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Jackal wrote:Have you become disgusted with people? I am continually astounded on a day to day basis with just how petty, childish, and stupid some people can be. Some of the employees I have to deal with here are worse behaved than my pre-teen little cousins and will accept no responsibility for anything they do unless they're receiving praise for it.

I am floored by how often people will knowingly do something wrong and then later, when you confront them about it, claim that they "didn't know" despite the fact that you've talked about it before on many occassions. Also, oftentimes I find people come to me with questions that they already know the answer to in hopes that I will bend the rules for them or perhaps hope that I've forgotten what I've previously said and give them some sort of carte blanche to do whatever they want.

Then these same people have the nerve to get pissy when you won't bend the rules for them because it "makes their life harder". Tough shit. Every time I bend the rules it makes MY job that much harder.

Honestly, as I get older I'm becoming more and more disgusted with the maturity level of supposed "adults" when it comes to the work place. What ever happened to professionalism? Is it that hard to act like a normal person between 9-5 Mon-Fri?

Jackal wrote:I'm so pissed I just fired everybody here. You win this round guy on the internet.

Κracus wrote:Don't take this the wrong way cause I think you're a complete tool for the most part but seriously, if you find everyone you're managing is a complete tool then obviously you're doing something wrong.

The quality of the work that people do for you is a direct result of the leadership skills you bring to the table. It's easy to just blame them instead of looking at yourself but all the awnsers are right there.

You've always struck me as a bit of a negative individual, a bit high up tooting your own horn. I would expect exactly what you're describing from an individual like yourself, of course all I have to go by are the various comments I've read of yours on these threads for close to a decade. Who knows, maybe you don't sound like some chick on pms when you're not posting here. I doubt that however.

Κracus wrote:I'm sure with all those pieces of paper you'll find another job in no time.

mik0rs wrote:That sucks, but like you say, opportunities to take other avenues.

Bizarrely, my place is very actively hiring.

Jackal wrote:Did you guys know that Kracus is the cause of the recession? I didn't. But he wins.

Kracus, you can gloat if you want (in fact I probably would if it was you) but, yes, I do have confidence my pieces of paper will either land me a job or at least open the door to new opportunities.

Frankly, I haven't been happy there for a while so I'm going to take my money and enjoy my holidays and then start looking for work in the new year. If I can't find any I go back to school so it's a win/win.

Have a good holiday Kracus. I'll request your cubicle when I'm looking at getting rid of my long distance on Christmas day.

mik0rs wrote:That sucks, but like you say, opportunities to take other avenues.

Bizarrely, my place is very actively hiring.

Fender wrote:American Greetings let 275 people go last week, 175 here @ HQ in Cleveland.