this mofoing job.

I just got yelled @ real good.

This lady called me for airport directions. Rather than looking at a map like an intelligent person would have done, I drew on my memory and told her to take such-and-such a highway West. Trouble is, she should have taken said highway East. When she called back angry and confused saying that "the girl at the desk said she had directions for me," I assumed she had called the wrong Doubletree and transferred her over.

Come to find out that "directions behind the desk for me" referred to the maps to the airport we keep behind the desk, not specific directions printed out for her by a female auditor at another hotel. I am apparently "a coward" for transferring her to another hotel when I was "too scared to deal with the problem."

She has now missed her flight, and craziness is purportedly certain to ensue in her work and social life. "Legal issues in limbo," as she put it. She WILL be contacting my boss etc etc and I highly doubt my job is in jeopardy as a result of this, but nonetheless I'm a bit shaken up and pissed at myself for not pulling out a fucking map/ruining some poor nice lady's day.

OK hahaha she wants me to "write an email telling me what you did and why it was wrong and CC it to your manager." wtf

hi i am 5 years old and require your lessons in responsibility, random defense contractor lady

Have a yoghurt. Take a break.

yeah, shake it off. this time next week, you'll look back and laugh hopefully.

Yeah I'm off today and am going to a party this evening. Fully intend to laugh it off with a beer or two.

But thank you for the sympathies, guys. I think I will go have a yogurt.

try to get decent directions to the fridge man.

lol

Recommend her a book on GTD:

To do list:

- ensure have adequate directions from google maps etc before setting off (don't rely on telephone call)

- set off with adequate time to get to airport, allowing for contingencies

I would write an apology for the confusion and CC your boss, best you tell them 1st before she does.

HOOS: Seriously though, who doesn't googlemap something before leaving? Anyway, it's an honest mistake, and it'll blow over. People like to scream and shout and threaten, but once the perceived affront is over, they don't follow up on the threats.

Today at my mofoing job: My boss: See this door? Me: Yes. Boss: Every day at 3:30, please guard this door until 3:45 to make sure nobody goes in or out.

I'm a social worker. Lock the goddamn door.

Then, Boss: Can you find an alternate placement for X? Me: OK, I found an alternate placement for X. Boss: WHY DID YOU DO THAT????

I'm so out of there as soon as I find something else.

pls tell her to go f*ck herself hard

she might already be doing that, if she needs that door guarded for 15mins

i am sick and tired of these motherfucking managers at this motherfucking job

"PookieHoos, let's burn this motherfucker down!"

I've been here for more than two years and this place has spruced up on the outside while it's deteriorated on the inside. We now have a gorgeous new lobby/restaurant/bar, but our rooms are still in disgusting disrepair and are not worth the $200/night we're charging people.

A/Cs are noisy or don't work, there's mold in the walls that they just PAINT over because real removal would require shutting the place down and opening up the walls, there are leaks from the ceilings. These things take forever to get fixed/don't get fixed because the maintenance manager keeps running off his techs: he's a control freak who wants his contractors working here and he's going to make everyone else's job a living hell until that happens. He's been doing this for a year now.

The CEO has made a decision that if anyone provides their two weeks notice they are to be dismissed on the spot. What the FUCK. It's the most unprofessional vindictive behavior I've ever seen out of a company. This is a terrible place to work and I want the hell out of this job.

The CEO has made a decision that if anyone provides their two weeks notice they are to be dismissed on the spot.

what is the thinking behind this???

oh man, hoos! have you looked into other options? btw you should call osha or dhec on their asses.

I have no idea! They haven't bothered justifying it to us, they're just doing it.

xp

That's my dilemma though: another hotel job that's stable but boring or going entry-level at some copywriting firm that might fire me in three months.

I wonder if the CEO ran this by his legal department, since it would seem to me that in giving notice, you are not giving the company 'cause for dismissal', and therefore you or other employees so dismissed could start to draw unemployment for up to six months - which would cost the company plenty of money.

Consult a lawyer familiar with employment law to see if this theory holds water. If it does, then jump ship and stick it to the man.

it's definitely not illegal. lots of law firms do this. i don't really get why a hotel would have reason to do this, though. they probably say dismissed as in 'you don't have to come in' but they still consider it a resignation.

Yeah I don't imagine it is illegal, especially in Texas which is a "right-to-work" state ie "you have the right to work for any reason and we have the right to fire you for any reason"

note: i once quit a job with a lot of um... flair... and when i came in for work the next day, they told me they were gonna pay me the two weeks and just not to come in anymore. but they wouldn't give it to me in writing so i was really freaked they were trying to stick it to me one last time. i got the pay, though. so perhaps they just don't want these disgruntled employees on the premises.

