Well now I don't want to help you.

PrettyGirlLost · December 2014

I work in a fee for service molecular lab. . . I get to work with MD's, Ph.D's, MDPh.D's, fellows, residents, grad students, summer students. . . yeah, life can get really interesting annoying as fuck.

For the most part, everyone is very cool and very good to work with.

However, my all time favorite are the people who ask me, to my face, why they have to pay for my labor when I give them an estimate for a project: "I already pay for a research tech, why do I need to pay for you?"

Um. . . because I'm the person running the assay for you and providing the data for your study, and I'm not working here just for shits and giggles. I kinda need a paycheck.

novella1186 · December 2014

PrettyGirlLost said:

I work in a fee for service molecular lab. . . I get to work with MD's, Ph.D's, MDPh.D's, fellows, residents, grad students, summer students. . . yeah, life can get really interesting annoying as fuck.

For the most part, everyone is very cool and very good to work with.

However, my all time favorite are the people who ask me, to my face, why they have to pay for my labor when I give them an estimate for a project: "I already pay for a research tech, why do I need to pay for you?"

Um. . . because I'm the person running the assay for you and providing the data for your study, and I'm not working here just for shits and giggles. I kinda need a paycheck.

Wow. That's just fucking rude. I would ask how well their project would turn out without the data you provide them. Jerks.

KatieinBkln · December 2014

Oh girl. I'm with you on the "urgent because I'm fucking disorganized" rant. My entire past two weeks have been nothing but extra stress on top of an already stressful project because everyone and their mother suddenly "needs" something rightnowrightaway. Nevermind that they were supposed to get their requests in weeks ago, oh no. I am the last stop on the "conveyor belt" before things go out to the public, so when other people fuck up, I have to make up the difference by being fast and thorough.

Basically I've been giving death glares to my email and blasting Rage Music for days now.

PrettyGirlLost · December 2014

novella1186 said:

PrettyGirlLost said:

I work in a fee for service molecular lab. . . I get to work with MD's, Ph.D's, MDPh.D's, fellows, residents, grad students, summer students. . . yeah, life can get really interesting annoying as fuck.

For the most part, everyone is very cool and very good to work with.

However, my all time favorite are the people who ask me, to my face, why they have to pay for my labor when I give them an estimate for a project: "I already pay for a research tech, why do I need to pay for you?"

Um. . . because I'm the person running the assay for you and providing the data for your study, and I'm not working here just for shits and giggles. I kinda need a paycheck.

Wow. That's just fucking rude. I would ask how well their project would turn out without the data you provide them. Jerks.

I have also been asked if I really "need' to go on vacation. Yes, you bet your fucking ass, I do! You are not going to cure cancer anyways, so calm the hell down.

Go write a grant or something ;-)

novella1186 · December 2014

PrettyGirlLost said:

novella1186 said:

PrettyGirlLost said:

I work in a fee for service molecular lab. . . I get to work with MD's, Ph.D's, MDPh.D's, fellows, residents, grad students, summer students. . . yeah, life can get really interesting annoying as fuck.

For the most part, everyone is very cool and very good to work with.

However, my all time favorite are the people who ask me, to my face, why they have to pay for my labor when I give them an estimate for a project: "I already pay for a research tech, why do I need to pay for you?"

Um. . . because I'm the person running the assay for you and providing the data for your study, and I'm not working here just for shits and giggles. I kinda need a paycheck.

Wow. That's just fucking rude. I would ask how well their project would turn out without the data you provide them. Jerks.

I have also been asked if I really "need' to go on vacation. Yes, you bet your fucking ass, I do! You are not going to cure cancer anyways, so calm the hell down.

Go write a grant or something ;-)

Lol. To that I'd be like "well the company didn't give me the fucking vacation time so that it could sit on a shelf and look pretty!" Again: Jerks.

kat1114 · December 2014

Just had to vent my annoyances with the working world. I sent another company a contract for review on November 12. I just got an email back yesterday afternoon saying they were good with the contract asking for us to sign (even though they really should be signing first, but whatever). The person who needs to sign the contract is in an all-day meeting today, so I haven't had a chance to get it signed.

I get another email from the other company right now asking for a status update. If it was so important that you get this goddamn thing signed, maybe you shouldn't have waited a month to send it back to me!

Well, now I don't want to help you.

porkchops926 · December 2014

I have to admit I'm guilty of the cc'ing a higher up in order to get a response. But it was for good reason I swear! My HR person will literally NOT RESPOND to any email you send her. I sent her three emails because she forgot to sign me up for health insurance. No response. Then I copied the CFO on the email and lo and behold 5 minutes later I have an "I'm looking into it and will get back to you ASAP" Which to me is HR speak for.... "I forgot to sign you up but because CFO is copied on this I will act like I don't know what's going on. I didn't think it was important enough to even respond to you, but since CFO is now copied I will let you know the status of your request."

