You know what really grinds my gears?

[Bmore Irish]

Re: You know what really grinds my gears?

Sounds like the post office

Not the post office.

[l3ulvl]

Re: You know what really grinds my gears?

Not sure what you mean? USPS workers are not only part of a union but have great benefits.

Temporary employees aren't part of the union, at least not when I worked for the post office. The regulars would be lazy and the temps would have to work extra to cover for them, then the regulars would bitch about the temps getting 40+ and file grievances

[kehlis]

Re: You know what really grinds my gears?

Temporary employees aren't part of the union, at least not when I worked for the post office. The regulars would be lazy and the temps would have to work extra to cover for them, then the regulars would bitch about the temps getting 40+ and file grievances

Temps getting treated that way isn't unique to the post office though.

Temps are employees of the temp agency and not whoever they are actually working for.


I will say I didn't know they hired temps though.

[l3ulvl]

Re: You know what really grinds my gears?

Temps getting treated that way isn't unique to the post office though.

Temps are employees of the temp agency and not whoever they are actually working for.


I will say I didn't know they hired temps though.

Maybe "temp" is the wrong word because I didn't go through some agency. We were called "casuals" and I figured since we were only employed temporarily the name fit.

The reason I mentioned USPS specifically was because he said government organization, I was mostly just taking a jab though

[Speedy]

Re: You know what really grinds my gears?

Yeah, that sort of mindset is counterproductive and an outdated way to run a business. Just breeds negative moral, and doesn't really help the bottom line at all. In fact it's the opposite, like you said

Also, it's not like people ever get credit for never calling in lol. I've work at my current job for 5+ years and I've called in maybe 3 times. Yet no one really cares lol. I mean, I don't care either, but it really shouldn't just be expected.

I try to take around 4 sick days per year...whether sick or just "mental health" days. My company gives anybody >5 years (I'm 9 years) 26 weeks of fully paid STD...sick time, actual surgery...it's all lumped together so any sick days I take doesn't affect my PTO hours.

[nc0ffey]

Re: You know what really grinds my gears?

My company gives anybody >5 years (I'm 9 years) 26 weeks of fully paid STD

If they're giving it, I'm glad they're paying for it...but maybe they should be more responsible and use protection.

[Speedy]

Re: You know what really grinds my gears?

If they're giving it, I'm glad they're paying for it...but maybe they should be more responsible and use protection.

It's a company in the Fortune 100.

[ImTellinTim]

Re: You know what really grinds my gears?

Spoiler

[jeremym480]

Re: You know what really grinds my gears?

Having my backyard be mud pit from all of the construction being done grinds my gears. Of course, it wouldn't be so bad if we didn't have four dogs that are consonantly having to wipe muddy paws.

[ImTellinTim]

Re: You know what really grinds my gears?

You're getting a pool in your yard after it's done. We don't wanna hear your complaints.

[jeremym480]

Re: You know what really grinds my gears?

You're getting a pool in your yard after it's done. We don't wanna hear your complaints.

I will post my First World Problems here and you will like it!

[Gotmadskillzson]

Re: You know what really grinds my gears?

I could be wrong but I took that to mean they hire say 2 people at part time to fill an 8 hour work day rather than hire someone as "part time" but make them work 8 hour days.

In retail and other jobs, but mainly retail you have a lot of part time people working 8 hour days. When I worked at Walmart a long time ago, part time people were working 34 hours a week.

[Gotmadskillzson]

Re: You know what really grinds my gears?

Maybe "temp" is the wrong word because I didn't go through some agency. We were called "casuals" and I figured since we were only employed temporarily the name fit.

The reason I mentioned USPS specifically was because he said government organization, I was mostly just taking a jab though

Yeah Post Office hires casuals during the Christmas rush. Your employment is only guaranteed for 60 or 90 days, but if they consider you a good worker they might hire you on as full time. My dad started off as a casual at the Post Office 37 years ago and was made full time. He been there ever since.

Fed Ex and UPS also hire casuals during the Christmas rush.

[l3ulvl]

Re: You know what really grinds my gears?

Yeah Post Office hires casuals during the Christmas rush. Your employment is only guaranteed for 60 or 90 days, but if they consider you a good worker they might hire you on as full time. My dad started off as a casual at the Post Office 37 years ago and was made full time. He been there ever since.

Fed Ex and UPS also hire casuals during the Christmas rush.

Yeah for xmas you get 30 days as a casual and if they choose to bring you back the next year it's 90 days max, what they did for us was take the clerk casuals and lay them off at 89 days and hire them back immediately as mailhandler casuals and make it last all year. My step dad got in that way in the 80s and he's a supervisor/expediter now. I wanted to get in and had to take the civil service exam and somehow bombed it, I still think something screwed up lol, like my scantron was off a line or something because damn I did horrible

[Burns11]

Re: You know what really grinds my gears?

****ing AT&T

My Uverse promos had ended so I had to do the call, mildly threaten to cancel, get back promo dance. Now they want to get people on DirecTV. So I call, do the "I looked at cable prices" crap, and guy comes out of the gate with DirecTV with my internet and phone for $156/month, I ask what sticking with Uverse would cost (don't really want a dish on my house) and he says like $210. Yeesh. So I say I'll have to think about it, he says he noted in my account the offer.

Day later, that price is good and I'd rather not deal with cable especially since Uverse has been stable. So I call, and she says she can't find on my account where there was a note about my offer. She then starts throwing numbers at me, $45 mumble mumble mumble, $20 mumble mumble mumble, $55 mumble mumble mumble, I can't see how he got to that number best I can do is $202 a month. There's no way I'm good with almost $60 of a jump, the ****. So she goes into her dollar mumble spiel and says she can get it to $145 a month, but in 3 months it's going to go up $55. Yeah, thanks. Note that's before they tack on $20 in fees, so in 3 months my bill is going to be $230. My bill had gone up every year, had just crested $200 and I'm just not going any higher.

Ask to speak to supervisor, the guy quoted me $156 so either he ****ed up or this chick didn't know what she was doing. Wait and wait, then finally supervisor gets on, gives me the same quote, then says since I do autopay he can do this, and if I can pass a credit check he can take another $10 off (and I think they were going to try and get me on a two year TV contract, with only one being at a discount). It was all too shady for me, all too damn shady.

So I'm either going to do TWC, or maybe cut the cord but I really don't want to do that until we get some better internet (google fiber is coming as well as AT&T's fiber, and the state is building out fiber on it's own for companies to sell access to, until then it's either 50/5 or a *****ty 75/8). Maybe I will go TWC for a year and by then we'll get some fiber and cut TV service altogether.

*I say ****ty because AT&T does some odd crap with their internet services, like trying to watch some youtube and one video plays fine, another refuses to load, then another video will play fine, and that same one from before will refuse to load. Then it will decide to just drop packets for some reason, and it's not just their copper loop to the fiber because during those times that connection is stable. Do a tracert and sometimes it's fine, sometimes one of AT&T's servers in the chain will just sit there and maybe get to you eventually.