- Jun 24, 2001
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Just a rant about a few things that happened within 16 hours at work (wall of text; cliffs near the end):
I'm sick with my second upper respiratory infection in two weeks and yet I got called in to work a graveyard shift on my day off due to a no-call no-show (new employee decided she didn't like the graveyard shift). I show up and finish most of the shift without issue. When doing the office clean-up at the end of the shift, my coworker moved a chair and snagged the charge cable to my Sony Ericsson Xperia PLAY 4G (R800at) sending it crashing to the ground. I glanced at it and everything looked OK, told her that, and finished cleaning so I could go home. On the way home I see a crack in the touchscreen glass across the upper-left hand corner of the screen that's invisible when looking straight into the screen. The charge cable can't maintain a consistent connection either. Fudge-monkey.
So I try to get a bit of sleep in the morning and people would not stop calling me so I turned my ringer off and killed "TIKL" (a push-to-talk app). I woke up at 2:30 in the afternoon to call an office an hour away to see if I needed to come in to switch an autodraft into a different account but my phone was already receiving a call from the guy who relieved me that morning. He lied and said they had been trying to reach me since 10AM and that they needed me there in less than 30 minutes to work a double (16 hours). My commute is 30 minutes.
I got there 12 minutes late which means that I was able to get ready and in uniform in a record time of only 12 mins. I checked my call history on the way and the earliest missed call from them was only an hour earlier. Anyway, it turns out that the person I'm working with has a full-blown "coughing up a lung" flu and fever, which is way worse than what I had (sore throat w/ painful congested sinuses), so I have to be extremely careful not to get what she has too (I'd be Oh-for-Three). That's hard when you're working with such a nasty person as this. When I was at my sickest, I actually sat outside the office in the freezing cold just to keep from infecting my coworkers. Not that I was expecting others to take the same precautions, but at one point she was dealing with something outside and told me to "hit the switch," which was actually touching her snotty napkins and tissues. WTF?!
So, the grave shift is slow so I spent a good bit of the shift looking online for housing parts and a replacement touchpanel/glass digitizer for my phone. Parts for it are somewhat cheap, I've repaired one before, and I think I can put some of the overtime earnings toward the cost. I needed a battery lid too because parts weren't available in the AT&T exclusive color but most battery lids were pictured with missing bits for routing the speaker audio and microphone audio or didn't show the other side or were bundled with only part of what I needed and the rest would result in buying duplicate or unneeded parts (two white frames or a gamepad and main chassis that were still pristine on my current one), so I opened a ton of tabs and began contacting sellers to find exactly what I was looking for. Each message required me to enter my eBay password despite having checked the box to remember my password for 24hrs, so I did not see any harm in letting my coworker browse the web when she needed to set up her Gmail account to sync with Yahoo for her new Android phone. I opened a new window in Firefox Portable and instructed her not to touch what I had open in my two windows and their various tabs.
She obliged, but coincidentally ended up on eBay to look at accessorizing her new phone. I doubt she even knows how eBay works. When she was "done," I came back, hit CTRL+W twice to close the two tabs in her window (GMail and some Bluetooth headset listing on eBay), and resumed my research in my two windows full of tabs (I am an efficient multi-tasker). At the end of the shift, I checked my email and found a bid confirmation email and another email congratulating me for winning that same BT headset! At that point, she was getting ready to leave and said she did not want it when I asked if she wanted to give me the $10+4 S&H. It used stock photos so I assumed it was a big seller who may not force the issue and resolved to call eBay about unauthorized bids. eBay said to contact the seller. The seller is some guy with a measly 35 feedback score who's listing a bunch of stuff and is probably desperate for money. This means he will likely try to force me to pay. FFFFFFFFFuuuuuuuuuuuuu.
But let me rewind a bit. There's a reason she left with that still unresolved. Something else happened. When we reached the end of the first of my back-to-back shifts, we began cleaning up. I moved the chairs this time and joked about almost doing the same thing to my phone that the previous coworker was guilty of not even 16 hours earlier. When I was done sweeping, she moved the chair back and somehow caught my phone and sent it crashing to the floor just like the other person! I'm not even sure how she managed it. You'd have to spin the chair around for the arm to grab the charge cable and pull it down. At this point, I'm too defeated to even care that a chunk came out of the corner of the top frame.
So, I continue on the clock into the grave shift with the same person who cracked my phone in the first place, only she thinks it was the other person. She thinks this half because I told her it was fine before and because neither of us saw the crack then. I demonstrated that it was invisible when looking directly at the screen but that didn't seem to matter to her. She's convinced that she didn't do it even though it was still dark and we could only see the screen when on and looking straight at it when it would have been invisible. She doesn't seem to believe that I noticed it on the way home and was aware of the second incident so she didn't volunteer to pay for it. Oh well. Did I mention that she's sick with something I could potentially catch too? Yep. She and yet another coworker have been barfing and squirting fecal liquid with no respiratory involvement, so it seems that it is contagious and yet another illness that I may be simultaneously contracting in my sleep-deprived and vulnerable immune system state. I spent the whole shift trying to teach her basic math but she STILL insists that she's losing 8 hours somewhere (totally wrong: payroll dispute... simple hour totals). I was mad so at least I had no trouble staying awake until the end of the shift.
