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work rant
Rant 1: So I work in a department of about 50 people and I've had a bunch of them asking for the past month and a half about my wedding pictures and since I finally got my photobook, I asked our secretary to send an email letting everyone know it was on my desk (I don't work at my desk).
She said, "Feel free to share your pictures with whoever you want but I can't send a mass email." I would understand if that was a policy or something but it's not. She has emailed other people's pictures as attatchments to the entire department before. She did it just 2 weeks ago actually. I know I can go around and tell everyone myself, just the fact that she sent out someone's baby pictures 2 weeks ago, and several before that, really annoyed me.
Rant 2: When I was hired they were hiring 2 positions. Mine and another that was supposed to be backup for my position and a few others for when people are out. They hired a girl my age for the other position too. They put her desk next to the secretary because she is never there (taking 3 hour lunches with a manager from another department) and the new girl was supposed to fill in for all that time she was gone.
When she started she refused to learn anything about my job or the other jobs she was supposed to be backup for. She refused so strongly that they gave up and let her just be backup for the secretary. When she got comfortable enough with the position, they split the department so that we now have 2 secretaries. As stated above we only have 50 people. It's rediculous to have 2 secretaries.
Everything she has ever done while I was around her she did wrong and brushed off anybody trying to tell her it was wrong. She has messed up a lot of things for me and my unit and it never even bothered her how much extra work she caused us. She's also an extreme troublemaker. She talks really nice to everyone and goes along with whatever the conversation is then goes straight to a manager and says that someone offended her or said something innappropriate. She has gotten one guy fired because she flirted with him non stop then told HR he was stalking her.
Now I noticed on this month's schedule that there is a meeting next friday to show employee appreciation and her name is on there to be recognized. Not only has she messed up everything so far, she has also been out on maternity leave for 2 months. What has she done to get special recognition?
Sorry for the rant, I just really hate my job.
Re: work rant
At employee recognition, you should stand up and say, "Since biotchity has been out on maternity leave for 2 months, I'd like to say 'thank you' to so-and-so for stepping up and helping out. So-and-so has done a tremendous job in helping us get things accomplished. In fact, things went much more smoothly while biotchity was gone."
Ok, you can't say that in real life, but you can imagine it.
Nope, no food. Probably just a 1/2 hr thing.
The thing is, nobody needed to step up while she was gone. Our regular secretary just did everything while she was gone. Which is supposed to be her job anyway. The only reason she "can't handle it" on a regular basis is because she doesn't want to.
Oh I know better than to call her out. She's attractive and seems really nice so our supervisors are really protective of her.
When she got the other guy fired she told our company van driver that she was scared to get out at the drop off spot because he might wait for her there so she insisted that we drop her off in the visitor lot (which we kept getting in trouble for). After a month of that crap our driver emailed her and asked if it was ok to go back to the normal drop off spot. She didn't respond, instead she forwarded it to our supervisor with a complaint that it was inappropriate of her to ask that.
He got involved and almost got himself in HUGE trouble. The driver does not work in our department so our supervisor had no right to say anything to her at all. She was supposed to report any problems like that to HR but they would only tell her that we're not allowed to drop her off in the visitor lot anyway.
Mikesboo... I completely loathe my job as well. And when I have moments of complete despair, I think of my job as a means to the life I desire and life I already have. It helps to think of it as just a necessity so you can have a house, car, new clothes, etc.
I like Munkii way of wording it. It's better than having to send out a nasty-gram (which is what we call it when someone flips out at you in an email).
She really doesn't seem to have much value to the company at all. Her position is basically a big waste of money.
I'm definitely glad to have a job, even if I hate what I do. I'm not hurting for anything and it's thanks to this company. I just know that if anything opens up in another department or something I'd be more than happy to apply.
The same girl I mentioned earlier just asked me to send her something and when I did she wrote back with "thx". Very professional.