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My former "manager" (he never official had the position but was kind of defacto go to guy) at work called me less than six hours before night shift begins and asks me if I can work for him.  Twice in less than four days.  Course, they recently cut back my hours, so I feel I gotta say, "Yes." in order to make some money.  But what's crazy is they re-arranged everyone ELSE'S schedule like crazy to give him those hours in the first place.  And tonight he's all, "If you do this, I'll work your Sunday shift for you."  And I'm like, "No that's fine, I need the hours..." and he says, "But, I have to work so many shifts per [the owner]"  So, then I think, "Well, then, how/why are you skipping out THIS shift???" 

I told him next to try and call me EARLIER than five and half hours before a shift starts.  I guess it's a good thing I slept away most of the day and night Sunday...

(sighs)

I feel for you. Here's everything I posted in the "Grinds My Gears" thread about my job.







Here's more crap related to work I dealt with that I posted on another forum.


Dated May 12, 2016



Dated May 12, 2016

Work,

Will you give me raise because I'm not getting paid enough to put up with this s**t? Considering that you moved me to permanights over two months ago with no reason give and now tacked on an extra half hour to my shift.

bob[/quote]

May 25

Man, all that really sucks. 

Do I mind if I ask where you work at? 

Hmm.. co-worker getting arrested, yeah, that can put a crimp in the schedule.

Oh, here's another good one for a different job I had.  Me and another girl works night shift.  Girl calls up on evening and quits.  No, notice, nothing. So, who do they call in?  Me, of course.  Fine, I go in, I work.  Then, weeks go by.. who do they hire back?  The SAME girl.  WHY??  I even told the manager, "Why is the owner hiring this girl back?  You KNOW she's just going to quit again, and then who you guys going to call?  Me, of course."  Well, guess what?  About a week later, she quit (again) in the evening with NO notice.  And guess who has to work her shift?  Certainly not the person who decided it would be a great idea to hire her back.  It was me. 

I was so enraged by the situation I punched the windshield of my car (from the inside) causing a large crack, which I then had to replace said windshield for about $230.  A pricey temper tantrum indeed.

I work at a restaurant

Let's see, are we sharing crappy work-related experiences in this thread? I reckon I've had a few...

Um, when I was thirteen I got my first job, it was at a semi-gourmet cookie store, and they "somehow" got the idea I was seventeen. Well when my boss found out I was thirteen she fired me over it.....right after she had me spend the entire evening scrubbing down all the mixing machines by hand, the worst task in the place. (After doing that I had no nails left.)

My current boss made me fire an intern six weeks ago, which was a surprisingly stressful experience, I actually liked the girl, who did not take being fired well, and I leveled with her about why she was going, that she did not get along well AT ALL with any of the other interns to the point it was disruptive. So when she called my boss to see if she was really fired or he'd overrule me, he said, "It's nothing personal, it's just we don't have enough work for all of you." (About a 10% truth.) And the intern blasted me in a vicious email for being a liar who was out to get her when her attitude had nothing to do with why she was being let go, it was about work availability. So to her I was evil when in fact I was the only one in the place who'd wanted to keep her. Yeah!

I also once got fired from a tutoring job in 2003 because I told the mother of the girl I was tutoring that her husband was trying to set up an affair behind her back. (Learned my lesson there: Sergeant Schultz was a wise person.)

But maybe the worst job-related clusterflaugen ever was the time my employer made me go to a morgue and ID a body. Yup, a morgue. A body. Overseeing a fingerprint ID.  And I don't even like looking at dead fried chicken. Wow.

I love my job - it's actually weird that what was once my hobby became my job. I remember sitting in my hometown cinema and seeing this newsreel called Mirror International start before the film did and I remember groaning, saying "When is this $hit going to be over so that I can see the film?"  :tongueout:

Little did I know that as from 1989, I would be working with that newsreel every day  :buggedout: :wink: :wink:

I do sometimes have stressful times at work but those are few and far between: 16 years left to go until my pension - I don't know what I'm going to do in 2033.

Wow, those situations sucked.  I'd feel particular angry about being blamed for crap I didn't do, and haven't people hating me for stuff I had no control over.

BTW what job were you at when you had to ID a body? 

Uh, wait a sec, Trevor.. you're an archivist still?  I could have SWORN I saw you posting once saying you were going to retire from that job to pursue another interest.  Or am I misremembering things?  (Too lazy too do a search right now..)

Here's my work related issue.
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Both me and my sister has this issue with experience, which sucks when you are applying for a job at entry level and it requires experience.

I got all my s**t done on time tonight, but I had to stay over an hour after I was supposed to because things got really busy while I was cleaning my area and taking care of my final responsibilities for the night

Good call and good memory: yes, in 2010 I was going through any number of crap things in my life after Dad passed and I really wanted to resign. But I would have been an idiot if I did that, so here I still am.  :smile:

I'm so jealous

I did, too. Love my job, but . . .?! being something of a techophobe, the technology was passing me by, so I was old enough, and I had enough time built up, almost 28 years, that I could retire with a company pension that would support me to the day that I die, without ever having to work again. And that's the way it's been to this day, almost 8 years later.

This happened again only I was there 90 minutes later then scheduled, in part because someone told me to do their job which not only took time away from me doing my job, but it put me very much behind in my responsibilities.

Next week my hours are reduced to what they were back on my first few weeks ago, almost a year ago and I'm beyond p**sed.

I'm guessing this is because 2 new people got hired, but how the f**k am I supposed to live off of only 18 hours days a week?

I asked the boss for more hours two weeks ago and he did the exact opposite.

