December 30, 2005

>> Printer hysteria

[ Fools ]

Chris in Toronto writes...

"I sit approximately 15 feet from the office printer. This is practically verbatim from a conversation I had the other day.

M = Me

D = Dullard in my office who shouts out her problem before taking the necessary nanosecond it would probably take to figure out what's wrong.

D: The printer's not working

M: What does the display say?

D: Where's the display?

M: On the front of the printer.

D: It says tray 2 out of paper

M: So put paper in tray 2.

D: Which one is tray 2?

M: It's the one with big "2" on it."

01:01 AM - Posted by Disgruntled

December 29, 2005

>> Getting Even--- FINALLY

[ Boss ]

Anonymous writes...

"So I work in the banking at NYC and my manager supposedly has an applied math degree. But the other day, I had to teach him how to 1. change his password, and 2.see a title in a spreadsheet. 3. tell him what a slope means. (BTW- he's 30 and has worked at the bank for 8 years). Now I wouldn't mind so much if he just TRIED to learn, but instead, he steals my credit, acts all huffy when I confront him, pretends to know what he is doing, and contributes NOTHING to meetings, other than repeat what everybody has just said. I've had enough and I'm quitting. But just today, he yelled at me for not telling him I'd be out of the office (even though I had a MEETING with him the day before about it. A HALF HOUR MEETING!!!).

So-- this is my last chance - I need some ideas, some executable ideas on how to get back at him. Put a diuretic in his coffee? HELP"

01:01 AM - Posted by Disgruntled

December 28, 2005

>> My boss hates me

[ Work ]

"Anonymous" writes...

"Ive been at my job for 6 years. Never called in sick, now Im the only one that gets paid less than everybody else. Should I start calling in sick and maybe Ill get a raise? LOL. You can tell who she likes cause she will make you a cake for your bday if she likes you and if she doesnt, she will just give you a card!! Now this is only a part time job, but the boss expects you to kiss her fat ass if you know what I mean. Put it to you this way, Ive almost gotten fired and Im still there, now she threatens to fire me everytime she gets mad at me since shes already had me wrote up. I think that is wrong. Too many changes going on right now, left to right for a stupid job that only pays $5.15 an hour!!! (besides have moved from 3 locations and this is my 2nd boss!) and Ive been there longer than her, cause the boss that hired me got in a wreck and had to quit now theres 2 of us left from the old boss. I bet shed just rather have her crew. Anyways, dont mind me, just foaming from the top of my head, LOL. I thought this site was cool and had to get my frustrations out, LMAO....:)"

01:01 AM - Posted by Disgruntled

December 27, 2005

>> Double Standards--Thank You

[ Boss ]

miss sunshine writes...

"I work in this office where the pain in the ass HR dept. brings out some new ass backwards "personel review" every year.

This year it was a self-evaluation and future goals type of bullshit we all had to fill out.On the last page of this crap was a box designated for our boss to comment. This box decides whether you deserve a cost of living raise. (1-6%)

Well wouldn't you know it, the 2 middle managing asswipes I call my "bosses" write some chicken shit "should pay more attention to detail" and "may need further training on the new software". Total bullshit comments orchestrated by the corporate bean countersso that a person can't get a decent cost of living raise. Don't these two boneheads know things cost more than they were last year?

I caught one of them "not paying attention to detail" and she skirted the issue as "well, I'm busy and I do make mistakes"....well thank you for your sorry ass excuse.

Now those two remarks are on my personnel folder and they refuse to remove them even when I go so far to show evidence of such false accusations. The two boneheads are "company men" though they are actually women.

These two dimwits don't get it.

Quoting Al Pacino's character in"GlenGarry GlenRoss" to Kevin Spacey'scharacter:

"You are supposed to be here to HELP US,NOT TO FUCK US UP".

Wait til layoff time comes and one of them has to get the boot, we'll see how being a company man pays off. I've seen this scenario so many times, you'd think asskissers like these two morons would get the picture."

01:01 AM - Posted by Disgruntled

December 26, 2005

>> The Resume Story

[ Boss ]

Formerly Disgruntled writes...

"Today's resume story reminded me of one that happened to me. I worked for a sleazy lawyer who happened to be the managing partner of a firm. That meant he could pretty much do whatever he wanted. The last big project he wanted me to do was to make his daughter's resume fit on one page. She had intially 3 pages and she refused to cut it down at all. Every bit of it, she felt was important. Mind you she was all of 23 years old and just out of college, how much did she need 3 freaking pages full? But he insisted and I worked and worked on it. I widened margins, I lowered font sizes, I made it be less than single spacing, I abbreviated every word that I could, I did a search and replace and killed every instance of double spaces between sentences and replaced them with a single space and so on. Finally I got it and a few weeks later, surprisingly, the daughter got a job. Sadly, though I didn't hear this till the day they moved me to a new job. The office manager had called me in and told me that Ken wasn't happy with me and they had made a job for me so they could keep me as the office manager valued me but Ken was insistent. Everyone else in the firm liked me and I'd helped others out enough that there was protest at the partners meeting when Ken mentioned firing me and his ONLY rationale stated was that I didn't always staple straight -- SERIOUSLY. And I was doing a LOT of work and had redone all his files, and fixed all his forms and really knocked myself out.

So this one Monday, I was moved and a new, very sexy-looking redhead arrived for my job. Ken happily installed her at my desk and had me showing her the ropes -- she was dumb as dog dirt -- when in walked Ken's wife and daughter with a dozen red roses for Ken's secretary to thank her for getting the daughter the job. I held out my hand and Ken took the roses and handed them right to the new chick and said "THIS is my secretary, she gets the roses." I quit the following week to take a job for more money that I'd been offered right before this all came down anyway. But I heard that Ken and this chick had a flaming affair, that she turned out to have been the secretary of one of his major clients and he'd gotten so involved with her he made her a job. Suddenly, even though she was farming all her work out to others, she was having to stay till 8 and 9 o'clock at night and billing the company for overtime and he was approving it. Another attorney there told me that he heard them giggling and calling each other baby names in Ken's office late one evening.

