The Crazy Co-worker Topic

[DK]

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So.

I barged out of the building tonight.

My stomach is killing me, I have plans to go out with my girl, and he wants to keep the store open an hour longer because the manager said we should if it gets 'busy'. There was one customer in the store that he was currently ringing up and no one new other than that has come in for at least 40 minutes.

He gives me **** about it I just go "I'm leaving now bye" and I leave.

I hope I don't get fired over this douche but I wouldn't be surprised either.

[Alex]

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Plead insanity.

[Sezjeuric]

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I don't really have any crazy coworkers, annoying as hell yes, but not crazy.

Don't worry, I am not missing out as the customers are off their rockers.

[Vonwert]

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One of my co-workers got arrested at the store for apparently stealing quite a lot of money I was there when the cop took him out.

[Karr Lord of Chaos]

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Why don't we ask Karr about his coworkers?

OMGROFLMAO
JAY KAY JAY KAY

yea laugh at the jobless bum. i probably still have more money then you.

lets see, today i got into a fight with a shopping cart. it was being ornery so i beat the crap out of it, causing it to get a gimpy wheel. the coffee maker wouldn't stop slacking off so i yelled at the tv and then my coffee was done. other then that i don't have any problems with my coworkers - unless you mean my manages who comes home from work every day raving about how her day sucked - sucker.

back in the day when i wasnt obligated to have early retirement, i always tried to stay away from the office politics. there was a lot of slobs who whined and never did anything or farted around. i hate those people, they make work miserable for everyone else as well as generate more work.

i have learned that if a boss yells at you for slacking and not another, he is just trying to keep you on the strait and narrow and has already given up hope for the other. when promotion and recognition time rolls around he will be picking your name.

i hate goverment (union) jobs. my uncle works for the goverment and has all kinds of stories. the management is either all friends and doesn't intercede to solve a problem or is mired by union policies to prevent garbage workers from being fired.

with sez being a manager ive learned a lot about manager hardships then i had previously thought about. when you are responsible for more then yourself, you really cannot afford to be a friend to everyone. your responsibility is to ensure those under you are doing their jobs, so that means calling people out who are not meeting expectations.

i need to win the lottery. i think the pavi is officially my workplace.

[Kirin]

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There's a co-worker at my store that I can't stand because he feeds customers lies about certain games (most of them he's never played). Each time I hear him spout crap, I try to wait until nobody's watching us and quietly speak to him about it--you know, so as not to embarrass him in front of customers. But I'm starting to get the feeling that he doesn't care, so next time he slips up I'm just going to call him out about it.

Last time I was working with him, I heard him lie about Xbox360 prices and the Nascar 2008 game for PS3. A customer asked whether or not Nascar 2008 had online compatibility. He told him "Yeah, it does--the way you can check whether or not any game has that is to look on our price tag sticker and if it has the 'OLC' next to the name like this does; that means it's 'on-line compatible."

Too bad OLC really means "Official Licensed Content." That guy ended up buying that game because he thought he could play it online.

There's also another co-worker who has an annoying habit of forgetting to actually put the games in the cases before a customer walks out; I'm sick of fielding angry calls from people who live 2 hours away and want compensation for having to drive all the way back for a game they should have had.

[Karr Lord of Chaos]

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There's a co-worker at my store that I can't stand because he feeds customers lies about certain games (most of them he's never played). Each time I hear him spout crap, I try to wait until nobody's watching us and quietly speak to him about it--you know, so as not to embarrass him in front of customers. But I'm starting to get the feeling that he doesn't care, so next time he slips up I'm just going to call him out about it.

Last time I was working with him, I heard him lie about Xbox360 prices and the Nascar 2008 game for PS3. A customer asked whether or not Nascar 2008 had online compatibility. He told him "Yeah, it does--the way you can check whether or not any game has that is to look on our price tag sticker and if it has the 'OLC' next to the name like this does; that means it's 'on-line compatible."

Too bad OLC really means "Official Licensed Content." That guy ended up buying that game because he thought he could play it online.

There's also another co-worker who has an annoying habit of forgetting to actually put the games in the cases before a customer walks out; I'm sick of fielding angry calls from people who live 2 hours away and want compensation for having to drive all the way back for a game they should have had.

lieing to customers to make a sale is so wrong. if i was the guy i would come back and talk to a manager, and get the guy fired. you really cannot honestly mislead the customer like that, it completely jepordises the integrity of the company. money is lost when sales associates do that because the customer returns the product, is angry for being deceived, wants compensation, will not shop there in the future, and will tell everyone else about his story so they don't shop there either. probably best if you spoke to the manager privately so management can keep an eye on him.

[lil_das]

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i probably still have more money then you.

Nuh uh.

[Sezjeuric]

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I'm his pimp , he's covered.

[Karr Lord of Chaos]

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I'm his pimp , he's covered.

yea, she handles all my finances and my grandparents like to drop off a sac of cash every so often.

