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Re: The Letting Off Steam Thread

Postby Andrew on Mon May 23, 2011 1:23 pm

Lean wrote:Last day of work tomorrow.


Which method of quitting/going out in style did you decide upon?
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Re: The Letting Off Steam Thread

Postby Lean on Mon May 23, 2011 9:22 pm

Well the one least violent: crotch-chops to everyone.
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Re: The Letting Off Steam Thread

Postby benji on Mon May 23, 2011 9:37 pm

You do know if you use machetes to do that to your co-workers it's still violent.
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Re: The Letting Off Steam Thread

Postby Lean on Fri May 27, 2011 7:51 am

Long read.

So it's the second day of work and I already have something to feel bad about.

Two former officemates (from my previous job) are on the same web graphics team as I am now. Our job is to make web ads in Flash but before doing so, an approved storyboard is required. During the interview for this job I was told that my job is to animate these approved storyboards and make 4 ad sizes of it. I also told the manager that I work slowly to have a better output. The manager said there's nothing wrong with it.

Former teammate A has got me into this job, and in our former company I was able to work with her for a week before she got fired.

Former teammate B just left our former company two weeks ago. During my stay with our former company I was able to work with her on the same shift for four months. It's safe to say this lady knows my abilities well enough.

Both are good on their craft, and can really take me to school if you compare our works.

Now here's the steam part:

Yesterday, teammate B has queued me one Flash ad and two storyboards to work on. Our shift starts at 8:30 in the morning and ends at 5:30 in the afternoon. Teammate B queued me the workload around 9am. I was able to finish the Flash ad at around 2pm since every time I believe I'm done, the manager checks it then I would revise it if she feels my work needs some revisions before being submitted.

After giving the finished Flash animation to a senior designer, he said it's good to go. Teammate B then said "the order is a 4-ad pack" so I went on and continued to do the same Flash animation in different sizes. The manager came over and asked if I could finish all that was queued on me. And I said yes -- because that's the truth. It doesn't matter if I go overtime so long as I finish what I started. Teammate B asked me the same question and I said "relax, I can do this." to which she replied "relax?"

The manager then said "I will let teammate A and teammate B get the two storyboards queued on you." and get them they did. Teammate A messaged me on Skype and said she'll do one. Teammate B didn't say a thing.

Note that I didn't ask for their help to get my workload finished.

The shift ended and while I went on to approach Teammate B since she's going the same way as I am. She left without saying a word.

Outside, I sent a text message to the two of them and said "Sorry if I'm doing things too slow. I'm still new to this." to which teammate B replied with "You were hired to help us and not for me to help you."

Okay things didn't turn out so well. I am humbled and embarrassed. Besides from the fact that B is someone I knew in the office for a longer while compared to A.

I know I have to adjust. But what teammate B told me got me scrambling if I made the right decision or if I even have the right to be in "their" team at all.

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Re: The Letting Off Steam Thread

Postby Patr1ck on Fri May 27, 2011 8:39 am

Don't tell teammate B what to do, as in "relax". Also, the manager is the one who took your workload and had them finish it. Don't approach co workers after your shift. They might just want to go home. So, you relax, and let it go.
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Re: The Letting Off Steam Thread

Postby shadowgrin on Fri May 27, 2011 10:35 am

B is worried because she knows it's her ass on the line.
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Re: The Letting Off Steam Thread

Postby Lean on Fri May 27, 2011 10:48 am

Uhh no, I don't have that in mind. But because you suggested it... :cheeky:

I can work without actually talking to anyone. So it won't be a problem for now.
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Re: The Letting Off Steam Thread

Postby Andrew on Fri May 27, 2011 11:15 am

Pdub wrote:Don't tell teammate B what to do, as in "relax". Also, the manager is the one who took your workload and had them finish it. Don't approach co workers after your shift. They might just want to go home. So, you relax, and let it go.


