Our CEO came to visit us. It was fun. Some people couldn't make it because they were out on vacation.
Our department manager announced with less than a week's notice that he'll visit us after our CEO, for no specific reason, the weeks around the Easter weekend (Friday and Monday are public holidays so 4 days weekend). For the occasion he asked everyone in the team to cancel vacations approved months ago.
All department employees individually politely declined to cancel their personal plans or approved vacations and involved HR. HR wasn't aware of the manager's decision.
He'll be alone at the office for 2/9 visit days 😂
I was able to file a grievance against a person everyone hates. It's a slam dunk grievance, I even have evidence from their Instagram.
Everyone that I've told about it has been over the moon that someone gets to put them in their place finally.
Monday morning we have our big meeting regarding it, and I'm going to straight up fuck their ass up. I hope they quit. Seriously, they are such assholes to everyone. No one has a nice thing to say about them.
Let us know how it goes!
Oh, it's a massive win. All of my leaderships support me 100% on this. The person in civil service (basically the person that adjudicates these things)called me after I filed the grievance, mad as hell that they would have ever thought to do such a thing in the first place. And they said they were taking it to our president so they could get approval to punish this person appropriately. It's a huge slam dunk.
Omg I had this opportunity against a higher up who is a really fucking awful person but I opted to go for an informal complaint because I panicked that they would tell them who put the complaint in. the higher up really likes me and had no idea that I'd complain about what they were doing - they also would've talked absolute shit about me and tried to destroy my reputation if they found out, considering I'm very early into my career it wasn't a choice I was willing to make. I wish I had been brave cause now it's all said and done I can really see how hard HR actually wanted that person gone (much harder to do without the formal complaint).
Good luck to you!
Not really drama but my boss accidentally told me one of my coworkers is pregnant before she was going to tell me (it was because he was telling me about stuff I was going to have to take over while she's on maternity),
So now I feel like an overinflated balloon filled with wanting to congratulate her but not being able to because she hasn't told me yet and I just can't because I fokkin' love babies and not being able to get my excitement out over it just makes me antsy.
For a split second, I read that as if you called her an overinflated balloon. I was very relieved.
Honestly I haven't seen her in person so IDK how far along she actually is other than the general time frame of her due date
But I personally think of allegories like balloon or soccer ball as a fun way to describe the baby bump once it's fully baked bun time.
It's a baby, babies love to play, especially with rolly stuff and floaty stuff!
My former job lost 8 people including me in the last year due to holding onto outdated processes and not being open to the workers requests. My former had a big brain drain and is only being held up nowadays by the leader, someone you can't give any tickets but easy things (like enabling user rights by klicking one option) and another guy who is doing practically everything, even beyond his tasks. He too is currently looking for another job and I also hear from at least two other people who are fed up with top management. We're talking about a company with only about 30 people when I startet two years ago and who only got 2 new people during that time.
I'm just sitting here, observing from afar and enjoying my new employee giving me the certificates I want. I dunno, but perhaps it is essential to listen to their employees to perhaps avoid them abandon ship..?
The lead engineer at a site I work on from time to time is on a 3 on 3 off rotation (weeks) on an offshore oil rig.
It turns out he was having to miss some of his trips because he had to 'look after his ailing father'.
It turns out he was spending this time working another lead engineer job, for the same oil company but in a different country.
He got away with it for months until some issue came up and he had to call into the office and they noticed his number was from another country, Saudi Arabia.
Haven't been back to that site in a while so I don't know what happened to him but he's certainly not working there any more.He's probably making way more in Saudi anyway.
cutest girl at work asked me if i knew what poppers were, then supplied the explanation after i said yes. unfortunately i was/am too stupid to advance the ball further, and we both left the job shortly after due to a terrible regime change
What are poppers?
My boss occasionally goes and picks up supplies and he's supposed to get compensated for gas money. They give you a flat rate based on the distance there and back, and his bike has good fuel efficiency so he makes a few easy bucks for each trip.
One day management told him he wasn't allowed to do that anymore (can't remember the reason), and management told him it was the higher-up's decision, not theirs. So he decides to email our division manager to basically ask if management was lying...
He accidentally CC'd the entire district lmao. We think it's because the DM's emails are usually for the whole district and he just clicked through one of those emails to find her email address. Management called him into the office the next day lol.
Well, they shouldn't fire him, it's hard enough to find that level of stupidity to promote above everyone else's heads.
Straight to CEO for that guy
Seems kinda shitty to deny him. There is a government calculated mileage rate that should just be the default rate (somewhere around $0.50-$0.60 per mile) since it's supposed to cover gas, maintenance, and every other expense it takes to operate a vehicle on the road.
