Talk About Work Thread

cori wrote:Elaine!!!! :rofl:

"Sweet fancy Moses....!" :hehe:

gaijinmark wrote: Are you allowed to include anecdotal comments that begin, 'One day, your idiot son, , ," [/list:u]

LOL!

Well I did tell one student that he isn't talented and should never take an art course again. He's know the leader of my hate club. :beaten: (true story, btw)

Wynter wrote:
Well I did tell one student that he isn't talented and should never take an art course again. He's know the leader of my hate club. :beaten: (true story, btw)

So what was it like having Takky as a student? [/list:u]

gaijinmark wrote: So what was it like having Takky as a student? [/list:u]

LOL!

I seriously wished I'd packed a gun every time I was in his presence.

So I get this phone call today from a guy, asking for help in identifying an item. He has no brand name, model number, part number or anything that could help other than a vague description. I asked him to email me pictures of the item in question, in case I can identify it from sight. Anyway, no email was forthcoming, but he rang back on a few more occasions. On the second-to-last call, he casually mentions that his boss had already rung and spoken to "someone" last month about the same thing. I asked him who it was. He didn't know, but rang back later and told me. I told him that it was my boss & half-owner of the company, and asked him what my boss told him. And this guy says......

"He said he couldn't help us".

SO WHY RING BACK AND GO THROUGH THE WHOLE @$%^&&*!#@ THING AGAIN????


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Anime Dad wrote:So I get this phone call today from a guy, asking for help in identifying an item. He has no brand name, model number, part number or anything that could help other than a vague description. I asked him to email me pictures of the item in question, in case I can identify it from sight. Anyway, no email was forthcoming, but he rang back on a few more occasions. On the second-to-last call, he casually mentions that his boss had already rung and spoken to "someone" last month about the same thing. I asked him who it was. He didn't know, but rang back later and told me. I told him that it was my boss & half-owner of the company, and asked him what my boss told him. And this guy says......

"He said he couldn't help us".

SO WHY RING BACK AND GO THROUGH THE WHOLE @$%^&&*!#@ THING AGAIN????


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:rofl: oh no poor you! What I hate most is when I confirm that something can't be done (for example printing 1000 copies of a brochure in 2 hours), people say ok and go behind your back to verify with your boss and your boss comes back to you asking why you didn't tell them it wasn't possible.

Anime Dad wrote:
SO WHY RING BACK AND GO THROUGH THE WHOLE @$%^&&*!#@ THING AGAIN????

I feel your pain A.D. Everytime we get a call we have to put notes in the case as to what happened. What the customers problem is, what we did to troubleshoot, etc. It cracks me up how someone will call back in 10 minutes after talking to someone else and expect to get different results than they did the first time. Sometimes I want to tell these people, "I don't have a big red button on my desk that says "Make DSL go!" :beatyou: [/list:u]

First time posting in here.. Since it is talk crap about work let me vent my frustrations!
Been putting long hours for 3 weeks now.. morning 9 to midnight and weekends as well :cursing: I feel like a slave!! :rant:

ash_ton wrote:First time posting in here.. Since it is talk crap about work let me vent my frustrations!
Been putting long hours for 3 weeks now.. morning 9 to midnight and weekends as well :cursing: I feel like a slave!! :rant:

15 hours a day??

Itai. :sweat:

bmwracer wrote:
15 hours a day??

Itai. :sweat:

Yeah! :mad:

No time to watch the stuff that I have downloaded also! All these are making me go nuts! :banghead:

ash_ton wrote:Yeah! :mad:

No time to watch the stuff that I have downloaded also! All these are making me go nuts! :banghead:

Are they at least paying you for all this OT? :sweat:

bmwracer wrote:
Are they at least paying you for all this OT? :sweat:

Nah! Nothing of that sort.. Maybe I can take a compensation day off on some other day..
Have a code release next Monday.. So once its done, things should be better.. :fingerscrossed:

ash_ton wrote:Nah! Nothing of that sort.. Maybe I can take a compensation day off on some other day..
Have a code release next Monday.. So once its done, things should be better.. :fingerscrossed:

That's whack. :sweat:

When I first started working at my current company, the boss tried to get me to come in on weekends for free and I told her no way unless she gave me at least comp time... She wouldn't at first, but I told her it's comp time or nothing, so she relented... She'll abuse anyone here unless they stand up for themselves... That's the management mentality here. :shakehead:

ash_ton wrote:

Nah! Nothing of that sort.. Maybe I can take a compensation day off on some other day..
Have a code release next Monday.. So once its done, things should be better.. :fingerscrossed:

Which I understand, but they should come up with something more rewarding than one compensation day.
If you start to work for free, you are a slave :beaten:

i've been moved to new site. just glad to get away from that lazy driver. :woot:

bmwracer wrote:
That's whack. :sweat:

When I first started working at my current company, the boss tried to get me to come in on weekends for free and I told her no way unless she gave me at least comp time... She wouldn't at first, but I told her it's comp time or nothing, so she relented... She'll abuse anyone here unless they stand up for themselves... That's the management mentality here. :shakehead:

Well its not exactly the case every week.. But when some code release is near, you end up putting more time and even end up working on weekends.. Most of the times, the project will be underestimated (and most times knowingly)..

The management mentality here also is similar and many take it for granted that people would put in more hours or work on weekends to finish the tasks on time.

EstherM wrote:

Which I understand, but they should come up with something more rewarding than one compensation day.
If you start to work for free, you are a slave :beaten:

Hmm.. Then I'd say that I feel like a donkey!! :)

And one compensation week off would be brilliant! :hehe:

I found out that I'll be trained to become an IB teacher, which means I'll now be qualified on the international level to teach in IB schools. This opens a whole window of opportunities for me now! :woot:

IB? :headscratch:

Anime Dad wrote:IB? :headscratch:

International Baccalaureate