Post your work vents

lyndausvi

5 days off and I come back to a shit show at work.     It makes me question why I even returned.

And the most frustrating thing was I worked on vacation.  Every morning I logged in, did some stuff I can only do.   Everything was fine.   Yet last night boss man's son did something stupid and I returned to a shit show.     

I can only imagine what it's going to be like when I return from 11 days out-of-the-country.

Post your work vents here if you have any.

luckya23

I'm waiting on the photos for some reports I have to write, meanwhile preparing photos for other people's reports - - why on earth can't they keep field work and report writing together??? 

Work is super slow right now, so I understand that they need to spread it out, but come on!

My general work vent is that both of our employers just started not covering working spouses in the health insurance plans.  I see no point to pay 2 individual deductibles and worst of all have to deal with two separate companies and plans. 

I wish this was still a country of single income families!

lyndausvi

luckya23 said:

I'm waiting on the photos for some reports I have to write, meanwhile preparing photos for other people's reports - - why on earth can't they keep field work and report writing together??? 

Work is super slow right now, so I understand that they need to spread it out, but come on!

My general work vent is that both of our employers just started not covering working spouses in the health insurance plans.  I see no point to pay 2 individual deductibles and worst of all have to deal with two separate companies and plans. 

I wish this was still a country of single income families!

Even though DH and I are on the same  policy, we have separate deductibles.  DH hits his before March.  I rarely hit mine at all.

The separate companies would annoy me.    

DH's last job doesn't cover working spouses who can get insurance at their job.  My job doesn't provide insurance, so I was able to get covered.  My boss had to send in documentation proving he doesn't provide insurance.  (there are only 10 or so employees).

luckya23

lyndausvi said:

luckya23 said:

I'm waiting on the photos for some reports I have to write, meanwhile preparing photos for other people's reports - - why on earth can't they keep field work and report writing together??? 

Work is super slow right now, so I understand that they need to spread it out, but come on!

My general work vent is that both of our employers just started not covering working spouses in the health insurance plans.  I see no point to pay 2 individual deductibles and worst of all have to deal with two separate companies and plans. 

I wish this was still a country of single income families!

Even though DH and I are on the same  policy, we have separate deductibles.  DH hits his before March.  I rarely hit mine at all.

The separate companies would annoy me.    

DH's last job doesn't cover working spouses who can get insurance at their job.  My job doesn't provide insurance, so I was able to get covered.  My boss had to send in documentation proving he doesn't provide insurance.  (there are only 10 or so employees).

That's what I meant, if insurance is offered at their job, then the other plan won't cover.  My company actually says "if they have access to other insurance" and I have no idea if that means through the state plans or what!

thefanciestbeckler

I have been back from my honeymoon for 2 weeks and I am STILL trying to get caught up. I am the only person who does my job, which is really nice because everything gets done exactly the way I want it (slight perfectionist here!), but it majorly sucks when I take time off. It's almost like you get punished for taking the vacation time you're required to take!

I work at a bank. So to make things worse, the collections department is right on the other side of my cubicle. They are SO LOUD!!!!!!!!!!!! and they never do any work. It's chit chat and gossip and family drama and cackling all day long. Everyone in my department complains about them, but nobody does anything about it. It makes it so hard to concentrate!

ShesSoCold

Long story short, I was told I'd be the office manager a few years ago, they didn't want to pay me so we basically went without until they hired the boss' sons' wife for it. She hasn't even been into this office in months and I do most of her job. 

We recently hired two new employees and after being told I wouldn't be training them, all I've done is train them on shit I don't know anything about. 

