Oh yeah, if nobody at work makes you mad, or you can't think of anyone who is a douchebag; It's probably you !

 

Having your own family business has it's perks. But what I hate the most is when push comes to shove, you can only get mad at them but not fire them. If that's not enough, insult to injury when you get home it carrys on to the house until the time you get to sleep!

 

yea that def sounds like it could get complicated at times!

 

There are only a handful of people who don't **** me off regularly. Unfortunately, I have 3 facilities worth of people to **** me off. Most are in Maryland or considered "corporate" here.

Just for an appetizer, we had a memo in our email this Monday that we had to cover with our employees that pets are not allowed at work. Stupid people in customer service have been bringing their new puppies up to work with them.

Its sad, but if you can think of the most jacked up, inefficient way to do things, thats the way people want to do it. Then you have people that you can train on how to do something 20 times and in multiple ways and walk them through it several times and then they'll say they understand, but as soon as you walk away they screw it up. Then there are the people with the info literally at their finger tips. All they have to do is click a few times w/the mouse to get the answer, but they call me and interrupt my work flow.

 

the clients sometimes do.

 

Most of your replies are so funny! Not REAL funny, but they make me look back at my situation and laugh a little. The dead animal in the back yard was crazy! I just keep plugging away here at work because someday I will be someone important. Just like the fact that I am a chick that knows about cars and they cannot even change their own battery-let alone know what a battery is! This is why I think most guys are much more easy to relate to. And when the ladies hear I can race they flip out! So dramatic!

 

Whats funny....or maybe sad, is that my wife knows as much or more about cars than many of the guys she works with. She isn't much of a car enthusiast either.

She told me about a guy she interviewed @ Baylor that has an f-body so they talked cars a little.


I never have cool interviews like that.

 

Im in the army, I have to deal with ******** EVERY freaking day of my life. Whats worse is I can never get away from them.

 

be like the vancome lady,

la la la la la, la la la la!!

http://youtube.com/watch?v=NWXkHp_1bT8

god i love her

 

It's kind-of funny that this topic came up, because I'm dealing with some crap at work lately that has me looking for another job... I posted this on another forum, just to see if I was the one with the attitude problem or not, so I'm just going to copy/paste here... It's kind-of long... so I apologize in advance...


So, I started my wonderful day off at work by getting yelled at by my manager.

Before I get in to my story, let me describe this guy, and myself. My manager, who is an assistant manager in my store that is over my department, is the type of person who walks around pissed off all the time. Middle-aged, gay, mad at the world, hates people and hates his job (it's the truth, I would say the same thing about him if we hadn't gotten in to a fight). Some days he's in a decent mood and treats me more like I'm his new best friend/*** hag, and some days he's ready to rip everyone's heads off. For the first several months I worked there, I looked over him and just thought "Oh, that's just how he is" but I'm finding it impossible to look over it. I would love my job if it weren't for working with him.

Being that I am the "lead" in my department, I completely understand being responsible for the overall operation of things. All of the other girls that work with me have worked there long enough (4+ months) that they know what has to be done week to week, and day to day, and I have left numerous notes and letters to the girls to make sure they know what needs to be done when I'm going to be off.

Anyway.. first thing this morning, before I even had a chance to get to my department, he started going ballistic about some stuff that hadn't gotten done in the last few days (keep in mind the last day I worked was Saturday, and today was my first day back after 3 days off). As soon as he started going off, I just looked at him and said "Why don't you try yelling at the people that WERE here?" Well, aparently he's never had someone talk back to him the way he always talks to people because that just pissed him off more (and I kind-of laughed inside). He kept going off about stuff, never really made a valid point because I kept pointing out facts to him.. Him: "blah blah blah... (something) needs shelved out and blah blah.." Me: "uh huh... you told me NOT to do it because I wouldn't be able to get the stuff.. YOU told the recieving guys to do it." Him: "well you should've told them again" Me: "Guess what.. if they don't listen to you what the HELL makes you think they're going to listen to me?" and a bunch more blah blah and I finally just asked him "Would you like for me to come in on my days off and make sure everything gets done?" Of course his responce was "No" but he didn't have much to say after that, and his tone changed after he knew I wasn't going to ball up and cry like most people do when he talks to them like that. A little later he was in my department doing something and did not say a word to me... now seriously, that's how a child acts.

