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Midnight Kissy Bull
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I like my coworker as a person, but as an actual worker, he sucks.
He's admitted that he still wants to be irresponsible and joke around. He's 29 years old. (He's also admitted that he wants to enlist in the Merchant Marines. Reason being is that if North Korea declares world war, he wants to go into action. I have no reason to doubt that he believes he'll be the one to take down that dictator. Typical hero fantasy.)
Everyone in the store pretty much knows that out of the three people on our inventory team, I'm really the only one that does any work. I run around the sales floor trying to do all the alerts, I do my best to get as many audits done. But my coworker, Joe, drags his feet. He'd rather talk, especially to his friends in other departments. In fact, after completing one grocery department's alerts, he'll head over to the paper goods/pets/chemicals departments to chat with his friend over there. We did have an arrangement to do both grocery departments together, but one for him is apparently enough. Even then, I end up doing most of the alerts.
He's become more and more slackerish. He's even admitted that he doesn't care for IMS work; he wanted on the team because of the hours. 7 to 4 is apparently an enviable schedule, and since Joe has been good buddies with our Zone Supervisor for going on 10 years, he was able to transfer to the team easily.
Yesterday, he said that he'd be going on vacation for 11 days (Walmart has a "use it or lose it" deal when it comes to vacation time). But 11 whole days without doing tedious, mind-killing work wasn't good enough for Joe. He told me that he was going to start his vacation a day early... by calling out and claiming that he got a flat tire on his motorcycle. On top of that, he left a mess of stationary on the floor--merchandise that he was supposed to be sorting--and decided that the Zone Manager for that department could do it on her own.
I've noticed this bad behavior for a couple of months now, but it's starting to get worse. Joe is clearly taking advantage of my kindness and friendship to get away with slacking off. Not anymore. Tomorrow, I'm going to find out if he did indeed call out for today. We have another IMS person (who barely does any work, either) who's going to be out for a week for a funeral. I'm off today, which means that if Joe called out, there were no IMS people at all in the store.
Regardless, our ZS is going to hear about it. I don't care if he and Joe go back 10 years. I might see some results, however, because the ZS is getting fed up with a lot things in the back room, and one of them is the other IMS person (the one who called out for a whole week). He's a little more irritable with other associates and department managers. I'm the only associate he doesn't have a problem with, but that's because I'm usually working and don't bother him all the time.
He's admitted that he still wants to be irresponsible and joke around. He's 29 years old. (He's also admitted that he wants to enlist in the Merchant Marines. Reason being is that if North Korea declares world war, he wants to go into action. I have no reason to doubt that he believes he'll be the one to take down that dictator. Typical hero fantasy.)
Everyone in the store pretty much knows that out of the three people on our inventory team, I'm really the only one that does any work. I run around the sales floor trying to do all the alerts, I do my best to get as many audits done. But my coworker, Joe, drags his feet. He'd rather talk, especially to his friends in other departments. In fact, after completing one grocery department's alerts, he'll head over to the paper goods/pets/chemicals departments to chat with his friend over there. We did have an arrangement to do both grocery departments together, but one for him is apparently enough. Even then, I end up doing most of the alerts.
He's become more and more slackerish. He's even admitted that he doesn't care for IMS work; he wanted on the team because of the hours. 7 to 4 is apparently an enviable schedule, and since Joe has been good buddies with our Zone Supervisor for going on 10 years, he was able to transfer to the team easily.
Yesterday, he said that he'd be going on vacation for 11 days (Walmart has a "use it or lose it" deal when it comes to vacation time). But 11 whole days without doing tedious, mind-killing work wasn't good enough for Joe. He told me that he was going to start his vacation a day early... by calling out and claiming that he got a flat tire on his motorcycle. On top of that, he left a mess of stationary on the floor--merchandise that he was supposed to be sorting--and decided that the Zone Manager for that department could do it on her own.
I've noticed this bad behavior for a couple of months now, but it's starting to get worse. Joe is clearly taking advantage of my kindness and friendship to get away with slacking off. Not anymore. Tomorrow, I'm going to find out if he did indeed call out for today. We have another IMS person (who barely does any work, either) who's going to be out for a week for a funeral. I'm off today, which means that if Joe called out, there were no IMS people at all in the store.
