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Another common way for smoke detectors to let you know their sensors have died of old age is by having a false alarm for several minutes, then being quiet for 20-30 minutes and having another false alarm. Very unnerving if you don't know that's what the false alarms mean and you're desperately sniffing around trying to find any hint of smoke or burnt smell. :(Quote:
Originally Posted by jp1
Thankfully neither of us were inclined to try and ‘sniff out’ a CO problem in the middle of the night. Both because we know that CO doesn’t smell and because it’s summer we sleep with all the windows wide open and fans in all the windows to cool the house down. The possibility that we were being poisoned with CO was pretty much zero.Quote:
Originally Posted by GeorgeParker
Coworker quitting without giving two weeks notice (really, why not give customary notice? there are jobs that don't deserve it sure, but these folks are nice) All the work dumped on me with no possibility of adequate training nor documentation. I'm kind of resigned that things will go wrong. I mean I'm being put in an impossible situation (though they are understanding).
So sorry, ANM. Glad to hear that they are understanding about it all.Quote:
Originally Posted by ApatheticNoMore
Well I hope this doesn’t turn your job super bad. It’s good to hear that your management team seems amenable to you and your work.Quote:
Originally Posted by ApatheticNoMore
That’s awful but management does sound reasonable. They are probably worried about losing you too if they act like jerks.
Sorry to hear. More work sucks. However, we don’t know what’s going on with the coworker. I’ve quit jobs that were so miserable, I couldn’t get out of there fast enough.Quote:
Originally Posted by ApatheticNoMore
It could break either way with job becomes bad or not. I mean it *could* become better, more senior people sometimes hoard all the interesting work, and it's been a long time since I've been a senior person at a job, so I've just have to put up with it. But I kind of am now (small dept, small company). I don't know if I will hoard all the interesting work, maybe when I am king equality will reign over the land :) So ... it could get better.
But of course it *could* also be really bad with nightmarish amount of work etc.. It could get real bad and 6 months or a year from now I'm the one looking for work, that could also happen. See my boss and me are the department at this point, they are hiring a new person, but everyone knows you don't get immediate benefit from a new person, over the long term you do, but they have to get up to speed on the company (on the industry even I think), and they haven't even started yet.
It's bad right now though, but that doesn't say much about the long term really. But blah, miserable now. And a lot of knowledge might not be transferred that well and it's specific to this job, it's not something on the internet - searchable knowledge doesn't worry me but job specific stuff ugh, and so some stuff might be starting a bit from scratch and trial and error because of such an incomplete knowledge transfer, reinventing the wheel. Because documentation wasn't made for it. Knowledge transfer or cross training didn't exist until now at the last minute. And now it's way too rushed.
And the only knowledge transfer going on is near all day marathon meetings for stuff I don't have a chance to try pretty much and have never even seen before at that. Oh I've mentioned this, that information can't really be absorbed without trying it out, for all it matters, since we are doing all day marathon meetings, day after day - that's how much it matters what I say. Near all day marathon meetings as a way of conveying knowledge: MEH.
I do get some of this is just because there is no time, 1 week notice. Meanwhile before this, I was training someone on something and made detailed documentation and have had multiple meetings on it and more to come. But neither I am out of there in a week I guess.
Stuff may not go well.
Rant rant rant. Mother in law cannot call or message us to tell us of a problem so we can help handle in a reasonable way and in a reasonable amount of time but has to wait until we visit to create a crisis.
She immediately tells us when we walk in the door that her hearing aid does not work. They are new and require an appointment for diagnosis of problem or we have to sit around and wait in case of an opening.
I ask her when it stopped working and she said 3 days after she got it which was weeks ago. She knew we were busy and did not want to inconvenience us. DUH, what is she doing now making it more of a crisis? She does this over and over.