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Posted: 5/26/2022 10:18:06 AM EDT
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New programmer was added to a hiring committee. He was kind of a square peg so no one really knew him very well. Marketing guy headed up the committee and like a lot of marketing folks he was quick witted and pretty funny. We also had a HS intern in the room who would be working with the applicants
During the phone interview the marketing guy would hit mute to talk about stuff the candidates would touch on and sometimes make a joke, but not at the expense of the candidates. Programmer started hitting mute and adding dumb comments and trying to one-up the marketing guy. We get an Indian guy and the programmer hits mute and starts talking in an indian accent and laughing his ass off. We were all looked in a panic to make sure he had hit mute. Marketing guy told him it was not appropriate. Next guy has a middle eastern accent and the programmer starts laughing his ass off with tears streaming down his face. I hit mute for almost the entire call. Call ends and the Marketing guy stands up and nearly yells WTF? Programmer points at the phone and screams "We'll have to get camel parking!!" Intern gets up and gets her mom from the office next door, the HR Director. She walks in with the security guy and asks if her daughter's story as accurate and we replied in the affirmative. Fired on the spot and escorted out. |
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Posted: 5/26/2022 10:20:32 AM EDT
[#2]
Quote HistoryQuoted: I would hate to be a supervisor at McDonald’s. After my divorce and when I was rebuilding my life, I did exactly that. It was hell!!!! Imagine 40 year old men / women who can not make it to work more than 3 days per week. Then when they show up, they show off the "new" phone they just got for cash....... Then complain they can't pay their bills Then demand more hours as I am screwing them with short paychecks..... never realizing they have to be there working to get paid..... it goes on..... |
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Posted: 5/26/2022 10:27:11 AM EDT
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I spent 24 years with a state DOT, 18 of those as a supervisor.
You have no idea. One does stick out though- “Don” was a 40 something single guy who was slight of build, a bit strange but was a hard worker. The internet was a new thing. We are on shift for snow removal and one of the patrols gets on the radio and says one of their trucks is missing. Weird. About an hour later a supervisor in a different area radios in that a plow truck is off in the barr ditch, stuck in snow and mud but running. It is the missing truck from the other patrol. Figuring it was stolen the supervisor radioed dispatch and had PD respond. PD shows up, gains entry to the truck and there is Don and an immensely large female doing the nasty in a filthy 20 year old plow truck. Both are hammered assed drunk. Both get arrested on the spot. After the dust settles the story- Don is dabbling with online dating/chat rooms and meets the landwhale. Things progress and she tells him it is a fantasy to do the deed in a plow in a snowstorm. He goes to his assigned patrol 2 hours before his shift, jumps in the truck and goes to meet the landwhale and picks up a bottle en route. They proceed to drive around for a couple of hours and manages to be drunk enough to run off the road and get the truck stuck. They proceed to bump uglies. Arrested for DUI, aggravated motor vehicle theft in excess of $50,000, trespass, burglary and a few other things. Arrested Shamu for being an accessory to it all. Uhmm yeah, fired. The ones that really amazed me were the ones that didn’t get fired for the shit they did. |
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Posted: 5/26/2022 10:30:52 AM EDT
[#4]
Quote HistoryQuoted: I wonder how many of the rocket scientist on this forum can't drive a manual transmission?? My bet would be 50% 
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Posted: 5/26/2022 10:35:35 AM EDT
[#5]
Had a kid working for me who was always late and would fuck off at work. He ended up on the companies final warning, one more fuck up and he was fired.
He decides to quit and puts in his two weeks notice, then proceeds to come in late while working out his two weeks. I get sick of his crap and fire him. When I was doing the termination he says “you can’t fire me, I put in my two weeks notice” I tell him no that’s not a thing, you’re fired. He then gets up and starts undressing. I’m like woah what the fuck. But it turned out he had a full set of clothes on under his uniform (dress shirt and pants). Who wears two sets of dress clothes at the same time? |
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Posted: 5/26/2022 11:00:32 AM EDT
[#6]
Quote HistoryQuoted: I wonder how many of the rocket scientist on this forum can't drive a manual transmission?? My bet would be 50% I've been driving manual for 30+ years. Never driven a manual without synchromesh though. So sorry to have failed you. |
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Posted: 5/26/2022 11:18:38 AM EDT
[#7]
Quote HistoryQuoted: bad as a janitor that didnt want to clean a nuclear sub? that only cost us a few billion.... @Cleatus Don't leave us hanging! |
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Posted: 5/26/2022 11:19:45 AM EDT
[#8]
Doctor finishes medical school, residency, and fellowship. Decides they don't want to be a doctor anymore and quits. $300,000 and 11+ years wasted.
