[Rant] Minor Rant III: For a Few Hollers More

[GasBandit]

I'm hoping for an escalating series of shenanigans where both Frank and Chad will try to win this perfect 10's affections... and in the end they start a huge fight, during which the girl leaves the pub with GasBandit

Thass right, biznitches, all the girls want to get with the G-Bizzle!

...

Yes dear, I'm closing it now.

Yes dear.

Yes.

I love you too.

 

[AshburnerX]

Been there man. Hope it doesn't scar too bad.

 

[Frank]

Chad Sexington It's a pub in St. Albert called O'Maillies

 

[PatrThom]

The worst part (aside from the pain) is that I've worked professional kitchens and should know better.

I've worked in my wife's kitchen and should k ow better, too...doesn't keep it from happening now and again.
"just need to rotate that cookie pan...AAAAAAAAAAHHH!"

--Patrick

 

[PatrThom]

It went well. She was just as nervous about it as I was. We're going out for a proper date on Friday now. Apparently, I will be the first guy since she started using the internet for dating that managed a second date. The first two were total trogs.

--Patrick

 

[Chad Sexington]

Frank Ha, I was kidding but thanks Doubt I'll go up to St. Albert any time soon though.

 

[Hailey Knight]

Work has been shit this week because there's no fucking accountability in or out of office.
Having sleeping problems.
No one can do their goddamn job anymore.
The important package that was supposed to get here after 5:00 today was attempted way before I got home and now they're holding it in some remote location, so I get to spend a good chunk of my Saturday morning getting over there and back.
Haven't heard back from a commissioned artist in weeks on a project due in a few days.
My laptop's plug and battery somehow both died today.

Could one fucking thing go right today?

 

[Silent Bob]

Boy oh boy, I sure love getting "talked to" for "not finding work' or "looking busy" when the office is totally dead. Especially when it's not my boss but his boss who has no friggin clue how the place is run to begin with.

 

[Tress]

True story: I used to work retail at a place that sold furniture and ugly decorations/bric-a-brac. No customers came in because our products were shit. So, our manager always had us dusting and cleaning. After an especially slow day when no customers came in, we got yelled at for not doing anything. We explained that we had already dusted, swept, mopped the floors, and went through the store rearranging every item to make it look perfect.

Her response? "I want you to polish the bottom of every piece of furniture."

She actually had us turn over things like tables and chairs and polish the bottom, just so she could say that we did something.

...

Some managers are just idiots.

 

[Silent Bob]

I was working out on one of the spin-bikes. Heaven forbid the staff at a Physical Therapy office do physical things. My boss told me to just shrug it off. That guy literally shows up about twice or three times a year.

 

[Gusto]

I would doodle on the backs of our temperature logs at the grocery store for hours on end sometimes. For any supervising manager walking, it would look like I was filling out or checking the temperature logs.

....and then MY manager would come in the next day and see score of figure sketches on the countertop and know exactly what had happened.

I kinda miss that job...

 

[Far]

We are moving out of this wretched hole of a suite. EPIC WIN on that front, however, we are also showing it to prospective tenants. We, stupidly, agreed to arrange views for our landlord as they are in europe currently and also so that we could work them around our schedule. In theory, great, in practice, not so much. Few people show up on time, or at all, or respond back to our emails, which are responses to theirs anyway so you'd think they might be invested at least a bit.

Also, I'm not really certain how to show this place without getting into the god damn laundry list of problems we've had here, both with the unit itself and the morons whom live below us.

 

[Hylian]

Man I cannot seem to get away from drama at my work. As some of you may recall there has been multiple issues ranging from an incompetent coworker finally getting fired to me being threatened to be fired because some idiot made some crap up about me to try and save his own ass. Well it was finally getting better the work was getting done and we had two new employees who actually know what they are doing (and one is a friend of mine, yaaay!).

