[princesszz]

salams,

share your work stories here. the things you learned the hard way..or the things that were innate in you.

currently, i'm teaching my co-workers about ramadan and they're still in shock how muslims survive the shifts without fainting. subhaAllah.

wasalams.

[Kona_Silat]

what kind of work do you do?

by the way this my Secret Santa prank i did at work

http://www.islamicaw...experience.html

[princesszz]

Kona_Silat said:

what kind of work do you do?

by the way this my Secret Santa prank i did at work

http://www.islamicaw...experience.html

i work with buncha menopausal women who are older than my own mother. unioni-zed workers who don't give a kabob whether or not their work is done on time. i work in a hospital setting. in the field of dentistry. their way of torturing me is turning on the fan while they want me to freeze to death. lol. have i mentioned how they exploite their senior-ship?

my current jihad is: making them understand my pancreas won't burst if I fast. they think it's quite unhealthy. i get constant invitation to accept christanity as my religion. especially, last week when there was a multi-cultural lunch buffet.they really want me to be part of the party and get to know them. otherwise, we've learned to accept our differences. i'm hoping that with times, younger generation will take over the place..and change some of the old school procedures which should've vanished at the start of 21st century. khair. they're good people because we've someting in common. our core value: humanity and care for patients.


lol at your prank. welcome to the club. may be, i shoudl have a 'eid prank' for these ungodly co workers of mine.

[kababqueen]

I work as a Residential Counselor at a group home for people with mild/moderate Mental Retardation and Developmental Disabilities. Most of them are fully travel-trained and community-trained, some even have full or part-time jobs...and then some have Down's Syndrome or Paranoid Schizophrenia, and can't go outside by themselves because they're not higher-functioning. My job is basically to offer support, training, counseling, and education, on how to be independent

It's heartbreaking at times, but nonetheless very fulfilling to do this kind of work

[sally]

I am currently an employer. My employees are professors, mostly people more educated than myself. Their job is to provide me with education. I also pay them to overburden me with deadlines and reading, also to make my life miserable from time to time and disturb my normal sleeping pattern.

[princesszz]

salaams,

xoxox: your job sounds rewarding!

sally: lol

Work has been alright lately. al hamdulilah with the exception of crazy questions I get about Ramadan. Some of 'em are below:

Last week, a really nice dentist brought in some pink glazed muffins for the staff and when it was my turn. She replied, "I know.. You're Ramadan, right?"

-lol.


*************************************************************************
While the other day, I had stepped away from my desk; was in a co-worker's office. When a lady from the Radiology department stormed to our dept and was calling "Princesszz" all the floor. I peeked out of my collageue's office and to my surprise,she was looking for me!

Jane: "hey Princesszz"
me: "how could I help?"
Jane: "when is ramadan over?"
me: "well, since it's based on the lunar calender...depends on the cresent etc..."
Jane: "how long is it?"
me: "again..usually it's tenative..almost a month"
Jane: "ok. thanks."


walks away..I try to stop her..

me: "But why you asked?"
Jane: "well.....you seeeee..my mother in law hasn't lived in an apartment before. she has just moved in this province. she had a heart bypass."
me: ummmmmmm
Jane: "she has these neighbours who are awake all night long. and they do laundry all night long and she can't sleep."
me: "why wouldnt you talk to them?"
me: then i blabb on about importance of ramadan and how it is suppose to train our nafs etc. makes us better human being. and how the neighbours shud be sleeping or praying qiyam with minimal disturbance..
Jane:

subhaAllah..she was shocked with the HIKAM of Ramadan.


Meanwhile, i felt so odd and kinda since i was being heard by EVERYONE. (co-workers, patients, dentists,...)
at the same time, i never understood the ":what:" look from the muslim dentists who were ease-dropping our conversation.

i'm sure, whatever i said..may be not be too "professional". heck, but i felt obligated.


Question: would you do the same? or how differently would you approach such issue?

[Laimuun]

I teach language arts and social studies to 6th and 7th graders.