Clearly, I'm not a timid person. He is used to intimidating people, and I very rarely meet a person that intimidates me (the last person that I met that intimidated me was my district manager, mainly because she's about 6'2" and a big lady). I'm basically looking at him like this: Manager or not, you're not going to talk to me how you want to.. show me respect, I'll show you respect; be a dick and you can plan on me being a bitch; you want to talk to me like an *******, expect to get talked to the same way in return.

I know this post was really long, but I wanted to make sure I explained everything. Did I handle the situation okay? Am I handling HIM okay? I plan on talking to the store manager about it the next time I see her, maybe tomorrow, and just explain to her that I'm not going to just sit back and let him treat me how ever he wants to. Anyone have any advice?

 

 

CrystalNicole, It sounds like you work at Wal-Mart. If that's the case, i know how you feel and at my store every manager sounds like your manager. Do your job and if they still bitch, call the district manager. Usually the problem is solved later that day, it worked for me.

 

No, I don't... the store is called Elder-Beerman and if you've never heard of it, our competitors are stores like Belk, Macy's, Dillard's, etc.
My manager sucks up to all of his bosses, so I don't trust that anyone in my store would do anything about it.. store manager or HR, so I'd have to go above them to do anything about it. He's just inappropriate in every day.. gay or not, I could probably get him for sexual harassment if I pushed it..

 

i work at a dealership bodyshop in the parts dept. which lowest point in a dealership is bodyshop lowest point in bodyshop is parts dept. so the **** is always running downhill to me plus it doesnt help that im the youngest person in my company. so i get to here all of the **** that people complain about and its always parts fault. i just let it go or try to and when i cant i go race or box. both really help to releive stress.

 

I sure do not miss the office politics! I played that game for many,many years.

I feel for you guys!

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Yes, I think you handled this great! One day I am going to stand up to the ones here at work because I know unless there is a paper trail they cannot fire me. (Gvmt.) And, it would be the most idiotic thing they ever did since I tranformed this Dept. and made it work. I think your manager will think twice about his attitude towards you since you stood up to him. And, remember, "that's just the way he is" and he will not change unless more people stand up to him. I know it's hard to remember but in a few years you will be up high on the ladder and he will be going nowhere. Some people think if they suck-up now, they are getting somewhere but in the end they are the ones who will be losers. I have the problem now if wanting to do more and excel, but they are afraid of what I might become. And, I have to be secretive because they are judgemental and will not give me a raise if they find out I have a house, 2 Corvettes, a racin' Trans Am, and a truck all at age 28. I have these things because my husband and I also own a business doing mechanics work on the side. We have many nights during the week we work until 10:30, after our 8-hour a day jobs! So when someone is out macking on a guy when she has a husband, then comes to work and is jealous of me; I have to be careful what they know about me. Sorry to rant on but it feels good to get this out!

 

I completely understand! You made a good point... "...in a few years you will be up high on the ladder and he will be going nowhere" which is so true in this case. He's middle aged, in middle management.. lol.. I'm only 23, and granted I'm only in entry-level, I'll most likely become a store manager before my late 20's and move up from there, but probably not with this company. I'm working on my M.B.A., I don't believe he has any college education. Anyway, I have an interview with AT&T next Tuesday, so I hope they hire me on the spot, and that seems like a good company to grow with.. we'll see! I hope it works out for you, just don't take B.S. off of anyone!

 

Thats because you're "The Man" cracking the whip now.

 

Happy i dont have to deal with office politics very much, as long as i do my job and communicate concerns there is no problems...now doctors can have bad days and take it out on me but hasnt happened yet all the docs are pretty cool on my floor...However a tech got pissed off recently because i asked him to clean up something i spilled on the sheets...i said if you have time can you if not ill do it myself...so he does it then comes and says if your going to spill **** dont have me clean it up...i thought he was joking and started laughing so he said dont laugh its not funny to which i replied sorry and if he didnt think the task was within his capabilities to let me know and i will do it myself...lol dont do something then complain about it to me if its worth complaining about im not doing it...