NowIAmSyp

My work vent is that I'm at work- and not still on my honeymoon

lovemesomemonster

My work vent is that I'm being laid off in 6 weeks and it can't come fast enough. I have been tired of my job for a while now and since finding out I am going to get 10 weeks of severance pay right before and during the wedding I'm having trouble keeping my focus until that day comes!

madamerwin

luckya23 said: lyndausvi said: luckya23 said: I'm waiting on the photos for some reports I have to write, meanwhile preparing photos for other people's reports - - why on earth can't they keep field work and report writing together???  Work is super slow right now, so I understand that they need to spread it out, but come on!
My general work vent is that both of our employers just started not covering working spouses in the health insurance plans.  I see no point to pay 2 individual deductibles and worst of all have to deal with two separate companies and plans.  I wish this was still a country of single income families! Even though DH and I are on the same  policy, we have separate deductibles.  DH hits his before March.  I rarely hit mine at all.
The separate companies would annoy me.    
DH's last job doesn't cover working spouses who can get insurance at their job.  My job doesn't provide insurance, so I was able to get covered.  My boss had to send in documentation proving he doesn't provide insurance.  (there are only 10 or so employees). That's what I meant, if insurance is offered at their job, then the other plan won't cover.  My company actually says "if they have access to other insurance" and I have no idea if that means through the state plans or what!

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I thought that was relatively normal... Both mine and H's plans technically allow you to add spouses who could be covered through their own employer, but you have to pay out the ass for it. I currently pay $40/month for myself, but if I added H, we would pay about $400. H currently pays $0/month, but adding me would be $240/month. So we have two separate plans through separate companies. And both plans suck pretty bad.

My work vent: It's only Wednesday, and I am completely lacking in motivation.

emmaaa

Apparently there are multiple people that think my assistant (and past assistant) is the "boss" and that I'm their assistant. This is mainly because I'm 24 years old and my current assistant is in her 50's and the one before was in her 70's.

A man just came in and said, "Where's Barbara?" I told him that she retired and he said, "Oh, so you're running things now? Good for you. Now you have a real job." I just looked at him and said, "I'm the director here and this has always been my job since I've been here. I just hired another program assistant when Barbara left."

UGH!

sunflower0592

Work/employment has been a source of frustration for me for the last couple of months (well, the last 3 years really but I've spent the last 2 in grad school). I just got my master's (in a STEM field) but haven't had a ton of luck finding full-time work. I'm currently underemployed, working for a company based in another state. The work is ok, but I'm not crazy about the company. Communication seems to be a huge issue- there's been quite a few times when I've been asked at a moment's notice to drive 8 hours away to drop off equipment, or return to do more surveys after I've already come home for the day. One of the project areas is well over an hour's drive from my house, and I think the main thing is the people I talk with just don't realize these things, most of them are on the other side of the country. I'm the only person working on the projects in my area, so if I'm not there, the work doesn't get done. While I'm grateful to have some sort of job in my field, this is definitely not my dream job. I'm just viewing it as something to pay the bills while I look for something else.

cupcait927

I work in health insurance on the broker side. October 1st to about January 15th is our busiest time of year due to open enrollment. Typically vacation during this time is a no-no (but not strictly forbidden) because we're so busy, and our office in particular is overworked because we're short staffed. So my one coworker - the one I dislike the most because she's not a team player and never goes out of her way to help any of us - has decided that she is taking all of next week off so she can get her two small dogs acclimated to the new house her and her boyfriend just bought. An entire week off. For dogs. Which then means that I have to cover for her (we're in the same position, just different clients) and do her work for a week when I'm already all overworked to begin with. I'm inclined to think that the dog story is a cover-up for why she's really taking off because it sounds so ridiculous but I have no proof. To say that I'm mad is an understatement.

jennyleigh16

I work in a maintenance -type job and for the past 3 nights (3pm-1am shifts) our elevator has been broken because a bunch of kids during a hockey tournament got in it and jumped. I'm pissed not only at the kids/ parents who crucified my coworker for something the kids did, then recorded her being firm with a parent who was screaming at her and posted it online, but also at the fire department who used a crowbar to open the elevator instead of the handy little tool designed for such a purpose. We've been 3 days waiting for the part the fire dept broke. Which means our floor machine and cleaning supplies have no way to get to the 2nd floor which means everything takes twice as long to clean and many many trips up and down the stairs. I ache everywhere. I'm so hoping they fix it in the next couple of days while I'm off. 

kimmiinthemitten

I'm in sales and spending 2 days in sales training classes. I'm all for improvement and fine tuning my skills but this class is clearly geared to new reps when our group has an average experience of 9 1/2 years so much of it is just redundant and not adding anything to our "tool chest."

