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Whoami

Tuesday, January 22, 2002 - 08:49 pm Click here to edit this post
I hate meetings. One place I worked went through two years of layoffs every few months (and every time they'd say "this is the last time!"). It got to where, when the manager called your group to gather 'round, your stomach would drop.

I didn't realize how bad it was, until I was watching a commercial where the boss told everyone to "gather round" (to compliment how succesful they had been), and my stomach dropped!

I've been laid off three times now. And am on my third unemployed term as we speak. Had a great interview today, and another one tomorrow though (fingers crossed). One thing I can say, layoffs are devestating, but each new job I've gone to has been better than the one I had before. And my last job was pretty darn good too!

Good luck Grooch. Let us know what happens.

Sunshinemiss, you're in my prayers.

Whoami

Saturday, February 02, 2002 - 09:24 am Click here to edit this post
Grooch,

What ever happened with that meeting? What was the good/bad news? Were you affected? Hope you are okay!

Grooch

Saturday, February 02, 2002 - 09:50 am Click here to edit this post
Whoami, the good news was that they were going to pay the end of the year bonuses after all. (I work in the airline business and things have been really tough and they closed one location and have been making us take vacation days so to help prevent layoffs.

The bad news is that instead of giving reviews and pay increases on your anniversary date, the president is going to due reviews twice a year now and a person's review will be done at one of the 2 that their anniversay date will fall into. Not that it mattered to me since my review was already 7 months late anyway.

And with the bonuses, extra could be given out to people that supervisors thought that deserved extra. I found out that mine was put in as double. I think I deserved it since I was given a double work load last year, I hadn't gotten my review which should have taken that into account, I am an exempt employee and don't make overtime and I stay 1/2 to 2 hours late every day and I come in on some Saturdays to keep up with my work.

Well, the extra got shot down and I got the same as most other people who do less than jackshit. But people don't seem to care about the accounting dept. So what does that make me for killing myself? Stupid.

I know what everyone got and some would make your head spin.

So now I leave at my real quitting time and I will not come in on the weekend. And I am going to be looking for a new job. Nothing will ever change there. I am not a man, I am not a kiss-ass and I am not french.

Weinermr

Saturday, February 02, 2002 - 10:24 am Click here to edit this post
Grooch,

I'm sorry that you're going through so much hell there at work. There have been layoffs, cutbacks, etc. here too, things are tight, and people are starting to worry.

Officers here get an annual review, with pay raises effective the first of April. A couple weeks ago, we learned through the grapevine mind you, there wasn't even an official announcement, that everyone 2nd VP and up would NOT receive a raise in April, no matter how good their review is, and raises, if given at all, and in who knows what amount, will be effective 6 months late beginning October 1.

And I am also exempt, also stay late every day, also take work home, also work all Saturdays throughout tax season and many Saturdays or Sundays throughout the year. It doesn't matter if you're male, kiss-ass, or French, it applies to everyone.

The current state of the world and of the economy due to 9/11, Enron, etc. etc. etc. has really changed the economic environment. Most of us will feel it, one way or another, some in bigger ways than others.

Sorry Groochy.

Grooch

Saturday, February 02, 2002 - 10:58 am Click here to edit this post
Weiner, don't feel bad for me. I am taking this as a wake up call to get my butt out of there. I am in a postive mood about this.

I kept hoping that with new mangement, someone would take control and see a bullsh*tter when they see one. Alas, it will never happen. So time for me to go. Even if my next job is the same, I will make sure it is much closer to home. It will allievate a lot of stress.

And since I work in the accounting department and I work with payroll, I see an awful lot of odd things.

Such as, how can an intern in one department (who no one in that department knows what he does other than be on the internet playing, they had to take him) make double the bonus as his supervisor?

I wasn't compaining about working late or coming in on weekends. What I meant was that I can do all those things and I see people who are on the clock and refuse to work 1 minute overtime and spend 1/2 their day fooling around with nonsense and after 10 years there still can't do their job right, get their raises on time and a bigger % than me. So why should I kill myself?

Weiner, I work for a foriegn corporation and they do have different cultural ideas. I think out of the 3 things I mentioned above, being male is the least important for getting ahead. But I will shut my mouth for now until I find a new job.

But anyway, I am taking this as a sign to start a new chapter in my life. If it wasn't this way, I never would have called in sick (first time in over a year) to play hookey to run across the state to visit Fruitbat and Twiggy. A grand adventure for me that I will never forget.

Things happen for a reason. :)

Car54

Saturday, February 02, 2002 - 11:01 am Click here to edit this post
Good Luck Grooch!pic This is the beginning of a great adventure!

Weinermr

Saturday, February 02, 2002 - 11:09 am Click here to edit this post
Grooch, I knew you weren't complaining, and I wasn't criticizing you. I know you have some very valid issues with the things going on in your company, and how it directly affects you. I guess I just took the opportunity to spill my own guts about what is happening to me. There is no comparison between the two, nor was I complaining about my own working conditions. Simply commenting on the way things are. From everything I know about you, though I only know you here, I expect good things will happen for you.

Grooch

Saturday, February 02, 2002 - 11:20 am Click here to edit this post
Weiner,

(Seriously, I read your job description and that sounds so interesting to me. I worked 4 years in public accounting for small firms and I always enjoyed doing the taxes the best. I hated auditing. Taxes are more like a puzzle to figure out. I assume estate work would be similiar.)

Willi

Saturday, February 02, 2002 - 12:06 pm Click here to edit this post
Grooch,

You go girl! There is something great waiting out there for someone like you!

