The office: Chatter about your job

I wonder what planet's words I'm using, then...

Maybe it's still Earth, but all non-Missouri portions of it?

Or could be I'm totally wrong.

Nah, that's never happened...

On a work related note, work called me up earlier today asking if I wanted to come in tonight and work the frozen food truck, in exchange for Friday off.

I did consider it, but only for a moment.

1. I hate working frozen.
2. Friday is the busiest night as far as product delivery goes, with the crap for the next week's sales dumped en masse, so that would leave the Grocery department on the short end of the stick, more so than Frozen.
3. I already had plans for tonight, just finished.
4. I hate working Frozen.

edited 24th Apr '12 9:52:57 PM by Nohbody

Interviewed for a web development job with a start up today. Hope I did well.

No deed goes unpunished at work, apparently.

That frozen food truck they asked if I could work, on Tues night? Had to do so anyway last night. Good news was that all four people (including me) got involved, knocking it out relatively quickly, but the bad news was that it made us run late for putting the grocery truck stuff from Wed night on the shelves.

I really need to get off my ass and find a new job...

edited 26th Apr '12 5:33:22 AM by Nohbody

Added my story to this. Only $150, but still

Learned of a cool position just two hours before the deadline. Luckily my CV was ready, so it only took some adjustments and the preparation of a cover letter (I'm rereading it now, and it's actually pretty good; I've written far worse in far more time) and my application was ready.

Well, let's see what happens now — as always, it's far from guaranteed; but the theme of the position seemed almost tailor-made for me, so I'm cautiously optimistic (let's say that I'm giving myself 50-50 chances of being invited for an interview).

edited 27th Apr '12 2:10:54 AM by Carciofus

Somehow, 12-packs of diet Pepsi got flagged in our system as an age-restricted item tonight. Oddest thing I've ever seen come up.

Well sure, you can't give aspartame to kids, it's terrible for them.

I joked that they put the cocaine back in, but it's probably good that nobody heard me.

Especially since while I thought I'd read that Pepsi's original formula had coca in it as well as Coca-Cola, but I can't find anything to back that up.

I worked as an issuing officer in the council election yesterday Feels good to have a job even if it's just for a day.

What's really irritating, though, is the people who make a fuss out of having to vote - over here, showing up to vote and getting your name ticked off is compulsory, although of course we have no way to tell if you actually voted or not. If you don't know anything about the candidates, leave the form blank or something. There's no need to write obscenities on the ballot paper, or to insist on throwing your paper in the bin rather than the ballot box. All that second one achieves is to inconvenience the people who have the responsibility of making sure the papers balance.

Unfortunately, many (possibly "most") people don't think about things like inconveniencing the workers who have little to no input on a particular rule, but are required to enforce it for the sake of their job. Long ago I lost count of the number of times I or one of my co-workers at the job du jour were bitched at by customers because of a rule they (and often we) found stupid but we had to enforce if we didn't want to be fired.

Tonight when the store closed, we had to wait nearly ten minutes for the last customer to come check out. She had one item, and left her cart by the register when she was done.

I'll be designing the web site for a French start up over the summer, in addition to my paid internship. Now all I have to do is get through finals week.

You should pass those complaints on to management. Then the rule might go away.

BTDT, didn't do much. Most of my jobs were with retail chains, and a majority of said stupid rules were from district level or higher, not the local store.

I don't know why people think that they're making some sort of statement against the system by writing stuff on the ballots. Surely they don't think the candidates actually sit there counting votes themselves, do they?

@loni jay: well you got a day's pay at least, right?

We had our manager do that, unfortunately it was one of the good rules.

@Joey: Oh, yeah. I'm not saying it was a bad job - I actually enjoyed it. I just don't understand some people

Loni, I don't think they are thinking, in any practical sense. It's just a convenient "forum" that doesn't require they take any actual effort (like say to write letters to politicians petitioning to change the law), so they use it to vent.

(Not a big fan of most online activism for similar reasons. "Ooh, look at me, I'm being an activist!" and then they don't bother with anything more than that online petition or forum post, thinking that they actually did something of value. That, however, is another topic entirely, and probably not one for this subforum.)

edited 29th Apr '12 5:12:03 PM by Nohbody

Two fun stories:

1) A customer told me it was their first time getting a large order. Naturally, I responded "I'll be gentle".

2) Myself and one of the cashiers were discussing loading calls when the topic drifted to gender based calls, and I spouted "being a girl is no excuse for being a wuss, throw the damn bricks" and she was quite happy to agree with me. Why people feel the need to call me to throw four or five damn bricks (and I do mean bricks, not cinder blocks) is beyond me.

Temporary layoff.

Or permanent, who knows. They said "don't do anything for two weeks" but I suspect that's long enough for them to forget I exist.

Funny thing, I was thinking yesterday about how to get far enough ahead that I could not do anything at all tomorrow, and then I checked my e-mail and, yeah...

Had my first annual performance review over my eight months working here. They seem to have an eye on making me a trainer at some point since I know the procedures here well, especially the technical side. Also showing up consistently on time is apparently worthy of an "outstanding" grade.

However, they want me to work on finding things to do when there are no customers coming through, and do more to harass share the benefits of the store card, since my conversion rate was .7% less than the goal, and the goal rose .2% for the next year.

Altogether, my rating was "Inconsistently Effective", and I got an 8 cent raise.

edited 2nd May '12 12:43:56 PM by TParadox

I hate it when the management expects you to care about a sales job. It's like they don't know we're just there for the cash. Then again, I'm fairly open in my dislike of the job and have no issues telling the boss thanks aren't needed, I'm just here for the pay check.

Damn, 8 cents? I got 25 cents and I show up late half the time, sometimes several hours late. But the boss claims I make up for it with the fact that I will show up on days I'm scheduled to work and I have a very high customer satisfaction rating. I wonder if I'd still have as high of a rating if they knew I recruited customers to do my bidding with their customer satisfaction surveys?