And people are now allowed to bring guns to work in Florida.
Can't wait for the fireworks to begin.
jr
· 1 year ago
we're expected to take whatever shit the paymasters throw at us in this second gilded age where OSHA's dead and unions are a 4 letter word
vwcat
· 1 year ago
the stress. this country is falling apart at the seams and people are reacting by behaving poorly and lashing out. Bushbites, I did not know Fla. is stupid enough to allow people to take guns to work. We will get to see how that works out. Don't deal with the problems. Just shoot them. The American way.
unrepentant_expat
· 1 year ago
Obama: Osama should be executed...
If I were Obama, I'd want to do my own proof reading on that execution order.
The worst workplace experience I had happened at both work AND lunch the next day.
I used to help run a Tavern here in El Paso, and every once in a while, would get very bad vibes off a customer, which would be borne out if I had to call the cops to get rid of the person at issue.
One night, a tall, lanky and clearly disturbed individual came into the bar. He started hassling the customers, getting more bizarre, and irate the longer he kept at it. Finally, I told him he'd have to leave.
He didn't picture me as any kind of opposition, because he wouldn't leave, but did keep getting more unhinged and menacing.
I ended up calling the cops, which took lots of nerve, because I'm not into confrontations, and especially not when the person is less than a foot away when I'm calling the cops on their ass. He started bellowing "You finking me out?"
I just kept at it, and before I hung up, the bastard left, making more threats and getting more upset as he stormed out the door. The cops showed up about five minutes after he left, and searched the neighborhood, but couldn't find him.
The next day, I grabbed a pizza for lunch, about 10 miles from the bar. As I sat in the truck, listening to the radio and eating my lunch, there was a knock on my window.
IT WAS THE SAME PISSED-OFF BASTARD FROM THE NIGHT BEFORE!
He asked if he was in Las Cruces, and I told him nowhere near it, it's about 45 miles up the road from El Paso.
When he asked if I could spare a slice or two of pizza, I realized he didn't remember encountering me the night before. I gave him the rest of my lunch and took off, my heart still beating rapidly from seeing this guy staring at me, with only a truck window separating us.
Hangtown Danile
· 1 year ago
I worked for a Bar in San Luis Obisbo as a bouncer right after I left the Navy. I only ever to "Toss" one guy out. It was more of a locals crowd mostly. I think the bar patrons were respectful of me because the first night I was working a bunch of guys I knew who owned a Kem Po Karate place came in and were giving me hugs and laughing and such. The rumor was that I was a Black Belt (I never was, nor am I now). After that no body really wanted to check and see. I have studied many types of martial arts (Kem-po, Te-Qwan-Do, and Aikedo mostly buy never have mastered any of them. Only ever got into on fight. The guy threw a fist at my head I duked into it and broke three of his fingers, served him right! He tried to sue the place for letting him break his fingers on my scull. The judge threw his case and him out on his ass. Score one for the good guys (For once!)
Nebris
· 1 year ago
"Desk Rage" my ass. This is what Capitalism does; it exploits workers until they can't take it any more. Like "Collateral Damage", this is just another euphemism used to hide the facts.
Hangtown Danile
· 1 year ago
I used to work for a Dental Lab called "Brabalnt.s" the owner Neal, was an alright guy, most of the time. He did have a tendency to be like Gordon Ramsey of the T.V. show Hells Kitchen when something went wrong and that would happen a lot. Wow he would yell. I was a driver so I never got the yelling at me but I herd him yelling at the others lots of times. He sold his share and left not long ago. I am suprised he never had a CVA or MI with the stress he put his body threw. It was fun to watch him play golf.
MorgaineSwann
· 1 year ago
When I worked for the government (I was a Contract Specialist for DLA) I had this older female boss who HATED me. I'm not making this up - she would pick on me until I'd go home sick from my ulcers then she'd call a section meeting and talk about me. Part of the problem was that I was a Chief Steward for the union and she wanted people to be afraid to talk to me. When I found out what was going on I had to have her boss call her in and I told them that was "union busting" and it was illegal. Then they really loved me. Ugh. I still have nightmares about those people.
Kaywinnit
· 1 year ago
I think I've by and large been blessed with very good bosses, but the upper management at my current place of employment, a Fortune 500 company that's supposed to be very prestigious to work at, is completely evil. We are kept constantly short staffed and short on resources, to the point where you have to work 80-100 hours a week just to hold things together. On top of that, HR is basically non-functioning there. HR's main job is to cheat you out of your benefits.
