August 30, 2004

>> I am ONE, but give me work for 20!

[ Work ]

OVERLOADED writes...

"My job is GARBAGE!

I work at the front desk of a low level hotel. You see, at this hotel, its ok to overload the workers. In fact, Im sure that management sits back and watches the lobby video tape while we are stuggling to get by, for their entertainment and amusement. I have to 1) check in guests, 2) answer in house phone calls, 3) answer incoming calls, 4) answer reservation phone calls 5) do bellman work (because the one on duty has downs syndrome), 6) answer all the dumb questions idiots and retards approach the desk with, 7) check the fax machine for incoming faxes and 8) do concierge work (which is another 13 tasks and duties).

The best part out of all of this? The front desk has only 4 people working full time. The rest of the "staff" is part time - about 8. Meaning, this "worker shortage" could be solved if management didn't hire so many part timers.

Thats the problem - MANAGEMENT. These IDIOTS take the cake when it comes to stupid decisions. I mean, take the dumbest thing you have ever heard a human being do, multipy it by 1,000 and you are about 1/3 close to the stupidity if these morons."

01:02 AM - Posted by Disgruntled

August 29, 2004

>> These type of people do exist

[ Boss ]

The lazy "fools" writes...

"My supervisor is a fool and the 2 idiots she sympathises with. I run a Video Jet. Is a machine that prints the ink on the cards that come with ur junkmail. Next time you get junkmail in the mail, look for a small card that has your adress, name (maybe), city, zip code, state, barcode and city route on it.

Anyways, today I was working on this big 20,000 piece list mailing of 2 page fold. Like the cover of a magazine if u ripped the front and back and put it together like a newspaper. So she puts her 2 favorite workers to work with me. They are inept. They talk about their jailbird friends because they are as well, and their babies. The black guy has about 6 children around the state and he is only 40. The girl has 3 going on 4. She is pregnant. That can already tell you how much of a fool these 2 are. Anyways, I knew I couldn't work with them. All they do is talk and when the pieces start running and one of them have to catch it and pass it to the girl to check for doubles, THEY STILL TALK LIKE THERE IS NOTHING THERE!!!. Of course is my ass if the shit don't get done. So I went to tell the supervisor, ms.z. I explain to her that these 2 are not right for the job I'm doing. So she instead of taking them off the machine and giving me this really good mexican worker that always helps me, goes outhere and starts doing my job. Like that's gonna help. Instead of helping it worsen the situation because then the 3 OF THEM BEGAN TALKING!!!. Wtf I thought. So I just took it for about half an hour. Then ms.z left back to her office where she spents most of her time and the 2 fools still sat there talking and doing half ass work. We started at 1pm and by 5pm there was only 2,000 pieces done. That's bad! I'm only 22 and I've been working here 4 years. The sup got hired 1 year ago and these 2 fools got hired 6 months ago. I can't afford to lose my job cuz is my money for college, and they know that. Everyone does but no one gives a crap about the work there other than the big boss mr.l. So I went to mr.l and he raised hell. He got the supervisor to change them right away and give me "big J", the mexican guy.

Now the biggest foolish act of the day. The black guy, after they told him to go work on the other machines, he comes back and asks me "Hey, What were we doing anyways"? FOOOOLS!!!"

01:17 AM - Posted by Disgruntled

August 28, 2004

>> Spelling is a pet peeve of mine!

[ Boss ]

ihatemyjob writes...

"Ok, I am the Assistant Store Manager of a retail store. I basically run the store, since the Store Manager is a total idiot. We have very basic directives we must follow every day, i.e., checking e-mail, voicemail, our company's "intranet", filling out sales goals for our associates, etc, etc. My manager has yet to learn how to check our email & intranet (all you have to do is click on the refresh button to see if there are new messages), cannot figure out simple math to add associates' sales goals (it's all addition & some division), and cannot spell to save her life!!! Spelling is a big pet peeve of mine, especially with simple words, such as "vacation"(she spells it "vaction" or "vacion"), "actual"(spelled "acual"), Vermont(spelled "Veermount"). Am I nitpicking or is this totally ridiculous? On top of that, she takes 2 hour lunch breaks without clocking out for them (we only get a half hour). She also goes shopping in the center for a few hours, visits her children's school, runs errands, and picks her children up from school, all within the time frame of 2 to 5 hours, never clocking out for any of it. She talks on the company phone for hours. If you looked at her time sheet it would say whe worked 55-60 hours a week, when in reality, she's only there for about 30!!! She blames me for anything that goes wrong, even on days I wasn't even there!!! She also handles the schedules, which in my opinion is a really bad idea! For the past two weeks, she has simply forgotten to give people hours, leaving their entire schedule blank! Then, when she finally realized it, she screamed at me for not telling her! Apparently it's my job to make sure she doesn't fuck up. One extremely busy Saturday, she forgot to schedule enough people to cover the store, leaving only herself & one other girl on. This particular day, the President of our company decided to make a surprise visit. He screamed at her for a half hour, then called our district manager. When asked why no one was scheduled? "My assistant was supposed to handle the schedules this week. She obviously isn't very good at her job." I have never even attempted to do the schedule, she won't let me!! I am completely fed up with this woman and being her little scapegoat!!! I am better than this!!! Comments would be appreciated!!! Thanks for listening(reading)!!!"

01:08 AM - Posted by Disgruntled

August 27, 2004

>> Insecure, inept Boss

[ Work ]

Zyk writes...

"About 1 year ago, my relationship with my boss started to deteriorate. I thought I could avoid the stench of corporate politics and posturing due to my technical position (I did not work in the cubefarm). One day I was called into the HR office to discuss my 'poor attitude'. I explained that the work load was extreme, and despite requesting assistance and engineering support for over a year it not occurred. Oh, and that I not had any perfomance feedback much less a formal review in 18 months. Oh, and the only reason I knew I had received a raise 2 months before was that I noticed my check was slightly larger (the smallest raise I have gotten in 12 years). 'I didn't tell you, are you sure ? Sorry' was the response. For the next 6 months I 'fixed' my attitude and work overtime to make up for the lack of support. During that time I requested several times that some storage and organizational issues for equipment be addressed. I received promises each time that it would be dealt with no results or feed back. Then I had an arguement with the 'boss' who claimed I was not to have access to said equipment because it could be misplaced or stolen (the equipment is required to do my job and I had been accessing it for over 3 years without any issues). I became agitated, and needed to cool off before I said something stupid, which I told him (minus the stupid part) and went back to work. 2 days later I'm suspended for insubordination (walking away)! I offered to quit, and was asked to stay. During the last 3 months of my employment I received a corporate award for quality and innovation. THEN I made the mistake of talking to the 'Boss' again. I calmly explained to him that I did not feel as though I was receiving and support from him, and that my (reasonable) requests were not being followed up, and I was not informed of their status. 'Sorry' was the reply and he turned and walked away. 1/2 hour later I was suspended for safety policy violation. I offered to quit, and was told not to. While I was suspended for a day, it took 1 week for them to get back to me (the boss went on vacation) and fire me via conference call. While I enjoyed my work, its not like I lost a good job. The moral is never put an insecure, flabby assed, power abusing office manager who can only write emails in charge of a state of the art corporate R&D labratory. He will only destroy the infrastructure, neglect technical issues, and remove top employees due to insecurity, inability and incompetence. Whew, thanks, I needed that."

