Worst work attitude you've ever witnessed

18-07-2014 04:52PM

Smugly telling off workers for not doing free overtime and roaring at teenage girls for not fetching files on lunch break because you won't open a stationery cupboard "that's not my job", great stuff

partyguinness · 18-07-2014 04:55PM

FTA69 wrote: »

She's dead right. Employees have a right to a lunch break without getting harassed. She was probably earning f*ck all as it is without having to spend her meal break running around because you wouldn't deign to open a filing cabinet and grab a folder.

Workers are coming under increasing pressure to break their balls for the profit of others all while hours increase and their share of the national cake shrinks year after year. Thank God for trade unions.

Try reading my next post. As for Trade Unions...dont make me laugh....too late...LOL

Their sole purpose is self preservation at all costs...of course they will spin the 'helping the poor downtrodden working class' crap. Trade Unions are a blatant sign of an inefficent work force. Funny that trade union membership is highest among the public sector.....is that a penny I hear dropping?

partyguinness · 18-07-2014 04:57PM

bluewolf wrote: »

Smugly telling off workers for not doing free overtime and roaring at teenage girls for not fetching files on lunch break because you won't open a stationery cupboard "that's not my job", great stuff

Again, try actually reading the post again and properly this time and the one after...;)

partyguinness · 18-07-2014 05:01PM

bobrawn20 wrote: »

So she got shouted at..yknow I'd bet anything the same people wouldn't dare do it to an older person. 17 year old girl though? Fair game.
Wouldn't give a shít how much I needed a job, if a boss shouted at me I'd walk out immediately and they'd be lucky to not get a slap.

The boss (my former) is a lighting bitch spinster in her mid 50s, no friends and obsessed with money. To be fair, while I would never speak to anyone like that, funnily enough it worked a treat. The girl in question really improved and dropped the attitude and was well liked by the time she left. Her attitude was a problem for the first few months. It was her first job.

FTA69 · 18-07-2014 05:02PM

The post is obvious, it consists of you gloating over a young one illegally getting b*llocked by her boss because she wouldn't wait on you hand and foot during her lunch break. That and you giving it the big dick throughout the thread about how much of a corporate badass you are.

You can moan about unions all you want but the fact is that things like an end to child labour, fair hours, a decent wage, safety in the workplace and holidays all came about due to that struggle. You can p*ss all over that because you have a cannibalistic approach to your career all you want, it doesn't change the fact that workers throughout the world would be f*cked without them. You may think a worker's sole purpose is to slave to make their boss money and get shouted at by assholes, but thankfully millions of other workers still think differently.

Jawgap · 18-07-2014 05:05PM

partyguinness wrote: »

That's what pisses me off...the parents (including mine) will bitch and complain about the crap non attending teachers but do the parents say a word? Nah..I have had a go at my mother about this...go and make a complaint and stop banging on to me about it. I have a 2 year old and god help it if there are any teachers like that in whatever school my kid goes to...:mad:

My attitude has always been that I'm responsible for my kids' education, teachers are just there to help.

Owryan · 18-07-2014 05:06PM

Worked with someone who went home with 144 cases of heineken cans and got away with it.

I used to work in wholesales and one year we found out that every Christmas the various sales reps had left stock with our manager to share amongst the staff, for example bottles of spirits, hampers, tins of sweets and so on.

For years he was taking it home with him or giving it out to customers.

The other fella · 18-07-2014 05:07PM

On a building site i worked once, we had just finished plastering an upstairs of a house.Came in the next day,went up stairs to give it a clean up and a labourer working on the site had went for a **** in the middle of the floor, dipped a stick into it and wrote his name on one of the newly skimmed walls with it....Beat that!

partyguinness · 18-07-2014 05:22PM

FTA69 wrote: »

The post is obvious, it consists of you gloating over a young one illegally getting b*llocked by her boss because she wouldn't wait on you hand and foot during her lunch break. That and you giving it the big dick throughout the thread about how much of a corporate badass you are.

