I came into work after a lovely weekend. I had requests for 3 cube moves. One was his. We have an outside company that carry out the moves. We have them because the company does not want to take on the liability if an employee gets injured in a move. He decided to move himself anyway. I resisted the urge to fire back in an email "Fine, because the rules don't apply to you, right?" Instead, I answered that I'd request a phone only move. I sent the requests to the person in our group that approves cube placement. He replied back approving only the directors move. So I emailed back asking about the other 2 moves. A few hours later he emailed back that the moves are on hold because Director Asshole wants to put people he hasn't even hired yet into those cubes.
This afternoon the VP decided that a meeting that has been booked for 3 months and will take place on Wednesday won't work for him. I was looking for a room on another day to hold the meeting. I was lucky to find one an was working on updating the agenda and meeting invite when Director Asshole decided that the meeting times need to be amended to suit him. And I need to do this tonight. But if I don't get it done in the less than half hour that I have left in this day it will wait until tomorrow morning and I don't care how upset they are about it. They intruded on my lunch time and I am not going to stay even one minute late for them.
Don't worry about them firing me. If they do they will have to pay 6 months unemployment before they start paying my pension. I am fully vested in that.
You are going to miss Director Arswipe in much the same way as you would miss a migraine or a toothache.
ReplyDeleteCheering you on from here.
Keep counting down those days until you are a Free Woman!
ReplyDeleteHello, Lisa! -- Mr. Brague of rhymeswithplague here, first-time visitor to your blog. I saw your comment to Yorkshire Pudding that we live in the same town (but you are leaving for Seattle soon). I am actually out in East Cherokee county with a Canton address, but it is ten miles from Canton and about 15 from downtown Woodstock, so we are "close neighbors" but not "in the same town." There is actually a "Mr. Brague" in Woodstock who is my son. He is not in the telephone directory because they have only cell phones.
ReplyDeleteYorkshire Pudding is a nice enough guy most of the time but he has moments when he is full of himself. I try not to be (full of myself) if I can help it.
I'm sorry for the work experience you have been having at UPS. I have a friend and neighbor who is originally from India who transferred here to Atlanta from California with UPS and has been retired for several years now. He worked in the Mansell Road facility in Roswell.
I hope your retirement and move to a new city to be closer to your sister turns out to be great.
Hi Mr. Brague. You are right. I thought that I had see that you were in Woodstock, but Yorkshire Pudding pointed out that you are in Canton. I go there quite a bit. Welcome to my blog.
DeleteSomeday all this corporate bulls*** will be behind you and beautiful retirement will embrace you. It is great to get out of the workplace.
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