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cephalopods
Aug 11, 2013

I enjoy all the opportunities I get to full-strength kick stuff with my boots on, or hurl things against the steel backstop above our trash compactor

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Revalis Enai
Apr 21, 2003
<img src="https://fi.somethingawful.com/customtitles/title-revalis_enai.gif"><br>Wait, what's my phone number again?
Fun Shoe
Because I'm mentally weak, I'm still hoping to stick around when I know I should find a way out of this place. I was initially hired as IT and office work and all was fine. Now that I'm a asst manager(not by choice) as well as managing cashiers(not by choice), It's difficult for me to take days off if I needed, but I have to work if a cashier decides to call in. I do all the stuff I do not because it's for the employer, but if I don't then others who work with me gets a harder time. As much as I hate all the higher ups I'm cool with most of the people on the floor and I try not to make their jobs harder.

I don't know what IT job I can transfer to from doing small shop IT, but hopefully I can get the hell out of retail for as long as I can.

Pentaghastly
Mar 26, 2016
I've seen other 24 year olds in the south and let me tell you it feels good to still be able to slav-squat and then stand up without using my hands. Only positive thing about my job is it's kept me relatively active and graceful. I've lost and kept off 20lbs since I started here and haven't been this lean since high school.

Meanwhile other coworkers my age have gained weight at this job. Can't imagine why.

Leal
Oct 2, 2009

Pentaghastly posted:

I've seen other 24 year olds in the south and let me tell you it feels good to still be able to slav-squat and then stand up without using my hands. Only positive thing about my job is it's kept me relatively active and graceful. I've lost and kept off 20lbs since I started here and haven't been this lean since high school.

Meanwhile other coworkers my age have gained weight at this job. Can't imagine why.

I work the produce department and I've only gained weight. This is even after car legality issues has resulted in me having to bike to work.

Stress is a mother fucker.

Rainbow Knight
Apr 19, 2006

We die.
We pray.
To live.
We serve

Leal posted:

I work the produce department and I've only gained weight.

I gained about 25 lbs as soon as I started working in produce. Definitely not stress related though, because I was in Deli before that.

I like to think that it's 25 lbs of sweet sweet insulating fat :v:

Alkydere
Jun 7, 2010
Capitol: A building or complex of buildings in which any legislature meets.
Capital: A city designated as a legislative seat by the government or some other authority, often the city in which the government is located; otherwise the most important city within a country or a subdivision of it.



Revalis Enai posted:

Because I'm mentally weak, I'm still hoping to stick around when I know I should find a way out of this place. I was initially hired as IT and office work and all was fine. Now that I'm a asst manager(not by choice) as well as managing cashiers(not by choice), It's difficult for me to take days off if I needed, but I have to work if a cashier decides to call in. I do all the stuff I do not because it's for the employer, but if I don't then others who work with me gets a harder time. As much as I hate all the higher ups I'm cool with most of the people on the floor and I try not to make their jobs harder.

I don't know what IT job I can transfer to from doing small shop IT, but hopefully I can get the hell out of retail for as long as I can.

Seriously, I suggest you make like this guy:


You care, which is great...for everything besides work. I was there. I was you once. I busted my loving rear end for a health food startup called Snap Kitchen making pre-made health food units for people until they decided to move the kitchen from Austin to Dallas. Now I understand why they did that: they were gonna get twice the square footage for their USDA kitchen at half the price of the one they were about to build in Austin, and going full USDA let them sell their food in stores they didn't own. I worked my rear end off and asked for a promotion or at least a raise since I already did 75% of the work of a kitchen manager being the most senior person on nights and therefore the de-facto night manager. They offered to graciously let me keep my old rate of $11/hour and a flat $1,000 moving bonus I'd have to pay back if I quit/got fired within 6 months with a smile and "helpful" tips on applying for federal income assistance. All with a big grin on their face because I should be grateful for this opportunity, right?

Oh, I'm sorry, what's that? Amazon is hiring at $12/hour? With another $0.50/hour for night shift? AND they offer solid health insurance AND state my schedule very clearly in advance so I don't have my manager calling me on every day off to try to get me to work 6, even 7 days a week? Yeah I'm really sorry you can't pay me up here *places hand up by head* while you're paying the people I'm training, who are temps from a temp agency, down here *places hand by waist*. So sorry Amazon then gave me a raise to $15.60 within a year too When Lord Of Commerce Bezos Doth Declare that he is getting bad press and the company minimum wage should be increased.

