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Prisonerno6
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08-31-2002

Wednesday, August 09, 2006 - 11:54 am   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post Send Prisonerno6 a private message Print Post    
"I found this document on my computer today and wasn't really sure what to make of it. I'd like your advice what, if anything, I should do about it."

That's the best suggestion, in my opinion. To me it sounds like she's angling for a full time job. By informing your boss this way, you aren't making any accusations, but you are letting your boss know there may be a problem, either now or in the future.

Vacanick
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07-12-2004

Friday, September 01, 2006 - 7:50 am   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post Send Vacanick a private message Print Post    
I've had a really, really lousy week this week!

My son is hating school. My BF is not being the man I know he can be.

The best thing that has happened this week was that my co-worker quit and work has been nice & quiet without her.

Just wanted to gripe! Crossing my fingers that next week is better!

Mocha
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08-12-2001

Friday, September 01, 2006 - 7:57 am   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post Send Mocha a private message Print Post    
Woooooo Saiiiiii VNick.....

Mameblanche
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08-24-2002

Friday, September 01, 2006 - 10:06 am   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post Send Mameblanche a private message Print Post    
((((((Vnicky)))))))

Eeyoreslament
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07-20-2003

Thursday, September 28, 2006 - 11:31 am   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post Send Eeyoreslament a private message Print Post    
My gripe:

I hate Thursdays. I have pretty good TV coverage, and if two shows are on at the same time, I'm still OK, because I get the "east coast" feeds via my digital cable, and can tape those, and then the west coast feeds run normally 3 hours later. Plus I have west coast feeds on my computer to record too. So usually, there is no conflict, or worry that I'll miss a show.

Tonight, I want to see Survivor, The Office, Grey's Anatomy, and ER. Last week, that worked out fine. THIS WEEK, ABC added Ugly Betty to the mix, so I have THREE shows during a single hour block that I want to see.

It's too much!! Can't they put shows I want to watch on OTHER nights of the week, to balance out my viewing/recording schedule!?!?!

Just bugs me....

Serate
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08-21-2001

Wednesday, October 04, 2006 - 10:08 am   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post Send Serate a private message Print Post    
Trying to figure out if it is even worth filling out assistance papers for my brother. He gets a whopping $519 a month after they take out Medicare & Part D deductions. Looks like he won't be able to get assistance until he can move out because of my Dad's income, and he can't move out until he is able to get assistance. Blah, I just love this government. Teenage girl never worked a day in her life gets knocked up and gets money and healthcare and my brother worked until he had medical problems and now is considered permanently disabled and can't get help. He's not asking for a monthly check, just wanting help with his premiums or even medical care that medicare won't cover. TOld him to go get pregnant he can get all the help he wants. Love this government. Blah.

Zachsmom
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07-13-2000

Wednesday, October 04, 2006 - 10:12 am   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post Send Zachsmom a private message Print Post    
Serate (hugs) I know what you are talking about.

Texasdeb
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05-23-2003

Wednesday, October 04, 2006 - 4:45 pm   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post Send Texasdeb a private message Print Post    
Every Dept. (except mine - of course) at my office seems to have been running short handed for what seems like forever. Most of the other mgrs. just can't seem to hire & keep good people. I don't understand - I don't have this problem. Maybe I just screen my folks better. Crap, I haven't had to hire a new perm. emp. in over 5 yrs. Our Gen. Mgr. who is my boss as well as all the other Dept. mgrs again today told me that as most always, my dept. is the only one he doesn't have to worry about. I'm saying, doesn't it sound like it's "just because" raise time! Don't get me wrong, I get evauluated every Jan. & have always gotten a respectable pay increase. I've gotten only 1 of these so called "just because" raises during my 10 yrs with this co. & that was 6 yrs. ago. Because I'm the head of the Administration Dept. one of my areas is payroll & I know for a fact that my Boss has received at least 3 of these "just because" raises within the last 6 yrs. & the Service Mgr. has received 2 of these raises. I sometime wander if it's because I'm the only female dept. mgr. I know, I shouldn't feel this way, but you never get any negative feed back & you get high fives etc. on a regular basis, it starts you to thinking. Then I have to remember that I did get employee of the year which came with a gift & a day off with pay & my boss does ocasionally reward me with a gift card to either the mall or a fine rest. I guess I should feel blessed - but I'm saying "show me the money". I have never nor do I want to start now "begging" for a pay increase. Since I'm 49 I have no desire to even consider a job change. Plus, I love my job & the freedom to do it as I feel fit. Plus, my Co. has fantastic benifits. Duh....I guess I really don't have a gripe after all & just thinking I did & having a place to express it has made me happy that this thread exists. I guess I just typed myself out of being pissed off! Thanks folks.

