Posts tagged workplace
Who’s the B*tch?
Oct 21st
Working at a staffing agency, you really meet a lot of interesting people. As the person that screens every candidate – I hear the good and the bad – I hear it all.
Calming down before continuing an argument will work to your advantage
This woman called today, looking for a job. I was straight to the point in scheduling her for an interview but when verifying her e-mail address she accused me of having an attitude and calling me a bitch.When she asked to speak to my supervisor, I transferred her and she began yelling at my supervisor and my supervisor was just shocked at her language and herattitude. She told my supervisor that she was going to spread the word that we are a terrible agency. Read the rest of this entry »
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Workaholics go to meetings
Chapter 1: Entrance (part 2)
Oct 20th
I jumped right into work like a seasoned professional. Accounts receivable, accounts payable, QuickBooks, taxes. The only thing that really qualified me for the job was a nine-month stint doing bookkeeping for a small Long Island company. My Poly-Sci undergrad degree was of no help here, and even though I’ve taken several business classes, I knew nothing about running a company. But I HAVE been employed in a 
number of different settings ever since my sophomore year in high school, and felt comfortable handling bosses, owners, coworkers. But all those were small family businesses, all lacking the PC world of larger, “more professional” offices. These places also lacked the kind of office politics so many of us hate, yet are used to in the demeaning and impersonal corporate world.
There is a lot one can learn for an ethics or business course, but nothing could ever prepare you to be thrust into a social setting of brainwashed kids fueled by hopes and dreams, and the load of shit-sugar coating dumped on them by whoever they interviewed with. Yes, they were kids. The oldest was just about 23, as they were all recruited straight out of college and molded into an “ideal” employee. This made perfect sense after all, it’s much easier to start with a blank slate than to try to re-program a person’s mind. And it all came from the top. From both of them. And they were good. Very good.
The face of general politeness around the office hid beneath it not a trace of sincerity. The half-smiles, the eye nods, the group lunches, they were all present. Read the rest of this entry »
Fired! Civil Duty: two different ends of the spectrum
Oct 20th
One fired because he was “too intimidating” (is that a real reason?) and the second because he went over his bosses head. The difference? One received a severance package that will ensure a clean separation, while the other is let loose after nearly three decades of service and is now suing to get his job back.
Keep your employment away from termination
A small Florida town has fired Bill Vance, its Town Manager, because he was too intimidating. The town’s Library Director has told the the town commissioners during a special meeting that she along with other staff members “are being intimidated, being ambushed.” Vance’s firing comes as a result of “such an amount of adverse comments.” Vance was terminated with a six-month severance package.
In New York, a Health and Hospitals Corporation employee has been fired for what he claims to be “unjust reasons”. According to Naren Gupta, his problems began when while serving as a senior management consultant for HHC, he discovered more than $1,000,000 in payments being made to Chase Manhattan Bank without a contract Read the rest of this entry »
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