To top it all off, the same guy who I relieved the previous day who didn't even have the courtesy to give me any notice for the shift asked me to bring back some breakfast knowing full well that I had just been stuck there for 16 hours with not enough sleep, no way to prepare my own food nor the ability to leave to get my own food during the shift (same as him). THE NERVE! I only offer that when someone was late and clearly didn't have the time to get breakfast and I don't have somewhere better to be. I would have said "no" because the jerk should have gotten up sooner, but I had already agreed to get breakfast for his coworker who was in a more sympathetic situation (also called in to fill the shift on his day off, had to take a bus, could not get food before or after the shift).
Cliffs:
I'm such a fucking push-over. I need to just go back to each one of these ungrateful people and stick it to them.
"YOU! You owe me $55 for a new screen and shell. You're lucky I don't charge you labor fees and that I'm fronting the $50 for your husband's cellphone parts and doing that work for free too."
"YOU! You owe me $14 for the headset and you're fucking lucky I don't make you split the bill on that cellphone repair."
"YOU! Get out of bed sooner and get your own fucking McDonald's food or Waffle House or whatever the Hell you want to eat. My generosity was not so you could lay in bed longer when I've been operating on a several day sleep deficit for your sake. Stop giving me almost enough cash for your damn food and then implying that I spent your change on mine. They're on the same receipt because you didn't give me enough cash to cover yours and I don't carry cash. Don't even fucking DARE ask me to go back because you forgot to ask me to get strawberry jelly. What the fuck is wrong with you?!"
I wanted to write this without using the word "fuck" but... FUUUUUUUCK! How did I get stuck with these jackasses?! They made up some BS reason to fire the only competent employee they had other than me just because he didn't get along with someone that the boss liked and I've been stuck in this Hell ever since.
I'm sick with my second upper respiratory infection in two weeks and yet I got called in to work a graveyard shift on my day off due to a no-call no-show (new employee decided she didn't like the graveyard shift). I show up and finish most of the shift without issue. When doing the office clean-up at the end of the shift, my coworker moved a chair and snagged the charge cable to my Sony Ericsson Xperia PLAY 4G (R800at) sending it crashing to the ground. I glanced at it and everything looked OK, told her that, and finished cleaning so I could go home. On the way home I see a crack in the touchscreen glass across the upper-left hand corner of the screen that's invisible when looking straight into the screen. The charge cable can't maintain a consistent connection either. Fudge-monkey.
So I try to get a bit of sleep in the morning and people would not stop calling me so I turned my ringer off and killed "TIKL" (a push-to-talk app). I woke up at 2:30 in the afternoon to call an office an hour away to see if I needed to come in to switch an autodraft into a different account but my phone was already receiving a call from the guy who relieved me that morning. He lied and said they had been trying to reach me since 10AM and that they needed me there in less than 30 minutes to work a double (16 hours). My commute is 30 minutes.
I got there 12 minutes late which means that I was able to get ready and in uniform in a record time of only 12 mins. I checked my call history on the way and the earliest missed call from them was only an hour earlier. Anyway, it turns out that the person I'm working with has a full-blown "coughing up a lung" flu and fever, which is way worse than what I had (sore throat w/ painful congested sinuses), so I have to be extremely careful not to get what she has too (I'd be Oh-for-Three). That's hard when you're working with such a nasty person as this. When I was at my sickest, I actually sat outside the office in the freezing cold just to keep from infecting my coworkers. Not that I was expecting others to take the same precautions, but at one point she was dealing with something outside and told me to "hit the switch," which was actually touching her snotty napkins and tissues. WTF?!
So, the grave shift is slow so I spent a good bit of the shift looking online for housing parts and a replacement touchpanel/glass digitizer for my phone. Parts for it are somewhat cheap, I've repaired one before, and I think I can put some of the overtime earnings toward the cost. I needed a battery lid too because parts weren't available in the AT&T exclusive color but most battery lids were pictured with missing bits for routing the speaker audio and microphone audio or didn't show the other side or were bundled with only part of what I needed and the rest would result in buying duplicate or unneeded parts (two white frames or a gamepad and main chassis that were still pristine on my current one), so I opened a ton of tabs and began contacting sellers to find exactly what I was looking for. Each message required me to enter my eBay password despite having checked the box to remember my password for 24hrs, so I did not see any harm in letting my coworker browse the web when she needed to set up her Gmail account to sync with Yahoo for her new Android phone. I opened a new window in Firefox Portable and instructed her not to touch what I had open in my two windows and their various tabs.
