You must log in or # to comment.
This guy was only a “new co-worker” because I was the new employee, but: my first day on a new job I watched a guy get escorted out of the building by security carrying his shit in a cardboard box. His story ended up on the local news. Turned out he was running a prostitution ring from his office, using his work computer even. He had an 800 number that redirected to his office phone, and he kept track of his girls and customers on an Excel spreadsheet on his Windows desktop. The only reason he got caught was that the company upgraded everybody’s computers, and they had techs check through all the old machines to make sure no important documents got deleted, and they found “CallGirls.xls” or something like that right on his desktop. Security through dumbassery.
Stories like this piss me off because they convice me that i would be an absolutely incredible criminal; did this dude not know about usb-sticks?
did this dude not know about usb-sticks?
Even before that, dude didn’t even try to make it look plausibly legitimate so it didn’t invite suspicion for when someone inevitably stumbled on the file.
Dude was definitely never a kid with only shared access to a computer, that’s for sure…
Could have named it GroceryList.xls and would probably still be working there 😂
Or BusinessAssets.xlsxxx /s
Any mid to large size company has the USB ports of their desktop PCs disabled, disconnected or even glued shut. At least the ones that take security seriously.
I can’t imagine doing my job with a computer like that. I need to be able to plug in scanners and label printers and other specialty equipment and swap out peripherals as they break like how would that even work?
Normally those are pre-approved by IT and you wouldn’t be the one swapping those out. You would put in a request saying hey this item is broken can you please troubleshoot it and somebody would come out troubleshoot it and swap it out as needed.
Then IT needs to be onsite 24/7 and that’s just not realistic for a looot of places. Especially not rural med but I’m in in a hospital in a mid to large size city I’m just in 50 bed or so location that’s in a part of the city nobody GAF about.
I do a lot of work for a hospital system in the intermountain West. They do have rural locations. And they do have IT stuff that is on call 24/7 at every single one of their locations. So it’s not unheard of it’s not unusual it’s pretty normal. I do a good chunk of the work I do for them which is mainly network and systems upgrades as well as Wi-Fi and access points. And I do most of it overnight with one of their IT staff.
As an employee of more years than I care to count, I can safely say the missing component here is “training”. I know this because I am going through that right now (for at least the 20th time in my life).
Why I just leaned that you are NOT supposed to take assets from the company. Amazing knowledge to gain after all these years! They even added that “taking assets” even extends to “taking cash”. Well, I’ll say; I’ve never felt more informed in all my life!
How the heck did I make it this far in life without “knowing” that kind of information? Because everyone knows that employees don’t know anything (or have any morals) until HR tells it to them. /s
A new, young PC technician was hired and from the get go he was practically blowing himself with claims he’ll be promoted quickly, he could do the job of 2 people, nobody works harder than him. Less than 2 months into the job someone calls the dept asking where he is because he was supposed to swap out a PC for a director at an off-site location. His manager called his cell and asked where he was. He told em he was just finishing up Cathy’s PC and he’ll be back on site.
Manager: “Cathy just called me asking why you haven’t shown up yet. So I’ll ask again…where the hell are you?”
Turns out he was hung-the-fuck-over and napping at home. He got canned very quickly.
The people that scream the loudest about being hard working or intelligent usually aren’t. If someone is good at something, they don’t need to point it out.
Or they feel so much imposter syndrome that they keep quiet.
I mean I am probably not even good enough to have imposter syndrome, its probably the Dunning Kruger effect.
Nice, you just did either the first derivative of imposter syndrome, or you made it recursive, but I’m probably too shit to tell which
The people that scream the loudest about being hard working or intelligent usually aren’t.
Oh absolutely 110%. I could count on all my and your fingers and toes the number of coworkers I’ve had who spent half the day walking around chitchatting that they were the hardest worker, first in last out…they undeniably never were.
What’s worse than both is “I’ve been doing this for X amount of years!” Because then they’re both dumb and incompetent. If they say they have 20 years of experience usually it means 20X1st year of experience.
If you can understand a smoke break, you can understand a prayer break. It’s not that hard.
And if smoke breaks are allowed, have a snack break
I used to get fresh air breaks.
It was at some point, I worked at jobs that didn’t give a shit if you disappeared for 15-30 minutes every hour, as long as you got your shit done.
I recommend everyone find those jobs.
