Topic: Your Job: The Movie (Read 177997 times)

Classic · « **Reply #1900 on:** December 08, 2011, 08:59:11 AM »

I guess it seemed like he was trying to guilt you into not "tattling"?

Royal☭ · « **Reply #1901 on:** December 08, 2011, 11:27:37 AM »

Yeah, dude is scum. He'll try and make you feel like a narc if you rat on him, but if you don't he's just going to try exploiting you more later. Basically, burn the witch.

Niku · « **Reply #1902 on:** December 08, 2011, 12:18:00 PM »

The real problem though is I have basically nobody to narc on because all the problems in our department right now are each person doing their own negligent thing adding up to a shitty whole, including problems caused by management. A lot of the problems actually aren't caused by him, he's just a lazy sack of shit who doesn't care to do anything about them while causing his own problems (re: sack of lazy shit). So I'm just poking around other departments trying to see if there's an opening for me to transfer instead.

Mongrel · « **Reply #1903 on:** December 08, 2011, 12:22:48 PM »

Where are you working again nowadays?

Malikial · « **Reply #1904 on:** December 08, 2011, 12:40:56 PM »

I like my job, I do, I actually pretty much love it. But there is one problem that is annoying me slightly this winter. I've been sick off and on, not that bad except a couple of days. But I literally work in such a needed position/catch up position(I basically am employed to make sure other people do their shit right or do what other people don't do right and then report it to management) that I cannot ever take a day off because if I don't come in my place of business is fucked and my general respect for my managers doesn't allow me to fuck them over. It's just slightly annoying to see all the kids we have working for us(Between ages 17-21) taking 1-2 days off a month for stupid shit and then when I am literally so sick I can't talk a full sentence without coughing up something resembling banana pudding I still go in on days like today, important days when I have to be there because if I'm not we literally won't be ready for the busy weekend rush.

Niku · « **Reply #1905 on:** December 08, 2011, 12:55:54 PM »

Quote from: Mongrel on December 08, 2011, 12:22:48 PM

Where are you working again nowadays?

Seafood counter at Whole Foods. Where sanitation issues are kind of a huge deal.

Quote from: Malikial on December 08, 2011, 12:40:56 PM

I like my job, I do, I actually pretty much love it. But there is one problem that is annoying me slightly this winter. I've been sick off and on, not that bad except a couple of days. But I literally work in such a needed position/catch up position(I basically am employed to make sure other people do their shit right or do what other people don't do right and then report it to management) that I cannot ever take a day off because if I don't come in my place of business is fucked and my general respect for my managers doesn't allow me to fuck them over. It's just slightly annoying to see all the kids we have working for us(Between ages 17-21) taking 1-2 days off a month for stupid shit and then when I am literally so sick I can't talk a full sentence without coughing up something resembling banana pudding I still go in on days like today, important days when I have to be there because if I'm not we literally won't be ready for the busy weekend rush.

Also this, at every job I have ever worked. My baller immune system makes me gradually loathe every person who has a sick day every week or two.

Ziiro · « **Reply #1906 on:** December 08, 2011, 01:43:58 PM »

I found out my work computer can run world of warcraft

this is a great idea

Nerd · « **Reply #1907 on:** December 16, 2011, 10:08:18 PM »

Looks like one of my co-workers got escorted out by police earlier yesterday for stealing company property (drugs, probably). A co-worker who I had gotten a job for in the first place by referring him. WOOPS

Brentai · « **Reply #1908 on:** December 16, 2011, 10:19:49 PM »

Wait, you work for a company where you can score drugs?

Can I get a reference?

Nerd · « **Reply #1909 on:** December 16, 2011, 10:23:08 PM »

If you don't mind being poor and possibly stoned on painkillers all the time, I don't see why not!

Mongrel · « **Reply #1910 on:** December 17, 2011, 05:54:59 AM »

As long as he was "just some guy you knew" as opposed to a longtime friend.

Brentai · « **Reply #1911 on:** December 21, 2011, 10:54:52 AM »

Did The Peter Principle ever cover "Any competent team will be reduced to its least competent elements after promotions are handed out."?

Thad · « **Reply #1912 on:** December 21, 2011, 11:32:35 AM »

It's implicit in stating that people are promoted until they reach the point of incompetence.

Classic · « **Reply #1913 on:** December 21, 2011, 11:48:31 AM »

Quote from: Brentai on December 21, 2011, 10:54:52 AM

Did The Peter Principle ever cover "Any competent team will be reduced to its least competent elements after promotions are handed out."?

So... You're saying you got promoted?

Thad · « **Reply #1914 on:** December 21, 2011, 07:27:16 PM »

Took me over two weeks bugging my rep, but I finally found out why I didn't get paid for Thanksgiving.

Turns out you have to work 24 hours in a week to get holiday pay.

I worked 23.5 that week.

Because the place closed early on Wednesday and wouldn't let me stay.

It's not that I desperately need a month-old day's pay, but I am hoping my rep can wrangle something for me because that's kind of a slap in the face.

(Similarly, the reason I didn't get paid for the 4th of July was that I only worked 12 hours the week before the 4th of July. Because I had just been fired.)

I mean, you know, I'm doing okay. It could be a lot worse. But it could be a lot better, too, and I really hate it when I feel like I'm being nickeled and dimed on top of already having a job that's pretty far south of my talents.

Mongrel · « **Reply #1915 on:** December 31, 2011, 03:11:23 PM »

Overheard at work:

"Sir, what are you doing in Nigeria? Can you verify you're the owner of this phone? We have no history of you travelling to Africa."
"... I'm in Niagara."

Mongrel · « **Reply #1916 on:** December 31, 2011, 03:14:45 PM »

Also, this is maybe more of a weird happening. A repair guy came up today to fix a vent. While he was here, he suddenly yelled and tossed something out of his ass pocket, then having done so, he shook his burnt hand around to cool it off. The object he'd chucked was a small flashlight, which was now deforming the plastic top on a nearby desk.

Somehow, without warning (and after sitting harmlessly in the dude's pocket for who-knows-how long) the pocket flashlight had gotten so hot that the flashlight's batteries (two AAs) had melted.

Never heard of a short-circuit like that before

Thad · « **Reply #1917 on:** January 03, 2012, 07:32:03 AM »

...came into work to find my account unexpectedly locked out this morning, for a rather nasty sense of deja vu.

Given that it had apparently been set to expire at the end of the year and they didn't lock me out of the admin account that let me into AD to fix it, I am assuming that this time it was an oversight. But I should probably double-check at some point.

Shinra · « **Reply #1918 on:** January 03, 2012, 07:39:43 AM »

Around this time last year I got a call from a guy who was locked out of windows. I pulled up his account and while I was opening his AD account, someone in HR was going through off-board procedures. I couldn't figure out why his account looked so weird until about 2 minutes later he started choking up and said "I'm being fired" and hung up.

fuckin' IT, man.

Mongrel · « **Reply #1919 on:** January 03, 2012, 09:03:43 AM »

Speaking of IT... I was done at 8pm last night, but had to send a case for an application error that was preventing me from cancelling a fraudulent account. Okay, three minutes to type up and submit a ticket... only there's no routing for me to send this to the correct queue? Oh boy, must call IT.

The *best* part about working for even a senior investigative division within the company - or any division that touches customer stuff at all - is that you still get treated like a fucking customer (i.e. every Big Stupid Telecom Company customer service nightmare you can possibly have, rolled into every call), when you call for anything. Clueless responsibility-avoidance is the order of the day.

So an hour later I'm finally told "Oh you can't even submit a ticket for that. Your senior manager has to submit a ticket for an application error on an individual account".

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