The Work Thread

[Derp]

@macha said in The Work Thread:

@ganymede No, they took me out of the chat for the work that was causing me anxiety. They took me off that task, and put me back on what I was originally supposed to be doing with the new training.

I went from taking incoming calls with pissed off people back to outreach where I actually get to help people.

This was actually what the accommodation asked for, to put me back on outreach. (Though I know they are hoping I fuck it up so they can write me up for being a PITA)

[Macha]

@Ganymede @Derp I am not living in a state of super heightened anxiety. I am not making my sugars roller coaster. I am so much happier in this moment, I almost ALMOST feel forgiving. (Almost).

ETA: Boss' boss just messaged me to ask me how I'm feeling. ... yeah save the fake sincerity.

[Aria]

It is my super double favorite thing when a coworker of mine, who is supposed to be on PTO today, logs in solely to make sure I'm not fucking up a process that I have been doing three times longer than them.

Especially when the only issues with the template we're using are the inconsistencies which they accidentally built in and have arbitrarily determined which of the two options is "correct" and pontificates on them regularly. (Fact: the correct answer is "It doesn't actually matter which option we choose, as long it's consistent." So fix your template you wanted us all to use instead of randomly deciding that whoever is doing the piece this time is wrong simply so there's something for you to "fix".)

I also especially appreciate when they then start arguing about how I'm not including an item that they think it's super important we share with our entire subdivision, largely ignoring all explanation and justification of why I'm cutting it. Until my boss chimes in about how it lacks the information that our employees were promised, contains outdated and inaccurate information, and is a reminder about our leadership's failure to meet said publicly promised deadline, so she wouldn't include it either. All of which are the arguments I just made. At which point said coworker acknowledges they didn't know that because they didn't bother read the item to begin with.

[Too Old For This]

@aria What in the actual everliving fuck.... how does that person still have their job?!

[Aria]

@too-old-for-this said in The Work Thread:

@aria What in the actual everliving fuck.... how does that person still have their job?!

They have a technical skillset that no one else on our team has and is also very well known for being an amazing champion of DEI in ways our company, quite frankly, really needs.

I just get deeply frustrated with them because said person somehow manages to be an amazing champion of inclusivity when it comes to identifiers/demographics.... and then actually be pretty inconsiderate and shitty to work with on a personal level.

Like, thanks for being the one person who consistently respects my pronouns? That's cool? But it would also be great if you didn't cut me out of things we're supposed to be working on together and then talk down to me about everything from my work skillset to hobbies I've been participating in longer than you've been alive, thanks.

[Ganymede]

@aria said in The Work Thread:

Like, thanks for being the one person who consistently respects my pronouns? That's cool? But it would also be great if you didn't cut me out of things we're supposed to be working on together and then talk down to me about everything from my work skillset to hobbies I've been participating in longer than you've been alive, thanks.

I do love the snotty youth, but it's more tolerable than the snotty elderly.

[Aria]

@ganymede said in The Work Thread:

@aria said in The Work Thread:

Like, thanks for being the one person who consistently respects my pronouns? That's cool? But it would also be great if you didn't cut me out of things we're supposed to be working on together and then talk down to me about everything from my work skillset to hobbies I've been participating in longer than you've been alive, thanks.

I do love the snotty youth, but it's more tolerable than the snotty elderly.

At least they seem to have finally stopped writing think-pieces about how a generation that's pushing 40 will one day have to "grow up and learn how the real world works."

[Macha]

oh you knew it was too good to be true, you knew it was too good.

I couldn't get into my timesheet yesterday. Boss told me he'd take care of it, call IT.

It gets back to me this morning - and this motherheifer put in my time on Monday as two hours worked, and 6 Leave without pay. I don't know where jackass gets his math, But nooooo. If I have to be talking to you on teams, if I have to be responding to you and reporting to you, because of a sugar crash YOU helped cause? You don't get to act like I just didn't show up to work.

[faraday]

@macha Are they trying to make a training video for how to lose a discrimination lawsuit? Because it seems to me that this is how you make a training video for how to lose a discrimination lawsuit. (usual not-a-lawyer disclaimer here, but I hope you are able to get help from one soon)

[Macha]

@faraday I may have said to my boss that "Leave without pay suggests I was free to leave."

[Derp]

@macha said in The Work Thread:

@faraday I may have said to my boss that "Leave without pay suggests I was free to leave."

Your workplace is gloriously fucked up.

[Macha]

@derp I mean, stands to reason, right? If I was really on LWOP I shouldn't have to be talking to them/messaging in teams, sending screenshots to prove shit.

[Macha]

When work chats have been nagging out about 'working diligently' about your assigned cases, while you have to deal with IT, and the supe chat, and reviewing a case that had conflicting statuses... and you get done early and take on another case.

They can suck it. They want me to fail, now that they've put me on the task I asked for, to help my anxiety? Naw, that's not how this works.

[Arkandel]

@aria said in The Work Thread:

They have a technical skillset that no one else on our team has and is also very well known for being an amazing champion of DEI in ways our company, quite frankly, really needs.

