Work Rants

[zenia]

Rant about work? I will go first!
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I was so pissed off at work today.

Yesterday my boss said to finish a certain amount of things and then go home early. She even said to the prep woman that I would be going early. This means she must have all of the things prepared that I need to sew for pickup in the morning (things being picked up on Thursday for example, must be finished on Wednesday.)

Anyway, there was like two pairs of pants and one shirt for Saturday pickup left. There was also a pair of really old drapes that we were repairing for an old guy (sentimental reasons I guess.) I did the first part of the drapes, but then they needed a little more prep, then serging, then a hole had to be patched, then the rod pocket needed to be sewn back down.

So I did the first bit of sewing and gave it back for more prep. Since the prep woman didn't seem interested in doing the prep on it right then, the other things could easily be done the next day, and if I ran to the bus stop I would -just- make it... I decided to leave. Plus, the prep woman said, "You can finish the drapes tomorrow, no problem!"

I came in today and my boss was all "There is so much stuff that you didn't finish!" and she motioned to several things that were put on my side of the shop... AFTER I HAD LEFT. I didn't know there was anything there. The prep woman had a few hours notice that I would be going early and she didn't even tell me that there was anything else coming. So boss lady was mad because I left early... and she is the one that told me I should leave early!

The prep lady even took my bosses side and didn't speak up when I said that she said I should do the curtains in the morning.

Then there was a jacket that I had shortened the sleeves on. It was a lot of work and it had some heavy duty snaps to be put on. The original snaps were a semi-dull looking silver. Since you can't reuse these types of snaps, I had to choose between the only two colors we have... shiny silver, or a dull brass. I went for silver. When hanging up the jacket this morning, my boss saw my choice and didn't like it. Of course I was coming in at 11am this morning and the jacket owner showed up at 9:30. The prep lady was there... but instead of having her redo it while the lady waited (the jacket had three layers in the sleeve, but the snap was only through the top layer, so it had to be totally opened) my boss felt she had to tell the lady to come back later in the afternoon, so I could redo it when I got there. Then the lady was all "Oh, but I drove all the way from Qualicum (45 to 60 minutes away) just for this!" so my boss said she would deliver it. So then my boss was bitching all day about having to go out of her way and deliver it... and get this, this huge inconvenience that she has to go out of her way to do? ... The lady lives on THE SAME STREET AS MY BOSS! My boss drives back out to Qualicum EVERY DAY. >____<

[Cross]

ahhh bosses. can't live with em, can't chop em up and sell em as chum. sounds like a rough day, but i work as a ticket agent at kelowna greyhound. 'nuff said.

[Vanilla Skunk]

I wore my fursonna charm to work one day, and my boss decided to go on about how much he hates cats.

I responded to him: "Well, considering you're supposed to leave your drama outside the workplace, and that's something you gave me crap for in the past, Shut the hell up."

The nerve of some people.

[Renwaldo]

If that were my boss I would have told her and the other girl off right to their faces. On the other hand I make minimum wage.

[Vanilla Skunk]

I make double that, and I'm union.

[Unition]

Union workers
^-^:highfive:^-^

$200 in dues a month
:vik:

[whitewolfy88]

ahhh bosses. can't live with em, can't chop em up and sell em as chum. sounds like a rough day, but i work as a ticket agent at kelowna greyhound. 'nuff said.

heh, I used to work in Sorrento then take the greyhound back to langley. I always picked up booze when we switched buses in kelowna and that's where I picked up booze with my fake I.D. and got plastered, reading stephen king books on the way home

[zenia]

How many answers does "Do you have time to talk?" have? ... If you answered 'One' then you are correct. If you also said that the only correct answer, no matter how busy you are, is 'yes' then you win an Internet.

Last week I wasn't able to get all the work done by the end of the day on Thursday. I had to come in on Friday to finish it. When my boss phoned to check up on the shop, the other employee said I was there. Since my boss wasn't expecting me, she asked to talk to me. The tone in her voice was like "Why didn't you get everything done yesterday? I don't want to pay you for working today and now I have to!!" ... As she has actually complained about paying us before.

So today, I was super panicked and had about 15 minutes to finish a bunch of things. The boss phoned and the other employee came over and said "She wants to know if you have time to talk to her." ... The honest answer was no. I was desperately trying to finish things so I wouldn't have to go in tomorrow.

The other girl thrust the phone at me and was like, "She said she wants to talk to you."

... So I spent the last 15 minutes of the day being yelled at because I am rude and disrespectful and should always talk to her, because she is the one that pays me. What did she want to talk to me about you ask? She wanted to know how much stuff I had left to do. The ironic part... is that if she had just asked my coworker how much I had left, I might have been able to finish.

