OT: OT-“Look, maybe I didn’t say every single little tiny syllable, no. But basically I said them, yeah.”

Dubi Doo

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Dear college kids,

Don't get into a fight with someone at a dining hall and yell out that you are going to go to your dorm room, get your gun, and shoot the person.

Shit. I was just getting laid by 6s in college. Well, maybe a couple 4s and 7s slipped in there. These kids priorities are all out of wack now-a-days!
 

sabremike

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Aug 30, 2010
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I mean, other than insulin, the telephone and the cup (no, the small "C" one)...?
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TheMistyStranger

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Another meeting with my boss today. His plan is that we have a meeting with my underperforming employee on Wednesday, convince him to resign, and then I apply for my employee's position (my former role) and take a demotion. I'd obviously be taking a paycut as well. When I asked if this actually happens who would do all the managerial things I currently due, such as supervision, payroll, and purchasing, while he looks for someone to take my current job, he said I'd keep doing it until the job gets filled.

I gotta get out of this place ASAP. This is insanity.
 

Chainshot

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Another meeting with my boss today. His plan is that we have a meeting with my underperforming employee on Wednesday, convince him to resign, and then I apply for my employee's position (my former role) and take a demotion. I'd obviously be taking a paycut as well. When I asked if this actually happens who would do all the managerial things I currently due, such as supervision, payroll, and purchasing, while he looks for someone to take my current job, he said I'd keep doing it until the job gets filled.

I gotta get out of this place ASAP. This is insanity.

I'm reminded of being near the end of my last corporate job. I went on core leave and returned to a voicemail and email from my manager that she was resigning and she would be gone in the middle of my leave. I got all of her billing and accounting work, without having any information or instruction or even access to the system for any of it. Didn't know a f***ing thing. And my manager's manager held me accountable for that - the person who had pushed my manager out. I was still a schlub who had stepped down from salaried and they gave me another half FTE worth of work (or more) when I was already barely hanging on. I know I didn't channel it well. I hope you do and find a way out quickly.
 
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TheMistyStranger

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I'm reminded of being near the end of my last corporate job. I went on core leave and returned to a voicemail and email from my manager that she was resigning and she would be gone in the middle of my leave. I got all of her billing and accounting work, without having any information or instruction or even access to the system for any of it. Didn't know a f***ing thing. And my manager's manager held me accountable for that - the person who had pushed my manager out. I was still a schlub who had stepped down from salaried and they gave me another half FTE worth of work (or more) when I was already barely hanging on. I know I didn't channel it well. I hope you do and find a way out quickly.

That's awful and terribly relatable. Sorry you had to go through that. Job market is terrible. Had one interview after 15 or so applications, but there's not much else. Strongly considering trying to get a Canadian work visa and expand my search.

One of the reasons my manager wants to replace me is that he asked me to give someone access to edit our website. I said I don't manage the website and don't have access myself. I have no training or background on the website. I have a contact number if there's a network issue but that's it. Apparently when I agreed to be the network manager, that also included webmaster, but one without credentials, support, or personnel. Basically he wanted me to do all the things my old boss did, while continuing my old job, and with a downsized department. The more I think about it, the angrier I am about how much I have been set up to fail, and I don't understand why.
 

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