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Re: Your Job: The Movie
« Reply #1040 on: August 16, 2010, 03:10:29 PM »

It's also similar to how you are more attractive to women when you are taken than when you are single: Even if your current girljob is crazy and awful, it proves that you have qualities that someone desires.
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Re: Your Job: The Movie
« Reply #1041 on: August 16, 2010, 03:42:47 PM »

Yeah, I'm over my fit of panic/rage.  Look forward to it returning next week when the district manager is in town!
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Re: Your Job: The Movie
« Reply #1042 on: August 16, 2010, 05:27:19 PM »

A lady wanted "Happy Birthday, Douchebag" written on a cake. I didn't even bat an eye.

You know you've been working in a bakery too long when...
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Re: Your Job: The Movie
« Reply #1043 on: August 16, 2010, 05:30:11 PM »

... when you don't stop to ask the story there?  Because it sounds like there's a great story there.
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Re: Your Job: The Movie
« Reply #1044 on: August 16, 2010, 09:25:57 PM »

So, I have, on previous occasion, mentioned my laid-back boss and his uptight counterpart who runs the midwestern branch and who tried to dock my pay for leaving early on Christmas fucking Eve.  I referred to them by the pseudonyms Jim and Dwight; I will continue that here.

So okay.  Apparently a few weeks back Dwight's inventory turned up short a couple of laptops.  Not brand new ones, more like two-year-old ones; the sort of thing we can still send out to people who don't want to budget a new laptop, but, in practice, I have like 15 of the suckers just collecting dust because nobody wants them.

Dwight runs a tight ship.  He is a very by-the-book guy.  He is also a ladder-climbing kiss-ass.  So instead of going to his immediate superiors, he tries to get in good with HR by calling them and asking what THEY recommend.

Well, what they recommend is they hop on a plane and interrogate everyone on his staff the very next day.

The upshot of this is that now inventory is under much tighter control, and we can't so much as take a used keyboard home with us anymore.  And we have to count everything, every day.  Like, down to every single fucking stick of RAM.

And by "we", well, you can see where I'm going with this.  So yeah, my morning inventory that used to take 10 minutes now takes about 45.  I am, of course, expected to fit just as much work into the rest of the day as I did before.  Oh and also we're down to one working barcode scanner, which as you might expect creates a bottleneck in terms of scanning equipment into and out of stock.

Oh, and those two laptops showed back up.  While I suppose it's possible that somebody took them home and then brought them back once it turned into the Spanish Inquisition, I think it's a lot likelier that they were just sitting in a fucking corner somewhere.
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Re: Your Job: The Movie
« Reply #1045 on: August 17, 2010, 08:35:22 AM »

More goddamned HR meetings without answers, where I just repeat what I've already said again.

Man, just tell me if I'm fired or not already. It's nice and sunny out.
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Re: Your Job: The Movie
« Reply #1046 on: August 17, 2010, 09:38:03 AM »

The new girl is moving. Why do all the cool people leave almost immediately but the most insufferable people stick around forever?


Sometimes I get to do cool stuff when I'm working. Like make ads for upcoming movies and sales that are far more interesting and effective than the ones we're actually supposed to be using.




I don't get extra pay or anything, and I still have to serve customers while I do it, and I get in trouble if it's not finished on time even though it's not mandatory, but uhh...
uh...
I guess there isn't really much of an upside when I put it that way.
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Re: Your Job: The Movie
« Reply #1047 on: August 17, 2010, 10:06:46 AM »

That is uh... really fuckin' NICE
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Re: Your Job: The Movie
« Reply #1048 on: August 17, 2010, 10:54:18 AM »

Until some douchebag comes up and runs his finger right down the middle.


God damn douchebags.
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Re: Your Job: The Movie
« Reply #1049 on: August 17, 2010, 10:59:23 AM »

LOTTEL! GET YOUR FINGER OFF THAT WHITEBOARD!
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Re: Your Job: The Movie
« Reply #1050 on: August 17, 2010, 11:13:08 AM »

Hah, sometimes people are too dumb to even save themselves.

