Post by sapphire bou on Jan 20, 2016 9:47:06 GMT -5
My door is directly across the hall from the video manager and instead of using his sound proof editing room to edit videos, he uses the front office which is not sound proof. It's tolerable when it's the university president or my VP or classical music, but the video he's been working on for the last two weeks is a woman speaking very forcefully. And it's the same 4 lines over and over again. It's causing me to feel quite a bit of anxiety.
When someone flies through a red light in a very busy intersection where tons of pedestrians cross, including myself. I only cross when the light tells me to, yet tons of folks try to take me out by running the light. So f@cking annoying/dangerous.
When you're on a very important conference call and the person who is hosting it is calling from their cell phone and they have spotty service!
This guy is our VP and it just seems very unprofessional when his phone keeps cutting out and sounding like he's underwater.
He must have an iPhone and/or AT&T service. :-#
I swear to the baby Jesus that my reception was near-perfect when I used a dumbphone and almost never had static or dropped calls. I'm reasonably annoyed with myself that since I got a smart-phone, actual phone conversations seem much more difficult and more prone to this type of problem. Though texting with emoticons and sending dumb videos to the H has been kind of fun, lol!
When I am very clearly eating my lunch and an employee who is a super close talker and also REEKS cigarette smoke decides it is a good time to air all of her grievances about what is going on in her department. Back the fuck off, lady.
When I am very clearly eating my lunch and an employee who is a super close talker and also REEKS cigarette smoke decides it is a good time to air all of her grievances about what is going on in her department. Back the fuck off, lady.
Post by theatre4life on Jan 21, 2016 13:47:02 GMT -5
This - which turned into more of a vent, sorry.
I was told on 12/15 that I my office was closing down, and I was getting laid off. (Merry effing Christmas...) The policy here 60 days notice, then you get your severance. (This ends on 2/8 - which is a Monday.) Every single other person that has EVER been laid off here, ends up turning in their stuff and not having to come in, certainly not fully working for the 60 days. I have been working and performing my job for this entire time. I always knew it would be a possibility that I would need to train my replacement. Last Friday, I got a call from the boss that laid me off, saying that the new hire would be starting on 2/1, and that I would need to train her the last week I am here. I said I had a problem with Wednesday, because doctor's appointments. He hemmed and hawed, and said she could only start on 2/1 and needed as much training as possible. I said I would touch back with him.
Today, I get a call from his second in command, saying that she, three other people, and the new hire would be up here for training that entire week, including that Monday, and I would need to be here for all of them. I said as long as nothing comes up health-wise, I am here everyday, but if something comes up, I have to take care of it. She threw out that I am contractual bound to be working that week, and I need to take it up with the higher up boss. Umm...so are you saying that just because I am terminated I can't take a sick day if something comes up? (For what it is worth, I have 40 paid sick days, and have accrued 3 vacation days.) So...yeah. She was really stuck on them needing as much time as possible for training and everything else.
This sucks so much. I have put 8.5 years into this company and I am being treated like this is my choice to leave, and I am just training my replacement. Not that they fucking fired me. This would probably be a whole lot easier if I had found another job by now, but I haven't and I just feel used, frustrated, upset, pissed and whole multitude of other really crappy emotions. I know at the end of the day this will all work out and life will be better on the other side, but right now it just sucks. A lot.
If you have made it this far, thanks for letting me vent, you deserve some wine and cookie.
I was told on 12/15 that I my office was closing down, and I was getting laid off. (Merry effing Christmas...) The policy here 60 days notice, then you get your severance. (This ends on 2/8 - which is a Monday.) Every single other person that has EVER been laid off here, ends up turning in their stuff and not having to come in, certainly not fully working for the 60 days. I have been working and performing my job for this entire time. I always knew it would be a possibility that I would need to train my replacement. Last Friday, I got a call from the boss that laid me off, saying that the new hire would be starting on 2/1, and that I would need to train her the last week I am here. I said I had a problem with Wednesday, because doctor's appointments. He hemmed and hawed, and said she could only start on 2/1 and needed as much training as possible. I said I would touch back with him.
Today, I get a call from his second in command, saying that she, three other people, and the new hire would be up here for training that entire week, including that Monday, and I would need to be here for all of them. I said as long as nothing comes up health-wise, I am here everyday, but if something comes up, I have to take care of it. She threw out that I am contractual bound to be working that week, and I need to take it up with the higher up boss. Umm...so are you saying that just because I am terminated I can't take a sick day if something comes up? (For what it is worth, I have 40 paid sick days, and have accrued 3 vacation days.) So...yeah. She was really stuck on them needing as much time as possible for training and everything else.
