I work for a public college.
My field is highly technical. My immediate supervisor is a former parking attendant. It takes years to gain the knowledge to work in my field. I have no idea how she got the job. Of course, she does not know what the hell she’s supposed to do.
We have someone in our office (I’ll call her Ellie) who’ll do just about anything to get out of work, regardless of how morally deficient it might be.
Professionally, Ellie’s been called into The Bosses’ office for just about every charge you can imagine: poor time-keeping, extra long lunches, leaving early without completing the hours required of her, poor performance, excessive sick leave, etc. She won’t come into work if she a) is hung-over, b) has overslept or c) just can’t be bothered, and phones in with various lame excuses. We work in a lenient and laid back office, so to be called in by our mild mannered director takes quite some doing. Ellie was outraged by her poor appraisal this year and claimed that every bad mark against her was ‘someone else’s fault’. Naturally!
Nurses are typically highly educated, smart people. However, many of them are clueless when it comes to using a computer.
The best call I got went something like this:
Nurse: My computer won’t work.
Me: Ok, what’s going on with it?
Nurse: The screen is black.
Me: Alright. Is the green light visible on the computer?
Nurse: I don’t see one.
Me: Press the power button and let’s see if anything comes up.
Nurse: Hey! That fixed it. It’s normally on when I get here for my shift
Hello everyone ,this has got to be the oddest situation I have been in my whole small life.I work with an MIS group that maintains servers /workstations alike and control the whole facility here at company xyz.Now let me tell you xyz is a “GREAT” company and very profitable indeed and there is an 80/20 split on the good people and the shitheads that work here at xyz.This group inhouse is managed by staff in another state (Which are great people and strong management)but are being snowjobbed and do not know it by a staff member here at xyz.This individual comes in late ,leaves early anywhere from 1-4 hours almost every daY (Especially Fridays …. Anyhoo this does not directly effect my position until management comes to me and asks where is so and so ?