[Omnislash024]

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Oh the manager I have to work with, thin scrawny little B. A complete "know it all". Thinks she knows everything, but the worst part about it is most of the time she is usually right about her information which just annoys me even more. But she's a damn workaholic and she doesn't realize that all her backbreaking work she wants to do is worth crap, because no company ever really rewards anyone for hard work and treat the slackers the same way. Not like I'm a slacker or anything, I do the jobs that I'm given, but that doesn't mean I try to kill myself to get them done.
She's also a damn control freak. Everything has to be done her exact way. If you don't do it her exact way, she'll tell you how you should do it, even if your going to just get the same result anyway.
Try to have a conversation with her? Well sometimes I'll get a reasonable one, other times she'll snap at me, like I said something wrong. There's lots of times I just want to walk out and say "enjoy spending the rest of the night working by yourself."

As I'm posting this now, I'm due into work in about 30 minutes and I'm not really thrilled about it cause she really ticked me off last night.

[IRC]

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It's weird because this topic is supposed to be about Dreamknight's crazy coworker but DK himself comes off as the irrational one. The guy's guilty of some good old douchebaggery sure, but you're not really handling it well. I wouldn't consider Wii Sports to be a true game either. Sure you'd want to mention it to the customer but if I was asking about it and you came at me with Wii Sports I'd be all, **** you that doesn't count. Same deal with coming at me with cost comparison numbers for why you're out of Wiis. I refuse to believe that any shortages at this point are anything but deliberate on somebody's part.




Also this girl at work, Jen, somehow got her sister to work with her at a strip club and then got drunk and blacked out because of the combination with her medication and started to beat the **** out of her sister at the strip club and hit a cop when they showed up because her sister called them so she got arrested outside the club. Apparently they were working there because she owed the hospital two grand for getting her stomach pumped when she "mistakenly" took her meds twice in one day and overdosed.

Also I was there at the club the night she got arrested.


Oh and the best thing to do to people you don't like is to use the workplace gossip line to talk **** about them. We had this one party for just cashiers a week or two ago that was catered by Chili's with wings and chicken tenders and ****, and this girl Ashley brought her mom with her. Now I hate Ashley for various reasons that are in no way thinly veiled ways of saying she acts black. She's loud, obnoxious, annoying, loud, and basically she doesn't put any effort into anything other than talking about her fiance, Kevin. Apparently his official name is, "My Fiance Kevin." Also she's loud.

So at this party her Mom is first in line for food and loads her plate up with everything. There are people who only got a couple of grapes and a handful of broken tortilla chips, and Ashley's mom walks out of the store with three plates full of wings and other stuff. Also she started yelling at random people trying to night stock to open the locked doors while we were waiting for a manager with a key.

So I just kept making small comments to keep this a continuing topic of discussion at work. Stuff like:

Co-worker: Yeah the party was nice but I barely got anything to eat.
Me: Yeah, and did you see Ashley's mom walk out with three plates full of stuff?

or when someone was making cheese dip at a party with some co-workers last night, I casually mentioned that everyone better eat up before Ashley and her mom got there. I was most proud with this line of thinking made its way back around and someone brought it up to me without having to prompt it up myself. It's now become a store joke that if you've got food you'd better watch for Ashley's Mom.

It makes me happy.

[Fushigi na Renamon]

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Wow, IRC... just wow. I'm glad that there's no Ashley's mom here. o_O Although, we often have potlucks at my office and the one person who never contributes is the first person to take food. -_o

So, remember that coworker I wrote a whopping post on last page?

She made the new girl cry by refusing to help her when she needed it. Imagine being new and in training in reception, dealing with a client and needing assistance, asking the only other person in the room for help, and being completely ignored by the only person who can provide the knowledge required?

What a hag. -_o Then she took Friday off claiming she was "sick", but it was just because she A: probably knew she would be in deep **** or B: has three weeks' vacation starting Monday and just wanted an extra day off, since she's a lead bottomed fat lazy manatee.

[DK]

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You do have a point, IRC. I simply have no idea how to handle this dude. I can't handle this dude. If I'm doing a sale and no one else is in the store he practically breaths down my neck waiting for me to make a mistake about something so he can jump all over me. He makes a hostile work environment and it is driving me crazy because I play into it. Got another 11 hour shift with him coming up at 8 am, can't waiiiitttt......

Though in my defense the kid's since said he owns no video games and knows jack **** about them, he didn't even know what games came with the 360 bundle despite them being pictured on the box so despite whatever your feelings on the wii stuff is this kid certain didn't share any sentiments near those.

"Marvel Ultimate alliance is a fighting game where you play as batman and superman and stuff"

I mean that's not too much of a stretch to imagine someone completely uninitiated to comics and games to say I suppose but through other small talk he's said he doesn't have a wii and yadda yadda.

[Riotsword]

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The last job I held we had this real *****y chick, she didn't care about her job at all but for some reason was kept on. This guy who came into the store all of the time when I worked third shift even had a cup of coffee thrown at his car by her because he mentioned that the coffee was really old, like probably six hours or so.

Inexplicably, she stayed, long after I got fired when some *****y woman came in and acted like I was her own personal servant despite the fact that I obviously had other customers. She got her panties in a wad because of this fact and attempted to storm out of the store, I got ****** off and told her to "have a nice ****ing day" as she left.

"Have a nice ****ing day" vs. Throwing a cup of coffee at a customer's car.

I'm pretty much of the mind that, if you get fired for one, you get fired for the other.

Oh yeah, and I'm fairly convinced the girl I worked with stole my Dragon Quest Slime keychain, just to **** me off. ****ing whore.