The Work Thread
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@aria If 699 people had fun, felt included, participated and appreciated the celebration but one person did not, that's still a 99.85% success rate.
- He who takes offense when not intended is a fool. He who takes offense when intended is a greater fool.
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@arkandel said in The Work Thread:
@aria If 699 people had fun, felt included, participated and appreciated the celebration but one person did not, that's still a 99.85% success rate.
Ohh, I know. And I don't expect everyone to be happy. We don't have the full survey results and there's a few folks that have already said they wished we had more entertainment and less raffles, which is totally fair (but hard to do online where we wanted our budget spent on employees, not vendors).
I'm just angry because I can only imagine, with the timing of when his comments came in, that this guy spent the whole 90 minutes sitting there with his polemic all ready to go, just waiting for the survey to open so that he could shit all over two months of work pulled off by four (primarily two) people on behalf 1096 others. Neither I nor my teammates deserve that, especially after we spent so much time deliberately working to make sure that no one felt left off.
Obviously, this man holds the true spirit of Christmas in his angry little heart.
https://whatiswrongwith.me/Mia
There were never any good old days. They are today. They are tomorrow. It's a stupid thing we say, cursing tomorrow with sorrow. -- Gogol Bordello -
@aria This is my dad's nugget of wisdom for this kind of situation.
fuck 'em.
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@aria said in The Work Thread:
I am going to scream.
The first comment, the very first one, was an employee who felt the need to lambast us for making the celebration "secular and superficial" instead of "creating a safe space dedicated to the real meaning behind the holiday."
Try reading the entire comment aloud while doing your best impression of Squidward. I've found that takes the rage out of almost anything.
I have also found Dr. Orpheus works.
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@aria said in The Work Thread:
... this guy spent the whole 90 minutes sitting there with his polemic all ready to go, just waiting for the survey to open so that he could shit all over two months of work pulled off by four (primarily two) people on behalf 1096 others.
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@aria 20 bucks says that person won't be working at the company after the new year. Fuck that person, you guys did an AMAZING thing and I could only hope that more companies would take that sort of care and effort for their employees!
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@aria said in The Work Thread:
I'm just angry because I can only imagine, with the timing of when his comments came in, that this guy spent the whole 90 minutes sitting there with his polemic all ready to go, just waiting for the survey to open so that he could shit all over
That sounds like a fairly reasonable assumption.
Have you seen videos of people who walk unmasked - but filming - into malls only to pick a fight with employees there about being unable to sit anywhere, being excluded, attacked, what about their children, etc?
This guy came in prepared to pick that fight. He probably knew how it would play out before you even started. I'd bet it'd have gone exactly the same way if you had catered 90% to Christmas over the remaining 10%. It's all for the spectacle.
Sadly it only serves to validate them at the cost of ruining some other person's day. I'm sorry you had to deal with that.
- He who takes offense when not intended is a fool. He who takes offense when intended is a greater fool.
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@arkandel said in The Work Thread:
Sadly it only serves to validate them at the cost of ruining some other person's day.
People who have never suffered true persecution often manufacture their own.
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@aria said in The Work Thread:
The first comment, the very first one, was an employee who felt the need to lambast us for making the celebration "secular and superficial" instead of "creating a safe space dedicated to the real meaning behind the holiday."
Dear Sir,
While we certainly respect your sentiments, that is not our role at Company. Here at Company, it is our job to create safe, welcoming environments for a diversity of faiths, nationalities, and traditions, in accordance with our company's ideals and various laws.
Religious observance is, we feel, best left to professionals trained for such measures. We would recommend that you research religious leaders that specialize in your specific situation and seek their services. We believe in the value of professional expertise and would not want to infringe on the hard work of others by attempting to reproduce the quality and quantity of their work product.
At Company, we believe in staying in our lane. We find, as a general rule, that it produces quite a bit of employee satisfaction, and heartily suggest that you consider taking up this practice as well.
However, Company believes in a strong culture of professional development and career advancement. If you feel that your expertise in various religious traditions is being wasted at Company, we fully support a transition to Religious Leader, and are happy to write you a letter of recommendation upon request.
Sincerely,
Everyone Else
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Work has another covid outbreak. Last big one was around this same time last year. I think this one is delta, but not sure, it wasn't typed out (Should have been - maybe will be).
It seems to be mostly effecting those who religious exempted out of vaccinating.
