and making my boss write me a list is not the solution to the problem I discusses with our newest manager that I want. (The solution I want-- to be given shifts long enough to overlap with and interact with other people in my department).
Here’s the update: I got ahold of someone who was able to get our letter changed to Denver. Sometimes the system DOESN’T screw you.
I guess this outcome is too happy to be in the Pit.
Hooray!
Cool beans!
Long time reader of this thread and I am finally frustrated enough to contribute.
A bit of backstory: I work for a very small part of a large organization. The rest of the organization is very focused on its mandate and we are usually forgotten. BUT the newish executive director has decided that we will have one face for the world and it will be the face of the “rest of the organization”. We are now officially called “small cog” at "rest of the organization”.
Ah what the heck, a bit more background that identifies things a bit. We are a seniors community centre providing seniors in the community with programs (fitness classes, educational classes and various things you expect from a community centre) and services (non-medical services for seniors in need … drives to doctor’s appointments, low cost house cleaning, handymen, day programs for dementia clients etc.) We operate as part of a Long Term Care Home (ie Nursing Home). Our official name is very nondescript: <Proper Noun> at <LTC facility>, let’s call it “Langley at LTC Centre”. We used to be known as Langley House Seniors Centre, but we can no longer use the word House or identify ourselves as a senior’s centre. We physically reside in a heritage building called “Langley House”.
Anyway, this has been going on for a while … lots of little stories I could tell … but the latest today has to do with Facebook. So we are a community centre with programs to advertise, a Christmas bazaar to advertise etc. So in this modern day and age, it would make sense to use social media such as Facebook, and twitter to spread the word. …. Right??? NO NO NO NO …. Thou shalt not engage social media without permission! I spent a bit of time of the last few days creating a facebook page for our organization and adding some upcoming events. All of this was at the request of my boss.
Our facebook page went live late on Monday and had about 20 likes by this morning (without actually doing any advertisement other than about me inviting about 5 coworkers to like it. Our members & clients have not been told of it yet) This morning at about 9:30 the Executive Director came storming into my boss’s office (he comes over to our building about once a year) … door closed conversation (although what was said before doors were shut made it clear it was about facebook) and my boss came into my office afterwards looking pale and told me to delete the page.
SIGH
So much for the boss’s plan of “beg forgiveness rather than asking permission” … doesn’t seem to have worked out so well.
Also nice to see where ED’s priorities are. More important to keep your underlings in line rather than to empower them to succeed.
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One of my coworkers has decided to be out for our second biggest event of the year. She’s having surgery, so health first, yah? Except…I KNOW this is a totally elective surgery and she’s deliberately scheduling it during the event so she doesn’t have to go. I am putting the best face on it I can, but I just don’t even want to talk to her about the event anymore. It’s not your event, OK? You decided to opt out and skip the entire thing. It shouldn’t even be under your name.
This is also the same coworker who took office talk about a volunteer directly to the volunteer’s ear. We discuss vols all the time in the office, and the conversation was something like “We don’t think X person is the right fit for Y job.” She went straight to the vol and told them, “The office doesn’t think you’re good enough.” Why she wasn’t fired after that I don’t know. Reap what you sow I guess, except I have to put up with her. -
The other coworker, whom I have always liked, told me today that she believes her husband and Fox news when they say Obamacare is going to ruin the country and in ten years we won’t even recognize our country. What the fuck. This is a woman who was once very rich and has fallen on hard times, and has trouble paying a hospital bill now - she literally hasn’t paid it since she can’t afford it. How she can sit there and not be able to pay her hospital bill and at the same time see nothing wrong with our current healthcare system AND think that ‘Obamacare’ is literally going to bring our country to its knees I don’t know.
Keep your head down and do your work, Mika.
Mika, I totally understand. There’s a woman at my office who, when I do make the occasional appearance there, starts these kinds of conversations with me. We are polar opposites on a lot of things and she just won’t let it go - she doesn’t even get the hint when I’m wearing my headphones. I very, very rarely go in there now - unless I know for a fact she’ll be out of the office. (It’s always good to have a spy or two at the physical office for just these occasions. ;))
You know, when I have less than 1 hour before I’m out of here on vacation, I’m probably not capable of paying attention to your long and complicated explanation of how something works (in answer to someone else’s question). Just answer them directly, ok?