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I might have vented about this before, but whatever.
There's a guy in Maintenance that goes to lunch at 1:45 (way after everyone else), turns two TVs (side-by-side) in the break room to Fox News and cranks the volume as high as it can go. I go on break around 2:20, and half of my department is glued to the screens so I can't change the channel to something neutral (ESPN, MLB Network, HGTV, Food Network). There's a third TV in the corner that's controlled in the back office, always on CNN. Why do we need all three TVs on the news, two on the same channel?
I try to stay politically neutral while at work. Few, if anyone, knows of my political leanings. You'd think others would be neutral, just to keep the peace in the workplace. This guy doesn't care.
People mostly suck.
In my doctor's office, there's a sign on the tv that says they took a poll, and people preferred it to be on a news station, but no matter which one it's on, people complain, so now it's in CNN on odd days and Fox News on even days.
Yeah, I've got no problem competing with this rival... I just think we don't agree on exactly what the ground rules are.
I'm thinking of stuff like "orders in the same part of town should go together" or "on-time delivery is more important than individual drivers' number of deliveries."
Definitely writing my log with boss sharing in mind, making note of late orders due to his decision-making as a customer service issue and his punching in before (and lingering past) scheduled times trying to grab more as a payroll concern.
Not trying to get rival fired. He just needs to get the message "team player or GTFO."
Your boss really should set the ground rules. Back when I delivered pizza there was one guy (the assistant manager/chef) who pretty much delegated who took what deliveries and that was the end of discussion.
Thing is, boss isn't usually there when these things happen. Those ground rules are generally in place and have been repeated to rival. Boss wasn't present for at least two of the three examples I listed above. Rival's one of those types who takes an advantage anytime he sees it, and that goes even more so when there's just a manager instead of the flat-out boss.
I went from a one-location local joint to a regional chain that just opened up in town last fall. One of the changes is that all this stuff is computerized, rather than sorting through handwritten tickets haphazardly stabbed on a spindle. Orders listed in the order that they came in, Google Maps integration, drivers checking in & out with deliveries so we actually know who's got what and how long they've been out... So rival doesn't really have an excuse to say "I wasn't sure which orders went together" or "I didn't know someone was in (or would be back soon.)" On a shift more recent than my last post, rival took another mismatched trio and - when the manager gave him an earful about it upon his return - he actually tried to claim "I didn't know another driver was in." When the program we use to check in and out (as if his own eyes couldn't?) tells him right under his own name that there's another driver there. Keep digging, buddy.
Also: I am learning that Google Maps screws things up at a much higher rate than I had previously thought. And I know they've been through this town because I tailed their car for a creepy amount of time when I saw it on local streets last year.
I try to stay politically neutral while at work. Few, if anyone, knows of my political leanings. You'd think others would be neutral, just to keep the peace in the workplace. This guy doesn't care.
Amen! I'm more political than your average bear, and even I know this. I do my pizza delivery duty in heavily Republican territory where I'm outnumbered, and even I try to adhere to this. I use my personal vehicle to do my job. I don't do bumper stickers, but I'll go with a magnet if I can get one and take it off when I'm on duty. I've got a "Stand With Wisconsin" tattoo on my wrist, but customers don't see it because I specifically keep that hand underneath my delivery bag when I make my transaction. Though I have a bit of flexibility with seasonal use of long sleeves there...
Making that statement probably costs me money if I'm so blatant about it. Screw that.
My new job has a fantasy league. Boss set up a league for the place: six employees, plus his brother and a friend to fill it out. I wasn't employed there when they drafted. Boss' friend is "that guy," that slacker who doesn't care, doesn't change his lineup, doesn't make any roster moves. Unbeknownst to me, boss wanted to replace his slacker friend with the 0-4 team still starting injured and bye week players. So my boss asked me while I was rocking my Aaron Rodgers jersey on game day if I played fantasy football, and not knowing what I was in for, I said yes.
Only then did I even learn that league existed. My answer basically got me ordered to adopt his buddy's failing fantasy team at a reduced buy-in. I had three teams already. I have better ways to spend ten bucks. I hate ridiculously shallow eight team leagues. I have to win seven of nine remaining games to even have a playoff prayer. If it weren't for that imbalance of power, I'd have said no. Didn't want to do it, but didn't feel I really had a choice. I got drafted, plain and simple.
Had to replace half the team from the waiver to even make it respectable. (RG3 started that team every week, two defenses & kickers in such a shallow league, crap like that.) Not only was I late to the party, now I have to deal with the accompanying workplace trashtalk that shall ensue. My workplace rival isn't even in the league, so I don't even get the satisfaction of maybe beating him. My boss' team abbreviation is even "Boss" and I suspect coworkers are rolling over for him, because boss. I'm not going to give him that satisfaction if I can help it.
