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Post by sheilaincali on Jun 17, 2019 13:36:16 GMT -5
This construction season is off to a head shaking start. We are roughly 6 weeks into the season and the dumb things these employees are doing is slowly driving me insane. I hate to be a basic white girl but "I can't even" with these people. I can't complain on FB because I'm fb friends with some of the employees. I need to let it out so for your amusement (and my headaches) I'll give you a brief recap to this month's employee drama:
Brand new employee (T - he'll come up again), two days on the job gets popped by the cops a mile from our office. He decided, as he was driving down a hill in a semi to take his seatbelt off so he could lean over and pick up the empty pop bottle that fell into the passenger side floor boards. Cop sees and pulls him over for no seatbelt. He calls me to tell me "Don't worry, this ticket is only going against my personal license and not against the company". Gee thanks.
Another employee decides that the "mandatory commercial vehicle inspection checkpoint" did not apply to him so he blew past it. This leads to the state patrol chasing him down the highway and the joys of a full inspection. I get chewed out via phone call from the trooper because we had bought the truck the day before and hadn't transferred the title yet (that one's on me= I didn't know they were going to try to use it before I had the title transferred).
Our lone female construction employee (K) has a bit of an attitude problem and decided to verbally attack a "citizen". The Citizen was driving into a hardware store parking lot behind one of our trucks. My driver (not K) was driving slowly as he has a very long truck box. Citizen was annoyed, honked his horn and yelled "Grandma" at my driver. My driver waved an apology and went about his business. Citizen parked and started walking into the hardware store. (This is in the busy downtown area of the town we were in). K decides to confront him by yelling at him, accusing him of reckless driving and threatens to call the cops. He said "Go ahead" so she did. She called the cops on a random guy because he honked at a slow moving truck and yelled grandma at it. Yup. While waiting for the cops she continued to yell profanity at him. In front of all of her co-workers, people entering and leaving the store, the general public, etc. Had to write her up, suspended her without pay for a day, warned her that if she verbally assaults anyone else she's gone. (I should have fired her but honestly I need the female hours on a couple of big projects and finding women that want to work construction in this area is not easy).
3 of my employees live near each other in a tiny town and decided to hang out and drink on Friday night. No problem- except they were all scheduled to work on Saturday. These are not young guys or new employees- they've worked here for years. All three passed out and forgot to wake up for work. Scheduled from 7am until 11am. Called at 9am to say "Sorry, we can come in now" yeah- we were working an hour away - they wouldn't have been there until 10am and probably wouldn't have been sober enough to drive there in the first place.
T (same guy as before) asked for a $2500 advance after working here for 2 weeks. I said "NO". He then offered to work on Sunday's doing some of our mechanic' work. He's not certified or trained so my mechanic would have to inspect everything he did. But don't worry- so I don't have to pay him union double time for Sunday I can just pay him $20 an hour cash under the table. He called me at 9pm on Saturday to give me this option. I said "Absolutely not, I would never pay anyone cash under the table and risk my company". We do government contracts- you get caught doing something like that and you'll get debarred for years.
Every Single Day it's something new. It's like they all lost their minds over winter layoff. Guys that have worked her for years and years pulling stunts and looking at me like "what? I didn't know we weren't allowed to do that?" Seriously?
I wanted to be the boss, some days I'm really regretting that decision.
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Post by sheilaincali on Jun 17, 2019 13:43:45 GMT -5
My favorite is my Employee "A". A met a General Contractor that we are working with in the metro. Metro finisher scale is pretty decent- like $36 an hour. Regular labor scale in our area is $31. So it would be a $5 per hour jump in regular rate. We only pay finisher scale when he is actually finishing concrete, otherwise he's a laborer. They'd only have him finish but they cap their work week at 40 hours. We routinely worked 15 to 25 hours a week overtime. It's time and a half after 8 hours a day. A is mad that we have jobs out of town (we always have) because his wife won't let him stay overnight out of town. Mostly because he met her while working out of town for us and cheating on his last wife.
