Hell no. There’s a reason why they’re always short-staffed. They can’t keep people.
I learned today that corporate doesn’t like for us to hire anytime except for the first day of a pay period, because the payroll department has too much trouble figuring out the correct paycheck amount for an incomplete pay cycle.
:smack:
We had cake to celebrate a member of Management leaving yesterday.
We do this about every three months.
The member of Management who is leaving is the one who has been in charge of my department as long as I’ve been in the department.
I don’t know who will be the new Manager.
Yes, sir, blame the government because YOU didn’t do something.
Yes, ma’am, it’s our fault YOU took money that wasn’t yours and now you’re being punished for it.
Yes, sir, I certainly DO have enough time to pick and choose to harrass, and today was your lucky number! How did you know?
Yes, co-worker, I am dressed comfortably rather than professionally (black pants, clean white long sleeved Tee, and a Columbia). Just because YOU feel the need to be all suited up doesn’t mean we all live that way. It’s friggin cold down here, I’m not freezing my ass off just to look professional.
My office has its lighting hooked up to a motion sensor. Whoever decided that the sensor should be placed right by the door so that, when open, said sensor is blocked, is either an architectural idiot or a complete asshole.
Both the front wall and the door of my office are made of glass, and I’m right across from a conference room. Whenever I need to “retrigger” my lights, I slide my hand between the door and wall and wave. I’m sure that on more than one occasion, people holding meetings in that room are wondering about the unusually friendly man across the hall, waving to them.
Ah yes, always fond memories of picking up money from the county government offices when I worked Armored.
Guys at the Family Court desk complaining that their drivers license had been taken away, and having it explained to them that it’s because they hadn’t paid their child support. Guys threatening not to pay, and being told they’d lose their DL. Round and round.
People at the county court desks complaining about having to pay their fines, or flat out stupidly refusing to pay it when they’re already there. Yeah, sure, it’s everyone else’s fault you were fined by the court. :rolleyes:
People get really stupid where money is involved.
Let’s see if we can help them out:
Gross Pay = Number of hours worked (see timesheet/card) X Hourly rate (See pay schedule)
Net Pay = Gross Pay - (FICA + Withholding + Medicare + Other Deductions)
Easy Peesy!!
I’ll bet it’s the bolded part they can’t figure out, for a partial pay period.
If only there were some form of calculator they could use. Or they could use a regular calculator and look up the percentages or they could use a tax table. Sounds like laziness to me.
It’s plain old incompetence…I have trouble searching for posts from this phone, but I posted earlier this year about the tremendous difficulty they had in correcting their error when they forgot to include the raises in nearly all the paychecks. (Long story short: for the next pay period, they sent out payments that only made up the difference from the last pay period, rather than the difference plus the correct payment.)
About a year ago I celebrated quietly when one of the contractors on my team did not have his contract renewed. Well things have been insanely busy lately so they brought him back on.
Today our team meeting was 45 mins of him asking dumb questions about the current status of things that don’t impact his projects and information that he could either look up or ask the person responsible directly about. There was absolutely no need to hold the whole damn team hostage, we could actually discussed progress on projects without his diversion.
Everyone else on the team shares information without taking a year for each question so there is no actual rules around our team meetings. Manager gives any updates that impact us, 2-3 people per meeting provide project updates or ask for help with project issues that others might be able to assist with and we all learn a little bit about what each other is doing.
Now we’re back to 6 months of group complaints and management talks with him about communication skills. He’s really good at his job so I understand why this wouldn’t keep them from bringing him back but god I dread team meetings when he’s around.
Ugh.
I was doing some work in the upstairs office today. Usually I like working in that office because they have a radio tuned to a local radio station that I like. It annoys me, though, when other workers mumble along off-key to the songs on the radio (I can’t quite call it “singing.”)
And yes, I’m aware that this rant makes me look like a huge music snob/general asshole.
Other than that, though, my day was pretty good.
And if only there were, I dunno, a profession centered around counting things and doing math. I would think that, if such a thing were to exist, it might even have some variation of “math” or “count” in it’s name.
A mathcountant?
Procedure says: “Maintain at 9 VAC for 2 hours.”
I have determined that this instruction is the single most complicated step in any test procedure ever created by my company. Testing has managed to get this right once. For whatever reason, they think it’s just fine to maintain this voltage for just one hour. I’m so tired of this bullshit…I’m going to end up revising the damn procedure to clarify the duration of each step.
Maintain the voltage for two (2) hours. Two hours shall be the duration of the test, and the duration of the testing shall be two hours. Three hours thou shall not test, neither test thou one hour, excepting that thou then proceed for two hours. Four hours is right out. Once two hours, being the second hour of the testing, be reached, RECORD YOUR RESULTS YOU FUCKING MORON.
If these directions be not followed, then expectest thou a Holy Hand Grenade to be lobbest in thy direction. Since thou art being naughty in my sight, thou shalt snuff it.
Dear Buttercup:
When the truck is four hours late, everyone has to adjust their plans. Those of us who have been at work since 6 am are not interested in hearing your whining. Suck it up.
In other news:
The worst part about getting to work an hour early so I could leave for a inconveniently timed dentist appointment with the least stress for everyone else was that at 5:15 in the morning, my tummy was NOT interested in breakfast.
On the plus side, no new cavities or other problematic things were seen in my mouth or on my x-rays, and I was back to work in an hour. Thus justifying not trying harder to rearrange my schedule. (I did ask off, I just didn’t get it. )
I am in Quality, and I am so stealing this.
Excepting that I will change the bolded section to “… then proceed to two hours.”
Comparatively minor stuff, but causing some anxiety:
Not quite a week ago, got the new schedule for the now-current pay period (which begins on Saturday and runs for 2 weeks), and found I was down from 28 to 25 hours per week. Asked supervisor, D, about this, he said number of hours/week is not necessarily absolute (which was not my prior understanding). Oh well, I can cope. This conversation was on Saturday.
Jump ahead to yesterday (Tuesday). D’s grandboss, T, head honcho of the store, approached me and asked about scheduling matters in my department. I provided him what information I had on the subject, as calmly and rationally as possible. He seemed displeased by the matter. I later found out I wasn’t the only person in my department to get a surprise hour-cut, and if I understood T correctly, that particular schedule change is likely to be reversed soon. OK, I’d be happier without that 10% cut in hours/income.
My big worry now is that D, who knew I was not pleased by that situation, might well think that I went over his head to T and tattled. I did NOT do so. I’m not that petty. I do know who did, since T told me, but I have no intention of giving D that information.
Hopefully, D manages to act like an adult professional tomorrow and doesn’t hold some grudge against me over this. It doesn’t help that the store’s staffing hours are changing (we open for customers at 9. Currently, earliest work shift begins at 8) to have the earliest workers reporting in at 7. There are several days a week I depend on public transit to get there, and on those days it will not be possible for me to get there at 7. 7:30 or later I can do, but not 7 (no buses in my neighborhood as early as would be necessary). I already have transit-based limits on what days I can work the closing shift, so that’s enough of a headache for him as far as my schedule goes.
Combine scheduling complications with the likelihood he’ll think I went to his grandboss with a complaint and be annoyed about that, and I’m not really looking forward to dealing with him in the near future. In fairness, he is juggling 20 or so people as far as schedules and such, so I dislike adding complications to that mess, and I can see where he’d be a bit stressed. I’m just not happy about the prospect of having a supervisor who’s actively annoyed with me, especially if it’s over something I didn’t even do.
I like it!