So I had gone for four months without a day off. I get called into the office and handed a memo reprimanding me for not doing enough work and leaving behind some loose ends. I shortly thereafter put in my two week's notice. Upper management can't figure out why I'm leaving, though I very bluntly told them why. Then on Friday, I find out that due to a computer glitch, I didn't receive my paycheck for that week (this is not the first time this has happened). HR didn't care and said they couldn't do anything about it. They said I'd get my paycheck next week. Oh well, eating and paying bills is overrated. The most surreal part is that on the same day I didn't get my paycheck, management called me in to try and convince me to stay at the company. I'm so glad to be leaving. I'm going to try my hand at freelance work and try to be my own boss.
I LOVE that guy. WOW he is my hero! LOLOLOLOLOLOLOLOL
ClayPotts
· 1 year ago
I thought my worst day work was going to be the day I had to tell State regulators that my boss had transferred millions in assets from the depreciations schedules to other assets without selling or fully depreciating them. The resulting understatement of depreciation expense was turning unprofitable months into profitable ones.
To my surprise, my worst day at work was the day that State regulators told me that the State of Texas would not pursue the matter further without full cooperation from the board of directors which they had not gotten. Oops.
These are the kinds of economic policies that Republicans like Phil Gramm wish to continue in the banking industry. McBush will continue this Republican ruse as long as possible until the whining sound of Bank collapses is heard all over America.
unrepentant_expat
· 1 year ago
From The Sunday Times A bad boss is bad enough, but what about a wacky Commander in Chief?
July 13, 2008 President George W Bush backs Israeli plan for strike on Iran As Tehran tests new missiles, America believes only a show of force can deter President Ahmadinejad
President George W Bush: US officials acknowledge that no American president can afford to remain idle if Israel is threatened
President George W Bush has told the Israeli government that he may be prepared to approve a future military strike on Iranian nuclear facilities if negotiations with Tehran break down, according to a senior Pentagon official.
Despite the opposition of his own generals and widespread scepticism that America is ready to risk the military, political and economic consequences of an airborne strike on Iran, the president has given an “amber light” to an Israeli plan to attack Iran’s main nuclear sites with long-range bombing sorties, the official told The Sunday Times
By and large, I've been fortunate in my employers. There was the one who fired me because he wanted to curry favor with his boss by hiring his mistress--that was pretty devastating. The funniest experience was being litterally chased through the halls of an empty office by the administrative law judge I worked for. Fortunately, the office wasn't as empty as I thought, and a co-worker who had been eating her lunch in her bosses office heard the commotion, stuck her head out, and grabbed me and pulled me out of t he ALJ's path. I suppose you could call that sexual harrassment, but the judge was such a big ol' goofball, I don't think he understood what he was doing was wrong--he really was just an overgown 12 year old. And I made sure never to be alone with him again.
PeteWa
· 1 year ago
Anyone capable of being an administrative law judge is capable of facing the consequences of acting like an "overgrown 12 year old".
Not sure why that "excuse" allowed you to make it okay for you to have been harassed by him...
OlderAndWiser
· 1 year ago
None of this is new. Having been in the workforce for 50 years, I've witnessed (and been the victim of) authoritarian bosses whose sole purpose was to keep employees scared shitless for their jobs. As a woman, I've been propositioned many times, sometimes subtly, sometimes not so much. One thing about office workers, though, is that they never wanted to link themselves to unions, those jobs being considered dirty and "below" those where the environment was clean, A/C'd, you dressed better, and you basically sat on your ass all day. Office work had more status, and employees believed their working contract was simply between employee (their own self) and employer--no other employees need interfere, even if it was the same problem. Company "culture" was something that was forced on you, political messages were given, you were expected to expend part of your own time attending company parties, etc. and everyone knew what you were thought of if you didn't.
I also worked a few jobs that were essentially manual labor, in production, with unions, and believe me, the atmosphere was entirely different. If the employer sped up the belt, for instance, the steward would get down there and time it. Unions backed you up, there was no paying a receptionist more than a paralegal (as I found in one job) simply because wages were supposed to not be discussed. In the union shop, you knew what the pay scales were for jobs and seniority--no favoritism by the company for the boss's girlfriend unless she worked in the office which was not unionized.
Office romances were another matter. It was OK to date the boss (but at the breakup, the boss kept his job), but not another employee, although some articles I've read now encourage people to treat their places of employment as a meat market which I think just encourages gossip, one of my major pet peeves. This is really a negative trend, IMHO. Another trend is sloppy dressing (and I don't mean "casual Fridays" either). Although I love pant suits or neat trousers, some dress I've seen at work goes way beyond that--miniskirts, plunging necklines, lowrise jeans, etc., baggy pants on men, tshirts--things you'd wear lounging around the house or at a club, not something for a professional worker.