You can moan about unions all you want but the fact is that things like an end to child labour, fair hours, a decent wage, safety in the workplace and holidays all came about due to that struggle. You can p*ss all over that because you have a cannibalistic approach to your career all you want, it doesn't change the fact that workers throughout the world would be f*cked without them. You may think a worker's sole purpose is to slave to make their boss money and get shouted at by assholes, but thankfully millions of other workers still think differently.

Asking to pass on a message during lunch time = "wait on you hand and foot during her lunch break". Really now?

Not moaning about Unions at all. IMO they are self obsessed dinosaurs who are only interested in their own cushy jobs and preserving the status quo at all costs.

Don't give me that guff. TU are not interested in the millions of exploited workers around the world, atrocious conditions, forced and child labour. TU are only interested in themselves. They are the biggest Me Feiners around.

If you believe otherwise, you are delusional and you can buy into their bull**** all you like.

Funnily enough, there was another lady at the same office and her nickname was 'Union Rep'. All she did was complain about everything and anything to do with the job. Sounds about right.

Loving the Jim Larkin speech though....;)

shane9689 · 18-07-2014 05:27PM

partyguinness wrote: »

Asking to pass on a message during lunch time = "wait on you hand and foot during her lunch break". Really now?

Not moaning about Unions at all. IMO they are self obsessed dinosaurs who are only interested in their own cushy jobs and preserving the status quo at all costs.

Don't give me that guff. TU are not interested in the millions of exploited workers around the world, atrocious conditions, forced and child labour. TU are only interested in themselves. They are the biggest Me Feiners around.

If you believe otherwise, you are delusional and you can buy into their bull**** all you like.

Funnily enough, there was another lady at the same office and her nickname was 'Union Rep'. All she did was complain about everything and anything to do with the job. Sounds about right.

Loving the Jim Larkin speech though....;)

I think you might be the person everyone else is referring to when they tell their stories in this thread.... you gain pleasure out of seeing a 17 year old girl get shouted at because you were too pompous to get oof your chair....in one post you said youd break your back working massive hours to get a job down right...yet here you wont even get up to fetch a file???

the girl was on break, after break, fine, but theres nothing worse than trying to sit down for your break to de-stress only to have someone like you still ordering them around

diomed · 18-07-2014 05:33PM

The other fella wrote: »

On a building site i worked once, we had just finished plastering an upstairs of a house.Came in the next day,went up stairs to give it a clean up and a labourer working on the site had went for a **** in the middle of the floor, dipped a stick into it and wrote his name on one of the newly skimmed walls with it....Beat that!

So **** for brains too.

partyguinness · 18-07-2014 05:36PM

shane9689 wrote: »

I think you might be the person everyone else is referring to when they tell their stories in this thread.... you gain pleasure out of seeing a 17 year old girl get shouted at because you were too pompous to get oof your chair....in one post you said youd break your back working massive hours to get a job down right...yet here you wont even get up to fetch a file???

the girl was on break, after break, fine, but theres nothing worse than trying to sit down for your break to de-stress only to have someone like you still ordering them around

Do you think, maybe just maybe, I was incredibly busy (during lunch that I certianly did not take- my choice) and asking for a little help and only to get cheek back. That maybe just maybe some of us are busting our balls off to get the job done, to generate fees to pay for the wages and then to get that crap back?

Yes, the boss is a lighting bitch and will die a sad lonely death. She wasnt shouting at her for not doing something during her lunch it was that she is to do as she is told in supporting 'fee earners'. That is her job. That is what she signed up for.

Anyway for the record, the stationary room was in a different part of the building and locked. It wasnt a simple case of dipping my hand in. I simply pointing out that stock were running low and asked her to mention it to 'John' when he came back from lunch. Was that really such an unreasonable request?

But hey...why let that little fact get in the way. Write what you want anyway..

The other fella · 18-07-2014 05:38PM

diomed wrote: »

So **** for brains too.

