Aces High Bulletin Board
General Forums => The O' Club => Topic started by: Dichotomy on July 20, 2007, 09:12:55 AM
-
the out and out laziness of my coworkers never cease to astound me. Hey I DON'T WANT TO WORK EITHER but, until I win a lottery, I'm going to be here doing what I do and going home every night. Now I'm a pretty genial guy but I do have a couple of quirks that I don't consider unreasonable. I've politely informed my coworkers that certain things annoy me. These are
1) I have an in basket on my desk. I look at it often. If you need me to do something for you put it in my in basket.
2) I like my screens free of smudges so please don't put your finger on them nor should you ever put a sticky note on the screen. If you want to inform me of something and I'm not available please use email or place the sticky note on my desk pad. I assure you, as I'm a neat freak, I'll notice your urgent sticky noty.
3) Stay out from behind my chair. Don't lean on it, don't tap it, don't pull back on it.
Now I think these are reasonable requests
All three have been violated already this morning. If you hear about a rampage in Haltom City TX it might be me. I have access to schedule 40 pipe and I know a couple of people who need a good beating
So, What are your workplace quirks? What makes you want to stab your coworkers in the eye with a #2 pencil?
-
Turning round and finding my ops asleep annoys me, so I sing them lovely songs to keep them awake.......
Mumbling to me when I'm on the phone works as well......
Wanting to go home early as their bored - so am I, but do you see me leaving early?
Apart from that, nothing really............mainly because I spend as much time as possible picking on the managers instead...:lol
Wurzel
-
The in-box thing caused a fight with one of my employees on one occasion.
I needed something done IMMEDIATELY. The woman who I was giving the work to told me to put it in her in-tray. I did so. She then rearranged the in-tray so that my item was on the bottom. I asked her why she did that to which she responded..."I deal with one thing at a time in the order I receive them".
I told her that I'd be happy to put a warning letter in her in-tray if she didn't deal with the matter right away. (By law we must give two letters of warning before firing someone...this would have been her second).
-
Somewhere to the entry of your cubical...put up a nice, friendly sign, one sheet of paper, do it in Publisher with some happy faces and flowers..
"Help me improve what I can accomplish for this company by....
List your three requests...
Thank You!
(Your name)
If they don't get it by then...refer them to your cordial sign.
I do not understand what happened to manners over the last 40 years.....seems like they went out the window.
Just drive down the road for awhile and you'll know what I mean.
Good Luck!
68ROX
-
The funniest thing I saw a fight over was flexible desks....ie, the desks aren't assigned to anyone, its first come, first served...only problem is there are around 2500 people work here, and around 2000 desks...lol......oh the joy of watching otherwise rational people arguing over desks "cos thats my one near the window", etc etc etc........
Good fun tho.....as I have my own office along with my ops when we're onshift....:aok :cool:
-
I used to be by the window, where I could see the squirrels
and they were merry. But then they switched from the Swingline to the
Boston stapler, but I kept my Swingline. (he's holding his red
Swingline) (Camera pans to Peter) They have my staples for the Boston
and I kept the staples from the Swingline stapler. ....And if, if they take my stapler, I will, I will set this building on
fire.
-
lmao...yep, just like that.....;)
Wurzel
-
we have fairly large U shaped work areas/desks/cubicals mostly open space so we can all see each other and talk and pass work back and forth. I used to sit next to this guy a couple of years ago. Nice guy but constantly talking, eating snacks, slurping his drink, making noises. After a couple of weeks I couldnt take it anymore, I went to our boss and told her either move me or move him but I'm about to snap and won't be responsible if I just happen to accidently reach out and smack the back of his head. She let me move
-
Where's your office at Dichotomy, I've got a whole mess of unused posty notes that need a good home...
-
Originally posted by 68ROX
Somewhere to the entry of your cubical...put up a nice, friendly sign, one sheet of paper, do it in Publisher with some happy faces and flowers..
"Help me improve what I can accomplish for this company by....
List your three requests...
Thank You!
(Your name)
If they don't get it by then...refer them to your cordial sign.
