Re: Rant Thread
Posted: Sun Sep 25, 2011 9:42 am
Wtf, where did the signage go?! Seriously, we have ONE small area in the store, how is it not here?
Also, just because the team lead quit because this company is falling to pieces does NOT mean shit still shouldn't be done if it has to be done. Send in the damn district manager if need be, but I will NOT be responsible for shit that isn't my problem, considering I'm at the damn bottom of the payroll.
On a related note.. NO, I will NOT "figure something out" just because YOU GUYS never bothered to ship more gloves to the store. Yes, I NEED them to do my job, NO, I do NOT want to BEG the other departments for a few.. and you're giving me permission to buy gloves from the store? That's nice but umm... grocery stores don't freaking carry cheap plastic serving gloves, idiots... And NO, it is NOT my job to figure out what to do about it. Telling me that I have to figure something out cause I HAVE to do my samples whether Ican find gloves or not is like telling someone they have to go to the freaking moon... It's NOT POSSIBLE. And as bottom of the payroll, it is NOT MY JOB to figure stuff out. You want me to think.. Okay, I'm fine with thinking, but freaking pay me for it. (I'm not adverse to moderate problem solving in the job, not at all. But I have HUGE issues with employers that want me to do management level problem solving... like trying to solve something that's impossible)
Oh, and apparently my district manager doesn't even have a phone number that's local to the area he manages. Which means I can't even CALL HIM to figure this shit out. At least not from my cell, so wtf. That's like being told to see the store manager about some huge issue, but oops, he's not in today! To bad, you still have to do it...
Also, the main reason I was okay with keeping this job during the semester is cause you can pick your own shifts. They post them online, you sign up for them, you get money. It's an awesome idea, means that I can work when I can, or if stuff is getting really busy, I can just not take shifts.. or if I just need a weekend off. However, they had this huge management shift, and I don't think the new guy knows wtf he's doing, and he's all "Oh noes, people aren't grabbing shifts, I don't know if I need to hire! Okay, we're gonna start scheduling shifts FOR you guys now" ... TAKE A FREAKING CLUE! People are a) not happy with the management shift (on both levels. Upper management changed, and district management changed) and b) PEOPLE STARTED SCHOOL! So of course shifts are gonna go low.. WHy not just.. I don't know.. Ask people to e-mail you with how often they THINK they'll work during the semester (ie.. 2 shifts a month? every weekend? 1 shift a month?) and then base it off THAT. And if people don't respond, then assume they aren't gonna work for you. I don't even know if they'll keep me at the one store I can actually get to, since I don't work for one store... And if they schedule me across town.. or.. there might even be the risk of being scheduled out of town, I'm freaking screwed.
And now the table that I can use is broken, it's all slanty, and really doesn't roll well because someone decided to put all the freaking heavy stuff on it, and I can't get to the OTHER tables cause they're all behind shit, and I swear I just want to trash the whole damn area. Apparently "some woman" was in the other day and complained about our area, but, it's not my damn fault. I take stuff for my shift, and put it back after, I'm not responsible for the mass of crap that's piling up.
Also.. DAMNIT I TOLD you guys upstairs Ihad to work. There's SUPPOSED to be a RULE about informing others if there's going to be late night/overnight guests. We did it during that house meeting, and yet was I told there'd be a freaking homecoming party thing pretty much ALL WEEKEND? NO I WAS NOT. I need my sleep, especially when I'm feeling stressed from freaking work, and not having a day off for another nearly TWO WEEKS. I don't do well with stress. But I need money, so I took some easy shifts. YOU CAN AT LEAST LET ME SLEEP! Take the damn drinking outside if you're gonna stumble around. Or at least don't freaking bang furniture, and move furniture, and DRAG IT SLOWLY across the floor. I'm in the basement, I can hear it ALL. And YES, The banging means you're TOO FREAKING LOUD. And it means you should be more quiet for the REST OF THE NIGHT. NOT just for 30 seconds.
No sleep makes me CRANKY. I want to freaking BREAK STUFF.
GRRRRR!!! I WANT TO SCREAM!!!!! And I REALLY don't wanna work today, but I don't exactly have a choice.
At least I have my concert tickets... without the excitement of waiting for that... this would all be a LOT worse... <.<
Update: Just called in sick. I figure.. Screw it, I need a day off. I could handle little sleep.. not well, but I'd manage. Or I could handle a few of those problems.. hell.. maybe all of them.. But EVERYTHING all at once? It's like the planets aligned on the same day of a solar eclipse, and massive solar flares causing the aurora borealis to be seen across the entire globe... And I don't handle stress well. I've learned to manage moderate levels (on my scale, I've come to realize that my scale rises a bit more steeply than many other people).. but.. seriously there only so much bullshit I can take before i just want to shatter. And, let's just say that right now, the stress is at a level where I'm having some physical problems/symptoms... I might go talk to that one councilor next week. Jerk-o-lantern helps, it really does.. once I START working I might have even been fine.. but I just spent 10 minutes in the bathroom.. so it's not just a mental block/problem, and I doubt they'd want me running to the bathroom every half hour. Mental training doesn't help with the physical affects.. It's like.. pushing yourself to finish a race... You can do it.. you can find extra strength, and get into the rhythm so you don't stop running... But once you do, especially if you're not in the best shape.. you'll probably want to pass out, heh. And, no matter how hard you DO push yourself, or if you can still keep running, it still hurts, your lungs still burn, and your legs feel like jello, and at any moment you could just collapse with no warning.
