Random Fail: First World Problems

[Astylla]

Melena drinks a ton of water and I never drink it and rarely get leg cramps so go figure.

I've been wondering why my tailbone issues have been bothering me more last few days - when I started this new job I forgot to bring my bottle of 800mg ibuprofen to take in the morning. Lesson learned.

[Xno Kappa]

I remember when I was in Iraq and I actually over-hydrated.

[Melena]

Late to the responses, but yeah I already drink a ton of water, and then typically a pint to top it off before I go to bed when I down my daily anti vertigo medication. Only thing that sucks is I have one of those bladders that decides the slightest bit of liquid in it means it's time to pee. Every other night, i'm up between 1am-3am needing to piss.

[dasva]

Fuck this Friday. First have to go in and do my stress. Good news is nothing is wrong with my heart bad news still don't know what's wrong with me.

Other good news is apparently I lasted the 2nd longest of anyone they had do it but I still feel like shit because if you aren't first you're last. I could have actually gone longer but I was taking into account how bored I had gotten because someone had turned the volume down on Ted, the fact that I was holding up work, and that after this I was immediately going to do a bunch of lifting so didn't want to be extra sweaty and tired. Plus the gal who put on my sensors kept pinching my love handles. Geez I get it I need to lose some more you have minor acne leave me alone.

Then on the way to job ran into traffic because some idiot decided to drive his semi-trailer straight into the side of a building on the only road going that way... so of course we hit traffic coming back.

Then got back to the office and had to try and rush the days work in only an hour left.... and of course the boss told 3 customers they could come in a few minutes late and of course the guy that normally handles them was not around and of course one of them was some guy that was so decrepit it literally took him 5 minutes to drive 15 feet to the truck to watch us do the another 5 to repark the car another 5 to walk the 10 feet to the office and about 10 minutes to read the receipt before signing it... with the other customers standing their waiting.

[Zealot]

I've been working as a contractor for my government agency for over a year and a half now. I have an active assignment open that is due to the Supreme Court on Monday.

Came in from walking my dog at 8PM tonight to a phone call saying my contract had expired, don't go to work on Monday.

[Kalmado]

Literally thought I was going to die today. Had some out of town shopping and while on the highway (sleeting hardcore) a semi decides it's time to push me off the road because he wants my lane. Only two lane and I literally thought I was going into the median strip. My heart hasn't beat that fast and hard in a long time. Round trip of around 170 miles and numerous accidents with some looking like certain fatalities. Scary day on the Michigan highways.

Fails by other people while at Micro Center:

Guy was picking up an Asus Crosshair Hero VI (AM4). It was open box and said complete but was missing I/O shield so he was upset. Understandable. MGMT said they'd give him a gracious 40% off and he was going to turn it down. I would've bought that board in a second even though I have zero intention to buy Ryzen at the moment.

Another guy was buying a TV and wanted to price match. It's at Micro Center's discretion to price match but they are usually cool with it if it's a big money item. Manager says she will but cannot wave sales tax. Understandable right? Kicker was, it was a Frys sales ad. We don't have a Frys within a six hour drive of us so this bastard was lucky to even get the price match. He literally started whining about them not covering the sales tax. MGMT stayed firm so the guy says, "Well, it's not for me. It's for my friend that's here. I have to go ask him." WTF...

[Ksandra]

So, awhile back our school hired some people to rebuild our website since our old one was outdated. They got these people to set it all up, but apparently there was drama regarding them following what some people wanted on the site (I wasn't part of that, so I don't know all the specifics, though I do know the admin was right on some stuff, and the web people were right on other stuff). In any case, the web people finished and handed over the site to the school to update ourselves. Editing capabilities was given to myself, another English teacher, and our tech guy.

I haven't had time to mess with it, but I have been building my teacher site on google sites and wanted to link it on the staff page. I go to it today and realize I couldn't add it easily. Why? The people who made the staff page made it as ONE GIANT FUCKING IMAGE with all our photos and names. So in order to link it I had to delete the image and upload all the staff people as actual separate widgets with their text next to them. Like, I have no professional background in webspaces, but it wasn't all that fucking hard, you would think professionals that get paid to do this shit would know better. I mean, did they not get that staff members come and go, so we would need to add/remove images?

