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[Golfhaus]

One of my coworkers adopted a baby and left on FMLA leave for three months. She returned for three weeks, and is quitting on Friday to go to another job that she hopes is more fulfilling than ours. She is one of three people in our department who does what we do (I, obviously, am another). Last week, I wrote to my boss asking what the plan was for replacing her. She said she had no idea. I told her that I was concerned her plan would be "give him all her work." So today, she cracked jokes about that being her plan. I'm concerned that it will, in face, become her plan. The whole company is under pressure to cut costs, and not filling the position would take a decent chunk out of our budget. I love my boss, I'd take a bullet for her, but between that, the baby coming, and the financial pressure I'm under, I'm one piece of bad news away from a nervous fuck*ng breakdown.

[Doc]

One of my coworkers adopted a baby and left on FMLA leave for three months. She returned for three weeks, and is quitting on Friday to go to another job that she hopes is more fulfilling than ours. She is one of three people in our department who does what we do (I, obviously, am another). Last week, I wrote to my boss asking what the plan was for replacing her. She said she had no idea. I told her that I was concerned her plan would be "give him all her work." So today, she cracked jokes about that being her plan. I'm concerned that it will, in face, become her plan. The whole company is under pressure to cut costs, and not filling the position would take a decent chunk out of our budget. I love my boss, I'd take a bullet for her, but between that, the baby coming, and the financial pressure I'm under, I'm one piece of bad news away from a nervous fuck*ng breakdown.

Tell her you'll take on the work for a rise equal to half the departing co-worker's pay. Still a good saving there.
Was there anyone covering for her while she was on leave? Couldn't they be kept on? Or is this where the grand plan originated.

[Golfhaus]

Tell her you'll take on the work for a rise equal to half the departing co-worker's pay. Still a good saving there.
Was there anyone covering for her while she was on leave? Couldn't they be kept on? Or is this where the grand plan originated.

Bingo... you're looking at the guy who did the covering. Me and the other guy, but he's been there forever and did a half-ass job with the parts he covered, so she won't add to his workload permanently.

[Doc]

What's the thing that's going to happen to Golfhaus at work.... SHAFT!

[CortJstr]

Something very similar happened with the accounting department at my work. They lost 2 or 3 people, plus the CFO and naturally only the CFO was replaced. So everybody else started sandbagging until they hired more people. Although that couldn't work at all with just 2 people.

[Lister]

In the past year, five people have left* the team I am on, and I have been the only person hired to replace them, even though our "head count" technically would allow for at least two more.  Reading the writing on the wall, I may very well be the last person hired to work on my project, which is kind of disheartening.  As soon as our clients figure out the company's cut our product off, they'll be gone.

I love my job, but it is complex and I'm still trying to get the hang of keeping up a normal pace, much less one that is five times as efficient as one person.  Given that there are eight of us total now in a position that used to keep 25 busy... it's tough not to think about it.

Oh yeah, the reason I haven't posted here in like 2 weeks is because we're not moving our upcoming release date, despite the fact that there is no physical product to cause problems.  Half the team, two weeks cut from the schedule, and we get to "just figure out a way to make it work."  I LOVE self-actualization!

*Three went to other companies, two were moved up to management to replace other people who left.  Other teams at our company have been hit even worse.  Sometimes I wonder if upper management has ever wondered why they can't keep anyone any more.  Other times I'm pretty certain they don't care.

[Golfhaus]

Still no update on what the plan is, but I did get offered the use of her car. She lives in Tennessee, and spends probably half of her work weeks in cities other than ours. She replaces tires more often than she should, not because they wear out, but because they rot from weeks at a time in a parking lot without being used. Since we're a one-car family after my car bit the dust, she asked if I would be willing to use hers on the days/weeks that she's out of town.

These are the kinds of weird things that go on in my work that make it impossible to have a "fuck this, I quit" moment. I may get a shitload of work dumped on me, but that happens in every job, especially in the tough times. Not every job has your boss say "You need a car, I need someone to drive this one. Let's solve each other's problem."

Since I won't have to carpool on these days, it works out to an hour of extra sleep for me in the morning.

[Carlos del Vaca]

Good Christ almighty, my job is just a big motherfuckin' bag of stupid sometimes.
 
I won't bore you with the details, except to say:  new college hires.  Holy shit.  Those of you about to graduate:  don't go to your first job and then do fuck*ng stupid things.

[pmcd9]

Bore us?  We live for stories of stupid people doing stupid things.  Please  bore us.

[Arachno-capitalist]

Good Christ almighty, my job is just a big motherfuckin' bag of stupid sometimes.
 
I won't bore you with the details, except to say:  new college hires.  Holy shit.  Those of you about to graduate:  don't go to your first job and then do fuck*ng stupid things.

Wait, so i cant do 79% of the work and pass? Thats a C+/B- job, dude, give me a break, ill make up for it at finals.

[littlefallsmets]

Ultimately, I'm just pissed off that we're living on the other side of the mirror.

Trying to pretend the last sixty years of progress didn't happen is rebellious?

The news mistakes stating all sides of an issue neutrally as "reporting" instead of... you know... finding out what's going on and saying that.

The way we're demographically defined into our own smaller and smaller worlds, leaving the shared reality ignored and exploited by whoever's cruel enough to take it.

I don't know.

It's not that the bad guys win when the good guys do nothing.

It's that the bad guys win when the good guys are all really really into their little fuck*ng side projects.

Ah. You know me. I am, like the rest of the race, prone to paranoid ramblings at night.

[wombat]

Wait, so i cant do 79% of the work and pass? Thats a C+/B- job, dude, give me a break, ill make up for it at finals.

Wow, this explains a lot.

[Carlos del Vaca]

Dear co-workers who handle documentation,

No, you don't have to spell out every acronym the first time it appears in a document.  That shit is overrated.  Please don't ask me what "SQL" stands for, just leave it as "SQL," because you will actually confuse more people if you spell it out.  And if our customers don't know what the three-letter acronym for their own agency stands for, they have bigger problems.

Thank you,
Carlos

[CortJstr]

I don't understand clock radios at all. I had to comparison shop forever to find one that doesn't function as a nightlight because the damn display is so bright.

I finally found a Sangean and it turns out the radio doesn't work. It can't pick up the single most powerful station in the area unless I'm holding the antenna wire. Yet the shitty radio in my shower pulls it in just fine. Oh, and it doesn't have a battery back-up because they claim it's not necessary since it's a self-setting atomic clock. Except there's apparently no signal here. And who wants a 5-minute snooze?

Dammit, a non-shittastic clock radio should not be this hard to find.

[Arachno-capitalist]

I don't understand clock radios at all. I had to comparison shop forever to find one that doesn't function as a nightlight because the damn display is so bright.

Dammit, a non-shittastic clock radio should not be this hard to find.

I have a timex clock/radio/cd thing that has an orange display with a dimmer dial, so the light brightness is adjustable. It also has the "play the radio/cd for 30/45/60... minutes then turn off" sleep mode that i love.