Yeah I know you want to care. I know you want to make this work. In a just world that would be the right thing to do. In reality, your upstairs management is just using and abusing you for their profit. Learn when to shut down those emotions and walk out.


Pentaghastly posted:

I've seen other 24 year olds in the south and let me tell you it feels good to still be able to slav-squat and then stand up without using my hands. Only positive thing about my job is it's kept me relatively active and graceful. I've lost and kept off 20lbs since I started here and haven't been this lean since high school.

Meanwhile other coworkers my age have gained weight at this job. Can't imagine why.

gently caress yeah fellow Squatty Buddy! The moment you realize you've gone from :btroll: to swole is a good one. Yeah I'm still a big chunky guy which makes it funnier when people see me casually Slav-squat. Also the amusement I get when people ask me if I need a seat and I'm like "nah, I'm fine" after working standing jobs for 5+ years.

The Lord Bude
May 23, 2007

ASK ME ABOUT MY SHITTY, BOUGIE INTERIOR DECORATING ADVICE
I work in a supermarket and I can tell you that doing deli shifts is the absolute worst when it comes to willpower management in weight loss. After a few hours surrounded by all those delicious cured meats and cheeses I lose my mind and end up blowing $30 to make myself an antipasto platter to eat on my break. I end up eating an entire Brie, pate, salami etc.

Front End is much better, at least as a supervisor I keep moving constantly. I walk 10-15km in a typical 5 hour shift.

NerdyMcNerdNerd
Aug 3, 2004


Lol.i halbve already saod i inferno circstances wanttpgback
I'm generally good at resisting impulse buys as long as I have my gum. I ate two ( two ) candy bars today, but I worked a ten and a half hour shift and I was going to loving die without a sugar rush.

Rainbow Knight
Apr 19, 2006

We die.
We pray.
To live.
We serve

The Lord Bude posted:

I work in a supermarket and I can tell you that doing deli shifts is the absolute worst when it comes to willpower management in weight loss. After a few hours surrounded by all those delicious cured meats and cheeses I lose my mind and end up blowing $30 to make myself an antipasto platter to eat on my break. I end up eating an entire Brie, pate, salami etc.

Front End is much better, at least as a supervisor I keep moving constantly. I walk 10-15km in a typical 5 hour shift.

I would just graze on whatever, which I guess is better for your metabolism or something, but also free. "Oh it looks like I sliced one too many slices of high end roast beef, guess I gotta drop it in compost! In the cooler! Where there are no cameras! Ooh while I'm here I'll just grab a but of this extra pasta salad!"


And that's the story of how working at a grocery store for close to minimum wage involved me eating ham scraps and pasta on the sly so I wouldn't have to spend what little money i had on food that wasn't a 40 cent noodle cup.

tha end

Pentaghastly
Mar 26, 2016
Sometimes I take a slightly frozen lemon pound cake off the thaw rack and squat down and eat it in four bites away from the cameras

And I hit my juul in the walk-in more times than I'm comfortable admitting pls dont tell my manager

Star Man
Jun 1, 2008

There's a star maaaaaan
Over the rainbow
One of the seventeen-year-old kids that works at my store like to drop memes from 4chan from 2005 and is a gamergater and I want to loving unzip him with a hunting knife and feed his remains to wild animals.

NerdyMcNerdNerd
Aug 3, 2004


Lol.i halbve already saod i inferno circstances wanttpgback

Pentaghastly posted:

Sometimes I take a slightly frozen lemon pound cake off the thaw rack and squat down and eat it in four bites away from the cameras

And I hit my juul in the walk-in more times than I'm comfortable admitting pls dont tell my manager

I used to take a swig now and then from the best-by stuff I was pouring out. We used to sell this chocolate-banana milk that was loving delicious but also about six bucks for half a gallon.

Somewhere this counts as employee theft on someone's spreadsheet but I ain't blowing more than 30 minutes of labor buying some bougie chocolate milk. I'll eat a banana between sips of Ovaltine like the rest of the proles.

