Batterypowered7 posted:

Maybe they'll stop if you answer in English.

Escape From Noise posted:

I wish I got just phone calls. Here in Osaka I get people ringing my intercom to my apartment. I guess next time I should threaten to kill them or something? I've been telling them I don't feel well and hanging up on them like an idiot!

Neddy Seagoon posted:

Short the wires on the intercom through the button, so they get a warning shock if they try to use it. They'll learn eventually!

Escape From Noise posted:

What happens to my friends and package handlers then?

Edit: I guess my only option is complete isolation.

Neddy Seagoon posted:

They should have your number and be able to call you. Anyone who thinks your intercom is a good idea probably doesn't belong there!

Escape From Noise posted:

I could probably collect my package and many others from the now dead delivery drivers.

Escape From Noise posted:

Surely there could be no unforseen consequences...

Non Krampus Mentis posted:

Today we have the big staff meeting with our boss. Literally everyone is ready to quit, including me—the production schedule is unsustainable for a single part-time baker and a single full-time baker, the baristas are ready to riot over a number of things including our boss accusing one of them of being late on purpose, and the kitchen organization and procedures change at least once every ten days. The menu keeps expanding and I’m very keenly aware that I cannot be sick ir have an emergency because it will throw everyone off.

It’s also my birthday tomorrow and it was just the 15-year anniversary of my mom’s death, so I am desperately hanging on to the hope I can get through today without crying like a dumb baby.

champagne posting posted:

take a mental health day, let your boss burn

Non Krampus Mentis posted:

Today we have the big staff meeting with our boss. Literally everyone is ready to quit, including me—the production schedule is unsustainable for a single part-time baker and a single full-time baker, the baristas are ready to riot over a number of things including our boss accusing one of them of being late on purpose, and the kitchen organization and procedures change at least once every ten days. The menu keeps expanding and I’m very keenly aware that I cannot be sick ir have an emergency because it will throw everyone off.

It’s also my birthday tomorrow and it was just the 15-year anniversary of my mom’s death, so I am desperately hanging on to the hope I can get through today without crying like a dumb baby.

Outrail posted:

Yeah, take a mental health day and let it all burn down. Then when you're ready to go back, tell the boss to go gently caress themselves and take another mental health day.

Non Krampus Mentis posted:

The thought of a mental health day is simultaneously great and terrifying. My boss has a bad habit of accepting orders that people phone in instead of respecting the “all custom orders need one week” rule and she keeps complaining that between all the production work and her new baby she’s not sleeping.

I feel like the amount and variety of production we’re trying to take on is not normal or healthy or good for a small business.

Non Krampus Mentis posted:

The thought of a mental health day is simultaneously great and terrifying. My boss has a bad habit of accepting orders that people phone in instead of respecting the “all custom orders need one week” rule and she keeps complaining that between all the production work and her new baby she’s not sleeping.

I feel like the amount and variety of production we’re trying to take on is not normal or healthy or good for a small business.

MagusofStars posted:

If the business falls to pieces because ONE EMPLOYEE takes vacation for ONE DAY, that place was never going to survive anyways.

Outrail posted:

Have you tried telling her if she wants less production work she could stop accepting more production work, and that she is the master of her own destiny, and that she's a stupid gently caress who deserves a sleep deprivation driven nervous breakdown?

Escape From Noise posted:

This was my last boss and orders of bottles of beer but beer takes at least three weeks. He'd just say yes to the order without checking stock then delivering on that order was on us. I lasted four months.

Pekinduck posted:

There's a slight possibility my dad was history's first "Lenny"

Long ago my dad was tired, stressed out, infant Pekinduck was screaming, one of those days. He juggles me and grabs the phone and its a prerecorded spam call for a sketchy/fake charity or something. Something like "SAVE THE CHILDREN NOW CALL 1-800-XXX-XXXX" on loop. He nearly goes on a rampage but decides to do something constructive.

He realizes three things:

1. 800 numbers are obviously free for the caller, but in the 80's were extortionately expensive for the receiving party. Something like 25-50 cents just to connect.

2. He called the 800 number and it wasn't a live person, just another recording and a voicemail box. If you called and immediately hung up they got charged 50 cents and would be none the wiser.

