[obelix2]

Snarky - do you at least get comp time?

[snarky7]

PLEASE PLEASE PLEASE PLEASE get me past this hurdle in work. Still awaiting my transition and a final word on the actual date, but in the meantime, how much work can one person actually do? my god. this week was more HELL. i worked huge hours on Thursday, Friday, and a more-than-full day on SATURDAY! i'm salary so i'm certainly not getting paid extra for the work. Can this be over already please?

/rant (for now)

[lananans]

good luck snarky!! i hope it works out for you.

[snarky7]

AAAAAARGH!
(can you tell i'm angry?)
Okay, my new job is supposed to start May 1. Today, my current boss had the audacity to email my boss-to-be and ask if they can keep me for an extra 10 days! I realize this is all within the company, etc, but MY GOD PEOPLE!!!! I cannot stand an extra 10 days of the H-E-double-hockey-sticks!

I haven't heard if my boss-to-be has okayed this deal or not, but i want out SO BADLY. Please if there is a god, don't let her say yes. Pray for me!

[lananans]

My work continues to suck, but I only have about 3 shifts left before I *hopefully* leave retail for good!

[crazyoldcatlady]

yay snarky!

[snarky7]

woo hoo! go p_176!

i already have shorttimers. sigh.

[p_176]

congrats on the new job!
speaking of new job within the company, i just was accepted for one also. however, it's really odd, because it's within the company, everyone knows about it even though i have not officially heard from human resources (i've been told unofficially by my future boss).
apparently, the current supervisors are going to try to keep me for an additional 2 weeks after my 2 week notice? because a) they will be training another new employee, and i deal with the files in a way that no one else does (ie, organized), so i think they are realizing how fcuked they will be when i leave. LOL.
well, it's their own fault - three people have left in the last few months, because there is no leadership or support from management, and no internal promotions. it's very frustrating. oh well.
here's to new beginnings.
-p_176

[snarky7]

less ranting about work today, i accepted a new job offer! within my company but look foward to it anyway!

my one little rant about work still: after i told my current boss about my acceptance of the new offer, he said "well, you know if you stayed you'd have one of these lead positions" - pshah right. now you tell me. whatever... i'm still over you.

/little rant

[snarky7]

so i added to the COB thread but felt more of a need to rant.

rant:
i am SO stressed at work. I have enough work for 2 or maybe 3 people to handle, but i do it. i get shit done. i work shitty hours (10, 11, 12 hrs or more a day, no lunch), i seem to be mostly the first one there and the last to leave nearly every day. i work from home after endless hours at the office. i am always behind, but yet, i still get more work. WTF?

i asked my boss the other day about some upcoming changes to our team, and wanted to understand the level of opportunity i might have to move up (i'm still basically a peon, albeit senior peon, after too many years there). he had the audacity to say "we'll talk with all the qualified candidates, but you definitely have the seniority and the skills" - IMO that's his way of saying, we'll pretend we'll be considering you but unless you have a PENIS, you can forget it. FUCK!

why is it that men, at 4 or 5 years less seniority, get all the fucking opportunities and leave us women to work like fucking slaves? no offense to the few men on the boards here, but MY GOD, give me a chance!

i am having a very difficult time holding it all together between work and snarkyboy (i am also the only one on the team with a kid), and i can feel my stress levels growing each moment of each day, just waiting for me to snap and head to the looney bin (but wouldn't the quiet be so nice?).

/rant

[konphusion26]

COCL.. sounds like you work at the place I was working LOL dang the resemblance is so scary!

[crazyoldcatlady]

my workplace is so fucking toxic right now that the thought of going in on Monday makes me want to retch. my dept is so segregated and tight-knit and incestuous that every so often, everyone gets their panties in a bunch, and it is miserable to be around them. fuck ya'll.

[knorl05]

ghad nevermind previous post. i deal with idiots and closed minded people everyday. what else is new right. is cool cause there a young liberal girl at work who saves me from the mass nonsense that goes on around us. that is all. work is work is work. people are people. you think i'd learn by now. mental *click*>> "ignore".

[mouse]

as someone with both a fulltime job AND sporadic freelance jobs as my own "business" (the city makes independent contractors file as businesses) AAAAANDDD really shitty bookkeeping skills i would like to come in and say


OHMYGODIHATEDOINGTAXESIHATEITIHATEITIHATEITIHATEITOHMYGODAAAAAHHHHHGHGHGHGH





that is all. thank you and i'm sorry. i REALLY had to vent.

[sassygrrl]

Isn't that some sort of weight discrimination?

I'm sick of my job too. I really need to find a new one.

[nxdprincess05]

work is certinally driving me nuts.
a manager at my store said i was "way too skinny"
should i have told her thatshe is "way too fat" no, becuase i am not rude

is whatshe said discrimination>

[lananans]

My manager is driving me crazy over a certain issue. We charge a regular price and a 'cash discounted price', because you're not allowed to charge extra for credit card so this is how our head office gets around it. Debit is supposed to be the cash price, but my manager has arbitrarily decided that debit is the regular price and does not count as cash. We have had a few customers who are smart enough to figure it out and we've given them the regular price, but only a couple of us sales people know the truth and have been spouting out lines about company policy to customers who complain, when its A LIE. Our company wants us to do things the right way, but my manager is an idiot. And the sales people have to deal with it on a regular basis, at least twice an hour, "What do you mean debit isn't cash? It is everywhere else!" And my favourite is the compulsive liar guy that I work with saying that oh people charge now for debit machines. BULLSHIT. Ahhhh I hate my work.

[obelix2]

Completely the opposite rant of yours, puppykitty, though I feel your pain. We all get the sniffles, and we'd be broke if we stayed home every time.

But a coworker came in sick as a dog for a week-- sweating, freezing, wearing his coat, feeling miserable. He ended up in the emergency room, and his doc made him stay home for the next two coming weeks because (as he said in an email to a few people in his department) he has a "very contagious liver infection"! GAH! A woman from my office went down to the HR person (who has an office across the hall from quarantine boy) to ask if we need to worry or watch for certain symptoms, but she couldn't ask, because the HR person got sick and had to go to her doc to see if she'd gotten the same thing!

[puppykitty]

(((worker busties)))

RANT: My boss sent me home on Thursday because I had a little fucking cold. She said she didn't want my germs at work. So I didn't work Thursday or Friday, and I feel fine. That's two days with no pay. Now what if I really do get sick? On Thursday morning, I was really tired and had to blow my nose a couple times, but no coughing, sneezing or anything like that. I was probably there for twenty minutes. I understand that others don't want to get sick, but c'mon. I wash my hands religiously, and I felt fine after a cup of coffee.

Anyway, I love my job, but sometimes my boss drives me nuts. She's a super caring woman - but sometimes that just gets suffocating.

[crazyoldcatlady]

/rant.