Fellow ambitious people of Reddit, are you also pretty much a babysitter at your place of employment?
Posted Jul 23, 2015, 3:37 AM UTC
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Well I am a teacher sooo
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The guys I supervise that work offshore or on site are great - they only contact me if there's a problem that they need support to resolve.
The office people are a different kettle of fish. How some of these people are allowed to tie their shoelaces and go out in public without a helmet is beyond me. Especially annoying as our performance appraisal is a long drawn out hassle.
Fuck me, I am also sick to death of having this conversation:
"Do you mind if I take off early?"
Have you finished x, y and z?
"x is done, y I'm doing at the moment, and I'll get to z later."
Then you can go when all your work is done, or take it off as leave.
"That's not fair! Blah got to go home early yesterday!"
Blah was here at 0700 and arranged it ahead of time. Blah has also done what I asked her to do.
"I don't think it's reasonable to have one rule for Blah and another for everyone else."
From the person that wants to go home earlier than everyone else?
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I worked in the oil field for a few months, the admin staff were a different kind of special. This one young girl would wear heavy duty coveralls despite sitting behind a desk all day, cleanest coveralls I have ever seen in my life (aside from ones for sale in a store)
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Fuck, we've had that - some bitchy admin wench decided that since we do an order of PPE for the offshore guys, that she should get a set as well.
Try and explain "they need it for their jobs" and "it's not free, it comes out of my budget". Easier in the long run to just throw her onto the order than it is trying to argue with the silly bint.
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Hopefully a real worker didn't lose out on a new set of coveralls because of her wanting to look cute in a "uniform".
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I told her if she was going to wear PPE in the office that she had to wear the correct and full PPE.
It was hilarious watching her clomp around in steel caps complaining that her feet were killing her.
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I'm glad I don't work for you because you sound like a pretentious, condescending douchebag.
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And I am glad I don't work with you because you sound like you lack the ability to take direction and show initiative, then get offended when you're expected to earn your pay.
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My point exactly. You're the type of coworker who talks down to everyone. Nobody likes that guy. I do my job just fine and I do it well because I avoid the guys like you.
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I wouldn't say that I talk down or belittle them, mostly I'll say something like "Hey! There is work to get done." or "Those work orders aren't going to complete themselves." when I see people sitting around doing jack shit for more than a few minutes. I don't expect them to work non-stop without any unofficial breaks, but when I walk past the same group a half hour later and nothing has been accomplished, I get pissed. Why can't people just come to work and do their jobs?
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I'll explain my situation a little to give some insight:
I work in a shop with about 15 people, only 4 of us are self driven and motivated to get work done. Aside from completing work orders, everyone is responsible for: ordering supplies, replacing broken tools, paperwork, item tracking, cleaning, etc......
Unless directed everyone else will come to work and do the bare minimum or spend the entire day chatting. The 4 of us have to stagger our vacation days so that at least 2 of us are around at all times, otherwise we will return to a huge backlog of work orders and a shit show of a shop.
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No. Having ambition does not mean doing everyone else's work. Sure, I like to work hard, but my coworkers are employed for a reason. Although I may pick up their slack, I still focus more on my work.
I meant more along the lines of having to step up and assume a manager/supervisor type position and tell people to do their job or basically hold their hand the entire time.