And you weren’t. So, where was his supervisor? Where was yours for that matter?
Was the guy assigned to work elsewhere? If its a shitty job then maybe specific assignments are required for that one.
If I was that guy, I might tell you the same thing. Apparently, he showed up on time and his reward was supposed to be that he gets the shittiest job in the joint?
If I were you,I’d be pissed at the people who showed up late, not the guy who got there first. If all of them had been on time you wouldn’t have the problem you did.
Thanks for the advice - looks like I should just leave when I’m supposed to leave. After all, my shift is over, and I’m not supposed to work unauthorized overtime. Folks would figure out what needs to be done. And if they don’t figure it out, it’s not my problem.
To all those telling me to chill out, I direct your attention to Tenar’s post. I’ve never gotten broken glasses or fireworks, but being in window means being right on the receiving end of the newest sophomoric “joke” that some of the idiots who go to school here come up with. That said, I’ve been working on it - it doesn’t pay to lose your temper easily on this job, and so I’ve actually gotten a lot more serene about the situation. And it is a pretty stressful place. When the day arrives that I can let anything roll off, I will be mightily pleased with myself, but that day isn’t here yet.
I agree with those who say you should’ve just clocked out when the next shift showed up. Many years ago, my then-teenaged brother and sister worked for McDonald’s in Houston. They were notorious for not giving breaks–at least with my sister (who worked there before they hired my brother). She’d work an eight hour shift without a break–and it happened a lot. So one day my brother had enough and said he needed his break. It was fairly busy, but there were a lot of people working. They told him no, not now (which tended to mean “not ever”). With patties sizzling on the grill, he threw down the spatula and said, “I’m not flipping one more burger until I get my break.” He meant it, too–and they grudgingly relented and said that as soon as he finished the burgers on the grill, he could have his break. And my mom started refusing to wake my sister to come in early for her shift (supposed to start at 7:00 AM, they kept calling her to come in at 5:30) unless she started getting her breaks. They were forced to stop withholding break times because people stopped letting them get away with it.
As for it only being an extra nine minutes–how could you have known it would only be that long, right? When you’ve been dying to go home, and you find you have to stay over because someone declines to help out, all you can think is, “NOW how much longer?” and every minute seems like a year. And you’re already mad before you know that it’ll only be a few minutes. So I can understand why you got so angry–and I can sympathize!
I too have been a dishwasher, at college. I too would have been pissed off (though you shouldn’t have formed it as a question, just said, “I’m leaving, so cover window for me”.) I never would have wrote a pit thread about it, though the job was stressful, to some degrees. I’d probably write MPSIMS threads about the dumb guy who got himself electrocuted (in front of a few managers!), the person who got a fork stuck in the garbage disposal, the guy who came in right after hitting his girlfriend in the parking lot, then promptly got arrested in the manager’s office…, the water fight we had (ah memories!)… Ah well. Many things have pissed me off at that job, though the anger goes away as soon as I get my shoes off.
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Both you and the OP have no fucking clue what stress is.
Stress is having $5 in the bank, and no food for your kids. Stress is having your mortagage company tell you that you have one week to come up with the money owed, or they forclose, and you are a grand light. Stress is telling you spouse you just got fired.
What is you are describing is called busy. Busy is not stres. Unless you are a serious drama queen, in which case it still isn’t stress, you just think it is.
Get over it, grow up, or you will be in for a shock when you find out what stress really is.
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oh bullshit. I’m not saying that no one can complain, but if you post a rant about how much pain you were in when you put your socks on the wrong feet, expect me to point and laugh.
this kid is bitching 'cause he had to work nine full minutes past his quitting time.
crap, I’ve had to pull double shifts before, once even got snowed in and stayed on duty an extra 36 hours and bitched less than this.
Does he have no right to complain? no. is his complaint relatively minor? being relieved late is a bitch, it’s happened to me lots of times. yes ,it’s annoying. but even he admitted that his reaction was out of proportion.
and, of course, for the record - yes some petty annoyances can be the source of great pit threads. this ain’t one of those times IMHO.
He might be a jerk for not helping, but you’re more of a jerk for expecting your request to be treated like an order. He didn’t want to do window, and he didn’t have to do window. When you ask someone to do an unpleasant favor for you you have to deal with the possibility they might actually say no.