All of my teams' applicants need to pass a basic requirement: No brilliant jerks.

I don't care how amazing someone is - and in IT this is a pretty well known stereotype. Even so, if they can't work with others without causing problems then we'll pass on them.

It's served its purpose well so far.

[Juniper]

Brilliant jerks are the fucking worst. It's like they're completely unaware that their personal set of skills isn't the yardstick of competence for every human being alive. Or that everyone has a different lived experience and set of skills that the Jerk doesn't have - we just don't rub it in their face.

Also 9 times out of 10 when the Jerk is jerking about something, I actually already knew it and the source of confusion was his lacklustre communication skills.

[Ganymede]

@juniper

In my line of work, the brilliant jerk often becomes a victim of his own brilliance because many of us in practice have been victimized by the same in prior lives.

It’s fun to sit in mediations where everyone, even opposing parties, cracks at the jerk and resolves things in a way that either cut him out or disadvantage his client.

[Ganymede]

Scenes from a Law Firm before a Massacre

Act III, Scene i

Partner: One of my clients needs to have a commercial deal closed by December 1.
Me: Okay. It's November 11, so I doubt that's going to happen.
Partner: He thinks otherwise, so here's the title company he wants to use but has not called yet and a copy of the purchase agreement.
Me: Can I talk to him?
Partner: Not unless it's absolutely necessary. Can you get it done?
Me: No.
Partner: Well, try your best.

Act III, Scene ii

Partner: It's November 12. What's the status?
Me: I called the title company and left an e-mail. Can't really close without them, so I'm waiting for a response.

Act III, Scene iii

Partner: It's November 13. What's the status?
Me: Same as yesterday.
Partner: Did you call them?
Me: Yes. I called them yesterday. And left an e-mail. I'm waiting for a response.

Act III, Scene iv

Partner: It's November 14. What's the status?
Me: Look, how about I just tell you when I have the title company on board?

Act III, Scene v

Me: Well, they called back. They can handle the deal, but they don't think they can close by December 1.
Partner: Why not?
Me: Thanksgiving, mostly. We need a title report finished and a policy issued. We need a legal description of the parcel. We need other documents too.
Partner: So when will it close?
Me: Not on December 1.
Partner: Why not?

Act III, Scene vi

Opposing Counsel: I know it is November 30, but here are the documents for closing.
Me: This easement won't work. We need to revise it.
Opposing Counsel: Okay.
Partner: So when will the deal close?
Me: Not tomorrow.
Partner: Why not?

Act III, Scene vii

Opposing Counsel: It is December 1. What's the status?

(Stage explodes into violence.)

FIN

[Derp]

@ganymede said in The Work Thread:

Scenes from a Law Firm before a Massacre

Act III, Scene i

Partner: One of my clients needs to have a commercial deal closed by December 1.
Me: Okay. It's November 11, so I doubt that's going to happen.
Partner: He thinks otherwise, so here's the title company he wants to use but has not called yet and a copy of the purchase agreement.
Me: Can I talk to him?
Partner: Not unless it's absolutely necessary. Can you get it done?
Me: No.
Partner: Well, try your best.

Act III, Scene ii

Partner: It's November 12. What's the status?
Me: I called the title company and left an e-mail. Can't really close without them, so I'm waiting for a response.

Act III, Scene iii

Partner: It's November 13. What's the status?
Me: Same as yesterday.
Partner: Did you call them?
Me: Yes. I called them yesterday. And left an e-mail. I'm waiting for a response.

Act III, Scene iv

Partner: It's November 14. What's the status?
Me: Look, how about I just tell you when I have the title company on board?

Act III, Scene v

Me: Well, they called back. They can handle the deal, but they don't think they can close by December 1.
Partner: Why not?
Me: Thanksgiving, mostly. We need a title report finished and a policy issued. We need a legal description of the parcel. We need other documents too.
Partner: So when will it close?
Me: Not on December 1.
Partner: Why not?

Act III, Scene vi

Opposing Counsel: I know it is November 30, but here are the documents for closing.
Me: This easement won't work. We need to revise it.
Opposing Counsel: Okay.
Partner: So when will the deal close?
Me: Not tomorrow.
Partner: Why not?

Act III, Scene vii

Opposing Counsel: It is December 1. What's the status?

(Stage explodes into violence.)

FIN

And this is how the law came to be controlled by Lawcatbot, our bloody but disinterested overlord.

[GreenFlashlight]

@ganymede Wait, "partner" as in partner at your law firm? As in someone who should presumably know how law and... and time work?

[Ganymede]

@greenflashlight said in The Work Thread:

Wait, "partner" as in partner at your law firm? As in someone who should presumably know how law and... and time work?

Yes.

As in, someone who knows that I have handled dozens of these transactions before and has some awareness of how long they take.

As in, someone who gave me the task because of their knowledge of what I know.

As in, someone who trained me in how to do these.

It's frustrating because ain't like I don't have my own cases to handle.