I'm surrounded by asshats!
 

Get into the office today and someone from HR is complaining to me that an cow-worker is backlogged on his timesheets. Coworker complains that the proper codes are missing from the system so that he can complete his timesheet. HR harrasses me to fix it. I cannot because I don't have access to the payroll system. I only keep the hardware running. I tried to explain that it is my boss and his boss that has root access to our payroll system. HR's respons: *duh... drool...*

Fuck, HR is on my ass again to fucking fix this luser's timesheets. I tried explaining to HR like a mother explains to her toddler son that I DO NOT HAVE the ability to administrate payroll. HR is going to be bugging me all day long and I have a build to complete for a client review on Wends. Hey HR: STFU!

Fuck me! :mad:

Re: I'm surrounded by asshats!
 

Dilbert meets the Far Side?

Re: I'm surrounded by asshats!
 

I got bad news for you.... when that mother explains to her toddler that no we just can't fly up and touch the moon no matter how much you want to, the kid doesn't believe her either the same way HR doesn't believe you! :shotgun:

Grrrr!!!
 

I had to rant before I got in the car, drove to the main office, and laid the smack down on HR.

The VAST majority of the people we, as technicians, deal with are completely in the dark. I've had to finally shift my language that I use with them to being completely mono-syllabic and very emphatic. It's all they understand.

I think Telefunken's example shwos even more cluelessness than usual--if they think he should be able to fix the payroll, that's not a technical misunderstanding, it's a misunderstanding of managment structure. If anybody ought to understand that not just any employee has authorization to go in and futz with the payroll system, it's Human "here's a box, you've got 30 minutes to get your stuff out of our desk" Resources.

I always say, there's a difference between "computer illiterate" and "stupid". A can be corrected, generally, and it doesn't bother me. B is generally, in my experience, chronic. (To say nothing of terminal.)

HR is always the department most resistant to competency.

HR's back to their clueless harrassment. Time to get the Big Foam Cluebat. I have +4 hit points. Off I go to HQ to waste valuable time LART-ing these lamers.

What a waste of goddammed fucking time!

:rattat: :nuke:

How many Cellarites have been canned based on their posts? Just don't name your company bro.

One that I know of--kezdeth.

I don't recall that? Why did he get the axe?

Go back and read his posts, lazy ass! :)

Apparently, the company found out he was making fun of their clients here. And though he never mentioned their names, that was considered a violation of the clients' privacy.

Did Your TPS reports look ok?

Hmmm now why didn't I think of that myself???

Don't you just love it when someone who barely knows how to do their own job tries to tell you how to do yours?

Well...um...Isn't that the way the world works?:confused:

Nah....

Just management

Right, Dag. That's what I meant.:)

I should know
 

I shovel shit at an asshat farm.

Lots of people who claim to know what to do - but not a soul that knows how to do it.

Just like the old saying goes...

Those who can, do.
Those who can't, manage.

Right now, things are kinda weird at work. Our department just expanded from 4 to 11 people. A lot of time has been going to preparing training materials and training the newbies, but the daily work is still coming in. I love my boss, but she's a relative newbie herself (she's only been with the company since Christmas week). And I don't trust her boss (to whom I directly reported for 3 months) at all.

Admittedly, the last month or so has been rather stressful. But I think I finally started breaking out of my funk yesterday. I hope so...I hate it when I wake up in the morning and I have that feeling of dread because I have to go to work.

You mean there's another way???:confused:

Until recently, I was either neutral or stoked about going to work. As a whole, I like my job...almost love it. It pays very well and I enjoy what I do.

This morning, I woke up neutral for the first time in a few weeks...that's a good thing.

That's happened to me recently as well...

I chalk it up to becoming immune to the bullshit.

Becoming immune to the bullshit is sad but necessary, in most cases. What bothers me is the neverending parade of unpleasant surprises that go beyond the bullshit.