The Work Thread

My manager was sacked today with immediate effect. She made the same mistake several people have beforehand and challenged the psycho Director. This is literally the third time this has happened to a manager within the last year and a half. I am the longest surviving manager now, with a whopping 16 months under my belt.

This place is strawberry floating nuts .

Slay them all I say. More work gets done if people are allowed to make decisions.

Oblomov Boblomov wrote:My manager was sacked today with immediate effect. She made the same mistake several people have beforehand and challenged the psycho Director. This is literally the third time this has happened to a manager within the last year and a half. I am the longest surviving manager now, with a whopping 16 months under my belt.

This place is strawberry floating nuts .

Didn't you recently decide to stay rather than getting a new job that was offered, or am I thinking of someone else?

That's not a growth wrote:

Oblomov Boblomov wrote:My manager was sacked today with immediate effect. She made the same mistake several people have beforehand and challenged the psycho Director. This is literally the third time this has happened to a manager within the last year and a half. I am the longest surviving manager now, with a whopping 16 months under my belt.

This place is strawberry floating nuts .

Didn't you recently decide to stay rather than getting a new job that was offered, or am I thinking of someone else?

I handed in my notice because I couldn't take it anymore. They offered me a move to another department, which was (and still is) a much better position, albeit at the same level. Unfortunately it still comes under the same crazy Director!

My job is probably the most mundane and unimportant of anyones on here , I am a part time shelf stacker which is frankly a crap job for a 38 year old with a degree and an NVQ level 6 but with my various disabilities it is about as much as I can manage, I suffer from Epilepsy and PTSD and frankly if I am in a place for longer than part time hours I want to start smashing things as it feels like the walls are closing in on me. Add on to that my medication makes me super tired.

I had a heck of a day today, I was on the till basically due to someone not coming in when this shifty guy stepped behind the till area and told me he wanted some money, I turned around and told him if he took one more step id kick the crap out of him, for a moment I really thought that either he would lunge at me or my shift manager would tell me off and id end up disciplined , sacked etc , thankfully he backed off and exited the shop pronto and she actually came up to me and slapped me on the back and was happy with me.

are we comparing awful exbosses?

Mine smashed a volumetric of Methanol next to me because the QC manager can't do his job.

Oblomov Boblomov wrote:My manager was sacked today with immediate effect. She made the same mistake several people have beforehand and challenged the psycho Director. This is literally the third time this has happened to a manager within the last year and a half. I am the longest surviving manager now, with a whopping 16 months under my belt.

This place is strawberry floating nuts .

Sounds like less competition for you now. Time to execute the plan and move in on the directors job.

Dual wrote:

Oblomov Boblomov wrote:My manager was sacked today with immediate effect. She made the same mistake several people have beforehand and challenged the psycho Director. This is literally the third time this has happened to a manager within the last year and a half. I am the longest surviving manager now, with a whopping 16 months under my belt.

This place is strawberry floating nuts .

Sounds like less competition for you now. Time to execute the director.

Fixed that post up for you.

kerr9000 wrote:My job is probably the most mundane and unimportant of anyones on here , I am a part time shelf stacker which is frankly a crap job for a 38 year old with a degree and an NVQ level 6 but with my various disabilities it is about as much as I can manage, I suffer from Epilepsy and PTSD and frankly if I am in a place for longer than part time hours I want to start smashing things as it feels like the walls are closing in on me. Add on to that my medication makes me super tired.

I had a heck of a day today, I was on the till basically due to someone not coming in when this shifty guy stepped behind the till area and told me he wanted some money, I turned around and told him if he took one more step id kick the crap out of him, for a moment I really thought that either he would lunge at me or my shift manager would tell me off and id end up disciplined , sacked etc , thankfully he backed off and exited the shop pronto and she actually came up to me and slapped me on the back and was happy with me.

Something similar, although by the sounds of it less frightening, happened to me when I worked in retail. AMy manager was there and just kept on deflecting his requests for money with jokes about how he was broke too until the guy just seemed to give up and walk out. I've always thought that's an amazing trait to be able to just diffuse a situation like that.

kerr9000 wrote:My job is probably the most mundane and unimportant of anyones on here , I am a part time shelf stacker which is frankly a crap job for a 38 year old with a degree and an NVQ level 6 but with my various disabilities it is about as much as I can manage, I suffer from Epilepsy and PTSD and frankly if I am in a place for longer than part time hours I want to start smashing things as it feels like the walls are closing in on me. Add on to that my medication makes me super tired.