So she asked me to come in tomorrow. I suggested that the other girl leave her keys with me (since she wouldn't need them until Tuesday to lock up) and I would spend the next 20-30min finishing up. Nope. She didn't want me to do that for some reason.

She said I should just come in tomorrow and when I finish what I have left, I should spend the rest of the two hours (since the gov't says I must be paid for at least two hours) cutting hems. I gave in ... but then realized that tomorrow is the 1st and I can't buy a new bus pass until Tuesday. My boss was all "But you just got paid!" ... yeah, and that money ALL went towards my rent. So then she was like "Then how can you buy a new one on Tuesday?" Well, I get my GST rebate cheque then and I can buy it. You should have heard her sigh. It was like I just gave her the worst news in the world.

She asked if I had anything against working tomorrow.. and even though all I want to do is sleep in and stay at home, I said that I have no problem coming in. So she got the other girl give me some money out of the change box for bus fare. When I handed the phone back to her so the boss could give her instructions, she said to her "Can you believe my life?!"

GAWD! I am sick of her saying that. She acts like she has been dealt the worst hand in life and thinks that we will pity her when she whines and says "Oh, my life." ... 'Scuse me, I am barely surviving over here lady!

Why couldn't she just let me stay an extra 20 minutes? I had to wait 25 minutes for the next bus anyway! It isn't like I am untrustworthy and can't be left alone in the shop. Out of everyone working there, I have worked there the longest.

So now we are probably going to have to have 'a talk' about this. >___<

....

I am also not too pleased with the other seamstress. She came in to do a couple of things today. Two leather jackets to be precise. So she fixed the whole in one, then got the zipper ready to sew into the other one. Then the machine gave her trouble, so she basically said "Ok, screw this. -my name- you can do this." ... And then she left. She didn't offer to help me do any of the sewing, and there was LOTS.

Grrrrr I wanted to sleep in tomorrow.

[Riot Da Woof!]

How many answers does "Do you have time to talk?" have? ... If you answered 'One' then you are correct. If you also said that the only correct answer, no matter how busy you are, is 'yes' then you win an Internet.

Last week I wasn't able to get all the work done by the end of the day on Thursday. I had to come in on Friday to finish it. When my boss phoned to check up on the shop, the other employee said I was there. Since my boss wasn't expecting me, she asked to talk to me. The tone in her voice was like "Why didn't you get everything done yesterday? I don't want to pay you for working today and now I have to!!" ... As she has actually complained about paying us before.

So today, I was super panicked and had about 15 minutes to finish a bunch of things. The boss phoned and the other employee came over and said "She wants to know if you have time to talk to her." ... The honest answer was no. I was desperately trying to finish things so I wouldn't have to go in tomorrow.

The other girl thrust the phone at me and was like, "She said she wants to talk to you."

... So I spent the last 15 minutes of the day being yelled at because I am rude and disrespectful and should always talk to her, because she is the one that pays me. What did she want to talk to me about you ask? She wanted to know how much stuff I had left to do. The ironic part... is that if she had just asked my coworker how much I had left, I might have been able to finish.

So she asked me to come in tomorrow. I suggested that the other girl leave her keys with me (since she wouldn't need them until Tuesday to lock up) and I would spend the next 20-30min finishing up. Nope. She didn't want me to do that for some reason.

She said I should just come in tomorrow and when I finish what I have left, I should spend the rest of the two hours (since the gov't says I must be paid for at least two hours) cutting hems. I gave in ... but then realized that tomorrow is the 1st and I can't buy a new bus pass until Tuesday. My boss was all "But you just got paid!" ... yeah, and that money ALL went towards my rent. So then she was like "Then how can you buy a new one on Tuesday?" Well, I get my GST rebate cheque then and I can buy it. You should have heard her sigh. It was like I just gave her the worst news in the world.

She asked if I had anything against working tomorrow.. and even though all I want to do is sleep in and stay at home, I said that I have no problem coming in. So she got the other girl give me some money out of the change box for bus fare. When I handed the phone back to her so the boss could give her instructions, she said to her "Can you believe my life?!"

GAWD! I am sick of her saying that. She acts like she has been dealt the worst hand in life and thinks that we will pity her when she whines and says "Oh, my life." ... 'Scuse me, I am barely surviving over here lady!

Why couldn't she just let me stay an extra 20 minutes? I had to wait 25 minutes for the next bus anyway! It isn't like I am untrustworthy and can't be left alone in the shop. Out of everyone working there, I have worked there the longest.

