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If you want a vision of the future, imagine a wage slave typing: "I hate my job. I hate my job. I hate my job," on a keyboard, for ever. That's what a Manhattan court typist is accused of doing, having been fired from his post two years ago, after jeopardizing upwards of 30 trials, according to the New York Post. Many of the court transcripts were "complete gibberish" as the stenographer was allegedly suffering the effects of alcohol abuse, but the one that has caught public attention contains the phrase "I hate my job" over and over again.
We've collectively been around the professional block many times. What's the most spectacular flameout you've seen?
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No self-made man ever did such a good job that some woman didn't
want to make some alterations.
-- Kim Hubbard
(Score: 2, Informative) by multisync on Thursday April 17 2014, @02:12PM
makes Jack a dull boy
(Score: 2, Informative) by Ethanol-fueled on Thursday April 17 2014, @02:28PM
The worst I've seen actually happened last Friday, when an employee threatened to shoot up my department and wasn't joking. Spend the whole latter half of the day giving statements to HR (Yes, it's being handled, so don't cry "terrorism" to the Feds just yet).
The backstory was that the guy liked to hop jobs every few years, and he'd been with us for a few years and decided it wasn't his thing, so he found another position -- however -- this time, his wife (who wears the pants in that family) didn't let him leave, and compounding that were financial problems and the difficulty of a first-generation immigrant assimilating into an alien culture. He had become paranoid, accusing people beforehand of moving and stealing his shit, and he had been yelling at bosses for no reason as well. In the 4 or so years he's been here, he's never taken more than 2 days of vacation at a time because his wife didn't like him sitting around at home.
I wasn't here for the last time that happened at this company, when somebody who doctor-shopped and ate cocktails of prescription drugs threatened to shoot up the building while in a stupor. There was court and a restraining order and everything.
At another company A disgruntled Florida salesman sent us an expensive piece of equipment packed in an oversized box and padded with nothing but...a couple shovelfuls of beach sand. We later found out that he was on his way out.
And at yet another company, they hired this buzzword blowhard middle-manager who was supposed to turn the place into a "lean" manufacturing environment. All he did was sit around while everything under him crumbled and ground to a near-standstill, and the funniest part was that they let him walk around the building before firing him, he was shaking everybody's hand and actually saying, "Yeah, your bosses are stupid assholes, fuck this place, hey who wants to come work for me at my next job?"
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Thursday April 17 2014, @02:38PM
If his wife couldn't stand him, why did your company hired him?
(Score: 1) by Ethanol-fueled on Thursday April 17 2014, @03:32PM
That's the thing about hiring, anybody can put on their game-face and interview well but turn out to be a big piece of shit on the floor. Or, worse, have buried murderous tendencies which could be brought to the surface anytime, as a result of any trigger personal or professional.
Unfortunately, corporate interviewing is mostly automated screening for keywords and then HR, and then some simple testing and cursory questions that gives no real indication of a person's ability to have a good work ethic, think on their feet, or even solve "real-world" problems. Not every corporation is a Google or Microsoft.
Military veterans are no different. We've recently been hiring a lot of them because of the tax-beaks and other benefits employers get, but similarly you had your nose-picking and crotch-scratching shitbags who cruised and spent 10 or 20 years doing jack shit, you had your outstanding hard-workers worth their weight in gold, and everything else in between. We're pretty good at getting rid of the shitbags during their probation period, but it might be harder elsewhere because the supervisor who signed the hiring papers may have his pride on the line.
(Score: 2) by Tork on Thursday April 17 2014, @06:02PM
Heh. What'd you expect him to say? "We ignored the advice of the prophets."
Slashdolt Logic: "25 year old jokes about sharks and lasers are +5, Funny." 💩
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Thursday April 17 2014, @07:01PM
No beer and no tv will make Homer something something
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Thursday April 17 2014, @11:14PM
Glad someone got the reference
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Friday April 18 2014, @03:46AM
Its actually a reference from The Shining. Even better with this story since Jack writes a "book" thats simply "All work and no play makes Jack a dull boy" repeated over and over again for hundreds of pages.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Sunday April 20 2014, @06:48PM
Um, yeah I know. And the person who replied to me did so with a Simpsons reference that was a reference to the Shining reference I made.