This guy was such a sleaze that a year or so later, I talked to a friend from the firm who had brought her date to the company picnic. Ken was there with his wife and my friend's date, who was divorced and had tried a local singles group that meets at a church on Sunday nights, walked right up to him and shook his hand and said "Ken, no wonder you haven't been at the Sunday night singles the last couple months, when did you get married! [To the wife:] Hi, I'm one of Ken's friends from the singles club, you must be his new wife." The icy reply was "I have BEEN his wife for 30 years but he WILL BE SINGLE shortly." This guy said Ken had been a regular there for years, when he started going everyone told the guy oh you should meet Ken, he's a regular here.

I loved that what goes around actually does come around and that I actually got to find out about it. That doesn't often happen."

01:01 AM - Posted by Disgruntled

December 24, 2005

>> Christmas Eve

[ Other ]

Disgruntled here... personally just wanted to take these two days off from all the stories... there are some good things going on out there... fools stories to continue on the 26th.

01:01 AM - Posted by Disgruntled

December 23, 2005

>> The Shrew Needs Taming

[ Boss ]

Fed Up In Phoenix writes...

"Work is busy and frustrating enough without the manipulative, sneaky games this broad continues to play. We work on a team of 8, comprised of 4 supervisors (of which she is one) and 4 "others" (of which I am one). Each "supervisor" has their own "other" that reports to them. The shrew and I are not a "pair" (thankfully). Anyway, that is the structure. The problem is that my supervisor has given me duties and responsibilities that are more fitting with a supervisory postion. This is fortunate, because I attend important meetings, and have a much more interesting position than my "other" counterparts. I have also caught the attention of senior management, who have been getting very positive feedback from our clients about my service and professionalism. My sense is that the shrew resents the whole thing. For one, she appears to feel that a supervisor is a supervisor, and an "other" is an "other". I have a partnership with my supervisor, she likes to lord over her "other". The shrew tells me, before a meeting, "oh, YOU don't have to attend...this is for SUPERVISORS". The meeting starts, without me (because who am I to argue with a supervisor), and then I am paged by my supervisor, who delays the meeting 'til I get there, not knowing that the shrew has intervened! So I show up, the meeting goes on (by the way, I am the only "other" at the meeting). After the meeting, I tell my supervisor what happened. I am told, "ah, she couldn't possibly have meant anything by that. Don't worry about it." And even when I ask the shrew if she thinks I shouldn't attend supervisor meetings, she denies it...but don't you ever have that "knowing" feeling, even when someone denies? Then she quietly carries on, quite pissed off that I confronted her...plotting her next move. And it happens, only this time it's more elaborate. After I leave for the day, she sneaks into my supervisor's office, and rants about how I keep getting on her case about something insignificant. Claims to be innundated with emails. The next day, I come into the office, and when this is brought up, I show my supervisor the ONE email I sent, 2 months ago. Once again, my supervisor says, "yes, she seemed a little pissed when she came in here, but she's probably just a little busy lately. Don't worry about it.". My supervisor agreed that I was right, that the other supervisor was inaccurate and over-reacted, and yet my supervisor defended her. This frustrates me, because the shrew will continue to play these games (and they're geting more and more elaborate), and I don't feel I have support from my supervisor due to her loyalty to the shrew. This is discouraging and frustrating for me, because I know that my supervisor likes me, and is highly confident in my work (which is the reason she allowed me to have so much responsibility in the first place). I've had glowing reviews since starting at the company a year ago. Most of the time, my supervisor and I are a great team...but when it comes to the shrew, she's quite loyal to her. They go back before my time at the company. I'm not the competitive type, and I pretty much operate in my own little world at work, so I don't think anyone could accuse me of competing. I'm not a game player, I'm actually pretty direct (sometimes blunt), so I can honestly say this isn't a case of being caught up in some complicated social network. My sense is that the shrew doesn't like seeing an "other" working at her level, attending meetings, etc. Her "other" is kept firmly in her place, doing demeaning little "other" jobs. And I have the issue of my supervisor and her loyalty to the shrew. I'm new to the company, and I don't want to create waves. But I'm getting stressed out, because the shrew's moves are always off-guard, and who do I talk to? If I confront her, she denies & downplays (as does my supervisor). Another "other" is pretty bold, and has openly stated that the shrew is...well, a shrew (so I know it's not just me). A former employee is a friend, who observed the same behavior from the shrew, who clearly likes to be the "big banana".

So, do I express myself politely, but directly, and to whom? Do I go running to management, above the supervisors' heads? (remember...I'm new and don't want to create waves, however my supervisor is useless with these issues) Do I try to ignore her (which, by the way, is impossible)? Do I confront her in front of my supervisor, so she can't wiggle out of what she said about me? Do I ice her out (by building an invisible wall around myself when in her presence)? Helpful ideas would be appreciated."

01:01 AM - Posted by Disgruntled

December 22, 2005

>> The woes of teleconferencing

[ Boss ]

JRR writes...

