In the garden, and RAIN!!!!
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UPDATED: Thursday, December 25, 2025 04:27
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Off to do some stuff in a minute. Later peeps. Looks like we could be in for a rain. Might have to lug an umbrella with me.
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It rained today.
But on the flipside the area I want a table and chairs in is now ready for that. Yay! me. 
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YAY Jack! for quitting peacefully!
And YAY Brenda! for moving forward on your better life!
And for hanging in there, YAY Signy!
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Originally posted by Brenda:
LOL! I hear ya Jack about wanting to punch someone in the face.
I felt like that yesterday at work after my boss said something stupid. The comment was that 2 recipes should have gone together as one. Well that wasn't what she had written down then she got a little upset. My fist started to curl but I didn't say anything because she wouldn't have listened.
lol. Yeah. It's stupid people that get into management more often than not. :)
This guy was seriously a robot though. I've only ever met two people like this in my life before. Both of them were 10 years ago back when I got laid off from the last high paying job I had.
To his credit, there wasn't any signs that I had visibly flustered him with any of the stuff I said. Most of the people I've ever worked for would have at least got heated if not lost their shit at some point in that meeting. If I got under his skin at all at any point during this meeting, he's got the poker face of a Texas Hold 'Em champion.
Well... to my own credit, at least there weren't cops waiting out in the parking lot in case I got out of hand this time. When I got laid off from that good job there was an unmarked squad at the parking lot entrance and two cop cars facing each other at the back end as I made my way in. When I told my old boss that later in the week when we had our weekly poker game he laughed and said he heard about that and that as far as we knew our shift was the only one who had cops waiting in the parking lot. :)
It's hard to tell if I've grown at all as a person in that regard, or if I just didn't really give a shit because it's such a lousy paying job in the first place.
Anyhow, it should be a fun night at work. I can't wait to have a laugh about it with my manager at work on break. She's only 25 and been a manager for about 6 months and can't stand this new guy. I'm sure she's never seen anything like that meeting before and likely never will again.
Sadly I don't have a video of it, but at least somebody else got to witness it.
Do Right, Be Right. :)
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Thanks kiki.
Though am paying for it. Back's a little sore.
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Yeah, I don't know what's with management droids. It's not enuf that the job gets done quickly and well? They have to micromanage every single thing?
It seems like the problem has gotten a lot worse lately. Hubby has had many run-ins with the IT people (after the university contracted it out with a bunch of know-nothings) and HR. He was called in for a disciplinary hearing (in front of the department chair) because he had a serious disagreement with how the emailer was being run. So this stuffed-shirt pompous ass tried to put him in his place by saying "I'll have you know that all of the emails on our server belong to us". Without missing a beat hubby told him "Thanks for letting me know. I'll be sure to pull all of my emails off your server". 
I hope you get unemployment! (That's me ... always looking for that cup of coffee to be snatched away!) But if not, I hope you get that other job.
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Originally posted by SIGNYM:
Yeah, I don't know what's with management droids. It's not enuf that the job gets done quickly and well? They have to micromanage every single thing?
Oh, he does that for sure, but it's a lot more than that.
After the individual meetings he needed to have with all of the employees regarding all of the changes and the new scheduling going forward, he absolutely refuses to speak directly to any employee who is below a team lead. He only converses with the management. I've been told by three different people that he will talk about what an employee is doing wrong right in front of them to a manager and tell them that they need to tell their employees how to do the job right.
Full time employees will get exactly 40 hours per week. Part time employees will get exactly 20 hours per week. There is a point system in place for any underage or overage from these numbers within 5 minutes every day. 1/2 points given out for each occurrence. Immediate termination at 5 points. No wiggle room. All computer controlled. No human interaction.
There will also be a schedule for every area with a strict time frame for everything to get done, aisle by aisle. No wiggle room. The exact same time every day. This is absolutely absurd since on a daily basis there can be instances where a new product comes in and things need to be moved around or split up to make them fit. This stuff takes quite a lot of time that would otherwise be spent stocking. (The fucking corporate idiots that never got their hands dirty once in their life have no clue how the real world actually works).
He regularly threatens to "take the keys" of the managers, meaning that he's going to either end their career in management there or outright fire them.
I'm actually looking forward to go there to shop for my staples in the next few months and see it all fail spectacularly. I can only hope that the karma of this whole thing is that somebody is just as deep in this jagoff's asshole as he is up everybody else's. I'd love nothing more right now then to see him get his.
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It seems like the problem has gotten a lot worse lately. Hubby has had many run-ins with the IT people (after the university contracted it out with a bunch of know-nothings) and HR. He was called in for a disciplinary hearing (in front of the department chair) because he had a serious disagreement with how the emailer was being run. So this stuffed-shirt pompous ass tried to put him in his place by saying "I'll have you know that all of the emails on our server belong to us". Without missing a beat hubby told him "Thanks for letting me know. I'll be sure to pull all of my emails off your server".
Well. I'm assuming that your husband already knew that. On the off chance he didn't, that might not have been a bad piece of advice, even though it's a really shitty way to hear about it. One of the managers that worked at that last good job I had got fired for sending a "suggestive" email to one of the girls who worked on his shift. She was mortified after it happened and was even crying about the fact he got fired. She didn't report anything to anybody. The company has 100% access to any emails sent from a company email address and can look at them at any time.
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I hope you get unemployment! (That's me ... always looking for that cup of coffee to be snatched away!) But if not, I hope you get that other job.
I'll get it. The only way you can be denied is if the company is successful in convincing the state that you don't have a claim, and the new store manager told me that the company doesn't fight unemployment claims (which is what number 2 had told me a month ago as well).
Even if they were going to fight me on this, I'd get it. The only reason I asked him was because I was really hoping not to have to deal with the hassle and the paperwork. The system is ac
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Off to get my laundry done.
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No more carrot cake unless I make sure that I dig out ALL of the raisins and don't eat any of them. *sigh*
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