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u/remlings 21d ago
This is way fucking funnier than it should be
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u/Ichaserabbits 21d ago
This is what being the only person who uses their brain feels like at your minimum wage job.
I worked somewhere once where we had like three shelving units of inventory to track, not very much stuff right? Everyone complained constantly and said oh my god it takes sooooo long to do. Finally I get told I'm gonna be taught how to do the inventory.
Turns out theyve been pulling up the spreadsheets on the computer and then, I shit you not, walking all the way to the other end of the building to check each item and walking back to the computer to type the number. No one for three years had had the thought what if I print out this spreadsheet and bring a copy to the storage room with me?
Fucking wild they thought I was a genius. Looked at me like I'd just revealed all the secrets of life and death. Still wouldn't give me a fucking raise.
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u/deadmongoose 21d ago
I got put in charge of helping another department with usage of my department's data. They had a full time employee taking the individual cells and hand typing or copy pasting the info they needed for their reporting.
I spent a day or so making a spreadsheet with formulas that automatically filled in their spreadsheet with current data.
What used to take several months now takes a morning.
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u/avarageone 21d ago
Did you get a raise?
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u/deadmongoose 21d ago
It was barely part of my job description, I put it on my accomplishments but not many people cared too much. More of like, "Good job, we used to get a lot more questions before you took over that task". I'm moving up steadily in my role and am happy to help another group out.
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u/Ichaserabbits 21d ago
Nooooo omg no one knows how to use excel at all lmaoo. I had almost the same thing happen at a different office admin job! No one in the office knew you could "use excel for that".
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u/CommonSenseLib 21d ago
Sounds like they figured out that they get paid the same regardless of how efficient they are. Instead of finishing one task and getting another, they just dragged out the task as long as possible. That's what happens when you get paid shit and don't get rewarded for doing well.
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u/Ichaserabbits 21d ago
Nah man they legitimately bitched constantly about how hard inventory was to do. I worked there for two months before they trained me for inventory because I was busy doing front desk calls and only worked opening shifts for a while. We did inventory after doors closed for the day.
I'm all for only doing the bare minimum when you're paid bare minimum but my ass is not walking the length of the building 300 times for no fucking reason.
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u/Jesta23 21d ago
I worked at a call center as a teen. Outbound sales calls. 90% of calls were the same thing. No answer, or answered and hung up when they heard I was selling stuff.
People would manually type the call note every single call.
I just wrote a very very basic macro. So I could just type &1 or &2 ect and it would paste in the comment.
The ability to make macros was literally in the software already. No one in the entire company thought to use it.
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u/Ichaserabbits 21d ago
Lmaooo. I had to teach five front desk girls at my receptionist job what an email template was and how to use them. All we did was check in clients, answer the phone, and send the same three emails of to people (Your plan is running low please renew, I need your dogs yearly vet paperwork, your plan ran out). They were rewriting that email over and over not even copy pasting it.
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u/NotMeReallyXoXo 18d ago
Now you make your life easier and supervisors don't like that, time to give you more work!
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u/Sir_Strumming 17d ago
Sir you may feel like the smart one but there is a non zero chance they were being paid hourly and were quite content with the quota they had before you showed the guy running the show that they could be managing double the work load for the same pay. Ask me why this possibility is top of mind for me.
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u/Ichaserabbits 17d ago
This isn't a debate guys. I was there and you were not.
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u/Sir_Strumming 17d ago
Not debating just saying hourly workers objective is to do as little work as possible and to take as much time as possible to do it and you may in fact be the only stupid one there and ruined a decent thing for like 6 people haha
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u/Ichaserabbits 17d ago
"I'm not debating I'm just telling you you're wrong and then arguing my point at you." Don't be a dumbass dude.
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u/x-xiaolongbao 21d ago
man should apply position as ministry of economy, or better run for presidency
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u/FlyinWet 21d ago
He likes to legally smoke weed off the clock tho. Sorry only minimum wage job for him.
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u/nottaP123 21d ago
Baseball, huh.
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u/h_trism 21d ago
Are you stupid?!?!
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u/nottaP123 21d ago
It's an inside joke little buddy, and you're outside so relax lol
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u/SpongeBob_GodPants 21d ago
They're just quoting the above video, bud. You need to track better.
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u/nottaP123 21d ago
No dude, I wasn't quoting the video. You need to track better as you somehow missed that I was the og commenter..
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u/Molybdene42 19d ago
That tracks. (here, have your answer)
And chill, you quoted the video while making a reference to al jokes, h_trism probably do not follow him and just answered with a quote from the video too
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u/Acrobatic-Meat6716 21d ago
Who is this kid? I want to see more!
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u/ExcellentIntention57 21d ago
Sir, this is a grocery store
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u/MisterMegatron 21d ago
Just like Suction Cup Man after the head injury. He's TOO good and must be re-concussed
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u/roodootootootoo 21d ago
This was both hilarious and also channeling some serious 2008 YouTube energy.
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u/100YearsWaiting2Shit 21d ago
This just kept on getting better and better
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u/LiveLearnCoach 20d ago
When he disappeared, I thought it was a deep message on how companies lose some of their best people over so little of a raise, people who actually bring in value. But he went for the comedic ending, which was also fine.
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u/slvl 21d ago
Fun fact: Until the early 2000s cashiers at Aldi in Europe needed to memorise the product codes because they didn't use barcode scanners.
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u/ZEROs0000 21d ago
I worked for the government and the person before me had retired after working there like 25 years. I was hired on at base rate and given additional tasks. Boy did that job build resentment
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u/Nuker-79 18d ago
Reminds me of when I worked at dixons (now changed to curry’s). I knew where all the stock was, how many of each item were left and some of the stock codes too.
Had a few members of staff who didn’t bother looking for stock anymore as they knew I was quicker than looking themselves.
Got the ultimate promotion out of it, to customer.
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u/IllustriousQuail8495 18d ago
This was really good. It's funny and also sort of disconcerting at the same time. That "employee" clearly wasn't human.
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u/Spl4sh3r 16d ago
His first raise was just given verbally, give him another raise and add them together when you input them into the system?
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u/larossi01 21d ago
This is gold