It is creating worsening staffing shortages with staff out.
So far nobody is super sick, just mild cases, that is the one blessing.
I am hoping and praying for the best for us all - worried and not really wanting to go through it all again.
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We all know the kids out with Covid now, and we have a teacher out too.
It's just... kept quiet. We whisper. Mostly because it would take an act of government and/or complete disaster for us to shut down again.
We're just... getting sick and then getting better a few kids/adults at a time.
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Oh hey, you have a migraine and had to call out? Let me call you and text you so I can whine that I feel like you had gaps in your productivity and I want to take bites out of your paycheck for it. - My boss.
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Felt really good to be able to say "Sorry, I'm not available" to a request for me to step in as a sub at the school's "winter break camp" and receive no pushback nor have fear that bad things would happen (from a child safety standpoint) if I didn't agree to do it.
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Paycheck problems, part deux:
This morning - B = Boss, BB =Boss' boss.B - Hey, you still need to edit your timesheet. There are 'significant' chunks of time when I can't see you doing anything.
BB - Timesheets need to be approved by 10am!
Me: I fixed it on Friday. What you may not be able to see me doing, is asking people for help with something I don't know, or if there's something I'm second guessing myself on. There is no way to timestamp phone calls I make on my cell phone.
Then, promptly - My Amazon Workspaces crapped out. This has been a constant problem, they blame my wifi. I told them if they were insisting that I use an ethernet cord for my own personal laptop, they had to buy me one. They sent it to Boss. Boss has never brought it to me a month later. I have received NO stipends for anything - internet, ethernet, any of it. And by NY law, as a non-exempt employee - I should have been. And when my old laptop became impossible to work on? They should have been helping me with that, too.
I am livid. I need contract for new job in hand.
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So now, they're insisting that I have 'hours' of time unaccounted for. I wish I had hours where I got to do something else.
They expect me to be able to tell them exactly what I was doing at an exact point of time in the day, a week or more ago.
They're trying to tell me they recommended I get an accommodation for my ADHD January of this year. Uhh no, they didn't. They thought I didn't know ADHD is protected by the ADA, and the moment I mentioned that, they got quiet.
I am so sick of being told they did all these things for me, when they didn't do anything.
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@macha said in The Work Thread:
They expect me to be able to tell them exactly what I was doing at an exact point of time in the day, a week or more ago.
Here's a fun thing to tell them:
"I can't recall what I was doing last week at the moment. I talked to an attorney, though, and they recommended I keep a diary of our communications in case we have to use it as evidence or something. Anyhow, they have that diary right now, so when I get it back I'll let you know what I was up to."
And if they ask for a copy of the diary, tell them:
"I asked my attorney about that, and they send something about it being a work product? Something about a document prepared in anticipation of litigation. I don't exactly recall what they said, but they told me not to give you a copy."
And if they ask you if you plan to file a lawsuit, tell them:
"I really don't know at this point. It's all really confusing to me. You tell me one thing, and they tell me another, but my attorney has been very good at explaining things so far, and I trust their judgment."
And if they ask to speak with your attorney, tell them:
"I talked to my attorney, and they said that they have no interest in talking to you, but when they do they will reach out in writing. They could not tell me when, but that's what they told me."
No, seriously, this will be really fun.
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@ganymede Dude, I can't tell if you're fucking with me, or not.
I did point out that this expectation of minute by minute tracking of my work stuff happened only after I pushed back on the call taking that was messing with my anxiety (and therefore my sugars).
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@alamias I don't /think/ Gany is messing with me, but right now work is lying to me up and down, to the point I am second guessing everything.
...fuck. Gaslighting. I wanted to think better of them. I need to stop doing that.
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Now they are insisting that the work headset I was approved for, is now 'use your own headset' No. That is NOT what the medical Accommodations team told me. I refuse to use my own personal gear for this job anymore, within reason.
They're also refusing to purchase/reimburse me for the ethernet cord they insist I need for Amazon Workspaces to work correctly (I have consulted with several outside IT people, one whom handles AWS for their company, and all of them call bullshit). This is not something I would need outside of work, so I refuse to pay for it.
Yeah...
ETA: My immediate boss went out and bought the ethernet cord and clips for me, out of his own money. It's shit like this that gets to me. He'll be a dick when under pressure from his boss, but then he goes and does stuff like this.
