Things I've Learned At Work

[nhollywood]

Just a quiz: "How do you know that the person making a request is clueless?" They start their sentence with "Well all you have to do is ..."

[AirHostess]

Always carry blister plasters
Keep smiling!
Turbulance is scary!

[Sliceanddice]

I am surprisingly anal and organized..... at work
No matter what you run out of change during rush
Tony will always think im a 30 something mexican woman named Nancy, and not a 20 something white girl
Just when you learn where and what every thing is, you get size 20 bags.
I will be the one they run to answer questions...... i still dont know why....

[iradney]

Management doesn't give a damn about treating their employees like cattle
Management doesn't care if the employees leave in droves (even said it to my sup's face)
Management has no respect for their employees

[Foxglove8778]

Cliques and gossip have not stayed behind in junior high were they belong.

Adults mostly act like adults only in front of children... if that.

People usually will not accept that they made a mistake with any grace [must blame others].

Highly educated people do not realize how much they don't know about things that they were not taught at college.

It is more important to me that a job be done thoroughly than quickly.

It is important to me that my documentation be understandable rather than brief.

I take work too seriously.

[Becks]

Having two days off in a row isn't as relaxing as you'd think.

It's possible to cut your hand and make it bleed without breaking the glove you're wearing.

I can't believe I forgot the #1 thing I've EVER learned at work-- IF IT MAKES SENSE, IT'S NOT ALLOWED™®©

[Mr. Rager!]

I recently got a supervisor position, so I'm learning a lot quickly...


You can spend an entire day protecting your employees from your boss just to have them turn around and want your job.

I can get away with just about anything. Other people, cannot.

No matter how hard you try, you cannot make a schedule to appease everyone.

Most people are smart enough to figure out what they need to do next. So instead of basically telling your people how to make a peanut butter and jelly sandwhich, tell them to make one and just have them come to you with questions. (Metaphor)

If an employee tells a customer something, back up the employee. (Unless the employee was completely wrong)

"Extend to each person, no matter how trivial the contact, all the care and kindness and understanding and love that you can muster, and do it with no thought of any reward" -Og Mandino (I seriously live by this as best I can... and really, it's a good thing)

[Ringtail Z28]

At retail:
Shame no longer exists.
The more people there are in one place the less intellegent they are.
The smaller the car the larger the item that needs to be carried out.
Holidays bring out the worst in people.
Retail employees are expendable.
Even though you haul carts, pallets and tubs around all day (or night), it's not considered "real work".

At a government office:
This is where SCs come from.
Common sense and logic are not allowed.
Going on a diet makes you unpopular.
Exercise is a spectator sport.
A so-called "real job" involves virtually no work.

[TNT]

This week, I found out a lot of fundamental lessons about working in call centers. Two of them are:

1. Call centers are incredibly cool places to work and a great career choice... provided you don't have to actually make or take any calls.

2. If helping customers is great (and I do believe that), helping them without ever having to deal with them is even better.

[BookstoreEscapee]

• "Paper" cuts from cardboard hurt like hell and tend to bleed.
• I cannot lift a 50 pound box from the floor.
• Always test the weight of the box before you attempt to lift it.
• Teenagers are just asking to be stepped on; this is the only reason I can think of for the way they sit on the floor with their legs stretched across the aisle and refuse to move for anyone walking down.
• Climbing the shelves in receiving is much quicker and easier than pulling out the ladder and moving boxes to clear a place to put it, and also more stable.
• The receiving ladder is scary.
• From Store1: Don't wear white on the mornings you strip the newspapers.
• From Store2: Always be prepared to get thrown into receiving for the day, even if you are wearing a skirt. The managers will not call and warn you to dress down, no matter how many times you ask them to.

[danegrous_21]

note - i now work at a tv news station. so everything is tv related.

1. some tv personalities will look down at because the been there 25 years and you just started as a camera guy.

2. some people will never say hi no matter how many time you do or see them

3. 90% of what i, you or anybody watches on local stations and maybe even cable is all pre-recorded and being played off a single computer thats being watched by a guy reading a book.

4. most people that work in tv production have some of the easiest jobs in the world. they get paid to watch tv. the dream of most americans.

5. sometimes the weatherman makes a ass out of himself for saying its going to rain, then its sunny for the next week.

6. if you had a big enough satalite dish and a reciever, you could just watch network programming as its being sent down to be recorded on the server computer.(refer to #2)

7. on nbc most commercials break are at least 2 mins long.(dont believe me, go time it.)

8. big satalite dish really do take a while to ajust. like in contact. (but these ones arent that big)

9. here in texas they stop showing the state lotto drawing live. why i dont know.

10. this one happens alot. no matter how a news show looks, it could be a diaster going on behind he scenes,most times they pull it off without the viewer(you) knowing whats went wrong.

11. local news originally had more stories in the show at then you hear about becuase some had to be dropped for time.


tv production is a kinda werid place to be.

[BookstoreEscapee]

5. sometimes the weatherman makes a ass out of himself for saying its going to rain, then its sunny for the next week.

As my dad says, being a weatherman is the only job where you can be wrong 90% of the time and not get fired.

[Becks]

XM satellite radio does not have any variety. Every channel plays the same songs, over and over and over.

Yeah, but the songs don't come on at the exact same time every day. Too bad. They brought a few songs back that I don't get to hear too often.

9. here in texas they stop showing the state lotto drawing live. why i dont know.

Funny, I thought it was a LAW (maybe just in WI, though?) that lottery drawings HAD to be live, to prove that they're not fixed...

As my dad says, being a weatherman is the only job where you can be wrong 90% of the time and not get fired.

Better than baseball. If you fail approx. 70% of the time, you still have a "good" batting average.

[TNT]

I had a geography teacher once come up with the following:

Q. How often is the weatherman correct?
A. 100% of the time.

He was right, at least in a way... the weather forecast is always boils down to something like this: "Historically, with these conditions, it has rained 7 out of 10 times."

Anyways, in keeping with topic, here's a story from a local weatherman about something he learned at work:

1. The forecast said there was absolutely no possibility of rain for the day. So I went on TV, and I said, "There's no possibility of rain today." When I got back to my office, I got a call from a viewer... "You know, while you were on TV saying it couldn't possibly rain, it was raining at my house." So, I went to a window at the station... sure enough, it was raining here, too. From that day forward, I never went on the air without first looking out the window.

[Professional Serf]

Crank does NOT make you work harder, it just makes you start more things while getting nothing finished.