Things about your co-workers that annoy you

[Billy-Klubb]

my boss, again. he changes day shift hours from 5-4. he bumps our hours up to 45 (finally), but expects everyone to get their hours in by Thursday. we can take a 10 minute lunch, but most still take 1/2 hour. then he calls us all lazy because 10.5x4=42, but praises night crew for getting less done between the hours of 4pm and 4:30am.

 

[MaxStout]

my boss, again. he changes day shift hours from 5-4. he bumps our hours up to 45 (finally), but expects everyone to get their hours in by Thursday. we can take a 10 minute lunch, but most still take 1/2 hour. then he calls us all lazy because 10.5x4=42, but praises night crew for getting less done between the hours of 4pm and 4:30am.

Under Minnesota law, employees working 8 hours or more are allowed an unpaid 30-minute meal break.

 

[n240sxguy]

Walmart was always on top of lunches and breaks because they had the biggest target on their back since they employ so many people. I work 12 hr swing now and have no unpaid lunch or scheduled break. Usually it works out better for me. Usually sit on my ass playing on my phone for a good 10 of the 12 hours.

 

[gratus fermentatio]

Under Minnesota law, employees working 8 hours or more are allowed an unpaid 30-minute meal break.

I think most, if not all states have a similar law. My dept. doesn't take an actual "lunch break," we eat of course, but we eat as time allows so we can get the hell out of here when our 8 hrs are up.
Regards, GF.

 

[Billy-Klubb]

Under Minnesota law, employees working 8 hours or more are allowed an unpaid 30-minute meal break.

most of us just take a 10-15 minute lunch break to get our hours in sooner. we can take an hour lunch every day if we want as long as we get our hours in for the week.

 

[MaxStout]

most of us just take a 10-15 minute lunch break to get our hours in sooner. we can take an hour lunch every day if we want as long as we get our hours in for the week.

A lot of employees choose to do something like that. The law only requires employers to allow for a 30 minute break. It doesn't require that the employee actually take it.

 

[betarhoalphadelta]

A lot of employees choose to do something like that. The law only requires employers to allow for a 30 minute break. It doesn't require that the employee actually take it.

In California, it's basically required that the employee take it. I'm not sure if it's *explicitly* required in the law, but if employees don't take it, and then quit or are fired, they can pretty easily sue and say that their boss prevented them from taking it (and probably win). So employers here will often explicitly police this to make sure that the employee is taking their lunch. I've heard of people being disciplined for *not* taking their lunch break.

That only applies to hourly employees, though.

 

[MaxStout]

In California, it's basically required that the employee take it. I'm not sure if it's *explicitly* required in the law, but if employees don't take it, and then quit or are fired, they can pretty easily sue and say that their boss prevented them from taking it (and probably win). So employers here will often explicitly police this to make sure that the employee is taking their lunch. I've heard of people being disciplined for *not* taking their lunch break.

That only applies to hourly employees, though.

I see that a lot here. Many employers of hourly workers will require that the employees take the half hour, just so that nobody can later claim that they were denied a meal break.

 

[MustBeZ]

We are required to stop working at lunchtime as well. Reason being is that we are not on the clock at that time and if we get hurt then work comp. doesn't cover it.

 

[Oberon67]

I have one other guy on my team on second shift. He's constantly checking to see what I'm doing, in an effort to gauge how busy I am. If I don't look busy enough to him, he will invent some question or issue that requires my attention, so I can be busy enough to suit him.

 

[Zepth]

In California, it's basically required that the employee take it. I'm not sure if it's *explicitly* required in the law, but if employees don't take it, and then quit or are fired, they can pretty easily sue and say that their boss prevented them from taking it (and probably win). So employers here will often explicitly police this to make sure that the employee is taking their lunch. I've heard of people being disciplined for *not* taking their lunch break.

When I worked the warehouse it was company policy (or Provincial law?) that 8 hours shifts required a 1 hour lunch break. Too damn long if you asked me. The shifts for employees were laid out in such a fashion that no 2 employees in the same department would have lunch at the same time to ensure proper customer support in the retail section of the store.

With management agreeing that these didn't really apply to us, they allowed voluntary short lunches so our day could be shorter and that we could take it whenever we felt like because customers don't need warehouse employees.

 

[n240sxguy]

I've got a really stupid company policy thing that should entertain you all. I work 12 hour swing shift. I leave when my relief gets there, he leaves when I get back 12 hours later, and it continues like that as we roll through the various shifts. The corporate office decided that all locations needed this Kronos time clock system. Here's the kicker; it only applied to production who were on shift, and maintenance. It didn't apply to anyone in the offices or the supervisors, who are the only ones who screw the company out of time. So they can all come and go as they please, but those of us who have to be accountable to the person relieving us have to clock in and out. I heard rumors that finally after nearly two years, they may have to clock in too.

 

[gratus fermentatio]

The mens room here is designed to be used by 1 person at a time. There is a toilet & right next to it there is a urinal. No divider. If you were unfortunate enough to be sitting on the toilet while someone was standing at the urinal, your face would be right about d!ck level & only about 12-16 inches away. It's obviously not intended to be used by more than 1 person at a time.

Now there really shouldn't be any debate about what you do with each device. A urinal is meant to be used to pee standing up; the toilet to be used for defecation & urinating whilst sitting down. If there were no urinal, then the toilet would also be used to pee standing up, but this is not the case.

Enter the inconsiderate a$$hole, who pees while standing up, into the toilet, dribbling urine onto the seat; with the urinal only a step away. I'd like to stake him down & pee on him.
End rant. GF.

