things that make you go "bitch!"

JazmenFlowers · #1 03-25-2007, 01:29 AM

got something you hate about your job or something related to your job that you want to get off your chest? let 'er rip.

I'll go first. I hate that I have to bill. for those of you not familiar with the legal world and billing, in law firms, attorneys and paralegals must account for their time worked on a case so that the client can be billed and the firm can be paid. so, you see how important it is, but you also can understand how taxing it can be to keep up with 20 mins here, 5 mins there and this phone call and that email...and then enter it into a program at the end of the day...omg. I hate it.

amber · #2 03-25-2007, 01:49 AM

^^^

In my law office management and procedures class, I learned that you have to spend all day keeping track of your time. You have to keep track of every second. And some bill in 15 minute increments, and some in six minutes, and blah. It seemed to me that just keeping track of your "productivity" would be a huge drain on your productivity. Like, you're on the phone, and everything is fast, and you work on stuff and then switch what you are working on, at any moment, and you're supposed to keep track of that shizz. Good lawd. Oh, and you are reviewed on your client time v. your other time. It was a whole heinous chapter that scared the **** out of me.

Okay, at my job...my boss is nearly retarded. He can't read, and he can't remember things for more than 20 seconds, if that. He's really nice. But...he really can't practically read. I bring him stuff, and say "so this says such and such" encapsulating it for him, to make it easy. But no, instead, he has to read it himself, which takes 45 times longer than anyone else who has ever read anything.
Also, he tells me to do things that I have been doing for years, and that were incredibly simple in the first place, and says "do you see what I'm saying?" afterwords.

You ****ing told me to order paper, dude, which I've been doing for three years, and in which none of the words involved are hard to understand. Look, I'm not like you, I remember things, and can read.
It drives me over the edge. All I do is order paper and supplies, and do A/R. So why would someone say "order paper for this job" and then ask if I understood? Like, which part is confusing? Order. Paper. For. Job.

Seriously, I'm not like you, boss, I can remember for more than forty seconds, and things like "ordering paper" and "reading" and "remembering things" aren't complex for me like they are for you. Serious.
I'm sure any who know me can understand how slow ready, repeat himself, never remember anything boss would be frustrating to me.

JazmenFlowers · #3 03-25-2007, 01:56 AM

yeah, you're billable time vs. your admin time really effects the chances of a decent raise each year. it also determines who's "valuable" in the firm...

and what pisses me off is when I see how much money I make the firm vs. how much I get paid. I think I make my firm $250K per year. yeah. go figure.

and your boss sounds like a total ****tard.

amber · #4 03-25-2007, 02:20 AM

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yeah, you're billable time vs. your admin time really effects the chances of a decent raise each year. it also determines who's "valuable" in the firm...

and what pisses me off is when I see how much money I make the firm vs. how much I get paid. I think I make my firm $250K per year. yeah. go figure.

and your boss sounds like a total ****tard.

Yeah, that's what I got from my class. We had to make a whole earnings spreadsheet, and calculate who made what for the firm, and all the shizz.

He's not a f*cktard, is the whole problem. He's so nice, just hella dumb. He understands printing, though. His dad owned the shop before him. He thinks okay in pictures, just not anything else.
I have to breath deep and rearange my face to talk to him. There is however, another ****tard who works in my office. He's the main admin guy. He played drums for USC on the Tusk recording. He thinks he knows more than everyone, and is so clever, but he's so not funny, and likes to say how FM is lame, and how Mick is a hack drummer, and how everyone at USC thought Mick was lame, and blah. You know those guys who like punk who think they are too cool for everything, even though punk barely has any actual musicality? Yeah, that's him. Oh, and of course, every one of those three guys in my office talks over the other, and thinks they're saying something more clever, when none of them are.
Turd. Fest.

strandinthewind · #5 03-25-2007, 08:21 AM

I HATE having to keep time. But, if I were getting paid the hourly amount they actually billed me at, I'd like it alot more

As for bitching - when people miss a turn while driving and, instead of owning it and just driving around the block, they's rather invonvenience everyone else and cut across lanes of traffic and then BACK UP - FUKCTARDS

markolas · #6 03-25-2007, 09:28 AM

I resent the fact that I even have a job. I want to go back to school this year, and I need to get the ball rolling on that. I'm not sure how much longer I'm going to last at my current job. Processing annuitization requests has got to be the most boring thing ever. At first, they thought I was pretty good at it, but after three months, my performance is starting to slip.