01:03 AM - Posted by Disgruntled

August 26, 2004

>> This May Not Be Professional Enough for You...

[ Boss ]

Don't Mess with Me writes...

"The company that I used to work for hired a new woman to "manage" the department that I worked in. She knew nothing about the job or the company at all. Basically management hired someone to be a tattletale and report back to them about what was wrong with the department. My 2 co-workers and I ended up training her to be our manager and we could not stand her. We had hours of meetings on how to make the office look more "professional." Instead of trying to improve our relationship with our customers or do anything productive, our meetings consisted of "management" telling us what we were doing wrong and figuring out what to do with the office. They decided to buy this ridiculous fake plant to make the office more "professional." I guess they thought that it would solve all of our problems. It took them about 3 hour long meetings to come up with that one. Keep in mind that I worked for an ice cream distribution center whose only visitors to the office part were truck drivers passing through or salespeople who we were never allowed to let past the front door anyway.

Back to my new "manager" who I will call Millie. Millie loved to tell everyone what to do and loved to be a snitch to make herself look good. These are just a few of the "helpful hints" about being professional that she gave me within only a week or two of being there. She told me to take my sunglasses off of my head because it was "unprofessional." Sometimes after lunch, I would push my sunglasses on top of my head and forget about them. I don't think anyone else noticed except her, of course. While I was at lunch, she decided to rearrange my desk and took my wall calendar down because, guess why? Yup, you guessed it. It was too unprofessional. I had a few pictures of my daughter hanging in my cubicle with pushpins and I was asked to take them down and put them in frames. They were too unprofessional too. When I put the pictures in frames, they weren't professional enough. It got to the point where if Millie said "unprofessional" one more time, her jaw was going to get broken.

Since I tried to be nice and help the company, I worked from Sunday to Thursday. I did this to help them out and they wanted me to do this so they did not have to pay anyone overtime to work on Sunday. One Friday, when I was off of work, I came in to meet my 2 other co-workers for lunch. Their lunch break was supposed to be an hour long and they were gone maybe 10 or 15 minutes over that, but they never made a habit of this and they also came in early. Of course, Millie had to run and tattle to the manager of the plant that all 3 of us had gone over our hour lunch and left her there on purpose. Since I was not even working that day, I wasn't aware that I had a scheduled lunch hour.

Office life with Millie was hell and she did her best to get me fired. One of my co-workers had already been fired because of her and eventually management told me the day before the company Christmas party that they would have to lay me off permanently. What really pissed me off is that they knew I was planning to go to the party and I had spent a lot of money on a dress, shoes, etc. and I was not allowed to attend. To get revenge, I hacked into the customer service voicemail, which usually receives about 100 calls every weekend and changed the greeting from "Hi, you've reached Customer Service" to a recording of Eminem singing really explicit lyrics. I made sure I picked a song that included most every swear word in the book. I also changed the voicemail password so no one could get rid of the new recording. No one knew how to reset the password except the manager above Millie and she was out of town for the weekend. Thank God I am out of that hellhole!!"

01:12 AM - Posted by Disgruntled

August 25, 2004

>> Crazy Receptionist

[ Fools ]

ProjectMagnus writes...

"My company has hired the most paranoid and delusional receptionist. I work for a small software company with a fairly liberal and relaxed atmosphere. As long as you are doing your job and keeping your nose clean, you'll do alright. At first the young secretary seemed completely sweet and innocent. She was outgoing and down to earth.

In the last few months, she has morphed into this completely different beast. She goes into delusional periods where she thinks everyone is out to get her.

Frequently, employees will go outside for a smoke or fresh air. One time, upon returning to the office, she pulled me aside and asked in a very sheepish voice, "Were you (the group) talking about me out there?" When I asked her what would lead her to think that, she replied, "I'm just very insecure." Her odd behavior snowballed from there.

As a courtesy, past receptionist would use petty cash to put candy in a small dish in the foyer. She decided to take up a collection and start keeping tabs on who paid and who took candy from the dish. Nickel and dime-ing, she confronted another girl in our office about taking more candy than she had contributed. Subsequently, she started posting a list by the candy dish of contributors with a giant "Thank You" at the top of the page warding off all non-contributors. She now hides the dish when she is away from her desk.

The note did not stop there. Soon notes began popping up all around the office. 8 x 10 pieces of paper instructed employees to turn off lights, flush toilets twice if necessary and so on.

Often she just sits at her desk talking on her two-way-talk cell phone. Like a ten year old with a walkie -talkie, she rants to sisters and her husband about paying household bills and what they would be having for dinner.

She has made hilarious comments about herself to relatively unknown co-workers. Some of her greatest hits, include "There's nothing I like more than giving oral!", "I've always been known as the pretty girl!", "Do you think I don't like you?" and my personal favorite "I think he (co-worker) cut his hair so that he would look like my husband. He wants me to like him."

Her paranoia and quirky behavior leaves people scurrying by her desk to avoid all contact.

Some people are convinced that she is going through some change in brain chemistry causing her to seem crazy.

Where do they grow these vegetables?!?!?!"

01:10 AM - Posted by Disgruntled

August 24, 2004

>> I Don't Need the IT Department

[ Boss ]

Fritz writes...

"I worked in a group writing software for a cutting edge prototype of a new product. Since this was the hot project, our manager ordered more RAM for all our computers to make them faster. The RAM chips were shipped directly to our department, and given to us to install ourselves instead of to the IT department that normally does installs.