The last class they had had an average of 6 months in sales.

WinstonsGirl

Instead of our usual teacher group collaboration tomorrow, we have a general staff meeting instead.  My Principal says we'll be finished at 4:00, which means that after he's finished talking, it'll really be 4:30 or later.  Ugh

kvruns

I am our compliance person (my coworker retired in Sept so its basically just me) and I answer questions on health plans (if things are "legal" or how the rules work and if you can or can't do something etc) and then also do our legal plan documents for clients. There are questions that the account teams can answer and things they can do but they like to put me in as the middle man and cc me on an email and say "I've copied KV our compliance person she can help you out with that" when they already know the answer or can easily deal with it instead of me going in as the middle man and saying the same damn thing they could have said. I suppose sometimes they want more credibility of it coming from me but I don't have time to do those things they can easily do themselves (and quicker since they are already engaged with the client).

labro

Ugh I need to fucking vent. I FUCKING HATE CONFERENCE CALLS! I feel like I spend so much of my goddamn time on fucking calls not getting real work done. And now my coworker just emailed me to schedule a call while I am OOO next week to see what needs to be covered. THIS CAN BE COVERED IN A FUCKING EMAIL! FUCK! I hate her. She schedules SO MANY calls for everything and it wastes sooooooo much time. I emailed her back and said that I didn't have time for a call today, and then listed the items I needed her to cover while I was gone, done, easy peasy. Especially since none of the items are even complicated and don't require extra explanation (2 of the 3 we're having a call about today ALREADY!). UGH.

Ok, I'm done. I just really had to get that out.

wandajune6

I've worked for my boss on/off for a decade. I was her first hire for this company. We're now at almost 10 full-time employees and lots of part-time contractors. I love the work, the people, etc.

It sucks to realize that you're not as important as you used to be. When I was the only other person, I knew everything that was going on. I wasn't super-senior and I knew that she would hire people above me in time. It just sucks being left out of conversations that I would have once been party to. I know that I don't work on strategy anymore but it hurts to feel left out all the time.

And some bitching: I have an MBA in marketing from one of the best programs in the US and spent 2 years running marketing websites for an organization that is our type of target audience. I have run social media projects at multiple employers, freelanced writing marketing plans, and overall have a great marketing resume. While my current role isn't marketing, it was a huge part of my work when we started. But now we have a girl (that I genuinely like) hired as a project manager who is supposed to work on some of our marketing projects. That's great. I love not handling everything. However, I'm constantly being asked questions about things -- then am consistently told that I'm wrong. Why ask if you don't want my opinion? And shouldn't the opinion of someone with relevant experience play into decisions of two people without relevant experience?

Basically, going through a phase where I'm feeling incredibly alienated and unappreciated.

anjemon

labro said:

Ugh I need to fucking vent. I FUCKING HATE CONFERENCE CALLS! I feel like I spend so much of my goddamn time on fucking calls not getting real work done. And now my coworker just emailed me to schedule a call while I am OOO next week to see what needs to be covered. THIS CAN BE COVERED IN A FUCKING EMAIL! FUCK! I hate her. She schedules SO MANY calls for everything and it wastes sooooooo much time. I emailed her back and said that I didn't have time for a call today, and then listed the items I needed her to cover while I was gone, done, easy peasy. Especially since none of the items are even complicated and don't require extra explanation (2 of the 3 we're having a call about today ALREADY!). UGH.

Ok, I'm done. I just really had to get that out.

I have a coworker like this, except it's meetings. I sent her an email yesterday asking about a project and she replied asking me to set up some time. If I wanted to have a meeting, I would have scheduled one. I just wanted a general outline and an answer to my question. I even tried to skip a meeting with her once and she summoned me. It's just super annoying.

