Workmates who need to be fired... out of a cannon and into the sun - Tilted Forum Project Discussion Community

remiel · 11-15-2003, 06:04 PM

ugh.... I just need to vent about a few of the people where I work. I'll initialise their names to protect the idiotic.

TD. TD is one of our receptionists. That means that her job, just about in its entirety, is to deal with customer inquiries at the front desk and answer the phones. I'm not saying this is a job a monkey could do or anything like that, and I've done reception work myself, but I am saying that almost all of the basic functions of the job is to stay at the desk, so you can answer the phones and talk to customers. When TD is working, the staff of the Motorclothes department (it's a Harley-Davidson store) answer the phones as much as she does, because she's always going off and leaving her desk unmanned, usually without asking for cover. It's almost never work reasons for leaving her desk. These are just a sampling of the important things she's done in the last week apart from her job
* Checked her email at the Rentals computer for half an hour
* Gone to sit outside because 'It's such a nice day'
* Spent 45 minutes flirting with someone at the Parts counter
* Used the general manager's office, without his permission, to play a song for someone on her guitar.

Aah yes. The guitar. TD knows well that the store has an advertising deal with a local classic rock station. They put on our ads for free and in return we play their music in the store all the time we're open. It's actually a cheap deal for us because classic rock is what you'd probably play in a HD store anyway. Nonetheless, TD is too important to be bothered by store policy, and so brings her own music with her. Either in the form of a portable stereo, her laptop, or her guitar, with which she plays her shockingly average Shania-wannabe country-pop. She's also very well aware that the store has a uniform code. It's not very complicated, it just dictates that you should be wearing a staff shirt and semi-smart clothing. Nonetheless she turns up in halter tops and shorts slightly smaller than your average handkerchief. And then puts her feet on her desk, giving anyone who walks in a leaves-little-to-the-imagination look at herself.

The last straw was last week. She came in on monday and told J, another of the receptionists, that a man had asked her to go to Hawaii with him for 5 days, and that she was leaving on Tuersday and needed J to cover her shifts. Note that she hadn't cleared this with her boss, just assumed it was all right to give no notice whatsoever. This put J in a very difficult position, as she's a part time worker with another job, and has been told by our personnel department NOT to go over 30 hours in a week. Covering TD's shifts would put her at 48. After talking to her manager, and getting clearance from accounting, she said yes, but on the condition that TD cover HER shift on Saturday, because otherwise she'd be working 56 hours for the week. Upon hearing this, TD protested 'But I have band practice on Saturday!'.

If anyone else pulled all this crap, they would have been fired long ago, but because she wears revealing clothing and flirts with the General Manager, she's probably got a job for life.

Sorry, just had to vent. Feel free to post your own cow-orker horror stories

Jam · 11-15-2003, 06:23 PM

So the guys at Harley Davison like Futurama? thats sweet

... and I will tell you my opinion on this girl after i see some pictures to judge weather or not its better just to keep her around

remiel · 11-15-2003, 06:26 PM

believe me, you don't want photos. She looks like she's made out of leather. Whole lot of uninspired plastic surgery.

Kaos · 11-15-2003, 07:52 PM

Why don't they fire her ass and give J the full time hours so she doesn't have to work a second job?

mingusfingers · 11-15-2003, 08:34 PM

Ouch. Makes my bad coworker stories sound inspirational.

remiel · 11-15-2003, 08:40 PM

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Originally posted by Kaos
Why don't they fire her ass and give J the full time hours so she doesn't have to work a second job?

basically, because they're dumb.

TD is under the impression that her shit doesn't stink, and the general manager is too busy staring at her ass to realise how crap she is.

THe funny thing with J is that she's great at being a receptionist, but crap at the other half of her job, namely working MotorClothes. She'd love to just work reception, but there isn't enough schedule time available. Also, the store's owners are for some reason scared shitless of getting over 50 fulltime employees, so as crap as our fulltimers are, we can't get more until we lose the deadweight.

Grrr... looking for a sniper rifle to take to work.

Jimbob666 · 11-15-2003, 10:16 PM

In a given 8 hour shift, my boss shows up 2 hours late, leaves two hours early, and spends at least two hours getting food and smoking up in his car. For the hour or two that he's actually at his desk, he spends his time stealing random prescription pills from the desks of coworkers and popping them in his mouth. I literally do his entire job for him, for half of what he gets paid and no benefits. Everyone knows this goes on, and nobody will ever fire him, because our higher ups are even worse.

frozenstellar · 11-15-2003, 11:29 PM

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Originally posted by remiel
Grrr... looking for a sniper rifle to take to work.

if you find it, can i borrow it when your done? i've got a smartass little casual that has management wrapped around his little finger. called in sick for his sunday morning shift for the past 3months, yet they still give him hours instead of fucking him off cuz he's in kahoots with one of the managers.