 

[Goofynewfie]

At my workplace somebody took a huge shīt in the middle of the hallway and we found it last night.
I work in the medical area of a university. Let that sink in for a moment

 

[dkwolf]

At my workplace somebody took a huge shīt in the middle of the hallway and we found it last night.
I work in the medical area of a university. Let that sink in for a moment

My fire chief is also the head custodian at our elementary school, so the fact that he recently had to deal with a similar situation is not surprising.

What is surprising was.... it was in the middle of the teachers lounge. (and apparently of sufficient..ahem...volume... that it was very likely NOT one of the kids)

 

[n240sxguy]

We've got a guy on my shift of 5 that is so nasty he has his own bathroom. No one else would dare use it. There are 4 shifts, so 20 guys total. There was 1 woman who had her own bathroom. We finally complained enough, and the company looked at the state law, and she was only required to have a bathroom with a lock, not complete segregation. This one guy on my shift will occasionally use our bathroom and piss all over the floor around the urinal. The cleaning lady said he went back in his bathroom after she cleaned it one morning and pissed all over the seat and around the toilet. Oh yeah, on nights, he walks around with just his socks on, no shoes. Walking all through his piss covered bathroom.

 

[TheCADJockey]

We've got a guy on my shift of 5 that is so nasty he has his own bathroom. No one else would dare use it. There are 4 shifts, so 20 guys total. There was 1 woman who had her own bathroom. We finally complained enough, and the company looked at the state law, and she was only required to have a bathroom with a lock, not complete segregation. This one guy on my shift will occasionally use our bathroom and piss all over the floor around the urinal. The cleaning lady said he went back in his bathroom after she cleaned it one morning and pissed all over the seat and around the toilet. Oh yeah, on nights, he walks around with just his socks on, no shoes. Walking all through his piss covered bathroom.

Ugh. Dude.......... lol..

 

[fsr_racer]

One of my coworkers can't hit the urinal, but I honestly think he's too short to straddle it and his beer gut is too big for him to see to aim.

He's a home brewer.

 

[hunter_le five]

one of my coworkers can't hit the urinal, but i honestly think he's too short to straddle it and his beer gut is too big for him to see to aim.

He's a home brewer.

He's me.

ftfy

 

[fsr_racer]

ftfy

No, if I get to the point where I can't see it anymore, I will stop brewing.

Don't have that far to go anyway.

 

[MaxStout]

At my workplace somebody took a huge shīt in the middle of the hallway and we found it last night.
I work in the medical area of a university. Let that sink in for a moment

Some patient dropping off a stool sample after hours? :cross:

Seriously, that's nasty.

 

[Hamaki]

Geez I feel pretty lucky. I work in a building with about 100 employees and a lot of public use. The bathrooms (men's anyway, can't speak for the women's) are always pretty darn clean. I've never even seen any graffiti in the five or six years we've been there.

 

[Billy-Klubb]

before we moved location, our bathroom was a crapper and a urinal. about exactly the same as GF described. instead of putting in another bathroom, company put up a divider so 1 guy could s#!t and the other could piss at the same time. we still only used it one at a time. our new buildings' bathrooms are now two crappers and two urinals. just as bad IMO.

 

[gratus fermentatio]

At my workplace somebody took a huge shīt in the middle of the hallway and we found it last night.
I work in the medical area of a university. Let that sink in for a moment

I would think there would be security cameras that caught that.
Time for the hazmat team; that's a biohazard.
Regards, GF.

 

[fuzzy2133]

In California, it's basically required that the employee take it. I'm not sure if it's *explicitly* required in the law, but if employees don't take it, and then quit or are fired, they can pretty easily sue and say that their boss prevented them from taking it (and probably win). So employers here will often explicitly police this to make sure that the employee is taking their lunch. I've heard of people being disciplined for *not* taking their lunch break.

That only applies to hourly employees, though.

The point behind disciplining an employee for not taking their lunch break is in case the company is sued over break periods. This allows the employer to prove employees are getting their breaks and the employer is actively following the law. Enforcing employees will take their full 30 minute break.

It is just one big screwed up circle the courts and lawyers have created.

 

[TheCADJockey]

We were recently (with the new year) scolded and forced to clock out for our lunches. Previously, if I had enough work to do I just ate while I worked. Now that I'm flooded with work, I work through lunch so I don't get buried. The only difference is now I don't get paid to knock out piles of drawings.

Oh well. I'll soon have that 2 years of experience under my belt that employers require confused so if this place doesn't get me what I deserve, I'm out.

 

[n240sxguy]

We were recently (with the new year) scolded and forced to clock out for our lunches. Previously, if I had enough work to do I just ate while I worked. Now that I'm flooded with work, I work through lunch so I don't get buried. The only difference is now I don't get paid to knock out piles of drawings.

Oh well. I'll soon have that 2 years of experience under my belt that employers require confused so if this place doesn't get me what I deserve, I'm out.

Sounds like a real nice place to work. Right at the two year mark, or now if you're close, let the ball drop and let them pick up the pieces. No pay=no work. If you're forced to take a lunch, take it. Let them give you OT or do the drawings themselves.

 

[Darwin18]

Never, ever work for free.

 

[n240sxguy]

Never, ever work for free.

Heard a good quote one time that made a lot of sense. "Never **** on your own time, or sweat on anyone else's."

 

[hunter_le five]

My coworker ranting about some San Antonio-based charity group that made the news recently for raising over a million dollars for starving children in Africa:

Her: "Oh yeah, that's great and all, but what about the MILLIONS of starving children right here in San Antonio?"

Me: "I don't think there are millions are starving kids in the city of San Antonio...."

Her: "Why not?"

Me: "Forget it. You're probably right."




Quick googlery:
San Antonio population: ~1.4 million
% under 18: ~27% (or ~378,000)
% below the poverty level: ~20%