The office: Chatter about your job

If I had any doubts about working in a toy shop, I lost them after reading the official dress code and seeing, "Employees are allowed to wear casual business attire OR costume attire appropriate for interaction with children."

Whee!

edited 4th Jun '15 6:34:16 PM by InverurieJones

Ah. That is the sound of somebody not having to fish idiots out of the tidal pull of their own stupidity, but getting some real work done, I take it?

edited 4th Jun '15 6:54:01 PM by Euodiachloris

Hey Jonesy good to see you around again.

Possible arson but no one was hurt that is good news.

Today I left work 12 hours and 20 minutes after I arrived, with $130 more in my pocket and 97 more miles on my car.

It's the hours that I hate the most about this job.

Last night the general manager asked the closing assistant manager to ask at least two of us to come in at 1 instead of 4 in my case and probably even later for the other guy. Neither of us would agree to one, but I offered 2 and apparently so did he.

So I come in two hours early today and the other assistant manager is on duty and she groans because we've both just come in and it's too slow to support the number of drivers she already had. She sent us both away and I'm sitting in the Taco Bell across the street using their Wi-Fi instead of going home.

We lost power at work just about the time I was probably going to be sent home. It's too early to close for the night, so not only do I have to stay at least until the computer system comes back on, and we're going to be extra busy with frustrated people who wanted to call earlier.

Blegh. Unexpected 10 hour nightshift!

My pager went off at midnight and I didn't get home until 1000 the next day, two small residential fires and one burnt-out hotel later.

Wow, busy night.

Wow. That must've been some party.

On a marginally-related note: Must learn to perform spore stains without setting glove on fire. Or anything else in the lab.

edited 10th Jun '15 5:38:29 AM by Pyrite

This is my first week with two days off in months. Since I intern on Thursdays, this is basically my first day off in months. I went to a five day schedule because I didn't have time to get things done like take my car into the shop, so I knew I was doing to do that.

Then my workplace called an 8AM meeting today. It was after I had to drop off my car, so I had to get an Uber.

And then the folks I intern with offered me a paid gig for tomorrow, so I'm going to go in and do regular intern stuff after I can pick up my car today.

What happened to my day off?

We have a new guy, finally! Well, he's a re-hire, but he was in front end as a cashier before, so he needs produce training.

So I can't give specifics at this time, but I'm going to PA on a shoot produced by a company people may have heard of today! I'm going to be paid a not-insignificant amount to do this! I'm going to be a non-speaking extra in the shoot! I spent a third of what I'm going to be paid for it to fill a hole in my wardrobe that this part illuminated!

Also next week I'm going to spend a day doing tedious repetitive work buying and distributing copies of a documentary that gets released, but if it takes as long as they expect I'll get paid nearly twice what I'm going to be paid today.

I've been in town seven months and I'm starting to get paid work toward my career. I'm not going to jump too soon, but I think by the end of the year I may be able to quit having a day job.

Cool! Good luck.

My job is trying to make me an alcoholic, I swear.

So, as I've mentioned, since March last year my department has had a full turnover. AND THE RIDE KEEPS GOING. In a department of four, as of next week, we will have gone through eight people.

Potentially nine. And this one I'm hoping for, because the replacement for number seven is possibly the most obnoxious, immature, unprofessional woman I have ever had the pleasure to work with. Her only saving grace is that we really, really need a payroll person who actually has payroll training and in that role she's proving her worth. Otherwise, she pretty much does nothing but complain and whine all day about the programs we use, management, not being able to come to work in sweats, not having a fancy chair, HR, having to get the mail, not being able to go to the bathroom barefoot, how boring scanning documents is, how boring AP is, etc to the point where at the end of the day she's done almost no work.

I know our company isn't perfect. We're a few versions behind on our accounting software and the payroll service's customer service isn't worth shit. Over the last year a lot of the managers/doctor-wranglers have become high maintenance and paranoid thanks to some kerfuffles the turnover caused. Our SEO has become a micro-manager because of the problems that the turnover unearthed that he had no idea existed. But come on. She was there all of three days before she was giggling all snide-like about how stupid everything and everyone is.

My jaw hasn't stopped hurting for the last week from how much this lady stresses me out.

...at least I'll be getting a raise next week?

edited 11th Jun '15 8:23:27 PM by Bur

Bur: Remember when you hide the body you need a rural location and lots of quick lime.

The new cleaning crew is mostly working out. The pair that come in all the time are good at their job and are pretty cool people. The third guy is a bit flaky right now because of death in the family, funeral stuff, and in general a very rough unpleasant first week. He has been a no show twice this week. If he doesn't come in Friday I don't expect to see him come back.

Got both in large quantities.

That sounds like a nightmare first week. Any other jobs he gets after will start like fluffy dreams in comparison.

Possibly. Doing Janitorial work for the recent lowest bidder is likely not what he has on his mind at the moment. I wouldn't blame him and I haven't bothered reporting him like I should until I know how this is going to play out.

Yay, $100 PA gig.

Boo 15-hour day.

$100 for 15 hours? That's $6.67/hr.

Not sure where the "yay" is.

It's my first paid PA gig is yay.

Weekends working alone (just me and 1 nurse). Haaaaaaate it.

Animals save up their weirdest and vaguest problems for the weekends when the new grad works alone.

Of course. Such is life.

Seems that every bad thing that could happen with the animals I've had always happens on weekends, holidays, or after midnight.

Also the money isn't the only compensation. The production provided breakfast, lunch, and a snack table, and because it went five hours over schedule, the producer bought some of us midnight dinner, possibly out of his own pocket.

Anyone here seen any of All Creatures Great and Small or read Herriot?

edited 13th Jun '15 10:54:30 PM by TParadox