Work gripes

[Gumbyhawk]

This is always a good thread topic. I'll start:


I hate the RUSH requests for something. HATE them. I feel like telling people "so, I am supposed to drop what I am doing and help you out just because you can't get your shit together and get more organized?"

Alas... I am a peon, so I don't say that.


Another one is when I have to call someone and have a short list of questions. Invariably, I am forced to leave a voicemail. I always list out EXACTLY what questions I have so that they can call back ANYTIME with the answers (i.e. after hours if necessary). They always call back with something along the lines of "yeah, this is Joe Schmoe calling you back. My number is....". Hey Jackass, I know what your number is. I called YOU, remember? How about spending the extra 10 seconds to answer the questions I had for you so we don't play phone tag all week?



Anyone else?

[Dr. Doofenshmirtz (Heywood)]

Along the same lines as the rush requests, it's even worse when your company wants to slow things down and make sure everything is correct before implementing it but then the "powers that be" turn around and say they need it now. I think this mostly happens in the IT world (which I live in).

[Iowafan1]

I'm taking notes Gumby. Let it flow Brother!

[RynoHawk]

1) Conference calls that have no point at all and accomplish nothing for 30 minutes.
2) Medical coverage changing every year along with increasing premiums.
3) Clients get "tough" over email, but by phone they're the opposite.
4) That damn "high importance" flag on Outlook is severely overused.

[Stukat]

Offering the damn survey at the end of the call.
Please, Feel free to take the short survey at the end of the call"

Anyone who is smart enough to know what a survey is, will know to hang on the line if they want to take it. God my job is lame.

[hawkeyedug]

My current work gripe is the lack of a job. I am going to Cedar Falls tomorrow to attend the UNI spring job fair in an attempt to remedy the situation. Too bad job fairs are a joke for the most part.

[socal]

I'm literally living through this one right now.....

A system is down - and has been for 2 days.
The IT people finally think they know what the problem is, but they need to reboot a server.

Instead of taking the 2-5 minutes it takes to reboot and fix the ever-growing problem, somebody decides they need approvals from the account managers that might be effected.

However they are all out to lunch....

So in the time it takes me to search the building for a few of them - the frigging reboot could have been done and nobody would have known the difference.

Inanity on something important just pisses me off.

[Gumbyhawk]

hawkeyedug said:

My current work gripe is the lack of a job. I am going to Cedar Falls tomorrow to attend the UNI spring job fair in an attempt to remedy the situation. Too bad job fairs are a joke for the most part.

For the love of all that is holy, if you see a booth for a certain large insurance company with an all-red logo (company initials are 'SF') walk.... no RUN the fukk away!! PSA from your buddy, Gumby!

[socal]

People that have crapped their pants at work --- or otherwise smell like they've crapped their pants at work.

[Gumbyhawk]

socal said:

I'm literally living through this one right now.....

A system is down - and has been for 2 days.
The IT people finally think they know what the problem is, but they need to reboot a server.

Instead of taking the 2-5 minutes it takes to reboot and fix the ever-growing problem, somebody decides they need approvals from the account managers that might be effected.

However they are all out to lunch....

So in the time it takes me to search the building for a few of them - the frigging reboot could have been done and nobody would have known the difference.

Inanity on something important just pisses me off.

Meanwhile, China is still kicking our collective asses.

[socal]

gumbyhawk said:

socal said:

I'm literally living through this one right now.....

A system is down - and has been for 2 days.
The IT people finally think they know what the problem is, but they need to reboot a server.

Instead of taking the 2-5 minutes it takes to reboot and fix the ever-growing problem, somebody decides they need approvals from the account managers that might be effected.

However they are all out to lunch....

So in the time it takes me to search the building for a few of them - the frigging reboot could have been done and nobody would have known the difference.

Inanity on something important just pisses me off.

Meanwhile, China is still kicking our collective asses.

That's part of the problem..... The programmers/contractors are in India --- so they do a fix at 2am our time, we check it when we get in and see it doesn't work --- so they do another fix at 2am....

Finally the VP of IT woke Rishi (Indian dude) up and is making him work on it at 12:30 their time.

[Dr. Doofenshmirtz (Heywood)]

RED TAPE!

[Saggitariutt Jefferspin (ith)]

When our group is the last to know about a guideline change. We are on the front line training our mortgage consultants damn it!!!

[Gumbyhawk]

What also sucks is having the highest workload of anyone on your team, yet NO authority to approve anything.

The people who DO have authority are 1) not in their office or 2) on the phone. So, you spend a good share of your day peeking into their office to see if they can approve something for you.

[TBELL]

What's the famous saying? "Lack of planning on your part does not constitute an emergency on my part."

I hate it when I answer a 9-1-1 line and the first words out of the person's mouth are either "Well it's not an emergency but I didn't know the non-emergency number", or "Speaka Spanish?" I could go on forever, but those are the most bothersome to me.

[Dr. Doofenshmirtz (Heywood)]

Monday mornings.

[Stukat]

THE FIVE DAY WORK WEEK.

[TBELL]

stukatt said:

THE FIVE DAY WORK WEEK.

We nearly went to 12 hour days a while back. It would have looked something like this. It would have worked out where I would have had every other weekend off. It also would have been nice because the most days worked in a row would have been 3. But it got shot down.

[Norm "racerhawk" Parker]

My boss is the COO of our hospital.

She:

1. Constantly approaches everything in a reactive mode, as if everything is a crisis.

2. Everything flows from the shiznit noted above. Every f'n day. I'm sick of it.

[Solar Stud]

At 12:01, you receive an email from 'doofus'

At 12:02, doofus calls and asks, "Hey did you get my email?"

[kshawkesq]

I hate having to talk my secretary off the ledge at the end of each business day to keep her from quitting because I know my company takes 3-4 months to hire a replacement and refuses to hire temps. I am going to be seriously screwed in a couple weeks when she finally does walk off the job.

[The Bluzmn]

My work gripes are all about employees, suppliers and clients. Y'all probably don't care about those.

[Gumbyhawk]

seth47 said:

At 12:01, you receive an email from 'doofus'

At 12:02, doofus calls and asks, "Hey did you get my email?"

OMG.... cosign!

Or (as I've mentioned before) when someone is out of the office and they forward emails from their blackberries (often with attachments) to you even though it is obvious in looking at the email the you were ALREADY INCLUDED in the address list by the original sender. So, there you are with two copies of everything and an inbox that is full. ("banging head" emoticon)

[Gumbyhawk]

Additionally:

I love it when you are covering for your boss who is out, and another guy who is out, still trying to deal with your OWN work... and are then given a RUSH task to go over a file from your boss's boss. You do your best in the limited amount of time that you have (as you are dealing with umpteen URGENT items coming at you)... and then get raked over the coals for missing a few details on the file. That's just morale boosting as all hell. AWESOME!!!

[Saggitariutt Jefferspin (ith)]

Every time I feel like I'm in the movie "Office Space"...