Work Etiquette

[Overthemoon]

I work for a souless telecommunications company. For the last month few months I have been having some awful issues with my schedule (they laid off 100 people in other provinces) so we were thinly staffed, we had to work triple the hours pretty much and the hours we were getting were completely off of the norm. Finally, I had enough and went directly to the new scheduler for help, my own manager was useless. I polite asked if she could look into it and what do you know, the very next schedule I am back to straight grave yards (my preference.) I overheard another colleague talking to his manager about his scheduling issues and the manager commented this: "You never write what I have read in an email to someone. It is not remotely professional."

Apparently he had sent an extremely rude email to the scheduler, and his schedule request was denied immediately after. This is just a little patients and some manner can really grease the wheel at work if do shift work like me.

 

[Chay]

honey and vinegar

 

[Tabitha]

I think I would be doubly nice knowing they just laid off 100 people. Rude emails could make him 100 & 1!

 

[Overthemoon]

It was actually our head body that laid off the workers, of course they shouldn't have, we were so busy, people were pulling double shifts. If anyone wonders why directory operators are cranky, this is why.

So I'm honey, wait I hate honey... Hm.

 

[ewepootoo]

I also work shift and I am being made redundant next month and then being taken back the following day as a contractor on a lower pay rate with a bigger work load. My soulless boss who wangled himself a promotion and presumably a pay rise whilst cutting the work force in half can shove his job where the sun don't shine. (If I can find another job that is)

 

[ChrissyB]

Good luck Steve, I really hope you can find something else and tell your old boss to stick it.

 

[Overthemoon]

My job is classed as temp work by the company but we are required to work 5 days, it wasn't the case when we were hired, thus our contract says differently, but what do you think happens when you lay off half the work force. Okay, half the Anglophone Canadian work force.

When software engineers can make a whisper (the annoying automated voice you get when you call 411) and something that can translate on both sides for the deaf and heard of hearing, and process stupid calls at zero, I am redudant. Hasn't happened yet and I don't plan to be working for this company then.

Hope you find a new job. I have lots of plans for when I am prepared to go job hunting but now is not the time. The long period of absences relating to a health problem are on my record so I need to wait until that is well in the past.

 

[Zenobiah]

Oh man, I worked similar jobs for about 8 years. I got out last year and started work from home as a freelance translator (I worked IT before). Freelancing is stressful but it is NOTHING compared to the stress of working in IT or Telecom.

Read Discworld: Going Postal by Terry Pratchett for a satirical view of the Telecom business (and the postal service) on a fictional world. Very funny, I recommend it!

 

[Overthemoon]

Sounds right up my alley. For one thing, I love Terry Pratchet. I'll get a hold of it and read it at work. Graveyards are so much better than normal shifts.

 

[xyxoxy]

This economy is hard on a lot of people. I know many people who are unhappy with their jobs at present due to cutbacks etc. I am an IT person who also works for a large soulless corporation. This is my 23rd year and in the past 18 months things have really gotten lousy. Lots of reorganization, layoffs, uncertainty and rumours...

If I thought I had a chance of finding something any better somewhere else I'd be all over it... but it's not bloody likely.
So I just remind myself that I'm fortunate not to be one of the ones let go... yet.

 

[Overthemoon]

That's why I don't understand the other fellows attitude. The scheduler has power over knowing but our schedules, she didn't decide to lay off anyone but at least for the first time we have someone in management that wants to help make our jobs more suited to us.

I may not like my job, but I am grateful that it wasn't my office that was shut down.

 

[gekko62]

I also work shift and I am being made redundant next month and then being taken back the following day as a contractor on a lower pay rate with a bigger work load. My soulless boss who wangled himself a promotion and presumably a pay rise whilst cutting the work force in half can shove his job where the sun don't shine. (If I can find another job that is)

I hate what's happening in Australia.Increasing casualisation,shifting to contractor status(I know several people that's happened to ewe).It's pretty much like it or lump it.And certain sectors of workers are essentially powerless to object. When people are scared of losing their jobs due to economic downturn employers try to get away with all sorts of crap. Mongrels