Work RANT. Yours and mine. The Thread To Let It Out.

[putrid]

The dark spot. The stain. The one place on this really great forum where you can rant about work and anyone reading will be mentally prepared. This is the place to say that aint right, I deserve respect and you'll never believe this cuz yes we will. A place to hopefully find humor in what you have to put up with for 8+ hours a day. And because I started the thread I get to go first. LOL

About a month ago I had to pull a part out of my machine and clean it out. In the past years I've done this 50 or more times so it was nothing new. Somehow when reinstalling the part it shifted. Something that has never happened in the 7+ years I've been doing this job. It's new position caused it to be in the path of the glass and put a very light scratch on every piece I ran. Because each piece of glass is wet it was impossible for me to see the scratch. That part was proven. Now there was talk about firing me over the 80+ shower doors that were ruined ( all our work is costume and even the lightest of scratches has to be rejected ). in the least giving me a 3 day sespention. Cooler head prevailed and neither took place. Now I have a 99.999% costomer satisfaction history over my entire 14 year history in the plant. I've had 2 pieces of glass returned this year. That's form Jan to the end of last week. I average 80 to 90 pieces a day. There was talk about firing me for one mistake.

Last week the supervisor for 3rd shift oven decided to run 3 shifts worth of glass in 6 hours. He destroyed $525000 at the company's cost of glass. I can't go into all the details of thermal radio conductivity but can give you a comparison on how stupid the action taken to do this was. If physics = math then 1+1+1=3. To do what this guy did, 1+0+0=3. What he did made no sense. And it's not the first time he's pulled a stunt like this. To top if off it was easy to tell the glass was ruined wile it was being run and stored. He got nothing. No talks of this or that. No slap on the wrist. Nothing. Even though this guys stunt could cost people there jobs. He's a 'good ol boy. An A kisser who's dady got him the job.

OK my rant is over. Life goes on. I'm only peeved about it when I think about it. Time to stop thinking. LOL

[Sickie Ickie]

give that brain a rest my friend. )

[Elvira]

I know! Tell them to............... "kiss your gl ass" :D

[putrid]

LOL Elvira I'd love to. Daily. If it wasn't for the great folks I work with the place and it's pay wouldn't be worth it.

[Mistress Muffy]

Its really hard when stuff like that happens at work especially when there are different rules for different employees. Its easy to say...well ya gotta get over it & not let it get to you......but then again thats easier said than done! I feel for ya Putrid.

Muf

[Sickie Ickie]

I'm on the opposite spectrum. I like my job, just doesn't pay squat or is it worth it financially to stay. :(

[Thomas Steiner]

Like Johnny Paycheck once sang, "Take This Job And Shove It, I Ain't Workin' Here No More!!" Or when I do something wrong at work, I just say, "fire me now." "What are they going to do,fire me. Be my guest." LOL>>>

[Elvira]

I wouldn't worry to much about it Putrid, you sound like one of their most valuable employees. :) Your yrs of service, experience and customer satisfaction record speak for itself. Now, that being said... smile kid, things will look up! And if they don't... and they call ya in for the FO speech, (with the help of Thomas and myself, you're sure to have a "thank you for them) :D

[Sickie Ickie]

Not to mention, they don't want to pay unemployment.

[putrid]

Those are some nice thought Elvira. It's a shame it doesn't work that way. If you don't self promote, no matter how bad you have to lie, you don't add up. I couldn't self promote if I had to. Guess I could say the word 'results' over and over for 10 minutes wile dancing around the room. That'd be funny. And sarcastic enough for them to expect it from me. LOL I'll admit, I'm no saint at work. I have a history of showing my appreciation for one minute morons. Years ago I ran the tempering oven. Had a supervisor from shipping start yelling at me because he couldn't send a truck out without this piece of glass. We'd been waiting on cutting to get us the glass for a wile. Hey, you can't run what you don't have. Of coarse somehow or another, no matter what the truth was, this was my fault. I squatted down to the floor and started grunting as loud as I could. Reached one hand to my back side and started grabbing. I looked back up at the guy and said something like,
"Which do you think would be faster. Me trying to pull that glass out of my 'back side' or you waiting for it like the rest of us?" He didn't answer. Just walked away. Guess he got the point. And he got the glass. From the oven, just wanted to clear that part. LOL

[Elvira]

uh huh, you could say the word 'results' over and over for 10 minutes while dancing around the room, and you wouldn't have a job and we would be sending your secret santa gift to your new address :

Putrid
St Louis State Mental Hospital
5400 Arsenal Street
Saint Louis, MO 63139

LOL

[putrid]

Ok I'll go. But only if I get a room with a view.
LOL I think I'd still have a job. Like the results themselves management would ignore me as well.LOL

I don't want to leave the impression I think they owe me anything. They pay me weekly for the job I do weekly and that's all they owe me. But some respect or recognition would be nice.

