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OurWildKingdom
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Work vent thread!
OurWildKingdom
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We haven't had one of these in a while! Here goes:
1. Work husband #1 lost a document on his desktop. He does this at least once a week, and I always come to his rescue. He told me the name of the child in the complaint. . . The file name was the child's name. An unusual name too.
2. A social worker called me at 12:30 to ask about what he should do with an emergency situation. I told him he needed to come up *now* to file an emergency motion to take custody of the child. He says OK. Ten minutes pass. He sends up a coworker who has NO knowledge of the case. The managing attorney tells the coworker that he needs to come up NOW to do the filing. Thirty minutes pass, and the social worker FINALLY comes up. I happened to pass by the office where he was working on the filing, and he was on his phone (not looking at anything related to the case; I think he was on Snapchat) while two attorneys were working with him and a third was observing.
3. Nothing else specific, but it feels like everyone left their brains somewhere over the weekend and didn't bother to pick them up before going to work on Tuesday.
1. Work husband #1 lost a document on his desktop. He does this at least once a week, and I always come to his rescue. He told me the name of the child in the complaint. . . The file name was the child's name. An unusual name too.
2. A social worker called me at 12:30 to ask about what he should do with an emergency situation. I told him he needed to come up *now* to file an emergency motion to take custody of the child. He says OK. Ten minutes pass. He sends up a coworker who has NO knowledge of the case. The managing attorney tells the coworker that he needs to come up NOW to do the filing. Thirty minutes pass, and the social worker FINALLY comes up. I happened to pass by the office where he was working on the filing, and he was on his phone (not looking at anything related to the case; I think he was on Snapchat) while two attorneys were working with him and a third was observing.
3. Nothing else specific, but it feels like everyone left their brains somewhere over the weekend and didn't bother to pick them up before going to work on Tuesday.
Re: Work vent thread!
2. Because of (1.), it always feels like 40 hours in the work week isn't close to being enough time, and since OT isn't an option management wants to consider (nor does it pay well when they actually do), I always feel like I'm miles behind. Especially when I take any time off.
3. Long commutes suck.
I'm doing things I've been avoiding for a bit because today already sucks. So mindless filing, scanning, etc for meeeee
Fuckkkkkk this day
We have a hot purchase order the big boss wants me to stay on top of. So he sends me a numbered list of the steps he wants me to take over the coming months, in regards to this PO. That's all fine. But then he ends his e-mail with "EXPEDITING 101".
Ummm...yes...thanks. I've been expediting the POs for this client site for over 4 years. Maybe I'm reading into it and he didn't mean anything by it. But that last sentence felt a bit patronizing/scolding. It really rubbed me the wrong way.
On another note, this guy likes change for the sake of change. I fucking HATE those types of new managers. Don't get me wrong, I'm not a "we've always done it that way" type of person either. I think a good new manger reviews the entire operations to see what works and what doesn't. He has been here 2 months in which the club was CLOSED for 6 of those weeks. And the 2 weeks it was opened it was slow time.
We are about to hit our crazy time and some of his changes are going to come back and bite him in the ass. Like removing 4 prime tables from an already limited area. Our members NEVER complained about it being crowded. Ever. But they fucking complained all the time for "having" to sit where he moved those 4 tables.
No nap time in general
Person: "X doesn't match Y, and I don't know what to do. You need to fix this."
Me: " my department has nothing to do with this process. we are LEGALLY NOT ALLOWED TO DO THE THING, NOR DO WE HAVE TRAINING. you need to check to make sure that the information used to make X was correct, and was input in the system correctly. If not, correct the input to X and you will probably be ok. If it was all correct on the first try, then PM 1 and PM 2 need to check with your accountant because they may be able to assist if there's a master data or system issue."
^^^^this is not the first time I have had this conversation with this person.
5 minutes later
Person: "I'm the one who made X"
Me: "Ok, so as I said, if you know all of the inputs were correct, then PM1 and 2 need to call accountant to see if they can help. if accountant can't help they need to talk to BIG BOSS, because this will impact BB. once again my department CANNOT LEGALLY DO ANY OF THIS STUFF, NOR ARE WE TRAINED."
5 minutes later:
PM1: "Person made X, but Y doesn't match. I didn't do anything that you instructed me to do, and I want to argue about it because your group should be doing this. MAKE YOUR GROUP DO THEIR JOB."
