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"elegy" |
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22 Oct 2003 06:18:14 AM |
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speaking of rabbits. (work ranting, language) |
we had one at work last night. supposedly it was seizuring. i don't
know. it had a big green seizure sticker on its chart. her chart. i
don't know much about rabbits. we had one for years and years when i
was a kid. it was ebil bitey rabbit. somebody left her on the back
porch in a box with 25 lbs of rabbit food on good friday.
anyway, the bunny at work was not ebil. she did not croak on me.
actually, she looked a lot better when i left this morning.
the overnight vet said as she was leaving "if you have any questions,
just yell" the way she always does, and then went back and amended
"unless it's the rabbit because i don't know about rabbits".
.....
i'm crazy frustrated with work. i got my ***** chewed last week by the
tech manager for leaving dirty bowls in the sink in the kennel.
because the morning kennel girl had been bitching about it (me). not
that she ever said anything to me about it, mind you. hell, i've been
leaving bowls in the sink for, what, ten months now? i'm not a mind
reader. i need to be told if i'm causing disaster with my shamefully
messy ways.
i get all kinds of other junk thrown on me that i have to do for other
people because they don't have time. including take the fucking trash
out that the kennel people can't bother to do. give animals water that
the kennel people can't bother to do. write down what the animals EAT
that the kennel people can't bother to do. but she went to the manager
about me because i leave bowls in the sink.
fuckin bite me.
this is the girl that gets all uppity with people who start in the
kennel but want to move on to be technicians. they trained her for
months and months and months to be a technician. i don't know why
she's not. maybe she couldn't cut it.
(i can.)
so much for all that teamwork ***** that gets preached at us
constantly.
so i decided sure i'll wash all my bowls. no problem. but hell if i'm
doing laundry for her overnight anymore. laundry's more of a pain in
my ***** anyway. and definitely much stinkier.
so, yep. clean bowls. dirty laundry.
--
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easily defeated (rem)
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| User: "dejablues" |
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| Title: Re: speaking of rabbits. (work ranting, language) |
22 Oct 2003 06:21:30 PM |
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Eek. All I know about rabbits I got from watching "Vets in Practice" on PBS!
Hope the bunny is OK.
"elegy" <elegy@shattering.org> wrote in message
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we had one at work last night. supposedly it was seizuring. i don't
know. it had a big green seizure sticker on its chart. her chart. i
don't know much about rabbits. we had one for years and years when i
was a kid. it was ebil bitey rabbit. somebody left her on the back
porch in a box with 25 lbs of rabbit food on good friday.
anyway, the bunny at work was not ebil. she did not croak on me.
actually, she looked a lot better when i left this morning.
the overnight vet said as she was leaving "if you have any questions,
just yell" the way she always does, and then went back and amended
"unless it's the rabbit because i don't know about rabbits".
....
i'm crazy frustrated with work. i got my ***** chewed last week by the
tech manager for leaving dirty bowls in the sink in the kennel.
because the morning kennel girl had been bitching about it (me). not
that she ever said anything to me about it, mind you. hell, i've been
leaving bowls in the sink for, what, ten months now? i'm not a mind
reader. i need to be told if i'm causing disaster with my shamefully
messy ways.
i get all kinds of other junk thrown on me that i have to do for other
people because they don't have time. including take the fucking trash
out that the kennel people can't bother to do. give animals water that
the kennel people can't bother to do. write down what the animals EAT
that the kennel people can't bother to do. but she went to the manager
about me because i leave bowls in the sink.
fuckin bite me.
this is the girl that gets all uppity with people who start in the
kennel but want to move on to be technicians. they trained her for
months and months and months to be a technician. i don't know why
she's not. maybe she couldn't cut it.
(i can.)
so much for all that teamwork ***** that gets preached at us
constantly.
so i decided sure i'll wash all my bowls. no problem. but hell if i'm
doing laundry for her overnight anymore. laundry's more of a pain in
my ***** anyway. and definitely much stinkier.
so, yep. clean bowls. dirty laundry.