Alkydere
Jun 7, 2010
Capitol: A building or complex of buildings in which any legislature meets.
Capital: A city designated as a legislative seat by the government or some other authority, often the city in which the government is located; otherwise the most important city within a country or a subdivision of it.



At the kitchen we worked at we didn't have employee theft, we had "quality control sampling." Everyone did it. The lady coming in to make gluten free brownies at 4AM would "sample" half a pound of the potatoes I'd cooked the previous night and some eggs to make herself a hashbrown quesadilla. The manager would "sample" half a tray of the roast brussel sprouts or brocollini I made because she's a vegetarian and the tray is right there in front of her in the walk in she has to know if they're good.

In return I'd sample gorge myself on the Almond Butter and Maple pancakes right as they come off the flat top because I had to check the cook's work they were delicious even after sitting on the shelf for 3-4 days but they were culinary cocaine when they were still hot and hadn't been chilled for packing yet. Also I regularly dipped in the dark-chocolate-and-roast-pecan mix we used to garnish the vegan yogurt* cups we made but so did everyone else.

*Mix about 1 cup of coconut/soy/almond milk (your choice really) with 2 ounces of chia seeds, let it sit for an hour or two (or overnight) in the fridge and you get basically tapioca pudding. Flavorless, but can be used as a delivery vessel for anything from fruit to nuts to just Hershey's chocolate syrup, keeps for about a week.

Rainbow Knight
Apr 19, 2006

We die.
We pray.
To live.
We serve

drat The Lord Bude you seem to be the odd one out around here lol

snoo
Jul 5, 2007




we actually had a reasonable amount of people working today (me + 3 in the morning, us 4 + another 3 in the afternoon, those 4 closing) and it is so ridiculous what a difference that makes. I usually open with one other person until 1pm. the day went by faster, it was almost stress-free, things got taken care of...

our store manager is leaving and it sucks and we're all really bummed about it. he's getting out of retail to work at a job related to his music-making skills which is great for him. we're all happy for him! but extremely sucky for us bc he is a really good manager.

:sigh:

I actually liked being at work today. we have a good team. :)

Mercedes Colomar
Nov 1, 2008

by Jeffrey of YOSPOS

NerdyMcNerdNerd posted:

I used to take a swig now and then from the best-by stuff I was pouring out. We used to sell this chocolate-banana milk that was loving delicious but also about six bucks for half a gallon.

Somewhere this counts as employee theft on someone's spreadsheet but I ain't blowing more than 30 minutes of labor buying some bougie chocolate milk. I'll eat a banana between sips of Ovaltine like the rest of the proles.

Be careful of being snitched on though. That's how I got fired from Giant Eagle, somebody snitched on me for eating one piece of bacon. But then it ended up with me getting more money cooking at a hospital. And she got fired a few months later for eating a donut, on the sales floor, in front of the bakery.

The Lord Bude
May 23, 2007

ASK ME ABOUT MY SHITTY, BOUGIE INTERIOR DECORATING ADVICE

Rainbow Knight posted:

drat The Lord Bude you seem to be the odd one out around here lol

Well I have a pretty black and white attitude when it comes to theft. I also really, really love cheese and cured meats and have poor impulse control/fiscal discipline. And I live with my parents so I don’t really have a great many ‘hard’ expenses.

Pentaghastly
Mar 26, 2016
A customer came by last night to inform whatever manager was on duty about an interaction she had that morning with one of my coworkers. She had already called the customer service line and wanted to let us know so we wouldn't be blindsided by the complaint. She was super nice, not even angry just totally shocked.

Apparently, she came in the cafe today since our DT was packed. She had a simple order, a tall hot coffee with light cream, but the coworker, an older woman who's been acting odd lately, didn't understand and told her to step aside so she could take the order of the man behind her because she "knows what he wants".

How many times do you get a customer complaint that actually makes you heated on their behalf? Different than when you can tell they just want to be mad about something. My co-worker told her, an African-American woman, to step aside so she could take the order of the man behind her "because he knows what he wants"? Oh, gently caress that.

I believe it 100%. It didn't sound out of character for my coworker at all. Now all we do is wait for the SM to do something about it.

MC Hawking
Apr 27, 2004

by VideoGames
Fun Shoe
One of my customers got beaten into a coma by his daughters boyfriend last week and died today.

