#work rant

[littlefluffbutt]

Our ticket system and phones went down yesterday afternoon and won't be fixed until at least tomorrow so it's not been a fun weekend BUT someone gave us tiny seals!!!

Look how teensy they are!!! The lady owns a couple 3D printers and randomly makes things to give away. Made our day a little brighter:)

[abcd-adventures]

I don't know how patient I'm supposed to be with my coworkers and new(ish) boss. It's something I'm not the best at. I have alllllll the patience and love in the world for my clients, but considerably less for colleagues. One of my coworkers is going through a midlife crisis and just has no focus for work and is ineffective. The other is struggling with a lot of personal stuff right now and just spends a bunch of time in her office alone with the door closed. My boss has now been here for six weeks...like, that's a while. And, sorry, but I was WAY busier and more effective at my job six weeks in. Soooo...I am just insanely busy and losing sleep at night stressing about all the things that need to be done, and it's not sustainable. Four people is already not enough, but when three of them are unreliable? And, they're not bad people. I try to be patient with them and supportive, but YOU HAVE TO DO YOUR F*CKING JOBS. If you have a job, DO IT, especially if your job involves people's health and safety on a daily basis...

I know burnout is a thing. I know it's hard to be there for others if you're struggling yourself. I realize I sound like an as*hole. And, a lot of this is pure selfishness because of the effects it has on ME... The world is a freakin DISASTER right now. It's hard. I know that. I know that I'm ridiculously privileged that I'm unaffected by the fact our job pays peanuts because my husband's job pays him a ridiculous amount for...reasons that, frankly, make no sense. I cannot overstate how significant that privilege is. HOWEVER, even when I did not have that advantage (and still made peanuts because I always have because of the careers I love), I took my job incredibly seriously because when people's well-being relies on you, aren't you kind-of obligated to!?

Definitely second-guessing my decision not to just suck it up and take the promotion.

[crownedinmarigolds]

I answer the phone sometimes for my work, and there are people who call me all the time trying to reach someone and I try to give them their direct lines to call instead (no has set up fucking call forwarding ugh) but then the caller will tell me "I already have that/already tried that number and they didn't pick up." And then it's just like "Okay.... why do you think trying me after those methods fail will yield better results?" Do they think an endless harassment campaign is going to get their questions answered faster? Sigh.

[littledevilgirl]

i'm too pretty to be at work this early, but an old man gave me a $20, so there's that🥰

[thepromiscuousfinger]

My guy, it doesn't matter how many different ways you ask. I'm not your PA and the answer is still "no".

[my-toast-is-burnt]

New job is going great!

BOOM. Manager is fired 3 days into my first week. The manager that all my coworkers said they adore. The one who I immediately was excited to work for.

Manager NEVER SHOWED ME WHERE TO CLOCK IN and was just taking down my times until the system recognized me.

Now I'm coordinating with the NEW manager and HIS LOG INS AREN'T WORKING AT THIS STORE YET.

At this point I'm like. Do I need to cut my losses look for ANOTHER new job? Do I see how things work out from here???

Other crazy shit has happened that I can't talk about lest people on the internet find out where/what company I work at BUT BELIEVE ME IT'S NOT GOOD STUFF.

Meanwhile I'm having to re-explain my hearing loss to every new coworker I meet because goddamn these people are quiet. I can also feel an arthritic flare starting to happen on my right side.

I'm gonna talk to the new manager before the end of my shift and see if I can basically just reset next week.

I am... So tired already

[thevoidstaredback]

So, I'm doing bags, right? Like always. Anyway, I watch this guy put something in his shoe. I didn't see what it was, but he obviously just put something in his shoe

Me: What did you just put in your shoe?

Him: Nothing

Me, obviously I don't believe him: Mhmm. Hold your phone up to your head and walk straight through

Him: Alright

Coworker: What did you put in your shoe?

Him: Nothing

Coworker: You set off the mag. What is in your shoe

Him: *pulls knife from shoe*

Coworker: You can't bring that in. You can either take it back to your car, or you can throw it away

Him: *stomps out*

[once-upon-a-time-the-end]

no shockers that by the end of the week, marketing consultant never responded to literally any of my emails. Pretty much par for the course, though. I mean she never speaks to me directly. Like there are exactly five of us and I'm not ~Important~ enough for this person to respond to.

Supervisor emailed me back without including anyone else to basically be like "um, excuse me, do what this person says." And then proceeded a back forth for the whole day of me basically reiterating my previous comments and responses. Like she thought I was just being "difficult" or something when, in reality, out of the five of us, I am the only one who knows how any of this works. I was trying to outline the issues with what was being asked and then asked for an alternative direction so I could make a plan for my time. It's like, idk, I have actual knowledge and experience to draw on when giving an answer!!11!

Like, sorry, Outlook does not support media queries in html/css so what you are asking for literally will not work in outlook emails. But, right, I just "can't take feedback".

Or how about the time we had to print new bags with our new branding and we only had the budget for 1 color, 1 side and the marketing consultant did not approve of the design being 1 color so her "feedback" was to do 2 colors. And then i was like "the issue is that we only have the budget to print 1 color, 1 side" and then three weeks went by until my supervisor had to prompt the conversation. And then her only response was, "my earlier feedback still stands." like what the fuck?

