Sharon
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Post by Sharon on Apr 27, 2015 20:23:43 GMT -5
I was supervisor of one women who if she had put half as much creativity into her job as she did on her other endeavors she would have gone far with the company. This was an evening data entry shift so very boring / low paid work. This was about 30 years ago.
The first thing I remember her coming up with was taking leftover coffee home. We worked until about 1:30 -2:00am so we were supposed to make sure that the coffee pot were cleaned out and turned off each night before we went home. She asks if it would acceptable to take the leftover coffee home rather than throw it away. I got permission from management that yes that would be okay. That was fine for a couple of weeks then she started dumping out the leftover coffee and making a fresh pot just before it was time for us to go home and then took home the fresh pot of coffee. Had to put a stop to that.
Then she decided that she could make some extra money typing college term papers for students at the local university. She wanted to advertise that she had access to copy machines etc. Her plan was to use the company typewriters, the company paper and the company copy machines for her own personal business. No you can not do that.
Then she started being about 5-7 minutes late each day. Our shift started at 3pm and she was watching the end of soap opera that ended at 3pm before coming into work. Her rationale was she just lived up the street and she wasn't that late.
We hired another women for data entry and then found out later that she had left (been let go) from her last (data entry) job because of carpel tunnel issues. She was let go for not disclosing that she could have an issue fulfilling her job duties.
This was in another department but they had a CSR who figured out how to forward her phone to her home phone. Clients finally started complaining about not being able to get through to her.
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Post by Sharon on Apr 27, 2015 20:42:47 GMT -5
We had a young snot fresh out of college programmer that worked there for a while. He considered, and referred to, all the women in the company as secretaries. One of my jobs was setting up logon's and the initial password or new employees. We had a certain naming convention to follow. He didn't like that and wanted his logon name to be different so it would match what his was in school. It really ticked him off when I wouldn't do it and we butted heads several times after that. At that time we had to keep a file called "time" of what projects etc that we worked on each day. It was to be mailed and sent to the boss on Friday's so that meant that most people filled them out Thursday afternoon. He was so rude to the women that worked there, including me, that I started going in every Thursday and changing the ownership of his file to someone else. I always picked one of the women and usually one of the data entry women. He couldn't figure out how his file kept getting changed to another name especially since anyone in data entry wouldn't have the knowledge or permissions to do such a thing. He couldn't fill out his time file until someone with administrative privileges changed the ownership back to him. He finally got the dreaded Friday afternoon review from the boss. The review where the boss also has the final paycheck in the folder and if you don't agree to make some changes in your behavior he hands you your paycheck.
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Post by Mardi Gras Audrey on Apr 27, 2015 21:12:39 GMT -5
I worked in manufacturing in college. We were primarily night/swing shift but the support staff (HR, etc) worked day shift. If you got fired/laid off, the day shift folks would take your name out of the computer system so your building access card and timeclock badge wouldn't work. They would then give your last check to your boss to give to you when you came in. After 9/11, we had a huge downturn in business and they laid a bunch of people off. The thing was that in 1 dept, they didn't tell the employee when they arrived at work. Their supervisors had them work for 4 hours (The 4 hours was included in the last check and they had to pay u something for coming in since we were hourly) and then instead of "going to lunch", they got called aside and laid-off. The part that really sucked was the employees knew something was up at the beginning of the shift when their badges wouldn't let them get into the building (they had to knock and have the door opened) and they couldn't clock in. They had asked their supervisors if they were getting laid-off/fired and were told "No, you are fine. It's just a computer glitch... Your job is good".... 4 hours later, walked out and given the number for the unemployment office. I thought that was really inhumane and cruel. I got laid off later that week but my boss was nice enough to do it at the beginning of the shift and not humiliate me by escorting me through the plant like a criminal (She also let me go around and say bye to my coworkers....the others were just escorted off the property in front of everyone). It paid off for her because they called me back a few weeks later and I came back with no bitterness or attitude about it.
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Post by msventoux on Apr 27, 2015 21:48:43 GMT -5
working as a mechanic I one time asked my co-worker to "put a new mirror on a truck in the bay" (to replace the broken one)
5 minutes late he returns "all done"
an hour later I happen to walk through the bay, the broken mirror is still installed on the truck. I walk around to the front and see the new mirror laying on the hood of the truck uninstalled.
I ask the co-worker about it, he says "you said to put it "on the truck", it is "on the truck""...........
Reminds me of my uncle who was in the military. When I was growing up my mother was frying a pan of bacon and had to step away for some reason. She says she told my brother to take care of the bacon. My brother says she told him to watch the bacon. My uncle was in another room and heard her say to turn the bacon. The bacon was burned beyond recognition. Mom expected brother to tend to the bacon and brother watched the bacon burn. Uncle said that if the situation had happened in the military there would be an investigation into what happened. Take care of the bacon-brother failed, but mother did not provide explicit instructions as to what "take care of the bacon" entailed. Watch the bacon-brother did as he was ordered. Turn the bacon-brother may or may not have done it, but immaterial either way as the bacon was incinerated. I didn't care, I just wanted bacon with my pancakes!