GakFace · 11-16-2003, 10:56 PM

damn dude, that sucks. There's gotta be a way to get rid of that girl... if she doesn't shape up soon, you'll pass by her someday on the street with lots of diseases. (if you go to hawaii with someone you don't know for 5 days.. um.. yeah.. diseases will appear at some point)

11-15-2003, 06:04 PM	#1 (permalink)
remiel Insane Location: Gastonia NC	Workmates who need to be fired... out of a cannon and into the sun ugh.... I just need to vent about a few of the people where I work. I'll initialise their names to protect the idiotic. TD. TD is one of our receptionists. That means that her job, just about in its entirety, is to deal with customer inquiries at the front desk and answer the phones. I'm not saying this is a job a monkey could do or anything like that, and I've done reception work myself, but I am saying that almost all of the basic functions of the job is to stay at the desk, so you can answer the phones and talk to customers. When TD is working, the staff of the Motorclothes department (it's a Harley-Davidson store) answer the phones as much as she does, because she's always going off and leaving her desk unmanned, usually without asking for cover. It's almost never work reasons for leaving her desk. These are just a sampling of the important things she's done in the last week apart from her job * Checked her email at the Rentals computer for half an hour * Gone to sit outside because 'It's such a nice day' * Spent 45 minutes flirting with someone at the Parts counter * Used the general manager's office, without his permission, to play a song for someone on her guitar. Aah yes. The guitar. TD knows well that the store has an advertising deal with a local classic rock station. They put on our ads for free and in return we play their music in the store all the time we're open. It's actually a cheap deal for us because classic rock is what you'd probably play in a HD store anyway. Nonetheless, TD is too important to be bothered by store policy, and so brings her own music with her. Either in the form of a portable stereo, her laptop, or her guitar, with which she plays her shockingly average Shania-wannabe country-pop. She's also very well aware that the store has a uniform code. It's not very complicated, it just dictates that you should be wearing a staff shirt and semi-smart clothing. Nonetheless she turns up in halter tops and shorts slightly smaller than your average handkerchief. And then puts her feet on her desk, giving anyone who walks in a leaves-little-to-the-imagination look at herself. The last straw was last week. She came in on monday and told J, another of the receptionists, that a man had asked her to go to Hawaii with him for 5 days, and that she was leaving on Tuersday and needed J to cover her shifts. Note that she hadn't cleared this with her boss, just assumed it was all right to give no notice whatsoever. This put J in a very difficult position, as she's a part time worker with another job, and has been told by our personnel department NOT to go over 30 hours in a week. Covering TD's shifts would put her at 48. After talking to her manager, and getting clearance from accounting, she said yes, but on the condition that TD cover HER shift on Saturday, because otherwise she'd be working 56 hours for the week. Upon hearing this, TD protested 'But I have band practice on Saturday!'. If anyone else pulled all this crap, they would have been fired long ago, but because she wears revealing clothing and flirts with the General Manager, she's probably got a job for life. Sorry, just had to vent. Feel free to post your own cow-orker horror stories __________________ "Then said Joseph to St. Mary, henceforth we will not allow him to go out of the house; for every one who displeases him is killed." Gospel of the Infancy of Jesus Christ, 20:16

11-15-2003, 06:26 PM	#3 (permalink)
remiel Insane Location: Gastonia NC	believe me, you don't want photos. She looks like she's made out of leather. Whole lot of uninspired plastic surgery. __________________ "Then said Joseph to St. Mary, henceforth we will not allow him to go out of the house; for every one who displeases him is killed." Gospel of the Infancy of Jesus Christ, 20:16

11-15-2003, 08:34 PM	#5 (permalink)
mingusfingers Psycho Location: uhhhh	Ouch. Makes my bad coworker stories sound inspirational. __________________ Still Looking

11-16-2003, 10:56 PM	#9 (permalink)
GakFace Go Ninja, Go Ninja Go!! Location: IN, USA	damn dude, that sucks. There's gotta be a way to get rid of that girl... if she doesn't shape up soon, you'll pass by her someday on the street with lots of diseases. (if you go to hawaii with someone you don't know for 5 days.. um.. yeah.. diseases will appear at some point) __________________ RoboBlaster: Welcome to the club! Not that I'm in the club. And there really isn'a a club in the first place. But if there was a club and if I was in it, I would definitely welcome you to it.

11-15-2003, 06:23 PM	#2 (permalink)
Jam Junkie	So the guys at Harley Davison like Futurama? thats sweet ... and I will tell you my opinion on this girl after i see some pictures to judge weather or not its better just to keep her around

11-15-2003, 07:52 PM	#4 (permalink)
Kaos Ssssssssss Location: Ontario	Why don't they fire her ass and give J the full time hours so she doesn't have to work a second job?

11-15-2003, 10:16 PM	#7 (permalink)
Jimbob666 Tilted	In a given 8 hour shift, my boss shows up 2 hours late, leaves two hours early, and spends at least two hours getting food and smoking up in his car. For the hour or two that he's actually at his desk, he spends his time stealing random prescription pills from the desks of coworkers and popping them in his mouth. I literally do his entire job for him, for half of what he gets paid and no benefits. Everyone knows this goes on, and nobody will ever fire him, because our higher ups are even worse.