3. Even in the 80's prerecorded telemarketing was already illegal. They couldn't run crying to the police or phone company about any telephone shenanigans aimed at them.

At work he had access to a mainframe computer with a handful of unused modems with dedicated phone lines. He wrote a program to have them all constantly dial the 800 number and let 'er rip. After a few weeks the number was disconnected, probably when they got the bill.

Meme Poker Party posted:

I brought my Drake posted:

I made a reservation booking using the new system and forgot to include two data points. I'm not the only one who forgets these data points. I just got an email from the boss sent to all employees: since all bookings go to her for approval, she's going to immediately reject any bookings missing the data points, and if customers get mad that their bookings weren't approved, it's our fault for not adding the data.

I get that she's frustrated, and that email was probably cathartic to write and send, but for someone constantly after us about professionalism and positive training, she's being a gigantic hypocrite.

Zil posted:

There is an anime screenshot for every situation isn't there?

Zil posted:

There is an anime screenshot for every situation isn't there?

Volmarias posted:

I am going to need the source for Business Elf here, because this seems proximate to my interests.

Pekinduck posted:

There's a slight possibility my dad was history's first "Lenny"

Long ago my dad was tired, stressed out, infant Pekinduck was screaming, one of those days. He juggles me and grabs the phone and its a prerecorded spam call for a sketchy/fake charity or something. Something like "SAVE THE CHILDREN NOW CALL 1-800-XXX-XXXX" on loop. He nearly goes on a rampage but decides to do something constructive.

He realizes three things:

1. 800 numbers are obviously free for the caller, but in the 80's were extortionately expensive for the receiving party. Something like 25-50 cents just to connect.

2. He called the 800 number and it wasn't a live person, just another recording and a voicemail box. If you called and immediately hung up they got charged 50 cents and would be none the wiser.

3. Even in the 80's prerecorded telemarketing was already illegal. They couldn't run crying to the police or phone company about any telephone shenanigans aimed at them.

At work he had access to a mainframe computer with a handful of unused modems with dedicated phone lines. He wrote a program to have them all constantly dial the 800 number and let 'er rip. After a few weeks the number was disconnected, probably when they got the bill.

Takes No Damage posted:

^^^ Luffy never had to debate about using vacation days to cover sick time, just sayin...

Good news, since everything is VoIP now you can do the same thing with a 10 year old laptop sitting in the closet:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EzedMdx6QG4&t=135s

DiHK posted:

poo poo, One Punch Man follows a frustrated office worker... just sayin.

Non Krampus Mentis posted:

I did get to tell my boss that I desperately need more backup in the kitchen. She claims she’s hiring but “can’t find anyone” at the salary she's willing to offer

DiHK posted:

poo poo, One Punch Man follows a frustrated office worker... just sayin.

Machai posted:

Saitama was unemployed. He was coming from a failed interview. He was naught but an aspiring office worker.

Non Krampus Mentis posted:

Well that sure was a five hour meeting.

I did get to tell my boss that I desperately need more backup in the kitchen. She claims she’s hiring but “can’t find anyone”; I’m giving her until mid-April, and if no one materializes, I’m out. No idea if “please stop expanding the menu” or “no seriously, you really can’t take custom orders with less than a week lead time” actually registered, but I said it, and I’m glad.

The part-time baker actually made me a real deal birthday cake, and I almost cried. It’s delicious.

Outrail posted:

Don't threaten, she'll just learn to ignore you. You just committed to quitting so put it in writing or you'll punknoit and keep hating your life.

Put in your two weeks, with a stipulation that you will offer to withdraw it provided:
a) she hires someone before the two weeks are up, and
b) going forward the resignation becomes effective immediately if she
1) expands the menu without consultation and approval of at least x workers, or
2) she takes a custom order with less than a week's lead time.

Now you can drop tools and walk out with a clear conscience knowing you've acted morally, legally and ethically, and tried your best to do right by your coworkers and the company despite her best efforts.

It sounds like you're done with the place so if she tells you to gently caress off she's doing you a favour anyway, you've got nothing to lose.

The kicker is to BCC the rest of the relevant staff so they can use it as a draft for their own letter for some salty de facto collective bargaining.