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    Wednesday, November 25th, 2009
    1:26 pm
    [dr_cockyman]
    At least I have the day off
     Hey, first post because 90% of the time, most of my coworkers are awesome. Those that aren't aren't really worth complaining about, as it's the same things every day.

    Today, my Usually Very Awesome Manager surprised me by showing an unusual amount of suck.


    I work in the kitchen of a University bar. Which means when we open, we usually have quite the little rush. Everyone who works there, with the exception of the managers (we have two), and the kitchen supervisor, is a University student.

    We start the day with my manager and supervisor having a conversation about one of our steam tables, and how it needs to be replaced because no one ever checks the water levels. I missed some of the conversation, but my supervisor said something along the lines of "Well, you can't expect University students to care/pay attention/something along those lines." Which seems pretty on par with the kitchen supervisor, as it's fairly obvious he hates his job and all his coworkers (why he doesn't quit and find a job with "more mature" people, I don't know. Probably because they don't want him either). I ignore it, one of my coworkers attempts to defend us, and we continue on.

    ( The real suck. )


    Seriously though. Am I missing something? Was I somehow in the wrong for wanting to use a perfectly good chicken finger? What? Someone please explain this to me.

    Current Mood: confused
    Current Music: Terror Animal - The Locos
    Tuesday, November 24th, 2009
    12:41 am
    [yaeyamagaijin]
    Can we post co-worker WTFs here too?
     Because this didn't really suck; it just kind of made me lol.


    Dear Tall Boss,

    I find it highly amusing that you find it hard to believe that little ol' me used to work in a warehouse, and before I started pushing your papers I was pushing and lifting and stacking many times my weight in boxes everyday. I'm flattered that you seemed so bewildered when I exhibited great prowess with getting your measly single stack of full and heavy boxes onto a dolly, across the building, and into my office - and in heels, as well! but I do wonder what you meant when you commented that not many "female-types" would be able to do such a thing.

    O.o

    lol.

    - Your 96-lb-weakling midget intern.

    ^^'

    Cross-posted to [info]coworkers_suck .

    Current Mood: amused
    Sunday, November 22nd, 2009
    10:43 pm
    [kisarax]
    Dear co-worker,
     I have a grandmother.
    STOP ACTING LIKE MY GRANDMOTHER. YOU DO NOT COME TOUCH MY HAIR. You do not tell me that you'll do my hair like a "princess" and do my makeup.


    1. I HATE PEOPLE TOUCHING MY HAIR. EVEN HAIR DRESSERS. I have a mental preparation I have to do to get a haircut. No, I will not tell you my childhood trauma in which made this the way it is. I DO NOT HAVE TO EXPLAIN TO YOU THE NO TOUCHY RULE. It's like an unwritten policy between humans to keep hands to self. No, my hair is fine. MY HAIR HAS SHAPE. I cut it 2 months ago, it still is fine. ITS FINE. STOP. I know when I need a haircut cause I feel 60 pounds heavier. YOU DO NOT KNOW. Do not tell me.

    2. I DO NOT NEED A SHITLOAD OF CRAP ON MY FACE. I actually have good skin in which I do not need to use very much makeup. I only wear eyeshadow/liner and lipstick/gloss because... I hate looking like a 15 year old. I DO NOT WANT. I do not need a full face full of makeup. I DO NOT STOP. JUST STOP.


    3. DO NOT EVER DISS MY GRANDMOTHER. I WILL MAIM YOU. My grandmother > YOU ALWAYS.

    No, just cause I don't put my hair in a tight little typical "Mexican" girl style doesn't mean my grandmother doesn't care. I WILL MAIM YOU. STEP AWAY.

    ugh.

    Current Mood: bitchy
    Friday, November 20th, 2009
    11:29 pm
    [tadashi_chan]
    A little complaint to one of my managers:
     Dear female manager:

    STOP FUCKING CALLING ME THREE TIMES A DAY ASKING ME TO WORK. I already told the manager who was working last night that I would not work today unless I got another day off in exchange. I do not want to work 10 days in a row. I happen to value my health and my sanity more than I do my paycheque, believe it or not.