I've got one week under my belt. Lost to the one undefeated team while outscoring everyone else. I can afford two losses and already burned through one coming out the gate.
I'm not looking forward to another two months of this.
I haven't been in work for the past two days, and knowing that I would be out, I stayed until damn near midnight Tuesday typing out what needed to be done over the course of the next two days. I come in this morning and nothing's been done. There are vast swaths of shelves with absolutely no books on them. And of course the person who was in charge of running stuff while I was out isn't in today so I can't even find out why nothing's been done. The projects that I typed up are nowhere to be found. I'm gonna flip a stinky shit because now we have to do three day's worth of work in one day. GRRRR!!!
5.5/four tet, daphni b2b floating points, avalon emerson 5.12/neil young 5.19/mannequin pussy 5.21/serpentwithfeet 5.25/hozier 6.12-16/bonnaroo 6.28/goose 6.29/goose 9.17/the national + the war on drugs 9.23/sigur ros 9.27-29/making time 10.17/air
Post by NothingButFlowers on Oct 16, 2014 10:46:07 GMT -5
Apparently, there is a suspicious package outside the building today. Suspicious enough that I had to go in a different entrance. Not suspicious enough that I could stay out of the building entirely. Awesome.
Post by Dave Maynar on Oct 21, 2014 12:05:24 GMT -5
Had a surprise (because I forgot about it) 1.5 hour meeting this morning. A coworker spoke on "mute" points and the budget for the "physical" year. Annoyed me way more than it should have.
Had a surprise (because I forgot about it) 1.5 hour meeting this morning. A coworker spoke on "mute" points and the budget for the "physical" year. Annoyed me way more than it should have.
5.5/four tet, daphni b2b floating points, avalon emerson 5.12/neil young 5.19/mannequin pussy 5.21/serpentwithfeet 5.25/hozier 6.12-16/bonnaroo 6.28/goose 6.29/goose 9.17/the national + the war on drugs 9.23/sigur ros 9.27-29/making time 10.17/air
Post by gardenfresh on Oct 27, 2014 11:44:36 GMT -5
The gad dang ice machine is broken again!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! AQrasmkldjkljasklakljfkla!!!!!!!!!!
I'd rather have the internet go down, AND all the copiers break, AND the UPS guy skip us, and the a/c to go on the fritz before I'd sacrifice unlimited pellet fluffy crushed ice. These work conditions will not stand, man.
Post by heyyitskait on Oct 28, 2014 8:48:17 GMT -5
About half of the people I work with are absolutely convinced that Ebola is gonna get us all. These are the same people that won't get a damn Flu shot "because they get the flu anyway," or one of the many other bullshit excuses to not get your flu shot.
About half of the people I work with are absolutely convinced that Ebola is gonna get us all. These are the same people that won't get a damn Flu shot "because they get the flu anyway," or one of the many other bullshit excuses to not get your flu shot.
Give me their names. I will come to your work with some flu shots and tell them it's Ebola vaccine.
Post by Dave Maynar on Oct 28, 2014 9:03:25 GMT -5
Yesterday, we had a group webinar (we can do it individually at our desk but they like us to watch them on the big TV as a group) at 1:00pm. My boss went into the conference room at 12:35pm to set it up. At 12:58pm, he sent a co-worker to come fetch me because he couldn't get the webinar to load. Within two minutes, I figured out the issues were a) he wasn't putting in the correct password which was printed in the instructions he had right in front of him and b) he did not see why his laptop needed to be connected to the tv we were going to watch it on. I understand that I have more familiarity with technology than some of my co-workers but that's just logic. You wouldn't expect your DVD player to work without the cord to the TV. Why would you expect a laptop to?
Yesterday, we had a group webinar (we can do it individually at our desk but they like us to watch them on the big TV as a group) at 1:00pm. My boss went into the conference room at 12:35pm to set it up. At 12:58pm, he sent a co-worker to come fetch me because he couldn't get the webinar to load. Within two minutes, I figured out the issues were a) he wasn't putting in the correct password which was printed in the instructions he had right in front of him and b) he did not see why his laptop needed to be connected to the tv we were going to watch it on. I understand that I have more familiarity with technology than some of my co-workers but that's just logic. You wouldn't expect your DVD player to work without the cord to the TV. Why would you expect a laptop to?
Ummmm technology obviously. I should be able to blink and it all syncs right?