New patient came in. Issues with tracheostomy. Looked like a simple fix, tell the team to order a new extended length trach, pop it in when it comes, and call it a day. Possible need to upsize. I came back after vacation to this patient after they crashed hard, wondering WTF happened. Some dolt decided that it would be easier to use what is basically surgical caulking on the site to "stop the leak". Stuff went right down past the leak into the lung (cause it didn't seal around the tube, hence the leak). Now we have a post arrest patient who needed emergency scoping to hand pick the sealant out of their lungs. Patient ended with an extended length trach... 11 days after my initial assessment. |
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Posted: 5/26/2022 11:19:58 AM EDT
[#9]
Quote HistoryQuoted: Dan. Dan worked in the homes of wealthy people installing audio video systems as an assistant to a lead technician (not me). One day the company gets a phone call from the house manager of one of these wealthy home owners. They claim Dan was outside the home the previous night peeping inside from a tree on the lot next door. The police were called, but whoever was out there was gone. Dan of course denied the claim. The client let it go, and said it was possibly someone else. Forward a few months. Middle of the day, the company gets a phone call from a home owner saying that the police have been called because Dan was caught looking through an HVAC ceiling vent into a bathroom from their attic where Dan was working. The homeowner had basically locked Dan in their attic at that point. We didn't see Dan again after that. You didn't see Dan again because he was fired and arrested or you didn't see Dan again because the homeowner never let Dan out of the attic? |
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Posted: 5/26/2022 11:20:35 AM EDT
[#10]
been working with a guy that’s got 20+ years experience on me. all his higher ups love him. was caught sleeping in a call room in the middle of the regular workday by another colleague.
was reported to our higher ups, was told, “they’d speak to him about it.” idk what kinda job pays you his salary, to literally fuck off ans take a nap during normal work hours.....& still keep your job. 
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Posted: 5/26/2022 11:24:58 AM EDT
[#11]
Quote HistoryQuoted: been working with a guy that’s got 20+ years experience on me. all his higher ups love him. was caught sleeping in a call room in the middle of the regular workday by another colleague. was reported to our higher ups, was told, “they’d speak to him about it.” idk what kinda job pays you his salary, to literally fuck off ans take a nap during normal work hours.....& still keep your job. The "this is the guy we call when SHTF so if the work is done and he knocks off we don't care" kind of employee. |
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Posted: 5/26/2022 11:25:02 AM EDT
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Quote HistoryQuoted: You didn't see Dan again because he was fired and arrested or you didn't see Dan again because the homeowner never let Dan out of the attic? Quote HistoryQuoted: Quoted: Dan. Dan worked in the homes of wealthy people installing audio video systems as an assistant to a lead technician (not me). One day the company gets a phone call from the house manager of one of these wealthy home owners. They claim Dan was outside the home the previous night peeping inside from a tree on the lot next door. The police were called, but whoever was out there was gone. Dan of course denied the claim. The client let it go, and said it was possibly someone else. Forward a few months. Middle of the day, the company gets a phone call from a home owner saying that the police have been called because Dan was caught looking through an HVAC ceiling vent into a bathroom from their attic where Dan was working. The homeowner had basically locked Dan in their attic at that point. We didn't see Dan again after that. You didn't see Dan again because he was fired and arrested or you didn't see Dan again because the homeowner never let Dan out of the attic? Not sure. I was not at the job site. |
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Posted: 5/26/2022 11:27:12 AM EDT
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I had a guy working an IT Helpdesk for me.