    Ah, now you negotiate - work friday, get saturday off. K, I'm up for that. What time do you want me to work? As soon as I can, you say? Sure.

    This phone call took place at quarter to 3 today, and I didn't get to work until 4:30. Why, you ask? Well, I had to go to the vet's and get my dog his food. Otherwise, he's not eating at all this weekend, as they're closed on weekends. And I need to get some lunch, since I haven't had any yet, and my stomach is eating itself in desperation. Topping that all off, it takes me 15 minutes to get to work.

    And so, bearing the following in mind:

    - That I'm coming in to work as a favor
    - That I was, literally, on my way out the door to run some errands that had to be completed today or else
    - That you said I could come in "as soon as I can"

    Do not, I repeat, DO NOT pick the most ungrateful tone I have ever heard and say to me, "I thought you'd be here right away."

    Oh, pardon me. I thought that when you said "as soon as you can" meant "as soon as you can", not "now". Apparently, I get those two terms confused.


    PEOPLE HAVE LIVES. THEY DO THINGS ON THEIR DAYS OFF. I CANNOT APPEAR AT WORK IN A MATTER OF MINUTES. AND I WILL SURE AS HELL THINK TWICE BEFORE I ANSWER THE PHONE NEXT TIME YOU CALL.




    ffffff.


    -from the girl who saved the staff's collective asses tonight
    Thursday, November 19th, 2009
    8:51 am
    [brontewhore]
    It is 7:45. I just got in. My coat is still on, and I'm taking my things out of my bag. So no, you can't ask me a question. I'm not working. I don't start working until 8:00. And when I tell you "I don't start working until 8:00" and when you don't accept that I continue with "My inbox is right there" (two things I shouldn't have to say because, oo lookie, my coat is still on), the attitude is unnecessary.

    Maybe if management didn't treat hourly employees like second-class citizens, I could bring myself to care. As things are, I can't bring myself to care until 8:00, when they start paying me. No, I don't care that you've been here since 7:00. Bully for you?

    The fact that you came to the wrong person (file wasn't from my area) will just make me silently giggle for the rest of the day.
    Wednesday, November 18th, 2009
    4:32 pm
    [corridor7f]
    Okay, so I get that your job is stressful and we gave you and your boss some of our overflow - which I thank you for every time I bring up the files for the aforementioned.  Not my decision, my manager's, but I still express appreciation.

    Let me stress one thing to you - I don't know all the details of this person's files, nor do I know them offhand without looking at the file.  I'm not even qualified to work on them or authorized to make payments.  I just request documents and pass them on.  Did you want to help or not?  It's okay if you don't, but let's stop trying to blame me for it and whining.

    Also, when you toss something on my desk and mutter something vague then leave..  yes, I'm going to call you to confirm what you said.  Yes, I'm going to physically visit you when you don't pick up your phone.  You can't get away.

    When I confirm a file number that you thought hadn't existed on a piece of correspondence, it was uncalled for when you violently scribbled out the number I wrote and insisted it was "123-456-789" not "321-654-987".  Yeah, now I have to go back down to my floor and look it up again.  Thanks.  The fact that you don't have access to the system makes me wonder how you came up with that number period.  I think you pulled it out of your ugly old ass on an evil whim.  Oh wait, if it's a NEW number, you don't have to work on it...  Nice try.

    Being a difficult, bitchy hag about this isn't going to make me go away like you were hoping.  Sorry.  Also, you'd look less like a hag if you stopped bleaching your hair and started brushing those blackened, vile teeth of yours.

    These are not your files, these are not my files...  the person who these files belongs to is on vacation and would not appreciate things being mucked up.  I'm sure there will be some of that anyway, having multiple people monitoring them, but I'd rather keep that to a mimimum.

    I think from now on I'm going to get someone neutral to take the files up.  Maybe someone blind.
    3:13 pm
    [acostilow]
    Dear co-workers,

    Stop. Touching. My. Hair.

    I'm really, really glad you think it's the prettiest hair ever and I should wear it down more often. Really. It's my best feature, and I am proud of it. However, the reason I do not wear it down is because people keep touching it and pulling on it, and most of them don't have the decency to even inform me that someone is behind me, so I get startled, and my hair gets yanked.

