Work Gripes
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scotchandcigar
All I wanted was some steak
As the saying goes: if I tell you what I do, I'll have to kill you.
JHDK
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So remember when I was bitching about this? Well, I bitched about it enough to my boss that he finally got me out of there. I made it clear to everybody who works in my district that I hated that property with a passion because I knew that would trickle back to my boss. The problem with that is I think I made the people that work there daily turn against me thinking that I don't like them. I tried to be clear about it and explain that it wasn't my co-workers it was the property itself and the customers but I could have been more delicate. Decorum be damned though I needed to get the fuck out of there.
Anyway, I don't care if those co-workers hate me, it's fine, whatever. MY BITCHING WORKED!!! As of this week I no longer have to go there anymore. 3.5 months of Tuesday hell have come to a glorious end. The compromise being that I am now my boss' pinch runner meaning that if somebody calls out or whatever I will fill in at their property instead of working at my own. That is totally fine with me. I will happily go to some random property once or twice a week if it means that I never have to go to that fucking ghetto hellscape again.
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IdRatherBeSkiing
Sherbert is NOT and NEVER WILL BE ice cream.
It's longer if you steal a mod doughnut.
HecticArt
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Congrats, but be careful.
Kiss ass for a while.
The bosses will get tired pretty quickly of an employee that complains about doing what they need to have done, even if they know it sucks.
They buy in to the whole "team player" B.S.. They want employees that make their lives easier. All it takes is for them to hire some new guy that's gung-ho and happy to eat a shit sandwich while you're complaining about something and not looking grateful to end up out on your ass.
JHDK
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You're absolutely right but you don't know how my district works. They're 25 of us under my boss and maybe five of us, including me are actually quality employees. And guess what? All 5 of us are the ones who have apartments.
We have this whole new customer driven demand thing that I talked about before which basically means we have to go from property to property and a lot of those other 20 people will just straight up tell my boss and no. I would never even think of doing that. He's the boss. He tells me to do something, I do it.
So I've been here for 3 and 1/2 years and as I said I'm one of the top five so I've earned the right to bitch my way out of working at a ghetto hellhole property where quite literally I've had to call 911 at least three times because I thought I was going to get in a fight with customers or homeless people. I've never had to do that ever before at this job.
So I will happily be his fill-in guy for call outs. And if I ever get complacent and start to resent filling in I will do my best to always remember that at least I am not working at that post-apocalyptic, squalid Fort Lauderdale nightmare ghetto property.
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JHDK
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I mean just to give you guys an idea of how easy it is to make a great impression on your bosses at this place.... Before anything ever happened with Pam when I thought she was a straight-up lesbian and just my boss.... When she put me in this apartment I thanked her. Because thanking somebody for giving you something you asked for is what civilized human beings do.
Well she told me that I was the first one to ever thank her for getting an apartment.
If the good employees besides me don't even thank their boss for giving them an apartment that basically has free rent and free utilities, you can imagine what these district managers have to put up with when dealing with everyone else.
So now I make such an effort to exaggerate to both my boss and the regional manager whenever I see her about how grateful I am for the apartment and how it's the best perk any job could ever offer.
Well she told me that I was the first one to ever thank her for getting an apartment.
If the good employees besides me don't even thank their boss for giving them an apartment that basically has free rent and free utilities, you can imagine what these district managers have to put up with when dealing with everyone else.
So now I make such an effort to exaggerate to both my boss and the regional manager whenever I see her about how grateful I am for the apartment and how it's the best perk any job could ever offer.
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scotchandcigar
All I wanted was some steak
I think if we ever start a job interview thread, you're all set too.
scotchandcigar
All I wanted was some steak
I just did my first mandatory training lesson which used an A.I. narrator.
I suspect they've been using computer reading of the training text for some time now, but this is the first time they've had it spoken through a real person, looking like he is saying all the words, including human motion and mannerisms. The image they've chosen is sort of an everyman, if you know what I mean. He didn't make even one flub, nor did he require a glass of water at any time.
I suspect they've been using computer reading of the training text for some time now, but this is the first time they've had it spoken through a real person, looking like he is saying all the words, including human motion and mannerisms. The image they've chosen is sort of an everyman, if you know what I mean. He didn't make even one flub, nor did he require a glass of water at any time.
scotchandcigar
All I wanted was some steak
I guess they've come a long way since then.
HecticArt
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And yet we've managed to go back in time.
JHDK
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This is not unique and I'm sure it's been brought up. Probably in this thread maybe even by me... If that's the case, here I go again:
Coworkers who reply all when they're clearly only replying to the one original sender of the email... Deserve some sort of criminal punishment.
I'm not going to go crazy and say do they deserve death or deportation or whatever. But I think it's fair to sentence everyone who does that to no less than 5 hours community service in your local State-Funded nursing home per offense..... And the number of hours should double per recurring offense.
My group of about 25 co-workers has a potpourri of people who reply all for either idiotic reasons or attempting to brag reasons or whatever. Maybe if we get talking about our co-workers doing it I'll go into more detail.
Coworkers who reply all when they're clearly only replying to the one original sender of the email... Deserve some sort of criminal punishment.
I'm not going to go crazy and say do they deserve death or deportation or whatever. But I think it's fair to sentence everyone who does that to no less than 5 hours community service in your local State-Funded nursing home per offense..... And the number of hours should double per recurring offense.