My co-worker Bob assured us that he could install the RAM in his own PC. We all installed our RAM and rebooted the PC's and went back to work. The next day, Bob came running around with a problem. His hard drive had crashed, nothing on his PC worked, he couldn't access the files, the code, his mail, or anything. The problem actually happened the day before, but Bob had been trying to fix it all day yesterday and couldn't find the problem. He called the IT people to try and get them to fix the problem. They worked for 2 days trying to figure out what was wrong. Eventually they decided to take the PC away and try to have the code on the hard drive recovered.

At this point, my boss determined, that the code Bob was writing was the most important, and that since I was the most junior member, he should be given my workstation to complete his work while his PC was fixed. I was told to take training, or read documentation, while Bob used my PC.

A few hours into the day, the IT people returned with Bob's PC. They had removed the RAM chip Bob had "installed" and now everything worked fine. All Bob had to do was remove the chip he put in and everything could have been avoided. Everyone had assumed that he took it back out when things stopped working. You could see the anger in the IT guys faces, and you could tell Bob had told them "it just stopped working", and not "I installed a RAM chip and then everything stopped working".

I could write a book about the problems Bob had on this project, but as a summary, Bob's incompetence and stupid mistakes cost the project at least 6 weeks of delays and rework, and the project was ultimately cancelled."

01:05 AM - Posted by Disgruntled

August 23, 2004

>> Laundry list of excuses

[ Rant ]

Bobblehead writes...

"I work with a woman - we'll call her "Lyah" -who takes excuse making to a whole new level. A new world, actually - the crazy world inside her head. This woman has a sweet deal where she doesn't have to show up to work until a half-hour after everyone else (and still gets paid for that time). Yet she usually shows up a half-hour after THAT! Sometimes later! The way a new, wacky excuse is always on the tip of her tongue - she must practice them in her vanity mirror on the way to work. I've actually seen her saunter into work and chat happily with the front office staff before quickly transforming into her role of the tormented soul with a tale of woe. It's like watching Dr. Jeckyll turn to Mr. Hyde before your eyes.

Just a few of the smelly eggs she's laid on us:

-"My alarm clock shut off during the night and I had no idea what time it is!" This happened for a week straight! Here's a tip: put a battery back-up in your friggin' clock or keep your wristwatch by your bed, you kook!
-"My son (who's 30+ and lives in the basement) and husband (who has several cars) blocked my car in and I had to move them all to get out". Here's a tip: kick your lazy ass son out of bed to move his own damn car and tell your husband to rent garage space for his fleet!
-"I had to put out all the trash." Here's a tip: tell your lazy ass son to do some chores and earn his keep or put it out the night before!
-"It was something I ate." This has been used way too many times. So much so that this woman must be a huge sack of botulism by now!
-"I woke up late. It must have been that bottle of I drank last night." Here's a tip: if you can't handle your liquor, don't drink on work nights. And admitting to your boss that booze is the reason you showed up late can't be good come review time.
-"Traffic was awful this morning." OK, we've all been there. Sometimes there's nothing to do but plod along. But this woman has exactly 2 stoplights and 4 miles of road between her home and this office. BTW, we're not in NYC, so those aren't "city miles" she's driving.
-"I'm sick, have diarrhea/laryngitis/headache. I'll be in later." Sick people stay home. People who are lazy/like to sleep in/sleeping off a bender, offer to "come in later". Stay in bed or on the pooper if you're that ill, eh?

I could go on and on, but you get the picture. Sad thing is, management enables this behavior so as Casey Kasam would say - the hits just keep on comin'! I could keep this site filled with other stories from my workplace, and maybe I will...another day."

01:12 AM - Posted by Disgruntled

August 22, 2004

>> Manditory Overtime

[ Work ]

Mr. Peon Mi, office worker writes...

"It's Monday, so I come in to work feeling like I should, you know, try or something and there sits a "FWD" in my e-mailbox from the company's big cheese. It's addressed to my boss and it basically degrades my department by saying that we aren't producing and she goes on to list everybody's numbers. So then my boss, who is over-reactive and unstable as it is, sends an email stating Manditory Overtime of 4 hours for the week. 4 hours??! You're probably thinking it's no big thing, but it's meaningless time that isn't going to magically get us caught up. It's a pointless inconvenience that kills morale amongst those of us who actually have a life. I should mention at this point that nobody in the department got a raise during reviews, and all of us had bad review sheets probably to start a paper trail in case they ever want to ditch any one of us. I work in insurance, where things consistantly change for the worst and the claims never stop coming in. When I started here, there was no manditory overtime and there were promises of advancement and raises... all of it lies. They don't let you enroll in 401K until after *2* years of working for them, and the health insurance is the absolute bare minimum. You'd think an insurance company would have GOOD insurance. Not the case here. And I won't even get into the parking situation or the plastic people that walk through these halls with their "Good morning, how are ya? Good thanks" over and over again. It's a plastic workplace with plastic people who see green all the time. NEVER EVER BE AFRAID OF YOUR JOB! There's always work out there, even if it's fast food! Don't put up with misers and fake, disinterested people. It's bad enough you have to be there for 8 hours of your life, 5 days a week! And sometimes MORE..."

01:06 AM - Posted by Disgruntled

August 21, 2004

>> Wanna be boss

[ Work ]

Please Help!!! writes...

"I work with this girl that knows it all. She wants to be BOSS soooo bad. She continues to take on more and more of our managers role she is such a RAT!

She is a very good manipulator she plays everyone in the office acts like she is your friend so she could get the scoop on what ticks you off and then later runs and tells management of the poor office morale and how we are all miserable in our jobs.

The sad thing is that the boss really thinks she is looking out for her interest.

Get this she is now Quality and Control.. She made this part of her job where she checks and logs everyones error except for her own and reports it to our manager.

How do we deal with this wanna be boss co-worker without looking petty to the boss?

All comments are welcome. Thanks..

Please Help!!"

01:13 AM - Posted by Disgruntled

August 20, 2004

>> I wanna be sedated

[ Fools ]

we are trained professionals writes...

"I am an auto mechanic and Ive seen my share of stupid stuff but this takes the taco.

