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[hector13]

I require a rolling ladder to do my job (basically a staircase on wheels) and I needed to leave it and do something else for a bit.

When I returned to it, there was a customer with his hands on it, and I was unable to slap him in the mouth and ask him why he hasn’t paid attention to anything for the past month lest I get the sack.

[Rolan7]

Yeah better to aim for the gut, he might be contagious.  And apparently he hasn't paid attention to anything in forever, since everyone knows customers aren't supposed to use those ladders themselves.

[Iduno]

I have to train in my new coworker on the job that I interviewed for (she got the job), because she doesn't have any experience.

Also, I'll have to go into the office for that, which means I need to work with pants on. Obviously the first one is worse, but when you don't have a laundromat, wearing clothes less is an improvement.

[ZBridges]

That's messed up.  Why did she get the job if she doesn't have any experience in the role?

[bloop_bleep]

That's messed up.  Why did she get the job if she doesn't have any experience in the role?

Whenever there's something nonsensical happening with office politics, the explanation is often "connections."

[itisnotlogical]

I love how the most high-strung stressful people in my life act like I'm the one that needs to calm down.

[Reelya]

That's messed up.  Why did she get the job if she doesn't have any experience in the role?

Being cynical, but because the male higher-ups need more females in mid-management positions to avoid being replaced themselves, due to diversity initiatives. If they're gonna throw a guy under the bus in order to make their diversity figures look better, it's better (for them) to throw a lowly no-name guy under the bus rather than someone who has power.

Also, promoting competent people has risks for the higher-ups: you may get promoted again, whereas if they promote someone who they know will only just barely be able to perform the role like a monkey, they have more leverage over her. Plus, if you backtalk your new incompetent manager, they can cast you as a sexist now. So, promoting incompetent women to fill all the line-management roles is a passive-aggressive win-win for the senior management's old boys club.

[ChairmanPoo]

I went to check the thoughts of a dead dwarf that had been torn apart by a werebeast. I found the sequence of thoughts mildly saddening

[Iduno]

That's messed up.  Why did she get the job if she doesn't have any experience in the role?

Whenever there's something nonsensical happening with office politics, the explanation is often "connections."

Could be. Although everyone she listed hearing about the job from were the most worthless people we've had working for us.

HR has started a new behavior-based interviewing, because they don't want the person to get the job to be the one who knows the most about the job, they want to know how you would react in situations. We have since just been hiring whatever idiot is best at interviewing, and can confidently say that whatever unrelated experience (because we're a fairly technical and specialized group) they have, is somehow related.

[hector13]

If the hiring folk are dudes, it could just be they want to bone her.

I used to work in a call center (for two hours) and someone I worked with much later elsewhere told me that they hired all the pretty ladies and ugly dudes to work there.

Admittedly he thought with his penis, so I’m not sure how reliable he is as a source.

[TD1]

Doesn't sound atypical tbf.

[scriver]

If the hiring folk are dudes, it could just be they want to bone her.

I used to work in a call center (for two hours) and someone I worked with much later elsewhere told me that they hired all the pretty ladies and ugly dudes to work there.

Admittedly he thought with his penis, so I’m not sure how reliable he is as a source.

How much did your two hours there go with or against his statement?

[TD1]

I looked at my calendar and realised just how long I'll be confined for.

Urghhhhhh.

At least I have history as an introvert, so I'll be able to draw on that for coping mechanisms, hah. I feel truly sorry for the Scripture Union types.

[Iduno]

I looked at my calendar and realised just how long I'll be confined for.

Cool. How much longer is it?

[hector13]

I don’t mind staying home all the time.

What bothers me is the varying degrees of serious people take the global public health crisis. I work in retail, some customers come in with masks and gloves on, other people ask me questions and don’t keep a reasonable distance from me, so we have a weird dance in which I take a surreptitious step back and they follow me as though they can’t just read their fucking shopping list to me.

Like, I was leaving work and - despite a sign in front of the store saying don’t bring kids under 16 in - some woman had brought two kids in that were quite obviously under 16.

I don’t understand. Can you not trust your sprogs to not burn your house down in the 45 minutes it takes you to buy whatever shite you intend to buy? I’ve seen families of five or six people coming in, buying bird seed and the like. It is mind-boggling.

Then there’s one of my colleagues. I’ve been working there less than two months and I already get anxious ‘cause she just talks and talks and talks and talks whenever she has an opportunity. She thinks the people wearing the masks shouldn’t be allowed in, because being halfway sensible is somehow a bad thing? I don’t really know.