Very often he had to reset passwords while on the phone with the user. He would make up this complicated password but the user has to change the password to something else as soon as they log in. My desk was next to his and he'd be on the phone with these people saying something like: "Capital T, 1, lowercase X, 67, explanation point......" One day I said, "Just change the password to "Password123 with a capital P. They have to change it anyway so why make it difficult for everyone?" and he thinks that's great and thanks me. The area in our part of the office was pretty quiet and had about 30 people within earshot. This is how the guy says "Password123". I bolded the part he would always say in a louder voice. "Capital P, assword, 123" I was going to correct him but the place was boring and I thought it was funny.  |
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Posted: 5/26/2022 11:31:12 AM EDT
[#14]
Around 5 years ago the company I worked for hired a lady in her late 40s that couldn't stop playing candy crush. It was one of those moments I had to think addiction to cell phones is real. She'd go to a meeting to discuss getting written up for candy crush, then literally go back to her desk to play candy crush. She only lasted a few weeks.
Another guy was loosely involved in payroll, but enough to see some salaries. He thought it was a good idea to go to dinner with all his coworkers so he could tell them all what everyone else made. |
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Posted: 5/26/2022 11:35:31 AM EDT
[#15]
I don't know how many times I discovered that new hires had lied (successfully) to the person that had hired them and/or HR. It is an awkward position to be in. HR directors do not like being put on the spot by lower middle management.
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Posted: 5/26/2022 11:40:36 AM EDT
[#16]
Quote HistoryQuoted: Have been working in corrections for close to 28 years now. If where I work is any indication of how the prisons are run in this country, you all should be very, very scared. A brother-in-law (now deceased) was a "guest of the state" for about 15 years - stupid stuff as a kid and young adult that added up eventually. He told me one time that the only difference between inmates and the prison staff were the colors of the uniforms and which side of the bars you were on - other than that, they were all the same. |
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Posted: 5/26/2022 11:43:26 AM EDT
[#17]
I used to work at a company making conveyor systems and there was a guy who worked there who was borderline mentally retarded but it was caused by an anesthesiologist during a routine surgery when the guy was a baby. Somehow he went without oxygen and lost a bunch of brain cells. The guy, let's just call him Mike, was harmless and I had known him all through school but he was in the special ed classes. At work most everyone treated him good as he was one of the janitors and had a chance to talk to everyone. Two of the supervisors always picked on him and finally caught his revenge. One of the supervisors was fucking with him all day long so Mike goes into the bathroom and takes a shit on some of those brown paper towels and plops it into the supervisor's toolbox, lol. The other supervisor got his one day after fucking with Mike. Mike rolled his toolbox to the loading dock and proceeded to throw most of the supervisors tools out into the parking lot. Neither supervisor got into trouble for fucking with him constantly.
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Posted: 5/26/2022 11:46:33 AM EDT
[#18]
Quote HistoryQuoted: Teams was literally invented for Boomers. The rest of the world uses Zoom, like normal people. Webex is better than both IMHO. More stable and more user friendly. |
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Posted: 5/26/2022 11:48:32 AM EDT
[#19]
Quote HistoryQuoted: idk what kinda job pays you his salary, to literally fuck off ans take a nap during normal work hours.....& still keep your job. We got a few of those here as well. Maybe it’s like being tenured or something. Some people proved their worth at some point and riding that legacy to retirement. We also got a guy who constantly fucks up…smashed robot cells with forklifts, breaks cranes trying to pull molds that are still clamped in, etc. He always owns up to the fuck up and pisses clean on the post-accident drug test. That and difficultly finding a better employee means he’s still not fired. |
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Posted: 5/26/2022 11:51:59 AM EDT
[#20]
The best work force is one that has no other options than to work or starve. The Feds really fucked up with all their safety nets.
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Posted: 5/26/2022 11:53:29 AM EDT
[#21]
I'm in industrial sales. Upgrades to heavy industrial mechanical manufacturing equipment are what I specialize in.
