Workplace griping, anyone?

The BBQ Pit
8942

Good fucking Lord. What is it with mousy women and their inability to use phones properly?

Me: “(department name) this is Chimera”
Phone: (silence)
Me: “Hello??”
Phone: (pause) “Um, hello?” (silence)

I answered my phone properly, she did not respond. Then I had to say hello again and her response is a very quiet “hello” and nothing???

Ok bitch, you fucking called ME. Fucking respond when I answer the phone, tell me who the fuck you are and talk to me like a normal human being. Don’t play these stupid coy games where you don’t respond to normal human interaction.

How the fuck did you get this job anyway?

8943

I think most VOIP systems in the business world are not ready for prime time.

And not to be undone, the coverage maps of the company that likes pink have more fiction in them than all of Tom Clancy’s works stacked end to end.

8944

Yep, sounds like where I used to work. My heartfelt feelings for ya.

8945

FAXed? Why not carrier pigeon or smoke signals? :mad:

8946

The whole thing has just been so frustrating.

I finally was able to have a dialogue with one of the people in that office, and she advised me to try to resubmit, but altering one of the data fields (something I’ve done in the past during one of my 16 rejection notices). The rejection reasons are frustrating, too, as they’ve been flat-out wrong (saying I hadn’t entered information when I had - with accompanying screenshots), vague, or misspelled. Granted, the latter is more of a pet peeve than anything.

So, as I attempt to resubmit the documents yet again, I now see that neither of the two browsers I have on my work computer will load the Java interface - where one is a “broken applet,” and the other puts the applet into a perpetual “loading” state. Our IT is locked down extremely tight and our staff is over-worked, so getting any modification or temporary admin access requires an act of Congress. I’ve told my co-workers that I will try to see if I can access the site from my home computer, but if we can’t, I really don’t know what we can do at this point.

8947

ARGH! STOP LYING!

I’m working on a program with a non-profit org that runs afterschool programs. There’s been an absurd amount of staff turnover in just 3 months. But this latest guy takes the cake.

All I need is for his staff members to fill out a form. It’s a long form, yep. I gave it to them in both Spanish and English. In January. None of them have sent it back yet. I also gave them addressed, stamped envelopes.

0 out of 9.

I told him WEEKS ago that I hadn’t gotten any of these forms yet. He said he’d look into it.

I phoned last week and said, again, I needed these forms. I gave him a deadline, May 1. That was last Fri. He said he was collecting them and would send them to me.

In an email thread, just now, cc’d to his boss, his boss’s boss, my boss, and my boss’s boss, he **denied knowledge of these forms even EXISTING, **let alone that I’d asked him repeatedly for them.

I’m so over it.

8948

Actually…many years ago, I overheard my then-supervisor talking to an interviewee as he was giving her a tour of the facility. He asked her if she had any familiarity with AutoCAD; she giggled and replied, “I’ve never used that!” (This was for an engineering position…no, she didn’t get the job.)

One of our customers is very heavily tied in with the federal government; as a result, their facility and their work is, for the most part, very confidential. For some reason, this severely restricts the number of employees who have access to email; there are also heavy restrictions on what can be sent by email. Most of our contact with them is by fax machine, which is loads of fun when they’re trying to order a part that they can’t identify. :smack:

8949

Workmate*, quit messaging me on Facebook to tell our boss that **you **won’t be in on Friday. I’m not your boss, here’s the number, phone her your damn self.

  • Fellow volunteer, technically,
8950

Program knowledge, expertise in specific fields, daily duties, that I can understand in a job listing. Definitely what I want to know before applying to a job and an excellent (and necessary!) way to weed people out. But there’s not a job on earth that WANTS a disorganized klutz. And the disorganized klutzes have to work somewhere regardless of the fact that nobody wants them. So why bother listing that part? We all already know every single job on earth wants a hardworking and organized person that learns quickly and has an eye for detail. Even McDonald’s doesn’t want sloppy slackers that don’t bother learning and always miss the crumbs when cleaning.

8951

Evidently those are not in the budget per Article 1.5, paragraph 3.45

“Neither pigeons, dolphins, or other warm-blooded animals are allowed to use this email address to submit time-sheets. In times of duress (Martial Law) one may may use smoke signals to relay hours worked, but processing may take from 6 to 12 months.”

8952

That depends, is the level of klutziness enough to get a Disability Certificate? Because if so, I know some places who’ll be happy to take one…

Not a total joke: there are places that try to get a certain % of disabled workers so they can get government assistance, apply for certain types of grants, etc. While both I and the disabled folks I know prefer jobs where their disability is viewed as “irrelevant”, when you’re looking into your pantry a job is a job is a job.

8953

The saga continues.

The documents were rejected by the county for the 18th time. Each time, I get a “reason for rejection,” and they often contradict each other.