So the fellow who asked me to do all this outside-the-bounds stuff in the first place, he's a pretty good guy. I mean, the whole reason breaking the rules even came up between us is because our arcane regulations mean we essentially wind up blackmailing hospitals when agreements run out - sometimes as a surprise they don't find out about until they try to order a desperately needed product.

When all the shit came to light, I just told him, look, just play dumb about the fact that the request was against the rules. I deliberately and intentionally told the guy he could throw me under the bus if he needed to save his job, because he's a got a family and a fair career, whereas I'm at the bottom of the totem pole, am unlikely to go anywhere, and couldn't give much of a damn about entertaining my rage-filled manager much longer in any case.

So he did play dumb. Only he played WAY TOO DUMB. He told them he didn't even know about the situation at all. Which in theory would make sense to say if he was really going to deny everything to throw it all on me... only they already know he asked.

Without going into details about our system, suffice it to say that it's basically impossible that I would even look at doing this stuff without bringing it up with him - it's a given that I did, even if they're assuming I'm a lying sack of shit. So now he looks like a lying idiot when he could have just passed it off as 'misunderstanding'. Meanwhile it makes little difference to my situation.

Well, can't say I didn't try!
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Re: Your Job: The Movie
« Reply #1051 on: August 17, 2010, 11:51:15 AM »

Until some douchebag comes up and runs his finger right down the middle.


God damn douchebags.
When I made one of these for Watchmen, it was up for less than five minutes before someone walked in and wiped their arm across the entire thing.

That's why this one is hanging from the ceiling. :whoops:
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Re: Your Job: The Movie
« Reply #1052 on: August 17, 2010, 01:08:36 PM »

I worked my "promotion", coming in at nine after four hours of sleep. I got off at one. My regular shift starts at six. I actually stretched out in one of the booths for a half-hour nap. Job interview Friday, but I'm not very enthusiastic about that possibility either.
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Re: Your Job: The Movie
« Reply #1053 on: August 17, 2010, 02:30:58 PM »

The way things are going for you Mongrel, Queen's Park seems like a better place of employment for you. 
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Re: Your Job: The Movie
« Reply #1054 on: August 20, 2010, 08:47:15 AM »

Question. How much time do you guys spend spoon-feeding people things at work?

For example. Problem comes up and data is requested. I send a comprehensive spreadsheet that contains all the needed information, as well as additional stuff. It's not like it's horribly larded up with kruft or to dense to read, just a simple one-sheet spreadsheet with maybe 5, 7, 10 columns.

Let's say someone wants a list of all our accounts with shipping times with three days or more. I send my complete account list, with shipping times, plus some other info. This way everybody has the same reference document and can use it in future if they need information (Now that's a futile hope because they're all going to delete it or lose the email anyway if they need it even a week from now, but hey, I try). So all they need to do is sort by the 'shipping times' column. But no, I get the inevitable request minutes later for 'Great! can you send us a list of all the accounts with shipping time over 3 days?'. This kind of thing happens pretty much constantly.

I mean, hey, it's not the 'extra work' (haha) that bugs me. If it would take them two seconds to sort something, look it up, hit "ctrl + F" or whatever else is needed to get the information they need, it takes me less time to do the work and reattach a file to a new email (FYI: these are people who know how to use excel, word, etc. better than I do. Familiarity with the software is not the problem here.).

Nor does it really bug me that all my attempts to make sure everybody has good reference material are pretty much wasted. I get asked for the same simple information so many times, you'd think they didn't even KNOW what pen or a notepad are.