I do not understand what happened to manners over the last 40 years.....seems like they went out the window.
Just drive down the road for awhile and you'll know what I mean.
Good Luck!
68ROX
seriously... they're too lazy to read it. I'd actually have to physically point at it. I did what you advised... drove down to the local paki mart, got a Dr Pepper and a bag of chips.
I'm just curious about what gets other people spun up at work :D
-
Originally posted by VWE
Where's your office at Dichotomy, I've got a whole mess of unused posty notes that need a good home...
want an address? :lol
-
Since I'm the general manager I don't usually have a problem with people doing the things that tick me off.
I catch you sleeping otj you are gone, if you are that tired don't come to work. Of course if you make a habit of not coming into work you are gone.
Like Dichotomy I don't like people touching my computer screen.
Some of the lame arse excuses I hear can tick me off but then me and my employees usually have a good laugh after they are gone.
People that don't pull their weight tick me off, and they are usually the ones who also point fingers when the job doesn't get done.
It is nice being the boss sometimes 'cause you tick me off enough and I'll just can your arse.
-
those would be customers of course :D
-
Get back to work! Quit posting here when you should be working. ;)
-
Originally posted by storch
those would be customers of course :D
No customers are never mear annoyances, they are usually much more than that. :eek:
-
actually very few of ours are actually annoying. I just thought that to be a comical quip.
-
Originally posted by Dichotomy
I like my screens free of smudges so please don't put your finger on them
This is a big one for me but at home. I've yelled, pleaded, threatened and instructed the wife and kids not to touch my beautiful precious flat glass monitor but to no avail. It's constantly smudged with finger prints.
At work it really bugs me when someone bothers me during lunch while I'm reading my book. It's my half hour and if your board or need something done, go bother someone else and come back later.
-
oh some customers can be quite annoying
1. 'what do you mean it takes five days to get drawings?'
well, for one thing, I have to design it, have the plans reviewed by a professional engineer, drive to his house on my personal time to pick up your drawings, take them to the DHL office, and overnight them. Sure you're my most important customer with your whole one order a year but I'm not his and he does things in his own time.
2. 'we had these delivered six weeks ago and now we can't find the hardware'
it's banded to a pallet that came with your order
'we didn't get any pallet'
do you have anchor bolts in the ground
'yes'
then you got a pallet. Did someone secure the area or take the hardware back to your office
'nope cause there wasn't any'
and it didn't occur to you to talk to me about this six weeks ago
'I didn't know I wasn't on the site'
Okay well I just emailed you a signed bill of lading with a picture of the truck with the pallet of anchor bolts that your contractor received six weeks ago. You'll note that the hardware is on the pallet next to the anchor bolts.
'oh... ya'
So obviously someone in your organization misplaced it or it was stolen off the site
'well yes I guess... umm can you send me some more hardware'
sure.. that'll be $264 plus freight
'WHAT? YOU MEAN I HAVE TO PAY FOR IT????'
ya customers can be annoying as well :D
-
Originally posted by ChickenHawk
At work it really bugs me when someone bothers me during lunch while I'm reading my book. It's my half hour and if your board or need something done, go bother someone else and come back later.
I used to have this same issue when I lunched at my desk. I figured out that spending the lunch break elsewhere was the best way to avoid this, either in a different part of the building where nobody knows me or offsite. Just a thought.
-
Originally posted by Chairboy
I used to have this same issue when I lunched at my desk. I figured out that spending the lunch break elsewhere was the best way to avoid this, either in a different part of the building where nobody knows me or offsite. Just a thought.
Yeah, I never eat lunch at work anymore. For some reason everything is an emergency when I'm eating my lunch. (and that's after I told them that an emergency was the building is burning down, or someone is dieing, if they have already died it is no longer an emergency.)
Funny thing is when I started eating off site no more emergencies.
-
I can't stand when people come into my office while I'm on the phone and stand there and stare at me or pace around waiting for me to get off the phone.
I finally got a small dry-erase board and put it on the wall and point to it when they walk in.