I had a heck of a day today, I was on the till basically due to someone not coming in when this shifty guy stepped behind the till area and told me he wanted some money, I turned around and told him if he took one more step id kick the crap out of him, for a moment I really thought that either he would lunge at me or my shift manager would tell me off and id end up disciplined , sacked etc , thankfully he backed off and exited the shop pronto and she actually came up to me and slapped me on the back and was happy with me.

Holy gooseberry fool dude. You are a total strawberry floating badass

I used to do shelf stacking before my current job. I know that feeling of being there too much. I couldn't take doing tills for very long. I would always hide in the warehouse when they called for multi skillers. The team leader there was a total dick, so I really didn't want to help him.

Nothing compares to dealing with the public. It's the most tiring thing. I hope to one day break out of customer service, I've done it all my adult life to various degrees, it doesn't get any better.

I used to be a pub manager so got punched and threatened all of the time but took this job for it not to be like that. To be honest though in the 3 years I have worked here theres been something really crappy once every 6 months in the pub stuff happened once or twice a week so at least this is a lot better.

I’ve had some horrible bosses but none that have ever crossed the line into psycho/violent territory.

There was a guy here who on nights out was very creepy with the female members of staff. I wasn’t there but I heard a story that he was very drunk and was just staring at some of the younger girls that worked here, when somebody told him to stop, he started swearing and squaring up at everyone before being dragged out by another of the bosses. He "quit" not long after.

Moggy wrote:I’ve had some horrible bosses but none that have ever crossed the line into psycho/violent territory.

There was a guy here who on nights out was very creepy with the female members of staff. I wasn’t there but I heard a story that he was very drunk and was just staring at some of the younger girls that worked here, when somebody told him to stop, he started swearing and squaring up at everyone before being dragged out by another of the bosses. He "quit" not long after.

One of the directors at a company I used to support was exempt from email archiving because "he liked to tell the girls in the office they look nice" so the senior management team decided his emails shouldn't be archived.

Errkal wrote:

Moggy wrote:I’ve had some horrible bosses but none that have ever crossed the line into psycho/violent territory.

There was a guy here who on nights out was very creepy with the female members of staff. I wasn’t there but I heard a story that he was very drunk and was just staring at some of the younger girls that worked here, when somebody told him to stop, he started swearing and squaring up at everyone before being dragged out by another of the bosses. He "quit" not long after.

One of the directors at a company I used to support was exempt from email archiving because "he liked to tell the girls in the office they look nice" so the senior management team decided his emails shouldn't be archived.

Is that why Oblomov prefers phone calls?

kerr9000 wrote:I used to be a pub manager so got punched and threatened all of the time but took this job for it not to be like that. To be honest though in the 3 years I have worked here theres been something really crappy once every 6 months in the pub stuff happened once or twice a week so at least this is a lot better.

Unfortunately when the general public are involved, there is always that element of unpredictability. I'm glad to hear it didn't spill over into violence. Some people are just scum.

The only things I vaguely remember happening in the store I worked in was the recurring event of people pissing or pooping themselves. The best one was the guy who took a dump outside the manager's office. My boss (the bully guy I've mentioned before) had to clean that up, I started work after it happened and as I went in as he was mopping it down

Oh someone pooping in front of the managers office is so awesome lol thats made me chuckle

Moggy wrote:

Errkal wrote:

Moggy wrote:I’ve had some horrible bosses but none that have ever crossed the line into psycho/violent territory.

There was a guy here who on nights out was very creepy with the female members of staff. I wasn’t there but I heard a story that he was very drunk and was just staring at some of the younger girls that worked here, when somebody told him to stop, he started swearing and squaring up at everyone before being dragged out by another of the bosses. He "quit" not long after.

One of the directors at a company I used to support was exempt from email archiving because "he liked to tell the girls in the office they look nice" so the senior management team decided his emails shouldn't be archived.

Is that why Oblomov prefers phone calls?

Ooo maybe, does he work for a London based recruitment company?

This back-door privatisation malarkey really has morale on the floor at work at the moment. Accentuated by the fact that until the transfer to SubCo goes through 5th March no one has any real idea of what actual changes will occur.

The upper management have really handled the whole scenario badly.

Me? I'm just keeping my head down and my powder dry.

I've been offered a raise and guaranteed bonus if I withdraw my notice and stay until the current project I'm on is finished.

This was the last thing I expected to happen.

bear wrote:I've been offered a raise and guaranteed bonus if I withdraw my notice and stay until the current project I'm on is finished.

This was the last thing I expected to happen.

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