NationStates Jolt Archive

After a mediocre day at work, I was inspired to create this thread. Come here and bitch about the any part of your job. Or just laugh at someone else, knowing you may not have it that bad after all.

I suppose I'll start:

At work a customer asked about a cast-iron frying pan we had advertized in our weekly flyer. Since my job requires me to know about all the departments in the store, obtaining quite specific knowledge of sale items is quite unlikely, so I got a hold of the department superviser and asked her what was up. Turns out that the product was never shipped to our store, and we had know idea when. The customer was quite upset as she came just for that item. She asked if we do rain checks and I informed her that we do not. She then tried to make me feel like crap because we did not have the item in stock. I faked caring, then continued with what I was doing.

Oh yes, work sucks.

My boss had a promotion - good for him blah blah but we (me and the rest of the team, all 3 of us) dont get enough of his time as it is, so we're worried that he'll be come increasingly absent, which isn't a bad thing, it just means we take more on and get no credit for it.

... oh I could go on, but i'll just depress myself about it all and i've only just got here this morning!....

and there's no room for progression and chocking my ambition - wankers

ARGH I HATE ME WORK!!

I work in 2 shops and both are outdoor equipement etc... people come in looking for the strangest items, and i often because of the 2 shops think we have it when we don't or vice versa. It is a true pain in the ass!! I work 55 hour weeks, constantly at 4.10 (pounds, i broke my keyboard) an hour. My job sucks but i need to work for the money, even if it is shit. :(

Sometimes work can be a little slow so it might be a whole day of doing nothing, so i play Snake on my cellphone.:cool:

Sometimes work can be a little slow so it might be a whole day of doing nothing, so i play Snake on my cellphone.:cool:

I come on nationstates... :D

My work sucks because, I work at night and sleep during the day for the impressive sum of $10.00 Canadian. A second reason why my job sucks is due to the tedium and boredom of things I do at my job, which mainly involves moving around boxes and useless items, which people enjoy buying. One reason why I do not jump of a bridge is because I have quit my job and I finish on August 18th and then I go off to Grad. school.

Yet, I may finish earlier since my company has spyware that records keystrokes. Screw you Boss.

I thought of another.

In our clothing department (which btw, has a giant billboard that suggests that women should be the one to pick which clothing their hubby's wear) has a table with assorted underwear. The vast majorityof them have their price indicated on the tag. However a sign on the table says "From $.98" (from hads been highlighted green). Every second day, I get a call from a cashier saying that the customer say the underwearfor $.98 (despite it having a label on it that says $4.98). I tell them that the sign says "From $.98" meaning the cheapest underwear on the table is $.98. At first I was disiturbed by the fact that peoplewant 98 cent underwear, but now it is a hassel I deal with second daily.

I thought of another.

In our clothing department (which btw, has a giant billboard that suggests that women should be the one to pick which clothing their hubby's wear) has a table with assorted underwear. The vast majorityof them have their price indicated on the tag. However a sign on the table says "From $.98" (from hads been highlighted green). Every second day, I get a call from a cashier saying that the customer say the underwearfor $.98 (despite it having a label on it that says $4.98). I tell them that the sign says "From $.98" meaning the cheapest underwear on the table is $.98. At first I was disiturbed by the fact that peoplewant 98 cent underwear, but now it is a hassel I deal with second daily.
Why would it disturb you that someone wants $.98 underwear? Some might say that paying $4.98 when there is a perfectly decent pair there for $.98 is stupid.

I come on nationstates... :D
I don't have the luxury of a Computer near me.:(

I don't have the luxury of a Computer near me.:(

everything I do is PC based...

on a bad day, i swear it talks to me.. it just stares at me, poking it's stupid tongue out at me when something in excel doesnt work the way I want it to...

:headbang:

Why would it disturb you that someone wants $.98 underwear? Some might say that paying $4.98 when there is a perfectly decent pair there for $.98 is stupid.
Because, the garmet you stick your genatils in should be worth more to you than 98 cents. You gotta think "Why is this pair 98 cents when, on average, the rest are 9 dollars?"Herpes;)

Because, the garmet you stick your genatils in should be worth more to you than 98 cents. You gotta think "Why is this pair 98 cents when, on average, the rest are 9 dollars?"Herpes;)
Because they'll probably fall apart in a month. But, if the rest are 9 dollars, they have to last at least 9 months to beat the cheap ones on price.

Because they'll probably fall apart in a month. But, if the rest are 9 dollars, they have to last at least 9 months to beat the cheap ones on price.
You also have to factor in the extra gas you will use driving to the store every month to buy new underwear. Comfort should count for something too.

Huge racing fan. We're working at a race, the other three guys I'm working with hate racing and are giving me a hard time the whole day-my job ends up being sitting with the golf carts under the stands where I can't see the track while they interview drivers. Like torture.