Or am I behind the times?
lynchie
· 1 year ago
This is not surprising. People are feeling collapsed. I wrote about this subject the other day. Where I work it is all about pushing people into smaller spaces. The cubicles are 2-1/2 x 5, my office i now share with 3 others the desks pushed together to form a square. 4 conversations on the phone at the same time, our reports coming in and it is complete chaos. We are now not allowed to leave the building to have lunch. Our lunch is now 25 minutes and without exception the phone rings and we work through that. No raise for 2008, company picnic we had to bring our own food and management brought nothing and ate our food. When questioned by an employee about no raises the owner told us that the pizza shops were looking for drivers, if we didn't like it go work for Domino's. I see it coming, one day and maybe very soon someone will snap and with all the guns in Western Pa. we will have a CNN moment with a rampage and innocent people getting shot. Let's have some more rhetoric from our President: Bring it on, your with us or against us, flight deck codpieces, the swagger, goodby from the #1 polluter. Great role model. People flick the finger if you ask them a question. Time to head for the bunker folks.
WadeMD
· 1 year ago
One of the more insidious problems in many professional workplaces is the amount of silent passive aggression that has increased exponentially in the last two years. I am a physician and my partner is an attorney but neither of us is the top boss in our places of work. Many of our co-workers, especially those who are subordinate such as med techs and legal assistants, have thrown us under the bus on many occasions. Our mistake was to treat them as professional equals, include them in decision making, ask their professional opinions and to talk to them more as friends than colleagues. I've always told them my first name is not Doctor and that can come to me with problems, even with my own performance and management. But then, we both were accused of not communicating effectively with them, not performing our own job requirements, etc. etc. The laziness, lack of work ethic, and general C.Y.A. attitudes in every American workplace is utterly frustrating. The passive aggression has transformed into palpable aggression especially when our bosses tell us that we are the professionals and have to rise above the problems and tell them what to do. So, I require them to address me as Dr., verbally beat them down after mistakes are discovered, and give them more work that I might have just done myself. I've turned from an open discussion style to a micro-management style. In turn, they complain even more. It makes work a lot less fun.
lynchie
· 1 year ago
So your solution to the problem is to treat people like shit. Consider the alternative, people are the way they are because they have no loyalty anymore. They want people to tell them what to do. Make a list and give it to them at the start of every week. For the money I get paid, I won't make any decisions. I run it up the corporate ladder. The owner of the company (100 million in sales) had a birthday. We were told we each had to give $25 so he could go to the Master's golf tournament, no option. As far as I am concerned every time my boss fucks up, he blames me, so I don't do anything unless it is in writing from him, or i confirm in an e-mail and copy the world. Treating people like shit gets you shit back.
dad
· 1 year ago
the line between fear and anger is very thin.
LawMichigander
· 1 year ago
Well I took a job over two years ago that ended up being a nightmare. All the coworkers jokingly warned me about other coworkers and my boss and said "Are you sure you want to be here?" I thought they were kidding. Apparently in Grand Rapids it is normal for nepotism to result in 100% unqualified people getting jobs and management position just because they go to the same church as other managers. Well they refused to discipline a coworker and my boss despite abusive behavior and comments, they do this to everyone, not just me. So I told them I wouldn't put up with it and would leave, guess they are not used to that out here.
Damned_at_Random
· 1 year ago
The worst boss I ever had was 30 years ago. He promised an upcoming promotion to 4 different people (all of whom confided the fact to me). I called him on it in private and he laughed and said he wouldn't get that billet anyhow. Well, the billet was approved and he promoted a fifth individual - a very junior person. Three of the four jilted high performers left the organization within a matter of months.
He was manipulative in a lot of other areas as well. I took an in-house transfer at the first opportunity (and went to work for my best boss ever),
I can put up with most things but what I hate are the people that either, take food that clearly isn't theirs and the ones that finish the last bit of cookie, candy, whatever and just can't throw out the box, like the next person is going to eat and lick the crumbs? I don't get it. throw the friggin box out, lazy ass!
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Can't wait for the fireworks to begin.
Bushbites, I did not know Fla. is stupid enough to allow people to take guns to work. We will get to see how that works out.
Don't deal with the problems. Just shoot them. The American way.
If I were Obama, I'd want to do my own proof reading on that execution order.
http://broadband.indiatimes.com/showvideo/32267...
I used to help run a Tavern here in El Paso, and every once in a while, would get very bad vibes off a customer, which would be borne out if I had to call the cops to get rid of the person at issue.
One night, a tall, lanky and clearly disturbed individual came into the bar. He started hassling the customers, getting more bizarre, and irate the longer he kept at it. Finally, I told him he'd have to leave.
He didn't picture me as any kind of opposition, because he wouldn't leave, but did keep getting more unhinged and menacing.
I ended up calling the cops, which took lots of nerve, because I'm not into confrontations, and especially not when the person is less than a foot away when I'm calling the cops on their ass. He started bellowing "You finking me out?"
