Gear Grinding 9: I Need a Wine!

[leswp1]

Re: Gear Grinding 9: I Need a Wine!

I think automatically keeping minimum wage at pace with inflation is literally the bare minimum we should do. It'd ease the concerns of you and your ilk because you'd never see the massive one-time jump that shocks your conscious. Instead, it would just gradually increase over time.

Such logic is not allowed.

[The Rube]

Re: Gear Grinding 9: I Need a Wine!

Just give them more training and a higher salary, right?

Yes. Train them to be qualified for the job, the ones not qualified are weeded out, and then the qualified get the benefits of doing the job correctly. See how that works? And yes, I see what you did there.

[MissThundercat]

Re: Gear Grinding 9: I Need a Wine!

Finding out I need 5 references for an internship on short notice. Not all personal.

After the whole Chaplain fiasco at Tyson last year...

[MissThundercat]

I work with autistic kids, and our work is kept on an iPad. Today, IT did something and wiped out the session I saved earlier, as well as the work I had done with my afternoon kiddo.

[St. Clown]

Re: Gear Grinding 9: I Need a Wine!

Refreshing ? to see something other than the 2 most popular grinders.

Those 2 guys Are way too popular to not have a lot of STDs.

[MissThundercat]

Yesterday, my supervising clinician called me a "gentleman," loud enough for me to hear. When I said "you called me a gentleman. Excuse me, my pronouns are she/her/hers," she denied it. When I told her I heard it, she offered a weak "well, it wasn't malicious." On my way home, I get a text saying "I'm sorry for my misuse of language." I sent something back saying "I'm a trans woman. Language like that hurts. I thought I was welcomed and included here." This morning, I get "of course you are welcome."

But that's not the end of it. Today, I sent another text, saying "yesterday, you did X. By doing X, I felt you undermined me." I get a text back, essentially saying "I'm the supervisor. If you need to know how to do your job, ask."

I'm finding who to complain to, because if she's going to respond "I'm the supervisor" every time I say "I felt you did something wrong", on top of calling me a man... we're gonna have issues!

[aparch]

A**hats who launch loud percussive fireworks at random times without regard for their neighbors or pets.

My three dogs (two adopted, third is a foster) are pacing, scared, and clawing at furniture to get away from the noise.

Who in the actual fu** decides 9:30 on a Sunday night is a good time to unload their box of fireworks? Or 1130pm on a Thursday? Or from 7pm to 8pm on a Saturday (while its still daylight?!?!)




Side note: neighbors who have lived in the neighborhood suspect it's the sheriff deputy a cul-de-sac over. If it is him, he's pretty high ranking and is the explosive ordinance disposal tech for the county. No fighting city hall in reporting him.

[leswp1]

A**hats who launch loud percussive fireworks at random times without regard for their neighbors or pets.

My three dogs (two adopted, third is a foster) are pacing, scared, and clawing at furniture to get away from the noise.

Who in the actual fu** decides 9:30 on a Sunday night is a good time to unload their box of fireworks? Or 1130pm on a Thursday? Or from 7pm to 8pm on a Saturday (while its still daylight?!?!)




Side note: neighbors who have lived in the neighborhood suspect it's the sheriff deputy a cul-de-sac over. If it is him, he's pretty high ranking and is the explosive ordinance disposal tech for the county. No fighting city hall in reporting him.

We have some person doing this randomly during the day and like clockwork around 12:30-1AM every night.

[wolverineTrumpet]

When I get excited because 30 minutes into the workday the coworker isn't here and I think I'll be able to get a lot done. Then she shows up. Now for the first 45 minutes she's been here, she has not done any work, she has been chatting with another coworker.

[MissThundercat]

One of my instructors uses "outreach" as a verb. "Outreach to me." It's annoying.

[FadeToBlack&Gold]

One of my instructors uses "outreach" as a verb. "Outreach to me." It's annoying.

Probably trying to avoid saying "touch base" or "circle back" or "vet it with me". ;-)

[French Rage]

It feels like 60% of my Youtube ads are for ball-shaving, and the other 40% are for The Epoch Times, which is the newspaper equivalent of ball-shaving.

[unofan]

It feels like 60% of my Youtube ads are for ball-shaving, and the other 40% are for The Epoch Times, which is the newspaper equivalent of ball-shaving.

First off, what are you watching to get those ads.

Secondly, I still think I'd take those over the non-stop Joni Ernst ads I'm getting (or more accurately, anti- Greenfield ads, but they're sponsored by the national GOP).

[French Rage]

First off, what are you watching to get those ads.

Mainly a week-by-week WWI documentary. I guess their analysis says history buffs really want that hidden inch.

[RaceBoarder]

Ever been involved with a group of people and you understand a situation while everyone else struggles to grasp the basics of what's happening? I went through that today at work with some changes coming through our payroll system...

Basically our site has been using a Monday-Sunday payroll system while the rest of the company used a Sunday-Saturday system. Our site will be updating to be consistent with the rest of the company. We were informed of the change today. Because of this, when the change happens, we will have two paychecks affected. Because my shift works four 10 hour days (Sat-Tue) we will have one pay period be 13 days while the next will be 15 days. Our checks will be 30 hours and 50 hours instead of 40 & 40.

All day everyone was *****ing and moaning about this. They felt that somehow they were getting "screwed". It was like the boss walked into their living room and kicked their puppy and slapped their toddler... No one seemed to grasp that they would receive the same pay, albeit offset by a paycheck...