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terpsichoreed · 2 years

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Dad: How was work today?

Me: It was good. Uneventful. Kinda boring if I'm being honest. It's weird. I can like... go in to work... and nothing's on fire.

Dad: I used to get in the shower every morning and think what could possibly go wrong today. There'd always be something. Every day. It was inevitable.

Me:

there's a bat flying around

water dripped from the ceiling and destroyed my computer

the toilet broke and also shattered some of the tiles on the floor

the heating unit is smoking

the server has crashed

the GM customer portal is down globally

the power is out but only on the west side of the building

Boss locked his keys in his office and there are no spares

the catalytic converter was stolen and now the truck's out of commission

the forklift broke

the bathroom door handle broke and no one can get in or out

the geese are rebelling in the parking lot and no one can get in or out

the copy machine leaves lines in all paper regardless of being the copy or the original scanned paper

production is halted because the printer needs servicing

no one knows the ship to location and parts are due yesterday

the meeting had to be postponed because we were waiting on a customer to show up

HR had to go next door and ask if we could borrow their forklift

I was left off an email thread where I was the only person who needed to be copied

Scott had to add 20k locations into the system manually

Boss lost the passwords for the security cameras and blamed us

there's a drop-in customer order for 9000 parts due yesterday with a 12 week lead time

the business switches over to direct deposit and the whole system implodes

I need to flag down the lawn care team because Boss lost their contact info

the UPS label is in French when it was going to Florida

GM invents new ways to fine us

Boss took my computer without telling me so I had to drive 40 miles back to HQ

I had to train my replacement via phone and remote desktop

all the pallets are missing

Comcast works outside and cuts the internet for three hours to the whole neighborhood

the mailbox was installed backwards

the blinds in my office also control a few of the blinds in Scott's office

I have to remove dead rodents from my office

the toilet flushing mechanism doesn't work and I have to stick my hand in the water tank

the toilet flushing mechanism (different toilet) doesn't STOP working so I have to mess with it for 20 minutes

the building creaks and moans so much that I have to check it for damage

I was sent to a new location without any training

I had to setup a new trash pickup account because we got locked out of our old one

a new line gets added to the symptom checker and suddenly everyone is incapable of filling it out

temps call the office and ask me why they were fired

the door didn't shut all the way at the end of the shift so the police were called about a break-in

the building next door had a truck (not semi) crash through it

I had to send out a memo regarding an abnormal amount of office supplies getting stolen

I had to go to the hardware store and duplicate the master key to the building

the air conditioning leaked through the ceiling into the conference room and ruined the table

I had to call another business who put me on hold and after 30 minutes the hold timed out and I had to call them all over again

hourly incoherent customer emails that I don't need to be copied on

having to write "do not poop on the bathroom floor" in the company newsletter

the bagging machine broke at least once a week but never consistently

the vending machine guy died and his wife came to collect the vending machines

the only person who knows how to do anything goes out for medical leave

none of the keys we have work for the thing the city water guy is here to maintain

the keys to the time clock are missing

the time clock has the wrong date so every day is a guessing game

everyone has to stand outside the building for 20 minutes because we got locked out

the insurance cards all say pediatric but only for people without children

(literally my second day of work) my trainer had to call 911 because someone fainted in the warehouse

the floors had to be redone so the entire assembly team was moved to a new building

Dad: Yeah! It was like that every day at GM. Some new shit that fell on me to take care of, even thought it was never part of anything related to my job tasks.

#work tag #cpa tag #in my drafts #november 22nd

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