He wasn't telling teammate B what to do, though. "Relax" in this context is basically the same as saying "It's OK", specifically "I'm OK to do this". If she's taken offense to that then she's being petty and given her bitchy response to Lean's text, I wouldn't be surprised if that's the case. I agree that it's best to just let it go at this point but I don't think Lean misspoke or did anything wrong.
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Re: The Letting Off Steam Thread

Postby Patr1ck on Fri May 27, 2011 12:11 pm

Your right, but he probably said it to her because the manager had already told him that. I know when multiple people at my job tell me or ask me if I am going to get something done more than once, it's annoying, but the best thing to do is just say yes or ok. They are just looking for assurance that the task will be completed. There are two ways he could have stated relax, and I assumed he was annoyed, rather then trying to calm her if she was tense about it.
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Re: The Letting Off Steam Thread

Postby Lean on Fri May 27, 2011 12:55 pm

Pdub wrote:There are two ways he could have stated relax, and I assumed he was annoyed, rather then trying to calm her if she was tense about it.


It's the latter. Though I guess she received it as you assumed it means Pat.
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Re: The Letting Off Steam Thread

Postby The X on Fri May 27, 2011 8:40 pm

As a client manager myself, I can relate to both sides. You hire somebody with experience, you assume they can hit the ground running. Sure, you give some leeway (especially in first month), but does get frustrating when you have to baby them. Not saying this is the case, but is for me. Would like to help out more, but frankly atm, there just isn't time. Outside of normal hours at work, I've been doing remote work from home until after midnight three of last five nights, including not having time to watch Origin and so on. So yeah, you're in a tough predicament since speed & initiative are desirable. I wouldn't worry about it though, just put your head down, try to learn and take initative. You're not going to please everybody since everybody is different, just put in a good day's work. Pdub's right though, using the word relax isn't probably the best as she is probably already stressed with deadlines. Plus females tend to be more sensitive. Don't worry about texting outside of office hours either. If they are your superiors, they are not your friends anymore. Their arse is on the line if job isn't up to scratch so friendship isn't a factor.
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Re: The Letting Off Steam Thread

Postby Andrew on Fri May 27, 2011 10:13 pm

I didn't get the impression that teammates A and B were supervisors, though they probably have some measure of seniority having been working there a bit longer. Sounds to me like they and Lean are in the same project group, answering to the same manager. I still don't see the big deal with using the word "relax" in that context either, anyone who takes offense to it is being incredibly petty in my opinion.
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Re: The Letting Off Steam Thread

Postby Lean on Sat May 28, 2011 2:51 am

X has a great point. I did my silent mode earlier. She was obviously pissed but I'd rather not talk about it and just did my job as I should so that the issue won't get worse.

She messaged me on Skype saying that "I should ask for help if I am confused with something" which is completely the opposite of what she texted me yesterday. It turned out that the ad I did had errors in production and the client herself has to point it out -- though our manager wasn't angry about it.

She also claims that I said something to our manager that caused her our manager's ire.

And yes Andrew, both A and B are far more experienced than me in this field. And I respect them for that.

EDIT: Maybe I should just keep quiet to make no more trouble.
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Re: The Letting Off Steam Thread

Postby Martti. on Sat May 28, 2011 3:07 am

Played the school basketball tournament where classes play against each other, semi-final. Down by 10 with 2+ minutes left. Teammate made two threes, I made a lay-up, deficit down to two.

Teammate was double-teamed throughout, still scored 31 of the 39 points we scored. I scored 8 and that was it. (2x15 min)

We got a stop on the last possession, we had no idea how much time was left as the scoreboard wasn't working. Teammate tried to get a shot off, but couldn't. I tried to set a screen, but it was no use as the second defender was right there. We can barely get 5 players together, so they could afford to leave one guy open.

He passed to me, shot without hesitating, but I missed a three, thought we still had like 10-15 tics left on the clock, tried to foul and they said time's up. Lost 41-39. One of my teammates really pissed me and our scorer off. We played zone and he left his spot on nearly every possession, had a wide-open lane to the basket, still shot mid-range jumpers that had no hope. Always yelled 'places!' as we set our defense up, 2-3 zone, but it was more like 2-2-1 lost idiot. He also took like 10 shots, making none.

Also, mu shoulder hurts like hell as I tried a pump-fake and jumped into my defender, we both went down, nothing was called. I made the shot though. He took it harder then me as I basically jumper into his jaw.
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Re: The Letting Off Steam Thread

Postby shadowgrin on Sat May 28, 2011 4:21 am

Lean wrote:She also claims that I said something to our manager that caused her our manager's ire.

