captainofindustry
CAGiversary!
Have you tried exposing yourself to a female co worker? Or a male... I guess it doesn't really matter.
Reality's Fringe]Led said:Man, it's been worse. I've been there 3 years. 3 mothering years, and when I leave, I won't have anything to show for it.
What say you Reality, you and I team up and overthrow this ridiculous establishment that has robbed us of our youth and dignity. Too long have we stood back and watched them take away everything that made that job the least bit enjoyable. What a cruel joke it was. "Work at a gamestore?!?! I'll take 5!!!"
For the proletariat, Reality. It must be done. I live 3 miles away from corporate headquarters. Me and you man, we can give this a happy ending.
Reality's Fringe][quote name='Lord_Kefka']The best advice I can give to dealing with crappy managers is to do the following. I preface this by saying that my new manager sounds alot like your old manager. This cock-sucker destroyed my nametag while I was on vacation because it had a Nintendo sticker on it. Not "corporate standard" like his. Soooooooo said:Well, the guy eats a bagel every morning. I was thinking that, instead of sweat, I could use another naturally produced fluid on that bagel....but then again, I think that'd be taking it too far.
Reality's Fringe said:While being the bigger man would make me look good, I persoanlly do not forsee it happeneing. The manager has a penchant for saying stuff topiss me off, and if it happens wile I'm quitting, something is going to happen. As for references, I don't really care. I'm going through a temp agency now, ad tat shoudl give me enough references to find a shitty job during college. Of course, I could always just quit like a gentleman and then kick the Manager's ass in the parking lot.
Reality's Fringe] As for references said:This same temp agency is one that gave me a job, a month before this company hired me, breaking rocks and filling binders in a stonework company. Obviously not something I 'wanted' to do, and it had nothing to do with my next job, but the boss praised me to the temp agency, and that does have an impact. Not to sound like a parent, but be careful burning bridges.
I've only quit without notice twice--once I was going to be released anyway, and I called in about 6 hours before my shift saying 'I quit' [the boss didn't care], and the other was where I was literally going insane from the job [managing a convenience store, the only person who didn't steal from me, my asst mgr, quit on me to make more money hostessing at IHOP.]
Every other time I've either given two weeks, or worked till a mutually-agreed-upon date. Which freed me to write off those two jobs [one of them was a 10-hour a week telemarketing job to raise money for a 'charity', I was only there two weeks, and the other was from a store I worked at 1-2 months, having transferred there from another store--so I could use the first store's DM.]
And while the manager may say things that piss you off, like I said earlier, this won't be the last time. We have a guy here who's above me on the chain of command [though lateral, he's not my boss], and he has a way of hearing only what he wants to hear from you, and then telling people about due dates or promises 'made' by you based on what he heard [what he wanted to hear.] Yes, it makes me want to throttle him for being so obtuse and/or asking such leading questions, but obviously I can't do that, you just have to take that into account when speaking to him.
Example: him: 'When will that report be ready?'
me: 'Well, my schedule looks like this, priorities already set, it'll be no earlier than Wednesday afternoon, probably Thursday or Friday.'
him, on Tuesday afternoon: 'Are you done with that yet? You said by Wednesday.'
um, no.
Anyway, again, not to preach, just to share experiences. And of course, you are in control of your own life, so you do what you gotta do.
Reality's Fringe]Well said:Do you have the shrimp?