tkdguy Posted January 3, 2012 Report Share Posted January 3, 2012 Re: The cranky thread I just lost my semimonthly train pass. Goodbye $76. We're barely into the new year, and things are already going south for me. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Old Man Posted January 3, 2012 Report Share Posted January 3, 2012 Re: The cranky thread Yeah, I've been fighting with the wife all day. And much of yesterday. I think I made it eight and a half hours into 2012 before the first hissy fit. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
tkdguy Posted January 3, 2012 Report Share Posted January 3, 2012 Re: The cranky thread Yeah' date=' I've been fighting with the wife all day. And much of yesterday. I think I made it eight and a half hours into 2012 before the first hissy fit.[/quote'] THAT LONG?! I was cranky by 2 am! Seriously, I hope you and your wife are on better terms now. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Old Man Posted January 3, 2012 Report Share Posted January 3, 2012 Re: The cranky thread Seriously, I hope you and your wife are on better terms now. Nope. Check back in a couple of days. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
SatinKitty Posted January 3, 2012 Report Share Posted January 3, 2012 Re: The cranky thread Whoever invented Automated Voice Mail for Customer Service needs to be shot. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
SSgt Baloo Posted January 4, 2012 Report Share Posted January 4, 2012 Re: The cranky thread Whoever invented Automated Voice Mail for Customer Service needs to be shot. I like your reasoning, but let's extend the punishment to everyone responsible for deciding to implement such a cause for universal dismay. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Narf the Mouse Posted January 4, 2012 Report Share Posted January 4, 2012 Re: The cranky thread It's the end of the month and my anxiety makes it difficult to get out of the house and pay the bills. Mental illness is weird and frustrating. I'll get around to it' date=' but many years of not quite enough to pay bills has trained me to be anxious, and even though I'm on Social Security [i']and[/i] getting military retirement (part of which is disability pay) and paying the bills should be no sweat, the primitive part of my brain gets all panicky and wants to stay under cover. "No safe! You stay home!" PTSD, here. Going out somewhere once a week for a few hours is about all I can manage, right now. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
CrosshairCollie Posted January 4, 2012 Report Share Posted January 4, 2012 Re: The cranky thread I'm glad I hadn't gotten around to trying to eat anything yet this morning. One of my cats just dropped a litterbox bomb that literally made me gag and brought tears to my eyes. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
SSgt Baloo Posted January 4, 2012 Report Share Posted January 4, 2012 Re: The cranky thread I'm glad I hadn't gotten around to trying to eat anything yet this morning. One of my cats just dropped a litterbox bomb that literally made me gag and brought tears to my eyes. Did you scold him for getting into the chile again? [Reminds me of this: ] Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Xavier Onassiss Posted January 5, 2012 Report Share Posted January 5, 2012 Re: The cranky thread Spoiling for a fight today, and I have no idea why. Too much Santorum on the interwebs, maybe? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Old Man Posted January 5, 2012 Report Share Posted January 5, 2012 Re: The cranky thread A month ago the install group said they couldn't do the work in the RFP, so I spent a month contacting subcontractors to find ones who could do the work and get pricing. Now, two days before the proposal is due, the install group suddenly thinks they can do the work after all and all the subs can go pound sand. Great job, fellas. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
gewing Posted January 6, 2012 Report Share Posted January 6, 2012 Re: The cranky thread I've done that before. I almost hate to say it' date=' but it was fun, especially when the reason I had to leave my house was to go to my dialysis treatment (aka 'thing I have to do regularly or I die').[/quote'] Years ago I seriously considered grounding an extension cord across some jerks vehicle when his alarm went off EVERY Weekend at 0300... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
gewing Posted January 6, 2012 Report Share Posted January 6, 2012 Re: The cranky thread Ah. Now I understand. When you described your wife's predicament, I thought "Wow, her co-workers must all be absolutely useless." And... the last time I went into a Hastings was over six years ago -- I haven't been back because every employee I ran into there was, in fact, absolutely useless. Took me 30 minutes to check out, with one item, because nobody at the front knew how to operate a POS terminal. I sincerely hope your wife finds a better place to work, CC. I'd wanna cry too if I had to deal with that kind of incompetence on a daily basis. Some of their stores are decent, but even they have challenges. My wife runs the Books department. They had to fire a girl who was a pretty good worker in the Books section. Unfortunately the Corporate shift scheduling program would not let them schedule her so she did not work the register. She was so nervous about working with cash, that she screwed up her tills. EVERY TIME. She had witnesses that she was not dipping into it, but... Nice kid. Too bad. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
gewing Posted January 6, 2012 Report Share Posted January 6, 2012 Re: The cranky thread Whoever invented Automated Voice Mail for Customer Service needs to be shot. too quick. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