I worked with a guy we'll call nick. Nick gets handed a car to work on with a very rough and sporadic idle (constant revving). So I told him to start looking for vacuum leaks on the plenum hoses. He proceeds to search for this leak by spraying a liquid on all of the hoses. First of all its a VACUUM leak. Its not blowing air out, its sucking air (and this liquid in) so the liquid wouldnt be terribly usefull. Second of all the liquid he was using was carb cleaner. One the most flammable liquids on earth. I walked by and told him several times that the results of this method are futile and fraught with perile, he continues to spray. The last time I went to tell him to please stop, the cars engine compartment ignited. He had sprayed so much all over the engine compartment(with the car running) that it finally hit the exhaust manifold and up it went. I got the fire under control (they still claim no damage on the vehicle). The funniest thing about this dumb $hits fire is that it fixed the car!!! the hoses are rubber and melted back together where ever the hole was. this is the same moron who drops cars off of the lifts. Its worth your while to be sure you leave your car with a good mechanic because a lot of crap happens in a shop. Most are good but there are plenty morons to go around"

01:05 AM - Posted by Disgruntled

August 19, 2004

>> The Returning Christmas Present

[ Work ]

Give and Thou Shalt Receive writes...

"Well here we go .
Unfortunatley or fortunatley I work with some girls. Now there is one lady who basically 'has no friends' is a good worker etc. I work pretty closley with this person and we did occassionally about the latest house renovations etc in the office.
She admitted that "She has no friends" and I thought well ok ....we'll have to have her over for a BBQ .
I certainly know the rules for single white females being asked over for BBQ. Eg my wife is in on it and will be present at all times...etc etc.
So my wife and I over time got to know this person and we were the only one's that really did talk to her outside of work (other than family ) ....
So my wife and I bought her a Christmas present not expecting anything back right???
So we purchased a 'low rent' CD player . Because they said that they didn't have one for work..
So the present was from us eg (Husband and wife) and we signed the card etc...

The person promptly returned the gift back at work the next day.
So myself being the problem solver that I think I am said "come over to our place and talk about it with me and my wife" ...
No answer.....
We use to wave in the street. Now she doesn't
Used to talk at work. Now she doesn't

Told other friends.....and they said
"What a Space Cadet" ...

So I came home yesterday a different way and lo and behold this person was next to me in her car with her 80 year old mother and nephew. Should I wave......
I thought nah ! Space Cadet..

Now today it seems that she is now looking for a "reaction" ...
I'm usally good with one liners like "Sorry I don't talk to Indian Takers"
or "You musn't like Santa Claus whatta shame"
This has baffled me and my wife considering that they don't want to discuss it ...

Weird eh??

But I need a one liner.......help me guys!!!"

01:20 AM - Posted by Disgruntled

August 18, 2004

>> Who needs Human emotion?

[ Rant ]

Anonymous writes...

"So, i got my first job at a pet store. It was very simple, i ran the register and stocked. My boss gave me weird little tasks like getting him food or getting other people food. fun huh? My mom went into the hospital and i was very worried about my job, because i had to go see her every day. I told my boss that keeping my job was very important to me and i had asked him if i could take a few days off, and that i would call him and let him know what was going on. He said it was fine. I had, again..the next day, talked to him and told him that i wished to keep my job, but i had to stay with my mom sometimes. He SAID he understood. He said he wouldnt put me on the schedule until i talked to him again. The NEXT DAY i get a call..."why arent you here, you're supposed to be here, you're on the schedule". I told him i couldnt and that he knew i couldnt, and i was fired. WOW...who needs human emotion??"

01:05 AM - Posted by Disgruntled

August 17, 2004

>> Machiavelli in Human resources

[ Work ]

Dr. Madd writes...

"I've been working in a plastics, injection molding factory for two years now, and when I first started working there, all was pretty cool (despite the strikers outside threatening us.. don't ask) but that said, lately, we have a new supervisor, a really cool dude, but something of a politician. And our floor managers do not like it. He says that we operators are just as good as they are, a situation that was reversed prior. These people wanted a dictatorship and our new super wants a republic, as it were. The amount of backstabbing is positively Byzantine. The Floor Managers don't like the Super because he won't flog the workers. The Super feels, and rightly so, that the floor managers are cliquey and have developed an "Us and Them" mentality. One of these cretins even compared us to unhousebroken dogs in a conversation we "Canines"*lol* weren't supposed to hear. That said, There is a third group who wants to take some power from the floor managers and break up the oligarchy. These poor folks are being demonized. I didn't think they had the right idea at first, but today I heard the dog story and I'm really mad. They wanted to dupe me into getting our warehouse guy jumped on, because a couple of measly swear words. Big frigging deal. They weren't directed at me and this backstabbing must cease. It might as well end now."

01:09 AM - Posted by Disgruntled

August 16, 2004

>> Whatever you do, don't tell the truth!

[ Boss ]

Truth Teller writes...

"Years ago, I worked for a video store, one in a chain. About a year after I was hired, the parent company sold the store - just THAT store - to a private owner/operator. So, I had the same job, different boss. No problem. About a year after THAT, the private owber/operator sold the outlet BACK to the parent company. Still the same job, another new boss. Follow all that? Now meet the fools . . .
The management of the parent company had completely changed over in the intervening year. My new manager looked like Keith Richards, and acted about as stoned - when he was there. More often than not I was left to figure out company policy and run things by myself. Now for three years, I had answered the phone the same: "Good morning/afternoon/evening (depending on time of day), Name of Store." Every time. For three years. Manager Stonehenged leaves me in charge one day - AGAIN - and the phone rings: "Good morning, Name of Store," I say.
"Who is this?" a voice barks at me.
"Well, this is [my name]." Having dealt with plenty of weird, irate, and stupid customers in three years I lightly asked, "Who is this?"
"This is High-Muckity-Muck from Head Office, and you're supposed to say your name when you answer the phone!"
"Oh," I say. "I didn't know that."
"Why not?"
"This outlet just got sold back to [PARENT COMPANY] and I'm not familiar with all of the new policies."
"Doesn't Manager Stonehenged explain them to you?"
"I'm pretty much left to figure things out on my own here, but now that I know, I'll be sure to do that in the future. How can I help you?"
"Is Manager Stonehenged there?"
"No."
"Where is he?"
"I'm not sure."
"He's supposed to be at a meeting!"
"Well, he just left. He may be on his way. May I take a message?"
"Just tell him to call head office when he gets in." Click. He hangs up.

"Manger Stonehenged is in trouble now," I think, but beyond that, I don't give it another thought.

High-Muckity-Muck, however, must've felt pretty dissed because he went storming off to HR to write me up for not only answering the phone with an abrupt "Hello?!" but also for being rude to him on the phone. A blatant lie. After I had done nothing but politely tell him the truth.

