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Go to it, Xenos!
I am doing ANCH515, ANCH551 & HIST511 this term - translate as 'In the shadow of Vesuvius: Pompeii & Herculaneum'; 'Warfare in the Ancient World' & 'Crime, Incarceration & Servitude: Historical Perspectives' for my MHistory, & have 2 3000-3500 word essays to write in 8 days, & one 3500 essay due two weeks after that.
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« Reply #876 on: July 19, 2012, 09:00:23 am » |
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Freddie is poorly, I'm miles away and we won't know if he's okay until later.  In bits. UPDATE: Lost him this morning, before we could even get him to the vets. In bits, gotta go to work and sort out yesterday's problems too, just don't know what to do. |
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« Reply #877 on: July 19, 2012, 02:58:04 pm » |
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Lady Ava,
I am sorry to hear of your loss. We lost a dog last December, partly due to a neglectful emergency vet, and the loss still hurts. Please accept my sympathies.
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« Reply #878 on: July 19, 2012, 03:26:15 pm » |
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« Reply #879 on: July 19, 2012, 10:37:32 pm » |
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Need some advice. Let us say hypothetically that you had a friend or a friend of a friend whom you stuck by through a tough time in their life when others pretty much gave up on them. Now let's say that this friend by a trick of fate became your boss at a job. Now the job was something that you enjoyed and it revolved around things that you loved, but not necessarily your driving passion in life. Well, at first at this job you two carry on without any sort of dominant v/ submissive or boss v/ employee relationship. The higher bosses respect you for your background and your boss is largely there just due to another trick of fate that they had been at the business longer when the new bosses took over and they needed somebody to basically teach them and any other employees. Now let us add into this mix that all the bosses are a family, but your friend/boss is the child of the "big bosses." Now also another variable is that you are older and overall more experienced in the type of work as well as in general and also have a higher education level.
Well as time goes on, it becomes evident that you learn much faster and the friend that was your connector has a souring of a relationship with your boss. You are oblivious to all these factors and carry on all in good fun. Then things start to happen such as being screamed at in front of a customer for asking for clarification. For example being told to get, "diet soda" and asking, "what brand?" Or where normally you would be left to handle something because it is more your specialty, you are instead ordered to perform some mindless task. You also were very happy when you received a gadget that allows you to instantly research a customer question that is partially unrelated to the product, for instance something that if you said a line of bull sh**, the customer would know immediately. Your boss also has this gadget, but does not use it in this way and instead uses for recreation and fun. You showed the big bosses what it can do, and they approved of its use.
Well one day you finally get frustrated with this souring of things and confront the big bosses on it. You say simply, "Hey is my boss okay, he/she has been yelling at me in front of customers, I do not know what is wrong." (saying it in such a way that it is more out of concern then it is out of trying to get action taken) Well the next week you get an even colder shoulder and when you go to help a customer who wants another source beyond you and the information on the product itself, you get scolded for removing your gadget. Also in this time you have been having to leave early or come in late due to complications with moving, one day there was a threat of legal action, so it is the sort of thing that cannot wait. ALSO there is the factor that 1/3 of the business is something that you have very little experience with and your boss is practically miraculously gifted at. When you ask for help you get yelled at for that as well.
Now you are sitting in your house after a day that you thought went fine and was returning to normal and get your inbox on your phone flooded with a very rude and angry message from your boss basically belittling you and telling you everything you did wrong. When you try to defend your actions you get told, "I am the manager, you are the employee, GET IT STRAIGHT! I am the boss, end of story." Do you quit, do you try to get them fired, or do you stay to the point that you finally blow up? This whole thing has me very stressed. I NEED the money. Yes I got another job lined up, but it is not enough hours. I am quite scared. |
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« Reply #880 on: July 19, 2012, 11:29:19 pm » |
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Need some advice. Let us say hypothetically that you had a friend or a friend of a friend whom you stuck by through a tough time in their life when others pretty much gave up on them. Now let's say that this friend by a trick of fate became your boss at a job. Now the job was something that you enjoyed and it revolved around things that you loved, but not necessarily your driving passion in life. Well, at first at this job you two carry on without any sort of dominant v/ submissive or boss v/ employee relationship. The higher bosses respect you for your background and your boss is largely there just due to another trick of fate that they had been at the business longer when the new bosses took over and they needed somebody to basically teach them and any other employees. Now let us add into this mix that all the bosses are a family, but your friend/boss is the child of the "big bosses." Now also another variable is that you are older and overall more experienced in the type of work as well as in general and also have a higher education level.
