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my downfall is having a real low tolerance for bullshit. pretty much it's my ability to have a real conversation with my boss and a handful of coworkers who I like keeping me here. e: 
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May 24, 2021 19:50
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Someone tried to step on my neck and take my Big Ears business so I ended up stealing it back. Do NOT try me, I am like war. |
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May 24, 2021 23:29
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You do NOT want to mess with those soap people. They are not afraid to get dirty. |
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May 25, 2021 01:21
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No like, for real, don't come in after I've done all the work and try to steal my account. That poo poo pisses me off. At least cut me in on the poo poo under the table. |
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May 25, 2021 01:30
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Mormon Nailer posted:No like, for real, don't come in after I've done all the work and try to steal my account. That poo poo pisses me off. At least cut me in on the poo poo under the table. They can't have done a very good job of stealing your account if they were ready to jump ship entirely on your company.
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May 25, 2021 02:52
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rear end-penny posted:They can't have done a very good job of stealing your account if they were ready to jump ship entirely on your company. It was an outside vendor trying to steal the business out from under us. |
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May 25, 2021 03:17
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Mormon Nailer posted:It was an outside vendor trying to steal the business out from under us. [another soap joke goes here] |
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May 25, 2021 03:22
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cruft posted:[another soap joke goes here] There's no sense getting in a lather about it. |
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May 25, 2021 03:24
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cruft posted:[another soap joke goes here] Please don't. |
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May 25, 2021 03:26
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Every time I see this thread, I think it says "Big Fort Boogaloo", and I'm disappointed that nobody's talking about big forts. |
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May 25, 2021 03:28
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cruft posted:Every time I see this thread, I think it says "Big Fort Boogaloo", and I'm disappointed that nobody's talking about big forts. Be the change you want to see in the |
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May 25, 2021 03:32
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Mormon Nailer posted:It was an outside vendor trying to steal the business out from under us. Boooooo! It's so weird and frustrating to be sitting there, knowing what needs to be done to keep a business afloat or maybe prosper just a little more, and being actively ignored/sidelined. |
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May 25, 2021 03:56
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Mormon Nailer posted:It was an outside vendor trying to steal the business out from under us.  well they sure chose the right time to try and snipe that from you. Guess they didn't know they were dealing with a real OG like you.
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May 25, 2021 05:26
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I'm just tired of working so hard for things as a distraction from *flails* and then someone coming in going "thanks, this is now mine." I've already got money and a purchase order in hand from this company, what the gently caress are you doing. |
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May 25, 2021 05:28
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One neat trick companies use to make sure people working from home need to go back to the office: Slow, lovely, flaky VPN that keeps disconnecting |
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May 25, 2021 13:09
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Someone stole my work bike. To be fair, I stole the work bike first, but now I don't have a bike to ride in the parking lot. It's a bike that was left in the woods and rusted all to poo poo. |
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May 25, 2021 14:32
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One boss is out today. I'm pumped. |
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May 25, 2021 15:14
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Mormon Nailer posted:Someone stole my work bike. Our dump always has this pile of bicycles. Only takes about 20m of picking through 'em to find enough to make a FrankenBike. In Seattle, I think the police department had a gigantic lot of bicycles you could go through before they got hauled off to the dump and mangled. Must easier to get a working one. |
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May 25, 2021 16:21
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Looks like it wasnt the VPN, it was my internet. Down for emergency maintenance now to repair a fiber optic cable. Extended lunch break for me I guess! |
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May 25, 2021 16:42
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 This is how we're "deciding" if we let customers back in or not. As you might be able to tell, some of us don't take much anything seriously. Probably doesn't help that some of us are here five or six days a week and other people once a week. And that this board has only previously hosted nonsense questions that we all habitually turned into jokes. |
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May 25, 2021 17:01
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I don’t know how freight/trucking companies keep existing because they are the least customer-oriented companies ever.