When this comes back to me, I'm stunned, and I submit a formal letter asking to sit down and work this out. After all, there are two versions of this phone conversation, right? Nothing. I don't hear a thing about it until the day I make an honest-to-goodness, didn't-read-the-memo-thoroughly, legitimate mistake, to which I (stupidly!) own up.

During a surprise visit from the HR director before my next shift is about to start, I'm fired. I protest, explain how the mistake happened, and how it wouldn't - COULDN'T - happen again. "Oh, we know," she says, "in fact, we'd keep you on if you didn't already have this black mark on your file . . . "

Justice prevailed, however poetic: less than a month after I left Manager Stonehenged was gone because after there wasn't anybody competent left to run things adn cover his ass; less than a year after that the entire franchise went belly-up, and now even the parent company is no longer in operation."

01:00 AM - Posted by Disgruntled

August 15, 2004

>> Who's calling Who?

[ Boss ]

Anonymous writes...

"My office is right next to my boss's and I can hear all of his telephone conversations. One day he dialed out on speaker phone, and I heard the receptionist answer "XXX company". (Same company I work for) The voice sounded familiar, but I didn't think much of it because it was normal to call other locations. My boss asked for "Tom" and the receptionist said "Hold sir" then she came back and politely said "Tom is at our XXX office, his number is ###" Then I realized what he had done. My boss had called OUR office number. He was talking to the receptionist DOWNSTAIRS!!!!! We all got a good laugh out of that one."

01:03 AM - Posted by Disgruntled

August 14, 2004

>> "I'm the Boss's daughter, thats why"

[ Boss ]

Driving me Crazy writes...

"I work in food related business. I am the manager/shift leader of my job (which means that I not only work my a$$ off 5-6 days a week, I deal with all the paper work of running a business ie:food orders, bills etc)

The business is family owned and the two head honchos always have their kids come in to 'cover' their shifts...which is crap since their kids are spoiled brats that refuse to work saying it's "not their job" and the like. Well one day I'm at work and the boss's daughter comes in to tell me she's covering for her mom, so just tell her what to do....so I tell her and then 10 min. later she is promptly on the phone/sitting down/NOT working. I don't even complain anymore since it's normal to me and then she ends up leaving. 1 hour later she cames storming back in, telling everyone (except me mind you) that I'm ripping up applications for employment because I want to work all the hours meant for trainees (yeah right!?). Naturally I confront her about it and she tells me that she witnessed me ripping up several apps. and that she told her mom and I better apologize if I dont want to get fired.

That was IT! I flipped out on her telling her exactly what i thought of her and then clocked out and drove up to my boss's house. too make a long story short they believed their daughter over me (big surprise) and gave me a couple days off to 'cool down'. When I came in the next week, I found that my fellow manager had been fired/let go...why?? employee behavior problems...this manager worked with me practically every day with no problems...they were very congenial and the reason sighted on the papers was "confrontational with other employees, bad work environment, illegally destroying applications/paperwork" no joke, that was the direct quote. OooohKaaay, I thought I was accused of that??!! I guess little miss boss's daughter is too dumb to know what manager she wants fired and how to fill out the paper work!!"

01:07 AM - Posted by Disgruntled

August 13, 2004

>> Morons

[ Boss ]

The Only One With A Brain writes...

"For the past two weeks we have been having problems with out internet. Two out of three computers could not get connected. I was away for a week, and came back, and of course no one else took the initiative to phone technical support.

I decided to call. I was on the phone with technical support, they had me running around to each computer to check various settings etc.

The "Boss" came in, and I told him, that I was on the phone with technical support. He seemed relieved that I was handling it. Then he decides to make a phone call in the office (not his) that I need the computer and phone. He had put the call on hold, and I told him I needed that computer and phone. He made no efforts to get off the phone, or go to a different phone.

Technical Support waited patiently for about 10 minutes for this person to finish his phone call, so that I could go in and finish the trouble shooting. They then said, that I would have to call them back when I was able to get to that computer.

I was pretty peeved. He knew what I was doing..he has his own phone, and his own desk, but chose to use that phone and that desk. I said nothing to him, just gritted my teeth and carried on with my day.

Later on that afternoon, he stops by my office and asks me how I made out with technical support. I could barely speak, I was so pissed off. I told him, I couldn't finish because you were on the phone and computer that I needed. He said..Oh yeah, like it didn't matter at all and left. He was on his way back East for a couple of weeks.

Later I phoned technical support back, and we got to the bottom of the problem. Someone, (this person wife) put a password in the system, and didn't bother telling anyone. We have a standard password we use, so that we all use the sameone all the time. This wasn't that password. It was the name of a business in the same complex is ours. I guess she couldn't think of anything else to use.

I got my computer working, internet is up and running...but I refused to listen to techincal support explain how to fix his computer. He can figure it out when he comes back. LOL"

01:18 AM - Posted by Disgruntled

August 12, 2004

>> Drama Queen

[ Fools ]

Bruized Nutz writes...

"My office-mate is driving me crazy! She has nothing to do, or she won't do the work she is assigned to do so she surfs the web all day. That doesn't bother me except she's got to read to me all of the articles she is currently reading. I have tried putting on headphones, but that doesn't work either.

Her: "Oh my God, did you know Julia Roberts is expecting twins?"
Me removing headphones: "What?"
Her: "Did you know Julia Roberts is expecting twins?"
Me: "No, really...hmmm." putting headphones back on
Her: "Oh my God, did you know that Shrek II made x amount of dollars this weekend?"
Me removing headphones again: "What?"
Her: "Did you know that Shrek II made x amount of dollars this weekend?"
Me: "No, really...hmmm." putting headphones back on.

And this continues on all day long.

She has three calendars on her side of the office, plus she has two computers, which have a calendar on them, yet she will ask me what is today's date. I want to scream, "LOOK AT ONE OF YOUR FUCKIN' CALENDARS!", but I will calmly answer her question and then leave the office and go and punch myself in the nuts.

Plus everything is so traumatic for her. She will come in from lunch throw herself on her desk, put her head down and sign deeply and whine, "Why me?" You would think she has just lost her best friend, and I really don't care what her problem is, but I will ask what's wrong to be polite, and she will while "My windshield wiper reservoir is out." I'm exaggerating, but not by much.

I have other stories, but she is trying to read to me some story about some Aussie winning a pageant, so I will cut this short. I have asked for my own office, but I am too far down on the food chain to rate an office by myself, so I guess I'll have to put up with this for a while longer, and ask 'Why me?'"

01:06 AM - Posted by Disgruntled

August 11, 2004

>> Official Business

[ Work ]

StateoftheWorker writes...

