The art of "making it look like I'm working my norks off when actually, I do fuck all!!"
where I work now where everyone is pretty sound and apart from a couple of jobsworths and a lot of red tape, is a pretty cool place to work.

My last job however was PC World. Again a pretty sound bunch of people except for one woman, Jackie, who upset everyone except the management (where she spent with her tongue up their arses)

Here's some of the things she got up to:

It was a new store, so everyone was new to each other. There were about 4 groups of people: management team, wide boy salesmen, technicans and customer service (who basically had all the shit jobs to do) I was a technician and worked on customer service.

New store opening and there are lots to do, shelves building and stacking, computer equipment to be set up, deliverys taken etc.

JAckie somehow convinces the manager to let her go off into town and buy some decorations for opening day. She came back 5 hours later with ONE bag of stuff, a few party poppers and streamers. Probably took her 20 minutes max to buy. She decorates the camera bar that I'd spent 2 days sweating over with these trinkets and gets a bottle of wine from senior management for "all her hard work". RAGGHGH!!

She then decides that she is above the customer service colleagues and sets herself up as a proxy customer service manager. This basically meant that she didn't have to work on the tills, or deal with customers, but walk around clutching a clipboard (with an empty piece of paper on it) ordering us about. Our lunch breaks were cut from 1hr to 45 minutes (her's were somehow extended). The worst thing was the management team thought she could do no wrong but she was playing them like a fiddle.

She then decided that she would deal with the money (takings, petty cash etc) which was ok, but this meant that she could lock herself in an office for 6 hours a day, doing a job that takes other managers 45 minutes at the most.

Of course this meant everyone else had to take up her slack!

She also decided that she could "opt out" of working Sundays (always the crappest, busiest day) as "family commitments" prevented her from working (even though her kids were all grown up). Except if there was some overtime available for sunday, she's first in the queue!!

By this time the managment team had changed and she had alienated most of her colleagues. The new managers quickly saw what she was like and started to make her do some work; this is where she got worse, micromanaging us to the point of someone putting his fist through the wall in anger. It also showed up her total lack of IT knowledge (she was a shelf stacker from Tescos in a previous job - suddenly decided she knew more than the degree educated technicians)

Her name was mentioned in every exit interview as the staff left.

Length? Any longer and I would have strangled her with it...
( h3donist tryin' to play me out as if my name is Sega.., Thu 24 Jan 2008, 11:32, 2 replies)

I suspect
That she was screwing someone high up?
(Adamish Time of death, Thu 24 Jan 2008, 22:41, closed)

Oh my....

"PC World" and "total lack of IT knowledge" in the same QTOW....

Now there's a surprise!!



(Kip, Mon 28 Jan 2008, 12:34, closed)