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The Spammy Saga of Tempy McTemp

posted by [personal profile] selkie at 12:28pm on 29/09/2006
Me: Let me know when you want to cover your lunch hour!

She: Oh, I don't take lunch. That way I get to leave an hour earlier.

Me: ....Did [Boss] say that?

She: No, it's what I do. See, I came in at 8:30 this morning, and I leave at 4:30.

Me: No, you leave at 5:30.

She: That's why I don't take no lunch.

Me: You have to take a lunch hour. It's the law. And I don't think you can leave at 4:30. We need phone coverage until 5:30.

She: But that's a nine-hour day.

Me: That's why you get an hour for lunch.

She: I don't work til no 5:30.

Me: OK, but -- didn't they tell you at the temp agency that the hours for the position were 8:30-5:30?

She: That's why I don't take no lunch, so's I can leave at 4:30.

Me: You can't. Just. Leave. I've worked 8:30 to 5:30 most of the time I've been here. I used to work 8:30 to 6:00. Everyone here works nine hours with an hour for lunch to make it eight.

She: I don't work til no 5:30. I has to call my agency.

Me: Let me know when you want me to cover your lunch. *facepalms*
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posted by [identity profile] agoodshinkickin.livejournal.com at 04:49pm on 29/09/2006
Yeah, I tried to do that waaaaaay back in the day. All the payroll people did was subtract my lunch from my vacation time.
Sadly...I didn't realize this until three months had past.

All those vacation hours...GONE just GONE!

*weeps openly*
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posted by [identity profile] darthrami.livejournal.com at 04:54pm on 29/09/2006
she's awfully special.

*snugs*
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posted by [identity profile] emmlet.livejournal.com at 04:58pm on 29/09/2006
Every time I feel vaguely guilty for not being a more motivated and efficient temp, I'm going to read this entry and remind myself that I could be so much worse.

Wow. I kinda can't believe she even got hired.
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posted by [identity profile] strange-selkie.livejournal.com at 05:00pm on 29/09/2006
First thing she said to me, seeing a photo of my wedding at my desk: 'Oh, you gay? That's naaaaasty!'
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posted by [personal profile] batyatoon at 05:04pm on 29/09/2006
Yes, but did she say it approvingly?

*has actually heard that*
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posted by [identity profile] strange-selkie.livejournal.com at 05:16pm on 29/09/2006
Nope.
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posted by [identity profile] komos.livejournal.com at 05:46pm on 29/09/2006
...and that's enough to get her fired from the temp agency. Bad work habits are one thing. Classic hostile workplace comments are another entirely.
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posted by [identity profile] agoodshinkickin.livejournal.com at 07:31pm on 29/09/2006
Warn her that you'll smack her with your official Gay Agenda toaster.

Or get her fired.
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posted by [identity profile] strange-selkie.livejournal.com at 07:45pm on 29/09/2006
I did that.

Not the first, more fun one.
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posted by [identity profile] emmlet.livejournal.com at 05:05pm on 29/09/2006
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well. in that case a) i applaud you for not going off into a detailed explanation of how nasty it is when grown women cannot speak English, do simple math, or follow instructions and b) for not picking up the photo and smacking her with it.
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posted by [identity profile] shirei-shibolim.livejournal.com at 05:27pm on 29/09/2006
for not picking up the photo and smacking her with it.

Or setting it up as her desktop wallpaper when she wasn't looking.
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posted by [identity profile] strange-selkie.livejournal.com at 05:29pm on 29/09/2006
....You know, every so often I forget your quiet, stealthy streak of evil.
Hehehehehe.
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posted by [personal profile] batyatoon at 05:33pm on 29/09/2006
*admires the harmony of username and icon*

Graaaaaaaains.
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posted by [identity profile] darthrami.livejournal.com at 05:35pm on 29/09/2006
(see, now I'm picturing a zombie vegetarian, walking around going "graaaaaaaaaiiiiiinssssss")
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posted by [personal profile] batyatoon at 10:00pm on 29/09/2006
[Exactly!]
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posted by [identity profile] strange-selkie.livejournal.com at 05:37pm on 29/09/2006
Yeah, he's all kinds of brilliant like that. Actually, you should totally meet him. And his wife. He does this great impression of Bob Dylan falling down a well! Also Siberian... polytonal... glottal... vocal... thing.
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posted by [identity profile] chickwriter.livejournal.com at 07:19pm on 29/09/2006
::points to icon::
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posted by [identity profile] strange-selkie.livejournal.com at 07:44pm on 29/09/2006
Is okay. Has been resolved. Everybody moves on.
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