I have a coworker that I really like, but damn is this guy stupid sometimes. When he started, he would go to the restroom for the last 10 minutes of his shift. Every day. Then it started creeping up to 15 and even 20 minutes before he got called out on it and dialed it back. He started going after his shift ended, and miracle of miracles, it was only 5 minutes then!
Today we have multiple people out and its only him and me. So he went to lunch at our usual time and I had to wait. He comes back from lunch, it’s my turn, but I have something to finish. Five minutes later I’m ready to go to lunch and he’s nowhere in sight. FIFTEEN MINUTES LATER I finally go talk to my team lead about it and he covers while I’m gone.
Fucker disappeared for a 20 minute restroom break when he was supposed to be relieving me for my lunch. :mad:
Came over and apologized for it about two hours later. “I really had to go!” I accepted it and didn’t say anything, but really… For twenty fucking minutes? If it takes you that long, you need to see a fucking doctor. You also need to be a little more considerate of others. If you really had to go, knowing I’m waiting on YOU, you should have done it quickly, not this 20 minutes bullshit.
Then just a half hour ago he was in my cube and I said that I had to just finish this one form then I needed to take a break. So of course the ASSHOLE immediately runs off for another 15+ minute restroom break. :smack:
I have no idea how this came up…I’m assuming it was during one of his many dates. (He thinks he’s quite the “ladies’ man”.)
It would be appreciated! I almost always get to see the candidates being interviewed; I’ve only seen them interviewing a woman once.
In this state, that is very likely! Although I did have a biology teacher in high school who somehow managed to get permission to present body and sex ed info to a mixed class.
By admitting it involves working with people who do not know a urethra from a vagina?
I know it’s not going to matter - no, really, this will never be an issue with these coworkers - but if one wants to work in an environment so ignorant about women, the Vatican is much prettier, and probably pays better.
If a high school girl’s choice is physics, calculus, or another year of Latin, Latin is looking better and better.
We have somebody like this. Others have discovered that when he goes into the rest room he sits there and either reads Facebook or texts people. He sometimes does it while not in the rest room too. He’s been reprimanded for it more than once. The reason why he hasn’t been fired is because there’s nobody in the pipeline to take his place. It makes me weep for the future of this industry, tbh.
I know it could be worse – at least this guy’s immaturity just results in him being socially inept. (I get treated to retellings of nearly all of his dating experiences…he really doesn’t understand how to relate to women on the level of a relationship, or even a friendship.) At least in the workplace, he hasn’t carried this attitude over into the conclusion that women are less competent. I’ve heard plenty of stories from women in other branches of engineering who have to put up with so much more crap from their fellow engineers than I do. And I would have gone for the physics course, but my high school stopped teaching it when I was in 9th grade.
I had many engineering classes in college in which I was the only woman present, or there were just a few of us. I don’t remember the guys being so immature. (Also, to comment on your second point, I have been told that a significant number of women don’t know what their girly bits look like.)
I don’t even have a hard hat where I’m working now.
At the grocery store I work at part-time, there were/are a couple of teenagers who would/do do this. The boss finally told them they had to punch out before going to the bathroom and punch back in when they were done.
Well we finally had our fire drill this morning, right as I was coming to work so I got to navigate the parking lot with several hundred people milling around in it. :mad: Ironically I ended up getting a parking space really close to the building, then couldn’t find my care when the day was over because I automatically walked to the far lot where I usually park. :smack: On the plus side YEA FRIDAY!!!
Attitude Kid struck again, this time involving a customer. I had to politely explain that her request was not allowed by policy, so Attitude Kid jumps right in, with me still standing right there, to tell her to talk to a manager to get what she was asking for.
No, said manager did not amend policy. He gave her the same info I had.
Am I overreacting, considering his telling a customer right in front of me to go over my head out of line?
Oh hell no, not at all. I would have been more than livid had I been in your shoes. I’d also have his ass in a sling but that’s beside the point, training program or not.
He did get a quiet, discreet verbal smackdown from me once there were no customers in hearing range. I’ve also informed our supervisor (via email, which she prefers). She’s answered that one and promises he’ll be hearing about it from her today. I know her well enough to know that is way out of line by her standards.
I’m in a training program with daily online meetings so we can go over our practice work and hammer out any confusion. The meeting organizer keeps the rest of us muted by default, as she rightly should, and we can flag ourselves if we have a question or type a question to her. That causes confusion sometimes because she doesn’t keep track of who she’s answered, she ignores typed questions to try to force people to talk on a microphone, and when she does answer typed questions she doesn’t actually tell us what the question was… she just starts talking, rambling away.
All of those things are annoying but fairly minor. What’s driving me absolutely crazy is how she handles the microphone questions. She CONSTANTLY talks over us to answer the question before we’re even halfway done saying it. Sometimes this means she misses vital information in clarifying the question, so we have to try to explain again what we’re asking, but we can’t because she starts up again immediately. Frequently she mutes the person too soon because she assumes they have no further confusion or follow-up questions, and they have to re-flag themselves and wait for her to figure it out, which contributes to her having no idea who needs help and who she’s already answered, so she un-flags everyone and has to ask us all to start over.
STOPPIT! Fucking hell, just listen to the whole question! People are TRYING to explain where they got confused and what they were looking at. You don’t need to start talking over them to ask what they were looking at, or dismiss their confusion, or start explaining what you THINK they’re confused about instead of actually listening!
As I am still within my 90-day probationary period after being promoted to the head of my department, I’m not surprised that my company is still advertising my position externally. I’m not offended/worried; I realize that, if I fail to show I can manage the department satisfactorily, and get fired, they’ll want to have a list of candidates ready. They wouldn’t want to leave the department without a manager (and I wouldn’t want them to, because my customers would suffer in the interim, and I care about my customers).
But that leads to this question: Who, in their right mind, responds to such an advertisement by coming into the business and asking to speak to the very person whose job they’re applying for? This happened to me last week, and it’s what prompted me to check Craiglist to see if my job was indeed being advertised. C’mon, lady, the Craigslist ad provides you with a link to submit your resume.
Seriously, if I was applying for even a non-management position with another company, I would ask to speak with the General Manager (or equivalent), not the person currently holding the job I want!
You are not selling pest services to supers and building managers anymore, pal. You are reaching out to billing managers to entice them into getting payments from us electronically, rather than with printed checks. And a lot of people are leery of doing anything remotely financial with some bozo who called them out of the clear blue. You have to use tact and grace to get them to register or even give their email or their fax number. It’s something like a seduction, sometimes, and I often use a studied indifference to get them signed on, while other times I toss them back because they like the status quo and we aren’t requiring them to change. Yet. It is a tussle for another day.
What I don’t do is argue with them with aggressive shit like, “You’ll give the guy at Jimmie John’s your email. Why won’t you give it to me?” This is the Bigs, buddy, and we don’t want to project a negative, unprofessional image of the entire client company, which is what you are doing. Stop it.
