He’s looking for juicy stuff, he’s not looking for stuff which would require him to actually do his job.
And now a bit of (dark) humor.
Guy I worked with at the last place. I’ve told parts of this story before.
If you were less than 10 minutes late, you were not marked down as being late. He took full advantage of this by being 7-9 minutes every fucking day, but would be more than 10 minutes late 2-3 times per month. Always full of excuses for why he couldn’t possibly be on time. Walked up the warning chain until he got his final warning at which time he went hysterical about how;
No one ever told me I could be fired for this!
(Fucking bullshit. Of course they did, and they reiterated it with every warning step you got. He’s one of the reasons they ultimately got rid of the 10 minute window.)
Fast forward 3 years. He’s out all the time for “medical” reasons and exploiting every loophole he can with Doctors notes and so forth. They force him to go FMLA or get fired. He tells me that his doctors cannot find out what is wrong with him (IBS is about it, and he continues to eat CRAP food, but you know, a million excuses why he does this…) but they’ll give it to him temporarily. Well this allows you to miss up to 1/3 of a year of work before it runs out. He does this in 1/3 of a year, showing up once every month for a couple of hours before going home not feeling well.
Then they get him on some program where he can miss 5 days a month. Of course, it’s the first 5 days of the month every damned month. He pushes the envelope with being late when he does have to show up, or going home sick to the point where he reaches “one more incident and you’re fired”. They’ve given this guy more chances than anyone deserves, and he keeps pushing farther.
Ok, so at this point he makes a concerted effort, and exactly as I had said to him all along from the very beginning, he makes it to work every day and on-time.
For a month.
Then he shows up late to work again, and they fire his ass.
We had a farewell party last night for several other people. The supervisor who canned him showed up early, then left shortly after he arrived.
He sits next to me at one point complaining about how he gave them a full month of showing up on time and never missing a day and they fired him the minute he was late just one time. (Um yeah, they told you they would up front there pal. You’re the one who walked his own ass right up to that door.)
When I left, he asked about getting into the company I went to. No way I was going to recommend him. He went there on his own. He later complained to me that he was honest with them in telling them about all his warnings and his medical issues and they told him they were not interested in him. Can you believe it? :eek: He was just beside himself repeating that he was honest with them and he didn’t understand why they straight out turned him away!
Well now, last night he was telling us that he had another interview this last week, and he spent half of it badmouthing the company that fired him (because he was so angry about it) to the point where the interviewer just stopped and said they were done. Mystified, he asked if they wanted anything else from him and if they were going to call him. :smack: They told him NO, we’re not interested in you, and he was complaining about that!
Two of us lectured him about how you do NOT say anything negative in interviews, you do not badmouth your former employer, and you certainly do not give them any reason to question you and not want to hire you. All of which he’s done in both interviews.
And what a shock, now he’s worried that he won’t be able to find another job because no one will hire him. Never would have guessed.
Damn, dude. If you read this board, here’s a bit of advice;
Enough with the fucking excuses.
Show up on time every day. (Remember the no excuses part?)
Do your own goddamned work.
Remember the bit about showing up on time with no excuses?
Don’t say anything negative about your past employers or about yourself in an interview.
Being fired from multiple jobs for not showing up doesn’t make anyone want to hire you. Telling them this in interviews isn’t “honesty”, it’s stupidity.
Stop eating crap food when you have IBS. You’re doing this to yourself and then making excuses for it, which is seriously fucking stupid.
SHOW UP FOR WORK ON TIME EVERY MOTHER FUCKING DAY.
ENOUGH WITH THE FUCKING EXCUSES.
I’m not allowed to have cats in the warehouse anymore. Nobody has ever objected, everyone knew where I kept them and lots of people would go look at them, especially when I had kittens. The allergic people were usually the first ones to go look at them when I announced that I had cats a block away.
I don’t know if this new rule was created just for me or if someone else in other areas were doing something wrong.
It really doesn’t matter that much for me, my rescue group fell apart after the Director died, and I’m quitting in November. Being able to put cats in the back of the warehouse was a nice perk, but not enough to make me stay.
What bothers me is that people abused the “blind eye” thing enough that there is a new rule about pets at the workplace. Come on people, its one thing to bring a properly restrained pet to work once in a while, but if this has become such a problem that a rule has to be made…someone is seriously messing up.
In my experience in the corporate world, all it takes is one thing being viewed as a problem, or one complaint valid or not, and you get a new rule that affects everyone. I think they consider it “fair”. :dubious:
I don’t think the concern is so much for fairness as it is to avoid potential liablilty.
Dear Gideons: It was kind of you to think of putting Bibles in waiting rooms, but you might want to consider a large print copy when you visit the offices of eye doctors. Just a suggestion. :smack:
They’re manufactured in bulk and shipped out to businesses. I don’t think the Gideons put much thought into who’s going to be reading them.