Yeah, seems to be what I have found. Small companies with a skilled workforce so far in my experience have been the best.
Absolutely! Everyone wants to knock on small office jobs. The Office TV show is was a great example. Half the time it’s people doing enough to keep the company running. The other half was dumb shit. Nobody was tracking your piss times or micromanaging how many M&Ms you ate.
But I absolutely had my ass micromanaged when I was working in a warehouse or a restaurant.
I used to lie and ask for a smoke break and go have a snack outside
You have to ask?
Back then yeah. I also had to ask for time off and often got denied.
I once got denied for time off to help a family member who was in the hospital who I was going to drive home.
I told them I’m not abandoning family and took off any way and got fired.
This was after I gave a months notice and marked my schedule unavailable.
I’ve also got fired for a similar situation but for a college final that I literally could not reschedule or miss.
Now I’m highly qualified and at a much better job. And I still, decades later, have a ton of anxiety about asking for off. And theyre like “if you need off, take off, why are you so worried about it?”
For some people, it is in fact difficult to compute said action.
Prayers are a spiritual experience and practice, whereas the only thing you get out of smoking is a medical bill. They still want the latter because it’s a physical effect they can observe.
They can work you harder when you have lung cancer or long term illness from smoking and you need their medical insurance coverage.
Oh for sure, and it only drives my scorn
No later than 2 weeks ago a new marketing guy thought the best thing once he got his laptop was to start a thread of memes on Teams with everybody. People were already leaving left and right when I started paying attention to it. Unfortunately for him, when he sent an animation of a cartoon character doing a nazi salute I called him out on it saying that’s not ok, the HR manager was still in the thread. Dude lasted half a day on this job.
Reminds me of that cop guy who got suspended because he shared that anime girl “Aww shit N” meme.
Negative minutes. Kid just out of college, the CMO (a monster of a human) had cosigned and bragged about how good this person was. They didn’t show up first day, hour past, someone called and HE was upset that a car hadn’t been sent to pick him up at home and he was waiting… Ridiculous in any scenario really, but this was in a car-brained major city where all people drove themselves, up to the CEO. Not common at all to have a car service. Was let go immediately in a probation period and CMO never mentioned it again.
I was training a new hire. She was good, better than me in some respects.
But one day she came in and did no work, just sat there shaking… insisting she was fine.
Turns out she was tweaking, she came in high.
She was given a final warning but then she came high again and was fired.
I worked in a restaurant where a server would shoot up in the bathroom before her shift. She didn’t last long.
That’s funny, considering how many people have told me that most of the people in food service are high due to how stressful it is. Maybe heroin isn’t the drug of choice, though.
Weed. It’s easy to just hit a pen in the bathroom, and it relaxes you without making you literally incapable of doing the job. I’m sure other drugs are common in food service too, but the one I saw regularly was weed.
In our case, lots and lots of alcohol. Definitely coke going around but it’s not my thing.
Coke and meth
Just say you’re sick and go home. It isn’t that hard. Don’t try to play it off and work anyway. Not unless you’re really, really good.
I worked in phones a decade ago and a new hire that I thought was cool lasted a week. I got a callback from a foreign client that was just hung up on after being slurred and insulted for not speaking fluent English by the new guy. We had call recording. It was very awkward to have to tell my boss about it and unfuck the client relationship.
A newly onboarded guy told everyone over lunch that the next day was going to be a bank holiday where he is from, so he won’t come in to work. We told him that it’s not a bank holiday around here. He became quite upset about this. Then the line manager got wind of that.
He didn’t turn up the next day… or on any day after that.One factory job had a couple days of orientation in a classroom before we started on the floor, but on day one we ended with a tour of the work areas. As we went around, someone working recognized one of the others in my group as a local methhead/rampant thief. We found out that’s why he didn’t come back when we started working with the others.
Not sure if this counts, as it’s not quite getting fired, but a kid got dropped off for an interview, and as soon as he made it into the store lobby, the family member who drove him in did some donuts in the lot and peeled out.
His interview got cancelled because of that, and he just had to wait there to get picked up by someone else.
Wow what an asshole
Not the same day, but it reminded me of this:
https://dutchreview.com/news/dutch-court-awards-man-34k-for-unfair-dismissal/
I would have fired him as well. Even if I had to pay him out. If he refuses to shake hands with anyone that would be an entire different matter, but the don’t touch women rule some Muslims adhere to is rooted in sexism and misogyny.