"I work for a large state agency. We are going to consolidate with other agencies at the beginning of the next fiscal year for cost savings. Our agency is splitting in half, so we won't be the largest agency anymore. That's fine. One half is going to merge with another agency that's planning all of this to the smallest, tiniest detail. The other half is merging with another agency that has one person as project manager. She's trying to do everything herself.

I've asked her for detail information, and she refuses to send it to me, since it's not approved. According to her, the approval needs to come from the Commissioner that is over all the agencies in the field! This is accounting detail information for the new agency! It's like asking the President of the United States to approve an organizational chart for office staff at the Capitol. It doesn't happen that way.

Also, we don't have nearly the number of staff these other agencies have. So some of us have to do double duty to get these new systems up and running. But this lady - if you aren't going to the new agency, she doesn't want your input and doesn't want you to attend the meeting. OK. That just means more work for fewer people.

The really crazy thing? A management decision was made by very higher ups that no-one from our agency would be told where we are going to be slotted. So we know informally where we are going, but not officially. Since none of know this officially, we can't be on any of her meetings. That's why the poor baby has to do everything her own self..."

01:14 AM - Posted by Disgruntled

August 10, 2004

>> No Salary = Doomed Business

[ Work ]

Yves writes...

"I've worked for about 9 month back in 2002 in a Web agency in Geneva (Switzerland), as a usability specialist. At that time, the boss was known as a serial entrepreneur that had recently sold his media company. Everyone involved in his new company creation (artists, developers...) got seduced by his innovative and trendy prospect around content, design and usability for the Web. We all moved in a nice flat by the lake, wooden parquet, design furnitures, colourful environment, few miles away from home, comfortable salaries for everyone... nearly perfect place! Apart from my boss and art director.

Check this out :)

Freshly out of university, I still needed some confidence and support in my daily work, eventhough I was excited and motivated in working hard and earning decent proper cash after spending 6 months of internship. Beside my work, I was also following some entrepreneurship courses in order to get some practical knowledge in account management and finance. The boss was at first pushing me forward in that direction, he was enthusiastic and wanted to coach me for further strategic collaboration regarding the overall development and customer satisfaction processes. He also wanted to delegate part of his managerial duties.

We were all working in one big sunny room, beside the boss. 4 artists, 1 computer engineer and 1 ergonomist. We were all about 30 years old, sharing similar media and artistic background. The art director was an open-minded and trustful end of 40s woman, thus talented and bright. But emotionally very unstable. She used to come at work with her stinky, sniffing, snoring St-Bernard dog lying under her table. She was talking loud to either colleagues or dog, showing obvious personal sexual misery, going through perpetual child regression, and using subtle strategies of psychological pression towards those (one artist and myself) who were somehow reluctant to this group neurosis. Part of the usability specialist duties require a quiet environment and an analytical mind at work. Besides I am a discreet and respectful person, with some irony and humour when required. Instead, most of my colleagues thought I was a distant person, sometimes arrogant. But very few were ready to extract her/himself from the Grand Illusion. After one month, the incriminatory atmosphere started to be difficult to handle. The boss was never around, except for asking about performance and results. People were stiff and worried. The coaching support was bullshit, we were on our own, dealing with customers, dev and design problems, personnel problems, as well as mobbing and stress. Communicating clear objectives and vision was a wired concept for the boss. When I was trying to talk to him about building a true humanistic approach of business and health at work, he was just laughing. Saying theory has no real value in business environments. Why so, when most of the teachers were talking business as being about humans? This kind of psychotic situation reached a pinnacle 6 weeks after the move: I was still waiting for my salary to be paid. Bills were piling up at home. My future wife was starting to freak out, because we couldn't really anticipate anything. And more, while talking with some collegues, I realize that they were all waiting for their salaries too. The art director had not been paid for 6 months, and all other colleagues for about 3 months. Nobody was saying anything, while being screwed! During the next Monday meeting, I started to raise the salary problem in front of everyone, simply saying I could not work without being paid!!! Half of the people in the room got upset and went out, saying they were out of this. The remaining two were getting so nervous, they started to cry. Yeah. I was just asking for my fucking money, and we all ended up in a psychiatric hospital :) Some were denying the awful truth, while others badly felt the pain.

A week later I got fired with no compensation, saying I was creating too many problems in-house. It took me 4 letters, a lot of diplomacy and self-confidence, and about 3 more weeks to finally get the money back, as well as my own integrity. 4 weeks later, one of the artist quitted and condemned the boss. He won the trial about 9 month afterwards with extra money. The remaining colleagues got screwed of about $100,000 all together, when he recently went bankrupt. They are now in trial. The ex-serial entrepreneur is now doing IT consultancy. While I go on specializing in health and security at work, teaching future executives to build their own business around humanistic and employee-driven strategy. If managers still think they can grow fast with only profit- and/or performance-driven strategy, they simply are fools. Taylorism is not over! So beware of its most fanatic believers around the world. You know, those with the pale neo-liberalism grin on their face?"

01:10 AM - Posted by Disgruntled

August 09, 2004

>> I work with too many fools

[ Fools ]

ghost has a quickie for us today but entertaining regardless...

"I have too many stories about the fools i work with. This is one of them. We recently bought monitor screen filters in out dept. Not everyone have them. Only the managers and the officers can have them. One day, a manager asked if I wanted hers. She said the screen filter doesn't work. I said I'll take it. There was no problem with the filter. She just put it on the monitor backwards so that it reflects. She's probably one of those people who thought the cd drive is a cup holder."
01:08 AM - Posted by Disgruntled

August 08, 2004

>> If only I were a hooch

[ Rant ]

Elayne has a warning for you all that think you are safe from being fired... doesn't take much with a fool in control...

"I have been a temp for about four years. I do this because I don't want to be tied down to a permanent job, not because I suck as most people think temps do.

I took a temp job at this place in Scottsdale, Arizona, which to those of you who don't know this, is referred to as Snottsdale for a Very good reason.

I went into this position as a temporary receptionist and kicked a$$. Being an awesome temp, coming in an hour early every day, leaving an hour late everyday, being very computer literate, pleasent on the phone and very organized and efficent, the company decided to hire me on full time and to pay me a crap load. So against my better judgment I accepted their offer.