"I work for a company that has offices in several different countries. Teleconferencing is used in a big way. Participants call in from their office or cubicle and participate in a "virtual" meeting - often with the use of NetMeeting (to support the visual presentation of information). This is a great way to build a team whose members are spread across the globe but the biggest drawback is that while you sit at your desk - listening to the meeting - you can also continue to work on your computer, answer calls, nip out for a smoke or coffee, etc - with no one the wiser. While "nipping out" for a minute or two is not usually an issue, if your attention and participation is required during the meeting, it quickly becomes apparent to the other participants that you are not paying attention.Take for example this guy, fairly new to the company, who puts a room full of people on hold while he goes off to do something - god knows what - without mentioning that he needs to break off temporarily. Well, his phone is set to play music while on hold. Here we are, several team members in one room and several others on the conference, conducting the meeting when all of sudden music starts coming from the speaker phone. Very smooth. When he came back, he tried to deny that he put us on hold.As I attend meetings often with this individual, I have the pleasure of seeing this behavior on a regular basis. Today, one of many days that this has happened, and one hour into the meeting, he finally speaks up and says, "what about this?", and "what about that?". He brought up several "issues", as he called them, all of which we had already covered during the course of the first hour of the meeting. As I was leading the meeting it was up to me to point out to him (nicely) that we had already covered those items. Instead of admitting he had not been listening to the meeting in any way he went off on a subject that had absolutely no baring or correlation to the meeting ajenda. Continuing with "what about this?", and "what about that?". I "nipped out" myself for a couple minutes - to get my temper under control - with him none the wiser. People who prefer to listen to themselves speak very rarely notice when someone else is not talking."

01:01 AM - Posted by Disgruntled

December 21, 2005

>> OCD - It's real

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Anonymous writes...

"I work in a large office where we are broken down into "team". Well, on my team is a lady named "Virgie" who is the biggest perfectionist on earth! When I first met her she told me she has a small case of OCD. YEAH RIGHT and here is why:

She will come in 1-2 hours before everyone else (EVERYDAY) to clean our work areas even though we have cleaning people at night...

She takes 1 personal day a month because she has to have her haircut on the EXACT same day as the month before. Virgie will not only clean my office but also re-arrange my pictures to how SHE thinks they should look! She is also famous for stealing my garbage to see what I have thrown away.

The tip of the iceburg is how she whines to the boss (who she kisses butt to so bad he's blind to the fact she's a freak) that no one else ever cleans or pulls their weight like she does and we all get lectured Oh did I mention how she has an obsession with being thin and will insult anyone who isn't, including a co-worker who is 8 months pregnant. The funny thing is, she must be about 25 lbs over-weight herself.

Virgie is never, ever wrong in her eyes and everyone else always is. There is nothing she does not already know.

The worst part is how rude she is to clients. Virgie has told clients they don't look like they can afford our services, that they need to clean up to even talk to us! And when we tell the boss....once again he's blind"

01:01 AM - Posted by Disgruntled

December 20, 2005

>> Check Your Knives at the Door

[ Rant ]

Four Months to Go writes...

"You wouldn't believe the bullshit that goes on at my company on a daily basis. Here is some background and a few of the more glaring examples of backstabbery and gossip-mongering:

Our VP is an intelligent woman, but sly and quite dangerous. She's in her mid-40s, never been married, never had kids...the kind that comes to work early and goes home late every day because this place is her life. Mondays are hell because you never know when you're going to get a call that begins, "I was thinking over the weekend..." followed by some inane suggestion or outright order that makes no sense. Her best friend is our HR director, so forget filing any kind of confidential complaint or even farting in the bathroom without HR running to VP and telling her all about it. HR has two kids, a husband who yells at her, and is easily one of the ditziest people I've ever met - but she's sly, too. I've discovered that being sneaky and sly doesn't really require actual intelligence. Knock-knock jokes befuddle her, for crying out loud. This place is a constant stream of he said/she said, gossip, backstabbing, and lying - the vast majority of which is generated by VP and HR.

My grandfather died in September. Our company policy allows for 5 bereavement days - I asked for 3 and was approved. Or so I thought. After informing VP of his passing, I was given the Spanish Inquisition regarding how he died (he was 96!), when, where, when was the funeral, who was attending, what my schedule was going to be during my days away, etc etc. It was insane. The morning of my grandfather's funeral, I was standing with my husband and a few other family members near the casket, waiting for the ceremony to begin. Out of nowhere, one of my mother's cousins appears in front of me and announces, "I talked to HR this morning!" I seriously had no idea what she was talking about. I mean, I'm 10 feet from my grandpa's casket - work is the last thing on my mind. I said, "What?" She repeated, "I talked to HR this morning! You know, your human resources lady at work." I said, "Why the hell were you talking to HER?" Turns out that VP had told HR all the details I'd given regarding my family and the funeral, and HR had spent an entire day CSI-ing my ass and figuring out that she had gone to high school with my mother's cousin; she then took it upon herself to call this woman (regardless of the fact that they hadn't spoken to each other in 10 YEARS!) to check up on me and make sure my grandfather was actually dead and I wasn't lying about the whole thing! I was absolutely furious. When I returned to work, I informed VP that I was insulted and pissed off about this turn of events, and that I did not appreciate HR's little Magmun P.I. adventure. Naturally it was played off as a funny coincidence, but I call bullshit. She suddenly decides to call up an old friend from high school that she hasn't spoken to in 10 years the morning of my grandpa's funeral, and I'm supposed to be too stupid to figure out what they're up to.

So much lying and obscuring of facts goes on around here that we are constantly expected to produce proof of everything we do or say. Oh, it's all quite under the table, but it's still the truth. For example, I'm 5 months pregnant - I'm not wide in the ass end, but I have a belly. And yet, every time I go to the doctor for my check-ups, the next day I'm expected to produce sonogram pics or some other form of "proof" that I actually went to the appt. Otherwise they assume I'm lying and just wanted time off. Five weeks ago, while driving to work, an uninsured jackass made a left turn in front of me and totaled my car. Thankfully my baby and I were both ok, but I missed a couple days of work. I was pretty bruised up, and my sunglasses had cut my face when the airbag deployed. Upon returning to work, VP appears at my desk. I received no hello, no inquiry regarding the health of my child, no inquiry regarding my car or how I was getting around. First words out of her mouth: "Let me see your face." Gee, thanks for the empathy, you cock-smoking whore. A couple days later, company grapevine passed down that VP and HR used my days out of the office to inform everyone that the only reason I was upset over my car accident was because I was vain and materialistic, and far too attached to a "stupid car that she would have had to sell anyway once the baby is born." Apparently, the only reason I liked to drive it was because I liked for people to look at me. Folks, we're talking about a Mitsubishi here. Not a friggin' Audi or BMW or something. Not to mention, this snarky bullshit is coming from two women who refuse to shop anywhere except Saks and won't wear anything but Clinique (as if ANY kind of makeup would improve their fugly faces).