But the other new worker has occasionally for no reason started yelling at me for the way I am working. And even though each time I showed him proof that I was doing it the proper way he still just out of the blue starts yelling at me over stupid shit. At first I passed it off as him having a bad day or not getting enough sleep because his girlfriend just had a new baby. But he keeps on doing it. Wight when things seems like they are getting better he just goes off on me for no reason. He has done it in front of several coworkers and once even in front of customers. Well today he went off on me and one of my coworkers over something stupid (which unsurprisingly was proven that I was doing correctly again) and he refused to shut up or even quiet down. I kept telling him that people can hear him and that he needs to calm down and he refused again. Finally my coworker storms off because he can't take it anymore.

I quickly follow because the guy won't shut up. My coworker was so fed up that he called our boss (who is in another state) and our boss scheduled a meeting for tomorrow. Well after work the coworker who keeps yelling at me goes up to my other coworker (who happens to be my friend) and tried to apologize to him while at the same time hinting that big things are happening and they are not going to be good for me. Well obviously my friend call and tells me this so I can be prepared. Now I am not really very scared. I have multiple coworkers who have told me they will tell the truth and side with me. And on top of that I have been there for almost 5 years now and this other guy has been there for only about 2 months. So I can't imagine my boss siding with the new guy when everyone else is siding with me.

But I figure even if they are stupid enough to fire me (which to my knowledge they have no reason) I will get unemployment and my vacation days will get cashed out ( and I have about 2 weeks of vacation time saved up) and plus my brother in Oregon has reiterated his offer for me to move down there and stay rent free until I get on my feet. So I really have no reason to be concerned and for the most part I am not but I am just sick to death of all this tension and bullshit. I just want everyone to do there job and do it well is that really too much to ask?

 

[PatrThom]

I am just sick to death of all this tension and bullshit. I just want everyone to do there job and do it well is that really too much to ask?

I think you have just encapsulated the inner monologue of every person with coworkers, ever.

--Patrick

 

[Far]

Speaking of co-workers...

Last week the lady and I decided we were going to plan a day trip to Vancouver, specifically to the aquarium, I've gone at least once every summer since moving here and this year they've added an african penguin exhibit. I'm an assistant manager at a movie theatre at which there is very few management staff, one other assistant, a theatre manager and the general manager. By friday, I had told my boss that we would be out-of-town on tuesday, one of my days off this week, sent an email and placed a memo in our daily notes just to be safe.

Tuesday rolls around and I am already on the ferry over by 7am when I get a phone call from my GM saying the theatre manager is ill and won't be able to close that night and telling me I'm going to have to close. I explain that, as I had told him earlier, I was on my way to Vancouver and wouldn't be back in town until at least 10pm, possibly later, we hadn't really decided when we were going to be returning as I had no other plans for the day and didn't work until late the next. He then said he was going to need me to come in to finish off the night unless he called saying otherwise.

Knowing that he would be stuck without my coming in I told him that I would. So now a day that was to be a relaxing excursion, mostly void of schedule, turned into a very structured, stressful day that I had to be in certain places at specific times in a large city I'm not super familiar with.

Inevitably, we got behind schedule and missed the 7 o clock ferry and my phone had lost battery power so I was unable to inform him of such right away. Also, for what ever reason, despite having hourly sailings all day there was none until 9 meaning I wouldn't be able to get to the theatre until around 11. When we got to the terminal I found an outlet to charge my phone, called and explained the situation, which I got lambasted for and told to get there as soon as I could. He couldn't do a close and open the next day so I had better hurry.

I hung up and was aghast. Here I was, doing a favour for him, coming in on my day off and getting reamed out because I couldn't get there fast enough for him. To top it off, once I finally did arrive, only stopping at home to pick up my theatre keys, I found NOTHING done which meant I was there until about 2 am after having woke up very early to make my initial ferry over.

I'm not upset about having to go in. Rather, what frustrates me is the attitude that I got regarding the entire situation. Also, being fairly new to the management game, I don't know if this is something I should even be upset over or if it's a "take one for the team" kinda scenario and I am in the wrong.


