We implemented a new time keeping system/payroll system recently. It requires clocking in each day at the tablet by the main entrance or subjecting to the GPS and camera allowances on your phone so the app can take your location data and a picture of you every clocking event. Berk you and berk that I'm salary and haven't had to hard clock in and out since I worked landscape in high school. Give me a rfid key card so you can get a swipe in for ISO 9001 "who's in the building" tracking and a general idea of when I come and go. The tablet asked me why I was 15 minutes late today, because salary dickhead. I work +12 hour days when I'm traveling for you berkeleyers I'm going to flex my hours when I'm slow at the plant. I cannot wait to leave this job.
When I was at the automotive parts plant they did that, and at the same time changed the day that payroll started on. The problem was that they didn't realize it was going to short the people on 12hr shifts a full day on their next pay. That was a $500 shortfall for us. So I went to our department manager and argued with him, saying, you need to do something here. What do you think I can do? They won't listen to me, he said. Regardless, you should stand up for your people. He didn't so I requested a meeting with HR and the VP of HR. When I suggested if they didn't want to fix the problem they created, they should throw us a bone and either pay us a day, or give us OT pay for the two days previous. When she said, I can't do that, it's against company policy, I was ready and listed all the things they'd recently done that were against company policy. They gave us the money, and I shoved it in the manager's face.
I don't miss that BS, but I do miss being able to fight and argue with management for what's right without getting fired, and often winning. I was there almost 25yrs
NickD said:Yo, GM Techline, if literally every time I call you for the past three years you are "experiencing higher than average call volume", guess what, that's your new average and you need to adjust staffing accordingly. Just tried to call them and was told I was caller 38 in line and my wait time was 139-147 minutes.
Illinois passed a law in Jan 2022 that if that is a warranty job that you can clock in/out for the wait time and duration of the call and get paid.
https://illinoisdealers.com/information-about-new-warranty-reimbursement-law/
Everything I've touched since coming back from the challenge has turned to E36 M3. Work, house, project car, Everything.
Can I say berkeley it and call in with anal glaucoma to life for a day or three?
Youtube can go fornicate themselves.
I understand that I will have to watch ads to pay for the service.
An ad every 3 - 5 minutes is awful.
I have friends with Youtube channels. I watch their shows, I don't skip the ads and I don't run an ad blocker because I want my friends to get their money.
If this keeps up, I'm going to run an ad blocker.
It's getting stupid.
Tomorrow will be exactly mid 40s. I could not sleep so doom scrolling even though everything I have on the burners is working because I am a neurotic freak and profited from all this bullE36 M3. Took something hard and am feeling melancholy. Putting a friends father in the ground tomorrow on my birthday someone I shared similar automotive passions and who get me my first Shelby cobra ride along. I am likely the least successful person in my generation of family he did not care. Knew I did not need much but to make people healthy that's what we talked about.
I should have been dead at 13, almost drowned. Remember it like it just happened. At 20 skipped a party and lost my friend to a mosquito bite in a tent. 2 months later another to a drunk hitting his motorcycle. 3 full speed accidents on the street with concussions. Dozens of chipped and fractured bones. ODs by family and friends. Full knockout while surfing. Two cancer scares and 30 years in an industry with no degree where I have to go toe to toe with multi PhDs. I think I have worked on 7 launched drugs at this point. Built the tech for some really hard one off challenges. All while married for 22 years to someone who tolerates my disfunction and lets me be.
Maybe it getting old and my work is now emails and meetings. But I am having more fun with our younger technicians. Finding projects, making them better orators keeping E36 M3 from rolling downhill. How to cover your ass and speak corporate. I have maybe ten years left in me at most and then I am gone to teach what I can at the JC level. I'm frustrated that after they left school or home not a single adult has told them how good a job they do, where to improve, how to stretch your skills.