I am keeping the rest of the TVCH-career-changers in my prayers & remember that you are all special & have something to offer that no one else does:
YOU.
:)

Juju2bigdog

Saturday, February 02, 2002 - 06:20 pm Click here to edit this post
Yay, Grooch! Onward and upward!

or just northward, or sideward

Sunshinemiss

Sunday, February 03, 2002 - 05:52 am Click here to edit this post
Good luck Grooch, sounds like you are looking at your unpleasant situation as the glass being half-full; postive action will stand you in good stead. You are obviously an intelligent and erudite person with a lot to offer, and I bet you can find a place that appreciates what you have to offer (and hopefully is closer to boot- commutes definitely increase the stress level.)

Dust off that resume and treat yourself to a new interview outfit!

Oregonfire

Sunday, February 03, 2002 - 09:02 am Click here to edit this post
This isn't really about today, but Friday. I had student conferences on Friday, and I was helping a girl with her narrative essay. She started being very snotty, challenging my suggestions and even the comments made on her last paper. The class heckler, who always gives me a hard time, was sitting there too, and chimed in and started saying "Well, that's not what the book said," which of course doesn't help at all, because for one, I was even contradicting the book, and two, his comment was irrevelant, just like 99% of the heckling comments he makes in class. I basically barked at him not to interupt while I was with another student, and told him when she left not to make those comments anymore in class. So now this girl is walking around thinking that she's right, and that her papers are crappy because I give bad advice.

I've helped hundreds of students on thousands of papers, and I'm very thorough and specific in my comments, so this is a new one. I've spent the entire weekend stewing, partially because I have to face these students again on Monday, and I can already see the beginnings of a world class power struggle. Yelling doesn't help. Being reasonable doesn't help. In my experience, nothing works to gain control back from the class. They are just so disrespectful and obnoxious, which is why I hate my job. I'm so tempted to just do groupwork from now on and say to hell with it because I'm not having another quarter like last one, not ever again. I taught for two years during my M.A. program and never had the problems that I have now. Okay now I'm done.

Buttercup

Sunday, February 03, 2002 - 11:25 am Click here to edit this post
Oregon, it is easy for me to say to let it go. But is there a way that you could look at this and say:
Wow, I am learning so much from these kids about what I don't want. The semester is only so long, so I will enjoy all their musings so that I never will have to put up with it again because I will recognize it before I get involved. They don't even know what a great lesson them in themselves are to me

Okay, I admit the idea might be as weird as imagining them all being nekkid and not scary or annoying anymore, but who knows, it might work.

Twiggyish

Sunday, February 03, 2002 - 11:31 am Click here to edit this post
Go in there on Mon as if nothing happened. If heckler makes any comments, tell him to speak to you after class. Once in a while, I get a rude student, and I always speak to them later. It makes a much less stressful situation. Don't give them an audience.

Admin

Friday, February 08, 2002 - 01:12 pm Click here to edit this post
Today I've done absolutely nothing productive at work. I've worked around the TVCH, read emails and farted around....very bad!

Car54

Friday, February 08, 2002 - 01:22 pm Click here to edit this post
Sounds like a great day to me! pic

Urgrace

Monday, February 18, 2002 - 12:09 am Click here to edit this post
Today was and up and down day for me. It began with me making coffee, going back to my room to get cleaned up and dressed, then finding the coffee pot empty because hubby and his brothers had finished it and not made another.. I got to church and ran into several people I had not seen lately and a few I had just met recently, the sermon was great, and it felt good to visit with even more people afterward. When I got home found that I needed to go to the grocery store for a couple of things before I could cook dinner for eight here at the house and three more I was taking dinner to [young couple and son with new baby in house]. Made dinner[s] and ran across town to deliver the packed one while my daughter-in-law set the table but didn't have time to make the gravy, and I ended up cleaning up the messy kitchen after dinner. Then my daughter phoned me with bad news that my dad had to go back via ambulance to the hospital. They think he has blood clots in the lungs from last week's surgery on his gall bladder and abdominal aneurism. I can't go to sleep, so I came over here to tvch to take my mind off of not being there with him. It's hard to run off 1500 miles away when we've got a son who needs 24/7 care, we've got out of state visitors, and a daughter-in-law who could have her baby at any time and a grandson who would need me to take care of him if she does. I also have several appointments that are important in the next few weeks. My slate/plate is full right now, but I can't help but want to be with my dad. I was hoping writing it down would help. I'm not depressed, just torn and venting. Well, Monday's here and it's another day. Maybe the baby will come today and I will have happy things to think about.

Tess

Monday, February 18, 2002 - 02:20 am Click here to edit this post
I'm praying for a baby for you today, Gracie. Hang in there. It's hard when everyone needs you all at the same time....on the other hand--how wonderful it is to have so many people you care about. I have to think you must be one very special lady. I'll keep your dad in my prayers also, along with your son and daughter in law and...well I guess then entire Urgrace family.
{{{{{{Urgrace}}}}}}tess

Lancecrossfire

Monday, February 18, 2002 - 09:11 am Click here to edit this post
Urgrace, so very sorry to hear about your father. I hope everything ends up being ok for him. And so much going on all at the ame time along with it.

You can't be in two places at the same time, so just do your best with what you have control over.

I'll keep you in my thoughts.

Urgrace

Monday, February 18, 2002 - 11:15 am Click here to edit this post
Tess and Lance, you are always there for me. It really is appreciated, and I wish I had the words to make you feel exceptionally special like you are. Your prayers and thoughts are welcomed like a rainbow in the misty sky, and reciprocated as well.