BTW, we're also limited to 2 weeks consecutive vacation here without extenuating circumstances. There are exceptions, but not very commonly. Considering I get 5 weeks of vacation a year (which is a ton for here), it kinda sucks. But whatever.
Regarding vacations, Oklahoma City was meh. Their little 'bricktown' bar/restaurant area is still pretty formative and shuts down at 11pm. On a Friday and Saturday. WTF. My little suburb of Dallas has more a night life then that. During the day it was better, but still a bit too rural for me. Tomorrow we fly out to Colorado for some snowboarding. That should be good fun. I'll need to post pics of Oklahoma City and Colorado at some point.
Statistics: Posted by Satis — Wed Dec 10, 2014 8:13 am
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On my front I'm off to my parents for 2 weeks on Thursday, spending Christmas with them for the first time in about 13 years so that will be nice. Downside is I'm having to leave the boyfriend here but we'll cope. Not much else really to update at the moment (or that I can be bothered typing about anyway).
Statistics: Posted by pevil — Mon Dec 08, 2014 1:28 pm
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Of course with my luck shit is falling apart as we speak, partially bad luck with timing, partially because my boss was careless with some things like giving christmas leave to everyone and their mom.
Short sketch of the situation: there are normally about 10 people in the team. There were only 9 because I hadn't been replaced yet after moving up the totem pole. I fired one of them because he 'lost his passport' when already on a 3-week leave without pay to his home country and then barely reported in for weeks after. Long story with increasingly insane aspects, but for several reasons I would have fired his ass 5 times over before if HR hadn't bitched and whined. Managed to in the end.
So that's 8. Of those 8, 4 had booked leave long ago under my previous boss for the christmas week. As did I. Of the 4 who didn't, one resigned earlier this month and the other resigned this week. So that left me with 2 people to work everything around christmas time. We have 2 new people coming in but it's unlikely that they will know wtf they are doing by that time.
Net conclusion: we will already be severaly understaffed and unable to reach any targets the next month, and that is not even counting possible sickness and other leave that still needs to be taken. Then around christmas, everything will go to shit and I will be responsible while a 1000 miles away. Lordy lord.
I booked leave and a flight for the end of this month but I'm cancelling it and losing the money. No way I can afford to go away at this point in time.
What a way to start my career as a supervisor.
In between all of that I had to tell one of the employees that he can't give shit to the client we work for, and his reaction was "To be blunt, I don't really give a shit what these people think of me". Yeah dude. These people who employ us and pay our salaries? Ughhhh. I sense another dismissal coming up.I swear, where do they find these people? Basic work ethic, common sense, people skills, I'm not asking for the moon here. Gonna have to tell recruitment how to do their jobs as well.
More than ever, I feel like Kim Jong Il in Team America.
Statistics: Posted by Rinox — Sun Nov 23, 2014 5:39 pm
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