Regardless, our ZS is going to hear about it. I don't care if he and Joe go back 10 years. I might see some results, however, because the ZS is getting fed up with a lot things in the back room, and one of them is the other IMS person (the one who called out for a whole week). He's a little more irritable with other associates and department managers. I'm the only associate he doesn't have a problem with, but that's because I'm usually working and don't bother him all the time.
Midnight Kissy Bull
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I just remembered something else about Joe that I strongly dislike. He's a fucking kid.
He has a thing for bubble wrap. Nothing kinky. It's just that when he sees it, he has to pop it. Even on the sales floor. He's damaged live freight because of his inability (or unwillingness, I should say) to resist. I love bubble wrap, too. I have a small square of it on the desk right now, but I'm not going insane over it.
Joe claims to have an impulsive personality. Whatever. He almost stole store property one day because of this "personality trait." He was walking by the claims cage (where we send our damaged or stolen merchandise) when he picked up a giant roll of bubble wrap. In the break room, he put it on his backpack and proudly declared, "I'm a ninja."
He was even trying to figure out how to take it home. But he couldn't fit it in his backpack, and he definitely couldn't put it anywhere on his motorcycle. So he reluctantly gave it back to the claims lady. He even said that he felt guilty for taking it in the first place.
Now, our ZS knows about this, but I honestly believe that he thinks Joe meant it as a joke. You know, being the little imp that he is. But when I tell him that Joe was seriously considering taking it home... yeah, I think I'm going to enjoy taking this little shit down.
He has a thing for bubble wrap. Nothing kinky. It's just that when he sees it, he has to pop it. Even on the sales floor. He's damaged live freight because of his inability (or unwillingness, I should say) to resist. I love bubble wrap, too. I have a small square of it on the desk right now, but I'm not going insane over it.
Joe claims to have an impulsive personality. Whatever. He almost stole store property one day because of this "personality trait." He was walking by the claims cage (where we send our damaged or stolen merchandise) when he picked up a giant roll of bubble wrap. In the break room, he put it on his backpack and proudly declared, "I'm a ninja."
He was even trying to figure out how to take it home. But he couldn't fit it in his backpack, and he definitely couldn't put it anywhere on his motorcycle. So he reluctantly gave it back to the claims lady. He even said that he felt guilty for taking it in the first place.
Now, our ZS knows about this, but I honestly believe that he thinks Joe meant it as a joke. You know, being the little imp that he is. But when I tell him that Joe was seriously considering taking it home... yeah, I think I'm going to enjoy taking this little shit down.
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I had to miss a day of school because of a flat once. Granted, my school days have only been 4 hours long since my last year in high school, and it took me until 2 (4 hours after class ended) to fix the flat because the spare was flat, and I needed to buy a new tire. If I got a flat and had an 8 hour work schedule, I'd at least try to make it for half the day or try to see about working overtime or something. Maybe knocking a personal day off.
I also wanted to join the merchant navy since I was like, 15. Just walk around on a boat with a gun and make sure Jack Sparrow doesn't try to steal your shipment of sugar cane and tobacco (and by that, I mean shoot at Amarachi and his crew of RPG wielding lunatics if they so much as dare try to touch our shipment of guns). How hard can that be, right? Actually, I just always wanted to do the whole sail around the world with the military thing for a while.
I think this Joe guy probably has ADHD or something. Or he's just a manchild.
I also wanted to join the merchant navy since I was like, 15. Just walk around on a boat with a gun and make sure Jack Sparrow doesn't try to steal your shipment of sugar cane and tobacco (and by that, I mean shoot at Amarachi and his crew of RPG wielding lunatics if they so much as dare try to touch our shipment of guns). How hard can that be, right? Actually, I just always wanted to do the whole sail around the world with the military thing for a while.
I think this Joe guy probably has ADHD or something. Or he's just a manchild.
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Midnight Kissy Bull, document everything and give it to HR. People like that serve no purpose in the workplace.
Midnight Kissy Bull
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Actually, Joe claims to have ADD/ADHD, but that shouldn't be an excuse for slacking off or being impulsive. Similar to how autism yadda yadda we've heard it all before.
My amusement with Joe's desire to be in the Merchant Marines is that he has childish and lazy tendencies, and he fully expects to become a warrior soon after completing boot camp... or even before he's sent to boot camp. People like him don't shape up immediately, and the drill instructors aren't going to like him one bit. (And he's been trying to get into the Marines for six years. I never heard back from the Navy after six months and I gave up then and there. Besides, I've got a chance to climb the ladder here. It isn't the greatest job in the world, but it's paying the bills and I've got insurance.)