SortaSavageLike · #7 03-25-2007, 10:15 AM

When the Alien Queen is chasing my surrogate daughter through the bowels of my spaceship and I'm trying to stop her in my groovy yellow powerloader. I hate it when that happens!

LikeAWillow · #8 03-25-2007, 10:38 AM

God I could use a good chance to work bitch, thanks for the thread, Jazzy

So the other day, my manager Karen calls me into the office and informs me that the department of human resources wants her to write me up. She was choosing instead to give me a verbal warning but if I "repeated my offense" there would be serious action taken. Would anyone like to know what horrible wrong I committed? I took a 12 minute break instead of a full 15 because the desk was absolutely pounded with business and I felt horrible leaving them briefly understaffed.

markolas · #9 03-25-2007, 10:49 AM

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God I could use a good chance to work bitch, thanks for the thread, Jazzy

So the other day, my manager Karen calls me into the office and informs me that the department of human resources wants her to write me up. She was choosing instead to give me a verbal warning but if I "repeated my offense" there would be serious action taken. Would anyone like to know what horrible wrong I committed? I took a 12 minute break instead of a full 15 because the desk was absolutely pounded with business and I felt horrible leaving them briefly understaffed.

I cannot stand micromanagement crap like that. I've had jobs where I've had to deal with being bitched out for being six minutes late, and I typically quit after a month or two, usually without giving any notice.

LikeAWillow · #10 03-25-2007, 10:55 AM

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I cannot stand micromanagement crap like that. I've had jobs where I've had to deal with being bitched out for being six minutes late, and I typically quit after a month or two, usually without giving any notice.

It's so ridiculous. The only reason I'm still there is because I don't have my drivers license and my best friend works there also, meaning I get a free ride each day. If there was a place close to home that I could walk to, I'd be gone in a second. And you're right, f*ck giving them notice

carrie721 · #11 03-25-2007, 10:59 AM

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God I could use a good chance to work bitch, thanks for the thread, Jazzy

So the other day, my manager Karen calls me into the office and informs me that the department of human resources wants her to write me up. She was choosing instead to give me a verbal warning but if I "repeated my offense" there would be serious action taken. Would anyone like to know what horrible wrong I committed? I took a 12 minute break instead of a full 15 because the desk was absolutely pounded with business and I felt horrible leaving them briefly understaffed.

OMG.

i ****ing hate that kind of bureaucratic bull****.

JazmenFlowers · #12 03-25-2007, 11:36 AM

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I have to breath deep and rearange my face to talk to him.

must.remember.this.tip.

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Originally Posted by LikeAWillow

God I could use a good chance to work bitch, thanks for the thread, Jazzy

So the other day, my manager Karen calls me into the office and informs me that the department of human resources wants her to write me up. She was choosing instead to give me a verbal warning but if I "repeated my offense" there would be serious action taken. Would anyone like to know what horrible wrong I committed? I took a 12 minute break instead of a full 15 because the desk was absolutely pounded with business and I felt horrible leaving them briefly understaffed.

wow. that is some serious bull****. what did you say? did your manager say anything about it being BS?

LikeAWillow · #13 03-25-2007, 11:58 AM

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must.remember.this.tip.

wow. that is some serious bull****. what did you say? did your manager say anything about it being BS?

My manager said that she hated doing things like that but insisted that they were necessary and I just kind of shrugged and said, "Alright, next time we're swamped, I'll make sure I stay away as long as possible." Of course that got me another 5 minutes of lecturing.

carrie721 · #14 03-25-2007, 12:17 PM

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My manager said that she hated doing things like that but insisted that they were necessary and I just kind of shrugged and said, "Alright, next time we're swamped, I'll make sure I stay away as long as possible." Of course that got me another 5 minutes of lecturing.

lame child labor laws. those stupid breaks were the most frustrating thing when i was working in HS. if i'm working a 5 hr shift or whatever, i don't want to waste 15 minutes of it taking a break

markolas · #15 03-25-2007, 12:21 PM

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Of course that got me another 5 minutes of lecturing.

Oh, hell no. I would've turned around and walked out. I put up with crap like that in junior high because I didn't have a choice; I'll be damned if I'm going to put up with it now. I am not 13, and you will not talk to me like I am.