Well as time goes on, it becomes evident that you learn much faster and the friend that was your connector has a souring of a relationship with your boss. You are oblivious to all these factors and carry on all in good fun. Then things start to happen such as being screamed at in front of a customer for asking for clarification. For example being told to get, "diet soda" and asking, "what brand?" Or where normally you would be left to handle something because it is more your specialty, you are instead ordered to perform some mindless task. You also were very happy when you received a gadget that allows you to instantly research a customer question that is partially unrelated to the product, for instance something that if you said a line of bull sh**, the customer would know immediately. Your boss also has this gadget, but does not use it in this way and instead uses for recreation and fun. You showed the big bosses what it can do, and they approved of its use.
Well one day you finally get frustrated with this souring of things and confront the big bosses on it. You say simply, "Hey is my boss okay, he/she has been yelling at me in front of customers, I do not know what is wrong." (saying it in such a way that it is more out of concern then it is out of trying to get action taken) Well the next week you get an even colder shoulder and when you go to help a customer who wants another source beyond you and the information on the product itself, you get scolded for removing your gadget. Also in this time you have been having to leave early or come in late due to complications with moving, one day there was a threat of legal action, so it is the sort of thing that cannot wait. ALSO there is the factor that 1/3 of the business is something that you have very little experience with and your boss is practically miraculously gifted at. When you ask for help you get yelled at for that as well.
Now you are sitting in your house after a day that you thought went fine and was returning to normal and get your inbox on your phone flooded with a very rude and angry message from your boss basically belittling you and telling you everything you did wrong. When you try to defend your actions you get told, "I am the manager, you are the employee, GET IT STRAIGHT! I am the boss, end of story." Do you quit, do you try to get them fired, or do you stay to the point that you finally blow up? This whole thing has me very stressed. I NEED the money. Yes I got another job lined up, but it is not enough hours. I am quite scared. D., In any job that deals with 'outside' customers, they are your main concern. If what you do pleases the customer and has them returning for more business then that is your 'feather in the cap'. If by some reason your boss(es) are belittling you in front of the customer that is definitely the wrong way to handle things. I appreciate your position and empathize with the stress but do remain calm as much as possible in front of the boss(es). A business depends on the quality of service, product, etc. that it produces and if by your leaving, said business were to take a nose dive, the truth will prevail. |
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« Reply #881 on: July 20, 2012, 12:14:48 am » |
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Need some advice. Let us say hypothetically that you had a friend or a friend of a friend whom you stuck by through a tough time in their life when others pretty much gave up on them. Now let's say that this friend by a trick of fate became your boss at a job. Now the job was something that you enjoyed and it revolved around things that you loved, but not necessarily your driving passion in life. Well, at first at this job you two carry on without any sort of dominant v/ submissive or boss v/ employee relationship. The higher bosses respect you for your background and your boss is largely there just due to another trick of fate that they had been at the business longer when the new bosses took over and they needed somebody to basically teach them and any other employees. Now let us add into this mix that all the bosses are a family, but your friend/boss is the child of the "big bosses." Now also another variable is that you are older and overall more experienced in the type of work as well as in general and also have a higher education level.
