Bad Employees

Bradley in Texas wrote: »

I worked with a lady in an office who clearly hated her job. She would call in "sick" on almost every Friday or Monday if it was going to be a sunny/warm day. She went through all of her leave/vacation time and was taking days off and NOT getting paid for those days she took off. There was nothing physically wrong with this woman. She just hated her job and her life in general.
To make matters worse, she was a mean spirited, vicious, rude, obnoxious person who would scream/yell if you dared call her on the fact that she always called in on the warm/sunny Fridays or Mondays. I was her boss, so I didn't care if she got mad. Eventually we were able to fire her.

Sounds like you had the hots for her!

dasdenny wrote: »

My bad, of course I should. Where to start

I worked with one guy who spent ALL day of facebook and youtube etc - he didn't even try to hide it, the rest of the office had to pull up the slack for him, fixing his mistakes or just doing his job for him in the first place. The problem was he was a really nice guy, and others constantly accused us of having an issue with him personally which we didn't, just professionally.

Which HSE or local Government department was that :rolleyes:

retalivity wrote: »

Where was this? A town/village name would suffice, i think ive heard about this woman secondhand from someone else too...complete space cadet.

It was on the Inishowen peninsula....

Sleepy wrote: »

The worst one I ever worked with was actually an incredibly sad story. He was a consultant in the same niche of IT as I was at the time and he was hired about a month after me. **** hot resumé, interviewed well and a known name in the business yet it was taking him a day or two to do what I (as someone with less than half his experience) could turn around inside an hour. He barely lasted a week before being let go. I heard later from a former colleague that he'd apparently been in a riding accident that left him with a brain injury. He still had all the knowledge of the system etc just couldn't problem solve or figure things out at a normal pace any more.

Ten years ago, I worked in an IT company where one of the developers was an ex-Paratrooper, a rough and ready English guy but with an incredible CV having vast experience in a range of technologies. The project we were working on was a large one, no expense spared and so contractors were being hired quickly in order to meet fast deadlines so with the pressure of the project niceties and pleasantries were not exactly top of the agenda, it was a get the head down, do the work and deliver kind of atmosphere. Nobody thus got to know the guy.

He was hired as a contractor on some very nice money about €500 a day. The thing was he was always late or at a minimum down to the wire with deliverable code for testing and for agile driven production releases. It wasn't onerous or complex development work either which was suspicious. It took a couple of months to figure out that what he was actually doing was farming out the work to India, paying them a cut of his daily rate and copying and pasting the code, usually at the last minute. Anyway, he made a bit of money while that lasted and in all probability didn't give a care in the world and moved onto another temporary gig.

my boss- co employee of the company we work for I suppose, plays some game on his personal phone at least 6 hours a day, every day. When he does get a bit of work to do every one has to know about it- knob end...I found out today that two lads at the same level as him are going to be put sitting beside him soon. I guess that next level in Candy Crush will have to wait

I've experienced a few bad employees in my day but the 2 funniest were relating to complete booze hounds.

First guy used to come in hungover every Monday morning stinking of booze having obviously been on a bender the whole weekend. One Monday morning he called in and said that he had broken his leg over the weekend and wouldn't be in. Manager said fair enough, that sounds awful sure keep us posted on your progress.
He was out for about 2 weeks and the manager had seen him standing outside the pub in a nearby town no sign of a cast or crutches. After a bit of enquiring around it became apparent that he hadn't broken his leg at all but had just called in while still on a bender and used the most stupid excuse in the world and was sitting it out instead of coming clean. The manager called him that evening and said I know your leg isn't broken will ya get back in to work ya fool!

A mate of mine, another booze hound, was out with me one Sunday night in the local nightclub. Music was blaring and he was so drunk he decided this would be a good time to call in sick for the morning. He left a voicemail with loud background music blaring and pub noises etc, telling his boss he was too sick to make it in to work.
However he actually managed to get up the next morning, had completely forgotten about his phone call a few hours earlier and went in to work half cut. The boss called him in to his office straight away fuming and played his voicemail back to him! :pac:

jiltloop wrote: »

I've experienced a few bad employees in my day but the 2 funniest were relating to complete booze hounds.

