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Mother's Day

(my workplace is a restaurant)

Apparently the only thing to do for Mother's Day in Raleigh is to go to Brunch

5/6/2016 1:28:51 PM

That does sound like a nightmare.

Between having to clock in, balance hours, and enter every move we make on every project in a separate database, I'm spending more time "record keeping" than doing the actual work. It's ridiculous.

5/6/2016 2:12:43 PM

co-workers being fucking disrespectful

5/6/2016 2:14:50 PM

Why do people have to start calling at the end of the day after it has been dead all day?

5/6/2016 4:42:14 PM

there's this rank rotting smell coming from somewhere in the fridge, and everybody's out of town so I can't really send out an e-mail. and I don't personally want to investigate and identify the source of the smell.

6/16/2016 10:54:28 PM

Boss asked me to go on a really awesome work trip and a conference to Toronto. I set it up, registered us, submitted a proposal and costs to go and its approved. When the initial paperwork was submitted we didn't know the exact time when the conference started and ended (they were really slow on this), so as usual I put us flying in the afternoon before and leaving the following morning. My boss and his boss went as well, but both had things early Saturday, (they also booked much later than I did), with the big boss flying out Friday at lunch and missing the last day of the conference (my boss took a red eye to coach his kids baseball game). Now I get back and Finance Dept says they will not pay for my last night at the hotel as I should have flown out with everybody else. Is there a policy? Yes, but its not listed anywhere, its just "known". This is not the first trip I have taken and we always fly in the day before and fly out the day after. So now the lowest paid employee at the conference gets to pay for an additional evening in Toronto out of pocket. I had a great time and might have done it anyways, but really pissed I don't find this shit out until afterwards, so I did not budget for it.

[Edited on June 17, 2016 at 11:39 AM. Reason : ]

6/17/2016 11:37:32 AM

tell them no.

6/17/2016 11:39:11 AM

fuck that, if your proposal was approved that should be end of story

talk to your boss/manager

6/17/2016 11:43:02 AM

Yes my boss and his boss that also went (the CIO) are being told tough shit by main campus financing as they are the other two who went and have been fighting on my behalf all week. Our business manager screwed me when she stated in an email "Of course, he will pay for the final day" without even checking with anybody else! The best part is that it comes out of our CIO's budget and he is fine with it, but main campus is saying no. Fuck UNC.

[Edited on June 17, 2016 at 11:57 AM. Reason : ]

6/17/2016 11:56:53 AM

i mean now would be a perfect time to tell all you know about academic fraud.

6/17/2016 11:58:31 AM

I wish. I am at Med School, so we actually make students do shit like go to class.

Best part is I got fucked last year on a pay raise thing and this was kind of a way for my boss to throw me a bone instead and going on a fun trip. Now I get to pay for part of it.

6/17/2016 12:00:22 PM

had a work party/retreat on Friday and there were two women who used the time to try to sell us Tupperware and Rodan + Fields products (multi-level marketing scheme), respectively. management just let this happen and actually bought stuff too.

7/5/2016 10:15:30 AM

it's the Sunday night before the 4th of July and some asshole made a reservation for 15 minutes before we closed. And then didnt even show up for it. F--- you if you think you're getting the 1000 points from OpenTable. (click No Show)

7/5/2016 10:19:27 AM

I was a dumbass who didnt look closely at the calendar when I submitted my vacation request for this week. So here I am, at work today, with the next three days off for vacation. I had a three day weekend, one day of work, and then a five day weekend

On the bright side everyone else in the industry is off today, so it's a quiet day in the office and I get to save a day of PTO. And, I have the next five days off

7/5/2016 11:59:03 AM

^ I have a similar issue. I'm taking a week off, but part of the vacation starts Wednesday, and I just noticed I'm scheduled to be back the following Friday.

7/5/2016 12:09:46 PM

Does no one know how to mute their fucking personal phones at work? How about after your fucking text notification plays 15 fucking times in 10 minutes?

7/6/2016 12:34:08 AM

how can someone be so proud of their catholic faith and be such a shitty and selfish person at work

7/22/2016 1:02:05 AM

being made so god damn miserable by your boss for no fucking reason that you're forced to resign

7/22/2016 1:24:28 AM

^^that's just Catholicism for you

none of them have any brains - especially with respect to common sense

perhaps maybe a little book sense but they're so into themselves, they can't really see the reality that is THE REEEEAL FUCKING WORLD

7/22/2016 1:25:20 AM

not really annoying, but when they were planning our email server migration i learned that multiple people on my project team haven't been using Outlook but instead used shitty OWA on the old Exchange 2007 server. how much time have these people been wasting dealing with that terribly slow interface?

7/22/2016 9:36:38 AM

so we have free snacks and drinks for employees, one of the most popular item is peanut m&m's. i usually try to stay away from the snacks, but today i had an urge for some peanut m&m's and grabbed a few.

one of the women in the office is a heavy smoker, apparently she also enjoys peanut m&m's because the 2 that i ate tasted like a stale ash tray. I spit them out and have been chewing breath mints but i can't get rid of the taste.

i'm sending an angry group email telling people to use the god damn plastic tongs they have beside the fucking snacks

8/10/2016 3:32:00 PM

tell your employer to get the individual bags of m&m's

8/10/2016 3:33:56 PM

^ more expensive that way

[Edited on August 10, 2016 at 3:41 PM. Reason : and prob not free to employee anymore, uness you work at google or something]

8/10/2016 3:39:49 PM

^more hygienic that way

8/10/2016 3:41:07 PM

ya think?
I mean we have snacks we pay 50 cents for, individually wrapped.... however I personally could never eat things from a community bowl like that anyway, even if free

..... but I imagine whoever set up the snacks at dtownral's work thought, oh great way to keep snacks in budgets.... never even imagining some monster would handle them all

[Edited on August 10, 2016 at 3:43 PM. Reason : .]