A would be driving 76 miles one way to work for this GC in the metro- for 40 hours a week in his personal car. We had him in a company truck and paid for his fuel. He would be giving up approximately $700 plus a week in overtime to make $200 a week more in regular pay and spend his own money on gas to get there and back. He gave us about 3 days notice- we were cool with it. Reassigned his truck, promoted a guy to his spot, done deal. He decides to get greedy, calls the GC and said "I have another offer for a $1 more and hour and a company truck. Will you match it?" they said "No, but good luck with your new job with this other company". There was no other offer. He called a few of our competitors, they all said no thanks. He came crawling back to us, against my wishes, my superintendent hired him back. At laborer scale, he's no longer a finisher and he doesn't get his truck back.
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Post by NastyWoman on Jun 17, 2019 13:46:31 GMT -5
. This thread has the potential to mess up my days to come big time
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Post by hoops902 on Jun 17, 2019 13:52:44 GMT -5
I'm not sure why, but compared to other stories, I could read stories of bad construction employees all day long. I think it's because they tend to be so varied, and because so many personal trainwrecks seem drawn to construction. I also know enough about it that it doesn't sound like jibberish to me like medical stuff might. Keep them coming! lol
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Post by sheilaincali on Jun 17, 2019 14:09:50 GMT -5
The other company (one my brother runs) is not any better. They are manufacturing. C - employee that barely scraps by. Not our fault, we pay him a livable wage but he makes really dumb financial decisions. He broke his glasses a couple of weeks ago- over memorial day weekend. He needs them to see and didn't have a back up pair. We pay for prescription safety glasses but he needs to get the prescription on his own. He called ONE eye doctor (there are at least 20 in our town) and they couldn't get him in for 2 weeks. Rather than call another eye doctor he took two weeks off, without pay since he had previously cashed out his vacation pay, until he could get into that one doctor. Then was shocked that the eye glass people needed a week to get his new glasses in.
He lost three weeks of work because he got drunk and stepped on his glasses. We asked him why he didn't just call a different eye doctor or try to tape them together. He didn't really know. He thought that since he had seen that one doctor a few years ago that he was only allowed to see him in the future.
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Post by sheilaincali on Jun 17, 2019 14:33:46 GMT -5
E (who we promoted into A's spot when he "quit") sent an text message to my office manager with a p.orn attachment by accident. It was a text that said "Hey, forgot to clock out last night, was done at 6:15pm" and it attached this link to a naked jet skiing video from p.orn hub. My office manager laugh and said "OMG, look what E accidentally attached to his text message" We had a good chuckle at E's expense. He freaked out and kept texting her saying "it was a mistake" "Don't fire me". We laughed and laughed. I have no reason to believe it was anything other than an accident because he texted back "Oh crap!" right away. It was his personal phone. But man did we laugh at that.
My husband has a 3d printer and printed E a little jet ski. E was not as amused as we were.
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Post by wvugurl26 on Jun 17, 2019 14:34:13 GMT -5
I'm sorry you have to deal with these people but I'm laughing. I do wonder how some of these people make it through life.
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Post by sheilaincali on Jun 17, 2019 14:35:57 GMT -5
I wonder too. Except for T all of these employees are full adults in at least their 30's. Most have kids and spouses.
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Post by Anne_in_VA on Jun 17, 2019 14:40:14 GMT -5
You just can’t make this stuff up. This is hilarious. My SIL owns a flooring company had is always telling us about the stuff his employees do.
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Post by sheilaincali on Jun 17, 2019 14:48:21 GMT -5
We don't hire college interns anymore - Jeremy ruined it for everyone. He was a construction management major in a bachelor's program. We struggled with him all summer. He just was not smart at all. Kept screwing up paperwork and making boneheaded mistakes. We had him for 12 weeks and paid him a weekly salary of $1,000 a week (this was 4 or 5 years ago). This was his official internship as required by the university. First week here the Bossman handed him one of those leather portfolio folders that you put a pad of legal paper in. Boss says "It's empty so go grab a tablet out of the office supply closet". Kid disappears for like 10 minutes (it's a small office building) and comes back and said "There aren't any in there". Boss said "That's weird, we just bought a big package of them at Sam's Club". Jeremy "nope, I looked all over". Yeah, Jeremy was trying to find an ipad instead of a pad of paper. He legit through we just would have a stack of ipads sitting on a shelf in the office supply closet. He took a week off over the 4th of July to go on vacation with his parents and was shocked that we didn't close the company for the week so everyone could go on a vacation. Then took another week off for a country music festival camping thing. Bossman explained to him that you don't typically take summer vacations when you do road construction.
