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I worked in phones a decade ago and a new hire that I thought was cool lasted a week. I got a callback from a foreign client that was just hung up on after being slurred and insulted for not speaking fluent English by the new guy. We had call recording. It was very awkward to have to tell my boss about it and unfuck the client relationship.
If you can understand a smoke break, you can understand a prayer break. It's not that hard.
For some people, it is in fact difficult to compute said action.
Prayers are a spiritual experience and practice, whereas the only thing you get out of smoking is a medical bill. They still want the latter because it's a physical effect they can observe.
They can work you harder when you have lung cancer or long term illness from smoking and you need their medical insurance coverage.
Oh for sure, and it only drives my scorn
And if smoke breaks are allowed, have a snack break
I used to lie and ask for a smoke break and go have a snack outside
You have to ask?
No later than 2 weeks ago a new marketing guy thought the best thing once he got his laptop was to start a thread of memes on Teams with everybody. People were already leaving left and right when I started paying attention to it. Unfortunately for him, when he sent an animation of a cartoon character doing a nazi salute I called him out on it saying that's not ok, the HR manager was still in the thread. Dude lasted half a day on this job.
Negative minutes. Kid just out of college, the CMO (a monster of a human) had cosigned and bragged about how good this person was. They didn't show up first day, hour past, someone called and HE was upset that a car hadn't been sent to pick him up at home and he was waiting... Ridiculous in any scenario really, but this was in a car-brained major city where all people drove themselves, up to the CEO. Not common at all to have a car service. Was let go immediately in a probation period and CMO never mentioned it again.
I was training a new hire. She was good, better than me in some respects.
But one day she came in and did no work, just sat there shaking... insisting she was fine.
Turns out she was tweaking, she came in high.
She was given a final warning but then she came high again and was fired.
I worked in a restaurant where a server would shoot up in the bathroom before her shift. She didn't last long.
That's funny, considering how many people have told me that most of the people in food service are high due to how stressful it is. Maybe heroin isn't the drug of choice, though.
Weed. It's easy to just hit a pen in the bathroom, and it relaxes you without making you literally incapable of doing the job. I'm sure other drugs are common in food service too, but the one I saw regularly was weed.
In our case, lots and lots of alcohol. Definitely coke going around but it's not my thing.
Coke and meth
Just say you're sick and go home. It isn't that hard. Don't try to play it off and work anyway. Not unless you're really, really good.
A new, young PC technician was hired and from the get go he was practically blowing himself with claims he'll be promoted quickly, he could do the job of 2 people, nobody works harder than him. Less than 2 months into the job someone calls the dept asking where he is because he was supposed to swap out a PC for a director at an off-site location. His manager called his cell and asked where he was. He told em he was just finishing up Cathy's PC and he'll be back on site.
Manager: "Cathy just called me asking why you haven't shown up yet. So I'll ask again...where the hell are you?"
Turns out he was hung-the-fuck-over and napping at home. He got canned very quickly.
The people that scream the loudest about being hard working or intelligent usually aren't. If someone is good at something, they don't need to point it out.
What's worse than both is "I've been doing this for X amount of years!" Because then they're both dumb and incompetent. If they say they have 20 years of experience usually it means 20X1st year of experience.
Or they feel so much imposter syndrome that they keep quiet.
I mean I am probably not even good enough to have imposter syndrome, its probably the Dunning Kruger effect.
Nice, you just did either the first derivative of imposter syndrome, or you made it recursive, but I'm probably too shit to tell which
The people that scream the loudest about being hard working or intelligent usually aren’t.
Oh absolutely 110%. I could count on all my and your fingers and toes the number of coworkers I've had who spent half the day walking around chitchatting that they were the hardest worker, first in last out...they undeniably never were.
This guy was only a "new co-worker" because I was the new employee, but: my first day on a new job I watched a guy get escorted out of the building by security carrying his shit in a cardboard box. His story ended up on the local news. Turned out he was running a prostitution ring from his office, using his work computer even. He had an 800 number that redirected to his office phone, and he kept track of his girls and customers on an Excel spreadsheet on his Windows desktop. The only reason he got caught was that the company upgraded everybody's computers, and they had techs check through all the old machines to make sure no important documents got deleted, and they found "CallGirls.xls" or something like that right on his desktop. Security through dumbassery.
