Re: Undesirable Habits of your Co-workers.
- From: BottleBob <bottlbob@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Fri, 14 Oct 2005 03:11:32 GMT
Tom Accuosti wrote:
>
> "BottleBob" <bottlbob@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
> news:434ECB8B.38661E3B@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
> | To All:
> |
> | I thought I'd start a thread that everyone could contribute to, that
> | was relatively on-topic (everyday working conditions in the shop).
> | Relaying them might even help some to see how their own habits are
> | viewed by others.
> |
> | So what are some of the habits of your co-workers that are majorly, or
> | minorly, irritating? You could also rate them on a scale of 1 (pretty
> | insignificant) to 10 (almost worth quitting over).
>
> Bottlebob -
>
> Thankyouthankyouthankyouthankyouthankyou
>
> First, for those who don't remember here's some full disclosure: I'm the
> boss.
> Worse, I'm also an SOB.
> Even worse, that stands for Son of Boss.
>
> But that doesn't mean that I'm not entitled to bitch a little, right?
>
> First up on my list: Employees that lie. I've got one guy that filled in
> a part inspection form and made up some numbers that looked good.
> Fortunately my QC guy caught it, and when I talk to him tomorrow I'm
> sure that he's gonna have some perfectly logical excuse, likely
> involving space aliens, magnetic flux, and atmospheric conditions. (8.5)
>
> Next: Employees that dont' do anything *really* wrong, but somehow
> manage to do just enough to piss off their cow-orkers. You know, the
> guys who always just seem to skate the edge of some kind of discipline.
> Whenever you talk to them, their behavior always sounds perfectly
> reasonable (because it often involves space aliens, magnetic flux, and
> sundry atmospheric conditions), but still you wish that they would just
> get the hint. (7)
>
> Oh, and related to that: the lazy employee. He's not doing anything bad,
> but he constantly tries to get me to change the process so that *he's*
> not responsible for the operation that requires close attention. "Can't
> the secondary department counterbore that instead?" Last week somebody
> somebody came to see me about a 20 piece job, and said "I've only got
> plus or minus .001" (a shopsmith lathe could have held the tolerance on
> this part), so why don't I just turn it oversize and you can centerless
> grind it?" (7)
>
> Lessee... oh yeah: My tools. Why, for cryin' out loud, can't you clean
> my friggin' tools on the rare occcasion that you put them back? (5.5)
> Oh, and about putting them back? That's another thing: Just because I'm
> the boss doesn't mean that I can afford to replace stuff every week
> because you dropped it or lost it. (4.5)
>
> Oh, and while I'm at it: the guys who think that we're still in high
> school. C'mon, you're 52 years old, you've got 20+ years in the
> business, you've worked in a dozen different shops before you came here.
> Can you be completely oblivious to the fact that your cow-orkers don't
> like you spitting on the floor, peeing all over the toilet seat, leaving
> your lunch scraps on the table, and otherwise ignoring any of a dozen
> rules of common courtesy? (4)
>
> Man, I'm on a roll tonight. You know what irritates me, just a little?
> There's a hot job, you *know* it's hot, everybody in the shop knows it's
> hot, and I, myself, have rolled up my sleeves and am out on the shop
> floor behind the Bridgeport or the thread roller or the grinder to help
> push these things through. So why oh why do you pick *now* to discuss
> the personal problem that you're having with the office manager - and
> *then* get pissed when I don't give you my full attention? (3)
>
> <exhales>
>
> For the record, most of the people that work for me are concientious and
> dedicated and loyal, and I think that I reward them accordingly. A
> couple of them are pains in the ass, but I have no doubt about the
> quality of their work or their attention to detail and overall I'm glad
> to have them. It's just that out of 20 or so people, I've got a small
> handfull that.... well, make things more interesting than need be.
Tom:
Jeeze, that's more than I've seen you write in one post for years.
This thread seems to serve as quite the catharsis for some people.
Maybe it should be a recurring thread, say once a month so those that
don't have any other release mechanism can get this sort of stress off
their chests with a relatively sympathetic audience.
--
BottleBob
http://home.earthlink.net/~bottlbob
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