Weirdness at work.

[Joe Shlabotnik]

Yesterday was Ethics Training Refresher day. Everyone in the company goes down to the loading doc to get a 1 hour refresher on all the shady things you can do to get yourself fired. Unless you're an exec. In which case they get you promoted. But I digress.

This year, before the Ethics refresher, there was an additional topic: "How to Respond to an Active Shooter". They showed this video.

Then today it trickles down the hall that the CIO has left the company. And my boss was told no communication about it would go out. Not if he quit, not if he was fired, not who will replace him. Nothing. And this guy was a very visible part of the company. Like quarterly videos for everybody type of guy.

Then we find out they started putting an armed guard with the receptionist today. And this afternoon an APB e-mail stating that the back entry door posed a "great security risk" and people using it should make sure it is closed behind them.

No, nothing to see here. Move along.

[docellis]

wow. very creepy.

[JackofDiamonds]

I think you feel sick and need to go home.


There's a guy in my office that's a super-creepo (operations staff, won't make eye-contact, mutters angrily to himself at his desk, berates unnamed individuals audibly when he thinks he's alone in the bathroom, wears holey polos and unironed pants with [expletive] sneakers despite a relatively strict business formal dress-code, brushes his teeth 3 times a day, blows up over the smallest things and then completely shuts down and walks out of the office for 20 minutes or so, etc. etc. etc.) that I've done my best to be incredibly nice too since I started here 5 years ago.

I was walking to an elevator with a director when this guy noticed us and proceeded to smash the close door button about 65 times as we approached. We slowed down to let him go solo, and in the elevator the director mentioned that he always stays on this guys good side, and when super-creepo ops guy (SCOG) leaves the office more upset than usual, the director thinks about him coming back and shooting up the place. The NEXT day, I'm in the kitchen by myself geting some coffee when SCOG walks in, reaches into the fridge and JUST RIPS his lunch across the room and into the wall muttering about SHOWING THEM something something WHO THEY THINK something something. I sneak out the other door and immediately head to the elevators. Was I wrong to assume that he was just about to go LIAM NEESONS? I saw the director while I was walking to the coffee shop, told him what happened, and he decided to join me for a 30 minute break. "Nothing we can do now but hope everything is alright."

Would you fire someone like that? He's TERRIBLE at his job, should have been fired years ago when we restructured his division, but he's still here.

[Joe Shlabotnik]

I would fire someone like that. With two or three armed guards to help. After implanting an RFID in his skull so you know if he ever approaches the building or your home. Yeesh.

[wart57]

I would fire someone like that. With two or three armed guards to help. After implanting an RFID in his skull so you know if he ever approaches the building or your home. Yeesh.

I give him a corner office with it's own fridge, coffee pot, private elevator and restroom. I also give him 50 weeks of vacation per year.

[JL21]

I can't compete with the potential active shooters, although I can say that my office is well-versed on the policy of what to do and what not to do in those situations. It's just the nature of working in higher ed.

My "weirdness at work" scenario is that I've recently started reporting to a new person- an employee who's been here less than a year. This person does not understand how things work in my office, and I'm almost positive he doesn't give a [expletive]. This is because as far as he's concerned, it's his way or the highway. He's also one of those kinds of people who knows just enough to be dangerous- just enough to think they don't need to know any more and that they can dictate policy. And if you don't follow along, he's also such a [expletive] drama whore that he'll make it an issue instead of talking it out like human beings.

In the last year, I've taken on several new responsibilities. This dude I work for doesn't really understand what I do, nor does he understand my employer's policies, but today he asked me to directly violate those policies. And even without the specific policy he asked me to violate, what he asked me to do is unethical. So now I'm in this horrible position where I'm clearly going to ignore something that I was asked to do, all because the [expletive] guy didn't take 5 minutes to learn how things work. But I'm still not going to do what he asked me to do.

I'm sure things will eventually calm down but I'm pretty [expletive] angry right now about the guy.

[thrill]

I would fire someone like that. With two or three armed guards to help. After implanting an RFID in his skull so you know if he ever approaches the building or your home. Yeesh.

I give him a corner office with it's own fridge, coffee pot, private elevator and restroom. I also give him 50 weeks of vacation per year.

But then your senior writing staff will quit because you passed them up for promotion and THEN WHERE WILL YOU BE, ELAINE?

[Jocephus]

at a jewish singles night

[AWvsCBsteeeerike3]

Yesterday was Ethics Training Refresher day. Everyone in the company goes down to the loading doc to get a 1 hour refresher on all the shady things you can do to get yourself fired. Unless you're an exec. In which case they get you promoted. But I digress.

This year, before the Ethics refresher, there was an additional topic: "How to Respond to an Active Shooter". They showed this video.

Then today it trickles down the hall that the CIO has left the company. And my boss was told no communication about it would go out. Not if he quit, not if he was fired, not who will replace him. Nothing. And this guy was a very visible part of the company. Like quarterly videos for everybody type of guy.

Then we find out they started putting an armed guard with the receptionist today. And this afternoon an APB e-mail stating that the back entry door posed a "great security risk" and people using it should make sure it is closed behind them.

No, nothing to see here. Move along.

Wouldn't fighting be a lot easier if they had a gun, instead of a chair? Just saying
/trolling

Seriously though, I work in a building where the DEA takes up about a quarter of the office space. For some reason, that makes me not too worried about this type of [expletive]. Sucks it's around, let alone a concern. But, really, the odds are pretty low something like this happens.

[Radbird]

I'm glad I work from home.