While I was working at this company, I started observing work habits of my co-workers. There was this one girl that was very pretty and very 'nice' and fit right in with my boss who was the epitomy of a Scottsdaleonian. This girl would show up at least an hour Late every day, take two hour lunches and actually called in sick to work one day, FOR THE WHOLE DAY, because her cat wasn't feeling well. It was a standing joke around the office about this girl, and it actually pissed people off because they knew if they had these work habits they would of course be fired.

So one day, about four months into this job, I skrew up a toner order and the company runs out of toner for a day. Kind of sucks, but as that was not the only copier in the office I am pretty much thinking that people can just get over it, right? Well, I have this innate ability to sense when my job starts going down the crapper and after this incident I just "got that feeling". Now, normally, something like toner running out wouldn't be grounds for firing, but something like not coming to work Would get you fired. . right? WRONG. . . about three days later my boss called me into the office to tell me that "things just weren't working out", meanwhile I hear miss 'thang' is still working her normal six hour days on the days that she even shows up to work.

(and for those of you who are thinking that I sound bitter. . . I'm not!!!)"
01:13 AM - Posted by Disgruntled

August 07, 2004

>> Musical Managers

[ Boss ]

Anoynmous ends up taking a potential firing... quitting first and turning it around into a new and better job...

"I managed a retail store that had eight outlets in this area. Now this is a niche market kind of store. We sold products related to one activity and we didn't get a lot of crossover customers. We relied heavily on developing our relationships with customers to ensure return visits.

There was a big push to expand the business and this company went about buying out other stores in the same business. They felt that getting an established location and customer base was the best way to go. Well in this business the majority of the customers were frequenting the business for the staff, ownership and brands. Every time they would buy out a store they would end up replacing the staff, switching the brands and or course removing the ownership. In most cases it took years to rebuild the customer base and approach the level of sales prior to the buyout.

So in this particular case they were attempting to buy a store and negotiations were not going well. They were going so poorly that the person they had hired to fulfill the managers position quit because he couldn't wait around for the job without a paycheck and had found another.

The deal finally went through and they didn't have a manager to fill the open position. The solution to this one was to move one of the existing managers into the open position. The manager of store A was moved to the new store. The manager of store B was moved to store A. Manager of store C was moved to store B. The manager of store D was moved to store C and a sales manager was moved from store E to store D. Now this was all done with 5 days notice. Five stores in disarray because of managers moving all over town. Customers confused because the staff they grew to know and trust were gone.

To add to all the fun, upon getting to my new store I find that they have taken my operations manager and a salesperson to the new store, my sales manager had quit the week before to go to school and I was faced with six months of paperwork ignored by the last manager. Including myself I had a staff of five to run the store. I was doing all the shipping and receiving, merchandising, scheduling and paperwork. I had two part timers to do sales and tow back of store people that I had to pull away from other tasks to cover the sales floor so I wouldn't incur any overtime.

I lasted a week before giving my notice to the district manager. A week after that we had a couple of VP's from HQ come in for a district inspection. Needless to say they were unimpressed with my store although they never said a word to me. I found out two days later over the phone that I would have been fired if I hadn't already handed in my notice. I guess they tore a strip of the district manager over the visit but not a word to me.

Now when I gave notice I was cool about it giving two months notice to get them through Thanksgiving and Christmas and ready for inventory. I fully expected to be let go with two weeks pay and vacation pay, so long nice to know ya. I mean I was such a terrible manager. No such luck I stayed on for six more weeks and got paid for the full two months plus vacation pay, because they needed me to train my replacement. One would think that my lack of ability as a manager would preclude me from training anyone. And why did I stay? Hey I'd rather get paid while job hunting than burn what little savings I had.

In the end I got better a job, Monday to Friday, 9 to 5, in a state far far away, which beats retail any time. Of the four mangers shuffled around the district, three of us found other jobs. The district manager traded districts with another DM and got the better end of the deal. Oh and the store is getting a bad reputation for all the buy outs amongst the buying public as being the big bully on the block."
01:10 AM - Posted by Disgruntled

August 06, 2004

>> My boss, my protector, the biggest fool

[ Boss ]

I love America writes in an interesting little story... and I am curious to see the response from the users here... here is the story of someone who is taking their fool boss for a ride...

"I'm not smart. I don't have a high school diploma. I have poor writing skills and my english is average. I worked in this big financial company for many years in the same position. I have 3 kids and no husband. So getting promoted is impossible with my skills. I've learned from other workers: "It's not what you know, it's who you know." How true this is.

I've worked with this guy for 2 years. He's not very smart but he knows how to deal with people. I knew he will get promoted some day, so I got as close to him and his family as I could. He's an avp in another dept now. Thanks to him, I posted to his dept, became a mgr and now an officer within 3 years. I made alot of mistakes while taking these positions, but the avp covers it for me. When I have family problems and I have to leave work early, my avp takes care of it. I was even able to get my sis a job in the same dept. She doesn't have any office skills either. I don't know how the avp did it since the company's rule states that relatives cannot work together in the same div or dept, but he was able to keep us both in the same dept. Thanks to him, we both get paid alot, we don't have much to do, and we can leave when we want. Other coworkers noticed the favoritism and they called us "ass kissers." Who cares what they say when you get paid for not having to work."
01:04 AM - Posted by Disgruntled

August 05, 2004

>> Simple, yet effective

[ Fools ]

burnedout shares with us a bit of common sense that doesn't exist around fools...

"Ok, this is a short, simple story that so encapsulates what we all see at our companies.

An email was sent out company wide that said the following:

"Someone left a driver's license in the copy machine of building 1. If it is yours, please come see me."

Ok, perhaps I am mistaken, but I thought driver's licenses have the person's name on the front AND A PICTURE!!"
01:11 AM - Posted by Disgruntled

August 04, 2004

>> Computers 101

[ Rant ]

Just about had it needs a moment to let loose on this fool who sounsd almost Milton like from Office Space... where is my red swingline stapler...

