Coin a phrase that applies to your job.

[Pierre the Renaissance Man]

You can't get in trouble if you do nothing. If you actually do some work, all hell can break loose.

[Push R Truth]

Apr 20, 2017 18:10:59 GMT -5 The Unconquered Sun said:

At the old power plant I was at we used this one all the time.
"A crisis on your part doesn't make for a crisis on my part."

The variation of that around here is: Piss poor planning on your part does not create an emergency for me.


The most frequent way this is seen is when somebody comes into the office trying to get a building permit filled out and approved WHILE the contractor is stilling back on their property waiting for the thumbs up to start digging. The last line of text above where you sign says "STATE LAW REQUIRES A 30 DAY ADVANCE FILING TO ALLOW FOR PROPER AND TIMELY APPROVAL". It also says it across the top of the sheet. Oh, and across the bottom too.

It's amazing how many times I've been threatened to bend/break state law and when i refuse they ask for me to get fired. Good times.

[Mighty Attack Tribble]

"If a job's worth doing well, leave it for the night crew. If a job's not worth doing well, leave that for the night crew too. If you screwed something up, blame it on night crew for not doing your job for you."

[The Thread Barbi]

Not a phrase but my thoughts on reading yours - f*** me. How do some of your places of work stay in business with that sort of attitude?

["Magic" Mark Hurr]

Apr 21, 2017 15:56:51 GMT -5 The Thread Barbi said:

Not a phrase but my thoughts on reading yours - f*** me. How do some of your places of work stay in business with that sort of attitude?

Reading this through this thread is proof that business is a souless beast. People are just lucky that some people with souls work to provide for themselves and others while some people live by trying to get over .

[Z-A Sandbaggin' Son of a b!%@h]

My old job. "Amazon.com. Eff your employees. With a smile. "

[The Unconquered Sun]

I'm not going to post Tucker's Law because half of it will be lost in the language filter. If you want to look it up yourself be my guess, but be warned, NSFW and language.
But yeah, everybody agrees that it needs to be posted in our control room.

[Toxik916]

If you want to work here you need to be committed.

[Derk!]

Apr 21, 2017 15:40:38 GMT -5 Mighty Attack Tribble said:

"If a job's worth doing well, leave it for the night crew. If a job's not worth doing well, leave that for the night crew too. If you screwed something up, blame it on night crew for not doing your job for you."

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It's always night crews fault....We only have one job and that's to get everything out and leave everything clean for the morning, but that's cool, we can do the work midshift didn't do because they were too busy lounging around like bums in the break room all day.

Midshift always complains about their relief being late, but they always seem to be 20-30 minutes late themselves.

[G✇JI☈A]

"Look it's great all your work for the day is done, and you have cleaned up your area, but we still can't let you leave a little earlier ... so just wait around for 15 minutes until the end of shift buzzer goes off.. oh and don't literally do nothing, a manager could come through. So I don't know sweep, or stare at paperwork or something .

[Cvslfc123]

Have you turned it off and on again?

[marvelocity]

"Not for profit means we have a heart. It means you are a person to us, not just a name and a number like if you worked at a corporation. And it means that hard work really does get noticed. It means when we say we are partial to your needs, we really are. And as long as you don't abuse this trust, we will always be willing to work with you with whatever you're going through in your life.

Oh, and it means we don't have any money, and we won't have any money in the future. So don't ask."

[The Thread Barbi]

Apr 21, 2017 19:52:22 GMT -5 "Magic" Mark Hurr said:

Apr 21, 2017 15:56:51 GMT -5 The Thread Barbi said:

Not a phrase but my thoughts on reading yours - f*** me. How do some of your places of work stay in business with that sort of attitude?

Reading this through this thread is proof that business is a souless beast. People are just lucky that some people with souls work to provide for themselves and others while some people live by trying to get over .

Trying to get over leads to a mid-carder position and no more from my experience. I've seen plenty of these sort take one step up the ladder then out the door as they are in over their head. The people they shit on and held petty grudges against are still there after they've long gone. The cycle repeats with the next jumped up idiot who gets promoted.

It's the guys and gals with a sincere work ethic and fair treatment of their staff that main event and flourish. Almost the selfless Undertaker type of worker.

[lionheart21]

*while wearing nametag and vest*

"Hi, do you work here?"

[Deleted]

"You're going to end up applying restraints.
Don't say security officer, it sounds douchey.
Don't talk to the patients unless directed by a nurse.
Have fun!"

It's a running joke at my job because we do hospital security. I train people, but not just for where I work but for the whole company. Our site essentially breaks every rule we have in training. In training we tell you we will hold patients, but the nurses apply restraints and never us. Unfortunately when a patient is throwing punches we don't have time to delegate so we end up doing it. We give a big speech about how we're security "officers" and not security guards because our job requires special training and our hiring process is ruthless (which is true), but then the second a newbie says it we shut it down because it sounds really goddamn obnoxious and gives people the impression we think we're cops. The third thing is because so much of our model is based on verbal deescalation, but on the mental health unit of the particular facility I work at we're not allowed to talk unless we're told to.

So of course the big joke now is that the site training should consist of us telling people everything they've learned is wrong and then just walking out of the room.

[Sephiroth]

"You can't fix my tv till tomorrow? What am I supppsed to do with my kids!"
"There are these little things called books..."

[Deleted]

"There's three certainties be in life. Death... Taxes... And my boss reminding us we have no carts in line."

[montee916]

Same shit, just a different day.

It's hard to find good workers. That's why we promote all the idiots to management.

["Magic" Mark Hurr]

Apr 25, 2017 19:28:38 GMT -5 @rrnew said:

"You're going to end up applying restraints.
Don't say security officer, it sounds douchey.
Don't talk to the patients unless directed by a nurse.
Have fun!"

It's a running joke at my job because we do hospital security. I train people, but not just for where I work but for the whole company. Our site essentially breaks every rule we have in training. In training we tell you we will hold patients, but the nurses apply restraints and never us. Unfortunately when a patient is throwing punches we don't have time to delegate so we end up doing it. We give a big speech about how we're security "officers" and not security guards because our job requires special training and our hiring process is ruthless (which is true), but then the second a newbie says it we shut it down because it sounds really goddamn obnoxious and gives people the impression we think we're cops. The third thing is because so much of our model is based on verbal deescalation, but on the mental health unit of the particular facility I work at we're not allowed to talk unless we're told to.

So of course the big joke now is that the site training should consist of us telling people everything they've learned is wrong and then just walking out of the room.

Do I know you. You just described what i go through to a "T". If you add being constantly understaffed, managed by someone who is severely not qualified for their position as account manager, and finding that dealing with hosptital staff can be worst than the patients and the visitors, than we must be the same person.

[dragonofearth]

i always used to say "who ever said TGIF must have never worked in a restaurant" i was a dishwasher. man did  fridays and saturdays suck, sundays too.