Yesterday, we had a group webinar (we can do it individually at our desk but they like us to watch them on the big TV as a group) at 1:00pm. My boss went into the conference room at 12:35pm to set it up. At 12:58pm, he sent a co-worker to come fetch me because he couldn't get the webinar to load. Within two minutes, I figured out the issues were a) he wasn't putting in the correct password which was printed in the instructions he had right in front of him and b) he did not see why his laptop needed to be connected to the tv we were going to watch it on. I understand that I have more familiarity with technology than some of my co-workers but that's just logic. You wouldn't expect your DVD player to work without the cord to the TV. Why would you expect a laptop to?
Ummmm technology obviously. I should be able to blink and it all syncs right?
I would give him a pass for the thought that it was bluetooth or wi-fi, but I highly doubt either of those came into mind.
Yesterday, we had a group webinar (we can do it individually at our desk but they like us to watch them on the big TV as a group) at 1:00pm. My boss went into the conference room at 12:35pm to set it up. At 12:58pm, he sent a co-worker to come fetch me because he couldn't get the webinar to load. Within two minutes, I figured out the issues were a) he wasn't putting in the correct password which was printed in the instructions he had right in front of him and b) he did not see why his laptop needed to be connected to the tv we were going to watch it on. I understand that I have more familiarity with technology than some of my co-workers but that's just logic. You wouldn't expect your DVD player to work without the cord to the TV. Why would you expect a laptop to?
Update: We have another one this afternoon. He just asked me to set it up for him.
I closed the restaurant tonight. To preface this I work at a small coffee shop/panini bar close to a university.
My dishwasher finished and accidentally left the door unlocked, about 10 minutes later I'm finishing up and I hear noise. I come out to see about 15 drunk bros, with pizza and grinders from one of the bars across the street, walking into my store trying to sit down and eat their food in my obviously closed restaurant. It took 10 minutes of telling them to get out, with them insisting they only would if I would give them cups of water, to leave. I was blasting SBTRKT over the store speakers and they were all dancing to it, which was even stranger.
By 9am today it was already time for people to be passive aggressive with me and assert that they have no control over anything so they'll just tell me about it and I can take care of it. This was a manager btw.
In recent posts here, I've mentioned a bit of a rivalry with my pizza delivery coworker. That's softened a bit, meaning he's still a tool but we're at least on speaking terms. I mentioned in one of those past posts (when he missed his "on-call" summons call one night, which surprised me because of the fact) that he always has an earpiece in his ear and is doing something with his phone.
What he was doing on his phone all that time appeared to be just some kind of Spanish-language voice chat room... but that was only the tip of the iceberg.
Last weekend, I walked back in from a run. Guy's in there, looking at his phone, and he starts boasting to our fellow coworker about how much he's getting paid. It's news to both of us - he's getting paid for that? - but he feels like showing off. He claims he earned nearly $400 in October and shows our coworker some kind of minutes summary on his phone. He says he had however many minutes, and it was something ridiculously high. Such a ridiculously high number that I knew there couldn't be that many minutes in a month, and I say that. No, no, he says... he gets paid for user minutes for people who are in his chat room. Shows me that minutes/money summary, then switches over to chat room mode and shows us both how he can mute people or (to his financial disincentive?) kick them out and things like that. Basically, he's getting paid to be a moderator.
He leaves on a delivery. I turn to our coworker (whom, I should add, is acting manager in the absence of the owner) and ask him if he saw the same URL up at the top I did. He didn't see it, but asks me what I saw. I didn't see the entire URL, but I saw enough. It was control2.uncensoredpartyli...
The obvious conclusion seems to be that the rival's multitasking while he's working (while driving, even) by participating in and moonlighting as the moderator of a dirty chat room.
uncensoredpartyli...? Could that even be anything other than "Uncensored Party Line?" Does it even matter what that last "Li-" word is when it follows "Uncensored Party?" Why is it even called an uncensored party line if they're paying moderators?
I am simultaneously intrigued and repulsed by the thought of brushing up on my Spanish.
Opened my email after being out for 6 weeks. Trying not to hyperventilate.
Should I go from the top down or the bottom up? Hrm.
Careful with responding. I had somebody freak out on me a couple weeks ago because they didn't read through all their messages to see where I had fixed the emergent issue.
Opened my email after being out for 6 weeks. Trying not to hyperventilate.
Should I go from the top down or the bottom up? Hrm.
Careful with responding. I had somebody freak out on me a couple weeks ago because they didn't read through all their messages to see where I had fixed the emergent issue.
I haven't seen myself copied on anything that has been resolved yet.
Whenever I get an out of office that directs me to someone else, I always copy in the original person to let them know shit's been done. Apparently that is not a common practice.