The Chronicles of George

[chance1234]

This is more of a venting as I am particularly annoyed.

On top of all the annoying stuff I have to deal with every day made by people 'higher' up than me and never communicating the changes down to me, they decided they needed to make our lives even more difficult.

One of the many things that bothers me is that when one person screws something up, everyone in the department/company gets 'punished'. For instance, someone that is not on my team had an accident with the company van. My group does use it more often but we only drive it across the street downtown to carry a lot of heavy equipment so the mileage we put on it doesn't even come close to adding up to that put on but the other groups allowed to use it. During the summer, my team barely ever use it. It is quicker to walk over with the stuff on a cart. Yet, when they decided some initiative had to be taken to show how concerned with 'safety' the company is, they put it on us to check the tire pressure each week and mark it down in a logbook kept in the office. What the flaming hell does that have to do with anything? Because someone not with our team was a complete moron and has the judgement of a 10 year old, you want us to remember to add yet another completely token gesture to our routine just so it looks like you are doing something about safety? You want us to wash the windows too and check the oil?

Add this to the list. Because a clueless luser with the brain the size of a peanut and control over some company cash got taken in, or almost taken in, by some stupid phishing scam, they MADE all of us take a pointless online fraud prevention course. WTF? Are you high?

So now we come to today. They have decided to screw us again by sending us on a 2 week work trip where we will work for 13 hours a day, 7 days a week and stay in shared accomodations. As a 'reward', a whole week off is given after returning. This is how this translates to me:

"We are going to put you on a plane where you will suffer terribly because your allergies cause you congestion and the altitude makes your head want to burst. Then when you arrive we want you to have none of the privacy you value in your life and work like a dog with no downtime after work. And since you will be away from the office for 3 weeks total, we will just dump all the work you missed back home on you. We chose to completely inconvenience your lives because our billion dollar company thought it would be too complicated to hire people from that country to do the work instead. So to make it easier on us can you get your passport and make all the travel arrangements? As an added bonus, you will be continuing to make this trip every 6-8 weeks until we decide it is time to stop."

I should probably make a threat against the president or something. Maybe then they'll stop me from entering the country.

[MikeP]

If you haven't already got a passport, don't get one unless they pay for it.

Also, don't make any travel arrangements - that's their job, not yours.

And finally, shared accommodation is just unacceptable.
I am being sent to TechEd later this month along with 8 others - and we all have separate rooms.

If you are required by your employer to be away from home then they can pay for it (even if it's an enjoyable trip like TechEd ).
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[Severine]

I'd start clubbing folks like baby harp seals. But that's just me when I get frustrated.
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[Rizak the Really Horrible]

If it were me, I'd just show up at the airport without a passport claiming that it wasn't in my job description to NEED one. Then, everyone else can go do this stupid thing and I'd get to stay at home like I wanted in the first place.
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[Woodman668]

At the least I would claim it as a deduction on my taxes. Or just file it with the rest of my expenses with the company, if I was doing expense reports.

If they are sending a group of you why wouldn't they handle the travel? It would be cheaper to send you as a group I would think. I wonder if someone is taking a side trip and doesn't want to get snagged.

Though, it would be a good opportunity to take a week somewhere different afterwards, assuming wherever you are going is near somewhere cool.

But I'm sure, while you have the option of not dong it, they have the option of not employing you.
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[dakboy]

How soon is this work trip? If you don't have a passport, is there enough time to get one on the "normal" schedule, or will you have to pay triple to get the rush service?

If the latter, the company definitely should be paying the difference between regular & rush service, if not the whole thing.
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[MikeP]

[Woodman668]

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