Haha. Nice.
I'd give him the day off just for sheer honesty. Or make him come in on Saturday or Sunday for a few hours.
Haha. Nice.
I'd give him the day off just for sheer honesty. Or make him come in on Saturday or Sunday for a few hours.
SearchMaster
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Wow, you're tough. Ours are PTOs, which I believe should be used for whatever the employee desires. I pretty much let my people take off for whatever they want as long as it doesn't put the team in a bad spot (and they have the time built up).
DrPizza
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lol, one of my friends has a coworker who's worse than that, Shiner...
They're both draftsmen. My friend has to carry the load of two people a few months out of the year because the other guy is busy designing castles and midieval weapons and stuff. He then actually builds these things to take to some sort of midieval themed getaway. Every year, he takes an unpaid week off to attend some sort of festival where he becomes one of the characters.
Not that it's necessarily that bad to have such a hobby - but to let if affect your work performance, AND to take an unpaid week off because you already use your vacation time to spend with your family?? That's probably taking it a bit too far.
and darn it... "midieval" doesn't look right, but I'm not looking up how to spell it.
They're both draftsmen. My friend has to carry the load of two people a few months out of the year because the other guy is busy designing castles and midieval weapons and stuff. He then actually builds these things to take to some sort of midieval themed getaway. Every year, he takes an unpaid week off to attend some sort of festival where he becomes one of the characters.
Not that it's necessarily that bad to have such a hobby - but to let if affect your work performance, AND to take an unpaid week off because you already use your vacation time to spend with your family?? That's probably taking it a bit too far.
and darn it... "midieval" doesn't look right, but I'm not looking up how to spell it.
Abe Froman
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The funniest part about this thread, is that everyone is sitting here complaining about the activities of their coworkers, on and off the clock...while you are sitting in an online forum typing it...Probably from your work computer.
Seriously, if he has PTO; who cares what he takes it off for? I had some time built up a month ago and took it off just cause i needed a "mental health day". thats what i told my boss i was doing; staying home and sleeping. It's my PTO, i'll take it how i want!
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How about a Project Manager who, when seeing an approaching storm, was too ornery to grab a tube of silicone caulk and climb a 24 ft. ladder to seal a roof crack, allowing the rain to get in onto and ruin a brand new $68K Gym floor?
Entire floor had to be replaced, at our cost.
His explanation: He stated that he called the roofers, who weren't on site that day, since it WAS a roof crack, and directed them to drive 180 miles to seal a 1/4" X 2' crack and that they didn't get there on time! (Yes, they actually agreed to come!) Meanwhile, he was sitting in his office trailer reading or surfing the 'net.
Sure, these things are not our responsibility as Construction Managers, but I believe I could have sacrificed 20 minutes to save the trouble that this caused.
That was 8 years ago, we lost a good customer over that, and for some strange reason, he is still with us!
Entire floor had to be replaced, at our cost.
His explanation: He stated that he called the roofers, who weren't on site that day, since it WAS a roof crack, and directed them to drive 180 miles to seal a 1/4" X 2' crack and that they didn't get there on time! (Yes, they actually agreed to come!) Meanwhile, he was sitting in his office trailer reading or surfing the 'net.
Sure, these things are not our responsibility as Construction Managers, but I believe I could have sacrificed 20 minutes to save the trouble that this caused.
That was 8 years ago, we lost a good customer over that, and for some strange reason, he is still with us!
Originally posted by: ThePresence
Beat ya by 3 minutes.
Plus, it's "corporate accounts payable", not what you wrote.
Shiner, when you denied all these days off, did he not have vacation or something? If he did, aren't you being kind of a dick by deciding the way he wants to take his own vacation days isn't good enough for you? They're his vacation days.
If he was just asking for days off without pay, to the detriment of the department, then he's a moron.
I had a coworker who refered to MS-DOS as "MS-Dose." To which another coworker said, "Yeah it comes after MS-UNO." (thankfully this coworker was kidding, sadly the former coworker was not)
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