--
i will be your little clown
easily defeated (rem)
http://shattering.org
x-no-archive: yes in the headers
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| User: "harakiri" |
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| Title: Re: speaking of rabbits. (work ranting, language) |
22 Oct 2003 05:23:26 PM |
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let us know how it turns out
"elegy" <elegy@shattering.org> wrote in message
news:f9pcpvkht00h909eu7u4s2bo4bp7c2rvgq@4ax.com...
we had one at work last night. supposedly it was seizuring. i don't
know. it had a big green seizure sticker on its chart. her chart. i
don't know much about rabbits. we had one for years and years when i
was a kid. it was ebil bitey rabbit. somebody left her on the back
porch in a box with 25 lbs of rabbit food on good friday.
anyway, the bunny at work was not ebil. she did not croak on me.
actually, she looked a lot better when i left this morning.
the overnight vet said as she was leaving "if you have any questions,
just yell" the way she always does, and then went back and amended
"unless it's the rabbit because i don't know about rabbits".
....
i'm crazy frustrated with work. i got my ***** chewed last week by the
tech manager for leaving dirty bowls in the sink in the kennel.
because the morning kennel girl had been bitching about it (me). not
that she ever said anything to me about it, mind you. hell, i've been
leaving bowls in the sink for, what, ten months now? i'm not a mind
reader. i need to be told if i'm causing disaster with my shamefully
messy ways.
i get all kinds of other junk thrown on me that i have to do for other
people because they don't have time. including take the fucking trash
out that the kennel people can't bother to do. give animals water that
the kennel people can't bother to do. write down what the animals EAT
that the kennel people can't bother to do. but she went to the manager
about me because i leave bowls in the sink.
fuckin bite me.
this is the girl that gets all uppity with people who start in the
kennel but want to move on to be technicians. they trained her for
months and months and months to be a technician. i don't know why
she's not. maybe she couldn't cut it.
(i can.)
so much for all that teamwork ***** that gets preached at us
constantly.
so i decided sure i'll wash all my bowls. no problem. but hell if i'm
doing laundry for her overnight anymore. laundry's more of a pain in
my ***** anyway. and definitely much stinkier.
so, yep. clean bowls. dirty laundry.
--
i will be your little clown
easily defeated (rem)
http://shattering.org
x-no-archive: yes in the headers
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| User: "Janithor" |
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| Title: Re: speaking of rabbits. (work ranting, language) |
22 Oct 2003 06:54:29 AM |
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elegy wrote:
we had one at work last night. supposedly it was seizuring. i don't
know. it had a big green seizure sticker on its chart. her chart. i
don't know much about rabbits. we had one for years and years when i
was a kid. it was ebil bitey rabbit. somebody left her on the back
porch in a box with 25 lbs of rabbit food on good friday.
anyway, the bunny at work was not ebil. she did not croak on me.
actually, she looked a lot better when i left this morning.
the overnight vet said as she was leaving "if you have any questions,
just yell" the way she always does, and then went back and amended
"unless it's the rabbit because i don't know about rabbits".
....
i'm crazy frustrated with work. i got my ***** chewed last week by the
tech manager for leaving dirty bowls in the sink in the kennel.
because the morning kennel girl had been bitching about it (me). not
that she ever said anything to me about it, mind you. hell, i've been
leaving bowls in the sink for, what, ten months now? i'm not a mind
reader. i need to be told if i'm causing disaster with my shamefully
messy ways.
It's a Dilbert world.
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| User: "elegy" |
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| Title: Re: speaking of rabbits. (work ranting, language) |
22 Oct 2003 07:01:38 AM |
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On Wed, 22 Oct 2003 11:54:29 GMT, Janithor <Janithor@comcast.net>
wrote:
It's a Dilbert world.
isn't that the truth.
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i will be your little clown
easily defeated (rem)
http://shattering.org
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| User: "Janithor" |
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| Title: Re: speaking of rabbits. (work ranting, language) |
22 Oct 2003 07:18:23 AM |
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elegy wrote:
On Wed, 22 Oct 2003 11:54:29 GMT, Janithor <Janithor@comcast.net>
wrote:
It's a Dilbert world.
isn't that the truth.