Sorry for the length, might actually be more appropriate for the major rant thread I suppose.

 

[AshburnerX]

I'd seriously consider asking for an apology for the shitty attitude, Far. You did him a favor and his still had the gall to shit on you about something you didn't even need to do.

 

[Bubble181]

Also, being fairly new to the management game, I don't know if this is something I should even be upset over or if it's a "take one for the team" kinda scenario and I am in the wrong.

Depends on the atmosphere. It's the kind of thing they'll definitely try on newer management members. Whether it's "testing you to see howm uch we can make him do" and you have to stand up for yourself, or it's a "management sucks and we're all doing 80-hour-weeks and we expect no less of you" is dependant on your boss (and his style), and the company.
"It's a day off!" tends to be looked at by a lot of managers as a weak excuse, and you can bet they'll have a story where they came in on saturday morning and left at sunday or whatever to "prove" they do (or at least did) the same. Crappy but alas.
It's very hard to differentiate. Sometimes it seems it's the same thing. I've seen people work their asses off for years, all-nighters, coming in early, leaving late, working all the worst possible hours for their boss, and finally get a "thank you but goodbye" once they started getting fed up with it. Other times, managers try to put people under pressure and the ones that can still do the most without complaining and for the longest, get promoted as "the hard workers". Whether you should say "hey, I was free, you can at least be polite or next time you can do it yourself" or "no problem, I'll take one for the team" is hard to judge in any case.
Next time they ask you for something like that, though, I've found "Sorry, it was my day off and I've had one beer too many to drive there" to be a fairly good excuse in a lot of situations...Though not to be used too often, of course

 

[Far]

Like I said though, coming in wasn't really an issue, I fully understand that it's kinda expected of me to be willing to do so, and I absolutely was. Bummed about having to cut my trip short but still very willing to accommodate. More, it was the attitude I got regarding the situation that has me frustrated and also the very little amount of work that was done.

It wouldn't have been feasible to expect me to finish my ferry ride, turn around and come back immediately and then come in for the normal start time so I could do the whole shift, as opposed to just coming in and closing the night like I did, as the cost for ferry crossings and paying for the days parking that we had already done cost more than I make in a day. As an assistant manager I'm not salary and get paid only about $.50/hr than the concession staff.

I later found out that he switched his normal morning shift to a night with the other assistant that day, not so he could relieve her of the clopen she would be subject to and had originally been scheduled for, but so he could go to a golf tournament earlier in the day.

 

[PatrThom]

I later found out that he switched his normal morning shift to a night with the other assistant that day, not so he could relieve her of the clopen she would be subject to and had originally been scheduled for, but so he could go to a golf tournament earlier in the day.

So when he says, "Take one for the team," he means, "Take one for my team?"

--Patrick

 

[Officer_Charon]

Tell him to kiss your ass. Tactfully.

"Sir, I'm not in town, and I'm not able to get back in town in time to close... I'm sorry, but I can't be there at this time - I DID tell you that I was going to be out of town when I made plans for my day off, right? I'm sure you got that memo? Terribly sorry, can't help you. *click*"

There's being a hard worker, and there's being a floormat. Learn to differentiate the two, because it seems like this jackwagon is going to take advantage of a "can-do" attitude with a quickness.

 

[GasBandit]

Every so often, an absolute inability to stomach commercials wells up inside me. Like the guy who works in a coffee house who comes to never be able to drink coffee again. It's just so many commercials are so very BAD, and show questionable or downright stupid business practices. Especially car commercials. They're all the same. They're all so awful. They all drip of desperation and disingenuous-ness. They all have disclaimers longer than most ads for prescription medication. If I were king for a day the first thing I would do is make disclaimers punishable by death. If the shit you're trying to sell has to be disclaimed then you're trying to commit fraud.

Anyway, when I get this way, every goddamned commercial I hear makes me nauseous.

 

[HCGLNS]

Far, unless you are being paid to answer your cell phone, don't answer it when it is your day off.