His last day was a Friday the week before the semester was starting back up. He started texting me on Thursday night at like 8pm about it being Thirsty Thursday and that the bar was hopping. I text back to say "you have to be to work at 7am tomorrow, you should stop drinking now" He didn't listen. Continued drinking, continued texting me (I don't know why- I was his boss, not his friend). No showed Friday morning. Texted me to say "I'm still drunk". I of course told the Bossman (who is my dad). I had previously filled him in on the other drunken texts. Jeremy finally messages Bossman at like 1pm and said "hey, I think I have food poisoning, I can try to make it in if you need me". Bossman said "Kid, I know you're hungover today was the last day of your internship. Don't worry I already filled out your evaluation with your professor".
Kid had the balls to call us a few months later to see if we were interested in hiring him on full time when he graduated. We weren't.
I reminded him what I told him his first day "Bossman knows EVERYONE in the construction industry in this area. Do a good job and he'll be an excellent reference for a job. Screw this up and you'll be lucky to get a job in Minnesota". He moved to Nebraska last I heard.
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Post by hoops902 on Jun 17, 2019 15:00:15 GMT -5
We don't hire college interns anymore - Jeremy ruined it for everyone. He was a construction management major in a bachelor's program. We struggled with him all summer. He just was not smart at all. Kept screwing up paperwork and making boneheaded mistakes. We had him for 12 weeks and paid him a weekly salary of $1,000 a week (this was 4 or 5 years ago). This was his official internship as required by the university. First week here the Bossman handed him one of those leather portfolio folders that you put a pad of legal paper in. Boss says "It's empty so go grab a tablet out of the office supply closet". Kid disappears for like 10 minutes (it's a small office building) and comes back and said "There aren't any in there". Boss said "That's weird, we just bought a big package of them at Sam's Club". Jeremy "nope, I looked all over". Yeah, Jeremy was trying to find an ipad instead of a pad of paper. He legit through we just would have a stack of ipads sitting on a shelf in the office supply closet. He took a week off over the 4th of July to go on vacation with his parents and was shocked that we didn't close the company for the week so everyone could go on a vacation. Then took another week off for a country music festival camping thing. Bossman explained to him that you don't typically take summer vacations when you do road construction.
His last day was a Friday the week before the semester was starting back up. He started texting me on Thursday night at like 8pm about it being Thirsty Thursday and that the bar was hopping. I text back to say "you have to be to work at 7am tomorrow, you should stop drinking now" He didn't listen. Continued drinking, continued texting me (I don't know why- I was his boss, not his friend). No showed Friday morning. Texted me to say "I'm still drunk". I of course told the Bossman (who is my dad). I had previously filled him in on the other drunken texts. Jeremy finally messages Bossman at like 1pm and said "hey, I think I have food poisoning, I can try to make it in if you need me". Bossman said "Kid, I know you're hungover today was the last day of your internship. Don't worry I already filled out your evaluation with your professor".
Kid had the balls to call us a few months later to see if we were interested in hiring him on full time when he graduated. We weren't.
I reminded him what I told him his first day "Bossman knows EVERYONE in the construction industry in this area. Do a good job and he'll be an excellent reference for a job. Screw this up and you'll be lucky to get a job in Minnesota". He moved to Nebraska last I heard. I'm siding with Jeremy on this one. Who calls packages of papers "tablets"? Especially in this day and age. I'm not even sure "grab a pad" wouldn't be super confusing...but "tablet" isn't his fault IMO. Especially if he thought you just had a bunch of cheap-o tablets.
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Post by billisonboard on Jun 17, 2019 15:26:09 GMT -5
We don't hire college interns anymore - Jeremy ruined it for everyone. He was a construction management major in a bachelor's program. We struggled with him all summer. He just was not smart at all. Kept screwing up paperwork and making boneheaded mistakes. We had him for 12 weeks and paid him a weekly salary of $1,000 a week (this was 4 or 5 years ago). This was his official internship as required by the university. First week here the Bossman handed him one of those leather portfolio folders that you put a pad of legal paper in. Boss says "It's empty so go grab a tablet out of the office supply closet". Kid disappears for like 10 minutes (it's a small office building) and comes back and said "There aren't any in there". Boss said "That's weird, we just bought a big package of them at Sam's Club". Jeremy "nope, I looked all over". Yeah, Jeremy was trying to find an ipad instead of a pad of paper. He legit through we just would have a stack of ipads sitting on a shelf in the office supply closet. He took a week off over the 4th of July to go on vacation with his parents and was shocked that we didn't close the company for the week so everyone could go on a vacation. Then took another week off for a country music festival camping thing. Bossman explained to him that you don't typically take summer vacations when you do road construction.
