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Edited by Mrph1 on Aug 26th 2024 at 10:24:26 AM
@Irish: I'd say he's basically been taking advantage of your niceness so far, and yeah, you should put a stop to it somehow. I don't know exactly what steps you'd have to take, but going to the guy who runs things and explaining it would probably help. As would putting a lock on your instrument case.
Anyway, I have to get to bed now. See you all later.
Zombie- Geez louise. :/ Yeah, that's not okay.
Honestly that reminds me of one of my co-workers. Anyone mind if I do some venting of my own?
http://h0useb0und.tumblr.com/Go ahead. It's only fair after I got to rant.
Well for one, I'm taking my music with me instead of leaving it in my case. I actually did that for a while, then left it in my case again after I noticed he had his own music. Then he lost it (pretty much that very day), and then everything else happened. I don't think I should go to the band director about this unless the librarian recommends it, since she's actually leadership and I'm not, but I am going to get ahold of her to ask what I should do with his music now that he has another set.
Okay. Well.
Basically, the co-worker I'm complaining about is the one guy at the office EVERYONE has a problem with. On the surface he's a very nice guy.
The problem is he doesn't do his job. And he's rather deceitful about it. For one thing, he takes more breaks than anyone else. I mean, I take a break if I need to use the bathroom or if there are free cookies in the lunchroom, but that's it. Otherwise, the time at my desk between calls is my break. But he takes one every couple hours, and it's always at least 10 minutes. AND he takes a good 10 to 15 minutes to log in every morning and start answering calls.
Even when there are people in the queue, he takes breaks. And comes to bug us while we're on the phone. Every single day.
He spends time on the clock, when we're supposed to help people get Medicare plans and such, calling people about HIS health insurance (on the agency phone, too) and job searching. When I called him out on this he said it's none of my business.
He also doesn't take as many calls as the rest of us. We finally figured out why- it seems that he just hits the "headset" button (basically the answer button), lowers the volume as far as possible, and just DOESN'T HANG UP. So he's "on the phone" but not doing anything. This week, after we figured out what was going on... he spent 20 minutes talking to one of the callers about the weather, and forwarded the ACTUAL WORK to someone else.
But since he can't get away with doing nothing, he artifically inflates the numbers of calls and tracking records he makes. If anyone calls and he actually DOES help them, he asks if they have a spouse, and if they do he copy-pastes all the information into a second tracking record. Other times he just flat-out makes shit up. One time he made twelve records in ten minutes. I didn't even know it was possible to type them up that fast, it's a multi-page online form, not just a word document, so there's a lot of loading involved.
We can't really do anything about it. First off, it's the last week of Medicare open enrollment. We need as much help as we can get, so he kinda has to be there. And even if that weren't the case, he's gone over the supervisor's head and FILED COMPLAINTS AGAINST HER. I don't even know what that'd be for, and I don't have the right to know. Basically, he's not doing his job, he's lying about it, and is getting away with it.
http://h0useb0und.tumblr.com/Wow, that sounds like he's outright breaking the law. Maybe you should wait next week and then report it?
Blind Final Fantasy 6 Let's PlayFrankly I don't know if he's breaking the law. And the job ENDS next week. I know one thing for sure though, if he ever tries to get a referral from this place it is NOT gonna go well for him. I will talk to the others and see if they think we should file a complaint though. Frankly they know more about the situation than I do.
http://h0useb0und.tumblr.com/Wow. It's people like him that make people so wary about calling any sort of official line, because of service like that. And even though you need all the help you can get, I would think he's actually hindering your efforts more than helping them. I would definitely look for official channels to report him to.
@Ike: go the Soundwave path and record everything he does. Use as evidence. Get him blacklisted.
The three finest things in life are to splat your enemies, drive them from their turf, and hear their lamentations as their rank falls!Is there any sort of official procedure for reporting stuff like that?
Blind Final Fantasy 6 Let's PlayI have no idea what soundwave is. :l
And again, I'll definitely talk to the others and see what we can do.
I wish I'd done something sooner. At first I thought I was the only one having problems with him. Then one by one the others said that they were having problems too, and now... here we are.
^ I'm sure there is an official procedure. I'm not sure what it is, probably something involving the HR department.
edited 3rd Dec '13 9:56:20 PM by IkeAndMike
http://h0useb0und.tumblr.com/Soundwave
◊ is one of the most popular Decepticons from the Transformers series. as the head of communications, he specializes in gathering information discreetly and using it against his enemies.* his most often-used methods of gaining this information are his minions: Ravage, Rumble, Frenzy, and Laserbeak.
in the franchise's most recent iteration, he looked like this.
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edited 3rd Dec '13 10:12:52 PM by crimsonstorm15
All things are lawful for me, but all things are not expedient: all things are lawful for me, but all things edify not.Today: Dates, Bad co-workers, and Transformers apparently.
Visit my Tumblr! I may say things. The Bureau ProjectSoundwave? Sounds like a Transformer.
I guess it depends on what you mean by a desk job, but I'd imagine that astronomy or physics involves a lot of sitting down.
Blind Final Fantasy 6 Let's Play

Well, I'm going to hit the hay everyone. Kinda want some rest so I can go on a walk to a forest tomorrow. Even the... what title pertaining to cheese was I given again? Never mind... even I could use a little refreshing trip to a forest for exercise's sake, and stress relief.
(Insert picture of the good night everypony pic here.)