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May 25, 2021 17:19
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Kaiser Schnitzel posted:I don’t know how freight/trucking companies keep existing because they are the least customer-oriented companies ever. Ms cruft worked for a shipping company when I met her. Right after we started dating, we were telling each other what we did at work. It went like this: quote:cruft: I'm a systems programmer, so mostly I keep servers up and identify repetitive tasks that can be automated, then automate them This exchange might only be funny to people who program computers. |
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May 25, 2021 17:27
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Kaiser Schnitzel posted:I don’t know how freight/trucking companies keep existing because they are the least customer-oriented companies ever. The customer is the freight. Everything else is just middlemen. |
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May 25, 2021 17:36
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cruft posted:Ms cruft worked for a shipping company when I met her. Please tell me "powerpoint files" was a typo, please. I don't want to think of someone having to pull data from slides. 
more falafel please posted:just turn that impostor syndrome into "I'm Poster" syndrome |
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Kaiser Schnitzel posted:I don’t know how freight/trucking companies keep existing because they are the least customer-oriented companies ever. I worked in an HR role for a trucking company for a while and it was an internal poo poo show. I suspect they all stay in business because clients don't really give a poo poo as long as the loads arrive on time and the shipping departments that have to deal with them probably don't have much internal influence anyway. |
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May 25, 2021 18:08
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Zil posted:Please tell me "powerpoint files" was a typo, please. I don't want to think of someone having to pull data from slides. No, it was exactly the horror show you fear. The sort of thing I could have whipped out in 10 minutes with awk, and she was three 40-hour weeks into it when I met her. |
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May 25, 2021 19:53
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Hey guess what, I have to do that poo poo too. Yes it makes me want to die a little more each day, as a computer toucher that could fully automate this entire process and in fact, most things I do. |
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May 25, 2021 20:06
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Kaiser Schnitzel posted:I don’t know how freight/trucking companies keep existing because they are the least customer-oriented companies ever. I'm guessing they're the only game in town. |
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May 26, 2021 02:45
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Freight companies loving suck to work for as much as the service sucks. Maybe if they were nicer to their employees, their service would improve. |
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May 26, 2021 02:51
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Escape From Noise posted:I'm guessing they're the only game in town. No there are like a dozen of them!!! It actually wasn’t awful they just showed up at exactly the wrong time, but they got my machine on the ground without shoving it off the lift gate so that was an improvement over past experiences.
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Mormon Nailer posted:Freight companies loving suck to work for as much as the service sucks. Maybe if they were nicer to their employees, their service would improve. I've worked at two different rail companies (mostly logistics) and it was not fun, except that one job was near the train tracks and I like trains, so that part was good. The other was smack in the middle of a lot of shopping which was... sort of bad? The people, though. Sucked. Everywhere, everyone is red and green |
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I worked for a trucking franchisee for a big logistics/transpo company for exactly one month in 2012. I had a stapler thrown at me. I walked out and never went back. It took them an entire labor board complaint to pay me, some months later. I currently work in a place where I frequently interact with logistics/transpo companies, and can tell you exactly what the workers have told me, and it's real bad there. If my job is a hell environment, theirs is the inner circle of hell. |
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About five months before I started at the first place, one of the women in customer service (phone) had an actual nervous breakdown which I'm told was horrifying to see. |
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xcheopis posted:About five months before I started at the first place, one of the women in customer service (phone) had an actual nervous breakdown which I'm told was horrifying to see. I had a nervous breakdown once when I was working as a barista in the mall. That's actually the moment I resolved to go back to college so I wouldn't have to work retail ever again. I can't even imagine how much worse it would have been if the belligerent customers were entitled business jerks. |
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Going out to dinner with the roller derby team made it pretty clear who had never held a customer facing job in the past. It seems like the sort of thing everyone should experience, if for no other reason than to have an extremely trying emotional experience to draw upon for some loving compassion. |
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May 26, 2021 05:39
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It should be mandatory that everyone put in a year of retail work. |
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May 26, 2021 11:53
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Achtane posted:It should be mandatory that everyone put in a year of retail work. What like some countries have mandatory military service? |
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May 26, 2021 12:16
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Finger Prince posted:What like some countries have mandatory military service? Yeah, totally. Everyone should experience the fun of retail just once. |
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Achtane posted:Yeah, totally. Everyone should experience the fun of retail just once. I think I'd rather have the military service. |
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