His last day was a Friday the week before the semester was starting back up. He started texting me on Thursday night at like 8pm about it being Thirsty Thursday and that the bar was hopping. I text back to say "you have to be to work at 7am tomorrow, you should stop drinking now" He didn't listen. Continued drinking, continued texting me (I don't know why- I was his boss, not his friend). No showed Friday morning. Texted me to say "I'm still drunk". I of course told the Bossman (who is my dad). I had previously filled him in on the other drunken texts. Jeremy finally messages Bossman at like 1pm and said "hey, I think I have food poisoning, I can try to make it in if you need me". Bossman said "Kid, I know you're hungover today was the last day of your internship. Don't worry I already filled out your evaluation with your professor".
Kid had the balls to call us a few months later to see if we were interested in hiring him on full time when he graduated. We weren't.
I reminded him what I told him his first day "Bossman knows EVERYONE in the construction industry in this area. Do a good job and he'll be an excellent reference for a job. Screw this up and you'll be lucky to get a job in Minnesota". He moved to Nebraska last I heard. I'm siding with Jeremy on this one. Who calls packages of papers "tablets"? Especially in this day and age. I'm not even sure "grab a pad" wouldn't be super confusing...but "tablet" isn't his fault IMO. Especially if he thought you just had a bunch of cheap-o tablets. Agree. We had a young lady unable to find the "Fax" button on our multiuse machine. Had no idea that is was the "Facsimile" button.
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Post by Deleted on Jun 17, 2019 15:28:37 GMT -5
Sheila, you aren't responsible for this Pit River Bridge cluster are you? This morning the delays were already multiple hours to cross the bridge north of Redding they are paving, and it looks to get worse as the days go on.
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Post by sheilaincali on Jun 17, 2019 15:33:35 GMT -5
Sheila, you aren't responsible for this Pit River Bridge cluster are you? This morning the delays were already multiple hours to cross the bridge north of Redding they are paving, and it looks to get worse as the days go on. Nope, that was not me.
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Post by dannylion on Jun 17, 2019 15:38:02 GMT -5
This thread is both hilarious and horrifying. A scholar has developed a theory of stupid people and their effect on the non-stupid. The Laws of Stupidity
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Post by sheilaincali on Jun 17, 2019 15:52:17 GMT -5
I'll give you that the tablet thing was an honest mistake. Call it a generational difference
Now on to the tales of D. (Minds out of the gutter please, that is the first initial of his abbreviated name, I'm afraid the censors would go crazy if I gave his actual name as his full name is Richard).
This was during the summer of Jeremy- in fact this incident happened the week before Jeremy's last week. Jeremy lectured him about the irresponsibility of drinking during the work week. (Irony thy name is Jeremy) D was working with the crew out of town- two hours north of here. We put the guys up in hotels- two to a room. They are typically on site for a week at a time so they bring up a small grill and grill out in the parking lot of the hotel when they are done working. D decided to work his way through a case of beer solo. He's not a young man- in his 50s. Paranoia set in and he yelled at another employee "eff you. I'm not worthless!" Other employee said "Dude, what are you talking about? I never said that". D continues to get irate and drunk. The superintendent tells him "D, you need to cool off. Now would be a good time for you to call it a night".
This made D even more angry. He screamed eff you I quit. Stomped off to his room that he was sharing with another employee, grabbed his stuff, threw the key card at the hotel lobby clerk and said "screw these guys, I quit" and walked out the door. It was 8 or 9 at night. He called his dad and told his dad to come pick him up. He dad (and I knew he said this because his dad called me the next day). "Son, you are drunk. Go sleep it off. I'm 83 and I can't drive at night. I'm not coming to get you- grow up".