People set you up to fail like this, it's really hard to not get all
upset and take it personally. I'm learning. The thing is, they start
to make you think that you really ARE a ***** up. Then you step back,
look at it from the outside, and realize they are crazy. I mean, like
you said, you've been doing this for 10 months and it's suddenly now a
big issue? Did they come down on you for it, or did they just mention
it? It'd be one thing to say, "Hey, can you start washing the dishes
instead of leaving them dirty in the sink? Thanks" vs. coming down on
you suddenly. But there are people who operate like this, everything
they don't like is a crisis and a complete moral and intellectual
failure on your part. It's a really stupid way to operate, but I'm
slowly learning how to not let myself get sucked into it.
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| User: "elegy" |
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| Title: Re: speaking of rabbits. (work ranting, language) |
22 Oct 2003 07:45:53 AM |
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On Wed, 22 Oct 2003 12:18:23 GMT, Janithor <Janithor@comcast.net>
wrote:
x-no-archive: yes
elegy wrote:
On Wed, 22 Oct 2003 11:54:29 GMT, Janithor <Janithor@comcast.net>
wrote:
It's a Dilbert world.
isn't that the truth.
People set you up to fail like this, it's really hard to not get all
upset and take it personally. I'm learning. The thing is, they start
to make you think that you really ARE a ***** up. Then you step back,
look at it from the outside, and realize they are crazy. I mean, like
you said, you've been doing this for 10 months and it's suddenly now a
big issue? Did they come down on you for it, or did they just mention
it? It'd be one thing to say, "Hey, can you start washing the dishes
instead of leaving them dirty in the sink? Thanks" vs. coming down on
you suddenly. But there are people who operate like this, everything
they don't like is a crisis and a complete moral and intellectual
failure on your part. It's a really stupid way to operate, but I'm
slowly learning how to not let myself get sucked into it.
i think i've reached the point at this place where i don't take it
personally 85% of the time, which is really good for me. i just get
disgusted. i'm just like well ***** em. because the bottom line is, i
do my job and i do it well. i am one person and i have a limited
amount of time to do a whole shitload of work, and they will just have
to understand if i don't have time to get everything done. and if they
want my priorities to be washing bowls, then fine. i'll wash bowls.
and something else will have to slip. i am not superhuman. i am not
allowed to work more than ten minutes past the end of my shift. they
made the rules. i didn't.
and right now, they need me more than i need them. and i underlined
this to them by taking off a full week and watching them scramble to
cover my shift for five whole days.
but it gets wearing after awhile, all this nonsense. because that's
what it is. nonsense and poor management.
what irks me is that the girl having the problem with me, whose life i
was directly impacting, didn't just drop me a note saying hey can you
wash your bowls. then i would have been oh yeah sorry. she took it to
the manager and made a huge deal out of it. i think the manager was
rolling her eyes a little bit when she informing me of the problem (i
talked to her on the phone). i mean, come on people. they're *bowls*
for crying out loud. this is not the end of the world.
--
i will be your little clown
easily defeated (rem)
http://shattering.org
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| User: "" |
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| Title: Re: speaking of rabbits. (work ranting, language) |
22 Oct 2003 07:02:10 PM |
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On Wed, 22 Oct 2003 08:45:53 -0400, elegy <elegy@shattering.org>
wrote:
<(((*> what irks me is that the girl having the problem with me, whose life i
<(((*> was directly impacting, didn't just drop me a note saying hey can you
<(((*> wash your bowls. then i would have been oh yeah sorry.
Depending on how many bowls one is talking about, it makes me
wonder if a dishwasher might be a useful asset for the office.
There is a fair number of things that can be cleaned to
reasonable standards in a dishwasher.
I'm also wondering if "tit for tat is fair play" might apply
here. I mean, if you can document a constant stream of tasks that
this girl leaves for you, perhaps you too could have a chat with
the manager.
