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Yesterday and today my boss has been talking to me about how shes unhappy, how she is finding out most of our funding is expiring soon (I work in cancer research funded by grants), how she is so stressed and overworked and underpaid, how she might have to start looking for something else but probably wont - HOW IN THE HELL DOES SHE NOT EXPECT ME TO START LOOKING FOR A NEW JOB!? (Disclaimer: I've been looking for a couple of months now, but not actively...I've hated my job since the 2 month mark) Looks like its time to step the job hunt game up.
Does anyone else have an officemate (NOT in a management position) who has deemed themselves the unofficial hall monitor of the place? Hell bent on monitoring and making passive aggressive comments about all the comings and goings of the other grown ass adults? After two years of brushing it off I'm about to let loose on ours.
Yes! We have someone like that and I can't stand her!!!!! What makes me feel better is the fact that everyone can't stand her, and she never gets invited out to lunches or group functions like birthday celebrations or what not. I love it when someone brings bagels, and emails everyone around the area to invite them over to grab a bagel.... except the bitchy lady. Makes me smile.
Lesson to be learned here: You only get out of life what you put in. If you are a bitch outwardly, don't expect people to warm up to you ever.
I'm too hungover for work tonight. Hopefully in the next 8 hours till I have to go in ill feel better... Uuuuggghhhhhh
Drink a large class of water, get some caffeine, and just think "Externship!". That sounds like a good recipe to not give a fuck about work tonight.
Thinking "Externship!" Is what got me in this position. I celebrated with lots and lots (and lots!) of liquor last night. But I'm now watching movies with the puppy with water and Tylenol.
I hate my job. Taking a sick day today, since I am actually sick & I have to be well in 2 days because I have friends coming into town & oh, a wedding! So I wake up after 15 hrs of sleep to 59 emails. Answered some then started getting dressed to leave to go to the office, only to get an email from my boss to stay at home. I feel like I can never get away from work, & it is really getting to me.
I hate my job. Taking a sick day today, since I am actually sick & I have to be well in 2 days because I have friends coming into town & oh, a wedding! So I wake up after 15 hrs of sleep to 59 emails. Answered some then started getting dressed to leave to go to the office, only to get an email from my boss to stay at home. I feel like I can never get away from work, & it is really getting to me.
Don't worry. We will get you so boozy this weekend that you won't be connected to reality much less work.
So my work decided to cancel the mandatory overtime scheduled this weekend ... and not announce it until about 45 minutes before the end of shift today. Though a bunch of people had known anyway since about 11 am.
March, April, and May suck. Basically having to go on a week by week basis whether or not you have to work a Fri/Sat/Sun. Total buzzkill on making plans.
So my work decided to cancel the mandatory overtime scheduled this weekend ... and not announce it until about 45 minutes before the end of shift today. Though a bunch of people had known anyway since about 11 am.
March, April, and May suck. Basically having to go on a week by week basis whether or not you have to work a Fri/Sat/Sun. Total buzzkill on making plans.
That sucks. It's basically the same thing at my job. Only I don't find out if I have to stay until I show up that night.
If I give my employees work, they complain about having to do stuff. If I try to be hands-off and let them work independently, they tell me I'm not engaged. When I try to do some of the grunt work myself, working with them and leading by example, they complain that I'm taking their responsibilities away.
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If I give my employees work, they complain about having to do stuff. If I try to be hands-off and let them work independently, they tell me I'm not engaged. When I try to do some of the grunt work myself, working with them and leading by example, they complain that I'm taking their responsibilities away.
Jesus fucking Christ I'm not made for management.
I think the only thing I've learned in my HR & Management class this semester is that, as a manager you are wrong all the time no matter what in the eyes of your employees. So just do what feels right to you (and please your superiors). If helping out makes you feel better as a manager then do it. If your employees complain that you're helping, then they are goddamn idiots. Who complains about their manager/supervisor helping?!
If I give my employees work, they do stuff. If I try to be hands-off and let them work independently, they tell me I'm not engaged. I do some of the grunt work myself, working with them and leading by example,they complain that I'm taking their responsibilities away.
Jesus fucking Christ I'm made for management.
Let me try to turn this around for you.