This sucks, he was a super chill dude.

NerdyMcNerdNerd
Aug 3, 2004


Lol.i halbve already saod i inferno circstances wanttpgback

Manuel Calavera posted:

Be careful of being snitched on though. That's how I got fired from Giant Eagle, somebody snitched on me for eating one piece of bacon. But then it ended up with me getting more money cooking at a hospital. And she got fired a few months later for eating a donut, on the sales floor, in front of the bakery.

This isn't really a problem for me anymore. It's a part of my job that I just stopped doing one day to see what would happen, and nobody called me on it so I kept not doing it.

Rainbow Knight
Apr 19, 2006

We die.
We pray.
To live.
We serve

MC Hawking posted:

One of my customers got beaten into a coma by his daughters boyfriend last week and died today.

This sucks, he was a super chill dude.

Sorry friend. That totally sucks.

Mercedes Colomar
Nov 1, 2008

by Jeffrey of YOSPOS

NerdyMcNerdNerd posted:

This isn't really a problem for me anymore. It's a part of my job that I just stopped doing one day to see what would happen, and nobody called me on it so I kept not doing it.

Still, people are petty. I forgot the part of my story that her baby's daddy, and another friend, got fired not long before for taking several to go boxes of food home without paying. I was unaware of that until after the fact and I was let go.

MC Hawking
Apr 27, 2004

by VideoGames
Fun Shoe

Rainbow Knight posted:

Sorry friend. That totally sucks.

It sucks more for his family, I'm only tangentially related in that "he was a good customer" and I'm really wondering if booze we sold was involved. Which leads me to wonder if I'm being narcissistic by even bringing it up.

Inspector 34
Mar 9, 2009

DOES NOT RESPECT THE RUN

BUT THEY WILL
It's ok to feel things about stuff happening to people you know, no matter how you know them.

Cowslips Warren
Oct 29, 2005

What use had they for tricks and cunning, living in the enemy's warren and paying his price?

Grimey Drawer

Inspector 34 posted:

It's ok to feel things about stuff happening to people you know, no matter how you know them.

One of our good managers died earlier this year. We weren't supposed to tell any customers, just that he was out. When people came in asking for him directly, when he was on a friendly basis with many people and had customers returning to see him for years. I don't know when anyone was given the okay to say that he had died.

Inspector 34
Mar 9, 2009

DOES NOT RESPECT THE RUN

BUT THEY WILL
Jeez, that's pretty bad. If customers knew and cared about the guy they should know what happened to him. Is the company just afraid people won't come back because the guy they liked is no longer around? Like sad people make worse shoppers or something?

One of our favorite customers had a stroke last month and I've been fielding questions about him non-stop whenever the other regulars come in. Our place is sometimes all these guys have in common and while it obviously sucks to have this kind of stuff happen it's really nice to see how much everybody cares. I wish I could do more but I really don't want to bother the family too much.

ijii
Mar 17, 2007
I'M APPARENTLY GAY AND MY POSTING SUCKS.
We bust out the skillet and fry up some bacon from the meat counter to offset the fishy smell that the seafood counter has when we set it up. Sometimes that fried up bacon gets chowed down by coworkers so it doesn't go to waste.

We used to sample it to customers to make them happy too, but the health department put a halt to it after years of doing it because we're supposed to log temperatures as it cooks. And we're supposed to properly cook it using a deli oven for various reasons. Many a customer got mad when we told them we can no longer sample bacon to them.

I rarely ate any of the bacon because if the company chose to, they could technically could reprimand me however unlikely they would. That and also I try to resist temptation of eating too much greasy stuff.


I'm having near anxiety for working next week, first week of April. We have 40 hours fewer next week than we do this week (end of the month) and the 2nd week of April. Next week is of course going to be busy because of many people getting their food stamps and we have senior discount on Wednesday which is hell day for us. AND we have store inventory the day after senior Wednesday, :wtf: Again, we have 40 fewer hours the week than the week before and after. I went to management to discuss this travesty, but they of course won't budge on their awful forecasting.

I gave our department 9 more hours for the week than we're supposed to. That and I also schedule myself 34, and fully intend to work 48 instead, and none of it will be considered overtime because of my contract. Also one of my coworkers will also extend his shifts too. It's highly unlikely I'll get in trouble for this because how bullshit it is for us, but IDGAF because I've already put my papers in to step down anyways. I'm sick of all this bullshit anyways and can't wait to find another job while I work night crew for a bit.

