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Anyone else have the one guy at work...

Quiksilver

Quiksilver

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Does anyone else have that one co-worker that everyone else hates (and I mean everyone) but the boss refuses to do anything?

I know for a fact that we do. I could come up with a quite a long list of complaints about the guy, but the boss refuses to do anything about it despite the fact the guy isn't even needed.

For example, he works exactly 2 days a week; that is it yet, he still requests days and sometimes his whole 2 day work week off. I'm sorry but if you cannot work more days and be reliable employee you should of been fired a long time ago.

Now our boss is starting to take days away from us (by us I mean me and one other person) to give another 2 employees days to work. Normally I and the other person work 6 days a week and now shes cutting our hours to provide 2 other employee's with another day to work. When the smart thing would be just to get rid of the useless, unreliable employee and split his days up to those other people instead of taking away our hours. Then just to top things off, I recently got a 60 cent raise and my boss give him the same raise even thought I've been worker thing 6 months longer than him.

Then there is the fact that every single person absolutely hates him. He's a piss poor worker, if you ask him to do something you usually have to ask him 3 times to do it yet he still won't do it and you end up doing it yourself anyway. He's a religious nutcase so you cannot have any kind of conversation around him cause he will find a way to bring god into it. Then there is the fact you have to watch any conversation you have near him because if you mention something that offends him (eg. swearing) you will piss and whine about it to the boss. It's just really pathetic.

I don't know about you but this kid should have been fired a long time ago for sucking at his job, being highly unreliable, and just in general a pain in the ass. Yet, my boss refuses to let him go; then the boss turns around and bitches about slow business days.

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I also forgot to mention I work at a restaurant and the said employee is always stealing food (Pizza, Ice Cream, Canolies, etc.) all the expensive shit that my boss bitches about is going missing the next morning.
 
Well, I never was good at English Writing. Want to correct me with my comma and semi-colon's too? 😛 (I prefer math.)
 
Gather all other coworkers and go in together and ask for his firing.

You be amazed in what massive peer pressure can do to a person. if no response, go to the next level up.

The key thing is, you guys have to unite as a group, a company will not fire the whole department. If everybody complains about one person, they will just let go of that one person to boost team morale.
 
For a moment I was hoping to have an amusing office story.

Then I realized this was just about a restaurant worker. I'm pretty sure that in the majority of jobs typically filled by highschool to college level part-timers, EVERYONE who actually does theor job seriously and without slacking off and taking as much advantage of the company as possible fall into the "that guy" category. Defined, usually, by the suckers who think working hard at those positions will actually matter.

I just consider this your first lesson in understanding that it's not what you know, it's who you know - or who you can convince to like you. It doesn't mean jack shit if YOU don't like those guys that slack off, if the boss does (which I would probably guess he does based on your claim that he doesn't take any action) then it doesn't really matter.

Welcome to the world of sucking up and social networking for progress. Enjoy your next 50 years and simply realize the sooner you get with the program the faster you will excel.
 
Originally posted by: Imdmn04
Gather all other coworkers and go in together and ask for his firing.

You be amazed in what massive peer pressure can do to a person. if no response, go to the next level up.

The key thing is, you guys have to unite as a group, a company will not fire the whole department. If everybody complains about one person, they will just let go of that one person to boost team morale.
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I'm pretty sure YOU would be amazed at just how easy it would be to get rid of, and replace said co-workers.

ESPECIALLY in this economy. We had people with decently accredited MBA's and ten years experience applying to us for part-time data entry and moderation/qa positions. Depending on where you are, I'd recommend sucking it up and worrying less about what others do and more about keeping yourself employed.
 
I work at a restaurant because I lost my previous job doing home improvement (eg. painting, dry-wall, etc.) because business died off. Actually we aren't going above and beyond what is expected of us, we are doing what she told us to do when we got hired; he's not and shes actually yelled at him numerous times about it; yet she doesn't just out-right fire him.
 
Break his legs or key his car?

I've had two of these types of employees. One was an emotional, unstable, lying bitch that always had to have things her way. She'd call anyone and everyone out who she felt had 'wronged' her, rarely doing work, and then coming in on days she wasn't suppose to do 'catch up'. I get the feeling she was blowing the boss.

The other one was almost definately blowing the boss. My coworkers noticed that they seemed way too chummy together (touchy feely). She was a lot like the one above, but way more egotistical and aggressive. The 'know-it-all' attitude didn't help either.

Meh, just suck it up and avoid the person.
 
Originally posted by: xSauronx
is this person related to the boss in any way?
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Nope, he's related to one of the waitresses.... who happens to have a mustache....

