The office: Chatter about your job

Sounds like you need a different lucky shirt.

One more week until maternity leave. If the little Minion doesn't decide to come before then. But at the rate we're going, the little snot is going to have to be...persuaded via medical science...to come out. All those old wives' tales on how to induce labor at home are lies.

Oh, I'm never happier than when I'm at a nice big fire, that's why it's my lucky t-shirt!

I'd say "good luck", except it's not luck you need. "May the eviction notice work"?

Your good luck is somebody else's rather crap throw, though.

So we had a complaint today... apparently I traumatised somebody's children with my not-especially graphic surgery. I don't think the kids could see anything anyway =\

Stitch ups are very satisfying... if only I didn't worry so much about it dehiscing...

I'll take all the luck I can get. Cuz in not too much longer I will be responsible for a tiny hoomin and that is a terrifying thought, lol.

Today my boss called the shift together for a meeting in the back room.

It seems the closers from yesterday, that would be me, and three other people left three things un-done last night that caused him to lose his shit. As the person who is ultimately the responsible party I listened with growing horror to the things we had left undone. He finished up with a dramatic finale and I realized that it was complete bullshit. Total loss to the company because of our heinous errors? About 10 bucks retail.

I looked at him and said 'you are completely over inflating this. You are taking an isolated incident and blowing it up into this big melodramatic thing.' I pointed to two people in the room and said 'They weren't even here. Why are they being held responsible because I fucked up?' (PS my boss HATES when people use swear words in front of him.) He babbled some shit about a team and left.

Five minutes later he's talking about the election. I'll be paying for this for a while, but damn what a fucking moron.

Well I am both pissed and pleased at the same time. Apparently some yahoos who didn't like the fact they were getting dinged on desk inspections decided to accuse me of completely fabricated bs. Apparently they pulled the guy I answer to directly, into a higher level meeting to met out these charges. They chose this instead of doing the proper thing and talking to me or just asking him how the inspections are carried out and if any of the reports had been verified. Fucking assholes.

Now the story is I have to inspect desk contents for sensitive materials left out on the desk area only. I guard at a financial business that handles securities so this means a lot of paper work has a lot of various sensitive stuff on it. My boss sets the rules of what is and isn't sensitive. He also sets the rules of what I am checking. Right now I just check anything left out on the desk. This means folders, binders, trays, open containers etc. You get the idea. This howver excludes overhead storage bins, sealed containers, cabinets, drawers, file cabinets, paper chests, closed bank boxes, sealed envelopes etc. I don't mess with that stuff. I find plenty of material just sitting out in folders, binders, and on desks in the open all the time.

But no, according to these shit birds I have been going through their cabinets and drawers. How else could I be finding material in their totally clean and secure desk spaces. Well there were a couple flaws with this bullshit smear scheme. First is my supervisor trusts me and has seen how I do my work. Second if their desk drawers and overheads are locked I couldn't get in anyway as I do not have a key to them. Third and finally is how I document my findings. Not only do I say who it is, what the item is, but specifically where it is on the desk.

So instead of asking what I am inspecting and rather chose to outright accuse me, my boss shut that shit down. He basically pulled out an example and said not only am I not poking around the excluded spaces but every item he has personally checked, typically because the ass hat who got dinged didn't want to own up to their bs, he found the item where I said it was. Which means out on the desk.

To make matters even more obnoxious they contended that the checks did not need to get done because some areas were secure. The problem with that is lots of people who do not work for the company or have the vetting I do also can get access. This includes cleaning crew, maintenance personnel, contractors, construction workers, inspectors, and even guests. So yes our shit does need to be stowed away and secure.

The other thing that gets me is these clowns are so utterly unaware of their surroundings. They never notice papers and documents they printed off disappearing off the printer, collected per instructions and now just immediately disposed of per instruction, they also can't seem to be aware enough to notice nearly two full reams worth of sensitive documents vanishing from a work space without trace. Worst yet that is in an area that is supposed to be responsible for ferreting security breaches and fraud.

I am pleased my supervisor has my back but pretty ticked off that people who knew better jumped to accusations instead of asking me or him a few simple questions.

I used to feel bad about doing these inspections because it was causing a bit of a hassle.

edited 9th Nov '15 4:21:25 PM by TuefelHundenIV

Well, I misunderstood the quantity I was supposed to write and submitted a single scene rather than a single chapter. No wonder my boss was surprised at how fast I wrote.

I'm going to be really behind on Nano this year. Ugh.

edited 9th Nov '15 2:04:11 PM by Leradny

Good luck Lerad hang in there.

So at 5 I got a text asking me if I'd be interested in transcribing interview footage for $20 per hour of footage. But starting immediately.