Well as time goes on, it becomes evident that you learn much faster and the friend that was your connector has a souring of a relationship with your boss. You are oblivious to all these factors and carry on all in good fun. Then things start to happen such as being screamed at in front of a customer for asking for clarification. For example being told to get, "diet soda" and asking, "what brand?" Or where normally you would be left to handle something because it is more your specialty, you are instead ordered to perform some mindless task. You also were very happy when you received a gadget that allows you to instantly research a customer question that is partially unrelated to the product, for instance something that if you said a line of bull sh**, the customer would know immediately. Your boss also has this gadget, but does not use it in this way and instead uses for recreation and fun. You showed the big bosses what it can do, and they approved of its use.
Well one day you finally get frustrated with this souring of things and confront the big bosses on it. You say simply, "Hey is my boss okay, he/she has been yelling at me in front of customers, I do not know what is wrong." (saying it in such a way that it is more out of concern then it is out of trying to get action taken) Well the next week you get an even colder shoulder and when you go to help a customer who wants another source beyond you and the information on the product itself, you get scolded for removing your gadget. Also in this time you have been having to leave early or come in late due to complications with moving, one day there was a threat of legal action, so it is the sort of thing that cannot wait. ALSO there is the factor that 1/3 of the business is something that you have very little experience with and your boss is practically miraculously gifted at. When you ask for help you get yelled at for that as well.
Now you are sitting in your house after a day that you thought went fine and was returning to normal and get your inbox on your phone flooded with a very rude and angry message from your boss basically belittling you and telling you everything you did wrong. When you try to defend your actions you get told, "I am the manager, you are the employee, GET IT STRAIGHT! I am the boss, end of story." Do you quit, do you try to get them fired, or do you stay to the point that you finally blow up? This whole thing has me very stressed. I NEED the money. Yes I got another job lined up, but it is not enough hours. I am quite scared. D., In any job that deals with 'outside' customers, they are your main concern. If what you do pleases the customer and has them returning for more business then that is your 'feather in the cap'. If by some reason your boss(es) are belittling you in front of the customer that is definitely the wrong way to handle things. I appreciate your position and empathize with the stress but do remain calm as much as possible in front of the boss(es). A business depends on the quality of service, product, etc. that it produces and if by your leaving, said business were to take a nose dive, the truth will prevail. There is so much that goes on that just bothers me. Like the "to do" list. It should be given to me immediately so I can get it done, but instead it gets given to me a few hours after I get there. "My tone." Yes I have an attitude with her, I used to be a boss, I was damn good at it. I had to quit due to college, yet another thing that I think makes her mad. Instead of f****** around with high school nonsense, I went to college and ended up graduating in the top 10 percentile of my class. If she feels like she is losing control in her life, who better to control than somebody who is smarter than her. It has taken me a few weeks to learn what it took her a year to come close to learning and I am still explaining things to her. The only thing she has on me is that she is the child of the owners and she knows that 1/3 which is experience that I cannot possibly match unless. I truthfully don't even care to match or surpass her. I just do not like being treated like a complete idiot in front of customers. They are my concern and when I am unable to do the best job I can because of her antics, it really frustrates me. Of course though, she is the boss...it is my fault when things get screwed up. Customer asked about a product yesterday, I pulled out my phone to pull up the research she wanted. Boss tells me to put iit away and that she will do it later. By the time the boss goes to do it, she has confused one product with another....like, not a simple change, she got the brand wrong. So when this poor woman comes back in she is going to act all high and mighty only to waste her time. |
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« Reply #882 on: July 20, 2012, 02:02:15 am » |
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« Reply #883 on: July 20, 2012, 02:31:52 am » |
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Good news is I have a meeting to discuss a new job tomorrow. If they can match the hours, I am not even going in on Saturday. I just can't take the drama anymore.