D drags his duffle bag down the street to the bar, continues drinking. Shows back up at the hotel at 2am and demands a key to his room. Hotel employee tells him "Sir, you told me you quit, you no longer work for them and the room isn't in your name. It's 2am, the other guy in your room is likely asleep. I can't let you in there". D couldn't remember his room number so he couldn't go knock on the door himself. He tells her "fine, I'm sleeping in the lobby". She calls the cops (unbeknownst to us- last we knew he was calling his dad for a ride). Cops kick him out of the hotel. He hitches a ride to the nearest Walmart and buys a bike with a check he knows will bounce.
At 7 am the next morning I'm at my desk and I get a call from the GC on that job. He said "Hey, I think I just saw one of your employs biking down I94" We start making phone calls. Called the super and got the story from him, Called D and got his VM, Called D's dad and got the scoop from him. Finally D calls back and I tell him just go to the nearest exit and wait- I'll send someone to get you. I can't have this guy biking down the interest 100 miles from our office.
I send Jeremy up to pick him up and throw the bike in the back of the pickup. Jeremy drove him back to our office and his 83 year old Dad had to come pick him up. Jeremy lectured him the entire 2 hour drive back to town about how drinking during the work week is dumb. Jeremy did not heed his own advice
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Post by sheilaincali on Jun 17, 2019 15:55:00 GMT -5
Oh and I got a call from Walmart two weeks later when the check bounced. He put my office phone number on the check when the cashier asked for his phone number. That's how I knew the check was a bouncer.
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Post by hoops902 on Jun 17, 2019 15:58:39 GMT -5
I'll give you that the tablet thing was an honest mistake. Call it a generational difference
Now on to the tales of D. (Minds out of the gutter please, that is the first initial of his abbreviated name, I'm afraid the censors would go crazy if I gave his actual name as his full name is Richard).
This was during the summer of Jeremy- in fact this incident happened the week before Jeremy's last week. Jeremy lectured him about the irresponsibility of drinking during the work week. (Irony thy name is Jeremy) D was working with the crew out of town- two hours north of here. We put the guys up in hotels- two to a room. They are typically on site for a week at a time so they bring up a small grill and grill out in the parking lot of the hotel when they are done working. D decided to work his way through a case of beer solo. He's not a young man- in his 50s. Paranoia set in and he yelled at another employee "eff you. I'm not worthless!" Other employee said "Dude, what are you talking about? I never said that". D continues to get irate and drunk. The superintendent tells him "D, you need to cool off. Now would be a good time for you to call it a night".
This made D even more angry. He screamed eff you I quit. Stomped off to his room that he was sharing with another employee, grabbed his stuff, threw the key card at the hotel lobby clerk and said "screw these guys, I quit" and walked out the door. It was 8 or 9 at night. He called his dad and told his dad to come pick him up. He dad (and I knew he said this because his dad called me the next day). "Son, you are drunk. Go sleep it off. I'm 83 and I can't drive at night. I'm not coming to get you- grow up".
D drags his duffle bag down the street to the bar, continues drinking. Shows back up at the hotel at 2am and demands a key to his room. Hotel employee tells him "Sir, you told me you quit, you no longer work for them and the room isn't in your name. It's 2am, the other guy in your room is likely asleep. I can't let you in there". D couldn't remember his room number so he couldn't go knock on the door himself. He tells her "fine, I'm sleeping in the lobby". She calls the cops (unbeknownst to us- last we knew he was calling his dad for a ride). Cops kick him out of the hotel. He hitches a ride to the nearest Walmart and buys a bike with a check he knows will bounce.
At 7 am the next morning I'm at my desk and I get a call from the GC on that job. He said "Hey, I think I just saw one of your employs biking down I94" We start making phone calls. Called the super and got the story from him, Called D and got his VM, Called D's dad and got the scoop from him. Finally D calls back and I tell him just go to the nearest exit and wait- I'll send someone to get you. I can't have this guy biking down the interest 100 miles from our office.
I send Jeremy up to pick him up and throw the bike in the back of the pickup. Jeremy drove him back to our office and his 83 year old Dad had to come pick him up. Jeremy lectured him the entire 2 hour drive back to town about how drinking during the work week is dumb. Jeremy did not heed his own advice
I don't know what country you live in, but here in 'Merica...Thirsty Thursday is the END of the work week. Can we confirm, did D stay quit? Did he get fired? Did you fall in love with his resolve to bike 100 miles home and marry him?