That largely hinged on how soon immediately is, and how fast they needed it. Working a few hours in the evenings starting tomorrow would be fine, starting tonight less fine (I have my Mondays and Fridays blocked out for donating plasma), working full days out of the question. I can't leave my day job with zero notice.

I thought over exactly what I needed to ask for about twenty minutes, then sent a reply text. Didn't get a response by the time I got off work. I drove to the plasma center and still no reply, so I sent another text just asking if tonight was necessary or if tomorrow was okay. Turns out tomorrow is fine. I expected it would be, because this business usually schedules weeks in advance, but I needed to make sure before I committed to two hours of unavailability.

para: Hey a little bit of windfall is always nice. I don't envy you doing the transcription though. That work kind of sucks.

I definitely want to take the job (I'm not quite making enough to make ends meet at my day job), I was just really worried that it would throw too much off.

Dealt with a suicide the other day. One of the police units we were talking to was my sister.

How cool is that? Not that somebody did a swan-dive off a cliff, obviously, the other thing.

Came in to get started on the transcription. No communication happened in the company, so there was nobody to help point me in the direction of the footage. The guy most likely to be able to was in a movie until about five minutes after I announced I'd been here an hour and I was going home. He's coming back here, but all he'll be able to do is point me to a hard drive since he's not actually working on that project.

Is there a polite way to tell a cow-orker to get their fucking nose out of your business, and that their need to know your job-based finances is precisely dick?

There's one guy who also delivers at my store, whom I happened to work with a decade ago at another pizza chain. Almost every time I come back from a run, he asks me about what kind of tip I got, and at the end of the shift if he's still there he insists on nosing about the number of runs I've made and how long I was working that shift^* even though the employee schedule is out in the open and anyone can look at it at any time. I did manage to get him to stop bugging me about how much I made in tips and delivery fee payout, but he doesn't seem to get the point that it's none of his damn business what I do for deliveries, and I'm out of ideas on how to get the point across without him going into Passive-Aggressive Mode. It's bad enough he has more whiny bitches than a puppy farm^* (mostly about slow business periods, like even after four months working there it still hasn't sunk in that Current Company doesn't do driver payouts the way Other Company does them, and that CC simply does not have the customer traffic to generate the tips that he got used to at OC), I don't need to compound my annoyance with his PAM.

edited 13th Nov '15 4:58:07 AM by Nohbody

It takes hours to transcribe interviews. I even got set up with special software specifically for transcription so I can play/pause and skip back with hotkeys, and it's still going to take at least three and hours to get this half hour clip done, for which I will be paid ten bucks.

On the other hand, I've put in similar hours doing more skilled work for free, so...

The pet store I work in/beside is getting tarantulas next week. I'm a bit sorry I'll miss them.

Vet-aggressive dog I have previously treated for a wound on his face came in today having sliced his paw open. Yay for drugs (so I can jab him in the butt with them and not get my face chewed off as he so ardently wanted to do).

Accident-prone, generally aggressive dog, methinks. :/ Sounds like somebody might have hared off after something and only realised the pain later.

After last weeks string of "fun" events the only way this week could be worse is if Godzilla attacked or aliens landed in the parking lot.

He did both injuries while trying to escape their yard, apparently, which they have shored up with various pieces of sheet metal etc to prevent him getting out

Aaand another aggressive black cattle dog stitch up today... what is it with black cattle dogs at the moment? And families with small children who the cattle dogs would 'never dream' of touching?

... Gads, that phrase sends chills down my spine. -_- Any dog can savage a child, regardless of background or personality. All you need is a temperature spike and interesting neurotransmitters care of a fungal, bacterial, viral or parasitic infection, for one.

You deserve a commendation there! Only one vet in my backwoods area, and they won't touch an animal they deem "aggressive". Makes it a nightmare trying to find care for my ornery cats

Kids and dogs can be such a terrible combination. Sure there are a lot of very tolerant and gentle dogs out there, but there are also dogs that won't put up with a child's manhandling. And the dogs always give a warning before they bite, but the humans tend to miss the signals. Then a perfectly good dog gets put down just for doing what they do.

^^^ Any time I'm told about the dog's bark being worse than their bite or that they wouldn't hurt anyone, I start considering the possibility I'll have to punt the pooch when it decides that I look like a good snack. Almost enough to make me consider wearing shin guards, given that many of the most obnoxious dogs in my delivery area are the ankle biters (Napoleon complex, I guess *shrug*).

edited 17th Nov '15 6:50:28 AM by Nohbody

Nohbody: Less napoleon complex and more poor training and handling leading to small dog syndrome.