8/10/2016 3:43:34 PM

Wait a minute. Everybody shut up. Wait.

We have established that dtownral's employer provides free snacks and drinks, including peanut M&Ms.

Klatypus thinks that individual bags of peanut M&Ms would be so much more prohibitively expensive that an employer that currently provides peanut M&Ms could not afford to switch unless the company was on par with Google.

What the actual fuck?

8/10/2016 3:47:21 PM

clearly you have never worked for the state

8/10/2016 4:31:20 PM

peanuts, cashews, pistachios, and things like that are all in the plastic tub things that you pour out so you never touch them. crackers and granola bars are all individually wrapped.

for some mysterious reason though they put m&m's in a a bowl like agar in a petri dish

i've never wanted m&m's so its never occurred to me before how gross it is, but after eating the essence of my nasty coworker i will never make the mistake again

8/10/2016 4:49:34 PM

Someone bought PBR for the beer fridge this week.

8/11/2016 4:39:03 PM

Nice to hear from our resident Humble Bragger in Chief!

8/11/2016 4:42:07 PM

We have free snacks on Fridays including unwrapped Peanut M&Ms and they are in a fish bowl looking container but it is obvious that you are suppose to use the the spoon to get them out.

So far no monster going:

8/11/2016 4:49:43 PM

Quote :

"Nice to hear from our resident Humble Bragger in Chief! "

TIL only having PBR to drink qualifies as a humble brag.

8/11/2016 4:52:23 PM

I mean, you have abeer fridge at work?


WHERE DO YOU PEOPLE WORK?!?!?! FREE SNACKS AND BEER WTF IS THIS SHIT?

now I'm jelly

8/11/2016 4:54:35 PM

Quote :

"I mean, you have abeer fridge at work?"

I assume enough people work in software on here that it's a fairly common thing to have a beer fridge at work. I mean we have a Galvanize office downtown and they have craft beer on draft, catered breakfast, and happy hours most days. We just have a shitty fridge that people keep stocked. It's nothing special...

8/11/2016 5:01:13 PM

ok can we talk about the issue of work privileges here?


oh yea nbd, we are treated like gods and we don't even need to spend the money they pay us to eat, we get massages and blowjobs but nbd

clearly I went into the wrong field...

8/11/2016 5:07:47 PM

Our main office is shitty and outdated (although we're hopefully moving into a new office soon). Our work parties aren't anything special and we in no way have a "start up" feel to our office. One of the few pleasures we have is a beer fridge but I was complaining because someone filled it with PBR.

We're trying to get more of that start up feel with a better work culture but we're nowhere close yet. Obviously every software company wants to have an Ideo-like culture but it takes work.

8/11/2016 5:11:41 PM

... well damn, I call my day lucky when I side step to sneak unnoticed into a conference lunch meeting to snag a piece a pizza

and then slowly disappear into the bushes

8/11/2016 5:15:27 PM

Update: They put them in a plastic tub so you pour them out like everything else

8/11/2016 5:39:34 PM

People like to not bother us during the day, but then at the end of the day right before we close the phone calls start coming.

8/11/2016 6:57:07 PM

^ that's always lame, what's your job?

8/11/2016 7:51:34 PM

Quote :

"TIL complaining about the brand of beer in your FREE BEER fridge AT WORK qualifies as a humble brag"

8/12/2016 12:31:43 AM

Beer flows here like water. Of course it's free. What do you expect employees to PAY for the beer they drink at work?!

[Edited on August 12, 2016 at 12:35 AM. Reason : s]

8/12/2016 12:34:59 AM

Nice doubling down on the humble brag. We got a hippy Trump in the making!

8/12/2016 12:40:34 AM

Care to elaborate on what exactly a hippy trump is?

8/12/2016 1:07:15 AM

I can substitute Hipster if you'd prefer, as you dubbed yourself in the camera thread.

8/12/2016 1:25:59 AM

Since when did hipster become interchangeable with hippy trump? I'm so confused.

Also hipsters don't call themselves hipster. I'm most certainly not a hipster although I was poking fun at myself for getting a leather half-case to protect my camera by calling myself a hipster.

8/12/2016 1:29:54 AM

Quote :

" Also hipsters don't call themselves hipster. I'm most certainly not a hipster"

QED

8/12/2016 1:35:37 AM

That's about exactly what I expected you to respond with. As creative as ever.

Now again what did you mean by hippy trump? I'm interested in your thought process that paired those two words together.

8/12/2016 1:39:29 AM

Except you didn't call it out beforehand. So yeah. Good job saying you knew what I was gonna say after I said it.

8/12/2016 1:43:12 AM

No I like calling it out afterwards. If I call it out beforehand you probably wouldn't have said it thus defeating the purpose.

So did you mean a Trump supporter who's also a hippy? I understand the hipster part but I dare say I can't fathom why someone would think me either a trump supporter or a hippy.

8/12/2016 1:46:40 AM