He would have had to do window if the OP had left, but the OP decided to be nice and state it in the form of a question rather than a statement. I’m guessing that the job is not seperated into window and bowl, in that you don’t always do either but not the other. If the pitted refuses to do his job, thats his fault, not the OP’s. He is, I am assuming!, expected to do whatever job is most needed at the time, which just happened to be window.
In conclusion: Someone does need to do window. Since both the OP and the bowl workers were leaving, he was the only logical choice to do window, which, by job description needs to be filled at all times. The job he chose to do is optional.
Wait a minute. I have a different interpretation. It might not be the right one—you can tell me—but it does seem to me at least as valid as yours from what I read here:
You should be mad at the second person, because she was late for her shift (moreso than the first person) and thus made you have to work later.
Without a supervisor there to tell him which job to take on, the first person made a judgment call as to whom he’d take over for, and he chose to take over for the two kids in bowl. Maybe this looked to him like a more useful thing to do, since he was taking over for two people who would then get to leave. Or maybe he just preferred that job and figured that, since he was first to arrive, he should get first pick. From your point of view he made the wrong choice, but from his, he may not have seen any reason to take over for you instead of for the bowl guys. (Even if there was an objective reason why this would have been better, he might not have realized it, being, as you admit, fairly new at the job.)
Can the OP complain about be relieved late from his job? Sure, why not.
Could this be the start of a great pit thread? Damn right.
So what’s the problem? Trying to tell me about how stessful it is to bus dishes. :rolleyes: Like I said before if you think that is stress, your head will explode when you find real stress.
wring, Rick, duffer, we get it. You don’t think this episode warranted Grelby’s reaction. Fine. Did you have anything else to say? Or would you rather be snarky?
Sometimes we don’t want to see something in perspective. Sometimes we just want to bury our head in a pillow and scream. Some days, the little things seem like big things.
Maybe Grelby has had a bad day and this was just the icing on the cake.
Fuck you, buddy. I’m not allowed to be stressed out unless it is “real stress”? I’ll make sure to submit all applications to feel stressed out to ** Rick and duffer’s Stress Board of Review** in the future :rolleyes:
What is it that’s happened and you and duffer’s lives to make you so bitter about people complaining about stressful situations? More importantly, what makes you think that I am not aware that there are more stressful situations in the world than busing dishes? I’m complaining about being stressed and getting blown off, and therefore I must not be aware that my life could be worse? I’m not sure if that’s more insulting to my intelligence, or to yours. You both can take that bullshit, stick up your ass, and smoke it. It’s nothing more than bitter and cynical ageism, and it’s fucking stupid on top of that. I am well aware that this isn’t too bad on the grand scale of things. In fact, I’ve been in worse situations. None of this changes the fact that I was, at the time, stressed out and pissed off! Nor does it affect the presence of any kind of “privilege” to feel stressed-out. As a matter of fact - busing dishes is pretty fucking stressful! In conclusion, blow me.
That’s enough use of the word “stress” in any context for a while, I think…
Anyway, Thudlow Boink, that’s a good point. Perhaps I should have been angry at her, but I’m not really in the habit of being angry at people for being late. That doesn’t make much sense if you don’t know how shifts turn over where I work. Generally speaking, the new shift is supposed to come in half an hour to an hour before the old shift actually leaves. People tend to dribble in during this time, and it’s not really a big deal, since we are generally overstaffed at that point. So no one makes a fuss if someone shows up fifteen minutes late. Fridays are the exception, though (I didn’t even learn this until last night, which was a helpful contributing factor). The next shift, at that time of night, starts at the same time that the old shift leaves, which means that, if they don’t show up on time, the people working the previous shift have to keep working. I hadn’t really thought of that before. Under normal circumstances, the situation that made me angry would not have come up at all. I don’t even work that shift, normally.
Also, Shadez, that’s exactly what I was getting at. Bowl = optional for up to 10 minutes or so - things just back up a bit. Window = absolutely not optional at all. Hence my reaction of :eek: :mad: when the guy said “no.”
in real life, many jobs the “shift” ends when the job gets done or the releif shows up. I wish the OP luck in life in whatever career he might land in if this is his reaction to nine fucking minutes. he has a right to complain, I have a corresponding right to think he’s a wuss.
Hey dipshit, that’s why I was looking for a little clarification. All I know is that he was so stressed over a few minutes. Enough so to warrant a pitting. I’m going with what I know. It’s not my job to read into and infer every possible situation that may or may not pertain to the daily struggles of a busser. Got that?
:mad: when the guy said “no.”