My former boss just recently got a new role (aka got people leadership taken away) and just sent a teams message talking shit about two of the people on that team to the whole team. Oops.
Relatively tame stuff. So and so is driving me nuts, why can’t this other person just help xyz, they do this all the time, etc.
You should pull a real power move and send a message to the whole team complaining about this is why he is no longer allowed to manage people and pretend like you didn't mean to include him on the message.
It's annual review season, which is always a disaster, made worse by the fact that a lot of the workforce was told to go home and stay there so there's not a lot to right about this year. I got the feedback from the Commander about the one I wrote and her suggest I include that we were able to shift the work center to 8hr shifts from 12hr shifts. Which would be great if we'd gone to 8s. Or had ever been on 8s. Or had any plan to go to 8s in the future. Or if the work center who DID do that even worked for the same agency that we do. Or worked in the same building.
We’re “on aisle we started a full quarter before they’re due. Which means I can just lie and say I was “projecting” things my Airman will do
My workplace started a 5 year plan in 2015 to increase diversity among employees, particularly in management. I supported it at the time and I still do. The person tasked with delivering the results of this plan referred to a work culture of "white supremacy" about a dozen times when she really meant "white privilege" I don't know if I've ever cringed harder in my life
One of the assistants in our office has the same birthday as me. If I had my way, no one in the office would know my birthday. She, however, really likes to celebrate hers. She's on my wing of the office, separate from the bullpen setup where most of the other assistants have cubes. So, a steady stream of staff has been walking past my office to go wish her a happy birthday. Each time, she has told them that it's also my birthday. Each time, they stop by my office on their way back to their cube to tell me happy birthday, too. I've been here an hour and all I have accomplished is typing out this post.
If my birthdate is known at work, I always take my birthday off, if I can, to specifically miss out on people recognizing it.
At my last employer, they always did something for someone’s birthday. When it was getting near mine I told them to not even mention that it was my birthday. Then I got laid off the weekend before my birthday
Thankfully covid has killed us having to celebrate everyone's fucking birthday at my work. At one time they sent around a spreadsheet where you filled out your birthday. I didn't fill mine out. Got a reply all email "Redav it looks like you didn't fill out your birthday!" Goddamit
I do this if possible. Our main floor assistant sends an email out every morning listing birthdays so there is no avoiding it. Normal ritual is there is then an influx of “hey what are you doing for lunch?” “You got lunch plans?” “Why don’t we get a group together and go eat!”
To be fair, everyone but the owners got laid off then as well. A month later they sold the property they were operating the business out of.
Five. The upstairs had its own entrance. Company owned two of the retail spaces in the ground floor and each had a front entrance and an employee entrance.
Have a coworker that just doesn’t get a lot of things. We have the option to wfh right now, but if there is something you need to do in the office more than welcome to go in. I normally wear a golf shirt to work but when it’s cold out or have other reasons will wear button down and slacks. So I mean relatively relaxed dress but use your best judgement. He shows up to do something in pajama pants and a hoodie last week...
I’m wfh and have a customer facing polo that drapes over my reading chair for the times I have to actually do a video call.
I am absolutely a founding member of team "don't acknowledge my birthday at work" and loathe whenever one of those "sign ups" circulates to share bday info. Had a good thing going in the office where the fact that nobody knew when my bday was had become a bit of a running joke. Enter new boss' boss who during her first "all staff" meeting decided on a team building exercise where you're supposed to all line up by birthday sequentially (year excluded) without verbally communicating. I thought about just lying but decided there wasn't any point - they'd just be stupid about that day instead of the real one. So we play the game (this new higher up just destroyed my 3 year thing immediately upon arrival ) but one of my immediate coworkers is out that day, and hence doesn't get the benefit of the "reveal". His spouse (who is also in our dept) lets him know that he's missed it, but that he can't divulge the info. So we fuck with the guy who was out a little bit, at first refusing to acknowledge that it even happened... just doing everything to make him question whether it happened or not basically. But in reality he already knows the month, so it's just a matter of the day that he's unsure of, so I decide to just taunt him with it by writing it on post-its and hiding them throughout his space for him to discover (over and over again). The finding of post-its unfolded over several months pre-pandemic. Then a week or two into wfh he finds one and lets us all know in chat. Cue triumphant fist-pump We were in zoom last week at one point, and he reached for a notebook to jot something down, turned the page, and found another one . It had been like 10 months since the last one
I mean if you don’t enforce your dress code then you don’t really have a dress code, you have a dress recommendation.