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sbaldrick posted:I'm a full-time government civil servant. I had a similar experience in college. Was working for an educational technology center within the university, and our payroll/HR lady was this belligerent troll who hosed up timesheets and stuff all the time. I wasn't living hand to mouth or anything so it never caused me any personal inconvenience, but just dealing with her for routine things was terrible. It didn't help she had a small office which smelled like she wore far too much She was on a (probably fake or at least certainly exaggerated) disability and was very sue-happy, so it took the director quite a long time to build a strong enough case to finally shitcan her rear end without leaving us open to a lawsuit. Her replacement was the nicest dude ever 
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So started a new job 3 weeks ago at a smallish corporate company and today I'm ordering new sanitation equipment for the production plant. I ask the finance department over in corporate if they have a master vendor list. You know something you would expect to have. Nope no master vendor list. People just do purchase orders with any random vendor. Apparently it's to much to expect anyone to make such a list.
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May 24, 2014 04:57
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G-Mach posted:People just do purchase orders with any random vendor.
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May 24, 2014 16:52
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Any vendor added should be chosen by a committee that gets the proper
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May 24, 2014 17:12
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G-Mach posted:So started a new job 3 weeks ago at a smallish corporate company and today I'm ordering new sanitation equipment for the production plant. I ask the finance department over in corporate if they have a master vendor list. You know something you would expect to have. Nope no master vendor list. People just do purchase orders with any random vendor. Apparently it's to much to expect anyone to make such a list. We have a list like that and its a monstrosity. I didn't even know that many companies existed. Harry posted:Any vendor added should be chosen by a committee that gets the proper Seriously the worst thing about working in a small research org integrated into a giant corporation. We'll spend a month talking to a few places about a custom piece for a rig that's put together by us, comparing the pros/cons, visiting the companies, then submitting the PO. Three weeks later we ask about the PO, why isn't it being sent to the vendor, and we get a response about some item from a different vendor that's $100 less, could we buy that instead? Is it ok? And this 'thing' may or may not even be tangentially related to what we are trying to purchase and will never be in spec if it is. If there is any 'issue' like this with the PO they put it on hold but generally don't inform anybody about the hold. The worst time was when POs were being processed by an intern only with no checks (why? why would this happen?) and of course after he left for the summer PO tickets kept getting routed to him automatically and holy hell the poo poo hit the fan when the fiscal year ended.
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May 24, 2014 19:47
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The company I work for merged with another company that provides similar but not quite the same services. Brief backstory; I have been working in A/P for some god-awful reason. I was hired as a warehouse / operations specialist, but knowing how Excel works and being able to figure out how Access works after someone else was kicked to the curb meant that I got "moved up" to accounting/finance from the yard. At any rate, we have switches accounting ledgers and systems this week. Now, we've gotten training on these things over the last two weeks, during which time we haven't been able to process any invoices. The system goes live, and guess what? No one actually figured out in advance what our new account codes would be. We know what they should look like, sure. But what they actually are? No one created them yet. Four days later after putting all my invoices into a holding pattern, I get my orders. "Just code them like you used to until the end of the month. We will go live next month."
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May 24, 2014 20:58
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Halloween Jack posted:I get the impression that this is a complaint of some kind? Just means I get to go hog wild on ordering things!
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May 24, 2014 21:07
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Your Master Vendor list should only have people on it that can come through in a timely manner when you order from them. Anything more then a week is useless.
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We've been ordering aluminum extrusion from company A for years. They have a warehouse literally in the next town over. We can run out there to get material in a pinch or if we order, it's there next-day, even if I order when they're on the way out the door. Excellent vendor relationship. Nope! Corporate just told us this week that we're now ordering from company B because they're cheaper. How much cheaper? It's on the order of a few pennies per foot. gently caress your pennies of savings for sacrificing a relationship we spent years building.  Oh, we've also been using several different types of caulking for window and door installations for years as well...because they work. Corporate also decided that nope, we're using their proprietary poo poo now. Interior, exterior, aluminum to concrete, aluminum to aluminum, we give no fucks. Yes, this is a wonderful idea, because a silicone sealant is going to be as effective as a polyurethane sealant in the situations we use polyurethane in. We're still sneaking in orders of the good polyurethane we use for exterior and aluminum to concrete. We've also been using QuickBooks for over a decade. It's not the perfect solution, but it works. Now they're trying to shoehorn some proprietary custom version of Microsoft NAV into that position as well. It was not designed for our industry. And looking at the training video, because every branch has a different price on everything they might sell, there's no prices in the system. We have to enter the price manually for everything. And the point of sale is seriously just a sales order.  I loving hate our corporate office sometimes.