Then I got the guy down the hall who punches out if he feels he's not working to his full potential. He punched out today at 10:30 and is still here working. Heck I think he gets more done off the clock than on!
-
I work from home, and the missus knows not to disturb me during the day in my office, and i dont disturb her in her office (she also works from home)
The one thing that really sets me off, is when im in my office "working" on the spitfire or lala infront of me, and some dolt calls me on my worknumber and wants something.
-
Originally posted by Nilsen
I work from home, and the missus knows not to disturb me during the day in my office, and i dont disturb her in her office (she also works from home)
The one thing that really sets me off, is when im in my office "working" on the spitfire or lala infront of me, and some dolt calls me on my worknumber and wants something.
that is very very annoying
-
absolutely no respect.. I'd let the answering machine get it :D
-
Originally posted by Vipermann
Then I got the guy down the hall who punches out if he feels he's not working to his full potential. He punched out today at 10:30 and is still here working. Heck I think he gets more done off the clock than on!
Ah, I need to talk to this guy.
-
I love my job ~ I love the people I work for ~ and I love the people I help at work. I love the customers ~ and I love punching out at 5:00 each day & going home to the best husband & kids in the world.:D
-
STOP IT... HAPPINESS IS NOT ALLOWED :mad:
;)
-
Also, I work alone. Me & two managers. Each have our own separate areas. All of our employees are elsewhere, and all business w/them is over the phone & by email. That makes it lots easier to love. :D
-
Originally posted by texasmom
I love my job ~ I love the people I work for ~ and I love the people I help at work. I love the customers ~ and I love punching out at 5:00 each day & going home to the best husband & kids in the world.:D
I'm going to hurl.
-
Originally posted by Dichotomy
STOP IT... HAPPINESS IS NOT ALLOWED :mad:
;)
While I was working for a certain company in their paint dept. I had a boss who actually did say that! We (myself and two other folks) were telling jokes to pass the monotony. Face it, plastic welding the same points on several hundred parts is boring as all hell. So we'd crack bad jokes, discuss cars or aircraft; anything to get time moving. In the midst of a good zinger, with us all laughing quietly, the boss walked up. All 5' 3" of him. And he literally screamed " Stop telling jokes! You people are too happy!."
He was red, we were blinking, and then we were on the floor! Fifty-plus people heard him yell, and at least half of them were laughing so hard they had to either sit down, or hold themselves up. Funny thing was, his boss also heard that loud exhortation. Ready for the punchline? Elmer Fudd not only still works there, he got a bonus that month. The rest of us got talked to. :furious
-----------------------
Flakbait [Delta6]
(http://www.wa-net.com/~delta6/sig/whistle.gif)
-
Originally posted by texasmom
I love my job ~ I love the people I work for ~ and I love the people I help at work. I love the customers ~ and I love punching out at 5:00 each day & going home to the best husband & kids in the world.:D
Hmm, I love my job as well. I work with great people and usually have a great day at work. Of course I hated my last job so bad, maybe I just think I'm happy now................. Going to look for something to piss me off.:furious
Nope everything's still great!:aok
-
I hate when I'm trying to read or post to the BBS and some dolt comes in INSISTING[/u] that I do some work.:mad: The nerve of some people!
-
Hey I never said I didn't like my job. I've been here for over seven years so yeah I like my job, just not all the time.
There are days when I can't wait to get out of here, and then there are days when I can't believe that it's already time to go home.
-
oh my job isn't bad at all I just have little patience for laziness, incompetence, not working through a problem, taking some initiative, and outright rudeness, of some of the people I have to deal with on a daily basis.
Quite frankly I'm compensated substantially well for what I'm expected to actually produce.
-
Actually, now that I had a trip to the dentist, I'm nice & grouchy. I can now think of some workplace annoyances (or any other annoyance, for that matter).
I hate it when people use the word "issues" in a professional document. I edit it out every time I run across it (if it's something I'm allowed to modify). This is a business, not a club ~ just use proper english.