My group of about 25 co-workers has a potpourri of people who reply all for either idiotic reasons or attempting to brag reasons or whatever. Maybe if we get talking about our co-workers doing it I'll go into more detail.
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scotchandcigar
All I wanted was some steak
Somewhere here I discussed the Reply-all from hell, where a mass email was sent to like 3,000 people and it just turned into madness.
But just the other day, the band director from my previous community band got a promotion at his day job, and they decided to email the band about this. Well about a dozen people had to congratulate him with a reply all.
But just the other day, the band director from my previous community band got a promotion at his day job, and they decided to email the band about this. Well about a dozen people had to congratulate him with a reply all.
JHDK
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Yep.... That's another reply all tactic these ne'er-do-wels who live among us use.
It's clear what they're doing... if you're replying all to congratulate the guy about his promotion you want everybody else to see that you took the time to congratulate him. It's like giving to charity just so you can get your name on a list that you gave to charity. It fucking belittles the congratulations.
If you really wanted to congratulate him, you hit reply. You reply solely to him and then that's that. Who the fuck cares if your other co-workers know you said hey I'm happy for you... Unless you're a selfish asshole who needs your congratulations to your friend to to also be about you.
IdRatherBeSkiing
Sherbert is NOT and NEVER WILL BE ice cream.
This story is loosely related to your story.
Back in the late 90s or early 2000s when work DLs were still kind of new at the bank I was working at somebody wanted to invite their department to a "BBQ" (how they put it in the subject). But instead of using the DL for their department, they used the DL for the entire bank by mistake. What happened next was several things not necessarily in this order:
- The sender realized his mistake and send another mail to the entire bank retratcting the invitaton.
- Several people asked if they counld bring anything.
- Some people asked what was included.
- Several people made joking replies about either the BBQ or the retraction of the invitation.
- Several people asked that everybody stop replying to the e-mail.
- Some people asked the people asking people to stop replying to also stop replying.
I haven't tried but I am pretty sure that even today it would reject a subject of "BBQ" in the e-mail. I wish I could report on the BBQ but alas I was not invited.
JHDK
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This tells you all you need to know about everyone you work with. I'll start off with the people that didn't reply because they're not one of these bullet points...
If you didn't reply, you're a normal worker. You realized something was a little bit weird that it went to everybody, even if you thought you would have been one of the inner circle to get the OG invite and you just left it alone.
Yeah, what else can the guy do at this point? He's got to stick his tail between his legs and send that embarrassing email. In the grand scheme of things it's not that bad.
I've said shit on my work phone to co-workers that I trust that would totally get me fired If everybody heard it . This was just an honest mistake
This is awkward now. If any of those people who replied offering to bring shit were not actually intended to get the OG invitation, the guy now has to just put them on the guest list. There's no polite way to tell them they were not originally intended to be invited.....
Attempting that is like the premise of a Curb Your enthusiasm episode. In real life, those awkward situations Larry gets himself in are not nearly as funny.
Yeah fuck these people. There is no shame in straight up uninviting these assholes. But I guess if you're doing it via work email you have to send out like a polite individual email to all of them explaining how the whole thing was. A big misunderstanding.
But if any of these people work side by side with me I would keep a note of that like. Oh yeah these are the selfish ones.
These people probably should have done nothing. You don't want to send emails even if they're direct emails with your company email address being a little too casual and busting balls a little too much like I don't know that shit ain't professional and it's not cool.
I get what these guys are going for but they should have busted his balls at the water cooler not through email.
These are the village idiots. All right, so just be happy that this mistake turned into a social experiment that weeded out the morons in the office.
If I were the boss and whoever was above me told me I needed to make some cuts. These people would be on my list to consider first.
If you didn't reply, you're a normal worker. You realized something was a little bit weird that it went to everybody, even if you thought you would have been one of the inner circle to get the OG invite and you just left it alone.
Yeah, what else can the guy do at this point? He's got to stick his tail between his legs and send that embarrassing email. In the grand scheme of things it's not that bad.
I've said shit on my work phone to co-workers that I trust that would totally get me fired If everybody heard it . This was just an honest mistake
This is awkward now. If any of those people who replied offering to bring shit were not actually intended to get the OG invitation, the guy now has to just put them on the guest list. There's no polite way to tell them they were not originally intended to be invited.....
Attempting that is like the premise of a Curb Your enthusiasm episode. In real life, those awkward situations Larry gets himself in are not nearly as funny.
Yeah fuck these people. There is no shame in straight up uninviting these assholes. But I guess if you're doing it via work email you have to send out like a polite individual email to all of them explaining how the whole thing was. A big misunderstanding.
But if any of these people work side by side with me I would keep a note of that like. Oh yeah these are the selfish ones.
These people probably should have done nothing. You don't want to send emails even if they're direct emails with your company email address being a little too casual and busting balls a little too much like I don't know that shit ain't professional and it's not cool.
I get what these guys are going for but they should have busted his balls at the water cooler not through email.
These are the village idiots. All right, so just be happy that this mistake turned into a social experiment that weeded out the morons in the office.
If I were the boss and whoever was above me told me I needed to make some cuts. These people would be on my list to consider first.