The Energon Pub

[Professor Smooth]

The topic says it all! Use this thread to vent about people you work for/with! They're driving you crazy and we want to hear about it!

[Gutter Bunny]

Hey smooth, no fair starting a topic and not contributing.

I could probably fill a small book with the stupid crap i've seen my coworkers do...sad thing is they all involve putting other people in danger.

To start, I love walking into a patients room and seeing them on 2L of oxygen through a mask(masks need to have atleast 6l pumped through them to flush out extra CO2...not running at that is a good way to make someone critically ill) Its not a difficult concept, and even a minimally educated nurse should know that.

I'm glad most of our nurses are scared to touch a vent.

[Professor Smooth]

My complaint, ironically enough, is with people at my company complaining.

I work for a company that provides native English teachers to public schools in 日本　(Japan). It is a GREAT job. For the most part, it's M-F 8am-4:15pm. If we have to work a Saturday or a Sunday, we're given another day off during the week. The pay's pretty good, all things considered. It is, bar none, the best job I've ever had.

Some of these complaints from people are MIND BLOWING. I had one guy who was complaining that paid holidays can't be used whenever we want. This guy is a TEACHER. He is responsible for the EDUCATION of CHILDREN. Of course you can't just say, "I'm taking a holiday on Monday, good luck with your English class, kids!" Keep in mind that the contract (that we spend SIX HOURS pouring over before it's signed) clearly says that there are days that you're allowed to use them and days when you can't. If you don't like that, you're free to find employment elsewhere.

More on that same note, we're paid salary. We get paid a flat rate for working 40 hours a week. If there's a national holiday in there, we get paid for it even without working. Again, pretty sweet deal. The downside is that, if you have to leave early for some reason, you're hit with a penalty that works out to more than we'd be paid if our wages were hourly. Apparently, these people think that they should be able to just leave work with no penalty. These guys aren't putting boxes together or pushing papers, they are the EDUCATORS of CHILDREN.

I swear, there are so many 外国人　(foreigners) who just come here to kill time. This truly pisses me off because I have to work extra hard not to be lumped in with the 馬鹿外国人 (stupid foreigner) crowd.

And don't even get me started on the guys who'll show up to work hung over. Is it so much to ask that people show a little bit of responsibility or even pride in the job that they do?

[Gutter Bunny]

I can certainly relate to that. I mean how dare a person have issues breathing/try to die/get in car wreck/be in a fire/etc while i'm trying to eat/watch tv/on a holiday/etc

as for being hung over...again, i can relate. But what is worse than that is somebody in a medical situation coming to work and being even remotely under the influence of something. I havn't seen that one happen often...but i have seen it happen.

As i said in another thread, hospitals scare me.

[Professor Smooth]

Obviously, it's scarier when the person hung over is responsible for your health. It comes down to personal responsibility. You want to drink? Fine. I do it and, in Japan, so do most people. But doing so in a way that will put others at risk is stupid, selfish, arrogant, and a whole bunch of other things I can't think of at the moment.

At least we don't have a drug problem over here. Although, the last time drugs were in the news, guess who it was. Yep, a whole bunch of foreign teachers.

I like your sig.

[MamaKitty]

Just my luck, we finally get a venting thread about the rampant stupidity of people and it would be just about the stupidity annoying things about co-workers. Having worked so many years in customer service I have scads of stories about dumb, funny, and just plain out wierd customers, but hardly any about co-workers.

[Professor Smooth]

The thread's pretty slow, so let's just complain about whatever. I did the customer service thing back when I lived in the US. WOW. What a bunch of dumbasses.

[MamaKitty]

People who smoke while pumping gas, kerosene, or while standing next to propane tanks. If you're dumb enough to want to blow yourself up, you dont need to be alive anyway. But don't take the rest of us with you.

People who seem to think they can pull the jedi mind trick on you when you ask to see their ID for purchase of age-restricted products.

People who hand over photocopies, bad fakes, or someone else's ID.

People who can't seem to understand that closed means you cant buy stuff any more.

People who think that no you won't notice they stuffed a 40oz. Beer down the front of their stretch to fit jeans. I'm sorry but women are not built with that kind of equipment.