Subordinates, such as myself, will complain and complain. Especially to other people. So goes the way of life. To me, if you remove their complaints and read between the lines, it sounds like you are an excellent manager. Try to focus on the positive results that you produce and the benefit your team is to the company. Even if you give your EE's everything they desire and want, they are still going to ask for more. You should pat yourself on the back for being so proactive and caring so much.
If I give my employees work, they do stuff. If I try to be hands-off and let them work independently, they tell me I'm not engaged. I do some of the grunt work myself, working with them and leading by example,they complain that I'm taking their responsibilities away.
Jesus fucking Christ I'm made for management.
Let me try to turn this around for you.
Subordinates, such as myself, will complain and complain. Especially to other people. So goes the way of life. To me, if you remove their complaints and read between the lines, it sounds like you are an excellent manager. Try to focus on the positive results that you produce and the benefit your team is to the company. Even if you give your EE's everything they desire and want, they are still going to ask for more. You should pat yourself on the back for being so proactive and caring so much.
Actions speak louder than words.
Wow, you really brightened my day. Like, I read your post and could just feel the stress float up and away. This is an excellent reframing, and I really appreciate it. I'm still in the process of shedding my people-pleasing tendencies.
Thanks to you and heyyitskait, I feel all empowered and shit now. I am a decent manager (though I probably do inforoo at work too much), and I need to remember that I can't make everyone happy all the time. In this case it's the second-in-command in my department that's been doing all the complaining; it aggravates me because she's in a leadership position and we need to be on the same page - which is hard when everything I do is wrong to her. She's a sensitive person (as am I, to be honest), so our working relationship is a bit fragile and something I feel I have to manage carefully.
Thank you both for your kind words, they've helped a lot!
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Post by NothingButFlowers on Mar 14, 2014 12:06:10 GMT -5
In the room next to my office, they do foreclosure mediations. And maybe half the time, they just leave the door open so that everyone on this hallway can hear the whole thing. It seems to me, that if I was involved in a mediation to try to avoid losing my house, I might want it to be a little private.
Post by heyyitskait on Mar 20, 2014 10:46:17 GMT -5
Sooo... A guy I work with (a supervisor, actually) is being charged with possession of child porn. I've known the guy 10 years and I'm having a difficult time wrapping my head around it all.
Sooo... A guy I work with (a supervisor, actually) is being charged with possession of child porn. I've known the guy 10 years and I'm having a difficult time wrapping my head around it all.
I know it's cliche, but it does hold true that some of them are people that you would never expect. I worked retail during college during and after college. After I had moved onto another job, one of my former co-workers ended up on the news for, along with her husband, keeping her mentally disabled sister tied to a bed in one of their bedrooms living in squalid conditions while they cashed her checks from the government and used the money for themselves. I had worked with her for several years and met her husband on a few occasions. Never would have thought they were capable of doing something like that much less actually do those things while walking around town like nothing was wrong.
A coworker told me she ordered her Save the Dates for her wedding and told me the date of the big day. Told her I was on vacation that week and would be out of town. She proceeded to get bitchy and question my vacation in 4 weeks ("I guess I didn't know you were taking so many trips this year"- I have 3 weeks vacation a year) and then asked "didn't your sister just buy a car?" (Sister is best friend and travel companion- and why is it her concern?!?) She then rolled her eyes and said she just really wanted me there. This was Monday, haven't spoken since, despite seeing each other.
I didn't realize I had to clear my vacation plans and finances (oh and my sisters!) with the whole office. And she's one of the lesser crazy people. Blah.
A coworker told me she ordered her Save the Dates for her wedding and told me the date of the big day. Told her I was on vacation that week and would be out of town. She proceeded to get bitchy and question my vacation in 4 weeks ("I guess I didn't know you were taking so many trips this year"- I have 3 weeks vacation a year) and then asked "didn't your sister just buy a car?" (Sister is best friend and travel companion- and why is it her concern?!?) She then rolled her eyes and said she just really wanted me there. This was Monday, haven't spoken since, despite seeing each other.
I didn't realize I had to clear my vacation plans and finances (oh and my sisters!) with the whole office. And she's one of the lesser crazy people. Blah.
Seriously the second I clicked post she texted me "this week has been crazy how is yours going?"