Yeah, but these were hand-delivered by Gideon reps; I met a couple of them. They said they were giving them out at medical centers, to be placed in waiting rooms. I think if you’re going to target medical centers, getting a large-print edition for the geriatrics and ophthalmology departments would be smart, or at least helpful.
Yeah, and we geriatrics need to watch our blood pressure; why would they include the Song of Solomon?
I feel like a total asshole griping about work after so long unemployed, but…if you’re understaffed by two RNs (with a remaining staff of only 8; small company) and you’ve got the state breathing down your neck with an audit because of things your office staff (not your nurses) haven’t been getting done, do you really think now is a good time to take on 3 additional daily wound care cases *and *a TWICE A DAY WOUND CARE CASE!!! And give them ***all ***to ME on top of the six patients from the ex-staff I just added to my previously 11 person case load!!! You’ve just doubled my schedule with absolutely no notice.
I’d love the paycheck for all that, really I would. Just hook me up with a TARDIS and I’ll get it all done, idiots. Oh, except I can’t because NO ONE ORDERED WOUND CARE SUPPLIES!!!
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What they don’t know yet is that I’m taking 2 weeks off in July. Fuck 'em, now I can afford it! bwaaahaaahaaahaa!
I like the company I’m doing my temp assignment at, I like the work, I like the people, and I like my supervisor. Even though they actually need me there, I don’t think I’ll be getting hired because they don’t want to pay out my temp agency and they don’t want to keep me as a temp because my hourly rate that they pay to the agency is too high. Talk about “false economies” - they know me, they know my work, they know that I’d be the best bargain they ever got, but they’re fixated on a couple bucks an hour. Oh well. If they’re too stupid to see a good thing when they find one, that’s their loss.
Yeah that too, but sometimes they spread a new rule around to places where there is no liability. Sometimes we get a new rule and we are unable to understand it’s origin until we find out that something happened in another place or another unit that has nothing to do with us.
Ah, yes, the phenomenon variously know as “pinching pennies and wasting pounds”, “saving on the hens’ chocolate” and so forth. I’ve been on the pink-slip end of it a couple of times; right now I’m in the “these cheap people we hired to replace our competent ones are the suck, let’s fire them and look for people who can find their asses with both hands…” end.
You directed us to put together a 45 minute presentation with the explicit instruction that you did not want us just talking for 45 minutes. There needed to be active participation from the attendees.
We dropped what we were doing for 2 days to work on the assignment because our 45 minutes was part (in fact the start) of THE major presentation of the year.
We put together a movie, an inspirational Powerpoint and got a motivational banter disigned that would involve the attendees.
We wrote you a short script so that everything would be timed right and you still get your moment of glory.
So you show the movie and then proceed to talk for 45 minutes without the script making all of the work we did (except for the movie people) worthless.
But hey, at least you got to listen to yourself for 45 minutes.
Oh, I forgot the punchline - this is an extremely regulated industry, and if they don’t get and keep their shit together, the government takes away their license to do business. I’m working in the department that is responsible for keeping the shit together so they can stay in business. You’d almost think a smart company would be trying to stay in business.
Dude, nothing you’re working on right now is critical. You’re sick…you need to go home. Now. (And please pick your nasty used tissues up off the floor before you leave.)
Aaaahhhh, one of my co-workers has a) put in her two weeks’ notice, and b) ignored her racking cough and everyone saying “Go to the freakin’ doctor already!” for WEEKS now because she “doesn’t like taking medicine” … and is now too sick to come in to train her replacement. The only other person who might be available to train the new employee is also … about to go into labor at any minute. (Poor New Employee has no idea when her start date will be.) I rarely have much sympathy for Grandboss, but this time, I do - hey, for once she’s not the cause of her own problems! 
If you’re fortunate enough to live in a first-world country and have access to modern medicine, take friggin’ advantage of it! (As a F/T employee, I can assure you that she at least had access to basic insurance.) This was no nagging little cough-cough; it was a terrifyingly horrible sound that made me think she might break her ribs at any time.
Except that for coughs, cold and flu, going to the doctor is a collosal waste of time, energy and money. They’re going to tell you to go home, rest and drink plenty of fluids.
So fucking go home, rest and drink fluids.
You don’t need to hear it from a doctor.
I think this guy just has sinus issues…I would be interested in knowing how he gets the congestion to make that clacking/clattering noise though.
He discovered some cough drops later this afternoon…and proceeded to chew them. :eek: Sounded like he was working his way through some gravel.
Edited to add: purplehorseshoe’s soon-to-be-former coworker sounds like she has whooping cough.
Or bronchitis, or possibly pneumonia. Doctors can be of use in all of those things. And if she had whooping cough, it would have been good to diagnose quickly if possible, as adults make great vectors for it to infect the susceptible - they cough hard but don’t “whoop” (gasp for breath) like kids do, generally, so it’s often overlooked in adults.
Most adults don’t bother with the once-a-decade boosters, and there’s evidence that the vaccines may not last as long in children as hoped.