I don't like it when there's smudges on our glass entrance doors. But I'm the one who's supposed to clean those up... so I guess I shouldn't complain about that one.
I don't like telemarketers. I'm usually not nice to them. Why are they interrupting my work day with that garbage?
sitting... sitting...sitting...
Hm... I guess that's all I could think of.
-
Originally posted by SIK1
I catch you sleeping otj you are gone, if you are that tired don't come to work.
Bosses that don't understand the concept of "siesta" tick me off :) I'll work an extra hour or two, if I can take a little nap after lunch.
-
I hate when my co workers leave boards with nails sticking pointy end up on the ground/floor.
I hate picking up an empty nail gun.
I hate cutting plywood.
I hate not having a restroom.
I hate fiberglass.
I hate having to work in the rain, snow, heat, cold, mud, dust, water and noise of a construction site.
I hate not having medical insurance.
I hate not having a retirement plan.
I hate not having a comfy chair to sit in (we do get to sit down for a quick 30 minute lunch and two 10 minute breaks during the day).
-
I hate looking for tools in the shop that the last person who used them didnt put them away in their correct spot
We are a farm co-op, but we have more junk tires lying around then a garage, tire center, and dealership have together.
The boss doesnt throw anything away. We keep busted hydraulic lines, scrap metal, sheared bolts, dead trucks, junk, and anything else you would find in a salvage yard. We tried and tried to get him to let us take them to a scrap yard and get some cash for it, but nope he wants to keep it.
WE HAVE NO USE FOR A FREAKING DENTED FULL-OF-HOLES STAINLESS TANK THAT WILL HOLD HALF ITS CAPACITY! Lets take it to the salvage yard. "Nope, I may need that for something"
:furious
-
okay here's one.. happened yesterday
coworker who has FULL INTERNET CAPACITY comes in my office and asks me if I know how to convert kilometers per hour to miles per hour.
'sure' I say somewhat condesendingly
bring up google
find the equivilent
open excel
write a quick formula
email it to him under the name kilometers per hour to miles per hour calculator
'now you can too'
-
Originally posted by Dichotomy
the out and out laziness of my coworkers never cease to astound me. Hey I DON'T WANT TO WORK EITHER but, until I win a lottery, I'm going to be here doing what I do and going home every night. Now I'm a pretty genial guy but I do have a couple of quirks that I don't consider unreasonable. I've politely informed my coworkers that certain things annoy me. These are
1) I have an in basket on my desk. I look at it often. If you need me to do something for you put it in my in basket.
2) I like my screens free of smudges so please don't put your finger on them nor should you ever put a sticky note on the screen. If you want to inform me of something and I'm not available please use email or place the sticky note on my desk pad. I assure you, as I'm a neat freak, I'll notice your urgent sticky noty.
3) Stay out from behind my chair. Don't lean on it, don't tap it, don't pull back on it.
Now I think these are reasonable requests
All three have been violated already this morning. If you hear about a rampage in Haltom City TX it might be me. I have access to schedule 40 pipe and I know a couple of people who need a good beating
So, What are your workplace quirks? What makes you want to stab your coworkers in the eye with a #2 pencil?
I'm just wondering what kind of reaction we would get if you found a **** (starts with T, ends with D, UR in between) on your desk. :D
-
well I'd probably take you to lunch, buy you a few beers, and swap AH lies ;)
-
Oh... I should add... a few years ago, before a long weekend, we put a live chicken in a co-workers office.
We left food and water and then closed the door.
-
I knew a neat freak once when I was a teen. with him EVERYTHING had to be just so.
His brother and I used to delight in messing up his room..
Nothing destructive. Just things we knew would annoy the crap outa him.
Like one day he returned home to find all his posters hung either upside down, or crokken.
And entire half gallon box of BBS dumped in his shag carpet
His phone cord wrapped around his lamp and all twisted upAnd his bed messed up and about 100 empty cigarrette packs he was collecting mixed in with the sheets and blankets. His school looseleaf binder all disorganised.
(math in with his history work and vise versa,etc etc etc)
All his LP records in the wrong sleeves and out of alphabetical order.
