I can’t wait to see how it all shakes out, overly. This all sounds like a sitcom setup. Come back with all the fun details when she gets tossed out on her ass!
Oh, never fear. You’ll hear all the gory details. I feel like I’m in a fucked up version of Caddyshack. Busybody is the gopher.
I can’t blow my nose either for my regular rinitis or for my attacks of can’t-breathe (if blowing it works, I have a cold). The allergy tests came out negative. Tried neti-style stuff and it didn’t really work (it did… until I encountered a trigger again, it may not be allergy but it bloody well behaves like one).
Sorry. I’m trying to find a working solution but it’s going to take a while.
Sorry, I laughed out loud at the “filling in the fields” errors. Ah, retail - that explains everything. My last job was sorting and filing documentation packages coming from stores across Canada on a weekly basis - trained monkeys would have done a better job making up these packages than the idiots in retail.
Can you make it to Calgary for Stampede? I can almost guarantee you swinging from the rafters sex with a cowboy here then. Hell, it should be on the promo material. 
I forgive you. 
Bossman has no such problem. I am confused though by why you can’t blow your nose? With bossman, I’m talking clear presence of snot, not just swollen snot-less sinuses. He could rid himself of his phlegm. He doesn’t and it’s gross.
Seriously, people. If you call us 3 times WITHOUT leaving any messages, don’t then call the Big Boss and leave your only message saying you’ve called and called and called and no one has called you back. ESPECIALLY don’t claim that you’ve “left messages for stargazer and stargazer’s co-worker” using our names! It makes the boss think we’re not doing our jobs, you jerk.
And yes, thanks to caller ID and the fact that I get my voicemail via email, I can look back and see how many times you’ve called me and hung up WITHOUT LEAVING A MESSAGE.
Moron.
Yeah, I should have clarified that the sniffing is very…productive-sounding. There’s definitely something in there. I wouldn’t object to the sound of a good nose-blowing; there used to be a guy in my department with reflux so bad that he would occasionally have to hack/gag and spit into the wastebasket, so I’m pretty much immune to sudden bodily sounds like that.
So, I’m back from my vacation. The first voice mesage from my boss was telling me that my schedule has changed with a follow up email. Next message and email was her telling me that if I don’t show up on time, I will be wrote up. Third set was her begging me to not quit and move to Houston.
Bosslady, I’m so ticked off that I might just move to Texas just to spite you. You can deal with SG and I’ll learn how to live with a housekeeper.
says a lot of bad words, sorry.
Don’t quit! Don’t quit!
…at least not until you feed Shredder Guy into the shredder, feet first. 
I don’t understand, flatlined. Did she change the schedule so that you were expected to show up before you got back from vacation? Why would she even think you wouldn’t show up on time?
Call #3 makes me wonder if she suddenly realized she’d have to deal directly with SG if she made you ticked enough to quit, and that threatening a good employee is a good way to lose that employee. Oy.
Also, what Lynn Bodoni said. With pictures, please.
Wait. Someone drove out to your house and duct taped notes on your door?
Well, her boss has probably been having to deal with Shredder Guy, and apparently dealling with SG can really do a number on your head.
Recently the office’s thermostat received a shiny new lockable cover. At about the same time, the thermostat’s schedule was reprogrammed to cool the office to 70F. Yes, 70 degrees. In June with the afternoon highs over 80, and often over 90. And the office gets a lot of sunlight.
So I finally picked the lock on the cover and reset the schedule. FEAR ME!
I think I’ve missed something here - how is 70ºF not an acceptable temperature for an office?
Yeah, +1 for temperature confusion. 70 F sounds comfy - not too hot, not too cold. Or are you saying that if it’s set for 70 that with the sun and heat it won’t reach that temp?
I’d be happy if my office got up to 70… the teller usually cranks down the air because she’s hot. Maybe if she wasn’t wearing a fleece jacket… in June… :dubious:
Anyways, I spent most of the afternoon looking for someone’s $3 mistake in one of the ledger accounts. Gave up for the day, will take another crack at it tomorrow. Three freaking dollars! Someone messed up good for me to have this much trouble finding it. When I find out who it was I will beat them senseless… At least the migraine is gone. It’s hard to enjoy flogging the co-workers with a migraine.