That's all I have time for now - I hear the President coming around to do some cheerleading. He feels like he has to do that when VP is out of the office. She's taking a couple of vacation days, thank God. It's like a vacation for everyone when she does that. I hope she's using her time to buy a vibrator and hook it up to a car battery. Maybe getting off would improve her attitude."

01:01 AM - Posted by Disgruntled

December 19, 2005

>> Suck ups and fools

[ Work ]

Pissed Off in Chicago writes...

"There is this person who is in the same dept as me and he is a major suck up. I mean he can suck up to anybody at anytime and make anyone around him look like fools while he gets all the attention.

He makes the dumbest remarks/compliments when a superior makes the most moronic comment (e.g. when the paper jams in the copier and the boss suggest that he should put less paper when refilling the drawer and he tells him that its the most brilliant idea (with head nodding and hands waving in the air) and goes around telling everyone about the Boss's "brilliant idea" loudly) Also he pretends he is listening at meetings while he daydreams and when boss makes a remark he makes the "oh..wow..thats great" sound.

He also likes to steal your job before you can get to it to appear that he is on top of the game and make you look like a complete idiot. He also constantly speaks in extremely loud voice that he has to work extra hours and is very committed to his "job" when he is a major slacker and takes total advantage of his business trips (brings friends, expensive hotels/dinners, first class treatment...)

He is so annoying and acts like he's the nicest person in the office (he's such a two faced!) BUT the thing is that no one says anything or even notice because he's been there for 4 years and he's the youngest in the office and the older folks thinks he's the bomb and he sweet talks to all the old ladies (and then talk shit about them behind their backs!) Besides, the boss digs his ass kissing!!!!!He pretends he's on top of the game but he is SO not (because I saw his work and it sucks and I've caught many mistakes by him that he covered up!) I am so miserable working with him but since I started my job not too long ago I can't transfer to another dept, I feel so stuck...

Anyways...thanks for listening and please leave comment/support..."

01:01 AM - Posted by Disgruntled

December 18, 2005

>> Dumb and Dumber

[ Work ]

poopie writes...

"My co-worker foolishly circulated an e-mail from the boss sent to staff (including herself) outside of the company.

The memo was his rant on what losers he thought a competing company was.

The employee sent it to a friend at the competing company, in confidence she thought, and it wound up being sent to almost everyone at the company and to other companies as well.

Word got back to the boss about it and he tracked down who sent it out and fired her. I'm still trying to figure out why he wasn't fired since he caused all this PR damage between the firms.

But that aside, she can't find a job around here because no one wants to hire her, naturally. And the boss is sweating bullets at industry meetings because no one will trust him anymore."

01:01 AM - Posted by Disgruntled

December 17, 2005

>> The man who lives in the attic

[ Boss ]

gets a good laugh writes...

"Oh gosh where do I begin?

I work with this guy (I'll call him, well, asshole, that seems to fit him just fine) who thinks he knows everything from the dirt to the sun, but in all reality he only knows how to put people down to make himself feel better about himself(because hes a looser!!!). He walks around the workplace butting himself into other peoples conversations on a daily basis (more than 9 times a day he pulls this kind of shenanigans), ya as if anyone cares about his 2 cents. He's always complaining how busy he is, but yet he has time to intrude the chating of other co-workers. Not only does he listen to everyones chat but hes constantly trying to prove people wrong. What asshole does is, when 2 or more people are talking he just walks up to them and stands by them and just buts in...as if he was in the conversation all along. Don't get me wrong sometimes it's fun to have another person in the conversation, but not all the time every freakin time. Oh one more thing assholes does is correct peoples grammer when they talk. It's like, if you wanted to be an english professer than go do it... Trust me asshole, you're not inpressing me with your good grammer skills.

Now let me give some background on asshole. Hey, I'm a firm believer in giving credit where credit is due, asshole is very book smart but has no commen sence what so ever. Asshole is about 37 yrs old just for the record. Asshole went to a good college (I'll at least give him that). But while asshole was in college he knocked up his girlfriend with twins at 21 years of age. Okay, so he make a mistake, that's okay whatever. Life goes on. So asshole his girlfriend and the twins move into his parents attic, still at the age of 37 is asshole raiseing his kids in the attic. But yet the man thinks his shit does not stink and is the greatest.

Asshole does not have a very good work eithic, acatually truth be told, asshole has no work ethic what so ever(keep in mind this guy is my team leader). He is late on an average 2-4 times a week, takes long lunches ect... Does nothing but bitch and complain about his job and how he should get more money. He walks around talking about porn on a daily basis, and how he would like to do this chick or that chick. As this crap is spewing from his mouth I can't help but think to myself, dude, you're not that good looking and your living in your parents attic for crying out loud... OH yeah, your're quite the catch!!hahaha Oh keep in mind asshole does not pay his parents any rent, he just has about $100,000 worth of credit card debt. He has that much credit card debt, but yet can go and spend 500 bucks at the chicken shack aka whore house in Las Vages to get a blow job and get laid. When he told me this story I'm thinking to myself, PAY YOUR BILLS AND GET THE F*CK OUT OF DEBT, GO HOME AND JERK OFF.

Asshole is the kind of guy if a person asks him a simple question he will go on for like 10 mins about it instead of saying a simple yes or no. He wants to impress people with his knowledge.. Nobody gives a flying crap honestly.