    Most of the time, it gets pulled anyway. I promise you, it is real. As is the colour. Yes, it's gorgeous. Yes, I love it. Stop touching it.

    Jesus Christ, people. The only reason I'm wearing it down is because I've got a headache so bad it's making me dizzy, and the added pressure of butt-length hair twisted up in a clip is making it worse.

    And so are you when you pull on it.

    Stop. Touching. My. Hair.

    Go away and let me do my work in painful peace,
    [info]acostilow

    P.S. Even if I wasn't in pain, my hair is attached to my head. And it's mine. Not yours. Bad touch, bad touch! Stranger danger!
    2:31 pm
    [finarfiniel]
    Air freshener, wtf?
     HEY Y'ALL USING THE SECOND FLOOR BATHROOM, HERE'S A NEWSFLASH! LEMON PLEDGE IS NOT AIR FRESHENER!

    That shit will cover everything in a slick film and make the linoleum floor treacherous to walk on, so you can guess what it does to a toilet seat. Just... don't do this again. Turn on the fan like a normal person. That's what the fan is there for.

    Current Mood: confused
    8:00 pm
    [a_nony_mity]
    Just. Fucking. Die.
    You know what, bitch? I am fucking GOOD at my job. I know this because people constantly congratulate me on how good I am. But I am a defensive, paranoid person and I have a hard enough time relaxing at work without you going fucking nuts everytime you THINK you've found a mistake.

    It's not my fault you're too stupid to understand the administrative systems and it's not my fault you started inviting guests to an event before I finished the official invite lists. You were shown a draft copy of the list before the invites went out and you had every chance to ask why some people on your caseload weren't going to be invited. Instead you didn't check bother to check the list and now you've gone and invited people who are not entitled to come, and if that causes you problems then it's just tough fucking shit.

    How fucking dare you go off to the other end of the office and start complaining about it to my colleagues, trying to make me look bad. This is my fucking livelihood. I work hard and I do my best to make a good impression. And like I said, I'm fucking good at this job. I'd like to see you attempt something involving such a high degree of organisation. I don't want to be stuck doing underpaid admin work forever, and if you fuck this up for me, I will never forgive you.
    8:34 am
    [kisarax]
    sigh
     Manager.
    I leave promptly the same time everyday for I take morning and night classes.
    Did you really think it was funny to keep me for an extra 15 minutes to talk to me about NOTHING STORE RELATED BUT SOMETHING I AM KNOWLEDGEABLE ABOUT!?

    When you know I HAVE CLASS. OMG I HAVE CLASS.

    Thanks for making me late to my class.
    Tuesday, November 17th, 2009
    6:47 am
    [the_mouse_king]
    STOP BEING LATE!
     Dear Attention-Needy and Excuses-Making Coworker,

    Just shut up. I’m seriously not buying it. The news guy isn’t buying it. The boss isn’t buying it anymore. So just cut it out.

    You overslept. Stop making up some big, overly-dramatic reason for why you couldn’t get to work on time. Just fucking say “I overslept.” Seriously, the boss is a laidback guy; he will UNDERSTAND.

    You’re late EVERY DAY. So don’t go into this long spiel about how you woke up in the middle of the night, couldn’t go back to sleep until the time that you were SUPPOSED TO BE WAKING UP. Why the HELL are you going to back to bed when you’re SUPPOSED to be getting your ass OUT of bed?
    Fuck you.

    So you didn’t sleep well last night. Big fucking deal. I work third shifts. Sometimes, there are days that I’ll only get two hours of sleep or sometimes NO sleep at all. And I am ALWAYS here on time. ONCE in a blue moon, I will arrive TWO MINUTES LATE – but that’s usually because I have an old car that SOMETIMES doesn’t like to start.

    But you? You have no excuse. “Just not used to the meds yet” will no longer cut it.
    Him: “I woke up at 2 am, and just couldn’t go back to sleep . Fell asleep at 4:30, and when I fell asleep, I fell hard. I woke up at 6:04, dazed and confused, unsure of what I am supposed to be doing or where I was.”
    Me: “Maybe you shouldn’t have gone back to bed considering you were supposed to be here an hour later.”

