Work Rant!

[panzergeneral]

Work is like getting handed a piece of candy and then quickly being punched in the dick so they can take the candy back. I'm getting a new title and a fat raise! But for the position I've already been doing for the past 10 months. I'm moving back to daytime and getting a 4-10 schedule! But I don't have weekends off even though I've stepped up to

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[sallybanner]

I am afraid of my boss and my supervisor is at the dentist so I am sitting here about to esplode because I need some MENTAL HEALTH TIME OFF which I would make up by staying late or working on Saturday.

also people yell at me on a near daily basis about petty shit like having to push too many buttons to get to a live person.

[panzergeneral]

Do you get any PTO? Can you schedule time off ahead of time, or are they dicky dicks about that??

:( I understand completely! I'm so tired of working in a help desk environment and being slave to an ACD. Getting screamed at by doctors because they didn't go to their "mandatory" training is gravy on top, I guess.

[sallybanner]

I ended up staying at work. I get vacation days, I can take sick days, but I have a lot of sick days used already so I just wanted to go home early so I didn't end up crying at my desk. last time I asked I couldn't take a vacation day on this short of notice. my supervisor told me, when she eventually came in, that since the admin wasn't here today I HAD to go through the boss. I weighed the options, and crying was more fun.

The Workiest Work Rant I Have

[nekarai]

1. Reduced money. Reductions of 8% in pay (aka, furloughs) start at the end of the month. (While the execs, making over $200,000, are getting raises and bonuses). I don't make a lot to begin with, I work for the frickin' UC system. On top of that they're making us pay more for health benefits (which I admit have been great), and also to pay all of our pension from now on (yeah, not so great now

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[nekarai]

Also, I need your address. Gimme!

[nekarai]

[rin_o]

*wanders over*

Um, knowing the value of privacy both on and offline i feel like i should mention the post, she is not friendlocked. i really hope there weren't any troubles from this minor oversight.

[cuddlyturbodog]

Well, if it's all the same, here we go.
Retail is retarded. I know it's not as stressful or, hell, important as what you lot do, but it's mind-numbingly, soul-crushingly retarded. Find a new job? Yes, I'm working on that, but I'd like to graduate with a degree and then work in that field (Good news: Hoping to graduate in December

[panzergeneral]

Wait wait, what happened to running the shop at school?? Also, that is terrific about graduation!! I think you will do wonderful in Engineering Land (tm), you will most likely be filthy with cash and inventing all sorts of amazing things!

PS. My job is not important at all, I am just a cog in the health care machine :(

[cuddlyturbodog]

The school's budget has been dwindling. For the last year now I've been working at a CD/record/game store.
The graduating is a mixed bag. I burned out on getting the Master's, but I can do that some other time when I'm not struggling to make ends meet.

I thought you were transferring patients and things. That sounds important to me. But even if it's not, it sounds important from my perspective.

work rant

[rastlin]

I have to go to work to stay alive to go to work. I'm uncertain that fun is worth this repetitive cycle. Who wants to start a bicycling gypsy band with me?

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[rastlin]

Me. I've lost loads of weight since becoming destitute and having to ride my bike to work!
ALSO: DAVE AND ALYSSA
Find the album "Angels" by Dan le Sac VS Scroobius Pip. Is there a word for South London Hip-Hop? Like Brit-hop? That sounds too much like Brit-pop, which this is not.

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[cuddlyturbodog]

Crap, that was me.