This week was a real motherfucker. Coworker no-shows Monday and Tuesday. Monday I got the "Sorry I'm not there" text about 9 AM (an hour after we start). Had to go to court for her son or some such. No big, except she told the company owner (who I maybe see/talk to once a week at best), and not me.

Tuesday, I had to send out the "Where are you" text. Didn't get a response til noon, and then it was some cockamamie story about a murder in the family. (Turns out to be her brother's ex-gf's cousin was found dead....so yeah...) I was irritated I had to drag the call-off out of her, but whatever.

Wednesday, I get news that my bf has to have emergency surgery. I tell her I'm cutting out of work to run to the hospital to be with him and get a minor harangue about HER lack of hours this week. Bitch please.

Thursday, after no sleep and needing to be on-call for his release, I tell her I'm probably not going in (well advanced for her to not have left yet). She tells me she's throwing up sick but wants to come in anyways. Whines more about hours.


Funny thing is, when she IS there, she's always running off to this or that appointment or cutting out early for one reason or another. I seriously want her fired, but she's buddies with the boss. What a load of shit.

Having to work 12 straight days in a row with possibly more to come.
Thumbs down my friends!!!

1. (Very minor, but aggravating nonetheless) I've been with this company for two years and I still dont have a goddamn company email address or business cards. I've asked multiple times.

2. (More important) I redid the inventory for the entire store because it was a clusterfuck. I taught the new girl how to do inventory so she could keep up on it. The boss decides inventory is not important so now its a clusterfuck again. Half of the items I ring up for customers are not in the system and about 1/4 of the products aren't even priced right.

3. Employees here seem to find this job unusually difficult. Apparently simple tasks like vacuuming and picking up products that fall on the floor are way too complicated.

4. Being assistant manager seems to translate to: "Do ridiculous amounts of work for little pay, no recognition, and absolutely no benefit whatsoever"

Know what's worse than a coworker that no-shows half the time? One who spends her time there lying, stealing, and yapping on the fucking phone about her latest baby-daddy drama.

The good news is, this C U Next Tuesday got fired. The bad news is, before running off on Thursday (after coming in for only an hour and cutting out again for the funeral of aforementioned "murdered" person), she stole $80 from the cash drawer. Worse yet, she made up some lame half-assed story about the door being unlocked (it wasn't) and someone sneaking in and rattling the door while she was in the bathroom (also bullshit).

Thankfully, her account of how close her and the big boss are is totally fiction, and I found out they were ready to can her ass anyways since she reportedly heisted a digital camera from my warehouse and bragged about it to another worker at the other warehouse. And also because her brother stole a customer's appliances. Way to go, slick!

I'm just glad it didn't come back on me. Apparently neither the boss nor the person I answer to at the office trusted this skank any further than they could throw her.

imagine working in a hazardous environment where a burst pipe will maim if not outright kill you. You'd want to know about that right? Guy I work with walks around the place oblivious to EVERYTHING. I did my rounds last night and walked under a pipe, which coincidentally, is a 50% caustic line. Now for those of you who have never worked with chemicals or in an environment where chemicals are used, 50% caustic is nasty. It will eat you up and it's worse than an acid because 9 times out of 10 an acid will succumb to water. In other words, you get to a safety shower, you're leaving with your skin still attached to your body. Caustic on the other hand is slimy and does not go away easily. While its on you, it's boring into your skin... So, anyways, I am doing my first of four rounds last night and I happen to walk under the lines coming from the white liquor feed pumps (if you want an explanation as to what this shit is or means, pm me) and I notice that something is dripping. It's the 50% caustic line coming from the pulp mill. We use this 50% caustic to boost the strength (effective #) of the white liquor if we're having problems with our slaker/under/overflow system. Anyways, like a good stooge, i trace it back up stream and find one of the unions has blown and nasty caustic is gushing everywhere and it had been gushing for a long while. the guy i relieve just didn't want to lock it out.
this place is going to fucking kill me...

Posted by Samurai imagine working in a hazardous environment where a burst pipe will maim if not outright kill you. You'd want to know about that right? Guy I work with walks around the place oblivious to EVERYTHING. I did my rounds last night and walked under a pipe, which coincidentally, is a 50% caustic line. Now for those of you who have never worked with chemicals or in an environment where chemicals are used, 50% caustic is nasty. It will eat you up and it's worse than an acid because 9 times out of 10 an acid will succumb to water. In other words, you get to a safety shower, you're leaving with your skin still attached to your body. Caustic on the other hand is slimy and does not go away easily. While its on you, it's boring into your skin... So, anyways, I am doing my first of four rounds last night and I happen to walk under the lines coming from the white liquor feed pumps (if you want an explanation as to what this shit is or means, pm me) and I notice that something is dripping. It's the 50% caustic line coming from the pulp mill. We use this 50% caustic to boost the strength (effective #) of the white liquor if we're having problems with our slaker/under/overflow system. Anyways, like a good stooge, i trace it back up stream and find one of the unions has blown and nasty caustic is gushing everywhere and it had been gushing for a long while. the guy i relieve just didn't want to lock it out. this place is going to fucking kill me...