Strap yourselves in this will be a long one, I definitely need to vent! I work at an airport and have for about two years now. I work for a company that deals with private jets, so basically I deal with the rich and/or famous. My badge([through the county]that I have to have to be outside, which is necessary) expired on my birthday (March 8), I couldn't make it over to the badge office to get it renewed in time(work was crazy as shiz for a few weeks). My boss had told me to let it expire because he needed me to be there (I'm a supervisor trying to teach my new people how to do their jobs/make sure the normal duties are done). My new badge had been approved (using 2 of the required documents[Drivers license and Social Security card])this was just a week before my current badge had expired. To repeat I tried as hard as I could to make it over to take my tests, but the badging office is only open from 8am-2pm. I happen to work form 6am-2pm M-F. I don't get the luxury of just leaving casually to take care of things, hell I don't even get to go on lunch, EVER. So, my boss told me to go the Monday or Tuesday after it expired to resubmit my paper work to get it approved again( I was heading to Raleigh, NC for vacation that Wednesday). So I go that Tuesday during work, luckily it was slow. I get to the badge office and they tell me that my social security card is unacceptable, because it was missing the second initial of my middle name ( I have two). I have made it 28 years with out realizing that it was missing, because no other gov't agency has ever given me shiz about it, so why would I really think about it? Plus I got the badge the first time with the same credentials (oh and also they were approved a few weeks prior, to the present, with the same credentials). So I wasn't able to submit my paperwork they told me a birth certificate/DL would be acceptable. I bring them both yesterday to submit it again and they tell me that I have to have a voters registration card to make the birth certificate acceptable. Pissed off I go home (25 miles from where I work) I find my voter registration (my legal name is Joseph) and on the registration card it says Joey(which is what I go by) I still try anyway and of course they wouldn't accept it. I am fully surprised that I didn't get arrested for disturbing the peace at this point. So now I get the luxury of going to the social security office in the a.m. to get a correction to my SS card. It will take weeks to get a corrected one, but they said they will accept a letter of me making the changes. Seriously, what kind of effed up system is this? If I was forging documents, I would make damn sure that all my ducks were in a row! That everything checked out, NO mistakes. I already have had a badge on file with my finger prints and picture. Why can't that count with my current face and prints? alongside with my other four credentials. It's not my fault that at birth the idiots in the gov't left off one of my initials on my SS card! It's not my fault that at 18 I was too stupid to realize that 10 years later I would regret putting my shortened name on my voter ID! It's not my fault that my gov't would approve me being stupid at 18 to approve my shortened name on my voters registration card! So anyway, I am going to shut up now, because I am far too drunk to keep rambling and also I am far too drunk to care about the 1000 grammatical mistakes I have made in this post.
PS. I am sorry for all of the random parenthesis and shiz, they just seemed right at the time!
^^ That sounds awful. I don't understand why they could take these credentials the first time around, but now suddenly they're problematic. Really hope you get it all worked out, Joey, Joseph, whoever you are.
Post by Dave Maynar on Mar 21, 2014 8:34:15 GMT -5
This is an air stripper. I know what it is. They come up with a pretty good frequency at work. That being said, I still giggle inside every time I hear a co-worker talking about "cleaning a stripper".
Post by heyyitskait on Mar 21, 2014 8:58:42 GMT -5
I learned that in some kitchens, the chef will ask who is a bong person and who is a joint person. Joint people will get told to go to sushi/wraps/other things that need to be rolled tightly. Bong people will be told to go to sauté.
The dean of my department told us that.
Also, school has become a second job. Except I'm paying them to let me work there.
Post by krunchykat on Mar 21, 2014 13:35:27 GMT -5
My boss hired her bestie to be my main backup here at work. They're now fighting about work, kids, etc. and are trying to drag me in the middle of it. I hate drama, especially the workplace kind. I don't get paid enough to deal with this shit.
Welp, I'm 10 hours into a 12 hour shift & I've been awake now for 24 hours. I'm soooooo tired. I'm training too so I absolutely can not fall asleep. But the urge is so so strong. Can barely keep my eyes open.
Post by crazykittensmile on Mar 24, 2014 15:40:49 GMT -5
We have a 1 person ladies room at work and someone in the building routinely does not use the air freshener after they poop. Instead, this person closes the toilet lid as if that magically makes the smell go away. IT DOESN'T! It just keeps it fresh for the unfortunate soul that has to open the lid to use the toilet next. Gross.