Okay so I will finally get to my point... Okay here is the really funny part, asshole thinks he will get to be manager after our manager leaves... WHAT? Talk about delusional people. Wake up asshole and join the rest of us in reality... you're going nowhere because you're a looser. I sure hope you enjoyed my story about asshole as much as I enjoyed writing it...I don't know if this story is significant to this webpage but if felt good to bitch.. I'll say that..."

01:01 AM - Posted by Disgruntled

December 16, 2005

>> The case of the alphabetical CD

[ Work ]

Gemmill writes...

"I worked in a large chain record store for a couple months. The assign each staff member an aisle to look after and maintain (straightening stock in the racks, etc.). When you first start you don't get your own aisle you just help out in other peoples. I was straightening up the Acid Jazz Various Artists section when the guy who maintained that aisle came up to me somewhat ticked off. "You know this is my aisle don't you?"

I explained that I was new and relegated to helping others. He pushed me aside and explained that I better do things the way he does them. Then he painstakingly explained to me that various artist CDs go in alphabetical order according to the name of the CD. Then proceeded to show me what he meant by alphabetical order. "You see this one if called ‘Aces' so it goes in the A- section."

I listened for a bit, until I got tired of hearing this guy then said, "James, Can I ask you a question?"

"Yeah?"

"Did you piss all over the aisle to mark your territory?"

This really upset him and he stormed off angrily. He never spoke to me again in the time I worked there, and that suited me just fine."

01:01 AM - Posted by Disgruntled

December 15, 2005

>> The Boss From hell

[ Boss ]

IT Guy writes...

"I'll try to make this as short as I can, I worked for a small computer technical firm for about a month or about 5 weeks. I get to so called 'know' the manager as I had assumed very well because of my frequent visist in that store for computer parts. One day she asked me if I wasnted to come and work for her, and ofcourse the pay will be great, and obviously Iaccpeted the invitation to work for her.

However, when I first join the companyt she said to me in words quote, "you may hear some of my fellow coworkers talk about me, but you can ignore what they are saying." So I said to her why would they talk about you because you are such a nice person. So anyway, I was dismissed and went to start my new responsibilities. The casher that I had known working there made a type small and simple type error on a sales invoice, and Suddenly, this women came out of her office like a roaring lion (her mouth is long of and her hair is sticking out) and said to one of the girls that I was working with, "shut up shut up shut up continoulsy and then replied some garbage about doing things perfect (like she never made a mistake before). Anyway, I was shoke that she was saying these things to her, because I thaught she was a very nice women, but instead she is the boss from hell. SHe have no HR skills whatsoever.

Anyway, That type of attitude really turn me of from her and therefore, I resigned and went to a difefrent computer compnay.

Note: whenever you are planning to open up a bussiness and therefore, associated yourself with your emplyess, you should go back to school and enhanced your HR skills.

It's more to this but I try to be short."

01:01 AM - Posted by Disgruntled

December 14, 2005

>> CAM

[ Work ]

Compucom writes...

"Without going into a long drawn out story about why I call my boss CAM, I will simply say that when he get's angry he does this weird eye squint thing and he looks like Charlie A Manson, hence CAM. By the way, this is a joke that I use to describe my boss to 2 of my other coworkers that find this absolutely hilarious.

The way my work situation is that I'am contracted from another company to work where I do now. Because i'm contracted from another comapany I have this imbecile of a co-worker that my company calls my site lead because he has been here longer then I. Now I normally don't get down on anyone let alone my coworkers for anything because we all are not perfect beings. But this jerk has the audacity to tell me that I shouldn't use this word anymore because it might hurt my bosses feelings. Okay maybee he is right, oh my the way, he farts loudly in his cubicle with out apologizing, he says the most idiotic(and rude) things to people he hardly knows in the office. He runs around like an a chicken with it's head cut off all day long forgetting half the things he was supposed to do or fix. Everytime he fixes something, i.e. a printer he usually leaves it in a worse state then it was originally to begin with and then wonders why the users get mad at him for not fixing the problem. He's clothes are usualy in some stated of either completely untucked or covered in dirt or both. Normally that's not a problem except the building we work in has all the huge execs in it. When he sneezes it literally sounds like a bomb just went off. And to top it all off he has this urge to call this other technician on the phone and use the speaker phone to talk to him, speaker phone is not any issue, the fact that the other tech is less then 10feet away is what the problem is"

01:01 AM - Posted by Disgruntled

December 13, 2005

>> Not lowering herself

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Jet writes...

"Hello, just found this site and this is my first post. So pleased to see you all - I'm not alone!L joined the company about 3 years ago and shares an office with me. I've been here 8. She works part-time I work full-time. Since the first day she has treated me like a lower form of life, giving everyone on the outside of our unit the impression that she is superior to me (in all meanings of the word!), even though she most certainly isn't. In fact, and little does she know, I received something called a "personal promotion" a few years ago, where I personally got promoted in recognition of my work, but the job remains the same, ie if I left it would revert to my original grade. It's not in me to pull out that I'm a grade above her, but one day, who knows!!I've always got on really well with everyone at work, always been helpful and being officially recognised as a help contact when it comes to certain software packages, designing etc for everyone, not just my bosses. I also cover others duties when they are on holidays. In fact I did L's job for 5 months filling in before she started.

Thanks for listening. This is probably the first of many - I've 3 years of frustration to get off my chest!This sounds horribly big-headed, and is never meant to be, but here goes. L really resents me knowing more than she does about the work. Time and time again I've even heard her bosses say, in front of me, why don't you ask Jet to help, and she won't. On the 2-3 occasions she has been desperate enough to ask I have felt the resentment across the room at me for days afterwards. I have tried to offer to help with sticky problems a few times, but get the resentment back so usually wait till I'm asked - not.