She obliged, but coincidentally ended up on eBay to look at accessorizing her new phone. I doubt she even knows how eBay works. When she was "done," I came back, hit CTRL+W twice to close the two tabs in her window (GMail and some Bluetooth headset listing on eBay), and resumed my research in my two windows full of tabs (I am an efficient multi-tasker). At the end of the shift, I checked my email and found a bid confirmation email and another email congratulating me for winning that same BT headset! At that point, she was getting ready to leave and said she did not want it when I asked if she wanted to give me the $10+4 S&H. It used stock photos so I assumed it was a big seller who may not force the issue and resolved to call eBay about unauthorized bids. eBay said to contact the seller. The seller is some guy with a measly 35 feedback score who's listing a bunch of stuff and is probably desperate for money. This means he will likely try to force me to pay. FFFFFFFFFuuuuuuuuuuuuu.
But let me rewind a bit. There's a reason she left with that still unresolved. Something else happened. When we reached the end of the first of my back-to-back shifts, we began cleaning up. I moved the chairs this time and joked about almost doing the same thing to my phone that the previous coworker was guilty of not even 16 hours earlier. When I was done sweeping, she moved the chair back and somehow caught my phone and sent it crashing to the floor just like the other person! I'm not even sure how she managed it. You'd have to spin the chair around for the arm to grab the charge cable and pull it down. At this point, I'm too defeated to even care that a chunk came out of the corner of the top frame.
So, I continue on the clock into the grave shift with the same person who cracked my phone in the first place, only she thinks it was the other person. She thinks this half because I told her it was fine before and because neither of us saw the crack then. I demonstrated that it was invisible when looking directly at the screen but that didn't seem to matter to her. She's convinced that she didn't do it even though it was still dark and we could only see the screen when on and looking straight at it when it would have been invisible. She doesn't seem to believe that I noticed it on the way home and was aware of the second incident so she didn't volunteer to pay for it. Oh well. Did I mention that she's sick with something I could potentially catch too? Yep. She and yet another coworker have been barfing and squirting fecal liquid with no respiratory involvement, so it seems that it is contagious and yet another illness that I may be simultaneously contracting in my sleep-deprived and vulnerable immune system state. I spent the whole shift trying to teach her basic math but she STILL insists that she's losing 8 hours somewhere (totally wrong: payroll dispute... simple hour totals). I was mad so at least I had no trouble staying awake until the end of the shift.
To top it all off, the same guy who I relieved the previous day who didn't even have the courtesy to give me any notice for the shift asked me to bring back some breakfast knowing full well that I had just been stuck there for 16 hours with not enough sleep, no way to prepare my own food nor the ability to leave to get my own food during the shift (same as him). THE NERVE! I only offer that when someone was late and clearly didn't have the time to get breakfast and I don't have somewhere better to be. I would have said "no" because the jerk should have gotten up sooner, but I had already agreed to get breakfast for his coworker who was in a more sympathetic situation (also called in to fill the shift on his day off, had to take a bus, could not get food before or after the shift).
Cliffs:
- Sick for the second time in two weeks and allowing myself to be worked insane hours (at least the job is easy)
- Two different coworkers dropped and damaged my phone almost the exact same way less than 16 hours apart despite taking precautions and giving warnings.
- One coworker is an unhygienic festering pool of Influenza intent on infecting me with my third different respiratory infection in three weeks who then accidentally buys something she doesn't want with *my* eBay account before participating in my phone abuse.
- Another is an simpleton who cant fucking add and won't take responsibility for damaging my phone and is barfing on the walls and shitting herself.
- Another is an absolutely unbelievably inconsiderate and imposing asshole who whines when someone does him a huge favor and he forgot to ask for another in time.
I'm such a fucking push-over. I need to just go back to each one of these ungrateful people and stick it to them.
"YOU! You owe me $55 for a new screen and shell. You're lucky I don't charge you labor fees and that I'm fronting the $50 for your husband's cellphone parts and doing that work for free too."
"YOU! You owe me $14 for the headset and you're fucking lucky I don't make you split the bill on that cellphone repair."
"YOU! Get out of bed sooner and get your own fucking McDonald's food or Waffle House or whatever the Hell you want to eat. My generosity was not so you could lay in bed longer when I've been operating on a several day sleep deficit for your sake. Stop giving me almost enough cash for your damn food and then implying that I spent your change on mine. They're on the same receipt because you didn't give me enough cash to cover yours and I don't carry cash. Don't even fucking DARE ask me to go back because you forgot to ask me to get strawberry jelly. What the fuck is wrong with you?!"
I wanted to write this without using the word "fuck" but... FUUUUUUUCK! How did I get stuck with these jackasses?! They made up some BS reason to fire the only competent employee they had other than me just because he didn't get along with someone that the boss liked and I've been stuck in this Hell ever since.
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