    Seriously?
    SERIOUSLY?

    Go fuck yourself with your redundant excuses. The show starts at 6. BE HERE BY SIX.
    Not 6:10.
    Not 6:30.
    SIX.

    BE HERE AT SIX OR DON'T BE HERE AT ALL.
    Sick of your late ass.
    Friday, November 13th, 2009
    11:59 pm
    [darkfireangel88]
    I work in a salon
     Just because I smoke does not make me Garbage Bitch. If it's full, or we have crap from our shipment, I will take that out. I do not have to do it, but I do because I'm going outside anyway. Sometimes the garbage leaks, and it's fucking gross, especially if it sits by the door. To put a towel under it because you're too fucking lazy to take it out? Just makes a bigger mess. Thanks to your laziness, I had garbage juice drip all down my leg and we had to throw out that towel.

    Also, DON'T offhandedly ask me if there's any laundry/to check the laundry when I'm sitting for the first time. Really? You're sitting too, and you haven't done shit in an hour. Just because you make more money than me doesn't mean you don't have to fold towels too. I'm not Laundry Bitch either. Check the dryer your own damn self!

    Current Mood: frustrated
    11:01 pm
    [dazzy_doo]
    I'm sorry, I'm not able to schedule someone DYING.
     Last January, I was still working in a supermarket, weekends only due to college. Early in January, my stepdad's dad died. He hadn't been properly ill, so they had to do a post-mortem, thus delaying the funeral. We finally find out when it is - it's on a Monday, and due to them living in Essex, we'd have to leave on the Sunday, which would result in me missing a days work. I then had this convo (as soon as I found out) with my manager. This was on the Wednesday before, and I told her I would keep her fully informed of the situation because we were short-staffed as it was.

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    Current Mood: pissed off
    12:33 am
    [chickenoftheday]
    New to this community. I work at Wendy's.

    ( Dear non-specfic coworkers )


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    Thursday, November 12th, 2009
    4:43 pm
    [myuki_chan]
    I work at the Big Yellow M.

    Dear S,

    I like you for the most part - you're fun and you mostly know what you're doing. But sometimes...

    I realize you're tired, I realize you started 2 hours before me, but that does not give you the excuse to slack off and talk with people in the back.

    The talking in general is sort of a entire-restaurant-crew suck as when I work, other than maybe two other crew people, they all speak the same language, leaving us completely shut out as to what they're talking about. The "English only" thing is only half-enforced as a lot of the managers are included in their group. But this doesn't really bother me... except for when it interferes with me getting my damn food because the back people are chatting it up and not paying attention to the fact that there are ORDERS ON THEIR SCREEN.

    But back to S. I've noticed that whenever you are assigned to be on window with someone else, you will wander off to talk and when a customer appears and I tell you there is a customer (I am typically stationed in DT), you will ask me where the other person is or tell me the other person will take their order. Okay, yes, they are on window... BUT YOU ARE TOO. You are NOT on break. DO YOUR DAMN JOB. (Please note the other person is usually doing something productive like changing the garbages or grabbing stock from the back, not standing and talking.)

    I can't stand slackers at work. I really can't. And this attitude of yours sometimes really irritates me (I can ignore it most times but some days...). What makes it worse is that when you see me without orders you immediately tell me to back you up on window. The manner you say it to me is like you're ordering me too: "You have no orders? Back up window."

    Even funnier is that when we have our positions switched and you have no orders in DT and I ask for help, rarely will I get that help from you.

    Yay for double standards.

    I remember once I asked you to do something because you were simply leaning on your till and you whined how you were tired and didn't listen to me. I told Manager B in an offhand comment and she yelled and told you to listen to me if I ask you to do something and then you were all upset with me for the rest of the day. lol

    She told you to listen to me because if there is no manager on the floor, they will ask me to watch over things while they're busy as I'm a Team Leader. They see me as a stand-in. I'm not telling you to do things because I hate you and don't want to do them myself or anything - half the time I DO go and do things myself because that way I know it gets done. I just can't leave DT for extended periods of time because there are orders always popping up.