A large aggregate plant asked me to help with a leaking bearing seal on a large bearing housing. So I design and submit drawings to them that their engineer modifies and sends back for manufacture with a PO for 4 seals. Totals ~30k. I said stop, don't order this size. It's not right. Get over ridden by the plant engineer and the order proceeds. New custom seals don't fit. Parts get put on shelf and correct parts ordered. Everyone is happy. Fast forward 4 years, they call me to make sure we get it right for reorder. The plant engineer over rules me again and orders the wrong shit again. This time the mistake cost them 37k Now these stupid fucks have 8 custom seals that were not designed for any application. |
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Posted: 5/26/2022 12:00:04 PM EDT
[#22]
Quote HistoryQuoted: idk what kinda job pays you a salary, to literally fuck off and take a nap during normal work hours.....& still keep your job. Welcome to the Fire Service! Literally like hitting the lotto. |
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Posted: 5/26/2022 12:02:25 PM EDT
[#23]
Quote HistoryQuoted: been working with a guy that’s got 20+ years experience on me. all his higher ups love him. was caught sleeping in a call room in the middle of the regular workday by another colleague. was reported to our higher ups, was told, “they’d speak to him about it.” idk what kinda job pays you his salary, to literally fuck off ans take a nap during normal work hours.....& still keep your job. It depends on what he does. I know a guy that figured out he could do a weeks worth of work in one evening shift, so he told his boss that's what he was doing, but keeping his salary. They let him go, then called him back a few months later and said he could do whatever he wanted since nobody was capable of replacing him. |
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Posted: 5/26/2022 12:09:37 PM EDT
[#24]
Any of the reps from our India center. Nice people and very hard working, but terrified to take any initiative at all, including the decisionsinvolvedintheir day to day duties. I suspect a lot of it is a cultural issue relating to the caste system
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Posted: 5/26/2022 1:18:12 PM EDT
[#25]
Quote HistoryQuoted: @Cleatus Don't leave us hanging! Quote HistoryQuoted: Quoted: bad as a janitor that didnt want to clean a nuclear sub? that only cost us a few billion.... @Cleatus Don't leave us hanging! The incident he is referring to occurred in May 2012 onboard the submarine USS Miami(SSN-755) at Portsmouth Naval Shipyard. A shipyard painter wanted to get out of work early to go try to talk his ex-girlfriend into getting back together with him, and decided starting a small fire was the way to get let go early. Well the fire spread, got out of control, and burned for 12 hours before finally being put out, pretty much destroying everything in the forward half of the sub. Initially the navy was going to repair the sub, but as the repair bill grew and grew, eventually they decided it was too expensive, and instead decommissioned & scrapped her. (Source of info: I was serving aboard the Miami at the time) |
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Posted: 5/26/2022 1:43:25 PM EDT
[#26]
Quote HistoryQuoted: Had one employee that thought his girlfriends weight gain and stomach pain was from bladder infection or something like that. They got surprised when the baby started moving around. Poor kid won't have a snowballs chance in hell in life with parents that fucking stupid. I knew 2 girls in college who had no idea they were pregnant until 8 months in or so. They were both chunky and their weights fluctuated alot, so they claimed the extra weight was in their normal spread. They were also both barflies and didn't cut back on drinking and smoking until very late in the pregnancies. Of course, after 8 months, neither could remember who they slept with that long ago. Those poor kids never had a chance. |
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Posted: 5/26/2022 1:49:38 PM EDT
[#27]
Wife had a coworker who was hired because she was an old friend of an Administrative Board member. The woman had a college degree in English (or something like that), and had been a copywriter and editor for years for a magazine publisher in Atlanta. However, she couldn't compose emails without a lot of help. Also, no telephone skills. no notetaking skills, and overall, no general office skills at all. After a few weeks, the rest of the staff was trying to figure out a way to let her go, but the Administrative Board member wouldn't let them do it.