NowIamMrsKlein

I am so annoyed with jobs in general right now.

I've been unemployed since September 25, and since there there have been exactly 4 postings of jobs that I am qualified for. I got one interview and the pay was a good 5$ less an hour than what I used to make. 

The most frustrating is H's job though. He's been put on 'notice of layoff.' Basically they are laying off a whole bunch of people from the other base. All those people have seniority over H. So all those people have been given the option of taking the lay off or taking H's job. Which makes no sense to me but whatever. Most people won't take H's job because a) its a super shitty thing to do b) they all have homes and lives and families in their base city and who would want to up root to go to middle of nowhere northern canada just to keep their job at a reduced salary.

Anyways. Its been 2 weeks. And they still haven't made it through the list of people who get this option. So in the mean time H and I are just sitting here twiddling our thumbs wondering if tomorrow he will have a job. Or the next day. 

RAWRRR

jenna8984

When my boss comes into my office to show me something, he REEKS up the place smelling like cigarette smoke. It's so fucking gross that I'm holding my breathe the whole time he's next to me and he leaves and I'm still like dying because the smell stays. I guess I need to get some kind of air freshener but I just really want to say something about it and ban him from my office!

lyndausvi

jenna8984 said:

When my boss comes into my office to show me something, he REEKS up the place smelling like cigarette smoke. It's so fucking gross that I'm holding my breathe the whole time he's next to me and he leaves and I'm still like dying because the smell stays. I guess I need to get some kind of air freshener but I just really want to say something about it and ban him from my office!

ugh.  I work from home, but have to go to NOLA twice a year.   My co-worker down there smokes.  It's gross.  I'm always like "what is the that sm...? Oh yeah, the smokers. "     It's so nasty.   

jenna8984

lyndausvi said:

jenna8984 said:

When my boss comes into my office to show me something, he REEKS up the place smelling like cigarette smoke. It's so fucking gross that I'm holding my breathe the whole time he's next to me and he leaves and I'm still like dying because the smell stays. I guess I need to get some kind of air freshener but I just really want to say something about it and ban him from my office!

ugh.  I work from home, but have to go to NOLA twice a year.   My co-worker down there smokes.  It's gross.  I'm always like "what is the that sm...? Oh yeah, the smokers. "     It's so nasty.   

It's also that "older people" smoke smell. You know, the ones who smoke in their car with the windows up and don't wash their hands after, or take a mint, and don't wash their jackets and always smell like stale smoke. That's the worst part. Because I've dated 3 smokers (H used to) and they NEVER smelled like that.

julieanne912

wandajune6 said:

I've worked for my boss on/off for a decade. I was her first hire for this company. We're now at almost 10 full-time employees and lots of part-time contractors. I love the work, the people, etc.

It sucks to realize that you're not as important as you used to be. When I was the only other person, I knew everything that was going on. I wasn't super-senior and I knew that she would hire people above me in time. It just sucks being left out of conversations that I would have once been party to. I know that I don't work on strategy anymore but it hurts to feel left out all the time.

And some bitching: I have an MBA in marketing from one of the best programs in the US and spent 2 years running marketing websites for an organization that is our type of target audience. I have run social media projects at multiple employers, freelanced writing marketing plans, and overall have a great marketing resume. While my current role isn't marketing, it was a huge part of my work when we started. But now we have a girl (that I genuinely like) hired as a project manager who is supposed to work on some of our marketing projects. That's great. I love not handling everything. However, I'm constantly being asked questions about things -- then am consistently told that I'm wrong. Why ask if you don't want my opinion? And shouldn't the opinion of someone with relevant experience play into decisions of two people without relevant experience?

Basically, going through a phase where I'm feeling incredibly alienated and unappreciated.

This exact thing happened to me at my last job.  It's the worst feeling to start getting shut out of things you were once a part of.  