Im afraid so!Obviously he got the sack but the only thing that pissed me off is another man who worked there had to come up and clean it!They should have made that other **** do that before he was sacked.

Maximus Alexander · 18-07-2014 05:44PM

partyguinness wrote: »

Do you think, maybe just maybe, I was incredibly busy (during lunch that I certianly did not take- my choice) and asking for a little help and only to get cheek back. That maybe just maybe some of us are busting our balls off to get the job done, to generate fees to pay for the wages and then to get that crap back?

LMFAO, if you can't even manage to open a filing cabinet then you're not going to be much use at 'generating fees' without the rest of the staff.

Distinct lack of self awareness and ability to see the big picture here. You come across like you're parodying a solicitor.

GalwayGuy2 · 18-07-2014 05:49PM

bobrawn20 wrote: »

So she got shouted at..yknow I'd bet anything the same people wouldn't dare do it to an older person. 17 year old girl though? Fair game.
Wouldn't give a shít how much I needed a job, if a boss shouted at me I'd walk out immediately and they'd be lucky to not get a slap.

Hmmm, I have a feeling you never hit rock bottom.

partyguinness · 18-07-2014 05:50PM

Maximus Alexander wrote: »

LMFAO, if you can't even manage to open a filing cabinet then you're not going to be much use at 'generating fees' without the rest of the staff.

Distinct lack of self awareness and ability to see the big picture here. You come across like you're parodying a solicitor.

'opening a filing cabinet'

Not sure where you read that in my posts but hey...this is boards...take the bits you like and run with it no matter how out of context it is..jump to whatever conclusions you like...heaven forbide you should actually read the posts properly or even continue reading to the end...:rolleyes:

Maximus Alexander · 18-07-2014 05:53PM

partyguinness wrote: »

'opening a filing cabinet'

Not sure where you read that in my posts but hey...this is boards...jump to whatever conclusions you like...heaven forbide you should actually read the posts properly...:rolleyes:

Sorry I was laughing too hard to digest the intricacies, but sure carry on missing the point. Replace [opening a filing cabinet] with [any task that any non fee earner is paid to do in the business] for similar results.

partyguinness · 18-07-2014 05:55PM

Maximus Alexander wrote: »

Sorry I was laughing too hard to digest the intricacies, but sure carry on missing the point. Replace [opening a filing cabinet] with [any task that any non fee earner is paid to do in the business] for similar results.

Ah but you see, I didnt ask her to do anything save to pass a message on (verbally).

What is your point? Go on, impress me....

Maximus Alexander · 18-07-2014 05:59PM

partyguinness wrote: »

Ah but you see, I didnt ask her to do anything save to pass a message on (verbally).

What is your point? Go on, impress me....

I've already laid out the point. Pretend you're scouring some files for precedent and see if you can piece it together.

I'll work on impressing you when you start paying me.

groucho marx · 18-07-2014 06:00PM

I did laugh a lot at that filing cabinet post,eric cartman respect my authority came to mind. You are the dog op the big baad dog lol.

thegreatgonzo · 18-07-2014 06:00PM

partyguinness wrote: »

Do you think, maybe just maybe, I was incredibly busy (during lunch that I certianly did not take- my choice) and asking for a little help and only to get cheek back. That maybe just maybe some of us are busting our balls off to get the job done, to generate fees to pay for the wages and then to get that crap back?

Yes, the boss is a lighting bitch and will die a sad lonely death. She wasnt shouting at her for not doing something during her lunch it was that she is to do as she is told in supporting 'fee earners'. That is her job. That is what she signed up for.

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Shouting has no place in a professional work environment. And the fact the person being shouted at was not much more than a child makes it even worse. Not many teenagers know what's always appropriate in the work place, a good manager or colleague can let them know what's expected of them without humiliating them as what happened here. Pretty badly done by both you and your colleague.

groucho marx · 18-07-2014 06:05PM

The not taken lunch people bug me. Thats their choice,i will down tools and take my break. They then say it like im great but you were slacking taking your legal entitlement of break.

partyguinness · 18-07-2014 06:05PM

Maximus Alexander wrote: »

I've already laid out the point. Pretend you're scouring some files for precedent and see if you can piece it together.

