#work hell

[capybarasatwork]

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[nightowlqueen]

you wanna know how crazy customers can be?

Well the company I work for uses an acronym that’s the same as a particular government agency, but with another word at the end to distinguish it from said agency.

You’d never even think this would be an issue right?

Wrong, I had a guy who works for some other business come in losing his shit about some paperwork he received from our corporate office (which has [Acronym] Word in big letters at the top)

He claimed that since our company used the same acronym as a government agency that this was “fraud”, “deception”, and “illegal” despite my attempts to explain the obvious difference.

He says he’s a former cop and he can report us and demands a whole bunch of other weird shit.

It’s been so long that I forgot what was said after that, but I did get him to leave eventually.

I should note that this same man was already an asshole because he tried to get my coworker in trouble for doing her job (once again claiming he’s a former cop so he knows what is and isn’t allowed) and came into the office demanding her full name (which I refused to give him) because he wanted to SUE HER.

When I didn’t give him her name he was like “it’ll be easy enough to find” later called the corporate office and claimed that we STALK HIM EVERYTIME HE’S ON SITE! (I have seen this man like three or four times in my entire life)

Anyway he’s still a customer and I dread the day I have to engage with his unhinged ass again.

[ososperezosos]

February 23, 2024.

[graylikethecolor42]

Y’all I’m abt to start my 8 hr shift and my headphones are mckfucking dead. I’m gonna pass away

[noegrets]

I agree with these points and I want to highlight them.

I thought my attention was failing because I wasn’t strong enough as an individual and because I had been taken over by my phone. I went into a spiral of negative thoughts, reproaching myself. I’d say – you’re weak, you’re lazy, you’re not disciplined enough. I thought the solution was obvious: be more disciplined, and banish your phone.

[...] At the moment it’s as though we are all having itching powder poured over us all day, and the people pouring the powder are saying: “You might want to learn to meditate. Then you wouldn’t scratch so much.” Meditation is a useful tool – but we actually need to stop the people who are pouring itching powder on us. We need to band together to take on the forces stealing our attention and take it back.

But I also want to critique something else going on in this article. It has plenty of shades of all this technology is making us antisocial, which is bullshit. It hinges on a trip the author took with his godson in an attempt to try to break him of his supposed phone addiction.

When the godson used his phone during the trip, the author freaked out. But never did the author ask his godson what he was doing with his phone, just rawr phone bad you're an addict rawr! What if the godson was taking photos of the trip to share with his friends later? As much as phones can ruin lives, a smartphone is also a tool that can be used to make life better.

It is true that we need to fight for a right to disconnect. It's unacceptable that your boss thinks you can be contacted at all hours for a not on-call job. And we need to fight the dark patterns in phone games and social media, etc.

But, geez, the author should be embarrassed by his behavior. He was chastising complete strangers for merely privately marveling at the cool tour guide tech at Graceland. Complete strangers who were having their own conversation! And he butts in!!! To whine about all this technology!!! And he retells it like some sort of heroic moment. The poor godson must have been so embarrassed.

And I dunno if I can emphasize this enough, but his godson had an interest in Elvis when he was nine, and he asked if they could go to Graceland together when he was nine. The author didn't decide to take his godson to Graceland until he was nineteen. And he was expecting the same amount of excitement and enthusiasm?? Maybe the godson doesn't actually care about Elvis anymore. Maybe you should have taken him on this trip when it was actually relevant. Maybe you missed your chance to have a fun vacation with your godson when it mattered, and now you're blaming phones.

Your attention didn’t collapse. It was stolen by Johann Hari

[beholdthemem]

My fellow bitches under 5'5. Whatever the money, do not take a job working at a middle school. A fellow adult tried to put me in detention last month and would NOT give up until I showed her my badge proving Yes, The School Hired Me To Work Here. It's not meant for people our height.

[bugsrfairies]

new girls r giving people the WRONG KEYS TO THEIR ROOMS SO I HAVE TO MOVE EVERYONE AROUND

[evercelle]

brb gotta go commune with god

[draygon-lord]

If there has been a dishwasher that we were allowed to use to wash 130 racks this entire time and my former coworker trained me to HandWash all of them while bending over the sink which took A Couple Hours I might actually lose my shit.

[capybarasatwork]

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[eydilily]

you just got to survive

[nightowlqueen]

Also why tf would my new area manager wait TWENTY DAYS to let me know there’s a (perceived) problem with the PDF I sent???

[patopq]

mother

[maeamian]

If you saw me agreeing with being annoyed about wasted helium in a fictional context and were like "I bet she has some more helium based anger in her life" good news LAPD fucked up a raid on a medical facility they thought was a pot farm and flat out ruined thousands of gallons of the stuff.

[cocoabell]

Big fat Kim Kitsuragi sketch dump because I love him (ft. Harry)

Disco Elysium has consumed my soul help me