Stupid CoWorkers

January 16, 2007

“This happened a long time ago but it still makes my jaw drop every time I think about it.

Around 1994 or so, I was slaving away in a fast food place. Hardly glamorous, but it was a job. On one particular day we had two people call in sick. And *nobody else* would come in, so we had to work the lunch crowd with a whopping four people. It was pure hell, but somehow we made it.

After the lunch crowd diminished and we were cleaning up the wreckage, one of our less-than-reliable teenage employees “Mike” (name changed to protect the guilty) comes in with a bunch of his scuzzy friends (the kind who think underage drinking and smoking are *so coooollll*). Now this same kid wouldn’t help us when we really needed it, and now he’s stopping by with his friends. Alrighty, bad judgement, but nothing that can’t be overlooked, right?

Now here’s the kicker: “Mike” wanted me or the Shift Leader (we were over 21) to go get him and the rest his underage friends some beer!!! This little maggot honestly expected us to just drop what we were doing and break the law for him. Said Shift Leader told “Mike” he could either clock in and help or get his sorry ass out.

“Mike” didn’t last much longer.”

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Stupid CoWorkers

November 20, 2006

I am an ultrasound tech and one of the job requirements is to take call. Whatever night you are on call you have to do all of the portable exams for that day which means you have to push around a heavy machine and perform exams bedside.

We have one tech that does not take call because he is raising his kid on his own and says that his kid is so out of control that he must be with him every night (keep in mind that his mother is about a 10 minute drive from him, so she can’t watch him for one lousy night a week? She is young enough and I am sure she would love to have her grandson over for the night). This guy HATES doing portable exams and has said so on a few occasions and since he doesn’t take call the rest of us have to pick up his day doing inpatients. I cannot seem to get management to see that he should still have to do inpatients one day of the week instead of the rest of us having to share taking his call and doing his inpatients for that day.

I have yet to meet his kid and I am beginning to doubt that the boy is out of control like he says he is. I think he is using him to get out of taking call. I just have zero tolerance for lazy coworkers and it is difficult for me to have any respect for someone who will not even offer to help me with my inpatients if I am bombarded with orders. I just think he is a self-centered person that uses other people to make his life easier. He has so many of the others feeling sorry for him, they think it is so sad that his son gives him grief.

Everytime he starts one of his sob stories about his son I have to leave the room because I cannot stomach such bull shit. He describes his son as being out of control, disrespectful, irresponsible and says he has little hope that the boy will grow up to be a responsible adult. I just want to say, when he starts talking like that about his son, ‘uh, I think you just described yourself’.

Does anyone else out there have a sorry excuse for a coworker like this?

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Stupid Bosses

November 14, 2006

I’m a teacher in a huge public school. My principal is the most self-centered, obnoxious “c”-word I’ve ever known. In fact, let’s just call her “The C”. When The C got a big fat bonus for improved test results, she bought herself some luxury items (can’t get too specific here, but let’s say one of them involves anally electrocuted animals) and the teachers who did the actual work got some praise from her & nothing else.

The C has her little pets & anything they do is fine. They could shit on the floor & she would fall all over them with praise & happy dance. Her pets get away with murder.

The C is incompetent. She knows nothing about teaching or what goes on in a classroom. All she wants to know is that the bigwigs will be impressed with “her” school when they visit. She learns some education buzzwords & tosses them around to make herself look like she knows what she’s talking about. She has no idea what they mean, but we better be doing them in our classroom or else!

The C hates me because I’m not afraid to blow the whistle on her. The way she gets back at me is to hurt my students, I can’t be specific about here. All I want to do when I get to school is shut myself in my room with my students. I put all my energy towards them & try to shut out the immoral, hypocritical bullshit.

The vice-principal told me that The C mocks me behind my back. And I overheard The C talking about the vice-principal by saying that she (The C) doesn’t trust Jews. She’s an ignorant racist who hates white people & nonchristians. I’m both.

Now that you know all this, you will see how repulsive it is when The C makes a big deal about how Christian she is. She makes me S.I.C.K!!! I would be thrilled if something awful and painful happened to her, like if she was abducted by torturers I really would be happy. At least I know the miserable C will rot in hell when she finally dies.

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Stupid Customers

November 10, 2006

I do tech support at a computer parts vendor and system builder. I take calls from dealers and other technical professionals. Last week I had a call from a woman who began her call by giving me a long listing of her credentials, beginning with her four years at MIT, covering her ten plus years of service in the tech support departments of various technology corporations, and ending with her forming a successful computer consulting and repair service. Then she asked her question:

Customer: “Do I have to plug in this new power supply to make it work?”

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