My work rant is about our accounting department.  So, I work for a very large (like Fortune 200) company.  Here in our area, there are 3 companies under the corporate umbrella.  There's one accounting department for all 3.  So I get it, they're busy, whatever.  Anyway, we have a new person here and while I was at lunch on Tuesday, she decided to receipt in something herself, and create the deposit (thankfully she didn't attempt to actually deposit it)  She messed up each aspect of it because she was just guessing (not sure why she didn't ask somebody else, but I digress).  Anyway, I emailed accounting on Tuesday afternoon about the issue and what we needed to have fixed in the system so I can then redo it correctly.  I was out of the office yesterday at a training, but apparently there was all this drama about the deposit, including a condescending note from accounting (who never responded to my Tuesday email to alert them of the problem) telling us that in the future we should let them know if there's an issue.   So today, I responded back and told them, with exact times, about my email over to them on Tuesday that was never responded to, and again asked them to fix the problem.  That was about 2 hours ago.  No response.  Ugh.

jenna8984

@julieanne912 do you work at my company?! THIS IS MY LIFE. I am accounting for my local manufacturing plant but our payroll, AP, and AR is all handled by our corporate office. And they constantly fuck it all up. I swear I spend half my time finding their errors, telling them to fix their errors, following up because they didn't fix their errors, telling them they made the same error the next month. And then people in other departments come to me like "My vendor is stopping supplies because we haven't paid them yet, why haven't you paid them?" and I'm like trust me I know, I have no control over that!! I am not the one who can make the payments!

KittenMittens84

My work rant. The coffee pot. I love coffee and will drink it all day long even in the summer but I stopped drinking it at work as no one but me will clean it. I stopped cleaning it to see if anyone else would and surprise no one else has FOR A YEAR! I stopped drinking it at work when I stopped cleaning it and stopped contributing to the coffee fund as well. This thing is beyond gross. There is so much film on the inside you could fill it with just water and it looks like it's coffee it's so dark. I've made comments about it being dirty and all I get in response is that I can clean it anytime I'd like but they don't mind it as it adds "flavor". That's OK I'll bring in some instant coffee for myself and not have to worry about all the bacteria (flavor).

anjemon

New one! One of my project managers. Firstly, he has a terrible time making decisions. We have gone round and round on this project just trying to get someone to make decisions. It's like he keeps pushing them off on other people who don't have the authority/big picture to make the decision. Asking me to look into it does not help, because I only know it affects me and not the rest of the project.

And we're prepping for a big business review. He asks me if the document has been reviewed by anyone and I say no, just me. Would you like me to send it out? Then like 30 seconds later he asks is someone else is aligned with the document and agrees with everything. I'm like no, haven't sent it out yet. Just me. You're the project manager, I don't expect you to have any idea how I do my job, but I wish you would have some idea of when I'm supposed to have things done. Because expecting me to have them in a finished state right now is not what the process says. Read the dang process! It doesn't help that this project is a special snowflake, so everything is different. I wish he would be able to back me up and make sure I'm getting everything right, but he doesn't have any idea what is supposed to be happening so I know he won't notice if something gets missed.

lyndausvi

Guest checking in on Saturday:   " We would like to check-in at 9am"

Me: I'm sorry we have a full house on Friday night.  check-out is 10am, I would not be able to guarantee an early check-in.

Guest:  but I have an early wedding and MUST check-in at 9am.

Me: I  understand and we will do our best to have a room ready as soon as possible, however we will not be able to accommodate a 9am check-in.  As I said, we have a full house on Friday night.

Guest:  but I need to check in early.   You MUST help me.

This goes on and on 5 minutes.    WTF people?  I'm not trying to be an ass here, but what do you propose I do?  Go knocking on doors at 7am to get people out of their rooms, rooms they are allowed to stay in until 10am.  Then housekeeping can come in and clean to be ready by 9am for YOU?

 It's fucking New Orleans.  People are fucking hungover.  Hell it takes all we have to get them out by 10am.