    Hoping you don't manage to piss me off next week,
    myuki_chan
    4:12 pm
    [friedoprah]
    My dearest N;


    I understand you hate your job. I also understand you hate your life. What I don't understand is why you would assume I too hate my job, & my life. That must be it...right? You only torture me & make me do all the work on our shift alone because you think that I too, must be as miserable as you at all times. Right?

    Look, I'm at work for three hours before you even show up, & I do my job & some extra stuff to help the guys leave a bit early. There is no reason why I have to do your job for the next five hours, plus mine, because you're "too old for this job" & "I need a break once in a while".
    Once in a while doesn't mean you SOMETIMES pull the freezer (your main job duty, that I've been doing for a while) & whip together a salad kit, then go talk to the counter girl for the next five. stinkin. hours.

    Oh, & hear that buzzer?
    That means the deli has an order.
    Get off your rump & go make a roast beef sandwich, you crotchety old thing!!!!





    Still writing you love hate notes, & probably will be until you quit/get fired,


    C.
    Wednesday, November 11th, 2009
    3:15 pm
    [electricenigma]
    Sucky, sucky managers
     This is my boyfriend's story, who is a server's assistant (AKA bread/water boy) at a high end restaurant. His stories always make me grateful that I work in retail (who knew I was even capable of such a feeling?).

    This summer he and his server coworkers witnessed 3 of their managers "grazing" on customer's finished meals as they are sitting waiting to be taken to their tables. Grazing means taking food OFF THE PLATES WITH THEIR DIRTY HANDS AND EATING IT!!! UGH!! Just that part would be enough of a suck! Anyone else (servers, busboys, breadboys, etc) would be fired on the spot if they tried this. Of course they couldn't do anything about the fail, everyone wanted to keep their jobs.

    But it gets better. When the higher up people came to evaluate the restaurant or whatever, the managers told them that the SERVER'S ASSITANTS ARE THE ONES THAT WERE GRAZING.

    Fucking liars.
    Thursday, November 5th, 2009
    3:59 am
    [sweeneytodd]
    Strip Club Woes
     I'm a bartender and cocktail waitress at a strip club. These are my woes:

    1. If there is a cocktail waitress serving a table, do not approach the table. Do not sit down at the table with her. Do not approach the table and ask for the customer's order. This is just rude behavior in general. I know competition is part of the game her, but there's a huge difference between healthy competition and catty behavior.

    (This situation happened one night when I was serving. I agree with her that I didn't handle the situation the best way, but she should have also respected me enough not to steal an order from me.)

    2. Same goes for dancers. If there is a dancer sitting at a table, do not approach the table until she's finished.

    3. Never stand by the door waiting for customers to come in. It never looks good when ten waitresses are piled up by the door cutting in front of each other just to get to take someone's order first.

    4. Don't hide money from the bartenders, because you don't want to tip out. Always give an honest tip out. They make your drinks for you all night long. You should give back at the end of the night for all of their hard work.

    5. This is more of a personal thing, but I don't think there should be dancing waitresses. Some people disagree with me on this, but so far, it just creates problems. It overcrowds the wait staff since dancing waitress come in whenever they want. Dancers don't like it, because they feel like waitresses are eating away part of their income. A lot of dancing waitresses also hide their tips by saying they gained most of their money from dances. I just don't see it as a good thing, and I think maybe with some restrictions it could be better.

    6. If you don't dance, never diss someone for choosing to dance. If you don't agree with exotic dancing altogether, you need to find another work place. Period. The end.
    Wednesday, November 4th, 2009
    4:54 pm
    [johngacy]
    So, I'm having a problem with this company I used to work for.

