So . . . that one was her favorite?
My boss has such an aptitude for insulting me. Look, I’ve been researching and booking your flights for ten fucking years. I know your preferences as well as you do, plus it’s my job. I know you want to arrive earlier, and the reason I didn’t recommend the earlier departure is because it connects, leaves three and a half hour earlier, is a 6:00AM departure which I know you hate AND it only gets you in 40 minutes earlier!
“Can you check if there’s something earlier?”
I already fucking did that considering what you’re trying to accomplish and how you like to fly. Do you think I am retarded?
Yes, I checked the flights for your boss, too, as you asked me to. If I didn’t recommend a flight out of Springfield, it’s because it doesn’t meet the criteria you gave me.
“Did you check flights out of Springfield?”
YES!!! :mad:
Well, I think they are starting to assume standard orbit around the drain.
Last years reset reduced the Regional Managers by over a third.
The mid Atlantic area has been unmanned for 14 months.
They whacked the New England and Southern managers. The Texas manager has been placed on warning, and the northern Midwest manager has been told to find a new job. The two DM are in bed with one another, literally, and supplies apparently come from the far future, because stuff ordered a month ago are still not in route.
Is there any wonder why I have gone back to school? I long to work my way up to the 10% tax bracket.
That really is insulting. You’ve been doing this for 10 years, and she’s still questioning whether you’re competent or not? I imagine she’s not aware how she comes across (or she is actively trying to undermine you), but it would still get under my skin, too.
I dunno, Cat Whisperer. If the boss’s behavior represents a change from what Carol is used to (in terms of feedback and micro-managing), it could be that the bos is feeling stressed by something that isn’t being shared with Carol.
Carol the Impaler, if this IS new behavior, it might be a good idea to set up a little chat with your boss and see if new factors are in play.
ETA: OTOH, “aptitude for insulting” suggests that it’s standard-issue treatment.
Dear coworkers: stop ignoring my emails. Yes, I’m sorry that the parts of my job I need help with are the parts you hate doing the most. What I need you to do isn’t glorious or fun, but it needs to get done. But if I send you an email on Tuesday and receive no response (not even an ETA) on Friday, I will be pissy.
I know that they can make time to do my requests, they just don’t want to, and play ‘ignore it until it goes away’. Except I do not forget, so I will come back to haunt you! But yeah, I’m getting pretty sick and tired of having to ask our boss to bug you about stuff I need.
Am I the only person in the world that finds KeyBoard Cat totally fucking creepy? What’s that word, when robots are just too close to humans but not close enough? It pings that meter, badly.
Well, I sent my resignation letter to my boss four and a half hours ago and have had no response yet. Granted, he’s on vacation in Vegas right now, but he always has his BB with him, even when on vacation. I’m not sure what’s going on.
I also sent in my signed offer letter about five hours ago and haven’t heard anything from them either. I left a voice mail for the HR guy because I had a question about something coming up for me, but haven’t heard back from him either. I think they must have today off, but it’s sort of frustrating that I’ve emailed two of them and phoned one of them and still haven’t heard anything back. That said, I seem to remember this happening the last time I signed an offer letter, and it was because they were in the middle of organizing everything and confirmation and such.
Bah. If I don’t hear from either, it may be a long weekend.
Yeah, this is par for the course. He is a big tone-deaf anxiety ball. Among his other very fine qualities.
What’s the worry? You’ve given notice, you’ve given them the date of your last day, you’re off the hook, as far as I can see.
Uncanny Valley. I don’t believe I’ve ever seen this Keyboard Cat, but based on this, I’m definitely not going to seek it out.
This. Did you cc HR?
No, I didn’t, on the advice of an HR friend in another division. She said that my boss should be the first to know, and he’d likely be pissed if people start calling him about it before he knows what’s going on.
I still haven’t heard from him, and this is very strange. One of two things is going on - either he didn’t take his BB with him all day while he was out doing stuff in Vegas (where he is on vacation) and I’ll hear from him later tonight or this weekend, or he’s pissed off and is letting himself cool down/avoiding it until he is back on Monday.
I have the email/letter in my sent file, so I know it’s gone out and I’m not worried. If I hear nothing on Monday (highly unlikely), I’ll go to HR.
I did get a call this evening from HR in the new company. Like I suspected, they have today off, so he was calling from home. He said I’d have to talk to my new boss about the stuff coming up for me on Monday, but I’m starting to think that maybe I should cancel. I’d rather cancel then move my start date up another two weeks.
Don’t cancel. What do you care if your old boss is avoiding you. You have a new future! Grab it!
Oh, sorry, I must not be being clear. I have a previously scheduled vacation from May 15 to 19, which is the week after I start at the new job. I was going to ask them if I could work for the first week, then take my week off, but I’m starting to think that might not be a good idea. When I explained this to the HR guy this evening, he said that new boss might want to change my start date to after I get back (23rd, I think) instead of having me be there for four days, then gone for five. I don’t want to start later, so I think I might just cancel the vacation instead (it’s not a huge deal, though I was looking forward to it).
My advice: don’t cancel the vacation. You don’t want to start a new job with it already inconveniencing you (plenty of time to get bitter about work after you’ve been there a while). I’ve seen people do this both ways (start after, or start and take a vacation after a week), and neither seems to affect their work relationships.
Heck, if anything, it makes you look more valuable: “EmAnJ is so amazing that we’re willing to put up with a vacation just to have such a genius on our team.”
Does your start date affect when you’re eligible for insurance?
Keyboard cat. It’s just a cat who is very docile and is being manipulated to look like he’s playing a keyboard. For some reason it just totally tickles my funny bone. 
No. Insurance starts my first day of work. It doesn’t really matter though, because I have secondary coverage through my husband.
Dear guests:
If you aren’t bright enough to operate an alarm clock, a television, a door lock, or a freaking coffee urn, you really shouldn’t check into a hotel unsupervised.
Also, no, I cannot check you in if your dad/sister/buddy calls to give me a credit card number - how the hell do I know that the card legitimately belongs to that person? I need a fax or e-mail with a scanned copy of the front and back of the card, id belonging to the person named on the card, and a signature authorizing the charges. And I don’t give a flying fuck if you have never had to do that in North Carolina - you’ve crossed two state lines since NC. If you want to do things the way “they” (and aren’t “they” always a bunch of damned morons?!) do them in the Tarheel State, I95 goes north, too.
When I tell you that I cannot check your 18-year-old self and your 17-year-old boy/girlfriend into the hotel, and you then say “well, fine, I’ll just check in by myself,” don’t be surprised when I refuse to rent you a room. Arguing isn’t going to help, either. I don’t technically have to have a reason to refuse service, but technically, the reason is that I don’t trust you. I know perfectly damned well that your underage friend will be in the room with you. Not gonna happen. Go away at least the first or second time that I tell you no, because the third time, I’m gonna call the cops to have you escorted off property. Depending on that officer’s mood, you may or may not get to go visit the county jail to be booked on criminal trespass charges at that point. I’m not in the mood to go testify in court just because you are stupid.
Finally, it’s a really, really busy travel weekend. Out of over 1000 hotel rooms at this particular hotel exit, I happen to have some of the tiny handful of rooms still vacant (seriously, approximately 20 vacant on Friday and Saturday nights.) Don’t come to me and insist that you aren’t going to pay more than $40 for your room. If you seriously think that, you need to get back in your DeLorean and return to 1983.
(It has been a loooong weekend. Can you tell? 
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