Human services

[steelslaver]

I was once called into the Human resources dept and told that I need to make more of an effort to understand the people working under me. It was recommended that I try to engage them in conversations about themselves.

I tried that, but had to go right back into see Human resources again. Evidently "What the hell is wrong with you?" was not quite what they were looking for.

 

[NYlakesider]

I was once called into the Human resources dept and told that I need to make more of an effort to understand the people working under me. It was recommended that I try to engage them in conversations about themselves.

I tried that, but had to go right back into see Human resources again. Evidently "What the hell is wrong with you?" was not quite what they were looking for.

I understand that!

So glad I'm retired, Twenty years back I had problems with some of the "new ways". With the things of today no doubt I would have a very large personal file!

 

[GypsmJim]

We needed to hire 2 new graduates that came from a specific area of study. The company owner was also associated with a university that taught those subjects. He "suggested" 2 fine candidates. (yeah like we were not going to take them.) Both were assigned to my department.

The young girl was assigned a project that required assembling and using technical equipment. She didn't like that endeavor. When I came into her area 99% of the time she was on a computer surfing the net. When she did finally do something it was obvious the tasks were above her capabilities and beneath her dignity.

I finally started to micromanage, detailing every little step to take. Didn't help.....more non work related surfing hour after hour. We were allowed 5 excused days a year, only with advance permission. She took at least 2 / month, only with a call-in voice mail. HR enforced nothing,

At her review I told her no more days off and no computer. Everyone laughed at me. They said every time I left the room she would cry.

When I retired her new boss must have been really bad. She quit in a year.

 

[Rule3]

My job was to help people with their problems
At no time will your problem become my problem


As I simply can not help someone that doesn't have a problem

 

[LVSteve]

Some look at this as a new thing, but I recall a certain summer intern where I was working 35 years ago. First day he was was in our lab he commented that he would "have to' bring a radio in. I exchanged glances with another young lad in the room (permanent staff) and said, "Well, I think you'll find we don't do that here." The intern looked at me like I was nuts. He was assigned to work in another lab up the corridor where all the windows had external blinds that were always lowered to assist with temperature control. This meant he couldn't see out, and the whining about that at tea break began to grate immediately. He lasted ten days or less in our division. I'm unsure if another area took him, but no radio or view was a block for this guy.

 

[oldbrownhat]

My gf teaches science at university and the ever-evolving mantra is to "become more engaged" with the students. Some actually show promise but many simply lack the motivation and/or aptitude to get beyond registration.

All probably related to the ADEI (Accessibility, Diversity, Equality, Inclusion) choo-choo that the university has latched on to with the unrestrained enthusiasm of a starving chihuahua on a pork chop.

She is becoming more and more desperate to retire. If it weren't for her garden, she'd probably be stark raving bonkers by now.

 

[Rustyt1953]

(D)idn't (E)arn (I)t.

 

[Rustyt1953]

When dad was working for Cincinnati Milacron they brought in a new hire for dad to train. The guy wouldn't bathe and wore the same clothes for 5 days. He said he was allergic to soap.

Dad complained to HR and they said try to be tolerant and understanding.

The following Monday dad threw him out of the department and said find some one else to train you.

Dad was called to HR.

HR: "you can't throw him out."

Dad: "I refuse to work next to someone who smells like a sack of onions with a hog's head in it...him or me!"

Dad stayed.

 

[lihpster]

Had a buddy who had to supervise a, shall we say, less than intelligent human. He was called into HR once because this employee had complained: "Every time _____ talks to me he makes me feel stupid!" His response? "That ain't me, that's just reality settling in."

 

[oldbrownhat]

(D)idn't (E)arn (I)t.

LOL. She's not totally against some of this, but like a lot of potentially useful initiatives, it isn't being rolled out in a practical manner, but pursued "hell-bent-for-leather." Once she retires in a few years, it will be S(omeone) E(lse's) P(roblem)

@lihpster: I like that!

 

[Skeet 028]

I once had a employee who had worked for the governmental entity(state) for almost 7 years. They moved him from place to place without getting any real work from him. He was a probationary employee and although the job was easy...he didn't even try to learn it. He sexually harassed another employee directly in front of me and my Lt. My gast was tremendously more than flabbered. The Lt said boss I need to talk with you. He couldn't believe what he had seen either. So I got her to come talk with me. She was beyond annoyed. She filed charges on him...and I had to have a talk with him. Come to find out in all the time he had worked for the state...he had Never been off probation. his bosses kept pushing him somewhere else. He actually told me we couldn't fire him. REALLY?? So I just documented everything and about a month later after a visit with an administative law judge he was gone. Some people just don't get it. BTW I heard 8 months later he was in prison

 

[Rustyt1953]

 

[GypsmJim]

When dad was working for Cincinnati Milacron they brought in a new hire for dad to train. The guy wouldn't bathe and wore the same clothes for 5 days. He said he was allergic to soap.

Dad complained to HR and they said try to be tolerant and understanding.

The following Monday dad threw him out of the department and said find some one else to train you.

Dad was called to HR.

HR: "you can't throw him out."

Dad: "I refuse to work next to someone who smells like a sack of onions with a hog's head in it...him or me!"

Dad stayed.