 

[Frank]

Waaaay back in my old night shift job. If my phone ever rang for me to come in on my very rare nights off, I was drinking. I probably wasn't, but that was my answer every time. People at work started to think I was an alcoholic.

 

[HCGLNS]

My wife answered the phone at 4AM the morning after hurricane Juan....3 electricutions 4 changes of clothing and 38 hours later I finally got home and asked "Why did you answer the phone?"

 

[Dave]

Here's how my night went tonight:

• Ooh! Chocolate covered raisins! I love these!
• *finds piece as hard as the inner core of a white dwarf star*
• CRACK!!
• Huh. That's not a sound you want your tooth to make.
• FUCKING OWIE!!!!!

Fin.

 

[Frank]

Here's how my night went tonight:

• Ooh! Chocolate covered raisins! I love these!
• *finds piece as hard as the inner core of a white dwarf star*
• CRACK!!
• Huh. That's not a sound you want your tooth to make.
• FUCKING OWIE!!!!!

Fin.

I had a story like that when I was in high school, only replace the beginning with: -Ooh, pork rinds, I've never had one of those before.

Condolences.

 

[PatrThom]

Oh yeah. Every now and then you come across that one rind that didn't puff up, and instead it's like a bacon jawbreaker. Ow.

--Patrick

 

[Far]

My cat Oliver has been missing for nearly three weeks now and we move Thursday. It's not unusual for him to leave for extended periods of time, I adopted him from the CRD a few months after I moved here and he's been a great companion of mine these last few years in a new place. He has always been a little 'wild' and much more of an outdoor than an indoor cat. I seem to be the only one he trusts though and he is fairly skitish around other people. He has an ear tattoo, so if he is found, we should be notified but still, the uncertainty is kinda eating away at me...

 

[Dave]

Yeah that sucks. Have you checked with the local Humane Society? Our cat once got trapped by a neighbor and turned in. He's an outdoor/indoor cat as well. But since he was microchipped we got him back. They may already have him.

 

[Far]

Yeah we've checked a few times a week, and given them our number as well as his ear tattoo.

 

[figmentPez]

One of our cats has been missing for about three weeks now. Another recently died of old age. It's not been easy on my sister, loosing two cats in just a couple of weeks.

 

[GasBandit]

So I'm cleaning a virus off sales lady 3's computer at work today, and she's exasperated and impatient. She wants to work on a proposal, so she asks me "can I borrow your computer?"

I just blink at her for a moment, unable to believe what I have just heard.

"HA! Nooooooo. No. No no no. No."

She got off light. Just let some techno-illiterate sales weasel-ette onto the most powerful and important non-server machine in the building, where a casual flick of the mouse could take down the whole network and destroy thousands of dollars worth of data? In particular, the sales weasel-ette who blusters obliviously across the web picking up viruses until I have to come inconvenience her for a half hour to clean them off her machine?

Hell no.

And it just boggles my mind how some people think computers are generic, interchangable tools... that using somebody else's computer is like watching somebody else's TV. To me, someone asking to use my computer is like asking to use my toothbrush.

 

[PatrThom]

Get an old Core2 laptop. Name it THELOANER
Give it 1GB RAM and a 60GB HDD.
Load XP, run all the updates.
Turn down the graphics acceleration.
Remove everything fun (no solitaire, pinball, hostblock sites like reddit and amazon).
Set the theme to drab crap brown and dull orange.
Lock down the prefs to Admins only.
Create a non-admin user. Only let people use the non-admin user.
Image the drive.

Prominently display it in your office. Let everyone know they get to borrow it whenever their desktop goes down. Freshly reimage it every time it returns from loan.

--Patrick

 

[dill616]

On my way to work this morning, a car pulled up behind me BLASTING Skrillex just as the bass dropped. School is back in session.

 

[sixpackshaker]

On my way to work this morning, a car pulled up behind me BLASTING Skrillex just as the bass dropped. School is back in session.

Oh, sorry I disturbed you.