Ahem.
Clears throat
Aaaaaaaheeeeem!
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I don't give a fuck what you think you are. Man. Woman. Or Other. If you cannot do the job, get the fuck out of my field and out of my way.
That is all.
This is from my Twitter:
Thursday, I contacted Amazon. They told me 'We're investigating, we'll get back to you within 3 days.'
They didn't.
I contacted them last night.
They said they couldn't/wouldn't do anything. Wouldn't refund. Wouldn't reship. If I wanted, I could file a police report.
I have done so.
But seriously, fuck you, Amazon.
Saying the quiet parts out loud since 1996.
@auspice If it was a flex driver (most likely) then they will be knocked for it, if they get more than 5 missing packages then they will be fired.
It is exceedingly odd that you're not getting the item re-sent to you. Amazon is usually very good at just replacing items that are lost in shipping or delivered wrongly.
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@auspice If it was a flex driver (most likely) then they will be knocked for it, if they get more than 5 missing packages then they will be fired.
It is exceedingly odd that you're not getting the item re-sent to you. Amazon is usually very good at just replacing items that are lost in shipping or delivered wrongly.
They've reshipped or refunded me (so I can re-order on my own) in the past.
This time they've flat-out refused.
I'm really not happy.
I've filed the police report and a BBB complaint.
I do not like being out $30.
$30 is nearly a week's groceries for me. 
Saying the quiet parts out loud since 1996.
Also complain to your credit card company if you paid with one.
What did you order?
“It is better to live doing the things that you like. It is foolish to live within this dream of a world seeing unpleasantness and doing only things that you do not like.” -- Yamamoto Tsunetomo.
What did you order?
Nothing fancy. Some crackers for lunches and a pair of those compression socks someone had suggested I try for my walking. Like, nothing I imagine anyone would be all 'oh lemme steal that!'
It's so fucking stupid.
But I'm poor and $30 is kind of a big deal for me.
I've kept quiet about it because I'm not often one to throw my real world issues off on the shoulders of others. This is by no means any sort of 'call for help' or the like. I help myself. We help ourselves. This is just my venting so that I don't end up following through with a wish to pay a visit to someone's home.
My wife, as many have likely gathered, is the cheddar-maker in our household. I'm the stay-at-home parent. Quite a few have likely also heard me talk about how much she loves her job, because she really, really does.
She was fired about a week and a half ago. Long story short: her boss, who had filled her head with all this talk of her becoming the Director(which essentially functions as the Vice President of that respective department)(i.e., her boss's current position) realized that the timetable that she presented for the promotions to be passed around, was flawed. She realized, in short, that she'd probably not be promoted for a long, long time. Largely because she just wasn't very good at her job. In fact Mrs. Faceless was more likely to leap frog or outright replace her.
Since Bad Boss began her job about two years ago, there has been two controversial firings within her department, that were her doing. At one point she informed my wife that "this is what she does; she treats someone she doesn't like shit until they quit or they give her a good reason to fire them". This also had the side effect of her doing it so that she could get people from her previous employer to come over and join her team at her current employer(i.e., my wife's place of employment).
So about a month ago there was some mistakes in processes that were made. My wife was given the blame. Was it her fault? No. It was one of the people under her that screwed up, but as is expected the fire burnt up the rope. When my wife was asked why what happened, happened, she was honest: I was told to do it by my immediate management. This prompted Bad Boss to initiate termination protocols. She made my wife's life hell for a couple weeks, up to and including pulling her into a private meeting to inform her sweetly that she was "pretentious" and "walk around here like you're Mrs. Faceless Fucking McFacelessface". It became a situation where Mrs. Faceless was sent into walking on egg shells because Bad Boss had become overly critical of everything. She stayed over 15 minutes one night to ensure every last shred of her duties were completed, so that she could get a fresh start on a new project the next day. Something which she's done periodically for nearly 3 years. Bad Boss took exception to this Go-Getter attitude suddenly and made it a point to chastise her diligence.
So she ended up getting fired for "insubordination". In what way or how? I've no damn idea, mostly because I know it didn't happen. I do know that I had a couple ideas that involved limb breaking, until I was reminded that my pictures had been all over her desk. An oversight. Chick needs to keep me off her grid, duh.
NOW...
She had two interviews and one job offer within an hour of losing her job. When I say my wife is the hardest working person that I personally know? It's not an embellishment or some weird flattery that she'll never see. I have zero doubts that she'll find another place to work, even if she has to take a bit of a pay hit. What angers me is the fact she lost her job or career that I know she loved, because her immediate supervisor felt threatened in their own position because they recognized that they're bad at their job. When she was confronted with the allegations, she denied them of course.
She's had a number of interviews since the separation from her previous employer. Today? Today I'm the most hopeful. I like money. It makes my junk wiggle. The position she's interviewing for today would ultimately result in a $20k increase over what she was making previously. I kind of want her to get and take this, because if so? It'll make all the headache and frustration she's felt since being fired from a place that she loved, seem worth it. For her sake, I hope she gets it because I think it'll make her appreciate the opportunity for something new.
Alternatively, she was just offered another job that while it would actually involve a slight pay cut over her previous employment; it would be with a company that has apparently won some award for being the best employer in the city the past six years or something and have a lot more bonus opportunities over what she had available previously so it would likely even out or put her slightly above her past earnings.