[Revert]

princesszz said:

i work with buncha menopausal women who are older than my own mother. unioni-zed workers who don't give a kabob whether or not their work is done on time. i work in a hospital setting. in the field of dentistry. their way of torturing me is turning on the fan while they want me to freeze to death. lol. have i mentioned how they exploite their senior-ship?

my current jihad is: making them understand my pancreas won't burst if I fast. they think it's quite unhealthy. i get constant invitation to accept christanity as my religion. especially, last week when there was a multi-cultural lunch buffet.they really want me to be part of the party and get to know them. otherwise, we've learned to accept our differences. i'm hoping that with times, younger generation will take over the place..and change some of the old school procedures which should've vanished at the start of 21st century. khair. they're good people because we've someting in common. our core value: humanity and care for patients.


lol at your prank. welcome to the club. may be, i shoudl have a 'eid prank' for these ungodly co workers of mine.

Why don't you link them to the hundreds of articles by medical professionals stating the benefits of fasting? Its also especially beneficial to those with digestive issues. In fact some doctors prescribe short fasts for IBS.

I work in a retail bakery..its sucks. People i work with are especially stupid. "Mozlem is that like Jewish?"

[Hard2Hit]

Salaams,

I work as a manager of a software engineering team sized 15. My job taught me how to deal with people and their issues, how to keep the members motivated and perform better, how to communicate, present and sell my team's work in a manner that highlights appropriately the efforts we put in... and especially how to keep them challeneged to handle more work and conduct more R&D which forms basis for us to grow in revenue and number.

What I miss is hands on juicy scripting work. But if I do that, i'll miss out on my basic responsibilities as there are alot of things to follow up on and keep track of. Also we work on specialized hardware and software for network intrusion detection, so getting a dedicated system to practice on is always a challenge since most guys are working on multiple things at a time that requires more machines than we actually have.

Its all good hamdulillah.

[princesszz]

Revert said:

Why don't you link them to the hundreds of articles by medical professionals stating the benefits of fasting? Its also especially beneficial to those with digestive issues. In fact some doctors prescribe short fasts for IBS.

that's a great idea. i would. but, they haven't found one? usually the ones i have come across are very biased. usually written by a buddist priest who holds his MD. but, his all about fasting but atleast some water?

Revert said:

I work in a retail bakery..its sucks. People i work with are especially stupid. "Mozlem is that like Jewish?"

it's . i guess, its not bad as when oen of my co-workers says, "princesszz, make sure you don't convert to christanity. otherwise your father will stab you. just like this girl"..While, she hands over the hard-copy of the cnn article she printed just for me.

*******

It sucks that i feel sometimes, I am not "too mature" to deal with people professional without stumping my feet and ignoring them for rest of the afternoon. I still feel, I don't have the "leadership skill" or at times, even the assertiveness to address a conflicting issue. See, stuff like that I was never taught. and I don't know how to go about doing it? Especially when they are people always ready to make you look bad. They are patiently waiting for their turn. They are the cunning weasle type who aren't always happy to see you progress.

hmph.

This post has been edited by princesszz: 08 September 2009 - 08:31 AM
Reason for edit: This was automatically merged to prevent double-posting.

[Purple_alien]

I work in Foreclosure. It sucks because we are understaffed and overwhelmed with work. We are over a month behind on entering complaints and the stupid newspaper wrote an article calling us slackers. I hate it because I occasionally get people I know's houses and it makes me sad. Like, last week, I verified a complaint for my parents' good friends. Depressed me the whole day.
There are funny things that happen, like, one day, we were celebrating getting to 4 weeks of a backlog (its gone now, we're back up to 5 weeks). An attorney called and I answered. he was like, yeah, I see why there's a backlog, all you guys do is party. I stuttered some answer, and he laughed and said he was joking.

[Wolfn]

I work at Subway. It's very difficult to be fasting while you're making tons of sandwiches for customers.

But since I work at Subway, I get free food!

[princesszz]

asalaamu alykum islamicans:

i was wondering how many of you are willing to celebrate Eid with your colleagues? If you are already working, do you celebrate Eid? If so, how do you get into the festive mood? ideas?



for those who are anti-mixing personal matters (religious celebration) with work...what could be the reasons for your disapproval?

discuss. i'll be back and i'll share my views.

thankyou.


walikum asalam.

