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Stupid Thursday

I'm in such a crappy mood today. It's one of those days. So the coworker I can't stand was out of the office on Mon and Tues. I am one of her backups when she is out. On Tuesday, I was supposed to do something on her behalf (although technically I am not the only one who could have done it). Due to a misunderstanding with another coworker, I only did about half of the work. She comes back in yesterday, and since she was back in the office, I did not follow up. She is the type that doesn't like when people get into her workflow. She was complaining about something when I walked in, didn't talk to me all day (yay!), then this morning I see she sent a meeting notice with her boss and myself to discuss some "issues" dealing with the workflow. So, I have no idea what she means and after doing some digging I am assuming it is due to the crap from Tuesday. Fine, I should have followed up, but is it necessary to hold a meeting about this? Seriously?!

I don't even know why I am her backup, I am no longer on the same team as she is on. We're under different management, and I'm not supposed to be doing that crap anymore! Regardless I do admit that I screwed up, which pisses me off, especially since it is a screw up on something that is not part of my job function and involves her. On top of that, I still don't have a Halloween costume, we still don't have Halloween plans, my work BFF is being weird and ignoring me, I'm cold, and my eye is irritated. 

Well, enough with my venting and complaining. How is everyone's day going so far? A lot better than me I hope!

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Re: Stupid Thursday

  • Boo! I hate when co-workers can't just man up and talk to you and have to get bosses involved. I hope your day gets better! I took today off because I felt like I needed one extra day to get wedding stuff done. So far all I've done is spend time on TK, have coffee, and watch Hoda & Kathy. Now Sex and the City is on. Must get off ass and get motivated!!!
  • kat1114 said:
    Boo! I hate when co-workers can't just man up and talk to you and have to get bosses involved. I hope your day gets better! I took today off because I felt like I needed one extra day to get wedding stuff done. So far all I've done is spend time on TK, have coffee, and watch Hoda & Kathy. Now Sex and the City is on. Must get off ass and get motivated!!!
    Right?! And the thing is, the issue doesn't affect HER as much as it affects my other coworker, and he doesn't care. I'm an easy going person but I can't work with someone like her. 

    If Sex and the City was on, I would get NOTHING done! I wish I was home watching SATC now. And chugging vodka.
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  • We have to have our year end(!) performance reviews done TOMORROW.  Um - it's OCTOBER - wtf am I supposed to do - make shit up for the rest of the year to put in there?  Whatever - we have a party this afternoon at work to celebrate how far the Royals made it - methinks my writing skills with vastly improve after some wine.  :)
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  • I work from home, so I don't normally have to deal with coworkers like y'all do.  I'm working from Starbucks today since I needed to get out of the house.

    I had an unsettling conversation with my mom this morning.  There's some family stuff going down right now that I'd rather not share on here, and it just really got me upset.  So, I'm sitting in the back of Starbucks with my laptop open and tears streaming down my face. 

    I had a visit to the lady doc on Monday, had allergy testing done yesterday (which left me with puffy eyes and horrible sinus issues the rest of the day), and now this.  This week SUCKS.
  • I'm battling a cold and stuck at the house with no car since DH is in town. The only thing I have to look forward to is the frozen pizza I have cooking in the oven right now. Oh, and last night's Criminal Minds I have on the DVR.

    In addition, I've been trying to get someone from the disability management group to confirm that my benefits won't get screwed up when I go back to work in two weeks. Since I'm going back the day before my short term disability ends, they started to get the long term disability approvals in place. When you go on LTD, you lose your medical coverage and my paychecks get cut in half and go from weekly to monthly. I obviously don't want any of that to happen since I'm done with treatments and can go back before LTD kicks in. No one can answer my questions. It's a red tape nightmare.

     







  • We have a new manager who loves to schedule meetings. She is not my manager. In fact I'm above her, the only people above me are our owners (my bosses). But she likes to send out invites to meetings like at least once a week.

    The newest one was that she wanted to hold a meeting with "upper management" (we don't use these terms really) to discuss schedules. WTF? What are you talking about? Ya know what fuck it I'll go to the damn meeting. It was my fucking schedule she wanted to discuss.

    My birthday was Tuesday, so I decided to leave early Monday and take off Tuesday. Cause I'm salary and my bosses don't give a shit since I always answer my email and text messages from my phone.

    Well meeting girl wants to get a "clear picture" of what my schedule is. So I explained that my schedule is flexible, I try to get in the office around 7:30am, but I do work from home sometimes and I leave early from time  to time, but I always have my phone with me if I'm needed. I'm also out sometimes doing work because of the nature of my job it can't all be completed in the office.

    Bitch face meeting lover goes "Well, that doesn't really work for me, I need you to have a firm schedule of when you are in the office, and when you are working from home. Like maybe you work from home on Tuesdays and Thursdays and the rest of the time you're here from lets say 7am until 4pm with an hour lunch. Will that work for you?" now my boss jumped in and said "You are not her manager, she does not report to you, she sets her own schedule, if you have a problem with that you and I can discuss it, but chances are it won't change anything". Good thing he spoke up because I was gonna tell her to take her schedule and shove it up her ass. I think he saw I had bitch face firmly in place.

