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[kaijyuu]

"Somebody else has it worse" can never discredit a complaint. Perspective is nice and all for seeing who has it worst, but it doesn't make a problem less important; it just makes the other problems that much more so.


So yeah, don't listen to accusations of being "spoiled." They're just looking for excuses to not care.

[SalmonGod]

Yeah, I'm aware people who say those things are being stupid.  It's still what I hear from most people besides family, a few friends, and this place if I complain about my job.  I appreciate people who don't do that.

Also, you (inclueing Bauglir) need better unions. Those clock in/out requirements are ridiculous.

My new-hire training class included the warning that anyone who raises the topic of unions with other employees or otherwise discusses organized employee action in protest of company policy will be immediately fired.  I should have walked out right then and there, but my previous job (the only other job I've ever held) with a different branch of the same company did the same thing... and I actually enjoyed working there.  I mentioned this to my previous manager as we were standing outside the building after his last shift with us, and he outlined for me exactly the process I would need to go through to successfully organize a union, just in case I ever wanted to do so.

I'd love to find a different job... but it's not easy to find something that would actually be an improvement.  With unemployment still high, most employers are treating their people terribly.  I get relatively decent pay, benefits, and four weeks of vacation (for an entry level/unskilled job in America).  Next year I'll have five weeks.  From what I hear, that's a lot by current standards.  The biggest thing, though, is the company does lay offs by tenure.  Because I previously worked in another branch of the company, my cumulative tenure is the largest in the office for a non-team lead or manager.  Unless I get myself fired by other means or storm out in a fit someday, my job is secure... and that means a lot right now to the sole bread-winner of a family.  So the only way it would make sense for me to leave is for a good pay increase or a lead into an actual career that I'm interested in... or maybe trusted testimony I'd be working for decent people.

[nenjin]

The worst people will use the rocky economy to justify treating you like shit. Just keep your head up, keep looking for alternatives and dream of the day when you land another job so you can verbally and publicly tell this bitch to sit and spin right before you walk out the door. That fantasy has kept me going in jobs I loathed.

(For the record, it was the keys at the waist bit that got me. I know people like that and it's such an obvious indicator of someone power tripping, you pray for them to get reality checked....preferably by a meteorite striking them in the head.)

[RedKing]

Y'know, overall I've had pretty good luck with managers. Only one real jerkass that I can think of, a micromanaging prick who lost all clout with me when he insisted I come into work after we'd had several inches of snow. Cue me totalling my car into a guardrail (but making it in anyways), only to find that Senor Prickface stayed home "due to inclement weather". When next he came into the office, the look I gave him could have peeled the paint off the walls. Apparently, he had been privately advised that I was -> <- this close to just knocking his ass out and finding a new job (this was in the late 90's when tech jobs grew on trees). He never pushed anything again with me. At one point, he lost the account I was working on, and said he was going to "help me out" by finding me a spot ono another account...working 3rd shift (i.e. middle of the night).

I just flat looked at him and said, "Fuck your help. I'll find something else." Luckily, one of the other managers heard about this and offered me a spot, as they were looking to fire a guy that was way overdue (dude not only openly browsed hardcore porn at work, but would email it to co-workers who DID NOT WANT)

There was much rejoicing when Senor Prickface got laid off a couple of years later. The consensus opinion was that he had been promoted to management because he was incompetent doing any actual work.

[nenjin]

I have had plenty of prick face managers in my time. They were almost all Kitchen Managers though, and kitchens are a special place where stress, tension and anger are the norm.

So what I can never understand is prick face managers in low-key, medium stress environments. Stress in kitchens comes directly from time constraints, measured in minutes instead of hours or days or weeks or months. So I can excuse it more there.

[Lord Dullard]

I ordered a package that was supposed to arrive between the 6th and the 10th. On the 11th, I checked the tracking number. 'Out for delivery', supposedly on the 9th. Great. Did the post office mail it to the wrong address or something?

I've been calling the post office annex near me all morning and THEY WON'T PICK UP. I even called another branch, who told me 'oh they might be having a meeting today', and gave me the same phone number I'd been calling to try.

I'm by no means a slash-and-cut type, but HOLY SHIT I HOPE THIS STUPID SERVICE GETS DISMANTLED. These people do not deserve the kind of wages they're getting for this level of ineptitude.

ETA:
Well, I got a hold of them and... so far they have absolutely no idea where my package is. Awesome.

[Shinotsa]

Oh thanks for reminding me. A friend sent me an overdue christmas present about a month ago. They tell her it's been delivered and there's nothing been nothing for me at the post office or on my doorstep. I haven't had good service from them in the past, but usually they deliver if they say they have...

Oh god I hope she didn't send it to my old address or my old dorm room. She usually pranks me hard, and I wouldn't want anyone else getting that. Last time there was gay porn on the top of the various chachkas and whatnot that she sent.

[inteuniso]

There she was. The girl of my dreams, just me and her. I could have struck up a conversation, would have been fun.

I DIDN'T DO SHIT. RAAAAAAAAAAAAAAEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGG

[Bauglir]

WELCOME TO MY LIFE









says half the boards in rapid succession.

[RedKing]

WELCOME TO MY LIFE









says half the boards in rapid succession.

The other half say the same thing about this boy of their dreams.

[Bauglir]

It's true. I'm in the first half, I admit, but it makes little difference.

[Skyrunner]

WELCOME TO MY LIFE









says half the boards in rapid succession.

The other half say the same thing about this boy of their dreams.

*kof*

[PyroDesu]

WELCOME TO MY LIFE









says half the boards in rapid succession.

The other half say the same thing about this boy of their dreams.

*kof*

*shuffles his feet a tad awkwardly*

[Truean]

WELCOME TO MY LIFE









says half the boards in rapid succession.

The other half say the same thing about this boy of their dreams.

*kof*

*shuffles his feet a tad awkwardly*

Hehehe. And then there's me and my ex boyfriends screwing up the whole thing and making it awkward. I guess I'm more in Skyrunner's half though.

[The Fool]

WELCOME TO MY LIFE









says half the boards in rapid succession.

The other half say the same thing about this boy of their dreams.

*kof*

*shuffles his feet a tad awkwardly*

Hehehe. And then there's me and my ex boyfriends screwing up the whole thing and making it awkward. I guess I'm more in Skyrunner's half though.

...Yeah... I can't hold a conversation to save my life. I'm fairly sure there is a lot more that have the same general problem. Just don't worry about it I guess.