Juju2bigdog
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10-27-2000

Wednesday, October 04, 2006 - 6:30 pm   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post Send Juju2bigdog a private message Print Post    
You are welcome, Texasdeb. That will be 25 cents.

But you probably do deserve a "just because" raise.

Teachmichigan
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07-22-2001

Thursday, October 05, 2006 - 8:42 pm   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post Send Teachmichigan a private message Print Post    
Must be that time of year. My DB (whom I love dearly) is in the computer industry (networking manager) and just received a 10% raise. Kudos for him -- the thing that grinds my grits is that our teacher's union has been fighting just to prevent a pay DECREASE! Our board has paid a lawyer more in 5 months to "negotiate" for them (read slash and trash) than it would have cost to allow all of us to keep our current insurance.

It's damn depressing when I'm working longer hours, teaching more kids, teaching more classes, doing more extra-curriculars and have LESS planning time and bigger class sizes. My DB's raise would have covered the small increase we saw in our insurance this year! BAH HUMBUG! Some things just aren't balanced correctly!

Prisonerno6
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08-31-2002

Friday, October 06, 2006 - 2:29 am   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post Send Prisonerno6 a private message Print Post    
I'm a college professor at a community college Teach, and we're in the same boat. However, my rant is the self-serving faculty members who not only want to keep their full health care, but who want a better plan (the "cadillac plan" from Blue Cross, whatever that is), along with a big raise and small classes. They rant and rave when low enrollment classes are cancelled in order to control costs, not because it affects the students, but because it means they can't get their sweetheart schedules that let them work only three days a week. I make pretty good money. I can't bring myself to be so greedy when it's on the backs of the students who are scraping together the money to better their education, when tuition and fees have gone up over 50% in the last ten years.

But then the college is hiring another VP position. It has such a laundry list of responsibilities in the posting that we've taken to calling it the VP of Some Crony Relative Needs a Job...at $94,000 a year.

Mocha
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08-12-2001

Friday, October 06, 2006 - 6:00 am   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post Send Mocha a private message Print Post    
You would think that teachers would be the highest paid job in the US since they're the ones who shape everyone.

Teachmichigan
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07-22-2001

Friday, October 06, 2006 - 3:52 pm   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post Send Teachmichigan a private message Print Post    
There's the answer Prisoner -- we gotta' get into the VP section. :-)

Twinkie
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09-24-2002

Saturday, October 07, 2006 - 6:01 pm   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post Send Twinkie a private message Print Post    
I've got a gripe. Today we went to Lowe's looking for a particular kind and size of cabinet. We found something similar but there was no price tag in sight for that item. So, I went looking for someone who works there for help. Well, I had to go almost to the other end of the store before I found 1 employee and when I asked his help he acted like I was really putting him out of his way. BTW, he was apparently doing nothing when I found him. The farther we walked to where hubby and the cabinet was, the louder his disgusted sighs. When we finally got there, he looked at it, looked at the tags on the rack for the other cabinets and said, "I don't know how much it is." Then without saying another word to me he gets on his phone and calls out over the PA "someone to cabinets" and then he said someone will be here soon" and he turned and walked away. Hubby and I looked at each other like WTF???? Finally another employee shows up eventually and says" well I think it is this price" so we balanced that big box on the shopping cart up to the front only to find out that it was TWICE the price he told us. We shopped for a few other things before checking out and we only saw those 2 employees in any aisle we walked past. This is only our second time shopping at Lowe's. We usually go to Home Depot where we always find plenty of help, lots of employess and they are mostly friendly and nice. I'll never go back to Lowe's again and I may just let some head honcho know the difference in the 2 stores. Rant over.

Vacanick
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07-12-2004

Saturday, October 07, 2006 - 6:31 pm   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post Send Vacanick a private message Print Post    
Here Twinkie ... feel better!

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Whoami
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08-03-2001

Saturday, October 07, 2006 - 6:31 pm   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post Send Whoami a private message Print Post    
That's so frustrating Twinkie! Odd thing is, I've actually had the same exact problem at our Home Depot. I have never gone into that store and found someone who was helpful, knowledgeable or willing to stick around long enough to let me finish asking them a question.

I rarely hesitate to let a head honcho know about such things. And I don't muck around with the store or its manager. I go directly to their corporate offices and fire off a letter.

Sometimes they respond with a form letter like "we'll pass your concerns on to the appropriate manager" type thing. After that, sometimes a manager will call me and apologize. And other times it probably ends right there. But I let those responses/lack of responses determine whether I'll shop in that store, (or even their entire chain) in the future.

