Hammer Comes Down From The Boss
Tuesday, January 6, 2009 1:11
Bring It ON!!!
I just thought that picture depicted the boss showing his power very well today.
Today the Site Director at work shut down the systems to have a serious chat with the entire staff at work.
Over the past few weeks that I have been there, I have noticed that all these policies that they said they have in place weren’t being followed at all or even being enforced for that matter.
There were people coming in stoned and high as a kite wreaking of pot, some people were obviously drunk, and then we have the idiots that seemed to think it was OK to horse around like a bunch of 4 year old kids.
Well the boss had everybody’s attention when he shut all the systems down to address the entire floor, that he had some news brought to his attention and along with the previous mentioned stuff above, there were people stealing computer hardware items, like monitors, memory, keyboards, and mice.
He was even addressing the supervisors and put them on the spot also because they were as guilty as the others breaking the policies.
The boss even said that the excessive perfumes and colognes they are wearing to cover up the stench of the pot smoke needs to stop too, (I never said it, somebody else did) because there are people working there with extreme sensitivities to strong perfumes. And if you walk in the building smelling of pot, you may as well turn around and go the hell home.
Apparently somebody was going home with the stink of pot on them because somebody was sitting beside them that had come in after smoking a Doobie transferring the stink to their cloths. I can believe it because some of these pot heads really ranked with the stink of pot.
The Big Boss basically gave everybody the ultimatum. If ya can’t act like mature and responsible adults, and don’t like the rules and policies in place, then get the fuck out.
I felt like standing up and applauding him. But then I would have looked like a tool, starting off with the slow clap and all.
I was glad to see somebody stand up and do their job to put some of these idiots in their place. I really hope the supervisors take him serious and follow through. These people that find it necessary to use the ‘F’ word every second word in their sentence is really getting out of hand, and having to apologise to a customer for some piece of shit that has no courtesy for others working around him/her is really embarrassing.
I cant wait to see how things will be tomorrow, since that’s the day there is going to be the ZERO tolerance. No hats, pot stink, perfume and cologne, food, cell phones, swearing, and horsing around. Plus they’ll be installing security cameras.
The next few days should be interesting.
ChrisTheFeral says:
January 6th, 2009 at 1:19 am
So no chat on chat breaks?
macbros says:
January 6th, 2009 at 1:22 am
@ChrisTheFeral – Oh yea, I can still chat on my breaks. I’m on break and not on the production floor anyway.
I usually go to the cafeteria to chat and brows the Twitter page.
MrCorey says:
January 6th, 2009 at 9:04 am
But but but, what about high school? Seriously, I’m glad that you may get the work environment that anybody should deserve without having anyone “enforce” it with big brother tactics.
We’ve had someone stealing lunches from the fridge at work until recently. I believe that they finally got it that we’d find them and stone them to death like in the olden times!
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macbros says:
January 6th, 2009 at 1:15 pm
They’ll have security cameras in there also.
All I heard after that big speech was all the pot heads whining outside about not being able to smoke up at work anymore. “Man, that fucking sucks man. Who the fuck do they fucking think they are? I’m going to fucking quit as soon as I find another fucking job. Fucking asshole.”
That’s how they actually talk too. But I say, “Good luck finding that job that lets you get stoned at work!” Aside from some sort of Scientific Drug Testing company that would use you as a guinea pig, but mad sure you signed a waiver clearing them of any wrong doing if you should become a vegetable, or dead.
I say let them leave. The less juveniles the better. Especially when they’re planning on hiring another wave of about 600 people since the site I’m at is supposedly #1 site in the company.
Know anybody who want’s to make $11/hour with full benefits doing a very simple job? Tell them I sent them, so I can make some extra $$ for the referral.
theenglishguy says:
January 6th, 2009 at 4:22 pm
Pity that some people don’t take their jobs seriously. I know one or two here, thinking that in this climate it’s easy to find a job.
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kay55 says:
January 6th, 2009 at 5:48 pm
BOSSES SUCK ASS!!!!!!
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DragonLady says:
January 6th, 2009 at 8:20 pm
Good grief, those heads sound like one of my hubby’s friends. LOL
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macbros says:
January 7th, 2009 at 12:31 am
@theenglishguy – I couldn’t care what a person does on their own time. But to have to sit beside somebody that reeks of pot and having eyes at you as if it’s coming from you is not what I would want to happen. Also, if you don’t want to take your job serious, quit and don’t jeperdize the jobs of people who do. The Boss said they were bringing the site down and could end up in lost work due to poor stats.
macbros says:
January 7th, 2009 at 12:34 am
@kay55 – Yea, I agree, but I was actually glad the boss said what he did say.
macbros says:
January 7th, 2009 at 12:35 am
@DragonLady – I have a few friends like that too. But in their defense, they grew up too.
teeni says:
January 9th, 2009 at 7:39 pm
I hope the shakedown ends up making it a better place to work. It’s hard to try and take your job seriously when they allow that kind of crap to continue. Sad.
macbros says:
January 9th, 2009 at 11:31 pm
@teeni – Yup. It sure is.