Gearing up for another storm season

wilderz

Shared on Sun, 06/11/2006 - 06:07
Well its summer in Florida and you know what that means? Hurricane Season wheeeeee.....  Actually weve been very fortunate in Bradenton; havent had one storm hit us yet.  There is already a tropical depression forming however, and may get our way next week.  All the meteologists are saying that it shouldnt amount to much, but I really dont pay a whole lot of attention to them as they seem to be about as accurate with their predictions as I am at not hitting the rim when pissing in the middle of the night.

Finally had my yearly eval at work (30+ days past due) I received my yearly increase..if you want to call it that.  It really pisses me off that we have employees that make probably close to 100k/year and do little else but talk on the phone, email people, and take 3 hour lunches.  Yes, Im talking about my boss.  We are so slammed and understaffed (Home health care company in Florida), and our boss who is nick-named waste-of -flesh by a few peeps here, attempts to help out, but always has to leave for a lunch meeting or has some other lame ass excuse as to why she just couldnt help us out.  I actually heard her talking to an employee and said "I dont know where the day went, I just feel like Im spinning my wheels and getting nothing done".  Thats because you took a three hour lunch you dumb trollop, and then sat in your office talking to the senior account manager for two hours while he tried to find new and creative ways to shove his nose up your ass!  Oh well, I suppose I should be thankful to have a job, its just hard to sit back and watch.  Last week we had a person come down from our corportate office to assess the situation and to help us tweak our processes.  You see, Ive been doing HR, and trying to run the clerical functions of the office.  If it wasnt for SUpimp stepping up and helping me out, Id be fucked.  So the visit went very well,and he made a ton of good suggestions on how to expedite the paperwork.  Pimp actually overheard him on the phone with some other corporate entity stating: "she doesnt do anything all day, how could she"?!  I believe he was talking about my boss, WOF (waste of flesh).  I say this because on Monday when he first arrived, my boss could not answer one question from him without asking me or another staff member for the answer.  As I said earlier I think she got chewed out by the higher ups, as she plans on coming in on Monday on her scheduled day off to come help us get payroll caught up for a few hours.  She would NEVER volunteer to come in on a day off to help.  So maybe this will light a fire under her ass and make her realize she isnt as untouchable as she thought.

Anyways, enough of that tripe. 

My stepbrother is coming to visit for the day.  I have not seen this dude in over 10 years.  Im pretty pumped as he is a cool shit thats into drinkin beers, and  playing games.  I dont know if he has played the 360 yet, so Im going to show him that.  Also, were going to rent some wave runners this afternoon and tool around some small barrrier islands here.  Should be a lot of fun and am looking forward to it.  Well its almost 7:00am here; had to get up early to let the puppy out and get her some breakfast.  So, Im going to play some COD2.  I rented this yesterday and found out to unlock achievements you have to play at the veteran level.  Needless to say its taken me almost a whole day to get through the first two levels.  Lots of fun, put very hard at times.

Out.

Comments

SweetMeef's picture
Submitted by SweetMeef on Sun, 06/11/2006 - 09:51
I used to have a boss like that. I work at BellSouth telephone company and used to have to compile weekly reports for a corporate meeting my boss went to. Each week Id spend a few hours getting all the reports together, and email them to my boss and the area manager that is over our district. So one day boss came in and said, "Send the report to me so I can look it over first, and Ill send it to ." In other words, "let me take the credit for compiling this report--definitely rubbed me the wrong way. Boss ended up getting the shaft on the yearly bonus, so it wasnt a secret that they werent pulling their weight. The department I work in now (engineering) is awesome and I have the coolest boss ever. Also, my Aunt-in-law lives in Bradenton. I feel your pain about the hurricanes. We (BellSouth) get ridiculously busy when we have to go fix everything that got wrecked. Last year we sent about 1/5 of our engineering work force down to MS to help fix all that. We cover LA, MS, AL, and FL, so you can imagine that well be busy if another one comes. Stay outta dodge! -Meef
KingDrewsky's picture
Submitted by KingDrewsky on Thu, 06/15/2006 - 07:53
Sounds like you had a corporate efficiency expert come visit. Typically, a round of firings follow soon after one of those. Lets hope that first on the chopping block is WOF.

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