It sounds like the court just didn’t like the reason given for the firing. I’m guessing if they talked to their corporate lawyer first, and fired him for workplace discrimination, that would have been an entirely different court discussion.
But firing him for performance after 3 days on the job? That’s an obvious lie.
You can’t have “my body my choice” for some things and not others. The law/principle is applied universely, everyone has a right to deny touch or any other action to any part of their body from any other individual/group.
So if a white person doesn’t want to shake the hands of a Black person they shouldn’t be fired for discrimination?
Funny how Muslims always get a pass by white liberals and some lefties when they are being bigoted or misogynistic. If this was a manosphere white misogynists who wouldn’t shake hands with a woman y’all would never bring up the “my body my choice” argument.
Sure they have the right to choose who they shake hands with or not but an employer also has the right to fire that person over that choice if shaking hands is part of the job and work culture and they don’t want a misogynist working with their female employees.
Why does it sounds right but feels wrong?
If it was a white Christian who doesn’t want to shake the hands of a Muslim nobody here would defend the Christian.
Regardless of prejudices towards the perpetrator, I understand and agree with the idea of “my body, my rules”. Yet, I feel like choosing not to shake hand of a specific group based on discrimination is wrong. Am I a hypocrite or am missing something?
If someone doesn’t want to shake hands fine but they should apply that rule to everyone equally regardless of race, gender and religion. Otherwise it’s discrimination no matter the reason, religion is no excuse to discriminate. Especially in a professional business environment.
You’re not a hypocrite. It seems like a different version of the paradox of tolerance. Think of it more like a social contract. They broke it first so you aren’t obligated to follow the rules when they don’t.
If a Muslim doesn’t want to shake hands with a woman then that’s fine but it also means you can’t work in jobs where you need to do that. Don’t push your beliefs on other people. Just because you believe something doesn’t mean the rest of the world needs to bend. We just need to respect your space to do it, or not do it.
If I couldn’t drink alcohol for religious reason, it wouldn’t be discrimination no one wanted to hire me as a wine sommelier.
Huh. While you can argue the morality of this one until the cows come home, most places in AU use a “trial period” under which either party can walk away for any reason.
And then everybody clapped.
That’s the sort of story that serves as a lesson, like one of those fairy tales about respecting weird little guys in the woods
Removed by mod
In what way is asking for a place where they can pray imposing their religion on others? It’s a reasonable accommodation in the same way that not working on the sabbath would be.
Fuck muslims with a necrotic pork penis.
Frankly, it sounds like you’ve got your own issues with bigotry to get over. Maybe look in the mirror before projecting your problems onto others.
Tell that to the Christians. I’ve never been harassed by Muslims trying to convert me. The asshole hateful Christians come to my door, and don’t just leave their bullshit at their homes.
I’m not trying to defend Christian evangelism here because it’s annoying and harmful but I do have experience with Muslim friends attempting to convert me. More than a few actually. Certainly not as many or as often or as persistently as Christians and LDS and JWs but substantially more than never. I have no issues with most religion, but I do have a problem with evangelism. It’s just advertising by another name. Waiting for evangelismblock plus to go with my adblock plus.
Fair enough, I just haven’t run into it. I don’t even find the Hare Krishna’s, or Galung Fong at the airport annoying. They just ask for a donation. They don’t proselytize.
Ok, necrotic pork penes for all!
I worked as a tester for an embedded system, and there was a whole team of us. Our work was handed out in these big 3cm thick packets of testing sheets, with tables and graphs and instructions on how to test the system to make sure the code was safe for production.
A coworker was evidently not wanting to do his work one day, and “finished” a packet the same day it was handed to him. Now a single page of those tests could easily take you a half hour, assuming the arcane instructions were even clear to you.
He “quit” before the next day.
Sorry, it wasn’t clear. Did he realize this was over his head and quit?
Or did he just power through the tests because the whole thing was a joke and quit?
Because I’ve had both experiences.
It was probably a mix or “I don’t get this” and “I don’t feel like it”.
Him “quitting” was because the other option was being fired and persecuted for falsifying safety documentation. He never actually did the tests, it was impossible to do so in less than a week, much less the day he claimed to do it in.