I'll work on impressing you when you start paying me.

If your point is misquoting, cherry picking posts and attacking the Straw Man, then hey, 'well done'. But this is boards.ie and I'm afraid that it not quite good enough.

rockbeast · 18-07-2014 06:07PM

partyguinness wrote: »

If your point is misquoting, cherry picking posts and attacking the Straw Man, then hey, 'well done'. But this is boards.ie and I'm afraid that it not quite good enough.

Maybe it's time you called in "The Manager" to give 'em all a bollockin'? :rolleyes:

major bill · 18-07-2014 06:09PM

Smokers in the workplace!! There's a few in my job that have worked in the company for years that take the piss with smoking breaks, I have no problem with smokers in general but I do when some feel they are entitled to 6 or 7 smoke breaks a day usually lasting 5/10 mins a pop and they still take full tea and lunch breaks while the rest of us battle on!!

AnonoBoy · 18-07-2014 06:11PM

Going Strong wrote: »

A guy I was contracting with about a dozen years ago in the IT department of a multinational - we shared a cubicle. Came in still off his head on Ecstasy from a weekend of clubbing a few times. Got into a war of words via email with someone in another department and started emailing other people he thought would back him up using all sorts of foul language about the other person. He was caught making personal calls via his desk phone on numerous occasions. The last time being when he was found with his feet on the desk, telling dirty jokes down the phone to a mate of his in London and told the manger who'd caught him in the act to "Eff off, it's a private call."

Officially, he was sent back to the agency that had sent us out there as his role was no longer required rather than actually sacked there and then but he was let go a couple of weeks later by the agency. I got on grand with him but did well out of it as everyone else assumed my life was a misery because of him so I got lots of sympathy and a summer of easy jobs to make up for it.

Sounds like he was a hero - I'd love to have a guy like that working with me!

Maximus Alexander · 18-07-2014 06:12PM

partyguinness wrote: »

If your point is misquoting, cherry picking posts and attacking the Straw Man, then hey, 'well done'. But this is boards.ie and I'm afraid that it not quite good enough.

I actually didn't misquote you, I made a point that went way over your head. But that's okay, we'll leave it there and let you get back to earning those fees.

partyguinness · 18-07-2014 06:13PM

thegreatgonzo wrote: »

Shouting has no place in a professional work environment. And the fact the person being shouted at was not much more than a child makes it even worse. Not many teenagers know what's always appropriate in the work place, a good manager or colleague can let them know what's expected of them without humiliating them as what happened here. Pretty badly done by both you and your colleague.

You are absolutely right. She is an evil cow and it was embarrassing. In fact I said to the girl afterwards that shouting behaviour is not normal and she will (hopefully) never seee that again as it is not normal workplace behaviour. Now I had no idea she was going to call her down. I was telling her generally some members of staff are not co operative (mentioning no names) and the HR lady who I confided in previously dropped me in it.

Thankfully she recently got a new job and we were at pains to stress that she will never experience that again.

ps It was not her time being verbally abused and certainly not the obly memeber of staff. Then again the whole town what a cow she is and cannot keep staff. Her loss in the long run.

partyguinness · 18-07-2014 06:14PM

Maximus Alexander wrote: »

I actually didn't misquote you, I made a point that went way over your head. But that's okay, we'll leave it there and let you get back to earning those fees.

LOL....I have dealt with your point (hint: straw man) but that seems to have gone over your head. Nice.

partyguinness · 18-07-2014 06:16PM

groucho marx wrote: »

The not taken lunch people bug me. Thats their choice,i will down tools and take my break. They then say it like im great but you were slacking taking your legal entitlement of break.

Lunch is for wimps dont you know...

It may be you 'entitlement' but do you deserve it?;)

Worst work attitude you've ever witnessed

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