[Gutter Bunny]

People who smoke while pumping gas, kerosene, or while standing next to propane tanks. If you're dumb enough to want to blow yourself up, you dont need to be alive anyway. But don't take the rest of us with you.

Again a similarity...smoking while wearing oxygen. While not flammable, it does support combustion...either way it equals boom.

People who seem to think they can pull the jedi mind trick on you when you ask to see their ID for purchase of age-restricted products.

please tell me that people dont actually wave their hand in front of you and say "you don't need to see my ID"

People who hand over photocopies, bad fakes, or someone else's ID.

sad that i've known many people to pull that off.

People who can't seem to understand that closed means you cant buy stuff any more.

People who think that no you won't notice they stuffed a 40oz. Beer down the front of their stretch to fit jeans. I'm sorry but women are not built with that kind of equipment.

Ok, I actually don't have anything to say to this so i'm going to use this time to tell you about the guy i saw throwing a fit because he couldn't buy beer at 2200 on a sunday when two weeks prior he wouldn't have been able to buy beer on sunday at all...some people are never happy.


Anyway, more stories please

[MamaKitty]

Yes, Virginia, there are people who have tried that.

I once had one guy come up to the counter with a 6 pack of beer. I had already watched him stumble in swaying like he was on a ship in a storm. He then asked for a "pack of cigarettes". I ask what kind did he want. He slurrs,"The longest ones you got." I think to myself, Okay...You asked for them. So I get down a pack of the Misty 120's and set them on the counter. He looks at them in bewilderment and thinks about it for about 5 minutes then asks for Newports.
I get him the newports and ask if that was all he wanted. He thinks about this for a minute, spins around and grabs a donut off the Little Debbie rack next to the counter. Turns back and puts it next to the beer and asks me, "Does this match?" I picked the beer off the counter and set it behind me and told him I was sorry but we didn't have any beer that matched that donut. He says Okay, pays for his cigarettes and donut and left, still swaying. I'm amazed he didn't fall while he was in the store.

I've also had the rare pleasure of getting to see a crack prostitute trying to sell everyone in the parking lot a belt buckle she took in payment for her services.

One of the cutest things I ever got to see was a little girl about 3 years old came up to the counter with some candy. I rang it up and told her that it was 75 cents. She rummaged through her pockets, came out with a dollar bill. Rummaged through her pockets some more, then looked up at me with big sad eyes and said, "I don't have any cents." That was the hardest I have ever had to fight to keep from laughing my head off. I told her it was ok sometimes I didn't have any sense either but if I would take the dollar and give her the candy and some 25 cents for it. She said ok and handed over the money got her candy and her change and went on her way happy as could be.

[Professor Smooth]

A guy I work with got drunk and angry at a gathering that included my boss and his BILLIONAIRE friends.

That went well.

[Rodentus Prime]

He thinks about this for a minute, spins around and grabs a donut off the Little Debbie rack next to the counter. Turns back and puts it next to the beer and asks me, "Does this match?" I picked the beer off the counter and set it behind me and told him I was sorry but we didn't have any beer that matched that donut.

Lol, that's genius!

No co-worker stories, but when I've been in hospital I always double check what the medical staff do as I've had entirely the wrong tablets given to me a few times and one time the doctor went to leave the room and discovered he'd walked into the toilet rather than out the exit - It doesn't give you much faith does it.

[Wheeljack35]

I really can't complain much anynore

I had my self transfered off the Flow team to the planogram team

The planogram team is more proffessional and are good people

Where the flow team were a bunch of "me" players

[Bumblebee-otch]

i finally have a job where i love my co-workers! last night we recorded a "commercial" which was mostly me breaking styrofoam blocks karate-style

my old job, however, sucked. people were idiots who were promoted to positions that they weren't qualified for, and were just lame in general.

[Wheeljack35]

my old job, however, sucked. people were idiots who were promoted to positions that they weren't qualified for, and were just lame in general.

Sounds like my Target

[AlienQuiksilver]

Everybody I work with is awesome, truthfully. There are only 6 of us, so we're a pretty tight group.

There IS this one guy ... 100% polish. I'm not one to stereotype, but he does prove it just about every day.

Dumb like a fox he is.