workplace rudeness

[Sarge]

I don’t know what kind of people you all work for but sounds like indentured servitude [X(]

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ORIGINAL: Jeffrey H.

ORIGINAL: sabre1

Panzers,


I agree with your point.  I teach in alternative special education.  Children today have a sense of entitlement that is beyond my comprehension.  I could site hundreds of examples that are horrifying.  At 54 years of age I feel like I need to find a place in Nebraska, hunker down and wait for the end.  I forgot to mention I teach near the border in California.  Alternative Education is a misnomer for Future Prisoners of America.  Saying that I teach in a zoo is an unfair comparison for the animals in the zoo...

Each year it grows worse.  Each year as a teacher you become a little more fearful for your safey

I'll bet those kids are not US citizens, or at least you are not allowed to ask or know if they are or are not.

rotflmao. Another topic for another day for another president

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ORIGINAL: Jeffrey H.

ORIGINAL: JudgeDredd

ORIGINAL: Jeffrey H.
MY OWN #1 MOST ANNOYING WORKPLACE BEHAVIOUR:

COMING TO WORK SICK AND MAKING EVERYONE ELSE SICK AROUND YOU !!

GAH ! I WANT TO KILL SOME PEOPLE WHO DO THIS !!! THEY DO IT FOR NO DAYAM REASON !!!

Actually, being from the military, it was "frowned upon" to go sick...to the point where they discouraged it (or tried to) by making you were your Number Twos (no...not that...ceremonial dress).

I go to work when I have a cold because I don't feel that taking time off work for a cold is something you should do. Clearly, you feel different. Also, I think taking time off sick is very frowned upon in the UK....certainly there's a stigma attached to being ill and not coming in...the number of times I hear people say "She's sniffing now...what's the bettin she's not in tomorrow"!

Mine is definitely down to my military background though...

My BIG pet hate (not necessarily tied to work) is the fact that people think when your mobile phone goes off...it's time to be rude. YOU'VE GOT PISSING VOICEMAIL!!! Made all the worse when it's not an important call. I see lots of people going through checkouts at the supermarket and I just want to grab it off them and hit the baskets over the head with it...all the while trying to install into their tiny mind that they are dealing with another human being at that particular moment!!

Clearly we all have things that wind us up...and they will differ greatly from person to person....but I think Zap is right...I think rudeness is very much on the increase.

I agree there is a certain reluctance to call in sick because of several reasons:

1. Often times people don't feel sick enough to justify it, so their sense of duty or obligation outweighs their ill health.
2. They do not want to be stigmatized as someone who calls in sick for no reason. But if they do have a reason, why should they care ? Because they are afraid of repercussions.
3. Simply enough, the people that put in the most time, without regard to their personal health, (mental or physical) or those who make no attempt to try to balance their family and work committments, are the ones who are rewarded.

Mee, I don't care. I hate getting sick because someone else was afraid to stay home. It happens often that I get sick from someone who came to work sick. Many people around me travel frequently and have young kids. There are ALWAYS sick poeple around and they are in here sputtering and coughing and sneezing it all around. I wish to god they would just stay home a few days and not make everyone else sick too.

I make a huge committment to maintain my health, both in time and money. It all gets wasted when some slob comes in sick and blows their disease all around.

The problem with that is: for a common cold or flu, many, if not most, employers require you get a doctor's note which would cost you the clinic and doctor bill as well as time lost for beong sick. That's the shitty thing about it. Of course many people have health insurance to cover that, but not the big 3 anymore.

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ORIGINAL: Cap Mandrake

ORIGINAL: JudgeDredd

My BIG pet hate (not necessarily tied to work) is the fact that people think when your mobile phone goes off...it's time to be rude. YOU'VE GOT PISSING VOICEMAIL!!! Made all the worse when it's not an important call. I see lots of people going through checkouts at the supermarket and I just want to grab it off them and hit the baskets over the head with it...all the while trying to install into their tiny mind that they are dealing with another human being at that particular moment!!

Clearly we all have things that wind us up...and they will differ greatly from person to person....but I think Zap is right...I think rudeness is very much on the increase.

Ditto on the phone thing. One could make a list of ten just for the cell phone.

1) No phone calls in the theater (film or stage)

2) No phone calls in the check out line when the checker is trying to ring up your bill and needs your cooperation.

3) No phone calls at the frickin' doctor's office when the doctor is in the room with you.

4) No phone calls in the middle of a conversation with a live human being.

5) No phone calls in the frickin' public crapper.

6) No phone calls in church (especially a funeral or wedding)

7) No phone calls in a lecture.

8) No phone calls during sex (I got in some serious trouble for this once)

9) No phone calls in court.

10) How about not slowing down to 35 mph when takign a phone call on the freeway?

Dude, that is classic.
memo to the cap: don't take any calls when the old lady is getting the high hard one, and does the word: bluetooth mean anything to anyone these days?

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And to think that I was going to get hit with the big bad political correction slap on the hand card placed on me. Kudos to all of you for having some sort of an intelligent mind and knowing that there truly is some semblence of reality still left in this world. It's called: the matrix general discussion forum.
I guess we really are hard core gamers in here because we still have our minds, maybe not our sanity anymore, but at least we all have that.