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From: smith972
Date: 01-25-2005, 01:41 PM (1 of 9)
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ARHHHHHHHHH!!!!!!!!!!! You ever feel like going postal at your job......I am having one of those very moments here right now....I want to get up and walk out.....only thing stopping me are the bills that I have to pay...... I love my job most of the time but really dislike the people that i work for....if i could just make them disappear life would be so much eaiser........ i was told today that i was not a team player because i choose to stay at my desk and work while the rest of the office ate pizza in the conference room. When asked why i did not go i told my boss that i am not a social person and prefer to engage in social activities set up and started by me...meaning i pick who and when i socialize...her response was "you're not a team player" what does socializing have to do with being a team player.....ARHHHHHHH!!!! i just needed to vent...now i need to sew...... Jada |
User: smith972
Member since: 09-10-2004 Total posts: 241 
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From: Sewhappie
Date: 01-25-2005, 04:42 PM (2 of 9)
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I was luck enough to have my sewing machine with me at work!!! I WAS a Industrial seamstress, until they sold the company and moved it out of state. Now I'm trying, without much luck, to find another job.  Tell your Boss, to get a life!!!! Since when does not eating with everyone else make someone not a good employee? A "team player" is someone who works with other to get the JOB done, not eat food with!!!! |
User: Sewhappie
Member since: 10-27-2001 Total posts: 1427 |
From: sewingrandma
Date: 01-25-2005, 08:17 PM (3 of 9)
Jada, sounds we had similar days. My coworkers spent the better part of the day in the conference room laughing and joking while I was running around answering the phone, filing, running here and there in addition to doing what is considered my work assignments. And I'm the one that got talked to that I wasn't doing my job! What about the coworker that walked out of the room saying she wasn't going to answer the phone anymore while it was ringing. 
Brockie
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User: sewingrandma
Member since: 03-06-2003 Total posts: 432 |
From: Magot
Date: 01-25-2005, 10:07 PM (4 of 9)
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Why does everybody need to be the same kind of person? I work well as part of a team, but that doesn't mean that I stop to chat all the time - dare I ask if your boss is a bit low on the people skills? we are not all clones of each other, thank heavens, or the work would never get done. I run a team of school lunchladies who are as varied a bunch as you could wish for. We had a new head come and he didn't think one of them was up to the job ( she can't read or write very well and the older kids teased her) so he gradually made her feel as though she was in the wrong job and she left. She was great with the little kids - I could never see what his problem was - we were left with a hole in our team which has not been filled - and had a hard year of it. Frankly, my compassion for someone is not limited to their intellectual ability and I have never been able to understand his attitude - the rest of us could work together as a team and fitted around our differing skills and abilities - that as far as I can see is the skill of a good manager - making the best of the joyous complexity of humankind and dovetailing it together. We all have days when we wish the rest of mankind would go soak it's head in a bucket - and sometimes keeping your head down just doesn't work! Stick in there Jada, sew when you get home and relieve the tensions! 
love and kisses, Jan
Guts-R-Us Cells a Speciality DNA to order. |
User: Magot
Member since: 12-22-2002 Total posts: 3626 
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From: Dede
Date: 01-26-2005, 08:06 AM (5 of 9)
And here I was thinking I was imagining things. I can relate to you guys. My guys have social team activities and kind of forget to invite me. I'm dealing with young lawyers 8hrs/day (I mean young - average is 28) who have everything to prove and give me very little respect. It's even worst since I've been back to work full time. Most of the time I let it slide off my back but lately 'cause I just love what I do but the more I go, the more I look elsewhere for employment. I'm back at the point where I get dizzy when I step in the office and have small panick attacks once in a while ... and everybody seems to think I'm so happy because of that stupid grin hanging on my lips all the time  It's just a matter of time before I update my CV and walk out that door. We're at a point in our lives where we do not need (at least I don't) to put up with that &$%(&^*. Thanks for letting me vent. I feel better now. That smile is back in my face  If they only knew that smile has a name that is not soo pretty  And to answer the question: I don't know why I can't take my SM to work, they just dont understand us.Chin up ladies and have a wonderful day. |
User: Dede
Member since: 03-23-2001 Total posts: 469 |
From: DorothyL
Date: 01-26-2005, 09:25 AM (6 of 9)
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It got so bad with me I quit my day job at the newspaper and went to work for myself, freelance. It cut into the income -- but also the expenses like gas and meals out because I was to tired to cook. Now I work in my sewing room -- or sew in my office. I love it. But I have a long history of working for myself and have developed the self-discipline necessary. I also have a wide network of people that can give me assignments. And I have a profession that lends itself to solitary working conditions. Dorothy |
User: DorothyL
Member since: 12-09-2002 Total posts: 3883 |
From: grandmasue
Date: 01-26-2005, 09:29 AM (7 of 9)
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Just reading the previous posts about the workplace puts a panic attack in my chest! Maybe if I could have had my sewing machine at my last job I would still be there. (of course then I would have stitched that one associates lips shut...) I wish all you ladies a day of peace at work. I couldn't take it anymore and ended up quitting. I now work in a group home for the mentally challenged. They at least have an excuse for the way they behave. Grandma Sue
------------ At the end I am not showing up at my grave all pretty and well preserved...I am coming in sliding, yelling "What a ride!" |
User: grandmasue
Member since: 10-26-2004 Total posts: 138 
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From: Dede
Date: 01-26-2005, 01:37 PM (8 of 9)
You won't believe what just happened: An ex-employee just called me. She left the firm to go work for a client. She invited me to apply for a position in her department. Another ex-employee also works there and is in charge of that department. Guess who will be calling their HR department this afternoon; She is advising her HR manager to expect my call. 
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User: Dede
Member since: 03-23-2001 Total posts: 469 |
From: Magot
Date: 01-26-2005, 04:17 PM (9 of 9)
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I hope things work out well for you, Dede. Good Luck or , as I say to my daughter going to exams, Adequate preparation for a statisical universe.
love and kisses, Jan
Guts-R-Us Cells a Speciality DNA to order. |
User: Magot
Member since: 12-22-2002 Total posts: 3626
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