Stupid CoWorkers

January 26, 2007

“I currently temp for a law firm while trying to find a “real” job (since I sworn in as an attorney a few weeks ago). Since there was no more room at the firm, they’ve rented a one bedroom apartment for our portion of the office. Kinda weird, but eh.

So when I started this job there were a total of 6 of us. 3 rapidly quit (the job is henious and pays nothing). One spent his days – not kidding – SLEEPING IN THE BATHTUB AT WORK. For about two hours. When there is only one bathroom and the other two temps are banging on the door begging him to get out so they can use it.

Surprisingly (NOT), he was fired a few weeks later for failing the bar exam. Ah, well. Then the supervisor had the gall to ask the two of us left why we hadn’t told him sooner that 1) the guy was an idiot 2) who slept in bathrooms at work and 3) tended to steal office supplies. So that was fun.

Then they hired 6 more people and gave the other temp and I a “promotion.” We got to do extra work – training and supervising the new people – with no extra pay!!! And the best thing was that while we had no say in who they were, we got to see both their resumes and their rates. Well, gee whiz. The new folks were making over twice what we made. We asked for a raise – I quit, but I need the money. In the end we both got raises. The problem? My co-worker got $5 less an hour after the raise than I did, and I’m still paid less then the people I supervise!

We keep talking about our desperate need to quit. Maybe someday soon…”

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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 22, 2006

I was a Crew Worker for the McDonalds in Marietta, GA…Because of the horrible job market as of late I had to settle for a job in the fast food industry(I’am 18). After meeting the Asst. Manager a couple of times I was hired, and the exposure to stupidity and laziness began. First, for some reason the management feels it is necessary to understaff on the busiest nights of the week, I believe this is for a bigger profit for the owner. I don’t mind being the long soldier on the GRILL..but doing 5 McChickens, Dropping meat and frying McNuggets at the same time is fatiguing and unecessary for the 6.25/hr I’am paid.

Secondly, The staff is made up of some of the most horny and lazy people I have ever met in my life. Whenever your Manager asks if you have “Big Meat” you know something is wrong. I have gotten used to seeing co-workers grope and coddle each other on a daily basis or go to the shed to retrieve “gloves”.

The rest of my co workers while good people are entirely lazy..This was made apparent by the constant walking off the job to talk, smoke or do anything else without telling the manager.

McDonald’s, I believe, is a good first job to those who want to exposed to the real world. It’s not all peaches and cream..It’ll definetely help motivate you to set high standards for yourself career wise. Currently, I’m doing something I love…Teaching computer courses at a local computer store and the pay is 9.25/hr!!!!

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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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