He also promised me a raise two weeks ago and nothing came of that

Barring in mind that I've been at the restaurant for almost a year now....but last night I found out that there's something I was supposed to do since day one but never did because the guy to trained me never told me to

the manager wasn't mad at me because he knew I wasn't informed of this, but this is getting stupid

found out today that I haven't been cleaning my area correctly for over a year since the piece of s**t who trained me never showed me the proper way too

I'm getting out around 30 minutes later then I'm scheduled to at 11 PM as it is

if I'm there later I'm gonna quit, I hate it and don't even care if I get fired at this point --- yes things have gotten that bad

Sympathy hugs.   :(

the woman I fell in love with at work and bought a promise ring for was fired for making out with one of the cooks in a  cooler at work

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Oh wow... horrible story. I feel for you.  :bluesad:

She might be feeling down and vulnerable about now. Hint-hint?

Sorry but what the f is a promise ring? Where does it rank?


lord of the ring (one ring rules them all!)
super bowl ring
wedding ring
engagement ring
class ring
friendship ring

promise ring, engagement ring, wedding ring

Promise ring is a pre-engagement ring, a ring worn to signify a commitment to a monogamous relationship.

I think I'd screwed up because I'd jumped from engagement ring to wedding ring...  :teddyr:

The company I work for was sold three weeks ago. Overnight we went from being a mid sized, family owned company to part of a large nationwide conglomerate.  

Of course, in the first week everything was very positive and upbeat and "rah-rah," i.e. "welcome aboard, we're glad to have you, we're going to do great things together," and blah blah blah.

Now everybody is sh*ttin' bricks cuz our new corporate masters have begun sending "efficiency experts" into each dept. to observe what we do, how we do it, how many people we need to do stuff, etc. etc. ... which is never a good sign. :(

I think I'll be updating my resume over the weekend, just to be on the safe side.

I love my job and have done for many years but yesterday (Thursday) was a very hard day. I actually felt like quitting.  :bluesad:

Here is my little annoying crap story....

I'm at this job for almost 12 year, maybe longer. I've been stuck in this cubical since I'd started. My cube is next to the server, there is a wall and it divides most of the office away from me... this is not my rant...


Anyway on the other side of the office I have 3 grown children. I think they are adults. They are supposed to be professionals but they are constantly fighting. The 3 children is one boy and two girls. Anyway, one of the girls moved to a window seat next to the bosses office... which got the boy child upset... and there was more annoying fighting and the boy child moved to the cube next to me... my rant is stating to grow...


Since last week and this week... boy child has been sick. Yeah... now you can feel my rant! Yes, he's coughing, sneezing, watery eyes, my boss thought boy child should be home... I think boy child should move back where he came from! (Ironic - or a curse - boy child was making fun of one of the girls making coughing sounds...)

One time a number of years ago I was working at a restaurant and I was down in the barn working when a call came in requesting that I come in early to work.  When I got in I learned that a coworker had been bad and had been arrested for shooting out some windows with a BB gun.  At the time it just seemed completely out of character for him, we all had a hard time believing this happened.  That was a long day. 

Then a few months later he got arrested again - I believe for criminal mischief.  He kept his job but the manager said he really needed to cut out the crap.

A few months after that a security guard from the mall the restaurant was part of came in one evening - the co-worker had been seen exposing himself in the food court to a girl.  He was promptly fired from the job and banned both from the restaurant and mall property.  He's been in and out of prison the past 20 years now.

Sunday I got called in hours early because the boss stupidly forgot to schedule someone to do my job until I was supposed to in at 4. I arrived a little before 1. For some reason I still don't understand the manager wanted me to stay until 11. I didn't get out until quarter after 11 that night. I'm still exhausted from that.

Tonight my boss wanted me to do 3 things while I was getting all my s**t done before I gotta leave even though he never mentioned it before then.

I hate my job.

EDITED some corrections... really need to READ these before I posts.  Sheesh.

Uh.. I'm sorry Trevor, refresh my memory, do you still work as an archivist?  Cause I could have SWORN I read a post from you like er.. wait.. four years or so ago, saying you were retiring from that job to pursue something else.  Granted, I could be mistaken, or you could have changed your mind or gone back to your own old line of work in the intervening years but still.. just trying to figure that out.

Also, sorry to hear about your bad day.  

I did go through a bad period several years ago - 2010 to be exact - but I remained here because of my mom and am still here. I had a extraordinarily bad day here a few days back when I was taken to task about assisting a client and had actually done everything right and by the book, so that's a day I'm not keen to repeat.  :smile:

...................tonight I had to wait for 20 minutes literally killing time talking to someone after all my stuff I had to get done before I leave was completed for my a manager to "check me out" before I could leave and didn't leave until after 11

I'm giving this a ghost bump to announce I'm quitting my job tomorrow. I'm sick of the double standards and hypocrisy going around the place. I know I can do better. I hate that place.

Bob, I wish you the best of luck!  Normally, I'd advise lining up a new job before you try to quit the old one, but I dunno what things are like job-wise in your area or what you're going through at your current job.  Either way, I hope you find a new one that you enjoy (and maybe even pays better) soon! 

:)

the plan for me it to go back to college to get certified to be a teacher, I've been thinking about doing this for months now  :smile:

I know I need money, the economy isn't the best where I live but I know I can find something -- I have  2 degrees and I have some real world experience

Biggest problem I`ve noticed is they tend to put idiots in positions of power...that seems more and more common these days...

Corollary to that: the people who make the rules tends to be the ones least affected by them.