Annoyances at Work

[Elvis Starburst]

Of course there was more build-up. I had been getting tired of working there for a long while. Asshole managers, mind-numbing work, no breaks allowed and, on that particular day, I had been having a bad day as it was.

I won't go into a situation-by-situation story, but suffice to say yes, the incident I spoke of was essentially the culmination of 3 weeks of simmering discontent.

Woah woah woah, no breaks allowed? That isn't illegal last time I checked. How did that go on?

No breaks for me, at least, I was only part-time. My longest shifts were only 6 hours.

Part time or not, you're still legally supposed to get a break, unless your shift is lower than 4 hours (At least, that's how it is in Canada)

 

[ace_of_something]

*pulls out a Festivus pole* I believe it is time for the Airing of Grievances.

I just want to congratulate you on the reference.

As a detective my biggest annoyance is when either a victim or jury expects us to do something they've seen on CSI. Particularly using DNA to get leads. DNA does NOT get you a lead it helps confirm what you already know. (Or completely disprove it)

Another more mundane complaint is sharing the detective cars. Many detectives smoke like a chimney while they won't smoke in the car their clothes/hair/essence are saturated with the smell so if they've used one of our shared cars in the last few days it's like driving around in a goddamn cigar bar.

 

[Sealpower]

Does the brown-ish water dripping from the ceiling onto my hair and keyboard, count as a work place annoyance?

If so... ^THAT^

 

[RJ 17]

Of course there was more build-up. I had been getting tired of working there for a long while. Asshole managers, mind-numbing work, no breaks allowed and, on that particular day, I had been having a bad day as it was.

I won't go into a situation-by-situation story, but suffice to say yes, the incident I spoke of was essentially the culmination of 3 weeks of simmering discontent.

Woah woah woah, no breaks allowed? That isn't illegal last time I checked. How did that go on?

No breaks for me, at least, I was only part-time. My longest shifts were only 6 hours.

Part time or not, you're still legally supposed to get a break, unless your shift is lower than 4 hours (At least, that's how it is in Canada)

At least for us it's 8 hour minimum before giving out breaks becomes mandatory. However as I said my longest shifts were only 6 hours, most of them were indeed 4 to 5 hours long. It was just a part-time summer job between years in high school.

*pulls out a Festivus pole* I believe it is time for the Airing of Grievances.

I just want to congratulate you on the reference.

As a detective my biggest annoyance is when either a victim or jury expects us to do something they've seen on CSI. Particularly using DNA to get leads. DNA does NOT get you a lead it helps confirm what you already know. (Or completely disprove it)

Another more mundane complaint is sharing the detective cars. Many detectives smoke like a chimney while they won't smoke in the car their clothes/hair/essence are saturated with the smell so if they've used one of our shared cars in the last few days it's like driving around in a goddamn cigar bar.

I was wondering when someone would comment on the reference I made there, heh thanks.

But yeah, I can see how that would be very annoying. I had heard things about that, juries getting "CSI-Syndrome" and believing that if you don't have DNA evidence and a lab report saying specifically "This guy did it." then the jury believes you have no case whatsoever.

Does the brown-ish water dripping from the ceiling onto my hair and keyboard, count as a work place annoyance?

If so... ^THAT^

Yes, I'd certainly say that counts.

 

[Shoggoth2588]

I work nights so I avoid the annoyances that come with customer interaction for the most part. What I do have to put up with though are messy co-workers who I have to clean up after. Speaking of cleaning, it seems like the maintenance crew get in my way but they aren't alone; EVERYONE seems to just leave carts, cages and, palettes at the end of aisles and, in the middle of the floor; right in the way of anybody trying to get by. Little annoyances yes but, annoyances none-the-less. Also (please don't hate me for this one) my team leads and, team captains heap praise onto me. I transferred in from another store where my team lead was a total non-entity and, my team captain would give me honest criticisms. I like being praised but I feel like I may be screwing up without really realizing it. It's almost enough to drive me insane.

 

[EeveeElectro]

I'm okay with the people I work with. I've run into a couple of managers who are pretty lazy and leave me to do everything from 4 onwards then have a go at me when I haven't done everything even though they're supposed to help with cleaning and serving. My wage has been cocked up more times than I can count too.

The thing that annoys me the most is rude customers. I live in a city with a lot of foreigners who don't have a good grasp of English and I've found them to be incredibly rude. It's all, "Give me, now. That. Get me now! this!"
Not a single please or thank you.

 

[porpoise hork]

I manage a national brand item kiosk in a shopping mall.

From the craptastic Keisha esq. music barfing out of Express at 80 db, the smooth Kenny G jazz that permeates my skull from the mall itself, then the tea place that just opened up asking EVERYONE who walks within 60ft of their store if they want to try some nice hot delicious tea, and not to mention their 250 pound FUGLY white whale doing the booty dance to salsa music in their doorway, Oh I can't forget the perfume place that sprays their od de ass crack perfume in the doorway every 10 min despite the mall management telling them to stop for the thousandth time, to the 35-40 daily fucktards who will all but demand from me where the fucking Apple store is. Do I look like a mall directory? I don't know, nor do I fucking care where the Apple store or hot topic for that matter is! This is a three story 4 million sq ft shopping center spanning 3 city blocks with over 400 stores a hotel and convention center in it. Go find a fucking map you lazy shit!

It's all I can do to keep from snapping and ripping into the plethora of people that lack the brains their god gave a retarded rock that feel compelled to come accost me with their stupidity on a daily basis.

That what I get to put up with at work.