As an alternative, imagine someone with a vehicle that gets 5MPG asking to be paid more than the set rate. I'm sure management would reject that as well.
It wasn't that they were gonna just stop paying him, they were saying they were gonna do it themselves from now on so they didn't have to lose that money (our store is in a pretty rough spot)
Full ass sized crowbar in main plumbing pipe of new apartment building.
Contractors changed during covid, multiple project managers quit. Construction started and stopped at least twice.
Only the beginning of that buildings fuckery.
Cat v cables don't feed where they say, coax cabling inconsistent per apartment. Carpet is less than a quarter inch thick and frays in apts where no one has lived as it is too thin and was stretched to fit.
Building has shifted on foundation causing a crack from top floor down to first.
Unterminated wires hang loose in at least 2 common areas.
Price of a fucking Hyundai required to move in.
My business just had two meeting recently, one was about "the seriousness of unionization", and the second was regarding a potential shift change because they are unable to fill 20+ positions and people keep leaving.
I would like to preface the seriousness of this with some historical facts about the business: they on average used to pay $12-$15 over competitors (now equal to or even less than), they used to offer pensions (Not any more), they used to have a call list of over 200 applicants (for decades) of whom they could call up and offer a job and those people would quit and jump on board (they can't hire from anywhere in the country or Puerto Rico with relocation bonuses included). And the average length of a workers term was 28 years (now just under 5).
Sounds like it's time to unionize!
NGL, seems like its getting close! Probably spring of 2025 is gonna be the make or break for this place
Our startup is failing internally. The product idea keeps changing, projects get switched rapidly, the engineering team got an ass beating by the CEO in an all team meeting for being 'too slow' (which was out of line by him) despite trying their best to keep up. We had an amazing chance to be one of the first companies doing what we do, and we've just whiffed it. On top of this no one has had pay reviews, some for multiple years. And we're trying to hire a new position and all the candidates drop out when they see what a shit show everything is. I've spoken off the record to half of the team (it's a small company) and all of them are absolutely over it, looking for other work, doing the bare minimum. I was hired a few years ago as a customer person, but we barely have customers and they're pressuring me to instead do aggressive consulting and sales stuff. I hate it, but the paychecks keep cashing and I hate job hunting.
I had a project that dragged out a bit and because I was so focused on getting it done my work slipped in other areas.
I have a 'position description' meeting with HR on Monday about 'a new direction the business is going in' so I'm probably going to get the axe
I'm sorry friend. I hear you about being spread too thin at times.
Those I share a space with typically conflict with each other, it's not like school where they would go at me, so I tend to not be in the know. The only exception is one tried getting back at the others by using me as a bargaining chip. As in he kept me at his house for 2 days.
I mean, I was all, ok juicy work drama, juicy work drama. Then I got to the last sentence, I think that goes beyond work drama.
I work in an office with two extremely racist people. One is black, the other is white.
I want to be clear, both of them are always polite about it, but they've said things in the past that are very clearly not okay.
Anyways the most recent drama is that our IT guy died. None of us knew anything about him beyond his name (nobody even knew he was married), but one of them is mad that the company didn't send out his widow's contact info, because they assume his widow is black and as a black woman, will need community support. The other is mad that the first wouldn't have supported the widow if the IT guy was white/Asian/Klingon/whatever.
Meanwhile I'm trying not to tell either how horrible they're being. At least one is supporting a widow I guess.
My coworker resents me because I spend more time with his friends than he does because I have more in common with them. So he just ignores me blatantly all day even though we share an office. It’s awkward as fuck but I just go about my business. He’s got mental health issues at the core so I can’t imagine what he’s going through
This one is about my old org. It's a small firm that keeps bleeding clients. The COO was someone who basically was an empty shirt who loved meetings. All the tech people agreed that he didn't do anything to advance the company.
When I found out they let him go, I was shocked and considered it a good thing. Then I found out that the CEO didn't give him any feedback and that the COO had even checked in to see how things were going and was told he was doing a good job. He never got an opportunity to improve his performance and got let go with no warning. That's a shitty thing to do to a person, even if he was doing a bad job.
One of the doctors I once worked with bought one of the clerks breast implants. She looks like Kim Kardashian and wore a French maid costume to our work Halloween party and got so plastered she vomited half the night, and proceeded to show me her new breasts lol. He got placed on administrative leave for that when it became known, and then was basically encouraged to leave a fairly prestigious practice for something much smaller.
One of the people in our org has enough status that two major software vendors are spending considerable resources (we have an Enterprise contract, so it's not out of the goodness of their hearts) chasing down a stupid bug that makes a common tool not work correctly. That's about as specific as I'm willing to be.