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Post by mollyanna58 on Apr 28, 2015 7:06:51 GMT -5
We had an employee a long time ago who covered the phones while everyone else was at lunch. We got the first phone bill during her tenure which had collect calls on it almost every day at lunchtime - from a nearby county jail, where it turned out her husband was currently residing.
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Post by andi9899 on Apr 28, 2015 7:59:39 GMT -5
Another agent at my current company got fired for sending lewd drunken text messages to a client. Turns out that the client's fiance found out about them and went ape shit at the main office here in town. Of course I am in another office and missed the whole thing! Doh!
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Post by joemilitary on Apr 28, 2015 13:04:54 GMT -5
One of the civilians I used to work with had a lot of tattoos and was a little lax with his dress code.
The boss had been working with the guy in her office for about 4 hours that day and didn't mention his dress or anything.
Then first thing the next morning the guy gets an email from the boss, "I wanted to talk to you about your attire yesterday........"
ummmm, if you wanted to talk to him about it you had 4 hours yesterday to do it.....
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Post by Opti on Apr 30, 2015 8:44:38 GMT -5
I applied for the job that I was working in. The application was caught by the interviewers secretary and returned to me. It was a hostile take over situation. That sucks. I wish I had applied anyway to the recent posting I was told was a mistake.
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Post by Opti on Apr 30, 2015 9:02:24 GMT -5
I am always surprised by how some people are perceived and how politics blocks some good people and allows other not as competent people to stay and move on. Recently found out about one person who I had thought was well liked, was actually hated by a fellow employee E. Former employee F was cheerful and competent. Even described as super human by current employee.
F worked in a job in a small department with no pull. Wanted to be a receptionist, but never really got the chance until finally the need was great enough she got trained for per Diem coverage. A similar thing happened with a position under the aegis of Nursing. Eventually she got that position FT and later left the company for something else.
It occurs to me E worked in that position too but has moved on but within the company.
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Post by Opti on Apr 30, 2015 9:10:44 GMT -5
Slightly OT, got updates on some of my under-employed friends. A former professional logistics person has moved on from a grocery store to Walmart or Costco. A good friend is still working PT at the Salon and trying to pick up some extra hours doing caregiving 12 hour shifts. She has health issues, and this will break her eventually. Hopefully she and hubby will not be hospitalized at the same time.
I don't know whether to feel relieved, saddened or what about this story. She's been at the Salon as long as I've been in my job basically. Both of us of health concerns we need to manage and both of us have done other jobs as well as we continue to look for FT where we are or elsewhere. I am deeply concerned my sinuses have closed again on one side but I can not afford surgery or even to get xrays. On the other hand, I just got dental coverage courtesy of ACA so it sounds like I might get a filling that has needed to happen for 3 or more years.
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Post by alabamagal on Apr 30, 2015 11:45:32 GMT -5
A couple of years ago I worked as a contractor on military base with mostly government workers.
One lady who was the assistant to the head of the department of 130 people would send out EVERY department email READ RECEIPT. I would get about one email a day from her read receipt and it was usually about a non work issue like " we are having a cake reception for xxx who is moving to a new department."
The government computer system had many challenges and she was bogging down the email server.
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Post by Opti on Apr 30, 2015 13:00:19 GMT -5
It is a challenge to decide on the proper amount of documentation. For all we know, she got chewed out by a higher up for not getting an email for a cake reception.
I've been at jobs where I have needed to search through emails to prove or not prove something. Managing email can be a PITA. I'm wondering if my current employer views my saving of emails as something awful versus CYA. I share a log in with four people, so when I have to mail out anything odd, I cc my gmail account so I have a record of it if I need it. Its the only secure way since one of the people loves to delete sent mail and anyone can modify anything even if its in "your" folder. Had that happen.
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Post by Artemis Windsong on Apr 30, 2015 14:31:30 GMT -5
It is a challenge to decide on the proper amount of documentation. For all we know, she got chewed out by a higher up for not getting an email for a cake reception.
I've been at jobs where I have needed to search through emails to prove or not prove something. Managing email can be a PITA. I'm wondering if my current employer views my saving of emails as something awful versus CYA. I share a log in with four people, so when I have to mail out anything odd, I cc my gmail account so I have a record of it if I need it. Its the only secure way since one of the people loves to delete sent mail and anyone can modify anything even if its in "your" folder. Had that happen. Wow. I could not function in former positions with someone being able to change the e-mails on a whim. At one employer, I would send printing to a printer in another office. By the time I sent the document to print and walked to the other office, the miscreant had canceled it. What a delight for that old bag to watch me walk back and forth.
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Post by Opti on May 2, 2015 15:45:17 GMT -5
Thanks Artemis it is challenging. Found one of my files changed today in the folder with my name on it. Again.
In other adventures, new FT person came in two hours before my shift ended surprised to see me there. The feeling was mutual. I think she was supposed to do two hours at another position, but the boss neglected to inform either of us. It might have helped if a current schedule existed.
Adventures await. Will patient X escape the building again? If food worker F gets hit by patient Y what will happen if F does not handle it correctly?
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Post by Opti on May 2, 2015 15:49:52 GMT -5
FWIW, I'd love to hear some stories from people in the medical field to cheer me up. Preferably bad patient stories, but food service, maintenance and other stories welcome too.
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