The Workplace

[EARTHQUAKE2689]

Originally Posted by Mattyk

Congrats! Welcome to the world of more responsibility, more grief, and hopefully some more $$ in your pocket if you're lucky!

And welcome to salaried

[EARTHQUAKE2689]

Originally Posted by saden1

Congrats.

Thank You

[mredskins]

Originally Posted by EARTHQUAKE2689

And welcome to salaried

Salaried sucks that just means that don't have to pay you OT.

Seriously clean house when you get to your store and just hire all hot chicks. You will have the highest grossing Game Stop on the planet.

[gridironcharlie]

Eating at your desk shouldn't happen unless your working and then you asked for it. Gotta step away from that world and the others around you for that meal break....or just hang a sign on your back "out to lunch"

[Alvin Walton]

We're doing inventory counts tomorrow.
6 hours of overtime.
Yea! Now I can afford to fill the tank on my Envoy.

[EARTHQUAKE2689]

Originally Posted by mredskins

Salaried sucks that just means that don't have to pay you OT.

Seriously clean house when you get to your store and just hire all hot chicks. You will have the highest grossing Game Stop on the planet.

Gamestop doesn't offer OT. Once you hit 40.01 hours the system locks you out and your subject to a write-up. As a store manager you can work whenever. We have tried the hot girl thing and it doesn't work because they're all stupid.

[Chico23231]

I could f*ck with text box issues in f*cking powerpoint all f*cking day long and some slides would still not match up

[mredskins]

Originally Posted by Chico23231

I could f*ck with text box issues in f*cking powerpoint all f*cking day long and some slides would still not match up

I hate power point especially 07 power point. Sometimes it is best to do the text boxes in excel and then paste them in as pictures into PowerPoint. That has been my go around at times.

[Chico23231]

Originally Posted by mredskins

I hate power point especially 07 power point. Sometimes it is best to do the text boxes in excel and then paste them in as pictures into PowerPoint. That has been my go around at times.

word ill have to look into that...does microsoft undertand that adding additional sh*t, options and controls doesnt neccessarily make their product better? i wish i was a software jedi master sometimes, but not feeling like im being consistently kicked in nuts when working with this stuff

[mredskins]

Originally Posted by Chico23231

word ill have to look into that...does microsoft undertand that adding additional sh*t, options and controls doesnt neccessarily make their product better? i wish i was a software jedi master sometimes, but not feeling like im being consistently kicked in nuts when working with this stuff

In excel if you learn VBA you can write a lot of your own shit, it comes in handy.


The worst thing to work with in PowerPoint IMO are master slides, god I hate them and the Army makes us use them.

[hooskins]

Our office we have to log our time accurately, but don't see a dime extra for any more hours. Last month was 220 hour, have done almost 300 before

[tryfuhl]

Originally Posted by EARTHQUAKE2689

Gamestop doesn't offer OT. Once you hit 40.01 hours the system locks you out and your subject to a write-up. As a store manager you can work whenever. We have tried the hot girl thing and it doesn't work because they're all stupid.

Find better customers, if a guy comes in and is asking about games he's probably just trying to flirt but doesn't know how.

[Schneed10]

Originally Posted by EARTHQUAKE2689

I get my own store next week!! Finally a manager!!!

EQ, congrats man.

[Schneed10]

Originally Posted by mredskins

OK in layman terms if you work in finance and don't know where cell A1 is in excel it be like being an auto mechanic and not knowing a philips head from a flat head.

If you own an insurance company I would think you have some working knowledge of excel; apparently not kind of scary.

Pretty well said. New title for me as of last month: Director of Financial Analysis. Excel is a way of life.

If you know how to use it to your advantage it practically does your job for you.

[Schneed10]

And my last of three consecutive posts. This week HR made it mandatory for everyone in the office to attend a seminar: Violence in the Workplace.

They showed a video explaining the "continuum of flashpoint responses". They've got a damn term for everything these days.

So in the video they show these little skits of certain employee interactions that eventually lead up to conflict, and then stop it to talk about at what point is best to intervene and try to cool the situation down. This one skit starts with this shady looking guy in the office constantly making eyes at the pretty, meek receptionist. Then some time passes and she receives flowers with a note, which she then reads, and makes a horrified face. But they never let you - the audience - see what the note said.

At that point I mentally checked out. I turned to my colleague and said "this is just poor directing, naturally once she made that face the audience is going to want to know what the note said. I can't take this video seriously now."

Anybody here work in HR? How do you sleep at night knowing everyone hates you and thinks your entire career is a waste?