Tara J. Ballance
Montreal, Canada
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| User: "Janithor" |
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| Title: Re: speaking of rabbits. (work ranting, language) |
22 Oct 2003 08:23:44 AM |
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elegy wrote:
i think i've reached the point at this place where i don't take it
personally 85% of the time, which is really good for me. i just get
disgusted. i'm just like well ***** em. because the bottom line is, i
do my job and i do it well. i am one person and i have a limited
amount of time to do a whole shitload of work, and they will just have
to understand if i don't have time to get everything done. and if they
want my priorities to be washing bowls, then fine. i'll wash bowls.
and something else will have to slip. i am not superhuman. i am not
allowed to work more than ten minutes past the end of my shift. they
made the rules. i didn't.
Sounds good. I'm with you, believe me. I'm trying to get beyond even
getting annoyed/angry, and getting to the point of really, truly, not
caring. Hard to do when you're job is on the line, and esp. if you take
pride in your work. But, people are what they are.
I've got one customer constantly riding me. I'm at the point now where
I'm better off if they fire me than if they don't. Not worth the
hassle. So I'm doing the best I can, and then going home. I'm not
going to sweat and wring my hands over every little piece of crap that
he whines about. And if he fires me for it, so be it.
and right now, they need me more than i need them. and i underlined
this to them by taking off a full week and watching them scramble to
cover my shift for five whole days.
Hm, well that does give you a little bit of power. I'm starting to tell
this customer of mine good news too. I think people get these mental
filters going, and most people are hamsters responding only to the
banana pellet in front of their face. So I'm trying to counter the
information about me that gets fed to him, which is almost always bad,
since people don't call him when things are OK.
I'm wondering if it might be helpful to toot your own horn every now and
then. Let's them know you're not a complete screw up, and also that you
do take your job seriously. Any other comments from people reading
this thread, I'm all ears.
but it gets wearing after awhile, all this nonsense. because that's
what it is. nonsense and poor management.
Yup. Nonsense. Definitely no argument from me.
what irks me is that the girl having the problem with me, whose life i
was directly impacting, didn't just drop me a note saying hey can you
wash your bowls. then i would have been oh yeah sorry. she took it to
the manager and made a huge deal out of it.
Exactly! I get this same thing constantly. Makes me want to scream.
And now the manager is pissed, because they have to deal with one more
silly little problem. And since stuff flows downhill, it lands on the
person lowest on the food chain.
i think the manager was
rolling her eyes a little bit when she informing me of the problem (i
talked to her on the phone). i mean, come on people. they're *bowls*
for crying out loud. this is not the end of the world.
Could be. Hopefully the manager understands what's going on.
Anyone else, I'm all ears.
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| User: "Whiskers" |
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22 Oct 2003 07:16:38 PM |
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In alt.support.depression on Wednesday 22 Oct 2003 2:23 pm, Janithor
<Janithor@comcast.net> wrote:
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I've got one customer constantly riding me. I'm at the point now where
I'm better off if they fire me than if they don't. Not worth the
hassle. So I'm doing the best I can, and then going home. I'm not
going to sweat and wring my hands over every little piece of crap that
he whines about. And if he fires me for it, so be it.
snip
I really admire people who run their own business; I know I couldn't handle
the pressure.
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-- ^^^^^^^^^^ Interested in Citroens?
-- Whiskers <http://www.aacit.net>
-- ~~~~~~~~~~ <news:alt.autos.citroen>
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| User: "harakiri" |
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| Title: Re: speaking of rabbits. (work ranting, language) |
22 Oct 2003 05:51:56 PM |
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Yanni Thor, i want you to know when i see people do that, i but into their
bidness and let them know they are being irrational. sometimes i do it in
comical ways. but that's another post
"Janithor" <Janithor@comcast.net> wrote in message
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elegy wrote:
i think i've reached the point at this place where i don't take it
personally 85% of the time, which is really good for me. i just get
disgusted. i'm just like well ***** em. because the bottom line is, i
do my job and i do it well. i am one person and i have a limited
amount of time to do a whole shitload of work, and they will just have
to understand if i don't have time to get everything done. and if they
want my priorities to be washing bowls, then fine. i'll wash bowls.
and something else will have to slip. i am not superhuman. i am not
allowed to work more than ten minutes past the end of my shift. they
made the rules. i didn't.
