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If you call in sick Tuesday morning saying you feel awful but make no mention of Wednesday, you're still expected to call Wednesday morning, right? Just checking to make sure I am working with the right idea here.
100%. Call in every day unless you say you'll be out multiple days from the get go.
If you call in sick Tuesday morning saying you feel awful but make no mention of Wednesday, you're still expected to call Wednesday morning, right? Just checking to make sure I am working with the right idea here.
100%. Call in every day unless you say you'll be out multiple days from the get go.
That's what I thought, but my boss doesn't seem to be that fazed about it. Was worried I was having unrealistic expectations.
We got a new director. The max people allowed to receive exceeds standards on their annual review is 10. We have over 200 people here. So they come up with this "system" to knock everyone's scores down accordingly. The director refers to it as placing us on a bell curve. So basically everyone but 10 people (the high ups of course) got screwed. Morale is pretty low right now. I normally get about 800 bucks in a lump sum (bc this is the state and of course they don't want this to go to your base salary nor are we allowed to get cost of living raises) and this year it will be about 300, after I'm taxed it will be close to 150.
TL;DR - fuck work, I'm on inforoo until Bonnaroo happens.
Merit based pay is a garbage system here too. First, there were never any definite rules laid down as to how many people can get a high rating. This has lead different department heads to base their departments off their own interpretation of the information they have received. Our department is going with the bell curve like your boss, so there's a very small amount of people that get the highest rating. These people tend to be in the same office as the department head and/or people that have been here for a while. You can then go to another department where their head views it as there being room for an infinite amount of high ratings and everyone gets one unless they're a total idiot. Second, the language in it says that the highest rating is for people that go above and beyond their assigned responsibilities. This bothers me for a couple reasons. It shifts the focus to doing as much as possible rather than doing what you do well. Also, your assigned responsibilities can change and you get screwed. A co-worker decided he was going for the gold and took on a new project. It was interesting stuff and not something that was being done anywhere else in the department. He got high fives for it. When it came time for reviews, they shifted lowered his duties in other areas then folded the new project into his responsibilities so technically speaking he was no longer going "above and beyond" by doing it. Needless to say, he was a little ticked.
It is problem across the state, I have been told not to give anyone the highest grade. I have gone to a few different classes on this and get different answers every time. This new system stinks as much for the evaluator as the person being rated.
Every time I clean out my office, I remember that I should really clean out my office more often.
I've been wanting to come in on a weekend day and just purge the heck out of mine. I get too distracted otherwise and it turns out worse than when I started.
Friday afternoons I at least trrryyyyy to recycle old notes, put away files, etc. so at least the surfaces are clean and organized Monday morning, Drawers and other random shelves a litle less so...
Welcome back Bonz, but I do not find it strange that your presence being requested in the Orgy thread and then you showing up, like it was the quacking Bonzai Bat Signal.
Post by NothingButFlowers on May 20, 2016 15:14:12 GMT -5
My usual m.o. is to be a complete slob, so when I want a fresh work surface, I generally just stuff things into my file cabinet. But I guess I'm afraid of something happening to me when I'm out of the office and someone having to come in and clean out my mess, so I usually try to do a good cleaning when I'm going on vacation, but that's usually only twice a year. You'd be amazed how much paper a person can accumulate in six months.
Post by crazykittensmile on May 24, 2016 13:24:22 GMT -5
It's AMAZING what a difference there is in my level of productivity when I have my office door shut. Thank goodness for my door. If only it were acceptable to always have it shut...
Post by froggiemlm on May 25, 2016 10:30:00 GMT -5
I have to work Saturday, Sunday and Monday this weekend. its part of the downside of working at a national cemetery on memorial day. also have a co-worker going around with passive aggressive complaints about his work.
Post by Dave Maynar on May 25, 2016 12:12:57 GMT -5
Update: We talked. The email was all in caps lock. I think that was just because it was early, so it took an email where he was just confused and made it read more aggressive.
I had a fun flashback to the rehab today thanks to Facebook. A former co-worker shared a picture of a guitar. It took me a minute to remember that this was the aftermath of when a resident smacker an especially douchey administrator in the head with said guitar because he got tired of the administrator being a dick. Fun times.
It's AMAZING what a difference there is in my level of productivity when I have my office door shut. Thank goodness for my door. If only it were acceptable to always have it shut...
I have to leave my door shut always. I feel like people think I'm unfriendly because of it, but I would just never get any work done if it was open. Also, I'm not very friendly.
It's AMAZING what a difference there is in my level of productivity when I have my office door shut. Thank goodness for my door. If only it were acceptable to always have it shut...
I have to leave my door shut always. I feel like people think I'm unfriendly because of it, but I would just never get any work done if it was open. Also, I'm not very friendly.
Doors exist to be closed. Otherwise, people would just have empty doorways.
So my work recently installed some big screen TVs in the main corridor of the building, showing news and information about the facility. One is for HR, one is for operations, one is for projects and renovations in progress, and then there's a miscellaneous one. Before it would show the weather and stock prices. Now it's showing a new two minute long commercial in the mix.
The commercial plays over 200 times a day on a Mon-Thurs shift, around 250 on weekends. Every time you punch in and out for shift and lunch, you hear it. Every time you go to your lockers, you hear it. HR? You hear it. Nobody in the front office feels compelled to make it stop.
So my work recently installed some big screen TVs in the main corridor of the building, showing news and information about the facility. One is for HR, one is for operations, one is for projects and renovations in progress, and then there's a miscellaneous one. Before it would show the weather and stock prices. Now it's showing a new two minute long commercial in the mix.
The commercial plays over 200 times a day on a Mon-Thurs shift, around 250 on weekends. Every time you punch in and out for shift and lunch, you hear it. Every time you go to your lockers, you hear it. HR? You hear it. Nobody in the front office feels compelled to make it stop.
When I worked retail, I was at the service desk for a bit. We had a large tv right behind the desk. It played a commercial for Disney movies on a 45 second loop all day. It was horrible.
Post by NothingButFlowers on Jun 3, 2016 18:37:45 GMT -5
For months now, my supervisor has been jokingly threatening to reassign a terrible case that he's been working on to me. Guess what I get to start working on Monday morning!
Post by NothingButFlowers on Jun 8, 2016 13:37:08 GMT -5
I was in the middle of typing out a complaint about my supervisor to post in here when he called to tell me that he realized after he left my office that what he had said while he was in here was kind of shitty and he was really sorry about it. So I guess he gets a pass on this one.
Post by crazykittensmile on Jun 9, 2016 14:06:48 GMT -5
Muzak version of Adele's Rolling in the Deep is currently being blasted in the office next to mine. I feel like it would be less annoying if I didn't recognize it.
Post by heyyitskait on Jun 12, 2016 13:47:05 GMT -5
When my prep list says "Turkey, lettuce, tomato, mayo for 9," I'm going to assume you want nine sandwiches. And I'm going to keep the mayo on the side.
Don't come walking up to me with a stick up your ass, Mr. Kitchen Manager, because I made nine sandwiches on bread when you wanted them on rolls, with the mayo on them already. I am not a mind reader and am going to make things how we usually do unless it is SPECIFIED OTHERWISE. You did not specify.
I hate my manager so much. He's the second worst person I've ever had to work with (First being crazy bagel lady).
but I do not find it strange that your presence being requested in the Orgy thread and then you showing up, like it was the quacking Bonzai Bat Signal. 