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May 26, 2014 01:21
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sbaldrick posted:Your Master Vendor list should only have people on it that can come through in a timely manner when you order from them. Anything more then a week is useless. Result: The company is no longer permitted to acquire items internally
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May 26, 2014 01:21
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Christ Pseudoscientist posted:Two of my bosses have been out of town this week so I've taught myself vlookup and pivot tables. They don't really help me in any capacity with my current job but at least I won't by lying on my resume. Did the same, except they make my job so much easier. Between that and figuring out how to use Access, I've made my work life much much easier.
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May 26, 2014 13:24
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We had a new guy join the department recently and within 14 days he managed to hit on our HR manager (among others apparently), get a written warning and resign over it 
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May 26, 2014 15:09
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Of all the people to hit on at a new job, why choose the person most well-versed in sexual harassment issues and the consequences for it? Not that hitting on people at work is ever a good idea, but this guy is a special kind of stupid.
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May 26, 2014 18:50
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D34THROW posted:We've been ordering aluminum extrusion from company A for years. They have a warehouse literally in the next town over. We can run out there to get material in a pinch or if we order, it's there next-day, even if I order when they're on the way out the door. Excellent vendor relationship. This is worse then the government, where we are now being told not to pick the cheapest but the one mostly likely to deliver with little to no extra time and cost. Devor posted:Result: The company is no longer permitted to acquire items internally Why wouldn't you carry things internally. A week is too long for some poo poo.
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May 26, 2014 18:53
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sbaldrick posted:Why wouldn't you carry things internally. A week is too long for some poo poo. I think he's making a joke about his company's internal supply chain.  (Kinda like back when I was told to order knockoff versions of our own APIs at my first employer for my lab work because they could get to my lab faster and cheaper than if I contacted our supply chain.)
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May 26, 2014 19:09
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Tomorrow I start Week 2 of my new role as a temp. Week 1 was supposed to be training, but it turns out none of us had any of the basic programs to do our job. Turns out our manager thought she set it up, but didn't actually know what she was doing, or that different departments handled each program. Dude at Helpdesk A would help set us up for Progam A, be unfamiliar with Program B and tell us who we should probably call, and she'd vent to him anyway. I guess they recently fired a very helpful IT guy who would set up everything for her, and the new guy is either doing the bare minimum or just not bending over backwards. Mostly we just watched our trainer work through cases, and played in Excel. VLookups were actually the first thing one of the older temps showed us, hooray. Since college, I've either worked in manual labor or retail sales, so I'm in love with not being on my feet constantly. I'm still not used to it, so I fidget like a toddler constantly.
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Clockroach posted:Since college, I've either worked in manual labor or retail sales, so I'm in love with not being on my feet constantly. I'm still not used to it, so I fidget like a toddler constantly. Me too! Don't worry, before long you'll be counting down the minutes until lunch like the rest of us. We usually start arguing about what's for lunch before I finish breakfast. Also hopefully you don't work at my job, because I've seen temps get fired because "lol whoops, we sure hosed up the training on that one, let's just fire him, get a new temp, and start from a clean slate instead of fixing our mistakes" You know, not to worry you or anything. (I was a temp for a year and a half before I got this job)
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Aquatic Giraffe posted:Of all the people to hit on at a new job, why choose the person most well-versed in sexual harassment issues and the consequences for it? Not that hitting on people at work is ever a good idea, but this guy is a special kind of stupid. The way I see it, either he didn't know who she was, which is unlikely since they must've interacted over some HR paperwork, or he really thought he wasn't doing anything inappropriate. Which is very likely. Dunno what exactly happened as I wasn't his manager, but apparently an inappropriate compliment and asking out for coffee took place at the very least.
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May 26, 2014 21:09
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They have finally paid me some of the money they owe me, well one of the now 6 weeks they owe me. Only 5 more weeks of backpay to go.
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sbaldrick posted:They have finally paid me some of the money they owe me, well one of the now 6 weeks they owe me. Only 5 more weeks of backpay to go. So let me get this straight. A week ago you posted that you were six weeks behind in pay, and that you had a written letter it would be fixed on that date. The same day, you posted that your VP of Finance was personally fixing it, and they were cutting you a cheque for some of the money. 1) Is this the same cheque? 2) Is this one week the first week of *additional* pay, like are they spacing it out over the next six weeks to pay you in addition to your regular? Because really, this doesnt sound good at all if your VP of finance is personally involved and they still hosed it up. Whether by intention or incompetence, that does not sound like a place I would be working for for any stretch of time. Plasmafountain fucked around with this message at 18:07 on May 27, 2014 |
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May 27, 2014 18:03
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This is the worst thing about working with a whole bunch of engineers.  I mean, either lift the seat or control your flow!
