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[93boomer]

Cheese fondue with sliced veg ( carrots, etc ) to dip ...

Ok making wings with my homemade bbq sauce and possibly tacos or quesadillas. And a veggie tray.

 

[Mr Ferret 75]

@StarWarsGirl I don't need to travel to Pandora for my Starbucks

 

[Songbird76]

Work idiocy of last week:
Background: Boss wanted me to change targets of my job, instead of just support. now wants me to do 10 different things (some unrelated) to "produce" (aka get money for the company). In short, He wants me to do Sales, Leads generation, site making, site security, configuration, set up, management, support, documentation and other stuff forgot.
He also wants me to learn all that with some 50 hour or so videos of instructions (the bare minimum with no practice)
Yesterday i told him I'm not meeting HIS GOALS (the ones he set for me). Because of lack of time. He told me to "manage hours better" and that I should be lucky I'm getting training. And I'm like.. WHAT? Then how the f.. you want me to do all these tasks?

Work Idiocy of Today:
Boss blasted me for not responding immediately at 3:00 am on Sunday.
Also blasted me for a workflow doing X thing and Y thing when Z things happened. And he claimed that he never had set Z things.
I confronted him with the HISTORY LOG of the workflow shows that HE SET the Z delimiter. And calmed down.
He also thinks its a great idea that I should take YET another job by saying how a great opportunity site migrations is. Well yeah, I'm probably the one who is going to do everything :|

So basically, he wants several new employees, but doesn't want to have to pay more people, so he wants you to do the work of 4 people for the pay of one?

 

[Cesar R M]

So basically, he wants several new employees, but doesn't want to have to pay more people, so he wants you to do the work of 4 people for the pay of one?

Yep.. Thats what I'm getting too. My brother also confirmed this feeling as well when I mentioned everything to him.
It seems he pretty much wants to squeeze me of all he can while paying a fixed salary.
I'm putting the brakes. If he doesn't like it.. well he can try to get 4 employees to do all this crap.
Also kinda confirms as one of the "affiliated agencies" seems likely to split. And they are the ones who mainly perform some of the sales, marketing, leads related jobs.

If I was to resume the whole thing... he expects me to do the job of 3 people from the agency about to split.. My job, and one of our developer's job.


The funny thing is, I do not mind the work. I just hate being the goddarn punching bag when he's not in the mod.
He's bipolar.
One hour he's being very helpful, other days he's berating me for stuff that makes no sense.
One day he gives me all information I needed with no issue, the other berates me for asking too much and to find the information elsewhere.

Spoiler: Another example, careful can cause facepalms

Example of work idiocy that happened 2 weeks ago:
Boss wants me to do "cost cuts" and reduce/eliminate some applications and apps to save costs.
I did all the ones listed as agreed.
Then in the task in the online organizer (where we centralize everything). He had put an app I never heard before nor seen. It was not added to our shared app lists (that we agreed to have so we could keep track of everything).
Now, this comes to no surprise. Because despite being always on deadlines to release products. The boss LOVES to register to new apps to "test" them out ALL the time. Except he "asks" all of us to test said app.

Anyway, I inform him that I have no idea what that app is and to know if he has the information needed to shut down the app.
Then he explodes. Claiming that its my responsibility to find out, I should be asking others and how I need to rise up and own the responsibility. And to never ask him again. In the same line claims that I should have reviewed X document (document that I have never heard of and that nobody had mentioned to me, this document is NOT the ones we agreed to have the information on.. )

So there I go to ask who knows about that app.. Surprise.. NOBODY F.. knows that app.
So I go to check the document he mentioned. You guessed it right. IT WAS NOT THERE and even the document owner (accountant) was asking me why I had requested that file, It was only useful for accountants.
This is one of the many instances where my boss wants me to produce out of NOTHING and then berates me for not doing the impossible.

 

[MinnieM123]

No I do not wish to build a snowman. I wish to crank up the heat and hide under a large pile of blankets until June The blowers are not functioning, we're going to get about 2 feet in total

You need some extra snow cheer today.



Here's a great idea for all the beautiful snow you're getting!

Snow ice cream is the best use for snow

Here's how you can turn snow into ice cream!

www.wcvb.com

 

[MinnieM123]

Yep.. Thats what I'm getting too. My brother also confirmed this feeling as well when I mentioned him. He pretty much wants to squeeze me of all he can while paying a fixed salary. I'm putting the brakes. If he doesnt like it.. well he can try to get 4 employees to do all this crap.
Also kinda confirms as one of the "affiliated agencies" seems more and more likely to split. And they kinda perform some of the sales, marketing, leads related jobs.

If I was to resume, he expects me to do the job of 3 people from the agency about to split.. My job, and one of our developer's job.


The funny thing is, I do not mind the work. I just hate being the goddarn punching bag when he's not in the mod.
He's bipolar.
One hour he's being very helpful, other days he's berating me for stuff that makes no sense.

