Anyone else at work?

"wiffleballtony" (wiffleballtony)
09/09/2015 at 18:28 • Filed to: None

This week has been really unproductive. Partly because my supervisor works on the opposite side of the country and partly because I hate Web based training.

DISCUSSION (29)

whoarder is tellurium > wiffleballtony
09/09/2015 at 18:31

Things are finally leveling out (I think) for me. I wasn’t able to take lunch there for a few days straight with all the incoming tech calls.

Nucking. Futs. I had 88 support voicemails from over the 3 day weekend.

On top of that, I’m the only one that can handle most of these “calls”.

EL_ULY > wiffleballtony
09/09/2015 at 18:32

since 6:30am CST

ate my PB&J at 3pm (very quickly because of course I get busy just thinking about lunch).

Spend my last $10 last night so I gotta keep busting ass til the 15th :]

wiffleballtony > whoarder is tellurium
09/09/2015 at 18:34

I know what that’s like. Happy to have moved past those days.

wiffleballtony > EL_ULY
09/09/2015 at 18:34

It’s got to be about quitting time for you then.

Edit; PB&J sounds good right now.

JustWaitingForAMate > wiffleballtony
09/09/2015 at 18:35

Started 1.5 hours ago at 7am.

Struggling with doing some time sheet adjustments for the past few months because of billing code changes and THIS STUPID FUCKING SYSTEM IS SO GOD DAMN FUCKING SLOW.

This entire week is a write off. Been babysitting the offshore contingent and their work.

whoarder is tellurium > wiffleballtony
09/09/2015 at 18:36

As with most things involving management... they just went and implemented this move that changed everything for me. Not much prior notice and it wasn’t thought out completely. “Oh, we need you to take these calls for this company we have a huge contract with...”

Hoping this gets better.

EL_ULY > wiffleballtony
09/09/2015 at 18:37

25 more min technically, but since i’m alone today, I gotta do ALL the closing time duties so I won’t leave til a little after. Good thing there is no traffic..... oh wait .

oh and yes, it was delish!!! Lots of PB and it was nice and cold

wiffleballtony > JustWaitingForAMate
09/09/2015 at 18:37

I think companies use slow machines as sort of a social experiment to see when you’ll finally break.

Scott > wiffleballtony
09/09/2015 at 18:38

My work is a mystery to me at the moment. My manager and my supervisor has been moved into a new job, I was supposed to move into a new job at the first of the month as well. But my customer extended my contract for 1 month, and I am hearing all kinds of rumors that range from: they will be extending my work through the end of the year; to nope end of this month your current job is gone. As well several people have been fired, quit, or are on vacation. So basically I am doing a job, with no support from management... well wait, with no management... Period! No idea if I will be doing this work for a few days or a few weeks or a few more months. So yeah it’s total goof of time, every decision I have to make is well if based on the current plan it’s pointless to do this job, so I’m blowing it off... but if the rumors are at all true I better get my manager involved in this, but wait I have no manager to do his part. I guess it’s back to surfing the internet. God I’m gonna have some bad habits when things do finally get straightened out.

wiffleballtony > whoarder is tellurium
09/09/2015 at 18:39

Sounds like a real fluster cluck. I hope that it turns out.

GeorgeyBoy > wiffleballtony
09/09/2015 at 18:39

F training. I don’t need nothing.

wiffleballtony > EL_ULY
09/09/2015 at 18:40

You can leave early, tell em I said it’s cool.

whoarder is tellurium > wiffleballtony
09/09/2015 at 18:41

Luckily im not held liable if I cant answer every one of em! Whew.

Oh and im home now... watching apollo 13 onna TV.

wiffleballtony > Scott
09/09/2015 at 18:42

I’m always worried about developing bad habits from the goofing off, but oh well.

EL_ULY > wiffleballtony
09/09/2015 at 18:42

lol done!!! :]

wiffleballtony > GeorgeyBoy
09/09/2015 at 18:43

Well unfortunately this is prerequisite stuff for a certification that’s required in my job description.

wiffleballtony > whoarder is tellurium
09/09/2015 at 18:43

Great movie. I love how it makes engineers into hero magicians.

wiffleballtony > EL_ULY
09/09/2015 at 18:44

I am adding efficiency expert to the resume now.

Scott > wiffleballtony
09/09/2015 at 18:52

I was in a salary job about 10 years ago and my boss told me to stay at home call in in the morning and find out if he has any work for me. It was 15 months of getting up.. calling in, and being told, nope no work, call in tomorrow. Since I was salary, it meant get on my bike and enjoy getting paid to go for a ride. When I called in and he said, yeah tomorrow I need you to go to Stuttgart I died thinking... what work.. but I planed to go into town and hang out drinking beers and people watch again... ohhh god heaven is GONE. Took me 3 years to get back used to working.

wiffleballtony > Scott
09/09/2015 at 18:54

I’m assuming you’re in Germany otherwise that’s one hell of a commute.

Scott > wiffleballtony
09/09/2015 at 19:26

I was back then, but sadly not lived there in almost 10 years. Was still a long commute as I was 4 hours drive away... at autobahn speeds.

wiffleballtony > Scott
09/09/2015 at 19:36

I wasn’t aware that Germany was large enough to 4 hours away in any direction at autobahn speeds

Scott > wiffleballtony
09/09/2015 at 19:42

It’s pretty close in size to the state of Montana, the 4th largest state. And while the route I used to get to Stuttgart avoided most the high traffic areas that make the autobahn not so fast as many people believe, it was still a long tiring drive.

wiffleballtony > Scott
09/09/2015 at 19:48

Learning that was the most productive part of my day.

Scott > wiffleballtony
09/09/2015 at 19:50

Sadly... the second most productive part of my day.

wiffleballtony > Scott
09/09/2015 at 19:52

Excellent, hooray for corporations.

Oontzoontzoontz > wiffleballtony
09/09/2015 at 22:08

Been here since 1600 EST. Will be leaving at 0600 EST, tomorrow. Thankfully I have oppo to mess with.

wafflesnfalafel > JustWaitingForAMate
09/09/2015 at 23:48

We offshored about 8 months ago, (for the 3rd time - first two attempts ended horribly.) Things aren’t going well yet again - so who do we send over there to kick some sense into people? Our lead sales guy who promptly takes a bunch of vacation tours and publishes a travel blog of the experience. It’s embarrassing - we are a major international financial institution and we look like f’ing morons.

pip bip - choose Corrour > wiffleballtony
09/10/2015 at 07:12

unproductive for me too.

family death & another near death.