She had been divorced for years and lived in a house she inherited, however, she had no pets (No cats  . She ordered everything online and had it delivered to her house (groceries, prescriptions, etc.) At work, she constantly complained about a lot of things, but mostly her health. Eventually, she had to have hip surgery. A large part of the success of that type of surgery is the physical therapy afterwards. Well, she complained about the pain of the therapy and quit doing it. Then her leg swelled up and got septic and she almost lost it and her life. That wrecked her recovery and she ended up in a wheelchair. Poor woman. The Administrative Board member finally let her go.All of this was pre-COVID; there's no telling how this would have transpired during that time. |
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Posted: 5/26/2022 1:54:48 PM EDT
[#28]
It's been a while. I was an IT Team Lead. Employee had an alcohol issue. He kept missing pre-scheduled evening calls with other IT teams to make changes after normal working hours. Wrote him up. Told him that if he couldn't make the call he had to call me and I would find somebody to take over. We figured that he would fly right for a few months and then fall back into old habits. Two weeks later I had to let him go. It really sucks to have other IT teams screaming on the phone because they all showed up and my dude didn't. For the time and location this dude was highly compensated but he just couldn't stay off of the sauce a couple of evenings per month.
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Posted: 5/26/2022 1:55:11 PM EDT
[#29]
Quote HistoryQuoted: The best work force is one that has no other options than to work or starve. The Feds really fucked up with all their safety nets. ... and that damned 13th Ammendment, amirite? |
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Posted: 5/26/2022 1:58:11 PM EDT
[#30]
Just beware of the guy with incredible credentials (a packed CV). I hired one and he couldn't actually do anything. I had to let him go.
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Posted: 5/26/2022 2:08:16 PM EDT
[#31]
I could write a book on the subject. Sooooo many dumb people and it is getting worse.
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Posted: 5/26/2022 2:10:32 PM EDT
[#32]
One of our foreman just totaled a $70,000 company truck and a 20’ trailer.
He used the truck and trailer over the weekend to move a friend. A fireable offense. Our trucks have GPS and are monitored, so not sure how he expected to get away with it. Anyway, he totaled them both and ran from the scene leaving both his kids strapped into the back seats. Police caught up with him - he was drunk. He was arrested for DUI and two counts of child endangerment. Two weeks after the accident he was still in jail so looks like his wife refuses to bail him out. |
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Posted: 5/26/2022 2:25:14 PM EDT
[#33]
Quote HistoryQuoted: We had a temp who could not tell time on an analog clock. It's more common than you think. My wife decided to take karate alongside our daughter to encourage her. One day, a teenage student asked what time it was. My wife pointed to analog clock on the wall. Girl said she couldn't tell time. Wife asked 8-10 other teenagers in room if they could read the clock. Two were able to read the time. |
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Posted: 5/26/2022 2:27:22 PM EDT
[#34]
Quote HistoryQuoted: Years ago I worked in a school and we were told we were being given drug tests so we all had to line up on our first day of inservice. One of my employees came to me and asked if he could go home because he pissed his pants waiting in line and couldn't hold it. Poor guy, messed the whole front of his pants. I couldn't believe he did that but he was so freaked out about not missing the test he tried to hold it in line. Dude's fake piss leaked out, he didn't piss himself |
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Posted: 5/26/2022 2:44:40 PM EDT
[#35]