Example: When you submit the documents, you scan them in, upload them to a site, and then enter certain data into fields on the side of the screen - parties involved, lot, block, etc. Some of these fields are marked as mandatory, where others are not. So, on one of my many attempts, I completed all the mandatory fields, but left one “optional” field blank. Reason for rejection? I didn’t input information in the “optional field.” Upon resubmission, I filled in all possible fields. Reason for rejection? I didn’t need to put information in the optional fields.

This is what I’ve been dealing with for the past month.

Oh, and apparently, the county uses Twitter to generate the reasons for rejection, because the explanations are often riddled with abbreviations, misspelled words, and seems to be cut off halfway through the sentence.

And, as noted upthread, there is no way to call the county and complain. So, yesterday, I wrote a fairly condescending e-mail to my only contact at the county, complete with screenshots of the “reasons for rejection,” as well as why those reasons were incorrect. (They said we hadn’t provided certain information on the document, when it is clearly evident, if they would bother to actually look at the damn thing)

But the real kicker is that this isn’t even my job. I volunteered to help a co-worker months and months ago with an eFiling, and now it has somehow become part of my job description.

8954

Dear Employer:

I heard a rumor that the annual employee survey is coming up, and so encouraged several people throughout the store to do things to make employees feel valued.

Like offering candy, or roses, or pizza.

Pizza from Little Ceasar’s.

Really?

I have to admit-- many of my co-workers weren’t too finicky to eat the free pizza.

But I declined.

8955

You know what they say: no good deed goes unpunished.

My rant is about telephone etiquette.

  1. When you call a place of business to transact business, PUT THE SCREAMING CHILD DOWN. If I wanted to hear a squalling brat I would have had one of my own.

  2. When you have turned in an application to a place of business you may receive a call asking you to come in for an interview. Do not return that call by saying “I just missed a call from this number.” Did you get and listen to a voicemail? “Oh. I’ll check.” Please be assured that the person answering the phone will tell the hiring manager you are an idiot.

8956

Sort of in response to the previous poster …

If you’re going to advertise a job opening online (say, on Craigslist), please be prepared to respond to applicants online. If I applied via e-mail, reply to me via e-mail. Don’t call my cell phone and then fail to leave a voicemail, because I ignore calls from unidentified callers who don’t leave voicemails. If I applied for a job at your store/restaurant, I entered your business’s number as a recognized number in my phone. So call me from your business number, not from your personal cell phone. Because I won’t recognize that number, and I won’t answer if you don’t leave a voicemail. And if you fail to contact me, you’re missing out, because I am the best possible person to fill that job.

8957

The people who are supposed to supervise us “newbies” have such a little knowledge of the job they’ve been doing for years that two of them have sent emails saying “OMG you’re missing this config in your list of tasks to do!” - where all the stuff they identified as config is daily business. (Config: the kind of permanent data for which consultants get the big bucks, not on account of putting Xs in squares, but of knowing in which squares)

Because yeah, it’s the consultants who should be entering how much has production made, how much does the customer want, or that the toilet in the third floor has a leak…

8958

I’m still trying to figure out, after almost two years, why corporate sends upper management people from entirely different departments to inspect our kitchen, instead of sending somebody who’s in charge of, I don’t know, kitchens. These non-kitchen people never fail to confuse “sanitary” with “shiny”, and end up having us waste countless hours scrubbing the grout between floor tiles in corners and polishing stainless steel, and other cleaning tasks that ultimately have no impact whatsoever on food safety. Hello, Ms. Head of Nursing, this is a kitchen, not a sterile operating room.

Gee, it’s almost like they’re more concerned about what a resident’s family member will think if they wander into the kitchen than in actual food safety. Not to mention that the corporate people in charge of payroll costs don’t allow our kitchen staff to work enough hours to actually keep up that level of shiny.

8959

TheKid and the owner are the only two in her kitchen that have their SafeCert. When she’s working, she tries to get the guys to clean up - and is told she just wants a “pretty” kitchen. She’s tried to explain to them no, if the health department came through, they’d get pinged on certain things, but because she’s young (21) AND a female, she knows nothing. She’s gone to the owner and tried discussing it with him and he also just pats her on the head.
I hear about it at least twice a week, poor kid.
The restaurant she worked at before this relied on her knowledge to keep the kitchen up - and passed health department inspections without having to mad scramble the day before.

8960

Maybe TheKid should look for a position with an owner who appreciates the value her SafeCert can bring to his business.

Good luck to her.

8961

I don’t have the SafeCert certification, but in my more than three decades in the business, I have been the cook on duty during countless “surprise” inspections from the local health department (and yes, those folks are thorough). I know what the health inspectors look for, and it isn’t shiny stainless steel and spotless floors. They’re concerned with food-contact surfaces, handwashing, temperature control, proper cooling, proper hot- and cold-holding. I have never worked anywhere that failed a health inspection, because I do things right. And there has never been a reported case of food poisoning anywhere I’ve worked in three decades. So my cleaning priorities are focused on making sure that I’m serving “safe” food. Not on polishing stainless steel and floors. I don’t prepare food on the floor.