They ask me for things without knowing shit all about how any of it works and then assume I'm just uncooperative when I try to explain why what they are saying won't work. I, very often, give recommendations for what I think we should do only to get SILENCIO in response. Then we get into zoom meetings where I'm asked to present progress or some shit and I'm like "hello, I sent u all a document and email outlining all the things and included questions and recommendations" and no one remembers or listens to shit so I have to repeat myself 5 thousand times only to be treated like I'm just "unwilling" to do what I'm told!!!!1111!!!! FUUUUUUUCCCCCCK

[hawkswildfireheart]

Accidentally put a tube of chapstick through the wash with my scrubs about a week ago. Ruined a couple pairs of scrub pants, a couple shirts and some running shorts.

So got some new scrubs to replace them and eh. I am a Carhartt girl through and through. I love the cargo scrubs (one of the ones I ruined were favorite Carhartt scrub pants). This time I got some of the jogger ones they have. I love the one pair, they're more a canvas kind material? The other ones I've got on today though? Not really a fan. I don't like the material, it doesn't breathe well, it makes the swishy noises I don't like when I walk, and ofc it's on a day I'm already struggling with regulating my body temp and overheating too fast (temp control in my area is a factor for sure, these trailers are not insulated very well and the airbags don't seal great so the thermostat is always getting adjusted and feels more like a suggestion at best)

Weird little quirk for me, but I've noticed that whenever I wear jogger type scrub pants, I tend to overheat more. Usually within the first 3 hours of my shift I'll have given up and rolled the cuffs up my leg and then I'm fine. But something about it being so tight around my ankles throws me off so bad. Make it make sense

[becomingkatie]

I came into work today to an email with "URGENT" in the subject line. There's a meeting in half an hour and the last time we met with this partner earlier in this program, E made the slides and led the discussion. But now it's been like a year and M and I are more involved. Neither M nor I have a relationship with this partner, but E does, but M and I are leading this program now. So E was thinking M and I would make slides and M and I were thinking E would make slides. Classic case of just no one really being wrong but all of us kind of dropping the ball. Anyway, I made slides and E is going to lead the discussion since he actually knows these people.

Also got an email from a customer saying, "Remember that work you did in 2023? We have a follow-up question for you." So now I'm digging through that old work trying to see if I have the data they want or if I need to set up another simulation (and re-familiarize myself with the models to do that) to create the data since it wasn't part of the original ask.

And later today we've got a meeting with the customer where the buyer yelled at us and then immediately said, "Katie, you need to smile," in the last meeting we had on these pricing negotiations. Ken is like, "EJ really should have been like, 'That's not appropriate, you need to treat Katie with respect or we're going to leave this meeting.'" and I'm like honey that is great but this guy is old and challenging him just turns him into a brick wall who can't hear reason. On a preliminary call early this week the guy was like "this is news to me" about an item we have put in bold and highlighted text at the top of emails AND verbally discussed WITH HIM in December. He does not read the materials, does not retain information, and then gets on meetings and yells at us but then eventually signs the checks, and we're so so close to finishing out this program so we're all just putting up with it to get this gosh darn satellite on a rocket and into space.

I haven't historically talked about my job much on here, and that is gonna stay the general way it is (I am a high performer but I am not emotionally invested in this job; I am emotionally invested in becoming a big enough author that I can quit being an engineer) but clearly this week is testing me.

[crownedinmarigolds]

I am having a baddd time at day-job. No one is mad at me but it's so frustrating...! I have so much work and I cannot do it. And the people who are trying to help with my work completely mess up my system so when I can get back to work it's going to be a mess I have to undo!

Sorry to rant it's just... my process is all screwy... can't do anything... 😭

[cyanrendipity]

Sometimes I forgetting searching for stuff (even googling) is a skill.

I'm pretty sure I only still have my job cause I'm the only one who knows how to find things on our system's wiki

[elletromil]

pros of being stuck in a meeting: you're not "really" working

cons of being stuck in a meeting: you're stuck in a meeting

[thepromiscuousfinger]

Tfw that customer decides to show up hella last minute (like usual) to complain that she needs to register her kid for this season's tennis program just to be told the times she wanted was canceled because no one registered.

Lady, please...registration has been open since October. You've had SO MUCH time to register and if you had, it probably would have stayed open instead of getting canceled.

And it doesn't matter how many years your family has been signing up for our programs because then you should damn well know by now to sign up early.

[unicornfairycat]

Day 8 at work and I'm so tired I'm like holding off on finding stuff to do

But at least, though I was fully prepared for it, I am not alone during the shift later and I don't have to do a stretched shift either.

Our team lead is jumping in.

At least that's something.

But also, I am not looking forward to my last, day 9 shift tomorrow because I'm already very exhausted and tomorrow is going to be both physically and mentally more exhausting but in different ways.

I can either go grocery shopping with our deaf resident (who has absolutely no awareness for anything other than himself) or I can shower our other resident (who is bedridden, needs to be lifted back and forth and hates showering, so it's very loud and ofc we have to work in the new coworker, so while doing all that, you gotta explain why you do that and what to look out for etc. etc.)

So really... Since that's Day fucking 9, I'm not looking forward to either of those things. Idk which to pick yet. I'd usually pick shower but I don't wanna fucking explain every step I'm doing. I don't have the mental capacity for it.

But I also do not have the patience for grocery shopping.

I'm at an impasse... Who knows how i'll decide tomorrow..