Now come on folks. I can't be the only one on the forum with a bad job? Ya'll makin me look like a winer. LOL

[Elvira]

at first I thought that said "weiner" not winer. LOL

[Carrie]

Now come on folks. I can't be the only one on the forum with a bad job? Ya'll makin me look like a winer. LOL

Putrid, calling my job a "bad job" wouldn't really be accurate, let's just say that it has extreme ups and downs. I'm the General Manager of an apartment complex and shopping mall. 300 apartments and a little over 200,000 s.f. of mall. The stories I could tell you about some of our tenants and the bs I have to put up with, total nightmare sometimes. I keep thinking maybe I'll get around to writing a book. We have had "Ladies of the Night," which I have a lot of fun kicking out! LOL Tons of new Americans, i.e. Russians, Poles, Latvians, Bosnians, Lithuanians, Koreans, Chinese to name a few...some nice, some not so nice..but they all have one thing in common, difficulties with the English language..its quite a challenge, crazy people, not so crazy people...its a different story every single day. I'm a paralegal by education and training, did that for 22 years and then circumstances caused me to switch careers..to this. One of these days I probably will up and quit, but for now, its a living.

[Mistress Muffy]

Well My contribution here will add that I have owned a few of my own businesses, the diner, semi-trucks, a bait shop, a wholesale bait & tackle business, a free-lance bridal consultant, a catering business & the candy business.

The reason why is because I don't care how nice your job may be....sooner or later a new boss comes along or a new employee comes along or new rules come along or the old people that have been there awhile get a bug up their butt. Needless to say its all B.S..

Having my own business lets me toot my own horn!!

Muf

[spookineer]

Wow, all this sure makes me appriciate my current position... Retired.

[Sickie Ickie]

Unfortunately, I'll have to ork until the day I die...is that a rant?

[putrid]

Yes Sickie Ickie, if I have to ORK till the day I die I'd rant too. JK LOL

Congrats Spookineer, be a bit of a wile for me yet.

Mistress Muffy. It's not that the rules change. It's how many people make the rules in one day. I have a lead (1), he has a boss (2), his boss has a boss(3). Now of these three people they will all be one minute morons. My lead (1) will say do it this way. His boss (2) will become a one minute moron and think his way is better. Usually wile my lead is not present. Then his boss (3) will become a one minute moron and tell me to do something new. My lead will come back and get upset because I'm not doing what I'm told. You can see where this is going. Everybody's upset. Nothings getting done and no one is doing what there told.
I had to make a decision weather or not to try an experiment that had been put off but needed to be done. A window of opportunity had presented itself so I did it. My lead came by a short time later and I gave him the results. He proceeded to tell me that my decision to do it then was wrong. That had I waited till after lunch... I stopped him mid sentence and told him, and you can quote me.
"I realize that no matter what I did I'd be wrong so I did it. Deal with it."
And walked away. You just get tired of always being wrong and everyone knows more about your job than you do.

Wow Carrie, I feel for ya. I worked with the public years ago. I think everyone should work with the public for a year. That way everyone would learn not to be so dambed obnoxious. LOL Bet you could back me up on this one. Out of 300 tenants you have 3 you'd drag into an ally and shoot if you could get away with it. LOL

[Sickie Ickie]

As you know Putrid, I work at u-haul. There's a reason I work outside. I can't stand the jerks that come in and demand something for nothing, or scream and rant when they were in the wrong. I cant deal with it. On the other hand, those people who come in with a sweet attitude, 99% of the time we'll bend over backwards to help them out!

[Xmaslilly]

I love my job ...sry
great pay , great hrs
I can take off anytime I want
I can take my prop stuff to work and do that too.

[spookineer]

On the other hand, those people who come in with a sweet attitude, 99% of the time we'll bend over backwards to help them out!

Which again proves the theory, "you can get more flies with sugar than you can with a sledge hammer"

[Sickie Ickie]

or with vinegar. :)

[Carrie]

Wow Carrie, I feel for ya. I worked with the public years ago. I think everyone should work with the public for a year. That way everyone would learn not to be so dambed obnoxious. LOL Bet you could back me up on this one. Out of 300 tenants you have 3 you'd drag into an ally and shoot if you could get away with it. LOL


Yep, back you up 100% LOL

[Mistress Muffy]

I know it really makes days long & stressful Putrid when ya got problems like that. The last paying job I had was a meat wrapper in a grocery store. Never had done that kind of work before but after years of having my own business I just did not want a management job anymore. Just wanted to go in & work & come home.