Ranting into the wind so I can sleep. I had a feeling tonight that the 30 or so people I have trained or pulled into my orbit are finally doing better, standing up for themselves. That they as a group will swamp what I have done and I am proud. Need to be better about telling them. We have a range of ages here and I am a younger one but get yourself checked out. Watching a ultra marathon runners heart go out due to genetics is breaking mine.
the order of the universe has been taking the good ones lately and not the bad. I am a bit pissed off about that. You all hear are the good ones get checked out at the doctor.
this concluded my one and only midlife crisis post. I did the appropriate thing and bought an exotic car to show I still fast. Even though I should have had Keith build me a Miata.
RacetruckRon said:We implemented a new time keeping system/payroll system recently. It requires clocking in each day at the tablet by the main entrance or subjecting to the GPS and camera allowances on your phone so the app can take your location data and a picture of you every clocking event. Berk you and berk that I'm salary and haven't had to hard clock in and out since I worked landscape in high school. Give me a rfid key card so you can get a swipe in for ISO 9001 "who's in the building" tracking and a general idea of when I come and go. The tablet asked me why I was 15 minutes late today, because salary dickhead. I work +12 hour days when I'm traveling for you berkeleyers I'm going to flex my hours when I'm slow at the plant. I cannot wait to leave this job.
I have to clock in and out despite being salaried. In my case, they calculate my PTO according to hours worked. After I learned that, I didn't mind as much.
In reply to RacetruckRon :
I'm probably an oddball, but my entire career has been salaried, but working on government contracts where I have to record my time and allocate it to the different projects for budgeting purposes. I often dream about how nice it would be to not have to fool with any of that
Do people that drive like shiny happy people know that they drive like that? Or do they just go around wondering why people are always pissed at them? People like to squeeze in front of me in traffic a lot because I leave a decent following distance since I'm in a heavy truck. Today a guy in a CRV cut me off in traffic while trying to get into a turn lane at the last minute, a couple minutes later, I try to get around him in the other lane and he does it again, this time getting just a few inches in front of my bumper. I finally have an opportunity to switch lanes and get past him so I give it a bit of gas, and he tries to do it once again! But he was too slow and couldn't, however he did throw his hands up like "what the berkeley" when I went by. I wish I could know what was going on inside his head, it would be interesting.
In reply to gixxeropa :
In my experience, no. They most assuredly do not.
They are perfect drivers and everybody is out to get them.
Several years ago I was hit by a turning semi truck while I was at a stop sign. T intersection, I was stopped at the base. The semi came from my right, turning left, and swiped the front left quarter of my suburban with his trailer frame.
It wound up doing minor damage to my rig, but I was pissed because hello? Stopped at a stop sign!!! He didn't have enough room to make the turn, but tried to anyways.
A simple citation turned into a clusterberkeley involving a judge, the citing officer, several accident experts, and myself as a witness to get it through this guy's head that 1) running over a stopped vehicle put him at fault; 2) stopped vehicles cannot avoid accidents; and 3) crossing lines, while permissible for turning semis, becomes patently illegal when there is a motherberkeleying Suburban occupying the other damn lane!
Being stupid is like being dead. It doesn't affect them; it affects everyone around them.
In reply to gixxeropa :
Yesterday was a day for shiny happy drivers. I had a 25-minute trip into the local small city and had probably 10 WTF moments. And it was the middle of the day, so traffic wasn't even heavy.
Recon1342 said:Being stupid is like being dead. It doesn't affect them; it affects everyone around them.
Man, that is the quote of the year right there!
berkeleying U-Haul again!
Need a car trailer Saturday to pick up my wagon. Made a reservation on Monday. The location closest and that I like.
Holding, holding. Then just now get the voicemail, email, text combo. That location doesn't have an auto transport, we're moving it to another location.
Now I either have to contain my rage and deal with the other location, which I hate and screwed me on my last rental.
Or try a Facebook trailer rental.
Or text a friend of a friend I borrowed a trailer from once before. I barely know him and the last time I spoke with him was almost two years ago borrowing his trailer.
dan0 said:Or text a friend of a friend I borrowed a trailer from once before. I barely know him and the last time I spoke with him was almost two years ago borrowing his trailer.
Then he's an acquaintance. Do the right thing and ask to rent it from him.
gixxeropa said:Do people that drive like shiny happy people know that they drive like that?
