Quitting Time

[Anonymous 7]

Like most everyone I have a start and stop time for my work day.

I do understand that sometimes there are real work emergencies that require one to stay late. This tale is not the case.

Today I am at my desk working, I have about four minutes to go before it is quitting time.

At t- four the she creature walks-up to my desk and is in an almost panic about something not working.

I started to look at it but the problem takes awhile to manifest.
I say to my self f~~~-it.
It was broke yesterday, it is broke today and it will still be broke in the morning when I come in.

On the way out the door the she creature tried to harangue me into staying and fixing the issue. Didn’t work.
Instead I gave the she-beast a list of things she could do to make the problem be resolved quicker. Aaaaaaand all I got back was argument and excuses.

No real point to this other then:
Your employer does not own you, don’t be afraid to say it will be broke tomorrow, good by.

[BoBParticipant 823]

Ugh. That sux, man. I’m all about working hard for the Team, but not if they can’t help me to help them.

[Anonymous 7]

BoB wrote:

I’m all about working hard for the Team,

Normally I am too. But only for real emergencies.

Like all wymints it was an emergency b/c it was what she was currently working on and yes, needed a man to fix it.

F~~~ that!

[Anonymous 42]

I have no f~~~ing idea what you’re talking about! I don’t work in any proximity of women and I don’t have a boss and haven’t had a boss since the early 1980s’!

Oh, I don’t work for free either!

I’m afraid working with women will only increase the temptation to commit sabotage!

[Anonymous 7]

Anonymous wrote:

Oh, I don’t work for free either!

I don’t either which is why I REFUSE to be a salary employee.

It is like the drive thru, it is how the f~~~ you more than you are already being f~~~ed.

[Anonymous 3]

Anonymous wrote:

Like most everyone I have a start and stop time for my work day.

be happy if you still have that. Most employers tend to write contract “flexible” on average, 8 hours a day on paper, which in reality means like 10-12 hours a day and then unrealistic deadlines, bring some work to home-office on the weekend, incredible amount of human stupidity, not having enough tools and smart people to help to do stuff (or not finding where the things are).

And worse:
-if one does not manage to meet the unrealistic deadline (estimated by the boss who expects one to be sort of a wizard and everything going perfectly) = getting scolded.
-if one manages to do it in time = getting even tighter deadlines and more work next week.
-Then if one manages it: even more work in shorter time. Infinite loop of working harder, and then still getting scolded when it once does not succeed.

-And-as I realized during a “corporate bulls~~~” meeting recently, they re-phrase it “as a way to make people grow up to the tasks, make them better” and so on. As if tons of work (without having the right tools) and stress (due to human stupidity in every possible way) is a way of educating people to get better performance. Or,re-phrase it “as a way of testing the abilities of a person”.

[Anonymous 7]

Anonymous wrote:

be happy if you still have that. Most employers tend to write contract “flexible” on average, 8 hours a day on paper

I am gonna channel my inner @gargamel

I leave when I want.

I am a rehire.
When the company found out I was looking for work, they made sure I stopped looking.

Since I left the first time, the company has:
Hired many people that were better educated than me. I don’t have a degree, the people they went through did.

Hired many people that were smarter than me. Yes, I admit they did hire people that were ‘smarter’ than me.

Hired people younger and older than me.

Hired people with great resumes.

Hired people experienced with the tech they currently use. I did not have that experience.

So why did they hire me back on my terms?
It is b/c I’m a get s~~~ done kind of person.
You would be surprised how hard that trait is to find.

[Anonymous 3]

Anonymous wrote:

It is b/c I’m a get s~~~ done kind of person.

Yes, I’m also like “get s~~~ done”. Any means necessary, that’s what I’m paid for. And I’m not someone who gives up.

But I want to manage my workload down a little, to be doable in time. unrealistic deadlines just don’t help. And manage stuff so that less s~~~ happens. Hurry made us to make mistakes that costed weeks of downtime. Forced hurry is not good.

And manage my colleagues to also get s~~~ done because I’m simply not a wizard to do everything alone. F~~~ing hard to “delegate” tasks to unreliable people with less knowledge, but this is what I have. All of us would be okay if I could improve them somehow. (firing them would just mean that I am officially alone for everything)

It is not the work what I hate. Actually I like this work and the topic is really doable. What frustrates me, is the unnecessary stress due to human bulls~~~. For example, all my colleagues went home early this afternoon. And the device we use is (mostly) to be handled by more people (I can do it -and sometimes did it- all alone, but it is safety regulation to have someone there if one needs help. I feel like wearing those “screw your lab safety” t-shirts….) So I just spent the afternoon tidying and cleaning stuff up in the room of the work. (and I am the miniboss of this team … ) Not the most interesting stuff but it had to be done sometime anyway. Too much entropy is not that good.

There was a meeting in the morning ,some colleagues totally forgot about it, and forgot to arrive in time at 8am to workplace anyway. Okay more time for morning coffee. Then the meeting lasted for 4 hours, then lunch, half of the day gone. The same information could have been given to us in a single email, and underline the important stuff.

I am always thinking of somehow quitting all of this. I mean somehow quit the bulls~~~ and keep the topic of the work. I like solving problems, especially the cutting-edge like technical problems never solved before.

I could solve problems in another company. But: would they pay the same? Would their personality be better during work hours? You see, leaving one company for another is like leaving one girlfriend for another. Thinking, that one made a bad choice. Thinking next choice will be better. And it won’t be. There is no good choice. But at least they pay me (and it’s not me who pays, as in relations~~~s.)

[iMickey503Participant 12465]

Oh companies, they hate it that they need you. They hire so much trash that does just about nothing, and wonder why they can’t afford forks for the company lounge.

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