someone I know is going to need to shut up soon.

[pontifex]

Originally posted by: Mucho
I'm sure there more to the story.

yeah, thats what i'm thinking now too.

OP might be able to do it in 5 minutes but how long does it take the woman?
i mean, its still a pretty sh!tty deal that everyone has to come in an hour earlier because of this woman but still, maybe the woman could have worked something out without her affecting everyone.

 

[Lord Zado]

Could the in house application possibly be changed to match your 8-4 shift? I realize you said hardcoded, but it's gotta be easier to switch numbers in software than the work schedules of an entire company...

 

[MmmSkyscraper]

Originally posted by: DivideBYZero
Bat. In the face. (BITF)

FTW :thumbsup:

(especially after reading the update)

 

[NuclearNed]

Originally posted by: Mucho
I'm sure there more to the story.

There isn't much more to the story, but here are a few details that might help people understand things a little better.

First off, I don't work for morons. Most of the people I work with are brilliant - the tops of their fields. However, since we are short staffed due to the strike, people are being required to do things that are not normally part of their duties. People are working in areas that are vastly outside their normal experience.

Second, this is a classic case of "the squeaky wheel gets the grease." The company biotch made out like the scale checks are a huge time-consuming deal, and she did it long enough and loud enough that people would have done anything just to get her to shut up. The people who made the decisions to change the work schedules don't know anything about scale checks, and therefore took her at her word.

At the employee meeting one person spoke up about all this idiocy, and was immediately crucified by the company biotch and one of her cronies.

 

[NuclearNed]

Originally posted by: Lord Zado
Could the in house application possibly be changed to match your 8-4 shift? I realize you said hardcoded, but it's gotta be easier to switch numbers in software than the work schedules of an entire company...

yes - but why? it only takes at most 5 minutes to do a scale check. If we changed the app, then it might have to be changed back when the strike is finally over.

 

[DaiShan]

Originally posted by: DaShen
I suggest making her job more difficult by putting her low on your list of priorities. If she needs something, be busy with your other work. You still need to do her stuff, but make sure it is dead last on your list of things to do. If your coworkers feel the same, they will probably make it difficult for her, too.

If she outright complains again in public about the lack of cooperation, complain yourself that you are swamped with work and her needs can't always come first in your list of things to do. You can always say "I assume I need to deal with the large company needs before I deal with helping out with individual work."

QFT. I used to use this all of the time to get out of ridiculous, or mundane tasks. One time (back when I worked in support) some sales person needed an excel document created and had no idea how to use excel. The Sales Manager made a big deal about it and the CEO told my Boss to get someone to do it, so she pushed it off on me. Now this excel document was fairly involved but shouldn't have taken more than 8-10 hours, but I marked it in my activity report as taking 8 hours a day for 2 weeks. At the time I was making $15/hour and the sales associate was making ~$8. I ended up just breaking down the numbers for them and when they realized that $1200 dollars was spent on this spreadsheet the idea was scrapped. (BTW I did my actual work during the day, but in my activity report I just assigned all of my time to this one project)

 

[DaiShan]

Originally posted by: Mucho
I'm sure there more to the story.

The OP is usually in tech, but since all of their union factory workers are on strike the non-union workers (everyone else) has to work the line in the factory. This woman probably objects to this and wants to find a way out of it, or at least find a way to express her displeasure.

 

[BoomerD]

You're getting paid overtime? Where's the b*tch? Many places require their employees to work overtime doing "stupid stuff" that some idiot dreamed up...Maybe you should join the union...or give them their contract, and let them come back and do the job they apparently do better than your managers do...

 

[NaOH]

Originally posted by: Zysoclaplem
You let your bitches speak freely?
God gave man the fist for a reason.

lol

 

[NuclearNed]

Originally posted by: BoomerD
You're getting paid overtime? Where's the b*tch? Many places require their employees to work overtime doing "stupid stuff" that some idiot dreamed up...Maybe you should join the union...or give them their contract, and let them come back and do the job they apparently do better than your managers do...