Right on one! This is the first time in over 5 years that she has had to think about the warehouse. I’ve never been gone for longer than 3 days in the past and there were other people who worked there as well. Now its just me and SG, so this meant she actually had to spend time there.
Apparently, she has learned that my job is slightly more involved than she thought, a little more labor intensive than she thought and that SG is a real piece of work.
I thought by her phone calls that she wanted to change my schedule to have me coming in at 7:30 permanently. That was a mistake on my part, she just wanted me in early today so we could talk about SG and what to do about him. Which is really nothing.
He’s been telling stories out of turn, and she was actually believing him. We have an electronic time clock, I don’t have the “power” to change my time punches, but SG told boss that I routinely come in at least half an hour late. Once I pointed out that she is the only one who can change my time punches, I could see by the look on her face that she suddenly realized how stupid it was to threaten me about that.
She also told me that she doesn’t think she’ll be able to “let” me have the time off for the surgery in October. I asked her to put that in writing, which didn’t go over very well with her.
Sorry, boss. My doctor is upset that I’m waiting that long to do it, I’m scheduling it around my work flow already. I work to live, I don’t live to work and this job is definatly not worth living in pain for the rest of my life. Houston is looking better and better.
BTW, I wouldn’t have to shove SG down the shredder…all I’d have to do is hint that I was hiding food in the hopper and SG would happily dive in head first.
Even better! The screaming stops faster, and you get to watch the feet flail helplessly as the teeth masticate the rest of him down. Video is definitely indicated.
BTW, were the frozen meals still there?
No, I insist on feet first. The screaming is the best part.
And I, too, wish to know if the frozen meals were still there.
Last week my team got subjected to 1-3 emails each day warning us that we would be subjected to disciplinary action if we did this or that. Most notably was our new supervisor trying to tell us that we would be written up if we went to lunch even 1 minute before our scheduled time. This in a call center where you have no idea how long you may be on a call, and taking a call 2 minutes before your scheduled lunch may mean that you are on the call for an hour or more and thus are taking your lunch very late and possibly dealing with hunger issues while doing so. Later in the week, this got pushed back to a 15 minute window by his boss, but made one of those “straight to written warning” things. For the high crime of fucking going to lunch early.
We had a team meeting on Friday. I once again raised the issue of “Management by Threat” and how fucking sick of it I am. Over half my team joined in to voice their unhappiness with the way our team is being run. As I said later, there are always more who won’t speak up, but are just as bothered by it.
Saturday (I work Tuesday to Saturday) I ended up spending the first half hour talking to my boss about it all. Of course. I’m the instigator. He was shocked (and I could see it) that so many people spoke up against him.
However, about 10 minutes later he tells me that he is the only “pure supervisor” in the place because he never lets anything go by undisciplined. “Because if you, you just have more problems down the line.” :rolleyes: Then he tells me that he even goes through other supervisor’s daily reports looking for issues on their teams that they are not reporting to upper management. :eek:
Man, what a dumbass. Going out of his way to nail his own people to the wall for anything he can find, threatening us daily, and making enemies of the other supervisors by trying to find instances where they are letting things slide.
At the end of the conversation, I told him that he has created the impression that he is attempting to nail every one of us on anything he can get on us and drive us out of the company. He, of course, denied it. I was trying to get this thing over at this point, so I didn’t throw his own words in his face to prove that his actions are utterly destructive. I simply said that I know that Supervisors lose their bonuses if their team has too high of an attrition rate, and he’d better consider how fast he’s going to lose us all if he keeps hunting for things to write us up for.
There are not enough emoticons. This guy has no business in management, and at this point I’m willing to bet he’s going to learn that the hard way. Unfortunately very probably only after costing a lot of people their jobs and a lot of ensuing financial difficulties.