I'll go in anywhere from 6:45-8:00, but I usually get in at 7:15 and leave around 4. there's 2 schools right by where I work, so traffic sucks until around 4, so leaving any earlier doesn't do much good. I'm a night person too, but I don't want to be getting off at 5 or after on any day.
no one fires with 100% accuracy, plus her mom claimed there was always "splashback" which is a bit gross but not worth sacrificing one's dignity over.
I am currently doing 6:30-6:00 which usually ends up running till 630 or 7. Public accounting blows ass. Also why the hell do clients think it is normal to bring their kids or dogs into meetings?
I'm in K8 education and am on various email lists for the school buildings. At least once a day, people send out mass emails that SOMEONE needs to clean up the mess in the microwaves/fridges.
I'm 8-8:15 M-T right now. Getting out of public within the next year, this shit is just not worth it.
My roommates in college (brothers) both did that shit willingly. I'd walk by their shared hallway bathroom and they'd be sitting there taking a leak with the door wide open. Then, they'd both legit always forget to flush after shits, so it'd sit in there festering for fucking hours. It was And at the same time, their odd behavior cracked me up.
We manage construction and a lot of it is service work so we have to be available during our workers, customers' and subs' hours. I'm with you on work dress. We're pretty much boots and khakis/jeans and button up or polo.
I work 6am - 4:30pm, but I get all Friday's off. It's worth the tradeoff to me not having to take vacation for a long weekend. Plus those 4 day holiday weekends.
IT wrote an email saying Hipchat was down and someone replied "maybe we should get slack", someone took it on themselves to reply to him with the douchiest work email I have ever seen. "That’s a fabulous idea jim, I’m really glad you are suggesting it! I’m guessing that every one of us on this list are all very aware of what slack is, it would be silly if someone didn’t :) I, for one, agree with you and Im sure everyone will have a better weekend knowing that you and I are on the same page here. Boy this is exciting, perhaps we can even get IT to consider a beta installation! What do you think? Kudos to you my friend… oh, and I really like your signature which makes it clear that you let us know about this from your phone whilst probably in the middle of some important task. What a team trooper!"
my office is full of martyrs who want to tell you about how they get to work at 6:30 each morning as if it somehow equates to performance
The inter office politics and pettiness is what gets me. Had a situation come to blows this week between our receptionist and a paralegal. Apparently wound up culminating in like a multi email chain of petty bickering and lobbying attempts to explain their side of the story to me and our boss. Receptionist mad at how paralegal gives her the cold shoulder. Paralegal mad because receptionist took a message when paralegal complained about a phone call. Both made at the "tone" and "attitude" of the other. Both transparently trying to act above the fray. Both are great at their jobs and get their shit done, so boss tells them to stfu and act like adults. Fast forward, receptionists husband works for us part time as a runner (dude is cool af, retired, and just wants shit to do a couple days a week). Well, I have to interrupt his lunch so he can take me over to the courthouse for a hearing. I apologize to him for interrupting his lunch (feel like that's just being a decent person even though I am his boss). The next morning, paralegal comes in and starts lecturing me about how I should never apologize to him, it's his job, etc. Etc. Tension still brewing under the surface. Now that one is jockeying for proxies, I'm expecting total war fare between the two by years end. ETA - Iron Mickey and Cherno Alpha may have additional stories to add about these two.
Just catching up. After dealing with porta johns and Iraqis, Indians and afgans for a couple years, yalls bathroom stories are nothing. Start a new office job in two week . Will be my first time in a normal office environment since like 2010. Kind of nervous after reading what it's like these days.
Ugh Lady in my office is always talking about what new diet she is on. Which I am ok with. Whatever you got to do to keep motivated. But then she constantly talks about how she is breaking/cheating on her diet. "OH I am so so bad! Had McDonald for Lunch" or "OH I ate a whole bag of chips last night". Basically Diets for a Week. Starts cheating on the Diet the next. Quits Diet the 3rd week. Repeat the cycle next month. All with play-by-Plays for her co-workers sitting around her.
I have mentioned before there is a co-worker who makes up songs for peoples birthdays and anniversaries. She passes the songs out and has your teammates sing to you with her........
Oh yeah. At this point they don't really acknowledge each other unless it is necessitated by work. They're acting like petulant children, but I'm cool with both so I'm all...
Have we talked about the person who says things like right, got it, yes, or um hum constantly when someone else is talking, especially during meetings?
when I got promoted one of the things that happened was that at this level I'm an employee of our parent company rather than my company, which means that I had to be issued a new employee number for reasons nobody understands. Others who have gone through this process ahead of me told me about the headache it was and they didn't undersell. Not one thing, from my iphone to my ability to print to my ability to log into any number of company systems worked without somebody spending several days trying to fix it. Well today I finally realized that despite the fact that my email address didn't change I don't receive emails from any distribution list to which I belong, so I've missed some pretty important messages over the last month or so. Not only that, but I no longer have the ability to make changes to distribution lists I own. Here's a short overview of the discussion I had with IT today: IT: you have to be removed and then re-added to every distribution list Me: so you can do that? IT: no, only the owners of the distribution lists have to do that Me: can you query which distribution lists I'm on? IT: no Me: so how do I know which lists need to be updated? IT: well if you aren't receiving e-mails from a distribution list then let the owner know Me: how do I know which e-mails I'm not receiving? IT: not sure but nothing we can do about that Not sure there's another occupation where incompetence is such a badge of honor as it is with IT. Pretty sure oknole is the only competent IT guy on the planet. Our guys can't get shit right, but I bet they're reading this post right now. Aren't you? No wonder you have time to play pool in the employee lunch area every afternoon. Thanks for nothing.
The worst is when you have to make small talk with the awkward IT help desk guy at your desk while you both wait to see the result of some update he's installing to hopefully fix the problem.
We have one guy who holds a permanent grudge because I walked into their cubicle area once like 6 years ago and started asking him about status on a problem he was working without first saying hello and shaking his hand.
we get updates to our laptops at least every two weeks nothing on my end ever changes functionally or aesthetically i'm pretty sure it's the IT people just padding their numbers somehow
for the record Toast and TDintheCorner I'm talking about our desktop and network support guys. Our programmers and application support guys annoy me much less, so if you're one of those guys then you're ok. If you're a tech,
We kind of do it all. Technically I'm a GIS analyst I just have to support ungrateful b-holes like you on top of that.
You poor bastards. I just resigned my position to accept a new position with a startup out of San Fran. Which means I now work remotely. Fuck yes I take my shoes off in my break room. Bc it's my living room. On a side note my personal hygiene is taking a serious nose dive. I sat there today asking what day I put my shirt on. It was Sunday. God damn I love working from home.
I'm a one man IT wrecking ball for a school district. Please regale me with tales of how bad you have it.
I met an Australian guy in Dublin on St. Patrick's day who that does that. He worked for like 3-5 years (summers off), and then accumulated vacation to where he was able to take an 8 month vacation (including summer).