Man we used to take delight in messing with him.
Im still that way.
Be happy I dont work in your office. Giving me a list like that is like wearing a sign telling me what buttons to push.
You'ld come back from lunch one day to find about 1,000 post its all over your desk. LOL
Consider this. I once used a screw gun to screw my bosses lunchbox to his desk.
:D
-
I dont have much in the way of pet peeves as long as the work is getting done in a timely manner.
Take a break, take ten breaks or none at all. so long as the work gets done as fast as I think it should be getting done.
I do allow for the occasional bad day so long as its not habitual.
The only "pet peeve" I have is guys getting and responding to text messages at work.
Last week I'd had enough.
"Text your friend back and tell him to tell everyone your working.
I see you flip that phone open one more time today and you can go home."
Just for the record. I follow my own standards. I dont like being phoned or text messaged when Im working from people other then customers.
-
Originally posted by Sandman
Oh... I should add... a few years ago, before a long weekend, we put a live chicken in a co-workers office.
We left food and water and then closed the door.
LOL the cleaning crew is gonna just LOVE you
-
Originally posted by Dichotomy
okay here's one.. happened yesterday
coworker who has FULL INTERNET CAPACITY comes in my office and asks me if I know how to convert kilometers per hour to miles per hour.
Why didn't you go to google and type in:
"xx kph in mph"? (or maybe it's kmph in mph)
Works well. Lots of google tricks like that, and it works for almost any unit of measure including currency for nearly every country.
-
I hate when my co workers leave boards with nails sticking in them.
I hate picking up an empty nail gun.
I hate cutting plywood.
I hate not having a restroom.
I hate fiberglass.
i hate acoustical sealant.
I hate having to work in the rain, snow, heat, cold, mud, dust, water and noise of a construction site.
I hate not having medical insurance.
I hate not having a retirement plan.
I hate not having a comfy chair to sit in (we do get to sit down for a 1 hour unpaid lunch though)
i hate when "foremen" cant keep there guys busy, so we have people wandering over to our site looking for something to do.
i hate that i'm lucky to get 160 hours in a month, despite supposedly working full time.
i hate being paid once a month.
i hate guys who cant put tools away to the right spot. i hate trying to find them after, and i hate getting yelled at because i take to long finding it.
i hate being sent to grab something, coming back and finding they managed without it.
and i dont like pointless dramatics and mini-politics.
-
Okay, here is my list from the perspective of an employer and business owner. They are childishly simple, but the core things from my own development and mentors.
1. Don't whine to me about how hard your job is. Be an adult and tell me what you need (people, things or ideas) to be more efficient, more productive or to make fewer mistakes and let's find an answer. You're lucky. I don't have anyone I can whine to.
2. I don't care anything about your gender, race or age. If you're not the best person for a job, let's find someone better suited for it and find you a job that suits your ability and experience. That is half your responsibility. If we can't find a position or make one that contributes to the company, I have no job for you.
3. Everyone deserves a second chance.
4. I'll praise you in public and discuss ways to improve your performance to get you a raise in private. You will do the same when discussing other employees.
5. Don't think that managers or business owners don't know when you're being a brown-nosing politician. Use your creative energy for your job and forget about the politics.
6. You don't know everything. If you did, you'd be God. I don't know everything either, so tell me about problems before they get over your head and let's get some collective wisdom and ideas from people who can help to solve it. That includes the most junior person on the line, not just supervisors or managers.
7. Take the time to teach younger and newer people what you know and why we do things the way we do. How without the why is for insects. Encourage them to ask questions because some of those questions and puzzled looks can mean we might be blinkered.
8. Be reasonable. I'll be flexible about the time you aren't here if you're flexible about the time you're needed, even if that is a weekend or evening. It's the work that needs to be done, not the hours. You're not in prison serving time.
9. I'm not your daddy. If you have personal problems affecting your work or others, talk to your manager and maybe we can help you solve the problem. Maybe we can't. Don't wait until your manager has to talk to you about it.
