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I can't even rant. It's that bad. I may have to go home early.


Seriously.


Are you effing kidding me?

We must know.

Right. You just want to see the game...

He just found out:
1) Elvis is truly dead
2) Tabasco is made in New Jersey

There's this guy in my dept who:
1. is getting divorced and takes over an hour off every week during work hours for counseling.

There's another guy in my dept who:
1. gets an allergy shot and leaves 1 1/2 hrs early one day a week every week of the year.

There's another guy in my dept who:
1. teaches some martial arts class that he set the schedule for and scheduled it so he leaves 15-30 mins early one day a week every week of the year so he can be there on time.

There's another guy in my dept who:
1. travels quite a bit for weekend trips and calls in sick every Monday after one of his weekends away.

Here's the thing: IT'S ALL THE SAME FRIGGIN GUY.

He's also the guy who goes out to lunch with some buddy of his every single Thursday and comes back between 5 and 15 mins late--every time (We get an hour lunch.) So today being Thursday, and we happen to be short handed, just me and our mgr on the phones and the mgr asks where everybody is. Me; "Well, it's Thursday, so it's super-dix lunch day."
"Oh, yeah."
So who strolls in his customary 15 mins late?

<crickets>

Seriously. Not a single word from the mgr.

Then, from the source, "You won't believe why I'm late. Apparently, every employee of almost every Chinese restaurant in the area got deported again. We had to drive to 4 different restaurants before we found one open."

What? Are you kidding me? Here's a novel idea.

HEY, GENIUS. TRY EATING SOMETHING ELSE AND GETTING YOUR A$$ BACK TO WORK.

Problem is he's got our mgr so sucked into the drama of his divorce (mgr is one of those save the world types) that he doesn't do anything about it. And our performance reviews are next week and I don't want to be "Not a Team Player".

It's nothing new, but for some reason it really got to me today.

Sounds like your managers the one that sucks, not this guy. He's just taking what the managers giving him (although he's obviously taking advantage of the manager)

Sounds like a great place to work.

Learn to game the system, man.

cardinalkarp wrote:Sounds like your managers the one that sucks, not this guy. He's just taking what the managers giving him (although he's obviously taking advantage of the manager)

and the rest of the team. We used to be pretty self-policing before the new mgr took over and we lost a couple of guys. And we got moved right next to HR now and can't bust balls like we used to.

That's why I'm thinking I'm going to start getting my share too. Like maybe catch a ballgame today.

Hungary Jack wrote:Sounds like a great place to work.

Learn to game the system, man.

You know, you're right. I shouldn't complain. I get to hang out on GRB most of the day. Maybe the rest of my dept's really pissed at me and I've been oblivious to it this whole time.


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Sounds like you have a chance at winning a discrimination lawsuit since you have case for being a: married-hypoallergenic-nonmartialarts-on time kind of a guy.

Send me a portion of your winnings...thanks!