Huge racing fan. We're working at a race, the other three guys I'm working with hate racing and are giving me a hard time the whole day-my job ends up being sitting with the golf carts under the stands where I can't see the track while they interview drivers. Like torture.
What kind of racing?

Hopefully, it is naked bimbo. Part of me doubts that though....

everything I do is PC based...

on a bad day, i swear it talks to me.. it just stares at me, poking it's stupid tongue out at me when something in excel doesnt work the way I want it to...

:headbang:
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I Wish i had the luxury to waste time like that.

You also have to factor in the extra gas you will use driving to the store every month to buy new underwear. Comfort should count for something too.
Ah, but you could buy nine pairs at once and bring them out one by one.

As for comfort, I'm sure your genitals will adapt over time. :p

Ah, but you could buy nine pairs at once and bring them out one by one.

As for comfort, I'm sure your genitals will adapt over time. :p
Touche.

What about those who believe in Intellegently Designed vaginas?

What kind of racing?

Hopefully, it is naked bimbo. Part of me doubts that though....
No, but thanks to sponsers there was a whole lot of near naked...
The main event was NASCAR at Sears Point, which whatever, but the day we where there SCCA World Challenge (or whatever the call it now, that series changes names more often than I change pants) GTs and Touring, which is bad ass.

everything I do is PC based...

on a bad day, i swear it talks to me.. it just stares at me, poking it's stupid tongue out at me when something in excel doesnt work the way I want it to...

:headbang:
same here.... all computer based. stupid bad back and the beginnings of RSI in wrist now too :( (where do you think this big fat postcount came from? ;))

but don't get me started on excel. last year i had an entire set of very complex tempates i'd set up to cut down on overall work, and they corrupted entirely on me. including losing client's data. and having to rebuild them from scratch. was not happy... stupid excel :mad: (other than that i love the program :fluffle: )



my gripe is i was working yesterday my normal hours, plus between 8pm and 11, and was up and working within less than a minute of waking up today (work from home), and i hate that. plus the night before when i worked through solidly till 2am.
want holiday.
guess the plus point of all of this is i don't have to deal with customers (especially the public) that much :p

other gripe might be that with website development, nobody ever realises the work that goes into actually changing the tiniest little thing... but will happy sit there and gawp at the easiest things ("ooh you've got 20 pages on the site now! wow!"...."yeah, i copied and pasted the first page that took me THREE DAYS to make and you didn't say a thing about it :rolleyes: ")

(ok i'm tired and not woken up yet and may be making little sense)

same here.... all computer based. stupid bad back and the beginnings of RSI in wrist now too :( (where do you think this big fat postcount came from? ;))

but don't get me started on excel. last year i had an entire set of very complex tempates i'd set up to cut down on overall work, and they corrupted entirely on me. including losing client's data. and having to rebuild them from scratch. was not happy... stupid excel :mad: (other than that i love the program :fluffle: )



my gripe is i was working yesterday my normal hours, plus between 8pm and 11, and was up and working within less than a minute of waking up today (work from home), and i hate that. plus the night before when i worked through solidly till 2am.
want holiday.
guess the plus point of all of this is i don't have to deal with customers (especially the public) that much :p

other gripe might be that with website development, nobody ever realises the work that goes into actually changing the tiniest little thing... but will happy sit there and gawp at the easiest things ("ooh you've got 20 pages on the site now! wow!"...."yeah, i copied and pasted the first page that took me THREE DAYS to make and you didn't say a thing about it :rolleyes: ")

(ok i'm tired and not woken up yet and may be making little sense)
I hear that. We had to design a website for school. The first page took me about a week and a half (we were not taught HTML, so we had to BS it on the spot). The rest took about 20 minutes to create, and another 20 minutes each to change the content.

but don't get me started on excel. last year i had an entire set of very complex tempates i'd set up to cut down on overall work, and they corrupted entirely on me. including losing client's data. and having to rebuild them from scratch. was not happy... stupid excel :mad: (other than that i love the program :fluffle: )


Learn to backup :P

My job sucks because im unappreciated, but i get paid £6.90 an hour, so i dont mind that much.

Learn to backup :P

oh i do now especially, but it wasn't just one file that corrupted but a whole folder full of them... every file. so even having backups (in that folder) wouldn't have helped.


investing in a proper server and maybe a networked tape-backup system soon, so will have a new toy to play with, yay! :p

oh i do now especially, but it wasn't just one file that corrupted but a whole folder full of them... every file. so even having backups (in that folder) wouldn't have helped.


investing in a proper server and maybe a networked tape-backup system soon, so will have a new toy to play with, yay! :p
PM, you killed my thread! That is so like you too.:p

One of the Supervisors at work got demoted to Cashier today. It was supposed to remain hush-hush but, when 70% of your employees are female, gossip spreads.

Isn't she going to be delightfull to work with the next couple days.:rolleyes:

What about those who believe in Intellegently Designed vaginas?


You just made my day:p

You just made my day:p
He had no responce to that either.:)