Work Gripes

scotchandcigar said:
and then I'd retire from my present employer, and start receiving my pension while I worked elsewhere.
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Why not do this anyway? Couldn't you work elsewhere with a comparable salary then also be getting your pension? Just wondering cause that's exactly what my uncle did as a fireman. He retired from Tamarac FD as assistant chief then got the chief gig in Melbourne. So he was getting his nice government pension and new, higher salary at the same time for like 10 years.

And that sucks about your coworker. Sorry man.
 
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I have a few work gripes but I just do the kinda fun one today.

This property manager got fired for fraud. She was with the company for 5+ years so who knows how long she was doing it before getting caught. Also what a dummy cause she was a resident manager like me so she lost her house. Anyway I really don't like this girl. In the 3 years I've been there of course there people I like more than others but I never have been in a real argument with anyone besides her.

Well this girl has no shame. She has a unit at one of the properties where I work and shes up to shady shit. One of those being she will prop the gate open after hours by blocking the sensor. I watched her on the cams do it last night after closing. At one point she told me our boss said it was ok for her to do it so I called him and found out she was lying right to my face.

So today I left her a little note:

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Now no one can see that note in that little box unless they bend down nearly to the ground so I'm looking forward to checking the cams to see her reaction. Also I hate when people leave anonymous notes so I gladly signed it. I want her to know it came from me.
 
JHDK said:
Why not do this anyway? Couldn't you work elsewhere with a comparable salary then also be getting your pension?
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Yes. And it doesn't even need to be at a comparable salary. But when I've considered this, I always arrive at this conclusion: if I'm going to keep working, I'd prefer to keep working 100% from home, rather than 100% on-site. There's just no comparison. Aside from that, there are many other factors:
- I already know what I'm doing here, and I'm very much needed.
- I interviewed with another company right before covid. There's an attitude you need to have, like an aggressive go-getter thing, and I'm past that point in my career.
- Starting over at this point is not something that I'm into.

So if they demanded that I work on-site, I'd certainly find other work. But I really like not having a commute, and not being away from home all day. I get up, shower, grab a cup of coffee, and walk upstairs to start my day. I have breakfast whenever I want. I can take breaks, and let the dogs out. I walk at lunchtime, then make myself something. I can take my lunch to the beach if I want. I can work a full day, or cut-out early. On the work Fridays, I always do a hike with Mrs. Scotch and the dogs.

It's 3 years. I can be happy working from home, while being frustrated that I'm delaying my pension. Or I can have a daily commute and work in an office (or in a shipyard) all day, and be miserable for 3 years, while being happy that I'm getting my pension.
 
scotchandcigar said:
Well, it's a milestone. A work milestone anyway. 40 years. When I used to think about hitting 40 years, I imagined going out to lunch with my longtime work friends. But now, most of them have already retired; and being remote, I'm not currently in-touch with any of the ones still around. Except that when the Mrs. was on her car trip, I met an old work friend for dinner. So we kind-of celebrated a few weeks ago.

I have to decide on a gift that I can pick from a catalog, like an espresso maker, or wireless headphones, or a watch. Don't know what to pick.
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I never posted a follow-up to this. I decided to get this substantial Bluetooth speaker. I already have a BT speaker for the beach and other portable situations, but it's half the size (like a soda can). This one is a beast, weighing 4 lbs., with 4 drivers and 2 passive radiators.

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I wouldn't normally go for a "Marshall guitar amp" branded portable speaker, but I saw the reviews. And aside from being pricey (not a concern here), it was universally praised. And indeed, it'll crank-out guitar-amp-level sound, with as much bass and treble as one would want. And it has an app to customize the sound. The only downside is that you want to get it somewhat pointed in your direction, so the bass doesn't dominate. On the beach, that means propping it up, or having it on a table or cooler. But it's turned out to be a useful thing, which is more than I can say for most of the gift choices.
 