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« Reply #884 on: July 20, 2012, 02:41:24 am » |
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« Reply #885 on: July 20, 2012, 03:40:50 am » |
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So I was conned into picking up an Art History paper this semester. One lecture was all I needed to see to know it was a load of crap that I'd never find interest in and was doomed to fail, so I decided to swap it for a Media Studies paper. The media studies course clashes with an accounting lecture, but there's a later accounting lecture I am allowed to attend so the clash is only on paper and technically does not exist. When I sent in a concession request this was overlooked and I was declined entry to the media studies course because it clashed (even though it didn't). I have since been in correspondence with the university where I cleared it up and showed it was only a clash on paper. I've now been declined again because they think I'm trying to take 6 courses (the limit being 5) and have completely missed the fact that I'm swapping one course for another and will only be taking 5 papers.
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« Reply #886 on: July 20, 2012, 03:50:18 am » |
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« Reply #887 on: July 20, 2012, 04:53:26 am » |
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Mr. Oakes...I understand what you, sorry I mean your FOAF is going through. Is there a small chance that "you" could direct your foaf to get free advice from a friendly employment lawyer? Who could/would advise your foaf to have a very small televisual device with sound (on their person), just for your foaf's own "training purposes"?  Sorry, if the above sounds/looks like pompus pseudo legal spouting. Just trying to help (very badly)  |
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« Reply #888 on: July 20, 2012, 09:28:13 am » |
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Lady Ava, feel for you.
My senior boy is not well - not looking forward to the end result.
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« Reply #889 on: July 20, 2012, 09:12:32 pm » |
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Dark Knight sold out tonight and husband didnt take my advice to get tickets earlier in the day when there were still some left. Daughter did, so she has gone and I can't - wailllllll.
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« Reply #890 on: July 20, 2012, 09:29:28 pm » |
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... kind of an odd gaaahhhh I know an associate who has the same name as some psychotic nutcase that made the news regarding an event in Colorado. He just 'liked' my company page (my associate, not the nutball). That might require some explanation to the casual observer. another note ... a friend of a friend of a friend posted in the album mentioned above that one of my employees seek employment at another company 'that builds castles'. ... what kind of insensitive meathead would post something like that on a Companies Facebook page. She said implied that his talents are wasted with us.  And, with all due respect to our employee, he is not a designer or a craftsman ... he is a mechanic. And, I know of 'that company' ... they cobble shit together in the most expedient way disregarding any resemblance of actual craftsmanship. They also don't design their own stuff. I, like the fascist admin that I am, deleted the offending post. I'm a bit protective of BCT and proud of what our craftsmen accomplish. I really work to avoid censorship, but this was a bit over the top for me. |
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« Reply #891 on: July 20, 2012, 10:40:17 pm » |
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« Reply #892 on: July 22, 2012, 05:54:37 am » |
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My pain medications are not working on the pain. They're just making my head fuzzy, and making me depressed.
It's not cool, since I'm in a great bit of pain right now. Oh, aye, it's only a net increase of three on that magic scale of 1-10, but still-I'm sitting pretty at a seven right now, and it's keeping me awake.
I helped a mate move today, and that may have been a mistake. I mean, yeah, I'm ALWAYS at a three or four. That's just the nature of my injury. But still-my meds are SUPPOSED to knock the edge off or knock me out.
This one is doing neither.
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« Reply #893 on: July 22, 2012, 06:59:49 am » |
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Xenos, as they say in the classics, 'This too, shall pass.'
I am reduced to standard pain relief, as I'm out of everything stronger. Not getting any more of the strong stuff, neither. Nor am I ever helping anyone move again, just doing the washing & hanging out is enough for me.
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« Reply #894 on: July 22, 2012, 07:07:03 am » |
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My university has decided I need to take language tutorials for the second course of a 2-part set that all business students have to take. Given that i didn't have to attend these tutorials for the first course and passed the initial language assessment anyway I'm a bit pissed...
I also explained that the art history paper stopping me from taking the media studies paper I'm wanting to pick up would be dropped (because they were being swapped electronically) and they suddenly (after seeing fit to deny me entry once) turned around and said 'not our department'.