NerdyMcNerdNerd
Aug 3, 2004


Lol.i halbve already saod i inferno circstances wanttpgback
When the new guy is trying to socialize and introduce himself but you've got seven hours of work to do in six and the breaks in consciousness and action prompted by trying to process words are school buses in the path of your train of thought

I'm sure you're a person with thoughts and feelings and dreams and you're probably nice and everything but I've got a margin of ten minutes before I hit overtime and decorum, like many other things in a retail workers life, is something I can't afford.

Rainbow Knight
Apr 19, 2006

We die.
We pray.
To live.
We serve

the slowest driver today holy poo poo. dude has to drive 20 pallets down a straight path. it takes other drivers 30 minutes and we're coming up on 45 aaaaaaahhhhhh

Alkydere
Jun 7, 2010
Capitol: A building or complex of buildings in which any legislature meets.
Capital: A city designated as a legislative seat by the government or some other authority, often the city in which the government is located; otherwise the most important city within a country or a subdivision of it.



gently caress yeah, 20 hours of unpaid time dropped at midnight. With my other 20 still saved up, yeah I'm leaving three hours early for my mental health or else I'm gonna stroke out or sneak up behind an Ops manager like Number 47 and use a box strap to garrote the fucker. Or maybe both.

In Amazon's never ending drive to up productivity Ops is loving with our pack stations. Previously they added a keypad on the side of the monitors which was a bit clunky at first but we didn't mind because it let us log in or deal with most problem cases with a few clicks instead of awkwardly flailing with the mouse. We could still use the mouse if we wanted to. Now they took away the mouse and put the little computer on the far side of the station that we can't reach.

Without the mouse we're hosed if we bump the keypad and make a data entry field lose focus. Or the scanner reads the barcode all wonky and sends us to a menu where the back button doesn't work (usually reading a "P" and then sending us to the problem solve menu). Or if we have to upsize a box since there's no "wrong sized box" button on our quick keypads (yet, they're in the mail supposedly). And if the computer loses connection to the network and freezes as we try to declare a box finished we have to walk all the way around to reboot it instead of just reaching up above our stations.

But no, it should increase our rate somehow.

Rainbow Knight
Apr 19, 2006

We die.
We pray.
To live.
We serve

Alkydere posted:

gently caress yeah, 20 hours of unpaid time dropped at midnight. With my other 20 still saved up, yeah I'm leaving three hours early for my mental health or else I'm gonna stroke out or sneak up behind an Ops manager like Number 47 and use a box strap to garrote the fucker. Or maybe both.

In Amazon's never ending drive to up productivity Ops is loving with our pack stations. Previously they added a keypad on the side of the monitors which was a bit clunky at first but we didn't mind because it let us log in or deal with most problem cases with a few clicks instead of awkwardly flailing with the mouse. We could still use the mouse if we wanted to. Now they took away the mouse and put the little computer on the far side of the station that we can't reach.

Without the mouse we're hosed if we bump the keypad and make a data entry field lose focus. Or the scanner reads the barcode all wonky and sends us to a menu where the back button doesn't work (usually reading a "P" and then sending us to the problem solve menu). Or if we have to upsize a box since there's no "wrong sized box" button on our quick keypads (yet, they're in the mail supposedly). And if the computer loses connection to the network and freezes as we try to declare a box finished we have to walk all the way around to reboot it instead of just reaching up above our stations.

But no, it should increase our rate somehow.

Hold on

They want you to increase productivity while also loving with your routine and your tools?!

:monocle:

Really though we should just kick Amazon out of the country.

Funktastic
Jul 23, 2013

What do you guys recommend for work shoes that don't break the bank? I've been wearing flat shoes for a while and it's really starting to catch up with me now.

NerdyMcNerdNerd
Aug 3, 2004


Lol.i halbve already saod i inferno circstances wanttpgback

Funktastic posted:

What do you guys recommend for work shoes that don't break the bank? I've been wearing flat shoes for a while and it's really starting to catch up with me now.