Quote HistoryQuoted: One of our foreman just totaled a $70,000 company truck and a 20’ trailer. He used the truck and trailer over the weekend to move a friend. A fireable offense. Our trucks have GPS and are monitored, so not sure how he expected to get away with it. Anyway, he totaled them both and ran from the scene leaving both his kids strapped into the back seats. Police caught up with him - he was drunk. He was arrested for DUI and two counts of child endangerment. Two weeks after the accident he was still in jail so looks like his wife refuses to bail him out. A company I worked for 25 years ago provided cars to all of the outside sales people. Our territory was the entire state. These cars were getting around 40,000 miles put on them every year. Every salesman lived at least 30 miles away form the home office. I lived about 20 miles from the home office, but I drove my POV every day, so I was averaging at least 10,000 miles per year just commuting. Anyway, the boss was complaining about vehicle costs and such going up. His son was my friend, and we were discussing this one day. We figured that the salesmen were putting at least 15,000 miles per year commuting, and the rest was business. The son got really curious and audited trip / customer reports, and found out that none of them added up to an additional 25,000 miles per year for any of the salesmen, the reports only added up to around another 15,000 miles annually instead. Then one weekend soon after, the boss' son just happened to see one of the salesmen, with his family, in the company car at the beach. He didn't let the salesman know that he was spotted, but the boss was told about it. Apparently, a lot of that extra mileage (and gas) on those cars was (unauthorized) personal use. The boss then put out a new policy that any mileage on a company car over 30,000 annually would be deducted from the salesmens' salaries. One salesman quit after a few weeks, and the others looked a little sullen for a few weeks as well. Obviously, the company car mileages went down. I still stay in contact with my friend (boss' son) and he says they now have GPS in every company vehicle. |
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Posted: 5/26/2022 2:53:50 PM EDT
[#36]
Quote HistoryQuoted: Foreign country..Absolutely great guy. No shitty job he won’t do. Can’t fire him. Can only sit back and watch the show. We were demoing part of a dock being rebuilt. So my command was get another guy from the beach house and pop all the dock boards loose then pop the connections at the Seawall and the cut the stringers with a chainsaw so the dock builders can just start pulling the pilings out when they show up with the barge up on Monday. Be careful please. A few boards were newer ones and had ring shank SS nails holding them down. So he could not pry them up with the pinch bar. I said just cut those loose with the chain saw. He proceeds to bend over and cut the one he is standing on. Right out from under him. Goes head first into the canal with the chainsaw running full bore. Tags a nail sticking out. Slices his back and arm open. Destroys the chainsaw. Swims over to the ladder. Climbs out. Stands there soaking wet bleeding and laughing. Looks at me and says. You always tell me "if you are going to be dumb, ya better be tough". Ok..that’s enough dock work. My grandpa used to tell the story of how back in the 1950's he worked on a county road crew and they were building a bridge one day, back when bridges were built out of too-long timbers as cross-planks. He was sent to cut off the ends sticking out over the creek as they finished the bridge. He got to the last one, turned around, and cut it. Yep, he went right into the creek. He later became a truck driver. Drove about a gazillion miles with no accidents and was once credited with saving a biker's life by being observant and getting his truck stopped in what seemed to the onlookers like a record-fast time (fast reaction) when a herd of motorcycles all wiped out in front of him on the highway. |
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Posted: 5/26/2022 3:42:26 PM EDT
[#37]
Quote HistoryQuoted: I was given an accounting clerk transfer into my department my first week on the job. As asked her to provide me an account listing, if alpha order if possible. Half a day later she is still collating her spreadsheet. She did not know how to sort a column. Also, she did not know how to format a cell for currency. She was using the space bar to align the decimals. After ordering an Excel skills test for my group, turns out 2 more clerks didn't know any of the functions available and only used the column to make things look neat. Everything I know how to do on Excel comes from Google, or from saving a local copy of whatever the spreadsheet is and going to town with all the buttons until I get it to do what I want it to do. ETA: Been in the Army for almost 20 years, so seen my share of stupid... |
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Posted: 5/26/2022 4:38:42 PM EDT
[#38]
Back in the 1980s the company I worked for went tits up, and an old buddy of mine asked me to help run his Hickory Farms franchise store (cheese, if you're not familiar with Hickory Farms). He has one gal there who was a nasty bitch, but she showed up every day on time, so my buddy didn't want to let her go.
