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Snermy’s Big List of Coworkers Who Suck Donkey Balls
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Both of my lovely coworkers (who were the only ones covering the desk) who decided to call in sick today. Yep, it’s the Great Columbus Mysterious Flu or Possibly Food Poisoning but I Can’t Possibly Work Today Epidemic.
Thank ghod I was spared! (At least one of them was juuuust fine yesterday.)

Please note, they were not working on days off. I work weekends some weeks too, it’s part of the job description. We also get 4 days off at a time…IF, that is, I don’t get a call at 6 am on my second day off from da boss, basically begging me to come in. And when I’ve just woken up, I’m not wearing my armour of cynicism[sup]TM[/sup], I have not yet downed the coffee of resolve[sup]TM[/sup]. I’m just my natural, lets-make-everything-work-out pile of jelly, and I immediately agreed to come in. (And a hearty fuck me for that)

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Let’s include the other 3 guys who could have covered instead of me. (And don’t have a 1 1/2 commute. And aren’t trying to move in the next 2 weeks, to eliminate said commute.)

What’s that you say? You aren’t even going to answer the phone if it’s from work? See, that would be understandable if y’all had picked up even one day of overtime in the last couple months.

Normally I don’t mind lazy puddles of monkey spunk like you, if you don’t want the overtime, then I just get to pick and chose as much as I want :stuck_out_tongue: But I’ve been averaging 24 hours a month, and there are only 5 of you in this department besides me. You have no more sick days, get your ass to work!!

I’m also seriously tired of working alone every time you call in when we’re scheduled together (Since, after all, I’m the only one who’s been at all willing to cover for your various :cough cough: mysterious weekend wasting diseases),

Coming in this Saturday because both of you fucking fucks called in is just TOO MUCH.

Fuck you next time you want to swap a day. You may notice I haven’t been asking you to swap. That’s because I can get my shit done on my days off if I’m not at work covering for your sorry ass!!

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Snermy, honey, trust me, you do NOT want to become the one person in the office who will always pick up extra shifts. The management will absofuckinglutely run you into to the ground if you give them the chance. Been there, played that game, got taken such shameless advantage of that I just refused to cover for anyone else ever again.

Tell these fucknuggets you work with that you have a life too. You cannot and will not cover for them any more, because you have too much shit to do. And tell the asshat you work for that when two other people (who live much closer than you and haven’t pulled any overtime) are available to call for shit like this, he needs to call them and leave you the fuck alone.

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Yer 100% correct CrazyCatLady. It sucks to have to assume that any favor you do will come back to bite you in the ass. (I’m not talking about expecting any benefit from it, we all know better than that.)

Sigh.

Isn’t there a happy medium, though? I’m not going to quit working overtime completely just to make a point, I like making the extra cash on occasion.

ANYway, heard from my boss again later in the day yesterday, wanted to know if I’d heard from any of the people he called (hell no!), apparently a couple of people now have an unexpected appointment with him when they do show up for work…

I don’t like to take problems w/ coworkers up the food chain without talking to them myself first, but I guess I wasn’t the only one pissed off yesterday…

(insert :evil grin: smiley)