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Post by thunderbird on Nov 6, 2011 22:19:43 GMT -5
hahahaha thanks.
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Post by fartinggurl on Nov 12, 2011 19:20:26 GMT -5
Oh one of my pet peeves too. When I worked at the sandwich shop I dealt with quite a few lazy people. One girl in particular I remember, it was the two of us working the lunch shift on a Saturday, which were busy times for the shop. We had a line of customers out the door, and I was waiting on the customers while she was texting on her phone. I kept calling to her, telling her I needed help.
I must have called out to her 5 times before I got fed up waiting for her. I told the customers I was with that I would be back soon, went to the back room, and proceded to yell at her to stop texting and come help me. What was really great was that one of the customers complained about her laziness and texting to corporate, and she got fired.
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Post by Phil on Dec 14, 2011 14:41:57 GMT -5
For the most part the people that complain about not having money are also the ones that will not make the extra effort to put in the overtime or do an extra job or 2 for extra pay.
Those types always have some reason why they can't take a 2nd job or give extra overtime when its offered and they cry broke.
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Post by Classicblast on Dec 15, 2011 3:09:33 GMT -5
My brother says this all the time too. Thunderbird to the members of Lewasite says that the lazier people will usually give back some of their paycheck. He insists that whenever the lazier people earn a few extra hours they take a day or parts of a day off therefore returning what would have been the extra money.
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Post by Phil on Dec 15, 2011 14:16:49 GMT -5
My brother says this all the time too. Thunderbird to the members of Lewasite says that the lazier people will usually give back some of their paycheck. He insists that whenever the lazier people earn a few extra hours they take a day or parts of a day off therefore returning what would have been the extra money. Never really thought of that but I'm not surprised. I guess they're accustomed to living on a certain amount of money and if they reach it a day or a few hours early they figure they can afford some hours off. Me, well I always have at least 1 vehicle payment out there. and a mortgage and of course 3 children so the thought of giving up a chance to get paid doesn't really occur to me. With that said if there's a wedding, a funeral, a special occasion that I believe that I can not miss for any reason I will take a day off even without pay for that kind of an occasion. I don't miss days on account of not wanting to go. Or if I get stuck on a double that means extra pay not I can afford a day off. To each their own I guess. |
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Post by Classicblast on Dec 16, 2011 1:46:33 GMT -5
You didn't think of it because you wouldn't do it. You're a hard working man and you want to give the most you can to your kids. So you wouldn't think that if you already made your average pay a day or two early you can skip the next couple days. I tend as usual to feel as you do.
The 9 hour day schedule is still pretty new to me but playing ball even at a minor league level I wouldn't want to miss games or be sat even for a break day because I wouldn't want the team to think the new guy was better or close enough to make me expendable.
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Post by angel607 on Dec 16, 2011 23:41:09 GMT -5
i know I can't afford to take days off either. I had to pay for me and my friend's new years hotel when we go philly and I always have bills to pay. i've been working so many hours with christmas coming up and we are really busy now. but i'll tell you I would rather work around the clock then have my hours be cut. that's a nightmare. and I agree phil works very hard. during these midnight hours I have I don't know how he does overnight shifts. I have been sleeping so much after work and on my days off. this week they scheduled me 4-12 and the next day 10-6. I really feel for the overnighters because I don't think I could ever handle that.
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Post by angel607 on Dec 18, 2011 14:00:17 GMT -5
oh wow fartinggurl that is good they fired her. when your backed up with lines texting should not be a priority. getting the lines down should be more important. people can always text when they are on dinner or break but not on the job. we have had a lazy person Ashly not help out at all and I hated that. with diamond it took 2 years to get rid of her but I am happy to say Ashly is no longer on the floor with us. the managers finally saw what we have been complaining about and put her on checkouts. I can't tell you how good that felt when they took our side.
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Post by Phil on Dec 19, 2011 14:18:53 GMT -5
You would have like this last night. A kid who has been with us about a year is texting. Brian the foreman has told him politely that this is not the time or place to be texting this often. That's not to say that sending 1 text once in a while would get him yelled at but this goes on a lot with this guy.
We were aiming to make a gutter repair with a bucket truck and we needed his attention and there he is texting. Brian plucks the phone out of this kids hands and puts it in his pocket. Then tells the kid, 'Next time I'm going to go up in the bucket and throw that thing as far as I can. Lets see if you behave yourself for the rest of this shift to get it back by morning.' That was funny.
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Post by Beangirl on Dec 20, 2011 11:28:39 GMT -5
Ha!!! Way too go Brian! ;D
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Post by Phil on Dec 20, 2011 14:37:16 GMT -5
Something like that happened again last night. We are getting things in place and this guy's texting, Brian took his phone and said 'this is not important right now, this is not an hour that people should be awake if they're not at work put this in your pocket and leave it there until the end of our shift.'
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Post by Beangirl on Dec 21, 2011 8:41:43 GMT -5
Something like that happened again last night. We are getting things in place and this guy's texting, Brian took his phone and said 'this is not important right now, this is not an hour that people should be awake if they're not at work put this in your pocket and leave it there until the end of our shift.' Yeah.. in L.A. if you are up THAT late you are "Tweaking" LOL! |
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Post by Phil on Dec 21, 2011 14:21:08 GMT -5
Something like that happened again last night. We are getting things in place and this guy's texting, Brian took his phone and said 'this is not important right now, this is not an hour that people should be awake if they're not at work put this in your pocket and leave it there until the end of our shift.' Yeah.. in L.A. if you are up THAT late you are "Tweaking" LOL! 'Tweaking?' lol Its a good point though. If you're up at that hour and not at work its largely unproductive people. Most of that kids friends are college age students who often skip school, or are non working people in their early 20s who sleep til 3 or 4pm and stay up all night playing Halo and things. Jason is trying to get into bad habits but that wont happen on my watch. There's been a few days he was up later than he should have been and his mother is asleep and his father working over night, like namely me, isnt there to make him go to bed. However I get home on time to make him go to school no matter how little sleep he got. That leaves 2 choices, get to sleep earlier or live with less sleep but go to bed and miss school is not 1 of the choices. |
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Post by angel607 on Dec 23, 2011 2:09:02 GMT -5
brian is good because he doesn't deal with slacking. I wish my one manager was like that. she likes the people who suck up to her and you can't tell her that someone is slacking. thank god the other managers arent like that. texting is getting out of control on the job. you can't let people get away with it. I don't know how people sleep till 4 in the afternoon. I am so tired just working the midnight shift. tomorrow is my last thank god. I do like to sleep but if I slept till 4 it would be a waste of a day.
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Post by Phil on Dec 23, 2011 14:53:27 GMT -5
Texting is over the top. I mean its 1 thing to text 'bring home a loaf of bread' reply 'ok'
There doesn't need to be a long drawn out discussion through texts and important work being cast aside and/or delayed to wait fora text message that is a social message anyway. Its not a chat method for when you're bored at work. You shouldn't be bored at work.
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