One afternoon she was waiting on a woman customer, and the woman asked her about our brie (French cheese). She said "My husband and I are having some people over for a wine and cheese party, and he said to be sure and get some brie. But I've never had any brie before. What does it taste like?" Now the correct way to respond to a question like that is to cut off a small sample and offer it to the customer, so that she can see for herself what the cheese tastes like. But does our employee do that? Nooooo. She says (loud enough for my buddy and I to clearly hear) "Well, if you ask me, I think it tastes like sperm." That was her last day at Hickory Farms. |
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Posted: 5/26/2022 4:49:08 PM EDT
[#39]
Quote HistoryQuoted: One of our foreman just totaled a $70,000 company truck and a 20’ trailer. He used the truck and trailer over the weekend to move a friend. A fireable offense. Our trucks have GPS and are monitored, so not sure how he expected to get away with it. Anyway, he totaled them both and ran from the scene leaving both his kids strapped into the back seats. Police caught up with him - he was drunk. He was arrested for DUI and two counts of child endangerment. Two weeks after the accident he was still in jail so looks like his wife refuses to bail him out. Jeebuz, what a piece of shit. Sorry about your truck and trailer, but I’m talking about fleeing the scene of the DUI-induced accident and leaving his kids in the car. Shit like this makes the idea of a breeding passport seem good. |
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Posted: 5/26/2022 6:52:23 PM EDT
[#40]
Quote HistoryQuoted: I know straight sabotage in some instances. I see random stops pressed occasionally…ok sometimes you bump an estop with your butt or something. The one that really chaffs me is I get called out to a dead cell. It simply doesn’t work and discover the PLC inside the electrical enclosure has been switched from RUN to STOP. Some asshole somehow discovered that little trick knowing he can stop a cell anytime without breaking anything and buy himself a longer break while someone figures it out. Worked at a large Dana plant that had several frame welding lines, any fixture that had a drop rail and clamping had palm buttons for each position on the station. Every station had a E-stop button. If they wanted downtime they would hit that E-stop and the whole line would stop, then if they were smart they would reset the E-stop. System was a early AB PLC 2 /5 setup so the techs would walk the line first before resetting the line. The later AB PLC late 90's had several touch screens with a alarm indicating screen showing exactly when and which E-stop was pushed in. We didn't even go out first, headed straight to the alarm screen. Cuts out the BS |
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Posted: 5/26/2022 9:15:02 PM EDT
[#41]
Quote HistoryQuoted: I’ve had a mechanical engineering intern who didn’t know what a needle nosed pliers was. I didn’t fault them as this is really basic tools 101 that Dads need to teach their kids. In mfg I see the dumbest of the dumb. Some stuff I see is so stupid it has to be intentional sabotage. That’s the only explanation that offers a shred of logic and hope. I know straight sabotage in some instances. I see random stops pressed occasionally…ok sometimes you bump an estop with your butt or something. The one that really chaffs me is I get called out to a dead cell. It simply doesn’t work and discover the PLC inside the electrical enclosure has been switched from RUN to STOP. Some asshole somehow discovered that little trick knowing he can stop a cell anytime without breaking anything and buy himself a longer break while someone figures it out. Had a project where the electrical prime was installing new process air blower control panel for a wastewater plant. About the only switch on the front of the panel was the E-stop without a guard. An apprentice working in the control room dumped a blower twice in 8 hours. They moved him to another job. Due to him, we now have guards on the E-stops |
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Posted: 5/26/2022 9:24:55 PM EDT
[#42]
Quote HistoryQuoted: ... and that damned 13th Ammendment, amirite? |
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Posted: 5/26/2022 9:43:48 PM EDT
[#43]
Quoted: How The Glittery Fuck are you equating slavery with being able to eat because you work for the money to buy food? Yes, the comparison was lost on me too... |
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Posted: 5/26/2022 9:50:20 PM EDT
[#44]
Had a diversity hire riding with same field training officer as me and my buddy on a tour of the worst hood in Houston (okay, one of the worst) on the first day on the street with the PD. Buddy looked over and realized her speedloaders looked empty. When asked she responded that she hadn't bought any ammo yet because "today was just orientation."
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Posted: 5/26/2022 10:04:41 PM EDT
[#45]
Decades ago I was working helpdesk for a college. Prof calls in, says his computer's slow as fuck. I want to say I remember some attitude.