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« Reply #895 on: July 22, 2012, 11:41:26 am » |
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I'm in bad need of consolation. I'm so angry I can't sleep.
Over the last two months I've had horrible things happen to me.
My car was towed from the grounds of my apartment complex (with no warning period nor sticker as is required by the complex policy) on the grounds it was "leaking oil" - actually it was water from a faulty water pump - not oil as I would later find out.
Then two weeks later I was erroneously told I had to leave the complex on account of my identity being matched to a known criminal with a different-yet similar name to mine- and naturally the complex retracted when they found this was an error due to their poor background check skills. But not before I spent money reserving another room on an emergency basis in less than 48 hrs. When I realized I could stay the other landlord refused to return my deposit.
Then I lost my car to a blown head gasket (the repairs would cost more than the car so I sold it for $380 to the scrap yard). Yes the same car which got towed.
Today the truck I borrowed from a friend was towed from the grounds of said $%^&*$% complex on account it isn't an "authorized vehicle." Naturally no warning was given. It had been parked for no more than 5 minutes as I went in and out of the apartment for some things.
Gaaaaaaaaaaarrrrrrrrrrrrrggggggggghhhh
Cost: $350 first tow, $150 lost deposit on an alternate living arrangement I made in less than 48 hrs when I was told to leave, now $200 for last night's tow of my friends vehicle. Total cost $700
Gaaaaaaaaaaarrrrrrrrrrrrrggggggggghhhh
Living in this complex is turning out to be too expensive. I'm under the irrational impression I'm being watched by the administration who is coming up with excuses to harass me.
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« Reply #896 on: July 22, 2012, 12:42:13 pm » |
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Life and it's ability to throw crappy timing at me.
I am only recently out of a relationship, and although I knew it was over for most of a month before it was, all logic and decency says I should stay single, for a long time.
Bad time to meet the man of my dreams eh?
I've only known him a fortnight but he's the kindest and most interesting person I have met in a long while, not to mention ticking a whole lot of 'in an ideal world my significant other would be' boxes.
I know that if I rush into something I will mostly likely make a mess of it and ruin a chance at a perfectly good relationship, but my heart is doing its level best not to listen to my head at the moment...
ARRRGGGGHHHHHHH
J. Wilhelm, I'm sorry to hear you've been charged such a lot so unreasonably by the apartment complex! Is there any legal way to recoup some of your costs?
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« Reply #897 on: July 22, 2012, 09:18:15 pm » |
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« Reply #899 on: July 22, 2012, 10:36:02 pm » |
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Today during one of my tours (that was already off to a bad start, long story), a guy just, out of the blue, completely freaked out to me, in the middle of a story. Out of nowhere he started accusing me of being cranky since the start, of being arrogant and rude, and that he`d really had it with my nonsense and stupidity since he was here to have a good time, and not to put up with people like me. I offered to bring him outside, if he so obviously doesn`t want to follow my tour, to which he replied that if I brought him outside now he would beat me up. I told him I don`t have to take this kind of thing from anyone, especially as this is a voluntary job, I do this for fun just as much as he does, after which he said I wouldn`t be a volunteer here for much longer, he would make sure of that.
I then just called one of my colleagues, who literally came running (and ran into a wall on the way, poor thing), and he took the man and his family outside.
He actually really did indeed file a complaint against me. Probably nothing bad will really happen, since I explained my side of the story as well, but this man and his family did get their way by filing a complaint against me, they got their money for the tour back, and got to go to the ruins for free as well.
Thank god the rest of the tour went pretty good after they left, and the rest of the group was friendly and kind. And luckily enough, the next two tours were really awesome and great and really made up for it all.
But still, by now, after the break in and everything else that has been going on at work these past 2 weeks, I`m really just waiting for the caves to collapse completely or something. Then at least I`ll have really seen it all, and will be prepared for anything that can possibly happen in a future job.
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