I don't generally watch videos, but I am fascinated by dashcam videos, and watch far too many of them. Once you've watched enough you begin to see the patterns, and let's just say that when I am on the road there are a few makes of vehicle that I watch out for very closely, one being far worse than any other. It's not the vehicle, it's the type of people who buy them, and no, they have no idea. Judging by the way they drive they aren't aware of anybody else being on the road, either
In reply to DarkMonohue :
Well that's out. I did just text him but his trailer is down indefinitely. Leaf spring mounts gone, rusted through frame.
Message sent to Facebook rental guy.
Guess I'll keep the U-Haul reservation for now.
Back in the day I'd just throw a plate on it and have AAA tow it, but they're hit or miss with checking registration and timing. If I wait to get to MA and do the deal, then contact. I'll be waiting two hours for dispatch. If I call ahead they'll dispatch immediately and then I'd be screwed again...
So it's really a pain when spam callers leave blank messages, nice when someone finally leaves one.
But when you do, at least tell me why I should call you back. Don't say "I'm Y from X company, call me back at N". If you don't tell me why to call you, I won't.
wearymicrobe said:Tomorrow will be exactly mid 40s. I could not sleep so doom scrolling even though everything I have on the burners is working because I am a neurotic freak and profited from all this bullE36 M3. Took something hard and am feeling melancholy. Putting a friends father in the ground tomorrow on my birthday someone I shared similar automotive passions and who get me my first Shelby cobra ride along. I am likely the least successful person in my generation of family he did not care. Knew I did not need much but to make people healthy that's what we talked about.
Man I was stoned last night. Ativan and a sleeping pill did that.
I wish USPS didn't feel the need to run my packages to every hub in the state before delivering them.
gixxeropa said:People.
FTFY
The odds of being hit by a tornado are something less than 1 in 4.5 million. You stand a better chance of being diagnosed with Leprosy. Are you seriously making your kids sleep in bike helmets? I can see having them handy. I can understand being prepared in case of a nearby tornado warning. But sleeping in them? Then you get on Facebook complaining that your children have storm anxiety. I wonder why.
I mean you do you, but don't complain when you reap what you sow.
I would think that sleeping in a helmet would cause neck injury.
In reply to Toyman! :
I am absolutely terrified of tornadoes. Like, irrationally so. I don't want that for my kids, though, so I secretly stay up all night in my office in the basement while I watch the weather. So far, I've never needed to drag everybody down into the basement with me and the kids don't seem to be particularly phased by severe weather.
Driven5 said:In reply to The_Jed :
Check your email for a message from the GRM 'robot'.
I can't seem to access the email that I have attached to GRM. Thank you anyway, I appreciate the effort.
The_Jed said:The_Jed said:I had to enroll in EFTPS to try to make a payment. Now I have to wait two business days for my enrollment to be certified?
I didn't have to jump through these additional hoops last year... maybe this is some of that "efficiency" I've been hearing so much about... or maybe I just handed them everything they need to steal my identity and now my bank account will find a new hole to be syphoned through. I guess I'll find out in a few days.Okay, I waited the alotted time and tried to log in. It kicked me to one of three other sites and each of them sent a code to a phone I no longer have. I called and was directed back to one of the sites sending codes to my old phone. I explained this but, they firmly explained that federal release of prisoner forms are blue...
I'm almost an hour in. I'll probably have to do this again tomorrow. Many fine books have been written in prison...
I also still need to set up an appointment for my youngest kid's constantly rapid heart rate and jump through hoops to get FMLA approval so, if I have to call in again when I'm sitting in the hospital with either of my kids, I don't get written up since last time was my "freebie" I was told I would initiate the discipline ladder if I did it again. Let me tell you, it was tough to hang onto my job during that conversation!
After multiple days of effort I was finally able to pay my taxes. I've never felt so much relief watching $2,583 evaporate.
Also after multiple days of effort I was finally have the FMLA paperwork in hand. I still have to take it with me when I take either kid to the doctor for it to be filled out completely but, it's a stumble in the right direction.
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