At the moment she is sat opposite me. A colleague from next door has been in and they have been discussing a ppt problem which L can't figure out. She said she's being looking at it for 2 days now. I could do it in a couple of minutes, L knows that I could, but she won't ask.

Please I don't want to appear to be the big "I am wonderful", I really am not. Everyone in the unit, from the director to the junior, comes to me for help and we all get along. It really upsets me when I know I can help someone but for some reason she would rather sit and suffer than ask."

01:01 AM - Posted by Disgruntled

December 12, 2005

>> Neurotic Unprofessional Professor

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Frustrated Student writes...

"okay, this is not exactly work, but it's about a college class, so I don't know whether it's still appropriate or not. If not, feel free to delete it or whatever. I just finished a class w/this prof who is an awful teacher in more ways than I can count.

1. she doesn't turn off her cellphones and answers her cellphone in the middle of class. Granted, this is a small evening class w/group discussions, so it's more casual than daytime classes, but still, it's rude and unprofessional.

2. she goes off on these tangents that doesn't relate to the discussion at hand, only to bring back the topic w/sentences such as, "sorry, what were we discussing again,", "I don't go off on tangents unless I feel it's absolutely necessary.",etc.

3. she asks inappropriate questions during class. For ex, we were asking random questions about our fictional character (it's a writing class). It's suppose to be an exercise to get to know your char. better. Guess what questions she asked? "Would your character do anal (aka anal sex)?" with no warning what so ever.

4. she actually told us in class that she gave As to students before when they don't deserve the grade simply out of spite. What the hell??

5. she plays favoritism. I know she gave an extension to another student in class (one of her favorites), but not only she refuse to give me one, she actually cc'd my other prof and the program administrator on her reply. Okay, I know the other girl got the extension and she wasn't sick or had a family emergency and if she says no, why would she feel the need to cc other ppl on her email? (maybe b/c other "non-favorite" students have complained in the past and now she's having a pre-emptive strike against it?

6. she goes for drinks and eat out with her favorite students and she would bring out in class in the middle of discussion things they talked about in dinner last night, for ex. All those who went to dinner w/her would laugh hysterically while the rest of us would have no clue what was it about.

I feel so frustrated, I wrote down some of my concerns (in a polite way) in the evaluation form, and I want to talk to other ppl in school about it, but it's a continuing edu. program, so they don't care much about it. Plus, I need grades from that class to get into grad school, so I'm afraid of backlash from her since this is a class where the grade is so subjective, and she's actually going to teach at another school next semester, so I don't know if it'll make a difference.

I'm just so glad it's over and to know that I'll never take her class ever again."

01:01 AM - Posted by Disgruntled

December 11, 2005

>> Why Isn't She Already Gone?

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Boiling Hot writes...

"I almost don't know where to begin... I guess I will start with a little background info.

Needless to say, I have a problem with a co-worker. We started with our company within weeks of each other about 4 years ago. We have never really had to work close, so I didn't immediately notice what she was up to.

After repeated hearing griefs from other co-workers in regards to this woman's work shedule, I began to take notice. Over the next 1/2 year or so, I noticed that she was rarely on time for work, left early alot and seemed to have had more days off than her allowable vacation time. She was also becoming quite the office gossip. She had already turned the heads of closer co-workers, who had reported her time theft. This didn't help, and almost caused a 15 year employee to quit.

For the next year I kept track. She had taken off so much time, and wasted so much time while at work, that I felt I needed to do something. I anonymously sent the time sheet that I kept for a year to her supervisor. Nothing really happened, so I left it alone.

One year later now... I noticed one day that she was not at work again. I asked our receptionist if she was away. Several hours later, returning to my desk after a meeting, I find a photocopied doctors note on my desk. It was hers. It was addressed to her supervisor in another city. In her handwriting, written on the photo copy it said that as per her telephone conversation with him, she would take time off as needed for her recovery. What the H was she even recovering from? I don't know. To me, this was an acknowledgement that she noticed I was asking about her.

Already not too happy with this woman, I took a copy of this note and sent it to the addressee (her supervisor). I then took a copy to her desk and said "You must have thought I cared". Bad... I know... but it was nothing more than that. Next thing I know is she is staring gossip about how I raved into her office, threw down the note and said, "You must have thought I f***ing gave a sh**t" Well here we go.... New rumors of me sending her threatening notes etc....

The only thing I could do was tell my supervisor the whole story. I feel respected in my department and felt this to be the only thing to do. I never sent threats and don't wish to be accused of it. My supervisor received this well, and backed me up 100% He spoke with her and confirmed my story, but he is not her supervisor so there is nothing he can do. What now??? Im boiling hot, and have nowhere to go now. The situation has not changed, as she still comes and goes to her own music."

01:01 AM - Posted by Disgruntled

December 10, 2005

>> I'm losing it

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Jeff writes...

"I work in a small company ( 20 employees ) and work directly under the VP / co-owner. Unfortunately nobody in the company has had a raise in 4 years due to his incompetance. His office has been written up by the fire dept as a hazard multiple times ( the floor is covered in papers / books / magazines ). Everytime I ask him to review some figures or go over the latest price adjustments he asks me where I got my new screen background on my computer, to which I respond hubblesite.org, "Very nice," he says, "Well, give me those figures and I'll look at them later." But when I hand them to him, they immediately get lost in a pile somewhere in his office and maybe maybe maybe get glanced at sometime in the next year. It's really ridiculous, and I could go on forever, but I feel better already, so I'll leave it at that."

02:01 AM - Posted by Disgruntled

December 09, 2005

>> She-man and the backwords lock

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Blue Mantis writes...