Spoiler: Another example, careful can cause facepalms

Example of work idiocy that happened 2 weeks ago:
Boss wants me to do "cost cuts" and reduce/eliminate some applications and apps to save costs.
I did all the ones listed as agreed.
Then in the task in the online organizer where we centralize everything. He had put an app I never heard before nor seen. It was not added to our shared app lists that we agreed to keep.
Now, this comes to no surprise. Because despite being always on deadlines to release products. The boss LOVES to register to new apps to "test" them out ALL the time. Except he "asks" all of us to test said app.

Anyway, I inform him that I have no idea what that app is and to know if he has the information needed to shut down the app.
Then he explodes. Claiming that its my responsibility to find out, I should be asking others and how I need to rise up and own the responsibility. And to never ask him again. In the same line claims that I should have reviewed X document (document that I have never heard of and that nobody had mentioned to me, this document is NOT the ones we agreed to have the information on.. )

So there I go to ask who knows about that app.. Surprise.. NOBODY F.. knows that app.
So I go to check the document he mentioned. You guessed it right. IT WAS NOT THERE and even the document owner (accountant) was asking me why I had requested that file, It was only useful for accountants.
This is one of the many instances where my boss wants me to produce out of NOTHING and then berates me for not doing the impossible.

I pray to God you can get another job. Your boss is toxic.

 

[MinnieM123]

Ok making wings with my homemade bbq sauce and possibly tacos or quesadillas. And a veggie tray.

I don't watch football. A better blockbuster show that day is the Puppy Bowl. I've been watching that for years now. Sometimes their web site has recipes, like Pupcakes, for example.

 

[Mr Ferret 75]

I don't watch Handegg A better blockbuster show that day is the Puppy Bowl. I've been watching that for years now. Sometimes their web site has recipes, like Pupcakes, for example.

FTFY

 

[MinnieM123]

FTFY

Let me guess: you eat a lot of deviled eggs, while you watch your handegg games.

 

[MinnieM123]

@BuddyThomas , I have the local (Boston) news on in the background, and they just shares a current video of Times Square in the snowstorm. There were hardly any cars at all on the streets there! Looks like a lot of New Yorkers are working from home today.

 

[Figgy1]

It is just two of us. Want something besides the normal stuff with all the cheese and sodium.

Air fried "wings", veggie platter with yogurt dip, tacos are fine if you don't use package seasoning, flax crackers and salsa not from a jar

 

[BuddyThomas]

@BuddyThomas , I have the local (Boston) news on in the background, and they just shares a current video of Times Square in the snowstorm. There were hardly any cars at all on the streets there! Looks like a lot of New Yorkers are working from home today.

I’ve been working from home since last March and I’m at the point where I’m about to rip my own head off, but at least I still have a job and my health, so I really have no right to complain. Here is the view from my front porch this morning.

 

[MinnieM123]

I’ve been working from home since last March and I’m at the point where I’m about to rip my own head off, but at least I still have a job and my health, so I really have no right to complain. Here is the view from my front porch this morning.

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Well as you said, at least you still have a job. Plus, you're safe at home and don't have to worry about driving in the storm. It's coming down heavy where I am (north of Boston) and is supposed to continue until about midnight. We're getting over a foot.

 

[Figgy1]

Close to 15 inches so far with up to another foot expected. @MinnieM123 please come pick it up

 

[93boomer]

Air fried "wings", veggie platter with yogurt dip, tacos are fine if you don't use package seasoning, flax crackers and salsa not from a jar

Yayyy on the same wavelength!

 

[Tuvalu]

@StarWarsGirl I don't need to travel to Pandora for my Starbucks
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The best part of this picture is the bracelet.

 

[MinnieM123]

Hey, @Tuvalu , a general question here. If a guest doesn't have a phone with them (or if it breaks, or they lose it), how do they gain access to their hotel room? I was reading in one of the threads about how people point their phone at their door and it opens. That's fine for those people who want that function, I guess. But is there an alternative way if a person wants another way to open their guest room door?

 

[Figgy1]

The best part of this picture is the bracelet.

In Guernsey the put tracking devices on the front paw

 

[Tuvalu]

Hey, @Tuvalu , a general question here. If a guest doesn't have a phone with them (or if it breaks, or they lose it), how do they gain access to their hotel room? I was reading in one of the threads about how people point their phone at their door and it opens. That's fine for those people who want that function, I guess. But is there an alternative way if a person wants another way to open their guest room door?

The Front Desk has plastic “key” cards like there used to be before the introduction of Magic Bands.
Everything old is “new” again.

 

[Figgy1]

Hey, @Tuvalu , a general question here. If a guest doesn't have a phone with them (or if it breaks, or they lose it), how do they gain access to their hotel room? I was reading in one of the threads about how people point their phone at their door and it opens. That's fine for those people who want that function, I guess. But is there an alternative way if a person wants another way to open their guest room door?

You can still buy a MB or get a KTTW card