Things you want to say to your co-workwers, but can't.
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I work with a girl that is really nice looking in her early 30's. I have worked with her for about 8 years. She is well endowed at the top. She used to wear low cut tops but I believe HR may have said something to her, although not sure. I have thought on more than one occasion to ask her into my office have her close the door and tell her, "Okay, now is the time, let me see them twins." I think a lot of her and we get along great so what's the harm....LOL
Lol is soap expensive?
I always use body wash or whatever it's called amd I dump that stuff all over me
"The bathroom walls are thin. thanks though for the civil war reenactment"
"Your wife must be a saint or the dumbest person in the world to put up with you."
"Sorry. That was me. I will get the air freshener."
"Sorry. Air makes me gassy"
"Your kid must have a hard time walking with your head stuck up the butt all day."
"Your wife must be a saint or the dumbest person in the world to put up with you."
"Sorry. That was me. I will get the air freshener."
"Sorry. Air makes me gassy"
"Your kid must have a hard time walking with your head stuck up the butt all day."
Some of the email signatures people use now are absurd. Mine is simply
Name
Title
Company
I see the pronouns all the time. I see people post pictures of the building we worked at 2 years ago. One person has rosie the riveter in her sig. I had one co worker that had the Christian Watford shot as his signature.
Also the day after Kobe Bryant died I came to work with an email from my boss saying "I know we are all struggling with the news about Kobe Bryant, but please make sure you do your work today". Gotta say my ability to do my job was in fact not effected by Kobe Bryant.
If I have to answer a question or three about every single task I ask you to perform, then (A) I may as well do it myself; and (B) I probably don't need to be paying you to work here
He is a tightwad.
Christmas party 20 dollar limit means 8 or ten. I used to be so embarrassed when he would do that at Christmas parties. What is funny is long timers had him figured out and would not grab his gift. One year a newby did, she pulled out his gift, then started digging through the bag for more, she didn't get anything more. She was shocked. It was sad and funny.
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Why do you come to work 2 hours early and sit in the parking lot? Is it just to make everyone else feel like they’re being watched or stalked? If it is, you’re killing it.
How does coming in late, talking for 2+ hours, then leaving early every day get you promoted?
It's been 15 years now and I know you guys thought I would be dead by now but, ha ha, I'm still alive and kicking.
What’s it like to take 15 smoke breaks a day?
I think this could apply to any job and not for just those in the fast food industry. Ironically the video is probably NSFW.
That conversation for me always starts like this:
“There are two types of people in this world: those that stink, and those that don’t stink. What would you say you are?”
Although the instances were few and far between, I never had a problem saying what needed to be said to coworkers, as well as the vast majority of my supervisors. When I retired, I had just gone from working for one of the best supervisors I'd ever had to the absolute worst. She didn't try to learn anything about our operation but was a huge micromanager. Along with our lead staff engineer and lead technologist, I took her on a 2 hour tour from start to finish of one of our operations. We went through each step of what everyone did during their day. She seemed satisfied. Less and 24 hours later, she sends me a text saying that she noticed that there were only 3 "jobs" in the que for one group, and asked what did "those people " (she always referred to operations as "those people") do with the rest of their day. I really wanted to say something along the lines of "if you didn't have the attention span of a f***ing housefly, you'd have remembered that "those people" spend most of their day running production checks for three buildings."
I'm one of the people that flourish without much management. Nothing to me is worse than a micromanager. Three bosses back I had a micromanager. Then for the next 8 years I had a more laid-back manager who let me operate more on my own. I'm back to a micromanager. The new micromanager is worse than the other micromanager. I promise you the productivity was higher in the 8 years without micromanagement. The good news in all this is the micromanager is almost a thousand miles away. So other than days when I actually converse with this person, they do not bother me as much. I had planned on working 10 more years or so but I'm only work 10 more weeks.
If you work for yourself you are free to be as unresponsive as you want. I have zero issues with that, but I will tell you if you are self employed and I reach out to you or your business and fail to respond in a timely manner, I will go somewhere where they care about the business opportunity. But you are exactly right, I have a boss, he has a boss etc, and I expect no less from my employees than is expected of me. I get younger generations have a completely different outlook on how they "want to work" and as a manager I am struggling with dealing with them. They have been taught that they need to be coddled and babied and should get whatever they want when they want it. I have had several recent interviews with people for open positions that have straight out said they only want to work from home and have a "flexible" schedule such that a 32-35 hour week should be allowed. And they expect to be promoted in the first 6 months to a year or they will move somewhere else. LOL. While there are jobs in our business that could work from home, the people that report to me are required to test and T/S electronics. When I ask how they plan to T/S an electronic Circuit Card from home, that usually wraps the interview up.
