People leaving trash places drives me insane. I work on the seawall and like to go for a stroll sometimes to clear my head. So much trash is just floating in the water, & people love to leave their junk within throwing distance of a bin.
6 pack rings are the worst, I mean, Christ you may as well wrap it around a turtle yourself.
I hope we’re rid of disposable plastics soon.
Keep the plastics; get rid of the disposable humans.
Dude, that sucks…
Yea… not sure how to separate the personal from professional. He’s worked here for 4 months now. Up until now, I could bifurcate (that’s a fun word) the two.
Generally speaking, you vent to your friends about work troubles… when your friend ends up being the work trouble not sure where that lands me. Ahh, yes, rambling online.
Does your friend subscribe to the “break a few dishes” mindset at work? If he screws up just enough people will give him less work, but not fire him?
Sounds like you need to set crystal clear expectations. When work doesn’t get done, it’s always the leader’s fault ultimately.
He’ll never get fired. Well, it’d take a lot. I really think he just doesn’t take me serious. When we really last saw each other I was 21, now 28.
Completely agree. I took the ‘Extreme Ownership’ perspective from Jocko and asked how I could have communicated clearer. I had originally sent out a calendar to all the parties who had a role and what needed to occur. He just chose not to and told me he didn’t agree with my decision.
Today’s latest issue his response was “Yes In hindsight it makes total sense, there’s nothing else to say other than I screwed up.”
I’m really at a loss on this one.
Sounds like he might be new to office culture, accountability and deadlines in general.
You are in a tough spot. But you can make this work. Managing this tough situation will make you better.
You underestimate some people. I swear we have a team whose entire purpose is to run interference on others for reasons I am not quite clear on.
From creating confusion, to purposeful misunderstanding, to shizen quality, to fucked process (fill in this 25 page problem statement which we will take 6 weeks to read then we will talk to you and take another 6 weeks to write a ‘work contract’. Then when we get signatures of every person who has blinked in the last minute, we can go).
Every workplace has awful employees, and it is usually blatantly obvious who the turds are. The only reason they remain is defective leadership.
Even at the top: If the CEO sucks it’s the board’s fault. If the board sucks it’s the investors’ fault.
@dchris mentioned “extreme ownership” and that’s a pretty cool concept of you can practice it. Usually it completely disarms defensive employees “what could I have done better so this won’t happen in the future.”
But you’re right, some companies have structural problems where you look at an entire group and go:
Perhaps ask him to answer two questions:
I walked in this morning and, no shit, I had a voicemail from Salesforce…
Did you call them back? It’d be rude if you ignored it…o_0
Just be glad you don’t have public clients. That voicemail would be played to the board, with copies of all the unanswered emails.
Lol, I hit delete.
I hate not being able to get my parents to understand me…also that I’m amazing at basketball and no one can see it but me…
that stupid fucking 10,000 steps a day thing everyone’s trying to do
haha … I hate it when they take up the entire hallway - Get the fuck outta the way heifers, people have places to go…
We have people that walk around the office with headphones on “exercising”. It’s madness.
Got a good one from today. I’m paying for my lunch (Chipotle) and this fatty fatfats walks up:
Fatty McFatterson: “I neeeeeed more sour cream.”
Server: “What?”
Fatty McFatterson: “I neeeeeed more sour cream.”
USMC: Death stare
Are you fucking serious ya rude bitch.
Try ordering “triple chicken” after refusing rice and beans. They look at you like you just slapped a baby.
Server: “Triple…chicken?”
Me: “Yes.”
Server: “you sure?”
Me: “Triple chicken, please.”
Server to the entire resteraunt: “HEY THIS ONE’S A TRIPLE CHICKEN, WATCH OUT!”
It’s 3 scoops, like 12 oz max. I didn’t think it was a big deal.
Wait, is this like a 12 steps program for people who have a really hard time?