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Gear Grinding 6: I'm So Over This.

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Why is that ALL the people who write installation directions for home items are sooooo freaking bad at their job? My latest is new light fixture. List of tools needed is basic screwdrivers, wire cutters, etc. Get to last part of instructions, drill holes in ceiling. With WHAT???? You *ers never mentioned a drill! I mean I read the instructions first so I got the drill out, but how bad are you at your job to miss that? Also the first instruction has a picture and two of the first components one has to do something with are not shown on the picture. Argh. Anyone ever hear of proofreading?
 
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My son and I assembled an Ikea corner desk yesterday. All it had was pictures for the instructions. Surprise!! Everything was clear as a blue sky in Potsdam and assembly went smoothly and quickly.

Tomorrow he has to assemble a queen bed all by his lonesome (it showed up the day after the moving truck left). The Amazon reviews say it is an easy job. Hope so.
 
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joecct said:
My son and I assembled an Ikea corner desk yesterday. All it had was pictures for the instructions. Surprise!! Everything was clear as a blue sky in Potsdam and assembly went smoothly and quickly.

Tomorrow he has to assemble a queen bed all by his lonesome (it showed up the day after the moving truck left). The Amazon reviews say it is an easy job. Hope so.
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Ikea is awful. It's basically an overcrowded Target, with almost nonexistent customer service.

The desk I type from went together pretty intuitively though.
 
goldy_331 said:
Why is that ALL the people who write installation directions for home items are sooooo freaking bad at their job? My latest is new light fixture. List of tools needed is basic screwdrivers, wire cutters, etc. Get to last part of instructions, drill holes in ceiling. With WHAT???? You *ers never mentioned a drill! I mean I read the instructions first so I got the drill out, but how bad are you at your job to miss that? Also the first instruction has a picture and two of the first components one has to do something with are not shown on the picture. Argh. Anyone ever hear of proofreading?
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you read instructions?
 
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People who have that high-pitched inflection at the end of sentences or, god even worse, at every comma in a sentence.
 
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dxmnkd316 said:
People who have that high-pitched inflection at the end of sentences or, god even worse, at every comma in a sentence.
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So you're saying 75% of the women under 28yo, and 59% of the men in that same age bracket. I couldn't agree more with you on this. Putting inflection into your voice can be an effective tool for keeping people engaged, but it's far too easy to abuse and worse when every sentence ends the same way. Hipster Dude in my team does this, and he has one of those whiny voices too. He's a smart guy, but it sounds like someone's constant corn-holing him, and thus I never want to hear him speak.
 
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St. Clown said:
So you're saying 75% of the women under 28yo, and 59% of the men in that same age bracket. I couldn't agree more with you on this. Putting inflection into your voice can be an effective tool for keeping people engaged, but it's far too easy to abuse and worse when every sentence ends the same way. Hipster Dude in my team does this, and he has one of those whiny voices too. He's a smart guy, but it sounds like someone's constant corn-holing him, and thus I never want to hear him speak.
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It might be higher for women, both percent and age. It's awful. It's like nails on the chalkboard for me. If I'm going to use inflection, I try to keep it towards the sentence. What do YOU think? vs. What do you THINK?
 
Got a new guy for carts. I showed up at work on Wednesday and I'm hearing reports that he's running into cars and humans with our "mule," an electric cart pushing assistant.

So, one manager pulls me aside and asks me to show him how it's done. I go outside, start showing him how to steer a line of carts, and he walks away from me.
 
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ShirtlessBob said:
Got a new guy for carts. I showed up at work on Wednesday and I'm hearing reports that he's running into cars and humans with our "mule," an electric cart pushing assistant.

So, one manager pulls me aside and asks me to show him how it's done. I go outside, start showing him how to steer a line of carts, and he walks away from me.
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I'm sure you're good at doing it, and demonstrating it to others. However, if it had been established that the guy was a problem, one of your managers probably should have done the training, or at least been present for it. That would've accomplished two things:

1. Made it clear to your coworker that management was aware of a problem, and that this was his remedial training/gentle warning. The way you wrote that, made it sound like you just called him over and started trying to instruct him. Problem employees often don't take kindly to direction from more experienced peers. It's why they aren't employed for very long.

2. The manager can attest he was properly trained on how to use the equipment, so that they can start keeping a record. That will be handy for when he gets fired next month because he still hasn't learned his lesson.
 
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I'm sure you're good at doing it, and demonstrating it to others. However, if it had been established that the guy was a problem, one of your managers probably should have done the training, or at least been present for it. That would've accomplished two things:

1. Made it clear to your coworker that management was aware of a problem, and that this was his remedial training/gentle warning. The way you wrote that, made it sound like you just called him over and started trying to instruct him. Problem employees often don't take kindly to direction from more experienced peers. It's why they aren't employed for very long.

2. The manager can attest he was properly trained on how to use the equipment, so that they can start keeping a record. That will be handy for when he gets fired next month because he still hasn't learned his lesson.
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I tried explaining to him that a manager wanted me to show him how. Still walked away.

And "home office" has sent out memos saying that when a cart hits a car, it costs at least $2,000. They want every Sam's Club to be aware of that.
 
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ShirtlessBob said:
I tried explaining to him that a manager wanted me to show him how. Still walked away.

And "home office" has sent out memos saying that when a cart hits a car, it costs at least $2,000. They want every Sam's Club to be aware of that.
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All the more reason a manager should've been present. Just keep doing your thing; he won't last long. By this time next month, he'll be back to sitting on his couch, muttering stuff about "my destiny", and complaining about how society just doesn't understand his special snowflakiness.
 
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ShirtlessBob said:
Got a new guy for carts. I showed up at work on Wednesday and I'm hearing reports that he's running into cars and humans with our "mule," an electric cart pushing assistant.

So, one manager pulls me aside and asks me to show him how it's done. I go outside, start showing him how to steer a line of carts, and he walks away from me.
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Sounds incompetent. When I worked at Target we had a cart attendant that was legally blind. Only hit a couple cars a year, and never caused any damage while I was there (would go really slow, and we had plastic carts).
 
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