Good luck Wolf. People are hiring right now.I am looking else where, just in case.
I hate them too. I remember a dilbert where Wally said his goal was to drink more coffee. Do you get goals cascaded down from 500 levels of management?I’m busy as hell at the new job. It‘s good busy, but it’s tiring. This office does annual performance reviews. I HATE those damned things.
I don’t have any freaking goals, I don’t want any freaking goals.
Get out of my way and let me do my farking job.
We just had our 2nd major merger in the 38 short years I've been there. The first one was in the late 90s, and the recent one was 2 years ago, but the changes are just now rolling out. The goals situation is actually better this year, because they didn't have the goals-process software ready ahead of time. So it wasn't a big deal this year; just get something down, and send it along.I hate them too. I remember a dilbert where Wally said his goal was to drink more coffee. Do you get goals cascaded down from 500 levels of management?
Some of the things I've witnessed over the years, includes a coworker calling another coworker a "big-haired bimbo" in front of a conference room full of people - without consequence; and a low-level manager throwing a steel chair at a higher-level manager - without consequence (because the high-level guy was a dick).That, and I want to slap someone like Will Smith did during a meeting, and get away with it.
I figure you work for a relatively small business, because none of that "humor" would fly otherwise.When I started working here in 1999, they had a bulletin they'd hand out to all employees of latest news (we installed this new piece of equipment, we won this award, etc). It was written by the owner.
Soon after my hire, my name was on the front page as a new hire. It said something like "...comes to us from his previous job, cover boy at XY Magazine." I asked my boss what that meant. He took me out to the presses and gave me a copy.
XY is a gay men's magazine which has been published in the United States since 1996. XY started as a gay male youth-oriented magazine and social network.
Click for a sample cover page (SFW)
I looked at him like, "Where the hell am I?" He brought me back to our office and showed me the previous issue that included the announcement of his hiring. It said something like, "...is an expert in Microsoft. I personally wouldn't want to be associated with anything 'micro' or 'soft'..." The newsletter was aproximately 70% making fun of people. Especially those who had just quit. That's where it got the most harsh.
A few years later I heard through the grapevine that the law firm we use finally convinced him to stop. But in 2015 he brought it back for four more issues. Each article had a letter in front of it. The first page of the first one explained that an "H" in front of an article meant "humor" and was "not to be taken seriously".
Page 2 of the first 'revival' issue is attached to this post.
I should've clarified that, aside from the fact that I work for a big corporation, the exclamation was not made in jest (like your examples); it was during a heated argument about how a project should be executed. Likewise, the chair-throwing incident happened during a much more heated argument.When I saw "a coworker calling another coworker a "big-haired bimbo" in front of a conference room full of people" it reminded me of dozens of things our owner has said similar, and usually much worse.
Exactly. It also gives them an easy out when someone complains about not getting a promotion or raise. “Oh….hey…so sorry……you didn’t meet your goal of using 40% less printer paper……You we’re only at 37%.….I'm sure you already know this, but pretty-much every change they've made to the work performance process over the years, has been done for one purpose - to cover their asses. We used to have performance reviews that consisted of actual hand-written sentences from our managers. But if you got canned and claimed some sort of bias, they had nothing to back it up. Now everything is documented, and the employee is forced to say they will do x, y, and z; so they can say you didn't meet your goals, or that they weren't enough of a stretch.
Yes!!!Some of the things I've witnessed over the years, includes a coworker calling another coworker a "big-haired bimbo" in front of a conference room full of people - without consequence; and a low-level manager throwing a steel chair at a higher-level manager - without consequence (because the high-level guy was a dick).
At least he thought you were good looking enough to be on the cover. Did you show them Blue Steel?Soon after my hire, my name was on the front page as a new hire. It said something like "...comes to us from his previous job, cover boy at XY Magazine."
Forget the slap. KNIFE FIGHT BY THE WATER COOLER!!!I should've clarified that, aside from the fact that I work for a big corporation, the exclamation was not made in jest (like your examples); it was during a heated argument about how a project should be executed. Likewise, the chair-throwing incident happened during a much more heated argument.
At least he thought you were good looking enough to be on the cover. Did you show them Blue Steel?
I see a new square watch in your future.I am currently 8 days deep into a 14 straight day workweek. But this isn't really a gripe. My boss needed me for a couple days and I asked to work the other 2 days so I can get a ton of OT.
Work sucks for me right now. The company I work for hardly has any work coming in.
I am looking else where, just in case.
Good luck Wolf. People are hiring right now.
It can’t hurt to look.
I see a new square watch in your future.