Also, just because the team lead quit because this company is falling to pieces does NOT mean shit still shouldn't be done if it has to be done. Send in the damn district manager if need be, but I will NOT be responsible for shit that isn't my problem, considering I'm at the damn bottom of the payroll.
On a related note.. NO, I will NOT "figure something out" just because YOU GUYS never bothered to ship more gloves to the store. Yes, I NEED them to do my job, NO, I do NOT want to BEG the other departments for a few.. and you're giving me permission to buy gloves from the store? That's nice but umm... grocery stores don't freaking carry cheap plastic serving gloves, idiots... And NO, it is NOT my job to figure out what to do about it. Telling me that I have to figure something out cause I HAVE to do my samples whether Ican find gloves or not is like telling someone they have to go to the freaking moon... It's NOT POSSIBLE. And as bottom of the payroll, it is NOT MY JOB to figure stuff out. You want me to think.. Okay, I'm fine with thinking, but freaking pay me for it. (I'm not adverse to moderate problem solving in the job, not at all. But I have HUGE issues with employers that want me to do management level problem solving... like trying to solve something that's impossible)
Oh, and apparently my district manager doesn't even have a phone number that's local to the area he manages. Which means I can't even CALL HIM to figure this shit out. At least not from my cell, so wtf. That's like being told to see the store manager about some huge issue, but oops, he's not in today! To bad, you still have to do it...
Also, the main reason I was okay with keeping this job during the semester is cause you can pick your own shifts. They post them online, you sign up for them, you get money. It's an awesome idea, means that I can work when I can, or if stuff is getting really busy, I can just not take shifts.. or if I just need a weekend off. However, they had this huge management shift, and I don't think the new guy knows wtf he's doing, and he's all "Oh noes, people aren't grabbing shifts, I don't know if I need to hire! Okay, we're gonna start scheduling shifts FOR you guys now" ... TAKE A FREAKING CLUE! People are a) not happy with the management shift (on both levels. Upper management changed, and district management changed) and b) PEOPLE STARTED SCHOOL! So of course shifts are gonna go low.. WHy not just.. I don't know.. Ask people to e-mail you with how often they THINK they'll work during the semester (ie.. 2 shifts a month? every weekend? 1 shift a month?) and then base it off THAT. And if people don't respond, then assume they aren't gonna work for you. I don't even know if they'll keep me at the one store I can actually get to, since I don't work for one store... And if they schedule me across town.. or.. there might even be the risk of being scheduled out of town, I'm freaking screwed.
And now the table that I can use is broken, it's all slanty, and really doesn't roll well because someone decided to put all the freaking heavy stuff on it, and I can't get to the OTHER tables cause they're all behind shit, and I swear I just want to trash the whole damn area. Apparently "some woman" was in the other day and complained about our area, but, it's not my damn fault. I take stuff for my shift, and put it back after, I'm not responsible for the mass of crap that's piling up.
Also.. DAMNIT I TOLD you guys upstairs Ihad to work. There's SUPPOSED to be a RULE about informing others if there's going to be late night/overnight guests. We did it during that house meeting, and yet was I told there'd be a freaking homecoming party thing pretty much ALL WEEKEND? NO I WAS NOT. I need my sleep, especially when I'm feeling stressed from freaking work, and not having a day off for another nearly TWO WEEKS. I don't do well with stress. But I need money, so I took some easy shifts. YOU CAN AT LEAST LET ME SLEEP! Take the damn drinking outside if you're gonna stumble around. Or at least don't freaking bang furniture, and move furniture, and DRAG IT SLOWLY across the floor. I'm in the basement, I can hear it ALL. And YES, The banging means you're TOO FREAKING LOUD. And it means you should be more quiet for the REST OF THE NIGHT. NOT just for 30 seconds.
No sleep makes me CRANKY. I want to freaking BREAK STUFF.
GRRRRR!!! I WANT TO SCREAM!!!!! And I REALLY don't wanna work today, but I don't exactly have a choice.
At least I have my concert tickets... without the excitement of waiting for that... this would all be a LOT worse... <.<
Update: Just called in sick. I figure.. Screw it, I need a day off. I could handle little sleep.. not well, but I'd manage. Or I could handle a few of those problems.. hell.. maybe all of them.. But EVERYTHING all at once? It's like the planets aligned on the same day of a solar eclipse, and massive solar flares causing the aurora borealis to be seen across the entire globe... And I don't handle stress well. I've learned to manage moderate levels (on my scale, I've come to realize that my scale rises a bit more steeply than many other people).. but.. seriously there only so much bullshit I can take before i just want to shatter. And, let's just say that right now, the stress is at a level where I'm having some physical problems/symptoms... I might go talk to that one councilor next week. Jerk-o-lantern helps, it really does.. once I START working I might have even been fine.. but I just spent 10 minutes in the bathroom.. so it's not just a mental block/problem, and I doubt they'd want me running to the bathroom every half hour. Mental training doesn't help with the physical affects.. It's like.. pushing yourself to finish a race... You can do it.. you can find extra strength, and get into the rhythm so you don't stop running... But once you do, especially if you're not in the best shape.. you'll probably want to pass out, heh. And, no matter how hard you DO push yourself, or if you can still keep running, it still hurts, your lungs still burn, and your legs feel like jello, and at any moment you could just collapse with no warning.