So, I know it's kind of a dick move, but now I copy him on EVERY email I send to her (at the advice of my boss) I just can't figure out why no one has fired her yet.

afox007 · December 2014

II had a customer call yesterday so I could process a return from her. She already sound pissy in voicemail #1. I tried calling back the number she left didn't work I checked her account same number. I emailed her and let her know the number didn't work and that she could email me the credit request.

I came in this morning to three voicemails . All of them increasingly angry and finally yelling at me that she knows something is wrong with MY phone and I clearly have a cell phone and should call her from that. Despite wanting to bitch slap this chick I called back from my cell and got "the magic jack customer you are trying to reach can not be located please leave a message"

Seriously you are a store you should have a real fucking phone! Her last voicemail for today chewed me out for still not calling back and lacking any sort of human decency.

novella1186 · December 2014

afox007 said:

II had a customer call yesterday so I could process a return from her. She already sound pissy in voicemail #1. I tried calling back the number she left didn't work I checked her account same number. I emailed her and let her know the number didn't work and that she could email me the credit request.
I came in this morning to three voicemails . All of them increasingly angry and finally yelling at me that she knows something is wrong with MY phone and I clearly have a cell phone and should call her from that. Despite wanting to bitch slap this chick I called back from my cell and got "the magic jack customer you are trying to reach can not be located please leave a message"
Seriously you are a store you should have a real fucking phone! Her last voicemail for today chewed me out for still not calling back and lacking any sort of human decency.

Wow. That lady is gonna drown in her own misery.

lovemyrunner · December 2014

Well I'm a nurse so my nasty interactions are patients who need fresh water RIGHTFUCKINGNOW. I'm sorry, I'm giving my OTHER patient (yes, there's more than one of you) pain medication. That comes first. Then I will get your water.

"Whoops, you're right I should've stopped those chest compressions so I could stop your IV from beeping. My bad."

The best is doctors angrily asking me why someone else fucked up. Dude, I dont know, ask THEM!

sophhabobopha · December 2014

Ugh. I hate everybody. I work in food. ._.

lovesclimbing · December 2014

My editor for the most part is pretty good. He really annoyed me on Thanksgiving though.

I work for a small newspaper. We only have a few reporters, others were gone and the only other one at work for that week is a sports reporter.

Anyway, so the Friday before Thanksgiving, I asked what he wanted/what the plans were for T day coverage. He said he didn't know. We don't print on T day but we do the Friday afterward. So my boss and the other reporter were going to take Wednesday off and work on T day.

Since my boss didn't know what he wanted, I told him my plan was to work on Wednesday, get my stories done for Friday, come in on T day long enough to shoot some T day photos and throw them on the computer, and then go home and have T day with friends.

My editor tells me ok, that's perfectly fine, sounds good. So I make plans for H and I to go to a friend's for T day dinner with us providing a pie an stuffing. I make the stuff that morning, shoot photos on T day as fast as possible, run into the office, dump them on the computer, edit them and head out the door back home with about 20 minutes to spare before dinner. I pause to say bye to my boss and tell him everything's good. He says, "what about walmart, I bet it's busy there." I go "umm." He says "well, we should do something because it's probably crazy there." IF YOU WANTED WALMART COVERAGE YOU SHOULD HAVE TOLD ME WHEN I FLIPPING >>ASKED YOU<< WHAT YOU WANTED FOR T DAY COVERAGE!!!! I hemmed and hawed and said I didn't think Walmart was that big of a deal here and I was heading home and then I left.

Our new editor also expects a ton out of me, way more than a normal person can produce, and really pushes for more stories and more photos. It was never my responsibility to always have photos before, and now he's kind of made me be. It's annoying because I shoot my own photos, but I'm not a photog and making sure I have photos every day is a pain. It's really annoying.

novella1186 · December 2014

lovemyrunner said:

Well I'm a nurse so my nasty interactions are patients who need fresh water RIGHTFUCKINGNOW. I'm sorry, I'm giving my OTHER patient (yes, there's more than one of you) pain medication. That comes first. Then I will get your water.

"Whoops, you're right I should've stopped those chest compressions so I could stop your IV from beeping. My bad."

The best is doctors angrily asking me why someone else fucked up. Dude, I dont know, ask THEM!

One of my best friends since we were kids is a nurse. I feel so bad for anyone in that profession because when people don't feel good is when they act the crabbiest, nastiest, and most nonsensical. And the nurses just have to smile and deal with it. My friend even had to babysit a convict who was in the hospital for cancer treatments, and she was PREGNANT at the time, and the convict was trying to convince her to steal a car to take him to buy cigarettes. Then he tried to jump out a third floor window. I felt so bad that they made her do that.

Well now I don't want to help you.

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