This is only a matter of concern to me because I know she'll ask my advice when or if she gets offered both positions. One seems a safer bet and would likely result in her having a happier experience. The other one... more money, but an uncertain environment. So I'm sort of adrift on which direction to advise her, when she comes asking.
So, in short, fuck you Bad Boss. You literally got rid of someone who was doing the duties of four people. Your department was so under budget because she was doing the work of four people in total, at the pay of one and a half. She's heard from literally a couple dozen of her former coworkers or subordinates how much chaos, confusion, and general lack of progress there's been since her firing. People now placed in jobs that they weren't prepared for, unable to answer questions or just get the job done in general. You tried to "knock her down a peg", but it didn't work. Chick's Obi-Wan, yo. She'll just come back stronger than you could possibly imagine. You've played yourself. It's my genuine hope that someone breaks your goddamn legs, you lying fuck.
/venting
MSB free since 24/3/2018
@faceless I know you weren't asking for advice at all but...if the lower paying job with the award winning employer culture won't put you in dire straits? That one, all the way. A company that respects work/life balance and takes care of employees is so, so nice to have.
@kanye-qwest said in RL Anger:
@faceless I know you weren't asking for advice at all but...if the lower paying job with the award winning employer culture won't put you in dire straits? That one, all the way. A company that respects work/life balance and takes care of employees is so, so nice to have.
I do appreciate the advice, regardless. There's where I've personally leaned myself in terms of suggestions. Her previous employer was ranked third or fourth; there was a reason that she loved it. I want her to love what she does. So going from 3rd or 4th place to 1st? That seems like a great thing to me.
That pay increase from the other place though... it's just so tempting. More toys!
MSB free since 24/3/2018
@kanye-qwest said in RL Anger:
@faceless I know you weren't asking for advice at all but...if the lower paying job with the award winning employer culture won't put you in dire straits? That one, all the way. A company that respects work/life balance and takes care of employees is so, so nice to have.
I do appreciate the advice, regardless. There's where I've personally leaned myself in terms of suggestions. Her previous employer was ranked third or fourth; there was a reason that she loved it. I want her to love what she does. So going from 3rd or 4th place to 1st? That seems like a great thing to me.
That pay increase from the other place though... it's just so tempting. More toys!
Never pick money over happiness if both choices will fulfill your needs. As someone who is making good money in a job that is making her miserable, I can say that the extra money isn't worth it. Sure, you can buy more toys but you don't end up playing with them because all you do when you come home from work is curl up in a ball of depressed numbness and spend your non-working hours dreading going back into work. It'll kill you to see your wife that way and is not sustainable.
Fuck. I really need to find a new job.
@faceless Better place to work hands down. 20k a year or 5 more years of life due to less stress and things...(not exact numbers, but). The difference that going to a good job has made on my health and general quality of life is incredible. Less stress is better for her physically, the kids (when mama is happy everyone is happy), you. Toys are nice. Health is better.
Update: she didn't even bother to ask my advice. She's already decided on the pay cut, #1 ranked place.
So much for daddy getting some new guns.
Thanks, Obama.
MSB free since 24/3/2018
Update: she didn't even bother to ask my advice. She's already decided on the pay cut, #1 ranked place.
So much for daddy getting some new guns.
Thanks, Obama.
Happy momma = more sexy times.
Saying the quiet parts out loud since 1996.
@auspice I signed up for Prime over the summer, and lost 3 packages in a row-I'd get attempted delivery notices, and the post office was like lolwut? Amazon was great at sending replacements. Once I figured out that I could set my pickup location to the post office without needing to order a PO box, I haven't missed one.
@auspice I signed up for Prime over the summer, and lost 3 packages in a row-I'd get attempted delivery notices, and the post office was like lolwut? Amazon was great at sending replacements. Once I figured out that I could set my pickup location to the post office without needing to order a PO box, I haven't missed one.
Thankfully we have a new 'Hub' thing at my apartment complex where they put the packages into it. I'm hoping it'll cut down on issues.
But if they're taking it to the entirely wrong address....
Unfortunately, since I have no car, having it go to the post office would be wildly inconvenient for me.
The only reason that my boyfriend is alive right now is because there were still two pie crusts left at the grocery store.
Dammit bread, WHY WON'T YOU PROOF. That's all I need, because if you won't proof I'm going to have to make bread AGAIN on Friday and I DON'T WANT TO. MY PLAN WAS PERFECT, DAMMITALL.
I won't ever comment on someone else's eating habits unless I'm asked... so why are you asking me, coworker? Why come over and tell me you want to lose weight until mid-January, starting last month, and then on a daily basis tell me you're still not losing any when I can see you grabbing muffins and 'energy bars' from the company-provided stuff throughout the day?
I've given him links to FAQs, explained the basics of calories in/calories out, I even went ahead and - when asked - gave him an idea of what he could eat to reduce his carbs intake and still feel full. I don't care if he does any of that or not as it's none of my business, but what can I possibly say back the 10th time he complains his weight is still not going down other than repeating myself?
I know he just wants to vent, but I'm really bad at listening to problems yet not trying to talk about solutions.
This is from my Twitter:
Thursday, I contacted Amazon. They told me 'We're investigating, we'll get back to you within 3 days.'
They didn't.
I contacted them last night.
They said they couldn't/wouldn't do anything. Wouldn't refund. Wouldn't reship. If I wanted, I could file a police report.
I have done so.
But seriously, fuck you, Amazon.