I haven't found a pair of sneakers in the 50 dollar range that aren't poo poo. On a whim, I tried a cheaper Doc Martin boot in a vaguely combat style and tread pattern, but with a canvas body. I paid fifty bucks for them on Amazon, and aside from tearing off one of the boot straps, they've held up well and they're comfortable. Every now and then I throw in a new pair of eight dollar inserts and I'm good to go. Because they're canvas, they're also lighter than the typical boot.

I tried a pair of Sketchers work recently for not much less. In addition to not being able to remove the factory inserts, they're also cheap-feeling and clunky and the "non-slip" is a lie. OK for short shifts but I feel them on a long day.

Alkydere
Jun 7, 2010
Capitol: A building or complex of buildings in which any legislature meets.
Capital: A city designated as a legislative seat by the government or some other authority, often the city in which the government is located; otherwise the most important city within a country or a subdivision of it.



Funktastic posted:

What do you guys recommend for work shoes that don't break the bank? I've been wearing flat shoes for a while and it's really starting to catch up with me now.

When I worked in the kitchen, Sketchers had some super cheap kitchen shoes. They've got non-slip treads that just cling to the ground like you're wearing magnetic boots if the ground is slightly damp. They're made to be worn out and replaced every 3-4 months as they just start falling apart.


Rainbow Knight posted:

Hold on

They want you to increase productivity while also loving with your routine and your tools?!

:monocle:

Really though we should just kick Amazon out of the country.

Welcome to Amazon! We were crushing our old rate so they increased it. Not much, like 10 items in an hour (note that's 10 items, not 10 boxes). But at the same time they're doing this whole setup where they are loving with the layout of our entire station and I want to stab someone. Management is apparently frustrated that our station doesn't have room for our biggest boxes so they're set up every 4 stations. We have to go over there, grab a box, walk back to our station to build it and set poo poo in it. Takes time right? Only the thing is anything that goes in that box is likely gonna be slow anyways because it's heavy, big and bulky or just 1,001 small tiny items we have to count out.

So they're experimenting with moving our less-big-but-still-big boxes from below our workstation up top, which leaves less room for the other boxes but lets us put the giant S5 boxes down low. The gaps are already set up to be the perfect size that someone can just grab a stack of 20 boxes, shove it home, cut the strap and be done with it. Making them smaller means more work for the water-spider reloading everyone as he fiddles to get the right size for the space and has to visit more often.

And during all this they are doing the "upgrade" which takes away the computer mouse to deal with problems that arise. Just simple poo poo like "I bumped the wrong button and now the entry field has lost focus".

litany of gulps
Jun 11, 2001

Fun Shoe

Funktastic posted:

What do you guys recommend for work shoes that don't break the bank? I've been wearing flat shoes for a while and it's really starting to catch up with me now.

A decent pair of leather boots will last for years, protect you well, and be comfortable to stand on for 10-12 hour shifts. It's worth considering spending 100-250 on a good pair of boots. They'll easily pay dividends.

MC Hawking
Apr 27, 2004

by VideoGames
Fun Shoe
Red Wings work line is good. I'm partial to snagging the best set of well vented hiking boots I can find and putting in good insoles. It's hot as balls here most of the year so getting shoes that are mostly mesh keeps me from having horrible skin conditions. Merrill makes some nice hiking boots/shoe hybrids.

I've also had good experience with Timberland Flume hikers but with a full leather lower they don't breathe as well and the soles tend to wear quickly on concrete. They ain't pretty, but the oiled leather takes a hell of a polish and they have enough instep clearance for some Spenco Polysorb Trainers which are the tits if you have high arches.

Edit: quickly looking, the Flume has dropped from $119 to $79 since I last bought a pair. I wouldn't be surprised if the quality has gone down a bit, however I usually expect to get a year out of a boot under the $300+ Goodyear welted price point. Maintenance is key and having good shoe trees.

MC Hawking fucked around with this message at 05:13 on Apr 2, 2019

Alkydere
Jun 7, 2010
Capitol: A building or complex of buildings in which any legislature meets.
Capital: A city designated as a legislative seat by the government or some other authority, often the city in which the government is located; otherwise the most important city within a country or a subdivision of it.



So today was actually fun. Started out still angry over dealing with the bullshit new stations and called my manager out during the start of work Stand-up (announcements and stretches). He gets to the Standard Work item of the day, talking about putting dunnage (what we call our sealed air pillows we use as padding/filler in boxes) and how we should have time to put it into the boxes.