"Blue Mantis here, with my first ever submission. And there is no shortage of material where I work, which is a big place with loads of people. A department store in the united states. I'll start with the backwords lock thing

The main manager of the place, is Brandy, or some people make a joke on her name, and say Randy behind her back,as she is the butchiest looking woman I ever seen. She looks like she is a "he" in drag! Hence why I call her "she-man" behind her back. She also sounds half the time like she is mumbling. Very hard to understand, and WITH an accent! Over the loud-speaker, she sounds like she has a dick in her mouth, giving a blow jobHere is a great example of how unhelpful she is. They installed a new door for the front of the store. I went to look at it, and I was the only one to notice that the lock was installed backwards! The lock was facing outdoors, and the key part was indoors, leaving a serious security breach in our store. I told Mr. Brown (another manager) about it. He said he'd take care of it. Two days pass, I look, and it's still not fixed. So I go and tell Irine (his manager). Same thing again, next day. So I tell Dina, and she assures me it will get taken care of. The next day, same thing, and I go straight to Brandy (store manager), and she tells me the same thing.

Now, it's been over a month, and nobody has picked up the phone book and called the locksmith, yet! Instead they just put some park benches in front of the door, to block it off. Now they are small and lightweight, aka easy to move, and count as a fire hazard! I called the corporate office and left a message just yesturday. Nothing back yet, but I hope it's soon, because it's a serious hazard to the store.

More from Blue Mantis later"

01:01 AM - Posted by Disgruntled

December 08, 2005

>> I finally quit

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fattie20xl writes...

"so for the last year and a half i've been working for a mom and pop custom Audio Video store as an installer/field tech/programmer. basically i hang plasma screens and program touchscreen remotes.

Anyways, after two months of getting the runaround about a raise (my job performance went from being exemplory- they constantly told me that i was the best tech they had- to sub-par overnight?) i finally got hired full time from a side-job (temp to hire position).

I went in on Wednsday and said "i'm outta here" and you should have seen the look of devistation in the manager's eyes. since i was the one holding everything together and finnishing my jobs and doing the cleanup work for everyone else.

they asked me why i was leaving and i said "you held up my raise for two months." they then tried to blame me for that (typical tactic). they told me that i had the wrong attitude. like i'm going to listen to somone tell me i shouldn't ask for a raise i deserve?

basically they could have given me my 25% raise (which would still have left me under the average pay for my position) and i would have never looked for another job. and now? i got a 50% pay raise at a company that's been there longer and has a lower turn-over rate then the company that i was perviously at.

there's a lesson there... if your boss dosn't give in to your demands then just bump him and get a better job. they're out there."

01:01 AM - Posted by Disgruntled

December 07, 2005

>> How our Company Saves Money

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cybersyster writes...

"For the past 4 years I have worked as IT support in a factory where we constantly have problems with our work orders: not making enough parts, making too many, not knowing what we make, etc. This past year I consulted to a team to develop solutions to this problem. There were 10 people on this last team and the project lasted for four months meeting twice weekly for 1 1/2 hours each time. Given that probably one person was absent at each meeting, we used up 27 manhours on this project each week for 16 weeks; the grand total of manhours would be around 400 hours.

The team's solution was to produce a sticker with the part number, work order number, work center, and sequence printed on it so the people who enter the data into the system can better read the information. The person working on the work order was to apply a sticker to the work order and enter the time it took to produce the product and the number of the product made. The results were predicatably not any better than when all this information was handwritten.

When it came time to write up the results, the project leader wanted to know how many hours I spent producing the stickers and the cost of the stickers themselves so he could report on the cost savings of not implementing this solution. When I mentioned that we saved nothing but spent time and money attempting to develop a solution, he scoffed at the suggestion.

He did such a good job on this project, he just got promoted."

01:01 AM - Posted by Disgruntled

December 06, 2005

>> Let me work, damnit

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lowly intern writes...

"I was originally hired 3 years ago as an intern for an Engineering firm to develop applications to bridge the gaps between commercial products. People didn't bother me. I got my work done. Life was good and I was happy.

Fast-forward 1.5 years. The company starts growing, people start needing desktop support, and an IT department is born. Luckily for me, I was 'drafted' by the CTO who, coincidentally, believes that unless it's sold in a box, made by Microsoft, and in his precious CTO magazine, it ain't worth shit.

So now I'm *supposed* to be on a 50/50 split. Of course it's like 90/10, support v. development. I do 5 minutes of work, then a support phone call, 5 more minutes, then a meeting, then a meeting about the meeting, then a meeting about planning more meetings, then service the 20 support phone calls I missed while in meetings, and then, when the people go home, I work. And oh yea, I'm in college too. I'll pick "Places I won't work when I graduate" for $200, Alex...."

01:01 AM - Posted by Disgruntled

December 05, 2005

>> Blackberry Sex

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Dingleberry writes...


"I'm a network admin for our company. CEO gets tired of carrying a pager, phone and Palm - so we get him a Blackberry. He likes it so much he goes and OK's BlackBerries for the entire management team - along with a Blackberry server to tie into our mail system. Unbeknownst to him - the Blackberry server keeps a running tally of how much e-mail gets sent to/from each Blackberry. After a few months I go and run the reports to check on the overall health of the system. 1000's of e-mails between the big boss and his #2 person in one of our divisions.

So suspecting the chance that these users may be propagating a virus between them - I check their mail accounts. No virus - just tons of dirty "do me now" and "I wuv you" type of e-mails - along with play-by-play accounts of how they just finished masturbating, etc. Both are married - in their 30's, the chick has a kid. Our CEO is a high-profile figure in the community.

Fast forward 6 months or so. CEO wants IT dept to start unilaterally deleting all e-mail off the system older then 30 days in fear of "exhibit A" being in there somewhere in the event we get sued for something. This comes around the time a CEO at a large corporation got shitcanned for banging one of his underlings, as well as the IT Security Policy being updated and distributed to the masses.

