#work gripes

[all-the-things-2020]

This badge is supposed to symbolize surviving the summer but I choose to display it to celebrate surviving the shit show that has been the first month of school. Lack of communication between district and admin and boots on the ground, infernally hot weather, a weird and ultimately stupid health scare, my first period in 4 months (just as I was starting to think I was FINALLY approaching actual menopause) and two earthquakes this morning have made for a very interesting few weeks.

Needless to say, I haven’t written a thing for several weeks and my creative bandwidth is about as narrow as Hank Hill’s urethra (I tell you whut).

[mbrainspaz]

Losing my mind over these horse stable boarders who keep putting their horses in the wrong stalls with no water and just leaving. Tf am I supposed to do? Stalk them every day to make sure they don’t neglect their own animals? Then they want their horses brought inside when the weather is perfectly ok because ‘they’ve been outside long enough.’ Hun these are HORSES. They live outside!!! Oop no she’s gone again and yep her horse is in the wrong stall with no water. 🤦🏻

And I get to clean an extra stall tomorrow instead of catching up on other stuff. Not like we’re understaffed or anything.

[descartesthinksnot]

Things that are not addresses, since customers seem to have trouble with this step of the process:

The name of a hotel

The name of a street with no additional details

An intersection

"The airport"

[meeko-mar]

Hey friends, concerning Inktober

As we get a little deeper into October, and all the art challenges this month, I am really coming to the reluctant conclusion that I am going to have to pull out of Inktober this year. This is due to the fact that I have a big commission in the works that I need to devote time to, as well as the fact that I just cannot get a break from work and have been working at full time hours and subbing in for positions that physically do not not work for me and leave me exhausted most of the time. Since work is being so overbearing in my life, with such horrible timing, I need to take a poker or two out of the fire. Sadly, that's going to have to be Inktober. I need all my drawing time I get to be focused on this project. I am really overall upset that work has turned out this way, and until I get some damn time off, I unfortunately won't be able to draw much in the way of recreational or personal things. Also find myself fantasizing about dropping the job and actually being a freelancer, but the financial situation ain't quite there yet... I will still update when I have a moment with nice scans of the pieces I have already done, as well as my patreon and deviant art, but that's about all i can see myself getting to in terms of the challenges this month. And now, appropriately, I leave you there as I have to leave...for work.

[thecircushasarrived]

You ever just receive an email so fucking stupid you take yourself on a walk in order to avoid being replying with what you think?

[terminallyvulpine]

Guess who is

Stressed :3

Normal driver is on holiday again (we just had a full week off, dude, why you gotta go for some weird jank ass set of days)

Driver I got put with today got stuck behind our bin trucks or smith, so picked me up late.

He did not know

Anything about where we were going because our boss is kinda not good at telling people things.

I found out about 17 hours ago that I would even be working today. This happens every time. At least the last people I got put with got given the addresses. . .

But this guy goes the way he thinks he should go. I don't know that it's gonna cause problems because I don't know shit. I just know I gotta tell him directions once we get close to pickups.

We basically do them in reverse.

So we're late to pick up the kid who is usually first. They get driven to school by a family member. A family member who gets stern with me after seeing us at the school.

I contemplate turning on the waterworks if it goes further than that.

Worse in feeling but ultimately easier to deal with is that there's a lockdown. Vehicles come in, no unloading until the road is filled, nobody leaves until everybody is gone. New guy, who does not normally do dropoffs there, just left. I tried telling him to stop. I explained what was going on. He just went anyway.

To do his normal run.

And I'm just like

aaaaaaaaa

[cowinatrenchcoat]

Cannot stand it when people just send a "hi" or "quick question" on teams or slack and then wait for you to acknowledge them before getting on with their ask. Just get to the point! I'm not responding until you give me something to respond to!

The worst is later if I'm on a call with someone and they say, "did you see my message? I tried tonreach out with a question."

Oh, you mean the "Hello" you sent with no follow up? Yes, I saw it. But it didn't seem to hold any information for me to respond to so I didn't.

[batmantaking-hobbits2gallifrey]

I want so badly to show you the way my coworker writes email subject lines this latest one is twenty words, not even really a sentence, and repeats the same word 4 times