I loved the job because of what I learned, all the cuts of meat, I made a lot of stuff for the case, hamburger patties, kabobs, stuffed meats, cube steaks, and we made sausage which i really liked learning. It was just interesting learning how that whole meat department ticks. On the other hand every single day was a pain cause our boss was just impossible to get along with, he fought you every inch of the way every minute of the day.

You were just exhausted from all his criticism. He made it so stressful. He could start in in your 1st 10 minutes of work and get the ball rolling....then when his wife would call him around noon, man look out after that phone call. If I could have gotten away with telling her he was in a meeting I would have. I use to wonder what makes a person want to act like that or be like that everyday.....so sad.....for me both as a boss & just a person going to work everyday....I wanted to be happy cause that was a lot of hrs. out of my day & I was gonna make the best of them. I always made things as pleasant as I could for people that worked for me & I earned their respect so in turn they worked harder for me which made me look better.

I think its sad to have an attitude and takes things out on people that work for you.

Muf

[Carrie]

Being a manager can be real difficult sometimes. The man I work for..the owner of the entire complex is a very nice guy, but a nitpicker. From what the crew and the office people tell me, they used to dread having him around, always picking, finding fault, and arbitrarily changing things as the mood struck him..I guess it was his way of flexing his muscles. He was not a "hands on" person involved in all the aspects of running the complex. But he thought he was being helpful, so his nitpicking and micro-management of only certain issues often created problems because he didn't see or understand the big picture.

Since I came on board, I oversee the entire operation, handle the tenant problems, maintenance difficulties, etc. It was hard to set up a chain of command as the employees just weren't used to it. But it worked and things run much better. Now the owner doesn't come to the office as much and I try to keep all the employees working together as a team. In the past, the owner would set people up to "watch" and spy on each other..and then report back to him. It created so much suspicion and animosity between everyone..I simply couldn't wrap my head around that concept. Bottom line for me is, if you're going to spend at least 8 hours a day doing something, you should try to create an environment of cooperation, mutual respect, and a positive atmosphere for everyone. You get more with sugar than you do with vinegar...

[putrid]

You folks are great. I appreciate ya'll posts. I do want to clarify something for my last post. I think my post made me sound like a know-it-all jerk ( I am but that wasn't the point. LOL) My boss would have not been involved with the experiment. Nor would he have a say so in it's outcome. He told me to do it at the first opp I got because a decision had to be made ASAP.

You are 100% right Mistress Muffy. I have no idea why some people feel it's necessary to make life miserable for others. Even with the obvious trouble at home he should have been more pro and kept it out of the work area. Bighty, snappy and moody is one thing. That can't always be helped. But taking it out on folks around you is not excusable.

Totally cool Carrie. To be pro enough to get things running smoothly is a gift. Especialy after that kind of an environment.

Spookineer and Sickie Ickie. Bet if I froze vinegar on the end of a sledge hammer handle I could change a few minds with it. LOL

[Sickie Ickie]

Or blow them away! LOL

[bethene]

well, I have had rants previously about my bosses, at the moment none, but wait a while I am sure there are more coming,:happyfatsanta: I don't work for Hollanders (as hubby would say) for nothing! I have some great friends that work work me, that's what keeps me there!!
My hubby retires on the 26th, he can't wait, I actually think he is going to walk out a few days early, at the end of the work day, go shake a coupla guys hands, and then just leave and not go back, he works for jerks too, so he is eager to leave! I'm not so sure about having him home though!!LOL:)

[putrid]

Well here's another one for ya. This didn't happen to me. We have a standard for warping glass. It can't be bowed any more than an 1/8 of an inch no matter how long the glass is. The oven opps and leads are told to 'eye ball' the glass to check the bow. Had 8 shower doors come back. The second shift lead got his backside chewed because he couldn't eye ball the difference between 1/8 and 3/16 on a piece of glass that was over 60 inches long.

( for those of ya'll that don't have to read a ruler for a living I'll try to explain the differences. 1/16nth is the little line that divides an inch into 16 parts. An 1/8th of an inch is 2/16nths. Now try to imagine the difference between 2/16nths and 3/16nths in the warp of a 2x4.)

[Mistress Muffy]

I got my ruler out so that I would know exactly what you were talking about!!

Muf

[putrid]

Now you know how redicules it was for them to treat that guy this way. Imagine looking down the lengh of anything and seeing the difference in a bow between 1/8 and 3/16nths of an inch.