This sucks so much. I have put 8.5 years into this company and I am being treated like this is my choice to leave, and I am just training my replacement. Not that they fucking fired me. This would probably be a whole lot easier if I had found another job by now, but I haven't and I just feel used, frustrated, upset, pissed and whole multitude of other really crappy emotions. I know at the end of the day this will all work out and life will be better on the other side, but right now it just sucks. A lot.
If you have made it this far, thanks for letting me vent, you deserve some wine and cookie.
My give-a-damn would be busted and they'd be lucky to get any sort of "training".
Maybe I'm different, but I've never heard of laying someone off, keeping them around 60 days and then expecting them to train their replacement? If I was the new person, I'd have some concerns being trained by someone who was fired from doing the job I'm about to take.
I was told on 12/15 that I my office was closing down, and I was getting laid off. (Merry effing Christmas...) The policy here 60 days notice, then you get your severance. (This ends on 2/8 - which is a Monday.) Every single other person that has EVER been laid off here, ends up turning in their stuff and not having to come in, certainly not fully working for the 60 days. I have been working and performing my job for this entire time. I always knew it would be a possibility that I would need to train my replacement. Last Friday, I got a call from the boss that laid me off, saying that the new hire would be starting on 2/1, and that I would need to train her the last week I am here. I said I had a problem with Wednesday, because doctor's appointments. He hemmed and hawed, and said she could only start on 2/1 and needed as much training as possible. I said I would touch back with him.
Today, I get a call from his second in command, saying that she, three other people, and the new hire would be up here for training that entire week, including that Monday, and I would need to be here for all of them. I said as long as nothing comes up health-wise, I am here everyday, but if something comes up, I have to take care of it. She threw out that I am contractual bound to be working that week, and I need to take it up with the higher up boss. Umm...so are you saying that just because I am terminated I can't take a sick day if something comes up? (For what it is worth, I have 40 paid sick days, and have accrued 3 vacation days.) So...yeah. She was really stuck on them needing as much time as possible for training and everything else.
This sucks so much. I have put 8.5 years into this company and I am being treated like this is my choice to leave, and I am just training my replacement. Not that they fucking fired me. This would probably be a whole lot easier if I had found another job by now, but I haven't and I just feel used, frustrated, upset, pissed and whole multitude of other really crappy emotions. I know at the end of the day this will all work out and life will be better on the other side, but right now it just sucks. A lot.
If you have made it this far, thanks for letting me vent, you deserve some wine and cookie.
My give-a-damn would be busted and they'd be lucky to get any sort of "training".
Maybe I'm different, but I've never heard of laying someone off, keeping them around 60 days and then expecting them to train their replacement? If I was the new person, I'd have some concerns being trained by someone who was fired from doing the job I'm about to take.
Completely agreed. The 60 is the bank's policy, which 99% of the time, people leave, and just get paid/have their benefits for 60 days, before they get their severance. My job has too many working parts for that to be a thing. I would also be wary if I were the new hire, but I ma sure they are justifying it that I am leaving on my choice, or some such shit. As this is all playing out, they really aren't acting like they laid me off. They kind of suck...
Ugh, theatre4life, that is terrible. I'm not sure that I would be able to stick around without punching someone.
My annoyance is that Gmail will spell and grammar check your emails, prompt you to add events to your calendar right in the email, and let you know when you write about an attachment but don't actually add an attachment...but it doesn't do anything for the email subject line. This is how I get emails like "CHAGNE OF DATE" and I cringe.
Post by sapphire bou on Jan 22, 2016 15:17:22 GMT -5
theatre4life, I don't understand. So they laid people off just so they could turn around and hire a replacement? Is it a lower salary? Even at that, what about the time you have invested into the people you laid off?
theatre4life , I don't understand. So they laid people off just so they could turn around and hire a replacement? Is it a lower salary? Even at that, what about the time you have invested into the people you laid off?
Technically, they laid us off because our office is closing. We are in Northern VA, and the new position is in Richmond, Va, which is about a 2.5 hour difference. Not that I would have taken it, but they didn't even over for me to relocate. It's pretty shitty all around.
Thanks for all of the love, I really appreciate it.