Today, as always, my boss is too cheap to buy more than 2 profiles for a critical software. Six employees compete in a daily thunderdome to log on and do their work before getting kicked off and losing everything. FML
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Autumn: Leaves and Laughter
When the leaves fall, the laughter rises. Discover autumn stories as crisp as dried leaves!
Today, I once again got less than 20 hours of work for the entire week. My boss's solution? Double the staff. FML
Today, our boss replaced all our computers with new Apple iMacs, which have fewer USB ports and none of our software or saved files. He insists it’s all “in the Cloud thing somewhere, figure it out and show some damn gratitude.” We are now incapable of doing our jobs but he insists he’s blameless. FML
Today, like most days, I spent my lunch break with a sandwich in one hand while typing with the other, trying to keep up with my work load, while my coworker took a nap. We're supposed to be doing the same job, but he refuses to learn most of the software. The boss is fine with this. FML
Today, at my workplace, I saw a system crashing. I mean literally, my manager was throwing my colleague's laptop at him while shouting around the office. This is only my second day. FML
Today, my boss is being so cheap, he'd rather type in the dark, not fix our water heater or replace our cordless phone because he will not get his bonus if he goes over the budget. FML
Today, I restarted my desktop computer at work. Nobody told me, but it turns out that my computer holds the licenses used for all programs on the server. Needless to say, a lot of people hate me right now. It's only my fifth day here. FML
Today, I learned my boss, the CEO of a multinational nonprofit, is so computer illiterate that he hadn't realized he could resize the File Explorer window on his computer, leading to days of delay of him getting work to my team, and a lot of unhappy notes. FML
Today, my boss called me while I was working from home to bitch me out over being away from my computer for 49 minutes, when my lunch break is only 45 minutes, thus wasting another 13 minutes. My boss is known for spending hours online gaming from home during work hours. FML
Today, my boss is still refusing to hire any more people because he's convinced I can handle all of the work after the majority of staff quit. FML
Today, my boss, who was in a heated dispute with a difficult employee, called me via our office chat program to deal with him. The program interrupts whatever you do, making it the priority window. I was in a chat with another colleague, making my response that they both saw, "I have many bullets to spare!" FML
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RichardPencil 30
This is not the time for "quiet quitting." This is the time for a loud, raucous quitting with a big karaoke "Take This Job and Shove It" rendition on your departure.
Brightside86 30
Use to work at a hospital with similar limited license software the vender was setup so if we wanted just 1 more license we had to upgrade our whole plan it would cost 10k+. So instead we just kept juggling around 15+ year old software licenses on the few computers that used these.
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RichardPencil 30
This is not the time for "quiet quitting." This is the time for a loud, raucous quitting with a big karaoke "Take This Job and Shove It" rendition on your departure.
Taurus_ChicKa 36
Ugh I feel that. We had that where I work for a while. We had to unplug the ethernet cable to use Microsoft products because there were more of us than licenses in the building, and if someone was already using it, you'd get a popup saying someone else was already signed in.
Brightside86 30
Use to work at a hospital with similar limited license software the vender was setup so if we wanted just 1 more license we had to upgrade our whole plan it would cost 10k+. So instead we just kept juggling around 15+ year old software licenses on the few computers that used these.
Yudith 25
Film the Thunderdome event and send it to your bosses. Threaten to upload it to Youtube if they don't purchase enough profiles for everybody.
Battousai124 9
I guess neither of you guys have the critical skill called "communication"...