There was only one time I pursued and pressed the issue, it was several years ago when Safeway tried to accuse my Mom of stealing cigarettes, realized their error, but then still held her to a stricter standard of shopping when she went into the store on later visits (apparently labeling her as a potential thief, based on their error). I fired off a letter to their corporate office and got the standard form letter back. I fired off another letter and told them nothing short of a personal apology from the store manager would even begin to make us even consider stepping foot in their store again. The manager did call, but shortly after that was when Mom had her stroke, and she never came out shopping with me again. So, by that time we were already used to going to another store, and that's where I've shopped ever since.

Kitt
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09-06-2000

Saturday, October 07, 2006 - 6:49 pm   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post Send Kitt a private message Print Post    
We've had the same problem with Home Depot. There's never anyone around and when you do find someone after traipsing half way round the store they're rude. Once I asked an assistant a question and he just said "I'm busy". I try and go in there as little as possible.

Pamy
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01-02-2002

Saturday, October 07, 2006 - 6:51 pm   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post Send Pamy a private message Print Post    
I would call Lowes and speak to the manager..tell him the story and I bet ya they will give ya a gift card...if the manager doesnt offer anything ask what is the # to the Lowes headquarters then call them

Oldtex
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03-06-2006

Saturday, October 07, 2006 - 8:01 pm   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post Send Oldtex a private message Print Post    
My dh's #1 niece works at Lowes. And, No, we don't get any kind of a discount! LOL She's been there several years and is in a manager type position.

We've had very similar experiences at both Lowes and Home Depot. But Lowes is the worst. If we have a problem, we ask for Candice! But, to be honest, she's not much help either. Don't tell dh, OK?

Teachmichigan
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07-22-2001

Saturday, October 07, 2006 - 9:03 pm   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post Send Teachmichigan a private message Print Post    
We only have a Lowes, but we've almost always had helpful friendly service. It may help that ours is in a fairly small city. The couple times I've been in Home Depot in nearby, bigger city, the customer service stunk!

Bob2112
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06-12-2002

Saturday, October 07, 2006 - 9:12 pm   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post Send Bob2112 a private message Print Post    
I regularly shop in Home Depot, Menards and Lowes since all 3 are within 10 minutes of my house and another 3 are within 10 minutes of where I work. I've had both good and bad service in all 6 stores and there doesn't seem to be a time or pattern that I can figure out. The only thing I have learned is to try to avoid all of them on a Saturday.

Builders Square used to be my favorite store, so of course they went out of business.


Twinkie
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09-24-2002

Saturday, October 07, 2006 - 9:25 pm   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post Send Twinkie a private message Print Post    
Ahhh, Vac, you always come through! LOL

Who and Pamy, I don't mess around with the stores. I go way up the line to a real head honcho. I'm pretty good at it, too. Hubby calls me his pit bull. I don't let go. LOL

Bob, same here. We loved Builder's Square. Hated to see them go.

Its seems to me, overall, that more and more people only care about their paycheck and not the job they do. I've seen it so many places in the last 10 or so years.

Thanks, Oldtex, Kitt, and Teach, for your input!

Biloxibelle
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12-21-2001

Sunday, October 08, 2006 - 5:29 am   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post Send Biloxibelle a private message Print Post    
LOL, I have just the opposite problem at Lowes. They won't leave me alone. The only place I get any peace is in the garden section. Once I walk into the store I must look totally inept, because they are on me like white on rice.

Urgrace
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08-19-2000

Sunday, October 08, 2006 - 7:36 am   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post Send Urgrace a private message Print Post    
Me too, Biloxiebelle. The Lowe's stores around here have plenty of sales clerks walking up and down the aisles asking you if you need help. I also got satisfaction when my brand new washing machine didn't work and they brought me another one.

The Home Depots around this area don't have that kind of customer service, while you shop nor after you buy.

Customer service apparently varies within the companies. I'm thinking it must have something to do with the district managers. Some care and some don't. Some know how to make their stores work and some couldn't care less.

We miss Builders Square, too. They had a beautiful mahogany front door for sale that I used to go and visit in the store, because I couldn't justifiably afford to buy it!

My Ace Hardware is my quick fix when I need something fast and love the great customer service there.

Rosie
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11-12-2003

Sunday, October 08, 2006 - 9:45 am   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post Send Rosie a private message Print Post    
I have had the same problem with both of the big stores. I just try not to go back there and don't bother writing anyone. I love going to my local hardware stores because they don't mind helping me.

Take that you big stores. lol