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I used to get a daily dose of tea from aita and tifu
It's like reading a drama but for some random person's life somewhere on the planet
I just had a look there's no proper communities for that here... hopefully someone will start one
Oh, I'm interested in diffident small gossip - I would like to observe chicken politics, and bee politics.
All the disputes, daily fads, coups, 1:1 bonding rituals, etc.
If it's anything like my time on the night shift at a grocery store, there's probably one person that's been there for decades and only has to pack out one aisle of pillows, or some other bulky and light stuff, while everyone else has to cover 3 times as many shelves, with smaller and heavier items. But since that person has been there forever, they're one of the holdouts with a decent contract that makes several times more an hour than anyone else, including the shift supervisor, and actually has decent benefits.
There genuinely is no drama quite like workplace drama.
Used to work with a really diligent and thorough dude doing Data Analysis around overall Ops performance metrics, we got along really well in terms of work ethics, so we became work buddies pretty fast. Trouble was, the higher-ups set up the original databases in Google Spreadsheets and the people who worked on those docs before us botched them beyond belief. We kept trying to convince Management to let us redo all databases in SQL, link them with our tools to make things dynamic, and pull them through Power BI to get some nice visuals going, but they realised their asses would be on the line if the data started showing accurate values (plus they were too cheap to actually pay for viable software), so they kept stonewalling.
One day my guy gets fed up with our manager and decides to go nuclear. Thing is, the dude had a very, very nasty case of IBS (no wonder, honestly...). So he started taking advantage of it. He'd come in, tell me to keep an eye on him, and if I saw him getting red and sweaty I should use the facilities within the next 30 minutes then stay away from them. I can tell you that I made the mistake of not heeding his words only once. The dude literally bio-bombed every washroom in that building (small office, start-up type deal), and it would linger for hours due to poor ventilation. He did this without a predictable pattern, so that nobody would figure out who was to blame. This happened for several months. I cannot begin to tell you how much respect I had for the guy.
IBS was the most humiliating thing to have in a workplace. As a woman it's even worst. I would feel sick for hours and the only thing stoping the bomb to.go off was the humiliating smell. The sound is quick so you can avoid people around, but the smell... omg how.
Crohn's here. You would not believe what my body can produce. The other side of it as well is when you really need to go, and somebody has thoroughly destroyed the only available cubicle(s). I once just walked out the state of the loos was so bad. It's ok to touch the toilet brush to sort out your own stuff people 😭
I'm genuinely sorry you had to go through that, it really seemed to be a very unpleasant time for my buddy, to say the least... I mean, I have an apparently milder form of IBS (primarily diet and stress-based) and it's bad enough as-is...
But, truthfully, I don't think there's anything of which to be ashamed. I mean, we're being fed crap, we're stressed out more often than we're not, and we're living in environments fit more for industrial equipment than for biological life. It's no wonder our digestive systems are going haywire.
If anything, I think what my former colleague did was 100% reasonable, it's just a repercussion of the conditions in which we're meant to exist. Pairing that up with this social contract of "Thou shall not fart because it's, like, awkward for the rest of us" is pure hypocrisy. Fartung, thus, is an act of justified rebellion!
Gods I miss TFTS so bad
the last time i was involved in workplace drama/gossip was disappointing; they started a rumor that i was gay which was really weak tea since i've been out for decades and literally had pride flags on my desk, car bumper, and around my neck; but then again, it was austin texas so i guess it's still juicy to them despite it being the year 2020.
Oh, no, I'm so very sorry, that sounds awful!:( I can't even begin to imagine what it must be like, but... Jesus, like you've said, we've been in the XXIst Century for two and a half decades now, it's beyond disappointing that this is still happening... I'm genuinely sorry...
Wow that was notable to them in Austin? That sucks.
it's all good though since i got the last laugh. they hired me to create some software for them and they ended up losing all of it when they fired me because i never checked any of the source into github and the laptop i worked from was locked & encrypted using my own account; so they ended up with nothing.
some of them called me "fabulous" loudly and in front of everyone a few times and my autistic ass genuinely thought that they were complimenting me. lol.
i didn't realize until months afterwards that they were either trying to provoke or shame me and my only regret is that i wish i had realized what was happening at the time so that i could turn it on it's head and do things to make them REALLY clutch their pearls.
Ask them, they'll probably tell you. It is the night shift after all.
Like I ever leave the house after 7pm haha
as the morning crew idk who hates each other in the night but I gotta say I have made enemies with our signage supervisor
lemme guess... the weed seller started selling to the management and is getting away with doing fuck-all on the floor
Fish paste vs croutons.
… what??
What what? Which confuses you, the fish paste or the croutons?
Kohl knows what he did