The frustrating thing is that the person that they first decided to enforce this policy on isn't disgruntled at all: she dislikes this place just as much as I do, but she's leaving because her dad is sick and she's gonna go take care of him in CO.

Coolest girl that I've worked with in ages, real shame to see her go and I'm pissed that she's getting shitcanned this way.

xpost

I'm not saying it would be illegal to dismiss a person who gave notice, but rather that drawing unemployment compensation depends upon whether you quit, were dismissed 'for cause' (meaning that you didn't do your job satisfactorily and were fired), or if the employer just decided to dismiss you for reasons having nothing to do with job performance. If it was the last of these, then you qualify to draw unemplyment checks, but not if it was either of the first two.

By firing you for giving notice (provided the employer's policy was to require two weeks notice) they would qualify you for unemployment.

There is also something called at-will employment. If, when you are hired you are told there is no need for giving notice, that your job is "at will", it means that you can walk away in the middle of your shift if you like, and they will have no recourse but to pay you for the hours you worked and not squawk about it.

If Hoos's job doesn't require notice, he shouldn't give them any. He should just tell the manager at the end of his last day that he's gone, and explain why he chose to do it that way. Let them deal with the shit the CEO has handed them.

Aimless OTM. Texas is right-to-work, but you can still draw unemployment if fired without cause.

http://www.twc.state.tx.us/ui/bnfts/claimant1.html#qualify

Paper trail of two weeks notice is key, I think.

All this theorizing assumes that the manager will enforce this assinine policy against Hoos, so he'd be taking a chance in that way.

Yeah. Given that I've been told this is in place, any plans I'd had to give two weeks notice are now pretty much out the window. Wait til right after payday, let em know I'm leaving, see what they say.

keep it positive Hoos

Third car breakin in as many weeks. This guy is flipping his shit about how he's "just an old-fashioned guy from the Midwest and I like to take care of things myself, give me five minutes with this shitbag in a 3x3 rom, just five fucking minutes with this bastard, this fucking city, this never would have happened in the midwest...."

And now we're losing business because he's telling all our walkins that they need to KEEP AN EYE ON YOUR CARS CAUSE THESE ASSHOLES SURE AINT

me trying to calm him down: "I understand that you're frustrated, sir--"
him: "No you DON'T understand buddy"

btw his gym bag and his mp3 player are all that are gone

"I don't know, your mechanic guy gave you this license plate number but there are no cameras, I'm starting to suspect an inside job here!"

oh jesus christ get the fuck over yourself

obv the gym bag was full of drugs, lol.

conspiracy theories! i love it!

"Do you want me to give you a call when the cops arrive, sir?"

"No I'll be back, I'm just running upstairs cause I'm starting to wonder if our room's safe."

oh my fucking god i work AM tomorrow i'm gonna have to deal with this asshole again

dude a lot of peoples put valuable shit in their gym bags

pseudo xpost tza otm - not necessarily have to be drugs though

i wouldve been like 'you want a few minutes alone with that fucker go ahead man'

a lot of peoples put valuable shit in their gym bags

he made it a point to say "all the assholes got was some smelly gym clothes, i hope they get some enjoyment out of my sweat"

given dude's demeanor i'm guessing it was coke

I am quitting this job tomorrow I think.

Been too long coming and this fuckin asshole (and total lack of backup from my boss) was the last straw.

Uuurrrggghhhh <- how I feel pretty much every day that isn't a day off.

I am quitting this job tomorrow I think.

Been too long coming and this fuckin asshole (and total lack of backup from my boss) was the last straw.

― BIG HOOS aka the steendriver, Monday, August 25, 2008 6:40 AM (1 year ago) Bookmark

lmfao

My last day is Monday btw. Coworkers threw me a party last night and my boss baked me a cake tonight and everybody's been giving me hugs.

Also it's Halloween and my last night here has been absolute hell, here til midnight and have to be back at 7am for the morning shift, but it wouldn't be right if they actually started caring for me all of a sudden, would it?

lol take this job and eat it, so amped for vacay time and new job

just informed that i could leave an hour early today -- if there's nothing going on -- by my boss, who just left

Just did this. Actually, just informed my boss that I was jamming an hour early today, to which he replied "That's a good idea."

ha! they did the same thing to me and the other guy left in the building.
nothing will be "going on" i'll make sure of that

I will be here for the duration. FML!

Can't stand mine any more - gave notice I'd like to be transferred to a stress-free, non-consultant position as I apply to law school (another thread of its own). I'll be manning phones and hopefully studying while on hold, but assuming the school thing works out, I'd start 1.75 years from now, so I'd need a job in the meanwhile since It'd be weird to keep my phone job for more than half a year, let alone almost two. So job search AND school apps - nice.

But I can't do this job any more. It's sucking the life out of me.