    A couple months back, I reported my manager, Matt for being homophobic. When he first started to work there, everything was fine, but once he found out I was gay by another coworker saying something, everything went to shit. He started to give me write ups that were absolutely ridiculous (having an extra coupon, not having my pants hemmed correctly, leaving my drawer open one night when I was just getting a pen and everybody in box office always left their drawers open). I finally got sick of it and reported him and things were great with him for a little bit, but then his best friend (Anne) who is another manager gave me just as much problems with the write ups and just treating me like crap. There was nothing I could do about it since corporate didn't give a shit and my GM was out of town because his father died.'
    So about a month and a half ago, I was fired for 'stealing 20 tickets'...a month after the 'incident' happened. I didn't know what to say when Anne was firing me. She told me all of these horrible things like I'm a good kid, but make stupid decisions, that she could never trust me for some reason, etc. There was nothing I could say to make her not fire me. I went home and filing for unemployment and ever since then, I can't get her off of my back.

    I don't know what to do, and this is advice I really need.  Anne keeps talking bad about me to my old coworkers and my old supervisors which are my best friends. I have no tangible evidence that she has and she's taking me to court for my unemployment. Everytime I call corporate, I get nobody real and just automated messages.
    What should I say during court? There is no real evidence that I did steal it but there isn't that I didn't since my log 'disappeared', but the manager that closed me out that night (the homophobic one) still works there. Should I bring up the homophobic complaint and how I'm gay or leave that out of it? I have no idea what to say since I've never been through this, but I don't want to lose my unemployment because I need it and I honestly deserve it.
    Sunday, November 1st, 2009
    1:53 am
    [layered]
    I just concluded the worst experience I've ever had while jobhunting. I applied and interviewed for a position at the front desk of a hotel. The front desk supervisor gave me the interview last Monday morning, and offered me the position on the spot. Hooray, I say! She seems nice and this is the first interview I've gotten since August and jobs are good!

    So I arrive the next morning, early for my 7am-1pm shift of training. I spend some time shadowing the girl who works the night shift, and she shows me around a little. The manager arrives and asks to speak with me. She tells me that she's really sorry but she hadn't checked with the owner before hiring me, and it turned out that they wanted to hire back someone who had worked there previously.

    I'm a little bit peeved because I don't know why she couldn't have called me to tell me this the day before, but I shake her hand and thank her anyway, and she says that she'll try to work it out to hire a second person, and she'll call me sometime later in the week to let me know. Cool, I say. Since I take the bus home, commuting takes me a little while, and I arrive back at around 8:30. Roughly twenty minutes later, the phone rings and it's the front desk supervisor.

    She doesn't explain anything. At all. Literally, what she says is "Hi, [info]layered. How are you doing? Can you come back in?" And I'm like "...." because it just didn't make sense to me, at all. But I figure, okay, I guess she talked to the owners and they decided to hire a second person and she really wants to get training started. So I hurry back up there, on the bus again. I get back to the hotel at 9:45.

    For some reason, her demeanor's completely changed. Before she was really friendly and pleasant, but when I came back she just seemed really annoyed. I don't know if she had been arguing with the owner or if a customer had done something, but I got to work. I cleaned up the continental breakfast area and then started on some training exercises on the computer, learning the reservations system. Less than an hour later the supervisor tells me that my training is just about finished for the day.

    Seriously, it was that important for me to rush back in for forty-five minutes of training? Okaaayy? So, after I get my things, I ask her if she knows my schedule. Because I assume that I have a job because otherwise why would I be training for it? She answers that she's not sure yet, but she'll call me.

    I wait until Friday afternoon for a call, before I finally just decide to call her to see what's going on. By this point I'm fairly annoyed because it's a pretty ridiculous situation. The conversation basically went like this:

    Supervisor: "Hi, [info]layered, how are you?"
    Me: "Well, actually, I'm wondering what's going on."
    Supervisor: "We've closed our application process and we've decided not to take on any more trainees at this time."

    Ugh, except that you made me think I had a job twice? Don't you think it's a little bit heartless to hire and then fire the same girl twice, especially right now with the job market sucking the way it is? And furthermore, the lack of communication just irks the hell out of me. It's so unprofessional.

    I basically demanded that I be compensated for my time on that training day, and she agreed that I could pick up a check Thursday. I really want to tell her exactly what I think of her managerial skills while I'm there to pick it up, but I'm not sure if I'm overreacting. Anyone have any thoughts?
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