Unrelated to my previous rant, but Joe also has a habit of criticizing my diet. He likes to look at the nutrition values of my meals and complain about the sodium. He's trying to build up muscle for the Marines (at one time, it was also for a zombie apocalypse), so he's practicing these strange eating habits and taking these fad health powders and crap. I'm THIS close to telling him, "You worry about your diet and I'll worry about mine."
Seriously, I'm THIS close to getting up in his face. He likes confrontation, but I think my getting angry with him will throw him off guard.
My amusement with Joe's desire to be in the Merchant Marines is that he has childish and lazy tendencies, and he fully expects to become a warrior soon after completing boot camp... or even before he's sent to boot camp. People like him don't shape up immediately, and the drill instructors aren't going to like him one bit. (And he's been trying to get into the Marines for six years. I never heard back from the Navy after six months and I gave up then and there. Besides, I've got a chance to climb the ladder here. It isn't the greatest job in the world, but it's paying the bills and I've got insurance.)
Unrelated to my previous rant, but Joe also has a habit of criticizing my diet. He likes to look at the nutrition values of my meals and complain about the sodium. He's trying to build up muscle for the Marines (at one time, it was also for a zombie apocalypse), so he's practicing these strange eating habits and taking these fad health powders and crap. I'm THIS close to telling him, "You worry about your diet and I'll worry about mine."
Seriously, I'm THIS close to getting up in his face. He likes confrontation, but I think my getting angry with him will throw him off guard.
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^I feel like if I met you we would spend hours upon hours drinking beers and talking shit about our coworkers. (see my post from a few days ago in the How Was Your Day thread for the madness I deal with.)
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Oh man, Joe is starting to sound an awful lot like Jorge right now. Although I don't think Jorge claimed to have ADD/ADHD, it seems like he has it or something else on the spectrum. He has a lot of unrealistic expectations, screams and yells to get attention, loses his temper constantly with people, always gets in fights, and so on. All he does is sit on his ass and play Assassin's Creed, has no job and uses, "I'm bulking up for the army," to justify not being employed, and he eats McDonald's almost every god damn day. Like in high school, he'd call his mom to come drop something off for him while the rest of us would eat our government mandated lunches, and then he'd sit next to the same two girls offering them french fries thinking they hated the school food and loved McDonald's, which explained their perfect figures (they both had some self image problems at some point and wouldn't dare touch fast food (or maybe anything that was just handled by Jorge, as he smelled really bad)). Chances are he's going to be killed on the first day of training. That's what happened to a friend of my dad's. Like, literally killed. To death. I don't think he took his ACT or SAT either, so he's practically screwed into killing himself.Midnight Kissy Bull said:
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I pretty much decided that I'm going to seriously try to get back into my old school and complete the degree I want because I'm really tired of being miserable at work. Difficulty: obtaining money for school, train fare, and the cloud of not be able to have a job over my head. I also kind of feel like I'm too old for this shit but there ya go.
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I just got back from California yesterday. My wife, son, mother and myself all went to Disneyland. I also went to Hollywood to seebthe graves of Dee Dee and Johnny Ramone. Aside from Disneyland and some of the other sights we saw California sucks ass. It's a dirty, ugly state and I dislike the people there. Also no one knows how to fucking drive and it took me almost two hours just to drive from Anaheim to Hollywood.
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As a person that has been living in California for the past three years, I strongly agree that it sucks and most of the people are terrible, which is why I plan on moving as soon as I can.killswitch1982 said:
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Both of you should move to Texas. It's the polar opposite of California, and I've pretty much nothing but good things to say about some of the cities here. Just get used to telling people that you live in a state where they have their own constitution with an amendment banning same sex marriages. Even if you're a gay minority that wants to move to England or something, liberals will still stone you to death for saying you had anything to do with Texas. It really is a matter of just being born differently from everyone in California, Oregon, and Washington.Hunger Mythos said:
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That image was actually a render of Kleiner's model from later in the game. It's from the part whereMale said:
Kleiner finally grows a pair and becomes a total badass after Gordon Freeman dies. You actually get to play as him during this part, until the vortugants revive Gordon. Kleiner even gets a custom shotgun, based off of a Winchester 1887.
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