I shuffle right down there and quickly determine that the hard drive is full. I try to find the source of this as the drives we had were pretty big. He's got a porn directory on his desktop that is probably 80% of the available storage on the machine. I'm not looking to get anyone fired so I offer to just delete the shit and we can all go about our day. He gets all embarrassed, says he'll take care of it, and sends me on my way. A month or so later I'm out of office. My boss takes a "slow machine" complaint from the same guy and has to chase it down because I'm out. Guess who filled up their hard drive with porn again? They kicked that dude so hard and so fast that his ass didn't hit the ground before the county line. Couple weeks ago we had a guy get fired after a disagreement over a seemingly inconsequential matter. He was a low level custodial worker, she was a top level site administrator. She said do it one way, he said no. She haughtily reminded him of her position. A man I never heard utter a profane or angry word told her that he "didn't give a shit if she was Jesus Fucking Christ," he was doing it his way. He was out within 20 minutes. There's backstory there I wish I knew. |
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Posted: 5/26/2022 10:05:04 PM EDT
[#46]
Quote HistoryQuoted: The "this is the guy we call when SHTF so if the work is done and he knocks off we don't care" kind of employee. Quote HistoryQuoted: Quoted: been working with a guy that’s got 20+ years experience on me. all his higher ups love him. was caught sleeping in a call room in the middle of the regular workday by another colleague. was reported to our higher ups, was told, “they’d speak to him about it.” idk what kinda job pays you his salary, to literally fuck off ans take a nap during normal work hours.....& still keep your job. The "this is the guy we call when SHTF so if the work is done and he knocks off we don't care" kind of employee. If you’re great at what you do, and do what needs to be done when it needs to be done without any bullshit, then you get to do whatever you want when there’s nothing that needs to be done
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Posted: 5/26/2022 10:15:59 PM EDT
[#47]
Quote HistoryQuoted: I had a guy working an IT Helpdesk for me. Very often he had to reset passwords while on the phone with the user. He would make up this complicated password but the user has to change the password to something else as soon as they log in. My desk was next to his and he'd be on the phone with these people saying something like: "Capital T, 1, lowercase X, 67, explanation point......" One day I said, "Just change the password to "Password123 with a capital P. They have to change it anyway so why make it difficult for everyone?" and he thinks that's great and thanks me. The area in our part of the office was pretty quiet and had about 30 people within earshot. This is how the guy says "Password123". I bolded the part he would always say in a louder voice. "Capital P, assword, 123" I was going to correct him but the place was boring and I thought it was funny. I work a guy who services an office designated CZJ. He is almost70yo When he places orders they ask which off and he says charley zebra Jackoffice. He has been saying that for years and I called him on it the other day. We had a good laugh. |
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Posted: 5/26/2022 10:18:52 PM EDT
[#48]
Hired a new MA (Medical assistant) at the office. First thing she does is brag to everyone else at the main office how much she got hired on for. Gets transferred to one of our satellite offices to replace an employee who was quitting. Proceeds on day 1 there to yell at management that this was not what she wanted to do. Proceeds next day to brag to my employee who she is replacing that she is planning to only work 2 more weeks then just no call/no show so she can collect unemployment while, while also complaining how the transmission in her car just failed and she doesn’t have the money to get it fixed. Somehow she’s also under the impression that if she leaves she’s entitled to 2 weeks severance pay (uh what? lol). Day 2 gets escorted off the premise. Enjoy your broke down car and for cause termination (hence no unemployment benefits).
Only thing I can say she did right is flame out early on so we wouldn’t have to deal with her for any length of time. |
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Posted: 5/26/2022 10:21:39 PM EDT
[#49]
Quote HistoryQuoted: I dated a girl that devolved into that, and married a woman that ended up being that way. I no longer play, but IMHO its something that women don't like. Can't say I really blame them, only so much time in life to chase excellence. Some women are driven batshit fucking nuts at seeing a man at rest, no matter the circumstance. Those women are best avoided if you're a man who likes to rest at all. |
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Posted: 5/26/2022 10:49:02 PM EDT
[#50]
I work on elevators for a living. There is one fella that has never ending stories of his lack of common sense. Truthfully the guy was very book smart and a nice person.
Doing a mod project the Forman laid out some holes to be made in concrete. We got him a Roto hammer and a bit. He starts drilling we go to look at something. Come back 40 minutes later to check on him. He has still not made one hole. I'm like did you hit rebar. Pick up the drill and its on reverse. Same guy. We are in the elevator cab and the Forman calls on the radio to ask how many stops it has. I'm looking at the buttons counting them and realize the guy is gone. I go to break and find the guy standing outside the building. I'm like what are you doing and he says counting the windows. Him and another guy are working in a building that takes a badge swipe to get back in. Other guy goes out to the truck to get tools. He tells him don't let the door close behind me. While he is out looking for stuff in the van here comes goofball. He looks at him and says hey I told you don't let the door close behind me. He goes oh don't worry I didn't let the door close behind you. It went closed behind me. |
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