Sounds good. I'm with you, believe me. I'm trying to get beyond even
getting annoyed/angry, and getting to the point of really, truly, not
caring. Hard to do when you're job is on the line, and esp. if you take
pride in your work. But, people are what they are.
I've got one customer constantly riding me. I'm at the point now where
I'm better off if they fire me than if they don't. Not worth the
hassle. So I'm doing the best I can, and then going home. I'm not
going to sweat and wring my hands over every little piece of crap that
he whines about. And if he fires me for it, so be it.
and right now, they need me more than i need them. and i underlined
this to them by taking off a full week and watching them scramble to
cover my shift for five whole days.
Hm, well that does give you a little bit of power. I'm starting to tell
this customer of mine good news too. I think people get these mental
filters going, and most people are hamsters responding only to the
banana pellet in front of their face. So I'm trying to counter the
information about me that gets fed to him, which is almost always bad,
since people don't call him when things are OK.
I'm wondering if it might be helpful to toot your own horn every now and
then. Let's them know you're not a complete screw up, and also that you
do take your job seriously. Any other comments from people reading
this thread, I'm all ears.
but it gets wearing after awhile, all this nonsense. because that's
what it is. nonsense and poor management.
Yup. Nonsense. Definitely no argument from me.
what irks me is that the girl having the problem with me, whose life i
was directly impacting, didn't just drop me a note saying hey can you
wash your bowls. then i would have been oh yeah sorry. she took it to
the manager and made a huge deal out of it.
Exactly! I get this same thing constantly. Makes me want to scream.
And now the manager is pissed, because they have to deal with one more
silly little problem. And since stuff flows downhill, it lands on the
person lowest on the food chain.
i think the manager was
rolling her eyes a little bit when she informing me of the problem (i
talked to her on the phone). i mean, come on people. they're *bowls*
for crying out loud. this is not the end of the world.
Could be. Hopefully the manager understands what's going on.
Anyone else, I'm all ears.
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| User: "Janithor" |
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| Title: Re: speaking of rabbits. (work ranting, language) |
22 Oct 2003 07:41:40 PM |
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harakiri wrote:
Yanni Thor, i want you to know when i see people do that, i but into their
bidness and let them know they are being irrational. sometimes i do it in
comical ways. but that's another post
Which people? When it's a boss/customer, hard to know how to do this.
I'm starting to do it a lot more out of necessity, and it's working I
think. If you don't stand up and draw a line, people will walk all over
you and then spit you out when you're all used up.
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| User: "harakiri" |
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| Title: Re: speaking of rabbits. (work ranting, language) |
22 Oct 2003 05:47:24 PM |
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aint it weird how those people are? and then the get it done to them and
they still do it to others. f-ing weird they are.
"Janithor" <Janithor@comcast.net> wrote in message
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elegy wrote:
On Wed, 22 Oct 2003 11:54:29 GMT, Janithor <Janithor@comcast.net>
wrote:
It's a Dilbert world.
isn't that the truth.
People set you up to fail like this, it's really hard to not get all
upset and take it personally. I'm learning. The thing is, they start
to make you think that you really ARE a ***** up. Then you step back,
look at it from the outside, and realize they are crazy. I mean, like
you said, you've been doing this for 10 months and it's suddenly now a
big issue? Did they come down on you for it, or did they just mention
it? It'd be one thing to say, "Hey, can you start washing the dishes
instead of leaving them dirty in the sink? Thanks" vs. coming down on
you suddenly. But there are people who operate like this, everything
they don't like is a crisis and a complete moral and intellectual
failure on your part. It's a really stupid way to operate, but I'm
slowly learning how to not let myself get sucked into it.
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| User: "Janithor" |
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| Title: Re: speaking of rabbits. (work ranting, language) |
22 Oct 2003 07:43:05 PM |
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harakiri wrote:
aint it weird how those people are? and then the get it done to them and
they still do it to others. f-ing weird they are.
Yeah, that's the part that astounds me. You'd think having to deal with
it themselves, something would click in their brain when thy are doing
it to others. f-ing weird is right.
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