I just kept at it, and before I hung up, the bastard left, making more threats and getting more upset as he stormed out the door. The cops showed up about five minutes after he left, and searched the neighborhood, but couldn't find him.
The next day, I grabbed a pizza for lunch, about 10 miles from the bar. As I sat in the truck, listening to the radio and eating my lunch, there was a knock on my window.
IT WAS THE SAME PISSED-OFF BASTARD FROM THE NIGHT BEFORE!
He asked if he was in Las Cruces, and I told him nowhere near it, it's about 45 miles up the road from El Paso.
When he asked if I could spare a slice or two of pizza, I realized he didn't remember encountering me the night before. I gave him the rest of my lunch and took off, my heart still beating rapidly from seeing this guy staring at me, with only a truck window separating us.
I think the bar patrons were respectful of me because the first night I was working a bunch of guys I knew who owned a Kem Po Karate place came in and were giving me hugs and laughing and such. The rumor was that I was a Black Belt (I never was, nor am I now). After that no body really wanted to check and see. I have studied many types of martial arts (Kem-po, Te-Qwan-Do, and Aikedo mostly buy never have mastered any of them.
Only ever got into on fight. The guy threw a fist at my head I duked into it and broke three of his fingers, served him right! He tried to sue the place for letting him break his fingers on my scull. The judge threw his case and him out on his ass. Score one for the good guys (For once!)
It was fun to watch him play golf.
So I had gone for four months without a day off. I get called into the office and handed a memo reprimanding me for not doing enough work and leaving behind some loose ends. I shortly thereafter put in my two week's notice. Upper management can't figure out why I'm leaving, though I very bluntly told them why. Then on Friday, I find out that due to a computer glitch, I didn't receive my paycheck for that week (this is not the first time this has happened). HR didn't care and said they couldn't do anything about it. They said I'd get my paycheck next week. Oh well, eating and paying bills is overrated. The most surreal part is that on the same day I didn't get my paycheck, management called me in to try and convince me to stay at the company. I'm so glad to be leaving. I'm going to try my hand at freelance work and try to be my own boss.
http://www.liveleak.com/view?i=f0e_1212516010
LOLOLOLOLOLOLOLOL
To my surprise, my worst day at work was the day that State regulators told me that the State of Texas would not pursue the matter further without full cooperation from the board of directors which they had not gotten. Oops.
These are the kinds of economic policies that Republicans like Phil Gramm wish to continue in the banking industry. McBush will continue this Republican ruse as long as possible until the whining sound of Bank collapses is heard all over America.
A bad boss is bad enough, but what about a wacky Commander in Chief?
July 13, 2008
President George W Bush backs Israeli plan for strike on Iran
As Tehran tests new missiles, America believes only a show of force can deter President Ahmadinejad
President George W Bush: US officials acknowledge that no American president can afford to remain idle if Israel is threatened
President George W Bush has told the Israeli government that he may be prepared to approve a future military strike on Iranian nuclear facilities if negotiations with Tehran break down, according to a senior Pentagon official.
Despite the opposition of his own generals and widespread scepticism that America is ready to risk the military, political and economic consequences of an airborne strike on Iran, the president has given an “amber light” to an Israeli plan to attack Iran’s main nuclear sites with long-range bombing sorties, the official told The Sunday Times
http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/news/world/mid...
Not sure why that "excuse" allowed you to make it okay for you to have been harassed by him...
I also worked a few jobs that were essentially manual labor, in production, with unions, and believe me, the atmosphere was entirely different. If the employer sped up the belt, for instance, the steward would get down there and time it. Unions backed you up, there was no paying a receptionist more than a paralegal (as I found in one job) simply because wages were supposed to not be discussed. In the union shop, you knew what the pay scales were for jobs and seniority--no favoritism by the company for the boss's girlfriend unless she worked in the office which was not unionized.
Office romances were another matter. It was OK to date the boss (but at the breakup, the boss kept his job), but not another employee, although some articles I've read now encourage people to treat their places of employment as a meat market which I think just encourages gossip, one of my major pet peeves. This is really a negative trend, IMHO. Another trend is sloppy dressing (and I don't mean "casual Fridays" either). Although I love pant suits or neat trousers, some dress I've seen at work goes way beyond that--miniskirts, plunging necklines, lowrise jeans, etc., baggy pants on men, tshirts--things you'd wear lounging around the house or at a club, not something for a professional worker.
Or am I behind the times?
He was manipulative in a lot of other areas as well. I took an in-house transfer at the first opportunity (and went to work for my best boss ever),
http://www.nytimes.com/2008/07/10/fashion/10WOR...
I can put up with most things but what I hate are the people that either, take food that clearly isn't theirs and the ones that finish the last bit of cookie, candy, whatever and just can't throw out the box, like the next person is going to eat and lick the crumbs? I don't get it. throw the friggin box out, lazy ass!