Stories like this piss me off because they convice me that i would be an absolutely incredible criminal; did this dude not know about usb-sticks?
did this dude not know about usb-sticks?
Even before that, dude didn't even try to make it look plausibly legitimate so it didn't invite suspicion for when someone inevitably stumbled on the file.
Dude was definitely never a kid with only shared access to a computer, that's for sure...
Could have named it GroceryList.xls and would probably still be working there 😂
Or BusinessAssets.xlsxxx /s
Any mid to large size company has the USB ports of their desktop PCs disabled, disconnected or even glued shut. At least the ones that take security seriously.
In my story, he was not really fired. But a new hire in my company was handed his computer. Seeing it was on Windows, he asked to work on Linux instead. IT told him that Windows was mandatory so he resigned on the spot.
Based af, but he didn't even enjoy the burrito he ordered for lunch :(
average lemmy user lol
There's a famous story at my job about this.
The hiring team kept saying they had trouble finding designers and developers because nobody wants to work on a Windows computer.
And the owner went. "So why are we forcing everyone to use windows?"
And then one department pointed fingers at another, to another, to another. Apparently a decade ago, some IT dude got Microsoft kickbacks and left the company. The next month, the whole "Microsoft" rule faded away and now my department is running Linux laptops, the designers and devs have their macs, and the accountants are using windows.
Yeah, the guy in my story was to be a developer as well. Clearly it's way more confortable to work on Linux. The justification in my company is that the security protocols are already built for Windows so they don't want to redo the job on Linux. Handling to OS' would increase their work load.
Lol in my 20 years working in IT and IT security every desktop/laptop was windows except sometimes the people who needed to do graphics things (marketing) who were on MACs. Sure we had plenty of servers on linux, but standard for end points was always Windows. And every IT was sad that that's the state of affairs but accepted it. I've hated Windows since 95 and been on Linux since one of the first Slackware versions (it was at a time when to have floppy disk support you had to recompile the kernel), but you have to adapt to your environment or else you refuse maybe 99% of the jobs out there.
I wish I had the half the resolve of that man. I had the choice between two evils, windows and mac, which resulted in me getting a mac, mostly out of curiosity. I hate it
When I joined up at my current job, they asked whether I wanted a Linux or Mac laptop. I, of course, took the Linux laptop. The recruiter laughed and said "no one ever picks Mac."
Now Macs are the only option because the IT department doesn't want to run any tool other than JAMF.
What boggles my mind is one of the execs who was there long before I was. He selected a Mac, then used Parallels to run Windows on it.
One factory job had a couple days of orientation in a classroom before we started on the floor, but on day one we ended with a tour of the work areas. As we went around, someone working recognized one of the others in my group as a local methhead/rampant thief. We found out that's why he didn't come back when we started working with the others.
I used to work in a large fishing ship as an engineer, there I became an atheist. Once there was a huge storm and we had to balance the ship to make sure it wouldnt roll, the guy who had to do it was praying and didnt have time to balance it, we almost died because he had mandatory pray time. From than we had a rule that there is no religion on the ship, once we come back to land than you can believe.
From what I hear of Islam on e.g. fasting it tends to be quite a practical religion. I'd not be surprised if that guy could in fact have not been praying at that moment and still stuck to all the teachings of his religion.
Yeah this is not at all how praying works in Islam. Of course you don't pray if you're practically unable to do so safely.
It is also considered a sin if you choose to fast under circumstances that put your health in danger.
Apparently (I'm not a scholar but was curious) in dire situations that require immediate action they could've prayed while helping out, even shortening it out as long as the short (verbal?) prayer is done in honesty and the situation absolutely demands it. Apparently it's even outright disallowed to not safe yourself or others during life-and-death situations even if it prevents you from the mandatory prayer because preserving people's lifes and your own tops those rules, at least that's what I read so far. If that boat story is actually true that person probably was a dipshit who happened to break his own religion's rules.
Also looked up fasting: There seems to be even more leeway on that. Just do it later if you can't do it right now due to illness or similar, or pay "fidyah" (give poor people money for food). Though I'm kinda curious how it's handled when someone is too old to fast but also poor as fuck, not a situation where you'd want to also feel guilty about this.