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Post by billisonboard on Jun 17, 2019 16:06:34 GMT -5
This thread is both hilarious and horrifying. A scholar has developed a theory of stupid people and their effect on the non-stupid. The Laws of Stupidity It is always fun attempting to get young intelligent people to appreciate Law 1.
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Post by sheilaincali on Jun 17, 2019 16:24:32 GMT -5
hoops902 - alas it was not meant to be between me and old Richard. He stayed quit. He asked if I'd change my mind and not "fire him" I reminded him that he quit. His Dad picked him up. Jeremy helped load the bike up into Dad's car. Dad was pissed. He smacked D upside the back of the head and told him he (D) would have to be the one to tell his mother he lost another job.
We hear tales of D from time to time (My superintendent knows him outside of work). Last summer he lived as a squatter in the Super's fish house, Super was not amused when he found out - D Failed to ask permission first. Not sure what he's up to these days. I decided to stay married to my fully employed spouse with the good job and Cadillac health insurance.
Alrighty boys and girls. I'm off I'll share more tales of crazy employees tomorrow
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Post by dannylion on Jun 17, 2019 16:42:00 GMT -5
hoops902 - alas it was not meant to be between me and old Richard. He stayed quit. He asked if I'd change my mind and not "fire him" I reminded him that he quit. His Dad picked him up. Jeremy helped load the bike up into Dad's car. Dad was pissed. He smacked D upside the back of the head and told him he (D) would have to be the one to tell his mother he lost another job.
We hear tales of D from time to time (My superintendent knows him outside of work). Last summer he lived as a squatter in the Super's fish house, Super was not amused when he found out - D Failed to ask permission first. Not sure what he's up to these days. I decided to stay married to my fully employed spouse with the good job and Cadillac health insurance.
Alrighty boys and girls. I'm off I'll share more tales of crazy employees tomorrow These dilemmas are always so difficult to resolve, but I think you made the right choice.
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Post by shanendoah on Jun 17, 2019 17:01:18 GMT -5
sheilaincali - Might some of the stuff this summer being the employees testing out the "new" bosswoman?
One of the managers in my department - reports to the Chair, not me - decided to try and get away with some things that she KNOWS the Chair would not agree to while he's on safari and incommunicado. She asked the Associate Chair for permission to basically give all employees a half day off, with pay (even though only 2 of our 12 staff report to her), because our department graduation was in the morning. Luckily, Associate Chair came to me, and I had to explain 1) We don't give staff the morning off when graduation is in the afternoon and 2) We are a state entity subject to audit and FOIA requests. I cannot authorize giving everyone a half day off with pay. If they want to take the half day off, they can use vacation or sick time. I was nice and did not tell Assoc Chair that said Manager KNOWS the Chair would never approve this, and was just trying to get away with it while he's on vacation.
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Post by Rukh O'Rorke on Jun 18, 2019 7:25:52 GMT -5
LOL - thanks for the giggles Sheila!
I think you've got a good start here on you TV pilot.
I'm dealing with an employee situation myself, but just garden-variety poor performance, and nothing very amusing about it.
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Post by sheilaincali on Jun 18, 2019 8:47:11 GMT -5
We used to have two brothers and their dad that worked for the family but not at the same company. I was with one company and my husband ran the other company (one my brother runs now) I used to tease that I got the good brother and DH got the bad brother. One was super motivated and started saving for a house and contributing to his 401K right away and the other one accidently bought his probation officer a drink while trying to flirt with her at the bar (when he was on probation and not allowed to drink) and was promptly arrested. Jamie was the "bad brother" He did not make good financial decisions- this board would have light him up. He once cashed out his 401K ($2500) to buy fancy new racing tires for car that was worth maybe $1500 on a good day. His thinking was that by making that upgrade he'd be able to sell the car for like $10,000. He sold it a few weeks later for $1400. But don't worry- he got a really good deal on a little pick up. Only problem was it was a shiny purple color. He didn't want to be judged for having a purple truck so he drove it home, parked it in the garage and headed off to the nearest home improvement store. He bought a case of black spray paint and painted that truck- in the garage, with the door closed. No telling how many brain cells he killed but I do know that every time he blew his nose for the next two months he blew out black spray paint. We took Jamie to Vegas once for an annual convention- we took the entire company that year. We paid for hotel, airfare, convention registration and shuttle to the hotel. All they had to pay for food, drinks, etc. Jamie showed up to the airport with $40. He'd spent the rest of the money he saved up on some really "cool" new sneakers. 4 nights, 5 days in Vegas with $40. He spent the first $20 within 10 minutes of getting to the hotel on the slot machines and promptly lost. He then spent the 2nd $20 on a cab to the strip club. He was quite put out that they wouldn't let him in without paying a cover charge. But at this point he had zero cash left. We got him back to the hotel. Bossman didn't trust him with cash so he had to eat all of his meals with my dad for the rest of the trip. He got back home and announced that "Vegas was a rip off and he was never going back". I think their tourism has survived Jamie's boycott.