First guy used to come in hungover every Monday morning stinking of booze having obviously been on a bender the whole weekend. One Monday morning he called in and said that he had broken his leg over the weekend and wouldn't be in. Manager said fair enough, that sounds awful sure keep us posted on your progress.
He was out for about 2 weeks and the manager had seen him standing outside the pub in a nearby town no sign of a cast or crutches. After a bit of enquiring around it became apparent that he hadn't broken his leg at all but had just called in while still on a bender and used the most stupid excuse in the world and was sitting it out instead of coming clean. The manager called him that evening and said I know your leg isn't broken will ya get back in to work ya fool!

A mate of mine, another booze hound, was out with me one Sunday night in the local nightclub. Music was blaring and he was so drunk he decided this would be a good time to call in sick for the morning. He left a voicemail with loud background music blaring and pub noises etc, telling his boss he was too sick to make it in to work.
However he actually managed to get up the next morning, had completely forgotten about his phone call a few hours earlier and went in to work half cut. The boss called him in to his office straight away fuming and played his voicemail back to him! :pac:

Me and business partner got good contract. Took on a web designer to help out. Talented guy but again total drunk (I see it in people straight away having been there myself). He would turn up wired most days, held together with paracetamol and espresso's, have a totally different design to what the very detailed brief was and talk incessantly of wanting to go for a pint. This went on for days and he eventually turned up with nothing, stinking of drink.
Didn't work out, great web designer just the design be so far removed from the commission as he would code it pissed and forget the original plan.

What's sad is people like that can be TOTALLY OBLIVIOUS to their addiction to drink while it's obvious to those around them. To the point where they stink of booze and are unaware of it.

Working in Dunnes Stores years ago on flexi, s**t hours, s**t money and the managers were as clueless and headwrecking as the come.

Spent the two years carrying this lazy Latvian drunk who would doss off in the cleaning room any change he got, came into work reeking of drink too.

I remember one day, one of the managers wanted us to bring a couple of pallets from the goods inwards to the stock room and I was standing further away from him and could get the bang of drink off him and the manager doesn't say a word and she was right next to him. And I'm sure if I came in smelling like a brewery something would be said about it, I couldn't even get away with the most miniscule bit of facial hair in the place.

Don't know many times I got dragged off a checkout, back office and paged while I was on break! Or even having to come down the lift from the stockroom to do some job that I knew he was responsible for. Wouldn't work for them again if you gave me diamonds.

I worked in Dunnes myself for a while when I was 19. Some of the floor managers, who were probably only early 20s themselves, were like mini Hitlers, serious power trippers. I think they were told as part of training to show the staff who was boss. One of them had a thing about facial hair. I got sent home to shave one morning. I wouldn't even call what I had a 5 O clock shadow. I was 19 ffs.

I wish I hadn't found this thread.

It made me wonder if I was the worst employee.

Dr. Kenneth Noisewater wrote: »

I worked in Dunnes myself for a while when I was 19. Some of the floor managers, who were probably only early 20s themselves, were like mini Hitlers, serious power trippers. I think they were told as part of training to show the staff who was boss. One of them had a thing about facial hair. I got sent home to shave one morning. I wouldn't even call what I had a 5 O clock shadow. I was 19 ffs.

Same thing happened me, same type of manager, young and had something to prove, I got sent home to shave on lunch break because they knew I lived nearby the store, this was my first day on the job too! The brand new store had just opened so everyone had to look spick and span, I was spotless on day one, clean, smelled well, and showered, skipped the shave being I didn't think it was a big deal. I was 19 too, so you could imagine how little of it a typical 19 year old would have.

I'm 29 now, my facial hair would be more coarse now so probably would have to shave every day or second day now if that rule was still in place, which would annoy me even still, I've always been a shave when I feel like it person.

I've heard since Dunnes Stores aren't as strict about facial hair now, saw an old co-worker of mine sporting a beard a few weeks ago, he still works there, very coarse grey beard he has now, asked him, "do you not get any grief over your beard?" He said "No, they've made some policy changes"

I'd understand that if you work in a deli or bakery in a supermarket that having a beard might be unhygienic, but the shop floor or a checkout would be grand in my book.