   Oh BTW - housekeeping doesn't even come in until 9am.  So there's that too.

kvruns

anjemon said:

labro said:

Ugh I need to fucking vent. I FUCKING HATE CONFERENCE CALLS! I feel like I spend so much of my goddamn time on fucking calls not getting real work done. And now my coworker just emailed me to schedule a call while I am OOO next week to see what needs to be covered. THIS CAN BE COVERED IN A FUCKING EMAIL! FUCK! I hate her. She schedules SO MANY calls for everything and it wastes sooooooo much time. I emailed her back and said that I didn't have time for a call today, and then listed the items I needed her to cover while I was gone, done, easy peasy. Especially since none of the items are even complicated and don't require extra explanation (2 of the 3 we're having a call about today ALREADY!). UGH.

Ok, I'm done. I just really had to get that out.

I have a coworker like this, except it's meetings. I sent her an email yesterday asking about a project and she replied asking me to set up some time. If I wanted to have a meeting, I would have scheduled one. I just wanted a general outline and an answer to my question. I even tried to skip a meeting with her once and she summoned me. It's just super annoying.

haha I just flipped out about this same thing. I sent over questions to someone who had asked me to draft a document. I was like I need to know these 3 things to finish it (since I didn't know the "why") and his reply was to cc his assistant and be like please set up time for KV and me to discuss this.  Umm NO just answer the 3 damn questions in the email.

kvruns

luckya23 said:

lyndausvi said:

luckya23 said:

I'm waiting on the photos for some reports I have to write, meanwhile preparing photos for other people's reports - - why on earth can't they keep field work and report writing together??? 

Work is super slow right now, so I understand that they need to spread it out, but come on!

My general work vent is that both of our employers just started not covering working spouses in the health insurance plans.  I see no point to pay 2 individual deductibles and worst of all have to deal with two separate companies and plans. 

I wish this was still a country of single income families!

Even though DH and I are on the same  policy, we have separate deductibles.  DH hits his before March.  I rarely hit mine at all.

The separate companies would annoy me.    

DH's last job doesn't cover working spouses who can get insurance at their job.  My job doesn't provide insurance, so I was able to get covered.  My boss had to send in documentation proving he doesn't provide insurance.  (there are only 10 or so employees).

That's what I meant, if insurance is offered at their job, then the other plan won't cover.  My company actually says "if they have access to other insurance" and I have no idea if that means through the state plans or what!

@luckya23  It is called a spousal carve out which basically means if your spouse has access to insurance through his/her employment then you cannot be on the group plan. It doesn't mean if you have access to any insurance since technically everyone has access to the Exchange plans now. The other option is a spousal surcharge, which another PP mentioned, which is when they say if your spouse has access to work insurance but still want to be on your plan then you will have to pay extra for them since they could get coverage at their own job.

To be honest most people would benefit from being on separate individual (employee-only) policies vs being on a family plan or an employee + spouse plan.  that is because employers typically subsidize employee-only coverage the most (and now with the ACA they have to to meet affordability requirements or face a penalty) but there is nothing that makes them subsidize the spouse or children. So the employee-only part might be $40 per check but to add you as a spouse it would run $150 per check (just making up numbers). In that case you would be better off having 2 $40/check plans than 1 $150/check plan. Sure there are still employers out there subsidizing spouse/dependents on the plan but it is getting away from it as a way to cut costs. My H and I are on separate plans and the only reason we are combining for next year is because his plan covers all maternity costs at $0; but as a result we will be paying about $120 more for combined coverage than if we had separate policies still.

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fyrchk

I just found out that someone I work with took it upon themselves to go through comments on a post, go to another person's fb page, and screenshot the fact that I am friends with that person (who happens to be a director). She then sent it to other coworkers saying, "They can get in trouble for being friends."

Well, no we can't. It's not an issue. But the fact that you went to those lengths annoys me. I've now deleted almost all of my coworkers so I don't have to deal with high school drama.