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Mar. 13th, 2007 02:09 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
kaitouSo yes, I work with crazy people. You all know this already, but yesterday one of the asst. managers (not creepy guy for once) did something so mindnumbingly amazingly brazenly stupid that I had to report to you all.
Ok, so Asst. Manager guy is kind of an ass. He has a highly inflated sense of his own sense of humor, and said something off color to someone in front of the new lady in my dept. She reported him to HR, who talked to him. Nothing serious, just a 'be careful what you say' sort of thing. He retaliated by making more comments...which made New Lady more upset...and she came to me.
I talked to HR, and then I talked to him personally. He denied ever saying anything and got a little paranoid delusional on me, but whatever.
Then apparently he got even more paranoid. While I was sitting at my desk, AMG went over to our bosses desk. I thought it was weird, but not totally out of the blue. Sometimes we have to use it for programs only he has. I wanted to ask him what he was doing, but I'd already had a talk with him, and I didn't want to look more like a bitch. Then later, after AMG left, my boss came back and said, "Who opened my e-mail?"
AMG got on my boss's computer, checked his e-mail to see if there was any e-mails from HR about him, and forwarded them to his computer. He didn't even bother to clear them out of 'sent mail.' It totally blows my mind. How on earth can you think that that's ok??? Insanity!
So yeah, he's fired. And it turns out he was doing other things as well...like, show someone how they could look up other people's performance reviews and personal information on the server. Good riddance. I think that that makes 4 people I've contributed to getting fired. I'd feel guilty if they weren't such utter dregs.
But the craziness does not end there! Yesterday was probably the strangest round of customer complaints I've ever had the pleasure to deal with. Don't worry
When we make a bad part (which is disturbingly often of late) we sort through our inventory to make sure there aren't any more. And usually we dot the parts with a oil based paint marker to show that it's been looked at. This has never, ever, ever been an issue. Until yesterday. One customer called and said, "Um....the paint check? It actually shows up in the finished car." ACK! So I had to hire a team of people in california to sit and scrub the paint dots off.
Then another customer called and said, "Um...the paint check? It makes the part unusuable. We put a special paint on these after we use them and any oil keeps the paint from adhering." So again with another team of people in Kentucky. Which REALLY sucked because they had to work a night shift and it's going to be very expensive. But honestly, by this point it was mostly funny.
Lastly I had a customer that was compeltely out of touch with reality. Trust me, if I am giving you a math lesson, you're in trouble. We shipped a bad part on the 8th of February. The customer found it on the 24th, and I hired a company to check their inventory on the 26th. They sorted for one day, and the customer told them to go home. Yesterday they found another part shipped on the 22nd and asked us to hire the company again and have them resort anything.
I told him no. He called off the sort, so at that point it becomes his responsibility. The parts he found on the 22nd, were already there when the sort started, and if they weren't sorted, it wasn't my fault. (I said this all much more politely, mind you) He countered that, he had sorted parts from a later date! To which I said, "Of course you do, we've shipped you twice since then." He didn't believe that they hadn't sorted the entire inventory. To which I said, "We shipped you 1200 on the 8th, 1000 on the 15th and 1550 on the 22nd. On the 24th you found a part from the 8th. The sorting company sorted 1600 parts on the 26th. Even if the bad part from the 8th was the last part from that batch that you had, you still have more parts than were sorted."
To which he said, "But the boxes from the 22nd don't have the sticker that shows they were sorted!"
And that's when I started to tear my hair out. "Yes! Exactly!" I thought about phrasing it as a story problem, "If I give you 3750 apples, and you look at 1600 of them...." but instead I went home and watched You Tube videos.
Speaking of manufacturing...I've heard some people on my f-list or chat groups say that they like finding out 'how things are made.' would anyone be interested in kind of behind the scenes stuff about an auto widget factory? Stuff that's NOT whining about work?
Ok, so Asst. Manager guy is kind of an ass. He has a highly inflated sense of his own sense of humor, and said something off color to someone in front of the new lady in my dept. She reported him to HR, who talked to him. Nothing serious, just a 'be careful what you say' sort of thing. He retaliated by making more comments...which made New Lady more upset...and she came to me.
I talked to HR, and then I talked to him personally. He denied ever saying anything and got a little paranoid delusional on me, but whatever.
Then apparently he got even more paranoid. While I was sitting at my desk, AMG went over to our bosses desk. I thought it was weird, but not totally out of the blue. Sometimes we have to use it for programs only he has. I wanted to ask him what he was doing, but I'd already had a talk with him, and I didn't want to look more like a bitch. Then later, after AMG left, my boss came back and said, "Who opened my e-mail?"