I worked with a dude who explained a chart he thought of for ranking people. Think of an x and y axis. The X axis is work ethic, the Y axis is smarts. Now think of four quadrants that creates.
Q1 - Top Left Corner - Smart, but Lazy
Q2 - Top Right Corner - Smart and Hard Working
Q3 - Bottom Right Corner - Dumb, but Hard Working
Q4 - Bottom Left Corner - Dumb and Lazy
In our line of work, you can't even get hired if you're dumb and lazy, so you don't see any of those people.
The Smart, but Lazy people - you can work with them. You just need to figure out how to motivate them. But they're not going to screw you up too badly other than a high risk of missed deadlines - but that can be resolved by putting some pressure on them.
The Smart and Hard Working people are obviously the best.
But the bottom right corner - the dumb, but hard working people. Those are the freaking worst. They're the ones that can screw things up by pushing terrible ideas, rubbing people the wrong way, making people want to quit, etc. Those are the folks you want to stay away from.
Q1 - Top Left Corner - Smart, but Lazy
Q2 - Top Right Corner - Smart and Hard Working
Q3 - Bottom Right Corner - Dumb, but Hard Working
Q4 - Bottom Left Corner - Dumb and Lazy
In our line of work, you can't even get hired if you're dumb and lazy, so you don't see any of those people.
The Smart, but Lazy people - you can work with them. You just need to figure out how to motivate them. But they're not going to screw you up too badly other than a high risk of missed deadlines - but that can be resolved by putting some pressure on them.
The Smart and Hard Working people are obviously the best.
But the bottom right corner - the dumb, but hard working people. Those are the freaking worst. They're the ones that can screw things up by pushing terrible ideas, rubbing people the wrong way, making people want to quit, etc. Those are the folks you want to stay away from.
Its only "Sexual Harassment" if you're ugly...
Dam, 4 days for a bar of soap? You giving the shower drain facials or what?
Uhmmm - was he a coworker?
I want to say:
FFS stop replying to all on this email.
I wish I had time to spend an hour playing grabass every day.
Yes, I'm happy to stop what I'm doing to solve your problem.
Hell, leaving my desk to eat lunch is a mf'ing luxury that I can live without.
I own a small business and the motto “fire fast and hire slow” is a good one. I work with all females and sometimes gotta shake my head at the issues that arise. Women are nuts.
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I work at a place with a lot of "alternative lifestyle" employees and ran by the same.
We have an open locker common area. Every other day I go to my locker, and there is 2 butches sitting on the bench spooning each other. Any straight couple doing this would have been fired on the spot. I want to tell them to stop, or am getting a hose.
We have an open locker common area. Every other day I go to my locker, and there is 2 butches sitting on the bench spooning each other. Any straight couple doing this would have been fired on the spot. I want to tell them to stop, or am getting a hose.
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I said all I had to say on my last day, during my exit interview.
I had 3-ring binders, one for each of my bosses. It took about 90 minutes to get through. Not counting the Q and A at the end.
I had 3-ring binders, one for each of my bosses. It took about 90 minutes to get through. Not counting the Q and A at the end.
STOP REPLYING TO ALL.
Of course it was hyperbole, but I did have an exit interview (3 actually) and let's just say, I got some stuff off my chest.
I spoke frankly, but tried to be respectful and make helpful suggestions. Something like that is never comfortable, when you're pointing out ways that supervisors make their subordinates miserable, but if you don't point them out (and offer alternatives, no point in doing it if you don't do that) then you don't have the right to complain.
I know that's not the Clown persona, but I can actually behave in real life situations. LOL
I spoke frankly, but tried to be respectful and make helpful suggestions. Something like that is never comfortable, when you're pointing out ways that supervisors make their subordinates miserable, but if you don't point them out (and offer alternatives, no point in doing it if you don't do that) then you don't have the right to complain.
I know that's not the Clown persona, but I can actually behave in real life situations. LOL
I will NEVER understand why some people are incapable of understanding this.
When you are self employed everyone is your boss. Every single file you open has a "boss" attached to it and you'd best be responsive or you won't have much to put on your desk other than your feet