So now we are probably going to have to have 'a talk' about this. >___<

....

I am also not too pleased with the other seamstress. She came in to do a couple of things today. Two leather jackets to be precise. So she fixed the whole in one, then got the zipper ready to sew into the other one. Then the machine gave her trouble, so she basically said "Ok, screw this. -my name- you can do this." ... And then she left. She didn't offer to help me do any of the sewing, and there was LOTS.

Grrrrr I wanted to sleep in tomorrow.

WOW! That's pretty Shitty - Sounds like working quota vs hours - frankly I couldn't do that! Atta be though, tough as nails to stick through it i say!
Some managers / owners Just CAN'T think about they're employee's and it SUCKS!!!! because asking people to do something NICELY would be so damn difficult right?

that being said, I suppose i can contribute somewhat.
a couple of weeks ago, when it Abby received it's ever so abundant amount of rain, I was delivery driver.
steep hill + Heavy rain + Over excitable = Hitting curb at 50Km/h..
1 broken axle, struts... well the entire right front side later and I get the bill thrown at me.
considering i just started college they ONLY want to tack on a nominal 4500$ to fix the car....
I've worked there for 3+ years now... Nawt going to happen
Shit's cool bro.

[Zetta]

I work at a public library re-shelving and organizing every book.
because of this i can usually tell EXACTLY where anything labeled by the Dewey-Decimal System would go in a library.
that shit doesn't help when some kid left alone by his parents decides its fun to pull EVERY BOOK IN THE MYSTERY FICTION FROM ITS SHELF AND NO-ONE NOTICES UNTIL HE AND HIS PARENTS LEAVE.

I had Sooooo much fun cleaning all that up.
other than that one day I dont have many problems aside from the occasional drunk hobo trying to tell me bad jokes.

[Renwaldo]

I feel like I have nothing to complain about my job after reading this thread.

Sure, I relocate dog turds for minimum wage, but my boss is uber nice. She provides pizza and pop for us at every staff meeting.  :(
One day she ordered us a bunch of pizza just because the store was so busy that day.  :(

My hours suck, I get paid peanuts and the work is very labour intensive, but my boss is the nicest manager in the world.

[Carthage]

I have too many work rants.

I'm just going to spare you the gruesome details and say that my job sucks, my boss sucks, my last couple of paycheques haven't been that great, my next couple of paycheques won't be that great, and never work for Moxie's.

[Fargo]

I have too many work rants.

I'm just going to spare you the gruesome details and say that my job sucks, my boss sucks, my last couple of paycheques haven't been that great, my next couple of paycheques won't be that great, and never work for Moxie's.

Sounds like my job... Except for today when I got to actually help the tow truck operators. They winched the Peterbilt out of the ditch, and I got to steer the truck. Go me? :P ;D

[Tony Greyfox]

boy, could I get into this thread right now... I wouldn't know where to start, though.
Going to a trade show, can't take some of the product that's supposed to go to that trade show due to it not having been printed yet despite being finished for a few weeks now... yeah, that should be fun to explain why it's not there... but I'll be able to point people at the boss, anyhow. That should be entertaining.
Gah.
Long as my paycheque cashes okay I'm fine, but if that changes, things will get loud.

[furrybmxer]

I work at the home depot as a tool rental associate in Longford i love it because i get to work on motors and engines what i don't like are the customers who think because they saw something on TTV that they can do it and when it blows out in their face comes and yells at me trying to get a refund after ithere saying "i do not recomed this tool" or "i recommend leaving this to the pros"
or like this one time i was renting a concreet saw to a customer and evan showed him and told him to watch carefully as i show him how to start it with out flooding it (because once u flood this machine i wont start again on site for 24 hours) so i then show him he saying he has 25 years experience with this typ of machine so i show him twice evan a little trike that some times work if u flood it  so i send him on his way  and sure enough he's back screaming and hollering saying "i was siting there pulling on this unite for 1 hour this peace of sh** wont start i wont my money back you guys are useless" WELL i was mad and he basically told me i was an idiot and didn't know what i was doing so i explained how smart it was of him (the one with all the experience apparently) not only could not get this simple engine to start but i ask if he would sit in his car and just turn the key for an hour after all that he said well if you're so smart u start it so not only did start it i started it in 3 pulls which i probably would have been 2, one with choke the other with out then he got made and ended up paying extra for the extra time he spent arguing with me about how stupid i was. long story short if he had come to me nicely saying he accidentally flooded it  i would have either restarted his time or gave him 50% off.