Me: (to myself... FFS....) "Look, i gave you 3 options. From a legal and training standpoint, i can do NOTHING TO HELP YOU. Do what I suggested. Until you have Y complete/approved, my team can't do their job." *phone drop*
unfortunately, i have this conversation multiple times every day.
one of the few things that i dislike about my company is that while you "have the option to do anything!" you only have that option if you come through specific departments. mine is not one. yet, due to my experience, and knowledge base, I am probably a much better candidate for a job that I want (and will probably never have) than one of the "chosen people" that came through the "right" entry level job. One of my targeted jobs is to be a "Project Manager" - in terms of my department, that's my title - but i want to manage the whole project and not just my department's aspect. The sad thing is that i work with a lot of "project managers" who have no idea what the fuck they are doing - and i actually know their job better than they do. PM1 that wrote the nastygram - all of this stuff falls within his job (he would provide data for "X" and approve "Y") - yet he has no idea how to prevent this issue, how to fix this issue, or why any of the 3 options that i gave him to troubleshoot are better than me.
Someone needs to go into my brain and make me apply for that job.
I always go to my girl Sheryl in times like these.
https://hbr.org/2014/08/why-women-dont-apply-for-jobs-unless-theyre-100-qualified
FW got home from her LGBTQ veterans group and gave me a figurative kick in the ass, so I finally applied for the job. Now I just have to stop picturing the HR director laughing his ass off when he reads my application packet.
I'm not clairvoyant, so I spend each day walking on eggshells.
To top that off, my job doesn't pay enough. I lose money every month because I have to drain my savings to pay for anything besides rent, a few groceries, insurance and utilities.
Yes, I'm job hunting. No success.
Thanks!
Lately I've been making mistakes and I'm PISSED at myself because I have NO idea why! The downside is that it means I can't take the course this year, which means if I get pregnant then I have to wait until I come back from mat leave to take the course. And it just irks me ....
I'm being notably better at everything .... just pissed at myself cuz it's not mistakes that can be 'fluffed off' *sigh*
Well, there's been a minor bone of contention over some information that we share publicly. A VP seems to think something is not required, yet a rulebook I have that's dated 2012- two thousand twelve- says it IS required.
I wanted to go all Trump vs Clinton on her and say "Wrong. Wrong." but of course I didn't. AND when I gave a personal story to illustrate the purpose of the rule, I got really pissed that she replied this policy is about something I "feel" (feel? excuse me? it's logic, and it's rules, thanks).
So now I'm gonna hit her and her group with a PPT deck full of policies from our external regulator and "highlights" excerpted from our rulebook (which directly contradict what she thinks) and "recommend" the business make change to comply with said rule.
A VP should know better. Grrrr.
This is only a minor vent. More a slight eye roll, that really doesn't affect me much.
One of the things I do is create packages for our detailing subcontractor. If you're curious, a detailer is someone who takes a drawing from engineering and determines things like "what steel piece or type of bolt goes where". So, when the PM for the steel department gives me the go-ahead to create a package, I'm working on that the same day or the next. One of the things I need is a packet that Doc Control usually makes a copy of.
Doc Control had two people laid off in December. They are short-staffed and don't get the packets to me quickly anymore. NBD at all. I am perfectly capable of printing my own packet. That's what I've been doing since Dec. and will even give them a heads up, each time, that I've already made my copy.
Except they still make the copy. Usually it is days later. Yesterday, they brought me one from over a month ago, lol. Really, really. I don't need this a month later. I just threw it away/put it in recycling. I've reminded them a few times that they don't need to bring me a copy anymore, but I just give up now.
Customer calls and asks for parts (we only have 1 person in parts).
Me: I'm sorry, he's out to lunch. Would you like his voicemail?
Customer: I just need to ask him if you have some parts in stock.
Me: Okay. He's out to lunch. Would you like his voicemail?
C: No. I'll try back later.
Telling me why you're calling isn't going to suddenly make him appear. Unfortunately, this is a multiple times a day occurrence.
To be fair, maybe he was hoping if he told you why he was calling that there was someone else who could answer his question.
I'm assuming this is the same "parts guy" who is absent a lot? For that caller's sake, hopefully this isn't a "leaving early for a dr.'s appt." day, lol.
This one it's possible that he thought there might be someone else, but many of them know we only have the one guy or they'll ask "Is there anyone else I can talk to?" I'll tell them there's not and then they say, "Well I just want to know..."
And yes it is the absentee guy and fortunately it's not a dr's appt day.
on the plus side, i get to attend a "group hug session" for one of my new projects in a few months, and will probably stay in a casino for a few days because it's the only decent hotel within a 20 or so mile radius of the town.
I can relate. Saying "I just have a quick question," is not going to make my boss less busy than she is.