gewing Posted January 6, 2012 Report Share Posted January 6, 2012 Re: The cranky thread Spoiling for a fight today, and I have no idea why. Too much Santorum on the interwebs, maybe? There are reasons I don't read a lot of news anymore... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Old Man Posted January 6, 2012 Report Share Posted January 6, 2012 Re: The cranky thread Dunno if any of you remember Shadowpup but he's been given ten days' notice at his job. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
SteveZilla Posted January 6, 2012 Report Share Posted January 6, 2012 Re: The cranky thread Dunno if any of you remember Shadowpup but he's been given ten days' notice at his job. Or... what? Sounds like time to use some sick days (if he has any). Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
SteveZilla Posted January 6, 2012 Report Share Posted January 6, 2012 Re: The cranky thread This was in the Random Musing threads, and thought it too good a post (unfortunately about bad things) that it should also be shared here. Hope you don't mind, James. Dear Motherf@#%ers at Work, When are you going to put the phone connection in my workstation? When you guys moved my team up to this unventilated upstairs attic office (which, among other things, means our wheelchair-bound Call Quality Analyst can't consult with us face-to-face anymore), you got everybody's computer and workstation connected with an office phone. Except mine. Which means I can't call the company answering machine to see who called in late or sick. Which means I can't call agents to tell them they're over break. Which means, basically, I can't do the job you expect me to do. Since week after Thanksgiving I have had to play a game of Musical Chairs every time I get to work trying to scope out a seat that is both a. working and b. unoccupied. Or I could just wait for a seat to be left over after a supervisor leaves work for the day, except we also have to log in to the phones in order to get paid. Of course, this is of a piece with everything else that's been going on around here, for instance again shoving us up the most inconvenient place for some of us to reach, or leaving supervisors in the dark while wondering why there's so much turnover with supervisors. The term that's been bandied about in this place is "red-headed stepchild department." Should I actually find a job that pays the bills from check to check, as opposed to one that blames "the economy" for why I haven't gotten a raise in almost three years despite passing every quarterly review to qualify for one, I will be sure to let everyone know the reasons why. Oh, and if you're going to close off the break room kitchen for remodeling and tell us the work will be done by "December 23," please be sure to specify which YEAR. Thank You, JAMES Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
SteveZilla Posted January 6, 2012 Report Share Posted January 6, 2012 Re: The cranky thread Thursday morning at 7 AM I was free (for a time). I had just finished working 16 consecutive days of 12 hour shifts (11, really since I get an hour for lunch). OMG I was so freaking tired by the end of it. I will be *so* glad when our trainees are trained enough to be able to take some of the OT load when someone goes on vacation. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Xavier Onassiss Posted January 6, 2012 Report Share Posted January 6, 2012 Re: The cranky thread This was in the Random Musing threads' date=' and thought it too good a post (unfortunately about bad things) that it should also be shared here. Hope you don't mind, James. [/quote'] Just don't CC his boss on that one! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
John T Posted January 6, 2012 Report Share Posted January 6, 2012 Re: The cranky thread Whoever invented Automated Voice Mail for Customer Service needs to be shot. Often, if I keep pressing "1" I eventually end up talking to a real person. Of course, after that, I occasionally end up being the "buck" that gets passed between different "departments" and/or "supervisors". Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Xavier Onassiss Posted January 7, 2012 Report Share Posted January 7, 2012 Re: The cranky thread Often' date=' if I keep pressing "1" I eventually end up talking to a real person. Of course, after that, I occasionally end up being the "buck" that gets passed between different "departments" and/or "supervisors".[/quote'] I often get similar results by repeatedly pressing "0" until I get an operator. There are also a number of websites that list the exact steps needed to get a human being on the phone for various companies' automated customer service systems, such as http://www.get2human.com/get2human_list.asp which I've used successfully on occasion. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
gewing Posted January 7, 2012 Report Share Posted January 7, 2012 Re: The cranky thread Dunno if any of you remember Shadowpup but he's been given ten days' notice at his job. that really sucks. Time to clean out the storage closets! Not really, but the temptation is there. Actually when I was younger I would have given serious thought to a party with my girlfriend on the boss's Desk, on the last night. I was a sick puppy. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
CrosshairCollie Posted January 8, 2012 Report Share Posted January 8, 2012 Re: The cranky thread Bah. Burned the pizza. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Old Man Posted January 10, 2012 Report Share Posted January 10, 2012 Re: The cranky thread It is my turn to deal with the stomach virus. Nothing like pulling over on the side of the road so I can vomit into a ziplock. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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