Maybe you told your manager to relax. :P
Not to burden you with anymore thoughts but it seems she's 'plastic' (Lean knows what that means) or your boss is when interacting with you. The best thing to do right now is do your job.
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Re: The Letting Off Steam Thread

Postby Cartar on Sat May 28, 2011 6:26 am

My Xbox power brick stopped working...
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Re: The Letting Off Steam Thread

Postby koberulz on Sat May 28, 2011 6:27 am

My VCR just ate my tape of the Perth Wildcats' 2001 pre-season game against the Great Mates All-Stars (James Crawford, Mike Ellis, Mark Davis, the Simmons brothers, etc.), and it is now unplayable.

Hoping I've damaged the VCR, rather than the tape, but I can't know for sure until I get a different VCR, which is going to be a few days.
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Re: The Letting Off Steam Thread

Postby [Q] on Sat May 28, 2011 8:21 am

Lean wrote:EDIT: Maybe I should just keep quiet to make no more trouble.

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Re: The Letting Off Steam Thread

Postby Lean on Sat May 28, 2011 8:37 am

shadowgrin wrote:Not to burden you with anymore thoughts but it seems she's 'plastic' (Lean knows what that means) or your boss is when interacting with you. The best thing to do right now is do your job.


That common Pinoy trait. :shake:

I didn't go with them to have lunch, I went on my own. After the break, she approached me and asked if I had lunch and where, like nothing happened. Later she went on and oriented me with the workflow of the team, and she seemed normal again. Not taking anything away, but it helps to be cautious.

After that she messaged me again on Skype, in her usual normal self, and told me that our manager isn't fond of her lately and she said that (going back to that earlier post) I might have told the manager something about teammate B that caused this.
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Re: The Letting Off Steam Thread

Postby Axel The Great on Tue May 31, 2011 7:01 am

Got a major sunburn playing soccer non-stop for two hours straight yesterday. Better today, but it was hard to sleep last night.
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Re: The Letting Off Steam Thread

Postby Cruzerr on Tue May 31, 2011 7:16 am

My motherf*cking biology teacher just gave me an year 3(C, it is not my best subject) because she did not take my workbook, but she had to like she f*cking promised. She did not take it because somebody had thrown paper on the floor and somehow, she blamed it on my. My only C in the year and somebody just needed. I could have gotten a B, my workbook was totally done. But no.
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Re: The Letting Off Steam Thread

Postby Cartar on Tue May 31, 2011 8:09 am

Cruzerr wrote:My motherf*cking biology teacher just gave me an year 3(C, it is not my best subject) because she did not take my workbook, but she had to like she f*cking promised. She did not take it because somebody had thrown paper on the floor and somehow, she blamed it on my. My only C in the year and somebody just needed. I could have gotten a B, my workbook was totally done. But no.


So does that make him your stepfather?Sorry, just had to do that
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Re: The Letting Off Steam Thread

Postby Cruzerr on Tue May 31, 2011 5:11 pm

Cartar wrote:
Cruzerr wrote:My motherf*cking biology teacher just gave me an year 3(C, it is not my best subject) because she did not take my workbook, but she had to like she f*cking promised. She did not take it because somebody had thrown paper on the floor and somehow, she blamed it on my. My only C in the year and somebody just needed. I could have gotten a B, my workbook was totally done. But no.


So does that make him your stepfather?Sorry, just had to do that


:D, what made it even worse, is that my class mate had even worse grades than mine and got a B.
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Re: The Letting Off Steam Thread

Postby koberulz on Wed Jun 01, 2011 11:48 pm

koberulz wrote:My VCR just ate my tape of the Perth Wildcats' 2001 pre-season game against the Great Mates All-Stars (James Crawford, Mike Ellis, Mark Davis, the Simmons brothers, etc.), and it is now unplayable.

Hoping I've damaged the VCR, rather than the tape, but I can't know for sure until I get a different VCR, which is going to be a few days.

I guess this becomes off-topic now, but it turns out it was the VCR, not the tape. The game is now safely on a DVD.
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Re: The Letting Off Steam Thread

Postby [Q] on Sat Jun 04, 2011 5:14 am

so I bank with ING Direct online and they have free checking, but they mail the checks for you instead of giving you checks to write. This has not been a problem in the last 2 months as I have sent my $700 rent checks to my home so I can give it to my landlord. however, it didn't come this month and I spoke with the post office a few days ago. and somehow yesterday the check was cashed, so looks like I'm gonna have to something about this.
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