Back in the early days of affirmative action I worked as a college kid in the suburbs at a food shop. The boss was very liberal and wanted to champion the cause. He advertised for employees for delivery work and got lots of responses, but nobody had a car so he had to drive to interview them in person.

He finally hired a guy. We were on a bus stop, as was he, so getting to work was easy peasy.

First off, he smelled awful. The boss gave him a shaving kit with deodorant and body wash but he never used it. He told him it was his favorite stuff. Customers complained.

Then he was late every day. The boss had to do his job until he got there. Fell asleep. missed the bus, etc. Finally he stopped altogether without a notice. A week later his mom called wanting his pay check. The boss said come and get it. He never did.

After that the boss only hired college kids.

 

[Ivan the Butcher]

The head of the HR contractor where I last worked was a retired Army Command Sargent Major.

An employee on my team directly violated my instructions and without authorization hired a contractor to do his work. When he brought me the purchase order request to pay the contractor, I loudly said "YOU DID WHAT?", he complained to my supervisor. My super ordered me to apologize to him I refused! I sent an E-Mail to HR. My super was written up. The lazy employee was fired about 3 months later. He had been there for 6 years! He was written up for insubordination the third day he was there: AND NOBODY FIRED HIM? I wish supervisors and CEO's would do their job!

Ivan

 

[Greyman50]

Thank God I retired when I did. Had enough “ special people” that worked for me around machine tools. This is No Joke, had one IDIOT that used a 7 1/2” disc grinder on the ways of an NC lathe! He said he was trying to level it!!!

 

[steelslaver]

Many years ago I became the shop foreman at a metal fabrication shop.

Owner's daughter's friend gets drug in by mom to apply for a job. Chuck the owner is going to hire him as a helper. Tells him hours are 8 to 4:30 with a 30 min lunch, with a 15 min break both morning and afternoon. Kid says he don't want a full time job, Chuck told he he has no part time jobs. Kid goes out to moms car/ Shortly he is back and takes the full time job. I think mom had had enough of him being a bum. Chuck fills me in on all this before turning him over to me.

First thing is the kid can't make it at 8 "because" of the bus scheduled. Ok, I can deal with that, we operate 24 hours a day and I am there 10 or more every day. After a couple days of having him clean up, help move stuff all the time filling him in on safety and stuff, I set him up to saw up a bunch of steel, teach him about the big industrial metal band saw, how the pieces get clamped, the importance of it, safety etc. It isn't that hard the material is on rollers and the saw has hydraulic clamp once you hit the button turns on and drops by itself. I start him off and when I get back to him at about 20 till 10 the first break he is sitting there doing nothing. Saw is off. Whats going on. Well its almost break so I didn't want to start anything before break. I informed him it was my time not his time and I expected him to work during my time. I was a little hot because he had only been there a little over an hour in the first place because of his bus thing.

This shop works hard money bids and we need to keep stuff moving along to make profit and this kid is proving to be pretty worthless. His start mode was similar to an old motor you wrapped the rope on a pulley, his pulley was pretty smooth and his ignition timing was seriously retarded and once I got him to fire he mostly sputtered and spun. In short order he was showing up at random times with lame excuses and missing a day here and there and was not much help when he was there.

He would talk though. Mom owned some 7-11 stores, she wouldn't let him work there because he let his friends have stuff, etc. She had forced him to get a job because she said he couldn't have a car if he didn't get one.

Then one fine day Chuck isn't there. The secretary tells me the kid called in sick. One less thing I have to deal with. Then about 11 the secretary who know how I feel about the kid and isn't a fan either, comes and gets me and says you really need to take this call. I get on the phone and its a banker, he has the kid there looking for a car loan and is calling to verify his employment. Jackpot! I said "look he called in sick today, his work ethic sucks and if your going to depend on him having a job with me to pay for a car, your making a serious mistake". The guy goes "Thank you very much". I never saw the kid again. Chuck didn't say squat either

 

[Rustyt1953]

Being self employed I often had to call myself into the office.

 

[lihpster]

I worked at a place that used a lot of temp workers. The good ones they would hire, but they were few and far between. We used to take breaks on who would last the shortest. One guy held the record when he didn't come back from first break. With orientation, that was about 30 minutes of work. But he was a piker compared to one guy. When the temps show up, the first thing is they are given their safety gear and tools. They were handed a cotton gym bag with safety glasses, gloves, armguards, a tape measure, a utility knife and a sharpie. Then they went to an office for some videos and safety lecture. Then they were given a tour around the plant before finally going to their work areas and meeting their team. One guy got his bag and never made it to the office for the videos or lecture. he just took the bag and went home. Maybe 30-40 dollars worth of basic things, but it was apparently worth more than a paying job.

 

[GypsmJim]

Thank God I retired when I did. Had enough “ special people” that worked for me around machine tools. This is No Joke, had one IDIOT that used a 7 1/2” disc grinder on the ways of an NC lathe! He said he was trying to level it!!!

The awful experiences I described in recent posts were from back in the 2000's. Just before I retired I had to work with a bunch of millennials and gen x or z'ers and they were among the best people I ever worked with.

My conclusion at the time was that the company I worked for did due diligence and only hired the cream of the crop.

 

[LVSteve]

Dad: "I refuse to work next to someone who smells like a sack of onions with a hog's head in it...him or me!"

Consider Dad's comment stolen for possible future use.