Crap at work.

[AoTFan]

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)

[bob]

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

I got to work on Christmas 

next Saturday and Sunday I have to work from 8 AM to 10 PM because the guy at work, who I trained, quit

who needs sleep anyway

I got more work problems. I was called in yesterday to cover for someone and said yes, cuz yay money. Little did I know that the person whose hours I took quit in the middle of his shift. I got off a little before quarter to 11 at night for the second day in a row. Now because the guy quit I am literally the only person at work who does my job as their primary responsibility and I have a feeling my hours are going to get more insane then after someone else who does my job on a different shift got arrested. To top it off I am scheduled to work all day tomorrow and go back Saturday morning. I'm thoroughly exhausted at the moment and for the foreseeable future I will be a zombie.

I was called in yesterday to cover for someone and said yes, cuz yay money. Little did I know that the person whose hours I took was arrested and my boss had to reschedule hours for the entire staff. I didn't know this and came in today as scheduled to find the new schedule and wasn't scheduled, but he said he'd keep me there for 3 hours since things got busy. They never stopped being busy and I got home 30 minutes ago. Additionally my nice easy hours Saturday  morning got switched to 4-10 PM.

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


Dated May 12, 2016

Dear work,

You do know that I'm not supposed to work on the days I have off, right? Today makes the second straight day off I've had where you called the house and I didn't pick up. The fact that you're making me stay later, making me even more tired isn't helping.

Dated May 12, 2016

[quote timestamp="1463088619" author="@kiddobradley" source="/post/12620470/thread"]

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

Dear work,

Dear, Work

Why did you give me grief for not picking up the phone on my days off a while ago. I have the right to have a life outside of a job I'm not that thrilled with. Also, why did you drastically cut back my hours from what they wee before we were severaly understaffed?

bob

[AoTFan]

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

I got to work on Christmas 

Wow, you work somewhere that's open on Christmas?  That blows.   

I was called in yesterday to cover for someone and said yes, cuz yay money. Little did I know that the person whose hours I took was arrested and my boss had to reschedule hours for the entire staff. I didn't know this and came in today as scheduled to find the new schedule and wasn't scheduled, but he said he'd keep me there for 3 hours since things got busy. They never stopped being busy and I got home 30 minutes ago. Additionally my nice easy hours Saturday  morning got switched to 4-10 PM.

Dear work,

You do know that I'm not supposed to work on the days I have off, right? Today makes the second straight day off I've had where you called the house and I didn't pick up. The fact that you're making me stay later, making me even more tired isn't helping.

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.

[bob]

I work at a restaurant

[ER]

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.

[Trevor]

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?" 

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

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.

[AoTFan]

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.

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? 

[AoTFan]

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?" 

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

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.

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..)

[Leah]

Here's my work related issue.

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.

[bob]

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

[Trevor]

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?" 

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

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.

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..)

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. 

[bob]

I love my job

I'm so jealous

[BoyScoutKevin]

I love my job

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.

[bob]

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

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.

[bob]

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