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Post by dannylion on Jun 18, 2019 8:53:57 GMT -5
We used to have two brothers and their dad that worked for the family but not at the same company. I was with one company and my husband ran the other company (one my brother runs now) I used to tease that I got the good brother and DH got the bad brother. One was super motivated and started saving for a house and contributing to his 401K right away and the other one accidently bought his probation officer a drink while trying to flirt with her at the bar (when he was on probation and not allowed to drink) and was promptly arrested. Jamie was the "bad brother" He did not make good financial decisions- this board would have light him up. He once cashed out his 401K ($2500) to buy fancy new racing tires for car that was worth maybe $1500 on a good day. His thinking was that by making that upgrade he'd be able to sell the car for like $10,000. He sold it a few weeks later for $1400. But don't worry- he got a really good deal on a little pick up. Only problem was it was a shiny purple color. He didn't want to be judged for having a purple truck so he drove it home, parked it in the garage and headed off to the nearest home improvement store. He bought a case of black spray paint and painted that truck- in the garage, with the door closed. No telling how many brain cells he killed but I do know that every time he blew his nose for the next two months he blew out black spray paint. We took Jamie to Vegas once for an annual convention- we took the entire company that year. We paid for hotel, airfare, convention registration and shuttle to the hotel. All they had to pay for food, drinks, etc. Jamie showed up to the airport with $40. He'd spent the rest of the money he saved up on some really "cool" new sneakers. 4 nights, 5 days in Vegas with $40. He spent the first $20 within 10 minutes of getting to the hotel on the slot machines and promptly lost. He then spent the 2nd $20 on a cab to the strip club. He was quite put out that they wouldn't let him in without paying a cover charge. But at this point he had zero cash left. We got him back to the hotel. Bossman didn't trust him with cash so he had to eat all of his meals with my dad for the rest of the trip. He got back home and announced that "Vegas was a rip off and he was never going back". I think their tourism has survived Jamie's boycott.
Is Jamie the one whose exploits you shared with us a couple of years ago? He was a hoot.
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Post by sheilaincali on Jun 18, 2019 10:37:43 GMT -5
No. That was Jimmy. We still talk about him from time to time. Good Old Jimmy. I am highly amused that you all still remember him. I should see if that thread is still out in cyber space.
He came back through a temp agency a couple of years ago. He quit again- this time because we told him he needed to wear a shirt to cut rebar as it was a safety thing. He felt like it was too hot to wear and shirt and that he didn't want dumb tan lines. We wouldn't budge so he bounced.
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Post by sheilaincali on Jun 18, 2019 10:54:42 GMT -5
It's locked so I can add to it but if you go to Everything Else and search "Tales from Jimmy" the original Jimmy thread will come up. It's been years and we still talk about good old Jimmy. Dude was a legend in his own mind. It may seem made up but I swear all of these employee stories are 100% true.
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Post by busymom on Jun 18, 2019 10:55:58 GMT -5
This thread is EXACTLY why I'm reluctant to go into business for myself. Also, my experiences with coworkers from my last 2 employers showed me there is some serious crazy/stupid out there. I don't remember things being this bad when I was working in my 20's. I can only think of 2 people back then who had problems, and one had a serious problem with alcohol (sneaking drinks at work). Anyone else besides me & Sheila seeing some serious stupid out there? It's like some of these kids never grew up!
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