Week 3 of computer based scheduling. I work only 10 hours ( my choice-- 30 hours of vacation fill the rest of my week. I"m not actually going anywhere or doing anything, but just not going to work will be nice.)
However, one of my two shifts is during time I always want off.
And this week is more important than average that I have it off. Except I don’t.
so I think that some of my vacation time will be dedicated to starting the job hunting process.
I may not get serious until next year, but polishing the resume and seeing what is out there can’t hurt.
I’ve seen a few tubes in the mail (we even employed a few) but how often do you get spheres? How many bowling balls were stuck in the internal mail before this became a problem? And would a dodecahedron be sufficiently faceted to get through unimpeded?
We have this new computer system at work. It’s supposed to be so much faster and make our jobs easier. We got it about a month ago, and so far it’s been so full of bugs and glitches as to make it almost unusable. And it’s not the same bugs and glitches, one day Problem A will come up, we’ll get an update to download, and then Problem A is fixed but Problems B, C, and D crop up. Update comes out to fix B, C, and D, and then A comes back. I can see the potential in this program if the bugs ever get fixed but right now it’s nothing but a headache.
What makes the rotating bugs even worse is when we report the bugs to the person we’re supposed to report them to, she bites our heads off. This new software was her idea and she can’t handle the fact that it has some growing pains.
There are, in face, a few actual spheres that get wrapped up and/or labeled in that shape and make it onto the sorter. But an actual ball in a soft plastic pouch behaves in the same way.
ETA: and with the slopes that some of our conveyors maintain, a dodecahedron would be pretty roll-y.
Here’s the deal going forward, company. While I’m salaried, if you’re going to make me take a half-day of PTO for a max 2-hour doctor’s appointment (with time spent going to and from) with all the extra hours and weekends I’ve put in, you’re getting the standard 40 hours from me and that’s it. I’ll consider an emergency situation (a real emergency), but otherwise, that’s bullshit.
I have wonderful news! Well at least it is wonderful for me. The woman who has been driving me crazy with her clanking and chewing and crunching and complaining has retired! Ding dong the irritant is gone!!
On another note, still no sight of the co-worker who is supposed to work in the office on Tu, Wed, Thurs. It’s just killing me for some reason, not being notified of why this is happening. Just tell me, and I’ll be fine! I’m THIS close to saying something to the boss, but I’m sure no good could come of that.
I got an email this morning that has me so angry that I can’t see straight, and that’s not even an exaggeration for once. This email reads, in its entirety: “wlel now what do i did?”
It’s not the typos or the poor grammar that bother me, though. I’m so used to working with the functionally illiterate that I barely even notice any more. (Unless things are particularly egregious, and believe it or not, this one does not qualify, relative to the usual “standards” around here.)
Nope. What really has me steamed is that the sender hit REPLY ALL and sent that email to me, two peers, an assistant director, two directors, and a vice-president. All of whom called ME and said, basically, “Dafuq?” Like I have any idea why someone would send a reply like that to God and everybody in the first place, let alone in reply to a yes-no question.
I feel only slightly better knowing that the rogue emailer is in my Manager’s office having his ass handed to him right now. But only slightly – because knowing Manager’s M.O., that conversation is going to end in a cryfest and then the two of them will be going out to lunch together for a month and absolutely nothing will be different.
I feel a little bit bad for the guy; he’s older (like, older-than-my-retired-father older) and we’ve had multiple system changes and updates lately that are difficult for even some of our younger, more tech-savvy employees to keep up with, but … basic written communication, man. And seriously: do you actually want to admit to the entire food chain in writing that you literally don’t know how to do your job?
Rockle, why are you angry? It sounds like the old guy is just making himself look bad. Is he putting you in a poor light or something? Or has he before?