Take a bid out...NOW. Since no one is doing shit to fix this mess or get rid of that asshole. Money or no money, get out.

I would suggest all mighty hell be raised Sam.

i am not going anywhere.
i am not taking a bid. i am not leaving my job.

I'm not trying to start anything, really, but isn't your Union suppose to be there to help you with EXACTLY this sort of thing? You pay for their service, shouldn't they be providing it? I for one would be livid.

Sam, you may get a kick out of this.

So today is the Hoboken Music & Arts festival. There are people with booths all along the main road our store is on. The festival spans about 7 blocks. Guess what booth we get right in front of our store? A bloody chuch group. Of all the spots they could have set up camp, it had to be in front of the porn shop.

I get to work this morning to find two of them handing out "Jesus Loves You!!" balloons right in front of our door. Ok. Fair enough. I can fight passive aggressive with passive aggressive. I take our sign out and prop it up right next to the jesus people. I go back inside and turn the mister on a little higher than necessary. Good thing they prayed for a warm, sunny day! I figure I'm doing them a favor 'cuz, you know, selling god is hard work! They'll appreciate a continuous stream of stagnant, mildewy water to cool them off. I also propped the door open and started playing the Ramones really loud. They'll probably want some good music to help pass the time too.

Now they're holding their bibles in zip lock baggies. Touché! I think I've succeeded in making their lives difficult though. Toying with the idea of letting them use our spare umbrellas.

Posted by Samurai i am not going anywhere. i am not taking a bid. i am not leaving my job.

Ok coming from Canada I'm not sure what things are called in the US, but don't you have some some of health and safety committee within your company first and foremost, and there must be some group (OSHA?) that can be notified and deal with hazards like this??

Posted by L'Ali Ok coming from Canada I'm not sure what things are called in the US, but don't you have some some of health and safety committee within your company first and foremost, and there must be some group (OSHA?) that can be notified and deal with hazards like this??

it's caustic material... this happens all the time. You get used to it. You just keep your eyes open and pay attention.
just pisses me off when stuff we report doesn't get fixed... we report it day after day and it never gets fixed. that chaps my ass.

Work is DEFINITELY testing the outer limits of my patience. Pretty good chance the pretty-boy nitwit brother of the trollop who stole from me is coming to work at my warehouse. This is not good for several reasons. He's a lying, conniving, drug-addled thief, just like his sister. He's a goddamn know-it-all who thinks he's hot shit. He thinks he's better than everyone ever. His condescending attitude of how I run the place really chafes me. (considering everyone else at the company thinks I'm doing great, his opinion is shit.) And on top of all that, he's lazy.

Little history, he worked my job before with a couple of his buddies. He was lucky to have been off the day his two broskis got busted boozing and smoking it up on the clock and stealing product and money. That is most likely the ONLY thing that saved his ass. So I always get this "Well when *I* worked here... blahblahblah". Yeah, well, when you worked there, half the warehouse went missing and it was Animal House 2010. Hence why you do NOT work there anymore, you fucking dolt.

I'm so glad my warehouse the fucking Island of Misfit Toys for that company. Yeah, send me the losers, druggies, rejects, and gimps and wonder why fuckall gets done over there.

JFC.

People that use LISP. I hate LISP! I do not want to verify someone's crocky code written in LISP. I hate it, and am not a huge fan of Lambda Calculus on which it is based. Why can't the civilian contractors use what I use... C, PL/I, FORTRAN and assembler. If I have to fire up EMACS to sort though one more 25,000 line file of LISP I am going to stick my big black Boot, General purpose, Combat up someones ass so far that they'll need a coloectomy.

A coworker has one of these fucking ball chairs and it's making me insane. I wish I could stab him in the face with scissors then pop his stupid ball chair like this:

Posted by Twisted Orchid A coworker has one of these fucking ball chairs and it's making me insane. I wish I could stab him in the face with scissors then pop his stupid ball chair like this:

haha you're kidding, people actually sit on those for a chair? I thought they were only for gyms! Crazy people

Posted by Esoterik haha you're kidding, people actually sit on those for a chair? I thought they were only for gyms! Crazy people

I swear to GOD. It's the most ridiculous thing ever. It's so unprofessional, not to mention loud every time he rolls around trying to scratch his fucking hemorrhoids.

Posted by Twisted Orchid I swear to GOD. It's the most ridiculous thing ever. It's so unprofessional, not to mention loud every time he rolls around trying to scratch his fucking hemorrhoids.

Gross, he's digging his fingers into his ass scratching, then probably shaking hands with people. Think about that during the next "employee potluck" day when you see people eating the food he brought in.

Posted by Oryx4. Being assistant manager seems to translate to: "Do ridiculous amounts of work for little pay, no recognition, and absolutely no benefit whatsoever"

Yes, it means being given that title to justify having you in a salaried position, where you work more hours without being paid overtime!

Posted by Twisted Orchid A coworker has one of these fucking ball chairs and it's making me insane. I wish I could stab him in the face with scissors then pop his stupid ball chair like this:

Said chair looks like it was invented by someone with a brain abcess. I support the use of edged implements to the face for someone dumb enough to go for that device.. do it!