As if I don't have enough to do, but now I feel like I gotta go through the whole site to see what other stupid shit they did.


I should also mention that their widget system is 99% like google sites (possible this is the new thing, idk, again I am not a professional by any means), so I am going to find out if they are still doing some kind of subscription payment to these people because they could have made the exact same shit and have it hosted for free.

[Melena]

First Lyft passenger of the night reeked so bad of weed I thought I was going to vomit.

[Zetanio]

First Lyft passenger of the night reeked so bad of weed I thought I was going to vomit.

Wat.
Get free weed and alleviate all those aches brah.

[Melena]

Wat.
Get free weed and alleviate all those aches brah.

Meh, smoked it once, did nothing for me. Probably didn't help I was shit faced drunk at the time.

[Zetanio]

Meh, smoked it once, did nothing for me. Probably didn't help I was shit faced drunk at the time.

It's legal there. You have many aches. It will help.

[Astylla]

Wat.
Get free weed and alleviate all those aches brah.

He couldn't use it if he wanted to because the smell of ANY KIND makes me so sick - headaches , nauseated, you name it. I've had to change train cars on public transit on multiple occasions and carry travel perfume spray with me for that reason. Actually had a Lyft ride to the train station today and the other person stunk of that stuff. Longest ride ever.

[Jefe]

Holy shit, dude. This week was pretty rough. I had a shitton of hw to turn in, all kindz of reports for the different labs, a brutal test in electronics, some more hw due next monday. Slept 4-5 hours a day tops. AYAYAYAYAYAY! HOWEVER, I was invited to be part of this aereospace club thinggy, so I get to mess around w/ satellites and military drones type-o-shit. Y'all nerds getting tracked and exposed.

[Eldelphia]

I drink so much water.

In addition to the several cups at work, I drink a glass immediately after getting home, another glass as I let the dog out/putz around/play with the dog, have a water bottle with me on my bike, a glass in addition to the water bottle after I'm done on the bike, a glass as I make dinner, a glass or two with dinner, a glass before bed. I'm only home for about 4 hours before I go to bed. After all that I still go through 2-3 glasses of water while I'm in bed.

It might be a need for salt or w/e the hell is in bananas. Potassium? Magnesium? One of those. Can cause cramp.

[Vandalhart]

So, I'm not sure how to parse my feelings on this.

Last week I found out that a person who was hired after me was promoted ahead of me. We have been waiting for our company to structure our department properly so we had a ladder to climb for years now, and they seem to have done that, but my boss put a coworker in for promotion ahead of me.

I was on vacation so I met my manager for lunch and all he had to say was that they were ready for a promotion (meaning they were performing at a senior level already) and therefore put in for it and I was not. He also stated that the main reason he felt I wasn't up to snuff was because of my communication skills. I'm going to meet with him at the office this week once I'm back from vacation to see his examples of what he meant by it. He mentioned 4 on the month of November, but nothing more than that. I personally, think it's an aberration, but I guess I'll find out next week. He said I was like 90% of the way there, but this one issue was the reason. I'm just not sure how to deal with it. I'm not mad at me co-worker or even at my company at this point, I'm just a little frustrated with myself and kind of angry with my boss. There was no talk of communication issues outside of my annual reviews, and they only happen once a year, in the new year.

He also tried to sell it to me that at least we have a structure to the department and that's a win. He's right, but I'm finding it hard to take it as something to be pleased about when I was passed over for a promotion.

I mean, am I being a bit of a drama king here? Is it normal for companies to require you to do the job/promotion your aiming for before you get it?

This is the only company I've kind of worked for in this field and I've been there for 10 years. The person who got promoted has been there 9 years, and at the moment we aren't 100% responsible for the same things in terms of job responsibilities. They've been taking on the task of estimating time required for tasks, and managing or working with our offsite third party art person. I've been responsible with learning new and emerging programs, then transferring that knowledge to the rest of the team. I've also been responsible for training all our new hires since we've double the team in the last 16 months. We're both responsible for optimizing and porting game assets to various development platforms our company uses , but I'm the only person on the team who can open the program and actually create assets within it. Any and all new tools for both the Graphic Art team and our team go through me first. Am I having a bit of an ego trip here or am I completely wrong in thinking that my skills are as important as the others?