10. Never listen to an accountant tell you how a business should be run. They can tell you where every line on the P&L comes from and many helpful things about financing and cash flow, but they usually aren't very good at changing the numbers on those lines.
11. Have a sense of humor and remember that work organizes your life so you can have a life. It's a means to an end. Be proud of the project or work you have accomplished and move on to the next one with that experience under your belt.
12. It's the people who do the heavy lifting, the grunt work, the daily work who keep businesses running, not the hotshot "idea" person who never finishes anything. The pulse of a business is learned by talking and listening to them.
I warned you that they were simple. Sorry if I bored you to tears... :)
-
Rolex, having read that list, I'd work for you in a heartbeat.............
Well, I would if I had anything I could contribute obviously....
Wurzel:aok
*Ooh dear, now that sounds like I'm brown nosing....I'm not, just your idea's coincide with my own.......*
-
Sounds like a good set of rules there Rolex. Id be your manager any day :)
-
My pet peeve: the good idea people.
Why ruin something that's been running smoothly for years?
-
Originally posted by VOR
My pet peeve: the good idea people.
Why ruin something that's been running smoothly for years?
LOLOL~ I know a Manager who has a 'good idea fairy.' He keeps her in a double locked bird cage. He made a sign that says something like: Do not allow the good idea fairy out of her cage.
-
18 wheelers that try to kill me and old people that fall at 3 A.M.
-
Originally posted by eagl
Why didn't you go to google and type in:
"xx kph in mph"? (or maybe it's kmph in mph)
Works well. Lots of google tricks like that, and it works for almost any unit of measure including currency for nearly every country.
because he's too lazy to do that recurrently.. now the tool has a tool :D
-
Originally posted by DREDIOCK
I knew a neat freak once when I was a teen. with him EVERYTHING had to be just so.
His brother and I used to delight in messing up his room..
Nothing destructive. Just things we knew would annoy the crap outa him.
Like one day he returned home to find all his posters hung either upside down, or crokken.
And entire half gallon box of BBS dumped in his shag carpet
His phone cord wrapped around his lamp and all twisted upAnd his bed messed up and about 100 empty cigarrette packs he was collecting mixed in with the sheets and blankets. His school looseleaf binder all disorganised.
(math in with his history work and vise versa,etc etc etc)
All his LP records in the wrong sleeves and out of alphabetical order.
Man we used to take delight in messing with him.
Im still that way.
Be happy I dont work in your office. Giving me a list like that is like wearing a sign telling me what buttons to push.
You'ld come back from lunch one day to find about 1,000 post its all over your desk. LOL
Consider this. I once used a screw gun to screw my bosses lunchbox to his desk.
:D
well in the case of obvious 'messing with me' type stuff that's all good. You just wouldn't be able to get on the internet until I decided I wanted you to and you wouldn't make a sale because I'd up the margins on your costing sheets that you couldn't see subsequently your quarterly bonus would be about a negative 1,000 bucks. :D
-
Originally posted by Rolex
Okay, here is my list from the perspective of an employer and business owner. They are childishly simple, but the core things from my own development and mentors.
1. Don't whine to me about how hard your job is. Be an adult and tell me what you need (people, things or ideas) to be more efficient, more productive or to make fewer mistakes and let's find an answer. You're lucky. I don't have anyone I can whine to.
2. I don't care anything about your gender, race or age. If you're not the best person for a job, let's find someone better suited for it and find you a job that suits your ability and experience. That is half your responsibility. If we can't find a position or make one that contributes to the company, I have no job for you.
3. Everyone deserves a second chance.
4. I'll praise you in public and discuss ways to improve your performance to get you a raise in private. You will do the same when discussing other employees.
5. Don't think that managers or business owners don't know when you're being a brown-nosing politician. Use your creative energy for your job and forget about the politics.
6. You don't know everything. If you did, you'd be God. I don't know everything either, so tell me about problems before they get over your head and let's get some collective wisdom and ideas from people who can help to solve it. That includes the most junior person on the line, not just supervisors or managers.