I'm not really griping about the overtime per se... its just the overall stupidity of the situation. Plus the fact that I'm getting paid time and a half to wait on the bus to arrive. I'd rather spend that time on the bus going home half an hour earlier.

 

[NuclearNed]

Originally posted by: DaiShan

Originally posted by: Mucho
I'm sure there more to the story.

The OP is usually in tech, but since all of their union factory workers are on strike the non-union workers (everyone else) has to work the line in the factory. This woman probably objects to this and wants to find a way out of it, or at least find a way to express her displeasure.

bingo - I suspect that you are correct

 

[BooGiMaN]

Originally posted by: NuclearNed

Originally posted by: Mucho
I'm sure there more to the story.

There isn't much more to the story, but here are a few details that might help people understand things a little better.

First off, I don't work for morons. Most of the people I work with are brilliant - the tops of their fields. However, since we are short staffed due to the strike, people are being required to do things that are not normally part of their duties. People are working in areas that are vastly outside their normal experience.

Second, this is a classic case of "the squeaky wheel gets the grease." The company biotch made out like the scale checks are a huge time-consuming deal, and she did it long enough and loud enough that people would have done anything just to get her to shut up. The people who made the decisions to change the work schedules don't know anything about scale checks, and therefore took her at her word.

At the employee meeting one person spoke up about all this idiocy, and was immediately crucified by the company biotch and one of her cronies.

so why didnt the rest of you coem to that guys defense and point out that she was wrong?

seems like there is no united front at your company against stupid biotches

 

[IGBT]

Originally posted by: NuclearNed
sure-fire way to anger Ned:
1. company goes on strike
2. company schedule undergoes minor changes
3. a 5-minute operation that normally has to be done once a day now has to be done twice a day
4. in an employee meeting, company biotch gripes incessantly about losing 5 minutes of her day (and I mean incessantly with a capital INCESSANTLY)
5. clueless vp's conclude that company biotch has a valid point
6. clueless idiot at the meeting suggests changing everyone's schedule so that company biotch doesn't lose 5 minutes of her day
7. clueless vp's take clueless idiot's suggestion to heart
8. all the employees at the company now have to come in to work an hour earlier so that company biotch doesn't have to lose 5 minutes of her day

Moral of the story: company biotch needs a lot more "shut the hell up already"

..be nice. she's gona get promoted and you'll be working for her. mabe you can carry her purse to make amends.

 

[TGS]

Originally posted by: BooGiMaN

Originally posted by: NuclearNed

Originally posted by: Mucho
I'm sure there more to the story.

There isn't much more to the story, but here are a few details that might help people understand things a little better.

First off, I don't work for morons. Most of the people I work with are brilliant - the tops of their fields. However, since we are short staffed due to the strike, people are being required to do things that are not normally part of their duties. People are working in areas that are vastly outside their normal experience.

Second, this is a classic case of "the squeaky wheel gets the grease." The company biotch made out like the scale checks are a huge time-consuming deal, and she did it long enough and loud enough that people would have done anything just to get her to shut up. The people who made the decisions to change the work schedules don't know anything about scale checks, and therefore took her at her word.

At the employee meeting one person spoke up about all this idiocy, and was immediately crucified by the company biotch and one of her cronies.

so why didnt the rest of you coem to that guys defense and point out that she was wrong?

seems like there is no united front at your company against stupid biotches

That's what I was thinking... Seems like you guys didn't have a backbone to point out the stupidity, and now she can run rampant with the support of some VP's.

Edit: Just for clarification on the thread title change now...

