Topic: Your Job: The Movie (Read 177807 times)

Brentai · « **Reply #600 on:** January 21, 2010, 07:38:21 PM »

Back on the topic of MCE:

Don't.

Kayma · « **Reply #601 on:** January 21, 2010, 10:55:47 PM »

San Francisco is a lovely city. That said, anywhere you'd want to live is prohibitively expensive, and will slide into the ocean eventually anyway.

Mongrel · « **Reply #602 on:** January 22, 2010, 10:14:50 AM »

Quote from: SCD on January 21, 2010, 07:29:27 PM

So on the important subject of me, an update from this earlier status:

Quote from: SCD on December 14, 2009, 09:32:05 AM
Further cuts from this article just happened. This directly affects what I do as I will no longer be teaching before the summer camps open up.

On the plus side, I now have more time this winter for homework!

Oh yes, more time for homework indeed!

Heck, if the way the news is going on about it, I might even get a summer off from doing anything! Better polish off my resume to apply for the Geological Survey of Canada before I lose any prospect of being empl..

: You're teaching a basic starting this weekend. You're going to be a section commander.

: Starting this weekend

: And there's a good chance you're getting promoted

NICE.

And I ALSO agree with regards to MCE: DO NOT TAKE A JOB IN CA. DO NOT DO NOT DO NOT.

Miss Cat Ears · « **Reply #603 on:** January 22, 2010, 11:17:37 AM »

Fortunately and unfortunately this is where things are heading for me. I need a job in San Jose or somewhere thereabouts.

Mongrel · « **Reply #604 on:** January 25, 2010, 07:55:01 AM »

So, kind of funny.

The Stallion's French is bad. Like REALLY BAD. But he's proud of his halting pidgin French, I guess.

He gets an email, which he forwards to me. The email says a customer wants to be billed in April for something they're going to order in March (so they can game their accounting), which we don't do. You buy it, you pay for it. I mean, they're basically asking for credit.

The Stallion can't read the email properly.

Me: "Hey, regarding the email you just sent. I just doublechecked with Finance and the invoice has to go when the stuff ships. Do you want to call them back or would you prefer I do it?"
Stallion: "No, no, I don't think the email says that at all. I think they want to move their shipment up to an earlier date is all."
Me: **rereads email to make sure I'm not being a gigantic retard** "Uh, no, she's asking us to delay her billing... tell you what, would you like me to give her a call?"
Stallion: "What are you going to say?" [OBVIOUS GLARE]
Me: "...

...

... I'll ask what date she wants the order changed to

."

Mongrel · « **Reply #605 on:** January 25, 2010, 02:02:07 PM »

Hm! Today I was yelled at by my worthless manager (as usual) because I caught them not covering for me while I was off and they think I'm lying (even though it turned out that I had printed evidence BUT NEVER MIND THAT).

As an interesting bonus, she started throwing numbers at me, so I discovered that I work precisely half as hard* as any of the poor bastards in the US office who have to suffer under her daily.

*_{(in terms of data entry numbers... jokes about goofing off all day aside, I just do lots of work for other departments to keep busy)}

SCD · « **Reply #606 on:** January 25, 2010, 04:33:27 PM »

I hope you're taking notes and gathering evidence. It sounds like there might be knives out for you in the long run in that office. I do hope that you can keep on top of it in the mean, however.

MCE: Is this where the guy is headed?

Miss Cat Ears · « **Reply #607 on:** January 25, 2010, 05:28:07 PM »

He has been living there for a year. Also I want to get my MBA at Berkeley. Also, I am officially done with Oklahoma.

Mongrel · « **Reply #608 on:** January 25, 2010, 08:20:22 PM »

Quote from: SCD on January 25, 2010, 04:33:27 PM

I hope you're taking notes and gathering evidence. It sounds like there might be knives out for you in the long run in that office. I do hope that you can keep on top of it in the mean, however.

There's just one knife, but it's long, sharp and weilded by someone with the social skills of a dented coffee table*

The big problem is that I really don't have anything else. I have milked the various iterations of "customer service jerkoff" to such an incredible degree that I probably make double what anyone else doing this has a right to (and what I can rightly epxect if I get fired). I lucksacked into a higher pay grade each of the last two times I was fired, I can hardly expect a threepeat.