"I am a Relationship Manager for a high-profile international financial services organization. This was a new position that had been piloted by an individual who was formerly one of the directors of the administrative side. Basically,"Fred" had been with the company for so long and management wanted to move him out so they created this position for him. To my benefit, this position was a success and I actually enjoy my job a lot. Well, one of the last remnants of Fred's director position was the office he occupied, which they needed for a new director. So they moved him next to myself and the other relationship managers on the processing floor. Our desks are set up like cubicles, but without the walls. It's basically a long consecutive line of desks, so you have to monitor the noise you create. Now when most people talk on the phone where I work, the normally face their computer or their phone to shield everyone from the conversation. Not Fred, he thinks everyone wants to hear every detail of his conversation so he turns and projects his voice towards me and my neighbors. We all deals with escalated problems and everytime he gets an icky one his comment to the caller is "oh, boy!" Do you know how many times I have heard Oh boy in the last month?? Then after he gets off the call that we have heard every detail of, he comes over to tell us the whole conversation again! And how "you'll never believe what issue has happened now!" And I'm thinking, "No shit Sherlock, this is our job, this is what we deal with!!!! The other RM's are all women, and yeah, we talk alot about personal things. So Fred tried to join in, but can't quite nail it. I have heard many times about his daughter's facial hair calamaties. But here's the kicker: he did not know how to copy and paste in Word. So I showed him. This guy is 50+ and has worked in our company for 20+ years and did not know how to do this. But the STUPID"
01:11 AM - Posted by Disgruntled

August 03, 2004

>> Grocery Store Price

[ Boss ]

Anonymous gets these fools back with a twist... i'd love to get a dozen exotic fruits for 50 cents...

"I worked in a little grocery store for 3 years. During my time there was a produce worker who always did all the prices on the chalkboards used to sell the fruit and specials. Everytime they did that it was marked stupidly ex: 1.57¢ instead of $1.57.

Now I told the all the managers there of this, but they always told me that people knew what it meant. Just to let you know there is a law in our state that forces stores to charge what the sign says not what shows on the cash register readout. Well I must have told them at least 20-30 times over the years.

Well at the end of the 3 years there I decided to quit due to the fact I was 2 years late on my raise that was promised. Well the day I went to pick up my check I went to the produce department. Put a dozen or so exotic fruit in a bag which was labeled 3.39¢ and left the store spending about 50 cents."
01:09 AM - Posted by Disgruntled

August 02, 2004

>> Wacky Boss=Wacky Kidz

[ Boss ]

Anonymous has a boss that just brings in the kids to the office... but who needs to watch em... surely not their parent...

"I work for a woman who thinks her children are the funniest, brightest and best there is. Unfortunately, she brings them to work with her after hours and they manage to destroy the office because she isn't paying attention to what they are doing. And mind you, they aren't toddlers, they're in the 4th and 7th grade. Here's what happened:

Recently one Monday morning I walked into my office, only to find 'wite-out' all over my brand new chair (cost was $350 paid for by the company), wite-out all over the doors, on my desk, etc. Additionally, my stapler, staple remover, tape dispenser and scissors were missing.

When my boss arrived at work (11AM), I told her I thought we'd had a break-in and showed her the damage. She seemed genuinely shocked and puzzled and went into her office. Very shortly she came out and said she thought she knew who had done the damage and explained she'd brought the kids with her to work over the weekend and she thought it might have been one of them.

The next day she comes in and tells me it was her youngest, who, when confessed to the crime, 'was so embarassed, that she ran into her room crying and locked the door.' My response was shock and dismay that her child had taken out her obvious anger for being there on me. I asked that the child come in and clean up the mess and find my stuff too. They did come back in after hours, and the child did clean up, but was too embarassed to apologize to me in person. The end result was great, but the boss tossed it off as a 'you know how kids are' kind of response.

This has happened since again, but to a lesser degree. Boss and kids were in to work on a special kid project and left all kinds of crafting materials all over the office. We were to have a meeting the next morning, so guess who got to clean up the mess to set up for the meeting...

It seems weird to me that the boss doesn't look around and make her kids clean up their messes before they leave, however since she helps them make the friggin' mess in the first place I guess that is asking too much. She is setting a horrible example for her children, and I hate that bosses act like this and treat those with lesser power as a nobody. I've come to the conclusion that the boss and her kids were royalty in their last life."
01:05 AM - Posted by Disgruntled

August 01, 2004

>> Sick and tired of being bullied

[ Boss ]

6FeetUnder needs some support... I obviously have no clue what the general consensus is... but sometimes its best to not know things... email reading is not cool... but still its not cool what was written... ahhh the ol catch-22...

"So here's my tale of woe. My boss is out for the next eight weeks because she had major surgery. She decided it would be good experience for me to cover her duties while she was gone. Never mind the fact that when I was out on maternity leave, they got a temp to cover my duties.

I work as the general administrative assistant for an entire floor of people (around 100 total). Normally, I am pulled in several different directions all day. Since my boss left to have her surgery, its been twice the pulling in twice as many directions. Today, I was working on two really hot projects that needed to be completed no later than 10 am. The time was 8:45 am. I was busting my butt, when one of our financial advisors (we'll call him Fred) came out and asked me if I knew how to handle a very complicated and sensitive procedure. I told him I did not (as I have not been trained to do such) and I was also in the middle of two hot projects, but as soon as I was done, I would see if I could help.

I guess he didn't like my answer or possibly he was stressed out because his assistant is on vacation, but he just snapped, "No!" every time I said anything to him. He was about to leave my area, when he turned around and hissed, "You're still going to run my assistant's reports, aren't you?" I assured him I would, as soon as I was done with my current projects.

I managed to complete those projects in record time, so I started to run his assistant's reports like I had promised. Not for him...for his assistant (let's call her Nancy). See, Nancy's a nice woman who knows how to say "please" and "thank-you". Part of the project requires me to open her email so I can send the reports to her entire group. She has her email set up so that the last email sent can be previewed without opening it.

I would never consider reading her personal or work emails, but I happened to see my name...which of course, caught my attention. I read on and saw that Fred had written an email to someone in our San Fran office and cc'd Nancy, complaining about me. He said that they would all somehow survive without this procedure being completed until next week, because he has asked for my help and I had told him I couldn't help him and I was "too busy". As though he was quoting my exact words!! I had NEVER used those words with him! The real kicker was what he wrote next. "Damn chat rooms" I kid you not. He actually wrote that, implying that I was sitting at my desk, chatting it up instead of working.

I completely lost it. I spent a better part of the day crying my eyes out. Its hard enough for me to get any respect from my coworkers without that sort of nonsense being said about me!! I finally spoke with another coworker who is also a manager. She had some great advice, including which human resources contact was the most trustworthy and helpful. I have a call in for that contact, so now I am just waiting.

Isn't this just a GREAT way to end the week? The two coworkers I told (both trustworthy) both told me to just let it go and not take it personally. But I am sick and tired of taking the abuse and not saying anything. Its high time that someone around here stand up and say that they're not going to take it anymore!! So I guess I get to be that someone. My only hope is that some positive resolution comes of this."
01:12 AM - Posted by Disgruntled