A little story of my own. Back in my AF days, we have an Master Sergeant as a section chief. He was a poor leader, didn't adhere to safety regulations, barely wore his uniform during duty hours, made racists and sexist comments about people, and had his crew of cronies that took 4-6 hours of the day off sometimes. Nobody stood up to him until a Staff Sergeant transferred into the section. He immediately started pointing out all the shortfalls of the MSgt. The MSgt labelled him as a poor subordinate. I spoke with my supervisor at the time, (also a Staff Sergeant, I was a Senior Airman at the time) and he told me to just forget about what was going on. Claiming that doing anything would be more trouble than it was worth(aka Spineless bastard). So I spoke with the other SSgt, and we ended up speaking with our First Sergeant. The MSgt found out about this (read the Good Ol' Boy network) and stripped us of our duty priviledges. We worked in a data center and basically did nothing. We started a formal complaint, and the IG got involved. I didn't hear what the active duty punishment was, but he was forced into an early retirement.

So again, stand up against this person. It will pay off in the long run.

 

[NuclearNed]

Originally posted by: TGS

Originally posted by: BooGiMaN

Originally posted by: NuclearNed

Originally posted by: Mucho
I'm sure there more to the story.

There isn't much more to the story, but here are a few details that might help people understand things a little better.

First off, I don't work for morons. Most of the people I work with are brilliant - the tops of their fields. However, since we are short staffed due to the strike, people are being required to do things that are not normally part of their duties. People are working in areas that are vastly outside their normal experience.

Second, this is a classic case of "the squeaky wheel gets the grease." The company biotch made out like the scale checks are a huge time-consuming deal, and she did it long enough and loud enough that people would have done anything just to get her to shut up. The people who made the decisions to change the work schedules don't know anything about scale checks, and therefore took her at her word.

At the employee meeting one person spoke up about all this idiocy, and was immediately crucified by the company biotch and one of her cronies.

so why didnt the rest of you coem to that guys defense and point out that she was wrong?

seems like there is no united front at your company against stupid biotches

That's what I was thinking... Seems like you guys didn't have a backbone to point out the stupidity, and now she can run rampant with the support of some VP's.

True, we should have rushed to this guy's defense. I guess we were all under the assumption that management wasn't taking her seriously - until a couple of days ago when the offical email came out.

 

[Parkre]

Originally posted by: NuclearNed

Originally posted by: TGS

Originally posted by: BooGiMaN

Originally posted by: NuclearNed

Originally posted by: Mucho
I'm sure there more to the story.

There isn't much more to the story, but here are a few details that might help people understand things a little better.

First off, I don't work for morons. Most of the people I work with are brilliant - the tops of their fields. However, since we are short staffed due to the strike, people are being required to do things that are not normally part of their duties. People are working in areas that are vastly outside their normal experience.

Second, this is a classic case of "the squeaky wheel gets the grease." The company biotch made out like the scale checks are a huge time-consuming deal, and she did it long enough and loud enough that people would have done anything just to get her to shut up. The people who made the decisions to change the work schedules don't know anything about scale checks, and therefore took her at her word.

At the employee meeting one person spoke up about all this idiocy, and was immediately crucified by the company biotch and one of her cronies.

so why didnt the rest of you coem to that guys defense and point out that she was wrong?

seems like there is no united front at your company against stupid biotches

That's what I was thinking... Seems like you guys didn't have a backbone to point out the stupidity, and now she can run rampant with the support of some VP's.

True, we should have rushed to this guy's defense. I guess we were all under the assumption that management wasn't taking her seriously - until a couple of days ago when the offical email came out.

Whoops!! you trusted management!! I'd have done the same thing, someone whining over the stupidest thing and thinking that management can't be taking it seriously. Then BAMMMM!!! "It has come to my attention from <insert whiney person here> that all the coffee stirrers should be not be placed by the creamer. Apparently the sugar gets jealous and starts to disappear on it's own. Because of this, a training session will be held Thursday to inform of proper protocol on how to handle the situation. <Insert whiney person here> has taken it upon themselves to write an intructional booklet and will be acting security guard over said coffee condiments to ensure everyone is following procedure. "

Next week... " All coffee priveleges have been suspended and will be re-evaluated until <Insert whiney person here> can be found , who is believed to be on the first floor in the women's restroom holding the coffee stirrir's hostage"