Mutti Chronicles

I got the most amusing e-mail at work today. It notified me that my employer is offering free prostate exams at corporate headquarters. Does anyone think I need a prostate exam? And like who would want to do that sort of thing at work anyway? Just more goofiness! Included in the same e-mail was an offer of free blood pressure screening. I guess so we can find out just how crazy the customers make us! This stuff is right up there with the free mamograms from last year. I’m pretty sure that one didn’t go over very well.

I got 2 amusing e-mails at work today. E-mail #1 informed us that we will be issued ID badges to use to get into our building from now on. The badges must be displayed prominently on our person at all times while we are on company premises. They must be worried that some crazed employee will break in and go on some manic crime spree or something. Hell, most days I don’t have time to leave my desk and go to the bathroom let alone go on a crime spree. And some of those Eastbay workers are dangerous let me tell you.
Amusing (or not so) e-mail #2 informed us that all requests for time off between Nov 21st and Dec 24th will, and in bold print, be denied.

My employer is really beginning to tick me off! Work Force has denied my request for 2 days off this week due to “heavy call volume”. Well I ask you what is the point of having a days off sign up sheet if they aren’t going to honor it? It’s not like I just sign up for random days off. Oh okay so today I just didn’t feel like working. So off to work I go today. “Heavy call volume” is just another way of saying there will be way too many people there, no place to park, and then no place to sit. More stress than a normal person needs in their average day! I could continue to rant on for another page or so, but what end would it serve?
P.S. Digby is still a sweetie but he just put a claw mark down my back. Yow!!!

Now that my little friend has almost gone, I’m feeling a little less hostile. But the whole women in public restrooms thing is still true. Ok now on to my employer. Today I had a little class in reversing everything I was taught about how to handle calls relating to my employer’s relationship to Amazon.com. Well this is typical for my employer. Lets preach and preach and preach about how to do something and then completely reverse ourselves. As we were told today, it is not our job to take customers away from Amazon.com, or sell them anything , simply to answer questions for them and help them navigate the Amazon.com website.. Well my question would be why can’t Amazon.com answer their own questions and help their own customers navigate their website? This will not make any sense to anyone at all, unless of course you work for my employer.

Yes, it’s time to apply for yet another new job. My employer is stringing me along with about 8 hours a week. How’s a person supposed to make any money that way. But yet along about November they’ll be begging me to work 10 hours a day. So into the mail goes another job application. But how will I ever be able to leave my present job after the wonderful BBQ we had the other day at lunch. Actually the hamburgers tasted like a mix of cardboard and sawdust and everything else was pretty bland. But at least we got a paid half hour to eat it, which means a half hour I didn’t have to talk to our half-witted customers.
Ah, but in happier news, Digby is a sweetie. And so cuddly. And he has the most beautiful sea green eyes. But more about him later.

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