{"id":700,"date":"2006-11-12T23:08:09","date_gmt":"2006-11-13T03:08:09","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/laineyd.wordpress.com\/2006\/11\/12\/work-2\/"},"modified":"2006-11-12T23:08:09","modified_gmt":"2006-11-13T03:08:09","slug":"work-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/laineyd.com\/?p=700","title":{"rendered":"Work"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>(Not mine. Gene&#8217;s).<\/p>\n<p>He&#8217;s on\u00a0a call right now (yes, 10 PM on a Sunday) and just asked if the computer that is down is doing anything at 10 PM on a Sunday. The person told him, &#8220;Well, it&#8217;s processing payroll.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>And then Gene did something that will NEVER happen where I work. He made the problem a priority one problem. Fucking A. Where I work, the payroll printer is out of commission for long print jobs (such as, oh, 1500+ paychecks) and has been for 3 weeks and no one seems to care.<\/p>\n<p>(I have informed the following people of this problem: Old Boss, New Boss, New Boss&#8217;s Boss, the VP of Operations\/New Boss&#8217;s Boss&#8217;s Archenemy, the IT &#8216;Director&#8217;, and the Chairman of the Fucking Company. Their reactions are, in order of how I listed them above: &#8220;Bummer&#8221;, &#8220;Something positive&#8221;, &#8220;Blahblahblah!&#8221;, &#8220;This is the first I&#8217;ve heard of it!&#8221;, &#8220;It&#8217;s the printer&#8217;s fault&#8221; (not the server, which is summertime slow and crashes frequently), and &#8220;Do we need a new one?&#8221;*).<\/p>\n<p>*If given the opportunity, I am going to throw New Boss&#8217;s Boss under the bus again about this**. I was able to tell the Chairman due to a &#8220;Chance&#8221; meeting on check cutting day last time. If the problem isn&#8217;t fixed, I am going to make sure there&#8217;s another &#8220;Chance&#8221; meeting.<\/p>\n<p>** And don&#8217;t cry for New Boss&#8217;s Boss. He had his fucking chance.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>(Not mine. Gene&#8217;s). He&#8217;s on\u00a0a call right now (yes, 10 PM on a Sunday) and just asked if the computer that is down is doing anything at 10 PM on a Sunday. The person told him, &#8220;Well, it&#8217;s processing payroll.&#8221; And then Gene did something that will NEVER happen where I work. He made the&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[21],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-700","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-mahjobiscrappis"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/laineyd.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/700","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/laineyd.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/laineyd.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/laineyd.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/laineyd.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=700"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/laineyd.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/700\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/laineyd.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=700"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/laineyd.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=700"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/laineyd.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=700"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}