[Zetanio]

Is it normal for companies to require you to do the job/promotion your aiming for before you get it?

Not really. I can understand a manager's reticence to promote based on communication though. I would be very careful how you react when he presents his thoughts to you.

If you end up being right and he's not treating you equally than shop around and try get an offer from somewhere else at a higher pay or structural level. Bring that to your boss, ask him to match it or guarantee you the next promotion to match. That's a clear indicator of motivation.

You may or may not be ego tripping, it doesn't matter. He may be leery of promoting you because it'll toss a wrench into his perceived ideal setup for the department, which you seem to be integral to.

[Ksandra]

That bites dude. I would say it could go either way. For one: 9/10 years to me sounds so long they may not even have that under to consideration about who came first. But I would be frustrated going 10 years at a company with no promotion period. I agree with Zet. If it is important to you (and it should be) search around for better offers and see if your company is willing to match. If not, might be refreshing going to a new place.

[Vandalhart]

Yeah, I'm just not sure how to deal with it. He was pretty clear that seniority had nothing to do with it. To me, it should have had a little something to do with it.

I'm not mad at the person who got promoted. I mean, how could I do that? They are doing their job well, and deserve a promotion. There were limited slots available for promotions and there was another person who also got promoted. They are a new part of our team (2-3 years) but are the sole person doing that particular type of job. I have started, and in the future will be working with them more closely to create tools for the team to use for work down the road.

The issue I'm having now is that, aside from myself, I'm getting frustrated at my boss for what seems like he doesn't have the faith that I can do the senior job position when I'm doing so many other things that benefit the group that I would think it balances out.

At least my boss is an understanding individual. Even in the lunch meeting we had to discuss the situation (which was short), he had patience and understood where I was coming from. It's not that I went in there and tried to tear down the person who did get promoted either. Like I said, they deserve it just as much as I do. I did express a little frustration in the fact that I stepped back or didn't press the issue when they were being asked to start doing the time estimation stuff. It's not something I particularly care to do, but if I had thought it could have lead to a promotion faster I would have delved into it more.

I've always had the ability to take in information , process it, and spread teachings to other people. I also have a knack for solving puzzles, so that's where I'm gladly being pointed in terms of career path. The problem is, that in the past, I've done this same process for more than one platform that the higher ups had gotten all gung ho to start using and after I was the only person actually getting in there and learning how to do things, things shifted and I got no credit for it at all.

My boss has stated that he's very happy with my work results, and that he's heard a lot of good things from other departments. He just feels that I could use some improvement in the communication area. Not because I'm doing it poorly, but that I'm not doing it at the senior position level. I just know that now, it'll be at least a year before promotions even come up and there are no guarantees as they all have financial dependencies. On top of that, now I'll be competing with a team of 13/14 other people for a promotion spot. Anyways, he's being more than supportive with working with me to come up with a plan. One thing that I'm going to do differently this year is force a quarterly performance meeting. In the past we had our reviews in the first quarter and didn't hear anything until review time in fourth quarter. The communication issues he brought up were from November and don't exactly give me any time to correct anything before promotions are offered to departments.

Sorry for the wall o text, I'm just need to vent a bit and wrap my head around my thoughts.

Edit:
Also, it came out that the three more experienced members of our team are being paid nearly on par with the new hires so I'm going to ask him if that means we can look at a market adjustment for the group. Seniority should count for something more than $400/year. Especially seeing as our raises were consistently $1200/year when we got them.

[Rhyis.]

The difference between 9 and 10 years is negligible, if not non-existent imo.
Your boss sounds pretty honest about the whole thing from the way you're describing it. At least it sounds like he's given you a clear focus on what he's looking for from you to get there.

Really how you handle this is based on how much you enjoy working where you're at.

[Jefe]

Lmao, so ama @ a party, right. And this acquaintance suddenly asks me for a favour. He wants me to take his lady friend, whom he barely knows, to my apartment and let her chill for the night. The dude is married and shit. Lol, I told him to fuck off. She's hot af doe, but I don't wanna wake up either dead or w aids.