Just found out that other people ARE allowed to listen to their iPods here at work.

With headphones.

Fuckers.

I am irritated.

There’s an issue at work that keeps coming up, and even though I’m the only one doing the correct thing with the plates, I’m also the one that every comes to talk to about it. I think it has something to do with the fact that the people who notice don’t get to work until about 10 AM, and they don’t come out of their morning comas until AFTER day shift has left. So I keep getting “a talking to” about labeling plates correctly.

So I try and pass on the talking to, but we keep changing who is running the damn Biomeks, so there’s always someone who doesn’t know about the new policy.

This is because my boss hasn’t bothered to broadcast a new policy. I found out about it by word of mouth, and confirmed it by going to my shift manager and the people who get the plates after me, and making sure that I’m doing what they want me to.

It’s weird. This place is fanatical about systems and proceedures, yet they are HORRIBLE about diseminating information. So there are policy changes, but no one knows about them so they aren’t implemented.

It doesn’t help that in the 6? 7? weeks I’ve worked here, there’s been one departmental meeting. We’re supposed to meet weekly. Not that I’m that big on meetings, but I do, at least, want to know what’s going on. The change that led to this plate labeling issue was never even announced. It just sort of went into effect one day. Somewhere down the line someone had to make a concious decision about it, but my department found out about it because we started getting only one kind of plate. I mean, was it so damn hard to send an email?

Anyway, since half the damn department was on vacation when this occured, they have no idea, and since there is no documentation, they just plod along and assume it’s fine.

And now I have to re-label their plates, and deal with the incident reports.

Because my boss won’t send one fucking email.