So I wake up at 4:30am, just like any other weekday. Get ready, leave the house about 5-ish for my 90-whatever mile drive to the Dublin BART station, ride close to an hour on BART to the Montgomery station in San Francisco and my phone rings...

It's the helpdesk manager:

"Where are you?"

"SF, just got off of BART, why?"

"Agh. I was hoping you hadn't left home yet. We need you to go to the SAC office."

"I leave home at 5am. You would have had to call me at 5am."

"Okay, go into the SF office and if there aren't any emergencies, go back to SAC."

So I go in, check with everyone and they are fine. I call him back.

"Everything is fine here. I'm heading out. I should get there around noon-ish."

"Okay."

Pack up my stuff and head out the door...

















As I am decending into the Montgomery BART station 10 CITY blocks from the SF office, my phone rings.

*self, don't answer that. don't answer it. it is them. they are going to tell you not to go.*

"Hello?" *AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAARRRRRRRRRRRRGGGGGGGGGGHHHHHHHH!! ! Self!!! I told you not to answer it!!!*

"Yeah, Ryan, where are you?"

"I'm at the BART station, why?"

"You can't go to SAC. Go back to the SF office."

My boss (Director of MIS or whatever) had found out that the Helpdesk manager was going to send me to cover the SAC office, which by the way is 30 minutes from my house, and decided that he would send someone from the Redwood City office that LIVES IN SAN JOSE to cover the SAC office.

1. It is the Helpdesk manager's job to shuffle people around to cover offices.

2. The guy they are sending lives in San Jose.

3. I live in Sacramento.


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the end.

 

Dude...
F'n explosives, man.

If you get an interview for the Sac position, bring stuff like this up. It really points out how pointless the whole situation is.

 

atleast you didn't have to start work earlier! you just got shuffled around

 

That's just plain ****ed up. You wonder how the **** this guy got to be a help desk manager.

 

kidding me...sounds like you didn't have to work at all...
just a trip to the City...
make the best of it...
sould have told him you were already on BART in concord and you'd have to turn around once you got to the station.

buy yourself 2+ hours of "lunch time" then get there about noon...split for your lunch break, come back and I-club out for a couple then ask if there's anything they need you for then call your supervisor and ask him to let you go early since you got jerked around all morning....
actual time worked = 0

 

It wasn't the Helpdesk manager's fault, it was my boss who is his boss, too.

 

You are smart. I are dumb.

 

Yea but if he was smart enought he would have said to his boss. "hmm Ryan lives in SAC and you want to send the San Jose dude to Sac???"
"Lay off the crack pipe for one day..."

I know it's a very hard concept to grasp but hey, he didn't get to where he is by sitting on his thumbs.

Come on now.

 

You're right. I can't think because I am still upset. I think I am more upset because I was getting exited that I was going to the SAC office, get home early and surprise my wife, and then they yanked it out from under me.

 

So were are you now? If you're in sac say, the train borked and if I head back, I'll be late in. That way he'll call the san jose dude that is driving to sac to turn around.


Victory for all

 

I had already arrived in SF. I have not left.

 

My head just exploded.

 

This thread needs more Jazz Flute.

 

My job needs more Jazz Flute.

 

are you the guy who does Dilbert?