    Also there is a new rumor going around I got my job by nailing the boss. Who is gay. A gay man. Which I am not. So no, I didn't sleep my way to the...slightly elevated middle. Hell if I was gonna exchange sexual favors for a job I'd get a higher paying job. I'm pretty good in the sack.

    On the bright side, my lean cusien pizza was really good. Actually...really good, I love their little pizzas.
  • OP, that totally sucks! At least the day is almost over. Hope your Friday is better

    Do you have any idea of what sort of costume you'd like? Something easy and simple or something more creative or that requires face painting and wigs?
  • I have to train my awful coworker all day and I'm ready to sit at my desk and sob already. Two more hours of this shit. I'm going to talk to my boss after work and request that I not have I sit with him anymore. Today he's back to making homophobic comments followed by arguing with me and lecturing me about "interrupting his flow" when I tried to stop him from telling a customer incorrect information.
  • I decided last night in the middle of party city to be a "fancy witch". Because there was a mini-witch's hat on a headband that was cute and fancy and cheap and I have a matching dress I wore in a friend's wedding. So...fancy witch.

    Fancy witch is easy. So is fancy devil, fancy kitty, basically if you have a cocktail dress and some accessories you can be fancy something.
  • They always do that shit at my job mobride2015! They want all those reviews in ridiculously early. 

    Jells2dot0 Ugh I'm sorry you have a cold and on top of that dealing with all that insurance nonsense. I'm happy to hear that you will be going back to work in 2 weeks though!

    princessofgenovia Wow that is freaking ridiculous. Awesome boss you have, though. I was reading your story thinking Who the HELL does that woman think she is?! I could imagine the response I would get if I said that to a manager here! And wtf did that rumor come from?! That's horrible, probably some miserable employee who wishes they were at your level.
     
    holyguacamole79 I'm really sorry you're going through family stuff :( Sending you hugs.
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  • OP, that totally sucks! At least the day is almost over. Hope your Friday is better

    Do you have any idea of what sort of costume you'd like? Something easy and simple or something more creative or that requires face painting and wigs?

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    I think I would want something easy and simple. I'm considering being a cat. I have an all black outfit, so I would just need some ears, a tail, and some face makeup. I was just looking on Pinterest for some inspiration. I would have liked to be something really creative but I waited too long :/
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  • esstee33, EW what the hell. Your coworker sounds like a nightmare and a complete asshole. I'm sorry you have to deal with someone like that.

    princessofgenovia, I was a fancy witch a few years ago! I wore a little black dress I had lying around, and had a fabulous dark green silk witch hat with netting over the face with spiders dripping from it. I also bought a witch nose! It was one of my more creative, awesome costumes!
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  • @pinkcow13 There was a former employee who applied for my position. He was way under qualified but thought he deserved it anyways. When they hired me instead, he got all pissy and quit. There were like three women who just adored him and they're the ones who started the "I bet she spent time on her back to get there" rumors. Bitch please. Reverse cowgirl.

    Officially we don't know it's them but...it's them. So HR is going to hold a "we don't spread malicious rumors" meeting. Because we're 12 and this is jr high.

    I know there are some plans coming down the pipe in the new year and they probably won't be around after that. So I'm not too worried about them.
  • Hope your day gets better! 

    I'm covering two desks today and we just had a massive backorder come in so I'm running around like a chicken with its head cut off.  I also pulled some orders in the back to help out our warehouse, so now I'm sweaty in my nice clothes.  I'm supposed to go to dinner straight after work with my parents, so I hope I still look and smell okay.  

    I also have about a billion homework assignments due before Saturday.  Okay, it's more like ten, but it's going to take a huge chunk of time.  I may not be sleeping much the next two days. I'm battling a stupid UTI, so I haven't been sleeping much either.  Ugh.   


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  • princessofgenovia that is such BS. Honestly I sometimes feel like I'm in junior high the way some people at work behave.

    levioosa Ugh I'm sorry. UTI's suck. I hope you feel better soon.

    I just blew some steam off at the gym so I feel slightly better. What sucks is that I know this meeting is not a big deal, but it is still going to stress me out all night. 
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  • pinkcow13 said:
    esstee33, EW what the hell. Your coworker sounds like a nightmare and a complete asshole. I'm sorry you have to deal with someone like that.

    princessofgenovia, I was a fancy witch a few years ago! I wore a little black dress I had lying around, and had a fabulous dark green silk witch hat with netting over the face with spiders dripping from it. I also bought a witch nose! It was one of my more creative, awesome costumes!
    He is an unbelievable doucherocket. The best part of this is that I have literally no recourse without risking getting fired. He's the 2nd cousin of our boss, his dad is a majorly high-up in the company, and he had a child with the CEO's daughter. He also worked at the company (in a different department) for like 12 years, and his other job is at the other co-owner's other company. To report him to HR would likely cost me my job.

    I finally did email my boss today to request that I not have to train him anymore, and told him some of the reasons why (but not all -- only the ones that are legitimate problems with the job he's doing). I just can't wait to move in mid-December and not have to deal with this anymore.
  • It's October 30... And it's opening night for the Christmas show at the theatre where I work! So now it'll be 9 shows a week until January 1 with Mondays off. So I'm off to be Mrs. Claus and the Angel in the Nativity. Again it's not even Halloween and I'll be singing Christmas music tonight. Happy Thursday, phew!
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