Originally posted by: YOyoYOhowsDAjello
He's stealing food and the boss is wondering where it went?
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Yes, but she just blames everyone else.
I think she insane too; like recently one of the decorative fish fell down and broke. The next day we come in there is a piece of paper taped on the wall where said decoration used to be with a Jesus Fish drawn on it that says "Break This!"
 
If he's stealing,then grow a pair,document the incident and report him. Other than that, neither you or your co-worker are entitled to more than a 40 hr work week. Your boss taking a day away from each of you folks working 6 days a week makes good sense, because he's screwed if an emergency comes up and either of you call out or move onto to new jobs elsewhere.


 
Originally posted by: Saga
Originally posted by: Imdmn04
Gather all other coworkers and go in together and ask for his firing.

You be amazed in what massive peer pressure can do to a person. if no response, go to the next level up.

The key thing is, you guys have to unite as a group, a company will not fire the whole department. If everybody complains about one person, they will just let go of that one person to boost team morale.
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I'm pretty sure YOU would be amazed at just how easy it would be to get rid of, and replace said co-workers.

ESPECIALLY in this economy. We had people with decently accredited MBA's and ten years experience applying to us for part-time data entry and moderation/qa positions. Depending on where you are, I'd recommend sucking it up and worrying less about what others do and more about keeping yourself employed.
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It is a lot of easier to get rid of a manager than all the people he manages at once. Which is why you are reporting all these higher-ups looking for crappier jobs.

You can get rid of any one person, or a fraction of a group in a company. But getting rid of the whole group is rare, unless the company planned ahead to chop the group anyways. They are not gonna fire a whole group over one person.
 
Originally posted by: Geekbabe
If he's stealing,then grow a pair,document the incident and report him. Other than that, neither you or your co-worker are entitled to more than a 40 hr work week. Your boss taking a day away from each of you folks working 6 days a week makes good sense, because he's screwed if an emergency comes up and either of you call out or move onto to new jobs elsewhere.
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The hours she's taking away isn't from him; it's from me and another guy. I don't even work 40 hours a week; I'm part-time working about 20-24 hours a week.

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Now I'm off to work.
 
Originally posted by: Quiksilver
Originally posted by: Geekbabe
If he's stealing,then grow a pair,document the incident and report him. Other than that, neither you or your co-worker are entitled to more than a 40 hr work week. Your boss taking a day away from each of you folks working 6 days a week makes good sense, because he's screwed if an emergency comes up and either of you call out or move onto to new jobs elsewhere.
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The hours she's taking away isn't from him; it's from me and another guy. I don't even work 40 hours a week; I'm part-time working about 20-24 hours a week.
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Speaking from a management POV,she's better off having more part time people, she can ramp the schedule up or down and she can keep people just hungry enough that they'll jump for an extra shift so she'll be able to easily cover sick calls or people leaving for other jobs suddenly.
 
Yup. We got a guy who only cares about himself. Any question he asks you about your personal life is designed to get you to ask him about his so he can go into a 5 minute long story. You can't tell him how you feel about certain rules/regulations/bosses because he will hold onto that information to rat you out later. If he can throw you under the bus, he will. He rarely works due to having all sorts of time built up, but he kisses ass with all the superiors so he's gonna stay.

Basically, instead of a "How does this benefit us as a team?" when it comes to solving things, he goes with "How does this benefit me and only me?" Real jerk.
 
I worked with a guy for like 9 months that everyone hated... he was bad on every level. he had an annoying personality, he was super loud, liked to randomly jump out and scare people, absolutely refused to work any weekends or holidays no matter how screwed we might be for coverage, he spent long portions of his day just hanging around outside with the guys working on the loading dock, there'd be hours at a time where no one could find him (we actually instituted a policy of requiring everyone to carry 2-way radios on them as a result of this), and when he DID do work, pretty much everything he did was wrong (combine that with a vastly overestimation of his own abilities... he pretty much thought he was god's gift to IT). BUT he was friends with my boss's boss.

we pretty much just suffered through it till things finally came to a head when he started having attendance issues. he hadn't been there long enough to acrue any time off beyond the standard 5 sick days/year, but he ended up being like 10 days in the hole anyways. my boss worked out a plan with him where he could work as many saturdays/sundays as he wanted plus every remaining holiday and his pay would be docked at the end of the year for any days he was still short. he worked one saturday shift, then the following monday he just didn't show up for work. when he came in on tuesday, he was fired and pretty much the entire office celebrated.
 
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