7. Take the time to teach younger and newer people what you know and why we do things the way we do. How without the why is for insects. Encourage them to ask questions because some of those questions and puzzled looks can mean we might be blinkered.
8. Be reasonable. I'll be flexible about the time you aren't here if you're flexible about the time you're needed, even if that is a weekend or evening. It's the work that needs to be done, not the hours. You're not in prison serving time.
9. I'm not your daddy. If you have personal problems affecting your work or others, talk to your manager and maybe we can help you solve the problem. Maybe we can't. Don't wait until your manager has to talk to you about it.
10. Never listen to an accountant tell you how a business should be run. They can tell you where every line on the P&L comes from and many helpful things about financing and cash flow, but they usually aren't very good at changing the numbers on those lines.
11. Have a sense of humor and remember that work organizes your life so you can have a life. It's a means to an end. Be proud of the project or work you have accomplished and move on to the next one with that experience under your belt.
12. It's the people who do the heavy lifting, the grunt work, the daily work who keep businesses running, not the hotshot "idea" person who never finishes anything. The pulse of a business is learned by talking and listening to them.
I warned you that they were simple. Sorry if I bored you to tears... :)
Totally agree rolex.. problem is I'm surrounded by
two people that have 'jobs' which means they expect to come in and do a 'job' anything outside of the box means run to someone for help instead of trying to figure it out.
I have one person whose major job for 20+ years has been to show up and read the paper, take a dump, and eat lunch who still types with 2 to 3 fingers.
These three I've show how they can do most of their work from home if they need a day off or are sick looked at me like I had suggested bestiality as a recreation.
I just spent 20 minutes answering emails from my customers which is not a big deal to me. I'm salary which means my office is open 24 / 7 for my convienance. If I've got the flu or a sick kid I can check my emails from home and not burden a coworker with my stuff. These 3 are like 'I'm off work so !#$!# it'.
Just NOT my work ethic and I really don't get it.
Finally I have the owners son who, while a good kid, has a sense of self entitlement that you can not believe. Flip side is he's a good worker he just works his own hours and that annoys the !@#$! out of my 'job' people. They don't really realize that he stays in the office till 8 or 9 most night working. He's got rough edges that I think will wear off. The rest are in their 40's and should recognize this.
Maybe I expect too much out of people. I'm rambling.. I'm tired..
Night crew..
Thanks for letting me get this off my chest. It's good to have friends even if they disagree with me
-
My biggest peave while I was on the ship was going into CIC for my watch and the place would be a wreck. Papers everywhere. Classified manuals lying on the chart table. Log not up to date. And the BIGGIE no fresh coffee made.
Happened several times after I first reported aboard. One night I had enough so when I walked in and the place was messed up I told the off going watch stander I would be back in 15 minutes and if the place wasn't squared away when I got back I would leave for anouther 15 minutes so on and so forth. The dude got pissed and called the chief at midnight and told him I refused to take the watch. When the chief found me out on deck having a smoke, I told him what was going on. He backed me 100% and word got out quick that I would not relieve the watch unless the place was cleaned to my satisfaction.
I figured that if I can find the time to make sure the work space is cleaned and organized before I go off the watch then so can everyone else, but there were a few that it had to be pounded into their heads.
-
Originally posted by Hornet33
My biggest peave while I was on the ship was going into CIC for my watch and the place would be a wreck. Papers everywhere. Classified manuals lying on the chart table. Log not up to date. And the BIGGIE no fresh coffee made.
Happened several times after I first reported aboard. One night I had enough so when I walked in and the place was messed up I told the off going watch stander I would be back in 15 minutes and if the place wasn't squared away when I got back I would leave for anouther 15 minutes so on and so forth. The dude got pissed and called the chief at midnight and told him I refused to take the watch. When the chief found me out on deck having a smoke, I told him what was going on. He backed me 100% and word got out quick that I would not relieve the watch unless the place was cleaned to my satisfaction.
I figured that if I can find the time to make sure the work space is cleaned and organized before I go off the watch then so can everyone else, but there were a few that it had to be pounded into their heads.
You were an OS?