Okay, I was at my weekend job last night, and next weekend is my last at this job. Every night before I go home I have to fill out a “work report” detailing what I’ve done and what is being “passed on” to the next shifts. Last night under “Passed On” I wrote “Herpes, various STD’s,” and under “Work Completed” I wrote “None whatsoever,” which was more-or-less the truth.
So I ask you, Teeming Millions, have I done something unbelievably stupid?
p.s.-I also splashed water on the crotch of my replacement so it would look like he peed his pants. He didn’t think it was anywhere NEAR as funny as I did. It was a strange night.
I knew a supervisor once who used to ask the employees’ references what their work habits were like AFTER they had given their two weeks’ notice. her theory was that the best test of an employee’s character was how they acted when they had nothing at stake.
Unless this was an absolutely terrible job… and I mean really REALLY BAD, so bad you have nightmares and wake up in the middle of the night crying like a little baby, BAD job… then I think it is a bad idea to do something like this. I mean you never know who you will run into in the future that MAY be able to give you your dream job, so why burn your bridges at this job?
That’s my thinking anyway
Outside of that, I thought it was incredibly funny!
As a regular person, I’d say the notations were funny (the splashing water on someone is just mean).
As an employer, I’d say you did something really dumb and immature and if you ever want to use this job again, or if there is the remotest possibility that any job you may ever have in the future would have any contact whatsoever with this job (whether you list it as a previous job or not), you should plead temporary insanity and apologize to everyone who might have seen your work report.
And apologize to the guy whose pants you wet. That was really just a mean thing to do.
I take it that you are a teenager? It really depends on your boss and how well he can take a joke. And it also depends on how high up that report has to go. If you have to initial it, then it can’t be changed by anyone but you, and that could cause some problems.
I wouldn’t count on using this job as a reference, or on returning to in any time in the future.
Never burn your bridges, no matter how bad the job it is. The people you screw with have a strange tendency of turning up somewhere in your future, usually attached to a title like Manager, Division President, etc.
My very last day at a job that I’d been at for 11 years, the Office Manager/Security Officer asked me to change the combination on both the suites we occupied in the building.
I reminded her that although changing the combos when someone left was a good precaution, it’s not usually left to the person leaving to change them.
She laughed, but then explained that someone else was leaving that day, not of their own volition.
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Now, for their electronic lock, there were two combos. One just unlocks the door for 5 seconds, and is used after hours by everyone. The second not only unlocks the doors indefinately, but also is the master password when changing combos. It’s harder to change, so I doubt whether they’ve changed it in 3 years.
They hadn’t changed their voice mail administrator password until I mentioned to them that I could still access it two years after I’d left.
Okay, some people have said some things that indicate that I should be a little more clear.
1- I’m a college student, and this is not a “resume builder” job. It’s more of a “do-it-because-I-have-to-pay-the-f’n-rent” job.
2- I have a very good rep at this job/company. I’ve taken on tasks other people wouldn’t, and done well at them. They wouldn’t fire me over this. (Hell, I’m not sure what someone would have to do to get* fired.)
3- I’m virtually certain that nobody reads these work reports, or else I wouldn’t have written what I did. We often have to do paperwork that seems like a big waste of time, and since I was leaving I thought I would poke a little fun at the system.
4- The odds are virually zero I would list this job on my resume.
Okay, some people have said some things that indicate that I should be a little more clear.
1- I’m a college student, and this is not a “resume builder” job. It’s more of a “do-it-because-I-have-to-pay-the-f’n-rent” job.
2- I have a very good rep at this job/company. I’ve taken on tasks other people wouldn’t, and done well at them. They wouldn’t fire me over this. (Hell, I’m not sure what someone would have to do to get* fired.)
3- I’m virtually certain that nobody reads these work reports, or else I wouldn’t have written what I did. We often have to do paperwork that seems like a big waste of time, and since I was leaving I thought I would poke a little fun at the system.
4- The odds are virually zero I would list this job on my resume.
5- the guy I splashed water on was a friend. He was just a little annoyed. I’m sure he’ll get me back, and then we’ll be even. No big whoop.
6- This job NEVER involves much work. even on a very busy day, I’m sitting on my ass doing nothing 90% of the time. I’m not lazy, there’s just no work to be performed.
Lizard: I don’t think what you did was that big of a deal. Personally, I wouldn’t sweat it. There are reports that I fill out everyday that I know for a fact are never read by anyone. My boss signs them off, obviously without reading them, and then I file them in my own somewhat bizarre filing system. Nobody else could ever find them, even if they tried. I’m under the impression that most companies run the same way.
Having said that, in this industry we have a saying about burning bridges: “Be careful. The toes you step on today may be connected to the ass you have to kiss tomorrow.”
hijack
In ninth grade, I had to take this shitty study skills class where pretty much, all the teacher would do is give you a list of SAT vocabulary words and you’d have and hour and a half to define them, then he’d take them up, grade them, and pass them out next class. Since the teacher was the basketball coach, and he never showed any signs of actually reading the vocabulary, once, when the word was “bondage,” I wrote “what I do to your mom every night” (yeah, I know it would be funnier if I was guy, but this was when yo’ mama jokes were really funny). Anyway, he did read it, and I got a 98 on that assignment because I didn’t completely entirely. He thought it was funny, though. hijack
Lizard… you’ve screwed up big time. You’ve absolutely destroyed the rest of your life. You no longer have any purpose to live. I suggest you go commit Hari Kiri immediately.
Lizard (after going #1): “You know what? I didn’t wash my hands.”
Guinevere: “Wait, are you serious?”
Lizard: “Of course I am.”
Guinevere: “Oh my god!”
Lizard: “Are you saying my penis is dirty?”
Guinevere: “Probably! Now go wash your f*****g hands!”
Lizard, being no fool, promptly complies.
Well Lizard, I think you made a better decision in the above scenario.
I think the log is funny (I’m just glad it wasn’t me coming in for the shift after you–my reputation might have been ruined!) but I would apologize anyway.
Oh, you mean that reputation. I’m afraid it’s waaayyy too late for you there, my dear. :p:D:) (There’s not enough goofy faces in the world to convey how much I’m kidding here, or how much I enjoy kidding Guinevere.)
But seriously, I think just having the nerve to say something like:
to a woman should get me into a Hall of Fame of some kind somewhere. What kind of Hall of Fame I dare not contemplate.
(There’s not enough goofy faces in the world to convey how much I’m kidding here, or how much I enjoy kidding Guinevere.)