I don't know, if I try to tell her what's wrong and needs fixing, I'm a belligerent retard who won't listen to the Rules. If I say nothing and and let things explode in everybody's face, I'm a slovenly, lazy asshole whose under-the-table schemes have been 'revealed'.

*She once blurted out "Wow you should stop eating before you get even fatter!" at an obese coworker at a Christmas party. Sadly, she's done nothing so obvious to me.

Mongrel · « **Reply #609 on:** January 25, 2010, 09:25:56 PM »

Oh yeah, I almost forgot that I pretty much found out today that there's no way in hell I'll be able to get the new job, because university level French (i.e. suitable for legal documents and contracts) is a mandatory requirement.

My written is decently serviceable, but I won't pretend it's any better than high-school level.

Oh well, not much I can do there. At least I didn't lose it due to my WINNING PERSONALITY.

Mongrel · « **Reply #610 on:** January 26, 2010, 12:33:03 PM »

Unaltered quote from an email to me from my Manager this afternoon:

Quote

Why do you always assume the customer is always right?

Miss Cat Ears · « **Reply #611 on:** January 26, 2010, 12:37:23 PM »

She has a point.

Mongrel · « **Reply #612 on:** January 26, 2010, 02:04:18 PM »

I suppose I could post the rest for context, but I'd rather not post a full work email here. It was pretty cartoonish. We are always right, they are always wrong, and anybody who doesn't like that can suck it. No compromise, no "let's see what might have gone wrong".

Suffice it to say that we have been very frequently wrong and many customers have proved this to us - in writing.

SCD · « **Reply #613 on:** January 26, 2010, 02:07:02 PM »

I wonder how many of them are still customers.

Brentai · « **Reply #614 on:** January 26, 2010, 02:17:54 PM »

I'm a big fan of firing customers.

Not ALL of them though.

Mongrel · « **Reply #615 on:** January 26, 2010, 02:23:23 PM »

Quote from: SCD on January 26, 2010, 02:07:02 PM

I wonder how many of them are still customers.

Well, disengaging from a medical supplier is a messy business, but suffice it to say that a lot of folks are quietly building their list of grievances for contract renewal time. If we don't shape the fuck up this year, it'll begin to tell come 2011.

Though amusingly enough I found out today that, the Canadian division is the company's most profitable division (but -you may recall - my manager is a member of the US operation). Considering I'm the entire customer service department for Canada, you'd think at least a tiny bit of credit would rub off there.

Hahahahahahaha.

SCD · « **Reply #616 on:** January 26, 2010, 07:48:38 PM »

Oh wow. A medical supply company?

Are you any good with understanding how their logistical systems work, or that of the competing companies in terms of manpower, expenditures, transport systems and the like?

You really should start studying the bits and pieces you can over the coming year. It sounds like you have an opportunity landed from heaven.

Mongrel · « **Reply #617 on:** January 26, 2010, 08:50:25 PM »

Uh... Explain please?

I know something of our logistical madness, but nowhere near a full knowledge - that's almost entirely the warehouse's purview.

But it's not like there's too much to it. We pretty much just use UPS and then get mad when they fuck up. We don't use a dedicated medical carrier or anything as the cost-benefit is nowhere near what we get with joe-schmoe regular shipping. Even when we ship instruments it's just a special truck shipper.

I have no idea what competitors use.

SCD · « **Reply #618 on:** January 27, 2010, 06:45:17 AM »

I'll pass explaining on these means. Will follow up somewhere else when life on my end unclutters a mite.

Spaco · « **Reply #619 on:** January 27, 2010, 02:02:58 PM »

Ok, so wtf. I applied for a nonprofit fellowship position in NC that I'm easily qualified/perfect for. I get a phone interview, and it went well enough that they offered me an in-person second round interview. Problem was that I had to travel on my dollar to DC to do the interview. So whatevs, I assume that means they are probably going to give me the position if all goes well. I go, have an amazing interview, and today I get word that they aren't giving me the position.

Now, I understand that 1/2 the jobs I apply for I'm not a perfect fit for (rarely anyone is) and that it'd be a longshot, but I still can't figure out how to take it when I deserved it but didn't get it.

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