Oh oh oh..Can I reeaaaaally RANT here???

OK..OK.. I am getting kinda excited here.. but ahem.. ranting.. where should I begin????

Well.. ok.. let me start with the workplace... To those who have known me for a while, you'd probably recall that I am a female working in a kinda male-dominated world.

If you think that's fun.. think again! It might be better if my other teammates are younger guys. Unfortunately, they are mostly older guys, so I am always 'that little girl' in the team. Yes, regardless of the fact that I am 39 and have 3 children of my own.

OK.. I am not a technical, technical person. Has never been and will never be. My strength is dealing with the clients and problem solving. So, maybe I shouldn't get offensed when they voiced in the team meeting that they are 'skeptical' about the solution that I proposed. However, they went as far as querying whether I tested it or not. Darn! When did I started delivering a solution without testing it???? So, you'd think that they'd bite their tongue after everything worked? Not really, that happened at least another couple of times.

Now, if that isn't bad enough.. There is this guy here in my team. Old guy, a couple of years from retirement. You'd think that he'd cool down a bit and stop stepping on everybody's toes? Wrong again.. any piece of work that we can learn anything from, any work on newer technology, he'd grab it all for himself.

And then, of course, when I landed another client, they all wanted a piece of it, to the point that they want me to snatch work from the other guys who are already on that client.

Man.. not only am I expected to get scraps out of their plate.. I am expected to rob others to feed them? Forget it!

If they want to go snatch work from the other teams, they can do it themselves.. Just leave me out of it.

And I also hate working with guys who do not have children. Of course, they can be there working 24 hrs a day, 7 days a week. Just don't expect me to do the same! I have young kids to tend to.. and if they don't have a life. It's their own problem.. not mine!

Phew!!! It's damn good to get it out of the system!!!

Thank you so much for letting me rant!



Yuki

Oh.. Cep darl.. did you say Rum??? I can surely do with some..

And by my daughter's request

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Mallanox : "My mother was Irish and my father was an alien. I was an only child and I dress funny."

Sometimes a cool head is needed in IT. If something crashes and you get in a flap about it, it wont necessarily be fixed too fast however, in keeping a cool head you can usually solve the problem faster or at the very least think outside the box for alternative solutions.

I work in an IT orientated place and when it goes down for software updates people behave as though the world is ending!

Its not like paper cant do the job but all of a sudden skilled people forget the basics of their job.

Yuki & Meridian, Keep at it I am sure you will find that us tortoises are more affective than the hares

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Not a good start. I trust that someone has written back to them and pointed out that since it's 2 weeks late, it'll take the same amount of time to comment. The client is clearly not getting good service already from the new people.

People will try to cover their arses. When it's an obvious failing like a late delivery on their part, then it's almost a duty to make sure their pants hang low.

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Mallanox : "My mother was Irish and my father was an alien. I was an only child and I dress funny."

And yes, Meridian, you are right. The client is not getting good service from these new guys. But you know what it comes down to, it's those top guys who are golfing with one another, are happy with the deal they got. So, who really cares about those poor souls who really need to get the job done on time and get the employees paid???

Y.

Hubby's been in the same programming job for years, mostly loving it. One of the lucky people who is mostly unaware of the politics going on. He just knuckles down to do what he's good at, mentors the other programmers as those programmers request, and backs away from any and all management positions. Been a few rough years, lots of changes in upper management, but the programming team is fun and management respects them, big time.

But that's all too rare in the industry. Several of his coworkers who left for greener and/or more stable pastures during the management changes (management changes are always scary, no matter how smooth), ended up returning.

Engineering student in 1990, there for four months, being told that it was her job to maintain the unit's PC. Uh, since when does a multi-billion dollar company not have the resources to do it right? And since when does an engineering student, there to learn about her own field, know enough about a PC to do it right? And continuity? The printer could emulate several other brands, and had to do so since each program was set up to us a different printer.

Hope you find something that gives you more satisfaction!

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In that space is our power to choose our response.
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I know that this isn't about IT and I do apologise but there are only about between 10 - 5% of people at my workplace that I can not only trust to do stuff right but who I like as the rest are well excuse my language ladies but are wankers.

I would call them idiots but that's an insult to idoits.

I also admit that I don't know anything about DIY, which is what my store is a DIY store, but I have worked there for 7 years and hardly get any credit for the work I have donw. I know that I am a part timer and won't get any full timer because of my store manager but yet he complains that I and I quote "don't buck up my ideas" and "we give him shit jobs". I am the only disabled person in the store, as I am partially sighted and yet people will give me shit jobs and don't even thank me.

Here's an example. anybody who puts stock on the shopfloor must throw their rubbish away in the 2 skips in our yard. The green skip is for everything and the big blue one is for cardboard only. With cardboard, they must flatten the boxes down and thrown into the big blue skip.

The problem is that they won't flatten cardboard boxes down and keep all the plastic and stuff in the boxes and then thrown in the cardboard skip and also the green skip which fills it up and it smaller than the big blue skip and also will hide the rubbish round the back of the skips. My job, which isnj't even my job is to tidy the bottom of the yard and throw everybody's rubbish away properly and even climb intot he cardboard skip to flatten cardboard, throw plastic and stuff into the green skip or in ottos, which can be used to store rubbish temporily until the green skip is empty. And guess what, nobody thanks me but my supervisor and it's only recently that my store manager said thank you and that's just once, even though I have been doing the shit jobs like that for 7 years.



That is what I want to do to Homebase in Wolverhampton and the blind and stupid customers

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Tempory Frisker

Before I worked for Homebase I worked for about 4 and half months at Index, a catalogue outlet for Littlewoods and no longer exists, which isn't surprising as the place I was at, the management wouldn't be able to plan to walk through a open doorway, never mind plan a pissup in a brewery and I do mean that.

I was hired as a filing clerk and they never had a filing system before hiring me, but I was told to do a job which had nothing to do with filing and the various filing systems they gave me, they kept changing them at least once or twice a month and even manage to change the filing systems 2 times in 3 days and they never had a filing system or a filing clerk when they kicked me out. Thank god, pity that it won't work for Homebase as well and funny enough, though I worked for a catalogue company, I am working technically for another as Homebase is now owned by Argos.

If that ain't irony, then I don't know what is.

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Tempory Frisker

Nope, Littlewoods bought Index, Argos is part of GUS (General Universal Stores), which bought Homebase from somebody or other who couldn't give a shit about us, who bought us from Sainsburys, which was alright as I got 10 or 20% off my food at Sainsbury.

I hope that clears that up.

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