I suspect I found this more entertaining than any of you will, but I had a work-related Facebook memory pop-up. It's a single listing from the internal employee classifieds, where you can list vacation rentals, cars, bikes, electronics, or anything else you want to sell. The fact that this guy went through the trouble of listing this item, rather than just holding on to them, along with his story, says it all. Keep in mind that this was 2013; well past the "cassette era" of the late 70s.

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Have I bitched about CDD to you guys yet?

Customer driven demand and it fucking sucks. Basically it's a way for them to cut down on labor hours. So my boss has trim the fat and got rid of people and now those of us who are left are the good ones. But we do a lot of split shifts between two properties and it fucking sucks.

Every Tuesday I have to go to this place in fort Lauderdale that is a fucking ghetto nightmare Hellscape. I hate it with all of my being and I've made that incredibly clear to my boss and I've used like three of my sick days. Just calling out Tuesdays because I want to really drive home the point how much I hate this.

And when I say it's a ghetto hellscape, I am not exaggerating. I have not been in a physical fight since middle school when Stuart Bell and I started punching each other a bunch in the face when we were in Disney world together. That's a story for another time but anyway...

I have come so close to actually physically fighting people at this fort Lauderdale location that I've had to call 911 twice. Which is insane. And what's crazier is? This place is literally 3 miles from my North Lauderdale home store yet it is night and day as far as the clientele goes.
 
Some of you may be familiar with Microsoft Teams, the crappy program that allows you to chat, call, or virtually meet with coworkers. Below each contact person's avatar (or initials) is a status circle. The main ones are these:

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There's also this
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And then there's this one
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It's the old blank circle, meaning checked-out: quit, retired, or laid-off. The guy who's been managing funding for my main project came up like that yesterday. I contacted the project's program manager, and he confirmed that the old guy had retired. Friday was his last day. I looked back and saw that the last correspondence I got from him was at the end of October. He probably spent November burning-off his PTO. Now I know why he wasn't bugging me about my status, or the budget. I just find it humorous - but odd - that he never mentioned it to me.

I was given the name of his replacement; I will wait for him to track me down.
 
I am thinking once I decide to retire, the workings of the company would no longer be in my list of concerns.
 
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HecticArt said:
Teams bites.
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Yes. What really sucks is that the original Teams was not great, but had features that were useful, which made it closer to what it replaced. For example, I was able to create teams of people for each project I worked on, so whenever I wanted to chat with someone on project X, or setup a meeting for project X, I could go right to my project X team contact list. It was especially useful when I needed to find the name of someone I worked with on an old (inactive) project.

But after the Microsoft 360 changeover, that all went to shit. Chats are listed in order of most recent to least recent. There's no other ordering available. If I want to see my contact teams, that's under "people", which is a different list from "chat". It shows the names of the contacts in the group, but I can't see any of the conversations.

Another feature we had for years was the location message. Especially now, it would be nice to see where people are. It used to be above the avatar, while the availability is below. Now the location is not displayed, unless you look at the person's profile. And since it's inconvenient to do, hardly anyone does it anymore.

IdRatherBeSkiing said:
I am thinking once I decide to retire, the workings of the company would no longer be in my list of concerns.
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True, but this guy was a high-level program manager, and usually there's a whole thing where his oversight would transition to a new person or people. That would be something the remaining people would want to do. But in my years working here, I've seen all sorts of things, and this is one of them.
 
scotchandcigar said:
True, but this guy was a high-level program manager, and usually there's a whole thing where his oversight would transition to a new person or people. That would be something the remaining people would want to do. But in my years working here, I've seen all sorts of things, and this is one of them.
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That sounds more like an oversight by your company for not properly handling the transition and getting the needed information out of him when they could.
 
Aaron said:
Teams isn’t always great, but its functionality contributes greatly to our organization continuing the remote hybrid thing, so I’m eternally grateful.
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I am not sure what the alternative is. I use zoom for non-office meetings and it's not as good.
 
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