[Hard2Hit]

Wolfn said:

I work at Subway. It's very difficult to be fasting while you're making tons of sandwiches for customers.

But since I work at Subway, I get free food!

6 inch Tuna, with alot of BBQ sauce

[ChotooMotoo]

Wolfn said:

I work at Subway. It's very difficult to be fasting while you're making tons of sandwiches for customers.

But since I work at Subway, I get free food!

OMG I KNOW!!!! My first Ramadan I was working at a grocery store that had a stupendously wonderful deli that made the most delicious everything you shouldn't eat from deli sandwiches, all kinds of mayonaise salads, fried chicken etc. Working at the register at 5pm and everyone in the express lane has a rotisserie chicken. YOu can't break fast until 6pm (and that water only, no food) and no lunch break until 9pm. You mouth waters so bad!

eid with couleagues. Hmmm... no. I just can't see myself celebrating eid with the other graduate students in our group. Last eid I had a new baby and couldn't really celebrate. Every year before that I was either working on Eid, or had an exam. This year will be better since Eid will be on the weekend, inshallah yay, I'll be able to rest on Eid day, and dress my daughter up all pretty

[kababqueen]

princesszz said:

i was wondering how many of you are willing to celebrate Eid with your colleagues? If you are already working, do you celebrate Eid? If so, how do you get into the festive mood? ideas?

for those who are anti-mixing personal matters (religious celebration) with work...what could be the reasons for your disapproval?

I'm not willing to celebrate Eid with my colleagues because if I were asked to celebrate Christmas or Hanukkah, I'd be put into an awkward situation as I wouldn't want to do that. There'd be drinking, dancing, and more socializing than I personally care for at their holiday parties, not to mention that I don't share the same religious beliefs as my colleagues, and vice versa...and do not feel the desire to pretend that I do. I'm one of those people that thinks that work is work and it's best to keep things professional at my job.

Last week we had somewhat of an awkward moment, as some of my colleagues were singing Christmas carols to the individuals we work (those with intellectual and development disabilities) with and asked me to join in and sing with them. I declined and had to explain for some reason, as though it wasn't blatantly obvious why I didn't want to sing with them....I said that I don't celebrate Christmas and would find it offensive to have to sing songs about Christ being the Lord and all that. But you'd think that'd be common sense. Sometimes I swear the individuals I work with are far more bright and perceptive than people without intellectual and developmental disabilities.

I'm celebrating Eid by taking the day off of course

[ChotooMotoo]

xoxo said:

Last week we had somewhat of an awkward moment, as some of my colleagues were singing Christmas carols to the individuals we work with and asked me to join in and sing with them. I declined and had to explain for some reason, as though it wasn't blatantly obvious why I didn't want to sing with them....I said that I don't celebrate Christmas and would find it offensive to have to sing songs about Christ being the Lord and all that. But you'd think that'd be common sense. Sometimes I swear the individuals I work with are far more bright and perceptive than the people you interact with every single day.

reminds me of my old neighbor. She came to our EId party and someone made me sing. THen my neighbor is all "oh, you have a beautiful voice. You should come and sing in our church choir" uhhh.....

If the CHristmas party is hosted by my BOSS I kind of have to go. If it's just a random CHristmas party that my boss/co-workers are attending, then no.

[Wolfn]

At Subway, a girl wanted a footlong meatball sub with mayonnaise on it.


Her mom wouldn't allow it....

[Hard2Hit]

Wolfn said:

At Subway, a girl wanted a footlong meatball sub with mayonnaise on it.

Her mom wouldn't allow it....

I had a meatball one just yesterday. The more different fillings I try, the more I like tuna

[Purple_alien]

I go to the office Christmas party every year. It's awesome. Great food, fun times, and all that good stuff. Unfortunately, there aren't enough Muslims here to constitute an Eid Party. Actually, they call the Christmas Party a "holiday party" so I suppose it covers everyone.