9. Worked at a restaurant and we hired a girl who would sit on the floor and take peoples orders, like right at the damn table. She thought it was funny and people just awkwardly laughed. I got second hand embarrassment and was constantly cringing about everything she did or said. She was nice but I felt so uncomfortable around her. She was fired in about a week.
10. One of my buddies is literally George Costanza-ing his way through his career. He’s an assistant manager or something like that in a toy company. He pretends he’s always busy, walks frustrated, always holding a folder in his hand and always rolls up his sleeves and walks fast. His meetings are ridiculous. I seriously can’t believe that it’s working. I’m not sure if getting a job is just that easy or if he’s just lucky.
Note: He’s been working there for 5 years, has a diploma in finance/marketing (or something to do with business), and his branch has around 200 workers. He says he has 3 bosses on his ass.
Oh yeah, and in his interview he lied about his heritage and his employer thinks they share an ancestor.
– Jawadd12
11. This short little mushroom-haired lady that I work with is unbelievably incompetent, and works at some capacity in HR. She is more of a minion of them, but still – she has waaaay too much power. Recently, she sent out an email with somewhere near 100 social security numbers of salaried employees over a certain age. Ugh.
When I started here, it was as a temp, and someone had to submit my hours. My boss would send it to her, who would approve it and submit it to the temp agency. The week he was on vacation, I tried to ensure my hours were submitted, and so I enlisted my bigger boss, as I was pretty sure I knew how this would end up.
So, I emailed my hours to him, and to her as well, as I was instructed to do. Then, Boss and I walked over to her desk to ensure that she sent it in, as it needed to be done that day.
I advised her that I submitted my hours, and could she send it on? She stared at me blankly. I reminded her that I work for the temp agency, and had JUST SENT HER THE EMAIL She opened a manila folder on her desk, lifted a few sheets, and shook her head.
“I didn’t get it.” I sighed internally, smiled, and said again that I literally just emailed it to her, just now.
She again opened the manila folder, patted the sheets inside, and shook her head again. “It’s not here.”
My boss looks absolutely shell shocked. I patted the top of her monitor, and said slowly (but kindly) that it wouldn’t be on paper, it would be in her email.
She LOOKED IN THE FOLDER AGAIN.
My boss, now extremely impatient and flabbergasted, glared at her and reiterated that it was sent JUST BEFORE we walked over, and could she please check her email?
I swear she looked in the folder again. And again. And started shuffling through the papers.
I wanted to cry.Actually, I wanted to push her out of her chair and click on her email myself, but I think that may be frowned upon in the office environment.
The saddest thing of it all is, she is the one who does a lot of the settings for the new hires. So when I got hired on permanently, she did a lot of it. I kept getting wrong stuff, duplicate entries, one with my name spelled wrong, and my first two paychecks after being made permanent I had to go bother people to get written because I wasn’t getting paid. Come to find out it was a combination of misspelled name and transposed Social Security numbers.
I filled out my side of the paperwork multiple times and she had hard copies of my license and SS card.
I HAVE NO IDEA how she is still here.
Sorry for the novel.