Affair has been brewing for about a year or so... these two are Blackberrying each other all hours of the day and night. One has left his spouse, waiting for the chick to leave her husband so they can shack up and get hitched. Together during the day they act like boss and employee, they play it down pretty well - although rumors are starting to circulate. I kept this to myself (my boss doesn't even know). Just amazes me how cavalier and reckless people in charge can be by putting their reputations and careers on the line for some booty. CEO is entirely focused on his affair - company comes second and everyone suffers.

The downside is that the best friend of the CEO's fucktoy is also his secretary. Mega-bitch from hell. No one likes her, she treats everyone like shit, mood swings like you wouldn't believe. I've clashed with her numerous times. Got tired of it - went to my boss (who's friendly with her) and he said nothing can be done to her as she has immunity.

Just too tempting to run to the paper with this - bring the entire charade down."

01:01 AM - Posted by Disgruntled

December 04, 2005

>> WTF kinda manamger does this?

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lou writes...

"ok so we hired this girl at our store,Katie...and she started coming like 30 - 45 min late. she was always schedule at 5. so my manager said well if i schedule you to come at 4 can you make it, and she was like ya i can make it. to make a long story short they decided that they are going to hire someone new, then give katie less hours so thet she will just quit! ok whatever fine, ya know my manager is a sissy..SO she gives kaite like 5 hrs a week...katie gets upset, and the manager gives her MORE hrs!!!! omg...WTF!!?!? who does that...the whole ponit was so that she would get mad and qiut then when she gets mad...they give her more hrs?!?!! and on top of THAT...they gave the new girl more hrs then me...me who has NEVER been late, always there, and always THERE!!!!! ok...i feel better"

01:01 AM - Posted by Disgruntled

December 03, 2005

>> Ms. Dumbass Herself

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Holly writes...

"Okay I dont work for some reputable business and sit at a desk all day (Thatd be a luxury) I work at a full-Service restaurant (Glorified Fast food joint). Anyways, I got transfered from one Subs-o-rama to the one I am at now, at the Assistant Managers position. Enough about me. Walking into a complete Dictatorship (Which I wasnt aware of at the time) The GM and the other Assistant well call Stinky have a "Mutual Understanding" of eachother which means shes basically the pet and does nothing wrong. Which means someone (ME) has to be the blame for everything. STinky has no idea whats going on, no concept of how to manage people and is basically the most idiotic person I have ever met in my life. SO leave it up to me to tell her what she does wrong and the GM yells at me because its "Her job to correct her not mine, I dont know as much as she does." I feel like quitting but I love the company just not the people in it."

01:01 AM - Posted by Disgruntled

December 02, 2005

>> Mortgage jerks

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Played writes...

"Well I have been working on a sale of a home for over 6 weeks with this loan officer. He keeps telling me a very low rate he says is a "piece of cake". Ok, so he's all nice. 3 days before closing, he won't answer my calls. Will not tell me about the status of the loan. I couldn't eat or sleep thinking what is going on with the loan because I keep getting his voicemail. Finally, day before closing, his "assistant" tells me it's still underwriting! I said "WHAT"! Now you tell me. So it felt like my world was going to end because it is first home for this couple and they loved the home. To make it worse, the seller had back up offers on that home. I was worried to death that they won't get a loan and lose the home of their dreams. So finally I told the seller agent and she flipped. She demanded for a letter from the jerk of a lender saying that everything was fine and to give an estimate closing date or she had a loan officer that was known to do emergency loans in 2 days. So I called the assistand because AGAIN the officer was not there. I told her I needed a letter and date. Well she said she can't rush the lender and we just have to wait. She also had the nerve to say if we have someone that can do loans in 2 days the go right ahead! So what was that? Do they not want to work together here? It seems like it to me? So then I got my clients to go to the other emergency loan officer and did all the paperwork. The next day, FINALLY, that original officer called me and said "ok, I got it". Huh? got what? "The loan done" After the last 4 agonizing days he wouldnt call or answer me, then he called. I told him that I have already canceled with his assistant since she told me to go with the other officer. He said he was going to call her to confirm. So I waited 1 hour... called him and he said he haven't reached her yet. 2 hours.. I called again because I had the paperwork signed for the emergency loan officer waiting to deliver to him. Of course he answered now. He said it was because of me that the lender cancelled and because of my calling every 15min that slowed the whole process down! I was so angry. Everytime he asked for paperwork I was on top of it doing what he asked. He never had to ask twice. He was the one who never said anything and I never had an answer until the assistant told me what was going on? Finally, I told him forget it because we are going throught he other officer. He started rambling on about how is was all my fault and he did his job and he had closing back to back and my closing wasn't the only one in the world... blah blah blah... excuses excuses.. so I said it's too late because it doesn't matter anymore. I don't deserve to be spoken to like that. So I just hung up on the jerk. After all that, he had the nerve to call my clients trying to get them to come back to him. Which he had already lied about the first rate he gave us... it went up.. and he tried to say that he had another rate. My client tried to tell him to talk to me but he just rambled his mouth as usual about it's my clients money and he decid. How rude can you be? You never answer or worried until the last minute you find out that you lost it, you call and blabber junk. If you can't do it, don't say it! He is one of the top jerks I have met in my whole life. Less of them in this world, it will be too perfect."

01:01 AM - Posted by Disgruntled

December 01, 2005

>> Clogging the sink is always funnier the third time!

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Witness writes...

"A few weeks ago, the fool in question mopped up this black gritty substance from the bathroom floor. Our maintenance guy snaked the clogged pipes from our mens room sink and it made a huge mess. Follow me so far? Well this dumb ass took the bucket full of dirty mop water and poured it back into the sink to dispose of it. Once again he clogged the sink and it had to be snaked out again. Now he had the chance to empty it the correct way by bringing it outside and dumping it over the curb. Not a chance! This fool took the bucket of water and dumped it into the sink in the back room. Now he cloggs the sink back there and the pipes were so old that they had to be replaced. Way to go fool"

01:01 AM - Posted by Disgruntled