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May 27, 2014 18:35
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Shadowhand00 posted:This is the worst thing about working with a whole bunch of engineers. The real trick is memorizing the cleaning schedules of all the bathrooms so you can poop in newly cleaned stalls. 8:25 AM on the dot is when the closest one gets cleaned. They do it again at 2:30PMish.
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Zero Gravitas posted:So let me get this straight. This is the ultra-bureaucracy that only a government can provide. So I guess I'm 7 weeks behind in pay now, but this is the first of the make up, 2 more weeks on Thursday then three pays next week. Some of the pay-breakup at this point is my point as I was trying not to get utterly destroyed by pension payments and taxes.
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May 27, 2014 19:21
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Can you contact your representative? I'm assuming feds, but would probably also work for state government.
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May 27, 2014 19:29
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Xandu posted:Can you contact your representative? I'm assuming feds, but would probably also work for state government. Your state labor board would also be interested in hearing about this.
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May 27, 2014 19:38
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I love you work... An ever growing chain of emails, first copying 2 people, then 4, then 8 as everyone struggles to figure out what an invoice we got is for, who is responsible for it, who it should go to, how do we deal with it... For an hour. The invoice is for $0.
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May 27, 2014 21:05
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I took the past week off of work due to some health issues (which my company was surprisingly great about, all things considered), and it's amazing how much I realized how little I care about my job once I was removed from the day to day grind.
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May 27, 2014 22:53
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Shadowhand00 posted:This is the worst thing about working with a whole bunch of engineers. Looks good to me, we get shoe marks and splotches where poo has hit the edge before falling in on our seats.
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May 28, 2014 01:49
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There was some rear end in a top hat that would stuff a whole wall street journal newspaper in the toilet and just loving jam it in there to clog it every other day. It went this way for months, and then stopped. A couple of weeks after it stopped, I overheard some guys in the hall laughing about how the guy that was doing it got caught because someone found his name on the address label, and went to his office to tell him to cut it out.
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May 28, 2014 01:58
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What kind of broken person do you have to be to consider doing that once, let alone repeatedly? 
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May 28, 2014 02:35
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How broken would it make me if I taped an open can of sardines to the underside of that guy's desk?
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May 28, 2014 02:45
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Is there a word in german for that horrible existential feeling when you know you are going to receive 150+ image files and not only will they be total poo poo, they will also be completely mislabeled despite the fact that you instituted a metadata schema that a trained monkey could follow?
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May 28, 2014 03:06
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Weltschermz.
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Defenestration posted:Is there a word in german for that horrible existential feeling when you know you are going to receive 150+ image files and not only will they be total poo poo, they will also be completely mislabeled despite the fact that you instituted a metadata schema that a trained monkey could follow? Yes.
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May 28, 2014 03:28
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Halloween Jack posted:Weltschermz.
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I work as a paralegal in a midsize firm. For the past month I've been tasked with auditing over a thousand of our firm's casefiles because our accounting department, not just one person but an entire department, screwed up recoverable/nonrecoverable costs on virtually every file we worked for the past five years. I have been given accounting permissions in our software so that I can move costs around, adjust principal balances, interest, anything at all. I've never had an accounting class in my life and barely know what I'm doing. I told my manager as much but she assigned this to me anyway.
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May 28, 2014 06:08
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Haha. That's the kind of attitude that got their accounts hosed In the first place I imagine.
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I worked at a law firm where the billing department was 2 people handling 6,000+ files. Unsurprisingly they fell way behind and as a result over a million dollars worth of work was past the billable invoice period. When this came to light, the senior one was fired and the other was screamed at. All the partner had to do was hire two more people at 40k a year each and he'd have had an extra million dollars to spend on his gold plated landscaping and lovely little dogs.
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May 29, 2014 01:17
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I saved/found most of my yearly salary within one month of restarting my job.
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Today I found out that "Yeah, I'm a bit in the weeds right now with a bunch of little things that seem to take ages, but it'll get done on time" translates to "Please prevent me from getting anything done and talk to me for at least 30 minutes about how busy I am, but don't actually do anything that would assist." I will never understand what compels some people.
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