AMG got on my boss's computer, checked his e-mail to see if there was any e-mails from HR about him, and forwarded them to his computer. He didn't even bother to clear them out of 'sent mail.' It totally blows my mind. How on earth can you think that that's ok??? Insanity!
So yeah, he's fired. And it turns out he was doing other things as well...like, show someone how they could look up other people's performance reviews and personal information on the server. Good riddance. I think that that makes 4 people I've contributed to getting fired. I'd feel guilty if they weren't such utter dregs.
But the craziness does not end there! Yesterday was probably the strangest round of customer complaints I've ever had the pleasure to deal with. Don't worry
When we make a bad part (which is disturbingly often of late) we sort through our inventory to make sure there aren't any more. And usually we dot the parts with a oil based paint marker to show that it's been looked at. This has never, ever, ever been an issue. Until yesterday. One customer called and said, "Um....the paint check? It actually shows up in the finished car." ACK! So I had to hire a team of people in california to sit and scrub the paint dots off.
Then another customer called and said, "Um...the paint check? It makes the part unusuable. We put a special paint on these after we use them and any oil keeps the paint from adhering." So again with another team of people in Kentucky. Which REALLY sucked because they had to work a night shift and it's going to be very expensive. But honestly, by this point it was mostly funny.
Lastly I had a customer that was compeltely out of touch with reality. Trust me, if I am giving you a math lesson, you're in trouble. We shipped a bad part on the 8th of February. The customer found it on the 24th, and I hired a company to check their inventory on the 26th. They sorted for one day, and the customer told them to go home. Yesterday they found another part shipped on the 22nd and asked us to hire the company again and have them resort anything.
I told him no. He called off the sort, so at that point it becomes his responsibility. The parts he found on the 22nd, were already there when the sort started, and if they weren't sorted, it wasn't my fault. (I said this all much more politely, mind you) He countered that, he had sorted parts from a later date! To which I said, "Of course you do, we've shipped you twice since then." He didn't believe that they hadn't sorted the entire inventory. To which I said, "We shipped you 1200 on the 8th, 1000 on the 15th and 1550 on the 22nd. On the 24th you found a part from the 8th. The sorting company sorted 1600 parts on the 26th. Even if the bad part from the 8th was the last part from that batch that you had, you still have more parts than were sorted."
To which he said, "But the boxes from the 22nd don't have the sticker that shows they were sorted!"
And that's when I started to tear my hair out. "Yes! Exactly!" I thought about phrasing it as a story problem, "If I give you 3750 apples, and you look at 1600 of them...." but instead I went home and watched You Tube videos.
Speaking of manufacturing...I've heard some people on my f-list or chat groups say that they like finding out 'how things are made.' would anyone be interested in kind of behind the scenes stuff about an auto widget factory? Stuff that's NOT whining about work?
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Date: 2007-03-13 07:12 pm (UTC)he needs his head examined.
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Date: 2007-03-14 12:02 am (UTC)Me to sorting company: So, uh, based on your report you spent a total of 1 hour, 15 minutes actually working?
Sorting company: Yeah. Do they suck or what?
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Date: 2007-03-14 03:06 am (UTC)1. A guy who managed to, well, let's just say that he found a new and squickworthy use for a toilet-scrubbrush. 'Not To Be Taken Internally' should've been printed on the handle, that's for damn sure. You really don't want the details.
2. A guy who threw himself through a church window. You know how in movies people just crash through 'em and keep going? Not so. Stained glass causes NASTY cuts, as does the metal surrounding it. Bleeding to death tends to be the outcome.
3. A poor man who was out walking his dog across a train-trestle bridge and who stopped to talk to some kids; he sat down on the railing while doing so... without noticing that a piece of the railing happened to be missing. 30-foot drop. Dunno if the dog went with him.
4. Train-suicides in general. If by any chance someone out there wishes to exit this world in a quiet, orderly, unmessy and dignified fashion, do NOT fling yourself and/or stand in front of an oncoming train (a favorite suicide-method of the local mental health population). Can we say 'disembowelment AND dismemberment, splash'?
5. Hanging one's self with a rope in front of one's church. Now THERE'S a statement. Erk.
6. You'd think that taking a teenager who had made suicide attempts in the past to a shooting range on their birthday would be a bad thing, wouldn't you? I think you can see where this one's going.
7. Death by suffocation during an exorcism. I kid you not. Happened down in Mexico, but the client lived locally so I dealt with it. Aaack.
Eeeeeew. Yes, my days get to be a bit weird now and then...
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Date: 2007-03-14 04:59 am (UTC)