Problem co-worker showed on time this morning. Was later given lecture on how no-call/no show on Easter weekend is bad, and also you can’t keep doing umpteen other schedule related things.
I think problem co-worker is a lot less scared than I would be in same situation.
but at least problem co-worker isn’t fired this week.
Overall, my shift wasn’t horrid, nor was it great. We weren’t busy, but we weren’t quiet enough to support the theory that we really shouldn’t bother being open on Easter. At least, as far as I can tell, which may not be all that far.
Attention, mail handlers responsible for dumping parcels onto the load belt: I am not persuaded that it is unrealistic to achieve a 100% cull rate for cylinders and spheres. I think tthat you simply can’t be botherd to make the attempt.
You know, if there’s one single thing that I hate hearing from any software vendor, it’s this:
“That’s just the way our software works.”
The way it works is stupid. We have ordinary people trying to do self-service orders using your stupid software, and if it behaves that way they’re going to find someone else to do business with.
And you expect us to expand our business dealings with you? Fix your damn software!
And yes, I am kicking this issue up to our Sr VP. We’ll see what he has to say about it.
That would be very nice of you, and I would absolutely LOVE some! Please make sure you pack them in rectangular prism-shaped cartons, to minimize the likelihood of delay and/or damage.
I totally agree with your rant - saying that your software works that way so get used to it being crap is ridiculous. It’s crap, so here’s an idea - fix it!
Let’s see… work didn’t properly start until the Boss arrived at 2pm, but I was here at 8am when the next coworker arrived. I have nothing I can do. I already have done everything I could do today. It’s quit o’clock. I’ve already received my fifteen-days warning thanks to an internal resource becoming available. The work I have to do in the next week and a half can’t be done until half a dozen other people process their own parts.
This is more “pre-workplace” griping, but when I would apply for jobs on-line, most sites used Taleo, allowing you to upload your resume and it would auto-fill most of the fields.
Due to my formatting / work experience, it NEVER uploaded correctly, and I’d have to spend a great deal of time cutting, copying, and pasting text from one box to another.
I dunno, I’ve been on the other end as a Programmer. “I don’t like how your program works, make it work like (other program).” Most of the time the correct answer to that is to laugh in their face, because they’re being lazy morons. No, I’m not making my package work like a fucking spreadsheet, or gmail. It isn’t like either one of those programs, so fucking deal with it and learn how to use more than one interface.
Oy. We’re suffering under a change management system that will allow you to input date and time in one very specific format and you’d better have the correct number of spaces, dashes etc. in there, or it will:
[ol]
[li]Pop up an error message[/li][li]BLANK THE INPUT FIELD[/li][/ol]
because nobody in their right mind would want to cursor back and correct a mistype, we want to start from scratch.
Oh, and if you don’t follow the exact workflow that our process compliance team has thought out - a workflow with a flowchart that looks like it was designed by a chimpanzee-become-plumber - it will lock down the change entry and not let you close it out. Neatly circumventing the idea of keeping timely records of changes done, of course.
If I’d submitted a programming project like that back in 19-bloody-88, I’d have flunked.
Ah well. I’m leaving for greener pastures on Friday, so…
Remember this reply when you hear people complain that the FDA is stifling all innovation by trying to enforce device regulations on apps. By requiring design controls. With user requirements.
For some reason, the FDA just doesn’t like blaming the end user.
As for griping, I have nothing today. Boss is out of town, Big Boss is in the process of getting another job, and Co-worker just found out I was right in a “discussion” we had, so today was good.
The problem is that we are using ad creation software that was designed for display ads from templates, and trying to use it for liner-style ads. So if you have an ad size limit in a template with optional images, you only get the same amount of text whether the images are there or not. I understand why that is the case, but our general-public type users won’t understand and they will think that they are being cheated.
So the real complaint is why are we stuck with the wrong software? Because that’s all there is. I think they could make it better. Instead, for all the possible combinations of the three optional images, we have to have eight templates instead of one. For five basic ad styles, that means 40 templates instead of 5. Not a pretty picture. So they need to develop a better front-end template-selection method.
Sorry, too much detail but I have been living with this for months, and we are going live next week (without these particular ads, since we can’t make them work).
My current key user gets to work at 6am and has the apparently-unacceptable custom of leaving around 4pm-ish. Unacceptable by the standards of guys that you’re lucky to see before 10am and who don’t get fully engaged until after lunch. Dude is also one of those people who take to heart the wall-climber way of walking: “don’t move a paw until the other three are fully secured.”
Why the hell is it so hard to understand that, no matter how many times you ask me to ask the key user for an ETA, it is not going to change from the one he gave me before you even got to work? And how is it so hard to comprehend that, if you email him after 4pm-ish, he’s not going to answer until what you think is the wee hours, and telling me to call him will simply get you a sample of the dulcet tones of a “nobody home” beep?
“Lightray, why are we using so much caustic?”
The lab can run an assay. It’s supposed to be 25%. Take a sample.
“We’re still using so much caustic!”
Have you taken a sample? Get a sample.
“OMG. All this caustic isn’t doing anything!!!”
Take a damn sample.
“Why can’t you tell us why we’re using so much caustic???”
It’s been two fucking weeks you drooling retards, TAKE THE GODDAMN SAMPLE!
“Lightray, the sample came back as 16%. Is that a problem?”
:smack:
I’m about to straight up strangle some people at the hotel I work at. Specifically, the higher ups. They hired a new girl and assured me she’d be working with me. Nope, they started putting her on afternoons. The excuse is “oh, our sister properties are short-staffed and need some help” so they start sending our front desk people hither and yon, leaving *us *short-staffed. Like they did this week. We have a big music festival in town and a convention at a nearby resort, a free shuttle that everyone fucking uses all of the fucking time (which the front desk people have to drive), on top of the phone ringing off the goddamn hook usually at the same time everyone and their second cousin shows up to check in and none of the goatfelching housekeeping supervisors have turned in any rooms we can use to check those people into. And I’m the only one on the desk to do all these things.
pant pant
Big Boss confided in me yesterday that they’re going to hire yet another person to help out at the desk. I’ll believe that shit when I see it. It takes them three months to hire people for the front desk, and when they do I get them for about a week to train them and off they go to the afternoon shift. This always happens. It never varies. You cannot convince me it will change now. What’ll happen is that the sister properies will say “Oh we don’t need to hire more people. We’ll just borrow from y’all and leave you up a creek.”
I am absolutely sick and tired of this happy horseshit. I’ve already looked over my resume and over my weekend I’m going to start scouring job ads. I’m tired of my depression telling me I can’t find anything better because** I can**. I can and will and I will get out of that miserable hellhole into something where I won’t be consistently overworked and can actually have holidays off so I can see my family more than just at Christmas.
Yes, SpazCat, you can do better, and you deserve better. No-one should have to work in conditions like that. We believe in you. Put that strangling energy to good use and go get that better job!
On my front, we had an online training session with a division in another state set up today, during which I was supposed to show some people some new procedures and so on. This has been planned for weeks. One person was responsible for not much other than setting up the session. She forgot to get a conference bridge (it just didn’t occur to her that we would need one, even though she does this sort of thing much more often than I do). So the last 20 minutes before the meeting were spent scrambling around trying to find one that wasn’t being used and we were a good 5 minutes late getting started. Useless twit.