No, the real problem is that - even though it's endemic and I should damn well be used to it - I just can't take this level of crippling stupidity any more.
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Re: Your Job: The Movie
« Reply #1055 on: August 20, 2010, 09:55:28 AM »

My last corporate job, I was a project coordinator for a major telecom company. Most of my business dealings were with salesmen who were trying to land their commission and weren't really worried about much of anything else. This is how things would usually go;

It's the 27th. All orders need to be in by the 25th to classify as EOM for the salesman's commission.
Order gets assigned to me. I move it to the back burner pile, because I already have four orders I need to key within the next few days.
Email from salesman: "Hey, do you have order numbers yet?" (literally recieved this order twenty minutes ago)
Email from me: "Can't get you order numbers, recieved after EOM cutoff. I've only had the order for 20 minutes."
Email from his boss, 2 hours later: "What's this I hear about you not being able to get order numbers for captain asshole?"
Email from me: "I recieved the order after EOM cutoff, and I've only had the order on my desk for... 2 and a half hours now. Even if I could get order numbers today, he sent me an incomplete order form (this happened 99% of the time - I had to track down the customer and get this information myself) and I'd be waiting on response from the customer to even begin keying this."
Email from his boss' boss, at the end of my workday, CC'd to my boss, my boss' boss, and the site manager: "Look, we sent the order in before the 30th, if you want to screw around with us and our customer, we can always take our business to another VoiP provider."

My face:  :rage:

Another example:

Recieve order, 2nd of the month. Do my basic pre-scrub, send emails out to sales staff and customer requesting information.
Salesperson: "Please direct all communication to me on this order"
Me: "Acc. to FCC regulations and company policy I have to communicate with the customer on all steps of this order process if we don't have this form signed" *attach form to response*
Salesperson: "I've already sent that form"
*check my order, there's another form they've sent with a similair name that isn't even applicable to this order*
Me: "No, you sent this form, when I need a different form." *attach the right form again*
The next day...
Salesperson, CC'd to my boss and his boss: "Here's the form, I don't appreciate being jerked around like this. Will I have order numbers by EOM?"
Me: "Certainly, it's only the 3rd, you should have them by the end of week if everything goes according to plan. If you could please get the following information from the customer..."
*follows is a five page long tech interview, that he should have performed before even submitting the order to me, that details things about where we're installing the voip, whether they want analog or digital, how many lines they need, how many numbers they need, etc*
One week later:
Me: "Hey salesperson, I sent you this sheet last week, I really need this information before I can get you order numbers"
Three days later:
Me: *Calling salesperson, not getting through*
Me, in email: "Hey, salesperson, I still need this sheet filled out before I can key this order! If I don't recieve this, I'm going to have to put the order on hold!"
Three days later:
Me: "I've had to put this order on hold due to lack of communication, please contact the customer as soon as possible to get this information for me."
A couple of weeks later, three days after the EOM cutoff, around the 28th:
Salesperson: "Hey! do you have order numbers for me yet? The customer wants to know when his service is getting hooked up!"

Me:  :whoops:
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Re: Your Job: The Movie
« Reply #1056 on: August 20, 2010, 10:04:12 AM »

Yeah, that DEFINITELY sounds like sales staff.
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Re: Your Job: The Movie
« Reply #1057 on: August 20, 2010, 11:38:02 AM »

Mongrel:  I've had to deal with that when it came to inventories and supply shortages at a gig I did for about a year.  I color-coded excel spreadsheets, and I believe I also made the color-backgrounds automatic to a value inserted in the column.  Legends also helped to show with minimal time and effort to the widest audience what needed work on now, and what could wait x weeks. 

People respond well to multiple stimuli, such as text, title and colour. 
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Re: Your Job: The Movie
« Reply #1058 on: August 20, 2010, 11:50:36 AM »

work stuff

Holy hell. Change around some terminology and this is my job and my daily frustrations.
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Re: Your Job: The Movie
« Reply #1059 on: August 20, 2010, 07:46:25 PM »

Mongrel:  I've had to deal with that when it came to inventories and supply shortages at a gig I did for about a year.  I color-coded excel spreadsheets, and I believe I also made the color-backgrounds automatic to a value inserted in the column.  Legends also helped to show with minimal time and effort to the widest audience what needed work on now, and what could wait x weeks. 

People respond well to multiple stimuli, such as text, title and colour. 

I already use coloured columns or rows. OH WELL.
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