"No we don't. Not at the rates you're setting and not with the way you're changing our stations on us."

His boss, the Ops manager in charge of Outbound Nights is standing right there so he has to respond to this. He has us all find a partner, stare at them ("make it as awkward as possible") and count to 30 and imagine us packing a box as he counts.

"Now raise your hand if that's enough time to pack your box and put dunnage in it?"

Dead air and annoyed glares from the shift, the only raised hands are managers sticking up for each other. OB Manager fixes the AM with a look that screams "Underling, you WILL fix this." before everything slips back onto the normal routine. OB Manager is here to congratulate us on nearly cleaning up Day's mess yesterday, but to tell us Day hosed up again today and under-shipped by about 25K units. It's 18:40, we have about 2.5K due at 20:00 and another 21K due at 22:00. poo poo's real and we don't have time for drama.

About 40 minutes later the AM comes up and asks me what I mean and I start explaining to him: yeah I can do 2 boxes a minute if they're small. If I'm feeling good. If nothing out of 1,001 things don't go wrong. Etc. I go onto about the errors and issues I had with the new stations the previous night. I'm told that I'm a conversational bulldozer when I'm like this and he's hardly getting a word in as I'm giving him concrete example after concrete example of poo poo that's hosed. I keep him there for a good 30 minutes explaining how poo poo actually works here in the real world, not the magical managerial la-la land he lives in.

By first break he's suddenly running around like a chicken with his head cut off trying to fix the things I've declared. He gets the head of Night IT up to have me talk to him about the issues I'm having with the altered stations and in return I get the down low. There's a mix of some higher level management wanting to make "the perfect station" with box layout...and Safety determining that the dunnage cage sitting 6 feet off the ground is a safety hazard in case it falls. So Senior Ops's first idea was just lower the cage and IT was left scrambling going "We have nowhere to put the computers now!" which lead to the current mess. Senior management basically stopped Safety and told them to cool their jets while they wait for new equipment to come in and to give time for everyone to figure out a plan instead of the current "slap poo poo together in a panic and hope it works".

In the end I left the manager I called out with three pieces of advice:
1) Actually show us you're listening. After nearly a year of being ignored since the old GM transferred out, those of us that work in the trenches are convinced that "We'll Look Into It" is management speak for "gently caress off, we don't care." If you want the respect we used to give your red vest, you need to work on changing that image and it's gonna be a long road now after so many months of neglect.
2) I'm glad you finally made the executive decision to give us the indirect support we need a couple weeks ago. However we have been complaining about our indirect staff numbers being cut since November when the change was made. Yes you weren't the manager here until relatively recently but you had more than enough time to fix this yourself if you'd listened to us before it got to the point that Safety had to step in because one of the Water Spiders hurt himself badly enough to be put on reduced hours with Worker's Comp.
3) I'm also glad you finally came down to explain what is happening and listen to my complaints. Again, next time try paying attention and I won't have to call you out and have you humiliate yourself in front of your boss.

I think I'm going to try to start calling managers on their poo poo more often. Throwing a stick in the spokes if their metaphrorical bike wheel is too much fun and it actually gets poo poo done.

Alkydere fucked around with this message at 12:19 on Apr 2, 2019

Leal
Oct 2, 2009
People who want to come in at 3 am and bitch that the department isn't up to par: :vd:

NerdyMcNerdNerd
Aug 3, 2004


Lol.i halbve already saod i inferno circstances wanttpgback

Leal posted:

People who want to come in at 3 am and bitch that the department isn't up to par: :vd:

What do you mean the fryer isn't hot at 10PM?

What do you mean nobody's available to cut steaks ten minutes before close ( I can actually do this but you can't cut *a* steak, you've got to cut like twenty ). And then I'd have to sanitize the cutting table again.

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Cythereal
Nov 8, 2009

I love the potoo,
and the potoo loves you.

Alkydere posted:

I think I'm going to try to start calling managers on their poo poo more often. Throwing a stick in the spokes if their metaphrorical bike wheel is too much fun and it actually gets poo poo done.

Anywhere I've worked, doing something like this guarantees you'll get fired as soon as the paperwork's done.

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