The "I work with dumb people" thread

[redline4]

One of the lubies just ran this through the car wash with both front windows open..

 

[Steve]

One of the lubies just ran this through the car wash with both front windows open..
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I need his job. Sounds easy. Probably pays more that half what I'm making now.

 

[Wilhelm]

I'd be willing to travel halfway across the globe for a good hotdog!

I've actually heard from a few people that have been to Italy and they have said the same.

I was there for "inspection & purchase confirmation" of two robot grinding cells, the company we were at hosted lunch in restaurants for 3 days, and we would go for dinner on our own.
The food generally had next to no taste, and when I said so to our host while we were lunching in a restaurant he replied "that is what the spice basket (on the table) is for".
I was baffled!

Best pizza (BTC) & house made honey beer I ever tasted was in "Kratochwill" Ljubljana/Slovenia.
Just WOW!

 

[Wilhelm]

P.S.:
Venice?
WTF!!!
Yuck.

Yeah, I was in Venice!
Don't go, go somewhere worth Your free time.

 

[Only the Tony]

I'm cheap! Pizza and hotdog guy here! LOL!!

Plus, not a whole lotta bacon on that guy.

Just have to cut you a stick from a tree so you don't lose your dog in the fire.

We have better pizza than the friggin Italians.
I was in Italy, the most bland food I ever ate!
And I do killer hot dogs on the BBQ.

I do my own pizza usually.

 

[Steve]

Just have to cut you a stick from a tree so you don't lose your dog in the fire.

Ha! I've been practicing. You would be proud of me!

 

[Jscb1b]

I suck at my job, but it pays the bills.

Flying J? With dall?

 

[davidwyby]

Dangit

Now I want some good pizza

 

[bigbadbob]

my job wouldnt be so bad if my company was the slightest bit caring. but they dont give two *s-wordes about anyone. greed is all they care about

Sound just like the place i worked at,, slowly they contracted all the work out.. All office work went offshore.
All profit B4 people

 

[FergusonTO35]

the other thing is... i dont have a degree from a school. i have practicle experience and there are loads of jobs that i could do with ease. but the new hiring process rejects applications that dont check the degree box.

Damned if you do, damned if you don't. I love the field of study I took in college but looking back on it, not a super great career move. All us gen. X and gen. Y folks remember how hard our parents pushed us to go to college. I lost count of how many people I knew who majored in undecided or even just drinkin' and partyin'. I did alot of the latter but not as much as some folks since I always worked full time and actually enjoyed most of the courses I took.

I've been out of the auto business so long I'm not sure anybody would take me back, even though strangely I have way more skills and knowledge nowadays just from teaching myself to do rather complicated repairs on my own vehicles and side jobs that people bring me. In the business there was no time to learn, just get sh!t out the door before the boss gets mad and decides to dumb down the jobs you get. I'm planning to teach myself auto body work also.

 

[Junk Meister]

Damned if you do, damned if you don't. I love the field of study I took in college but looking back on it, not a super great career move. All us gen. X and gen. Y folks remember how hard our parents pushed us to go to college. I lost count of how many people I knew who majored in undecided or even just drinkin' and partyin'. I did alot of the latter but not as much as some folks since I always worked full time and actually enjoyed most of the courses I took.

I've been out of the auto business so long I'm not sure anybody would take me back, even though strangely I have way more skills and knowledge nowadays just from teaching myself to do rather complicated repairs on my own vehicles and side jobs that people bring me. In the business there was no time to learn, just get sh!t out the door before the boss gets mad and decides to dumb down the jobs you get. I'm planning to teach myself auto body work also.

This post needs an ICON or sumfun of its' own. I can't put my finger on it but your comment really hits home.

 

[FergusonTO35]

One of the lubies just ran this through the car wash with both front windows open..
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Glad you brought that up, it reminds me of a story about the last dealership I worked at.

Was a car wash guy there who had previously worked at the Toyota plant. Back then, the plant started people out at $13.00 an hour as temps, and if you stuck it out long enough to make full time you would top out at like $27.00 an hour pretty quickly. Helluva good job for someone with no skills or education. Somehow this dude didn't make it at the plant and so comes to our dealership as a car wash guy for like half that much. He works there awhile and gets caught eating other people's lunch right out of the break room fridge. So, he gets fired or encouraged to quit and leaves. He immediately goes to the Nissan shop across the street to look for a job. We own the Nissan dealership, it has the same company name on the sign and I did most of their alignments at the time. I guess he didn't think the story about the brown bag bandit would make it's way across the road. Obviously, they sent him packing.

So, he decides he is going to earn his way back in to washing cars for $6.50 an hour. He just shows up at random times and washes cars for free. We notice this, and ask the service manager what's up. He said that they told him again in no uncertain terms that he wasn't going to work there again, and he still didn't seem to understand that was always going to be the case. I asked the GM about it, and he said it was ok as long as he didn't drive the cars since he wasn't insured as an employee. I should mention that the lunch pirate's best friend worked there washing cars, and he loved telling people dead serious that his 305/wire wheel covers/plush upholstery equipped 80's Monte Carlo made 400 hp from the factory.

 

[pbillyi69]

Glad you brought that up, it reminds me of a story about the last dealership I worked at.

Was a car wash guy there who had previously worked at the Toyota plant. Back then, the plant started people out at $13.00 an hour as temps, and if you stuck it out long enough to make full time you would top out at like $27.00 an hour pretty quickly. Helluva good job for someone with no skills or education. Somehow this dude didn't make it at the plant and so comes to our dealership as a car wash guy for like half that much. He works there awhile and gets caught eating other people's lunch right out of the break room fridge. So, he gets fired or encouraged to quit and leaves. He immediately goes to the Nissan shop across the street to look for a job. We own the Nissan dealership, it has the same company name on the sign and I did most of their alignments at the time. I guess he didn't think the story about the brown bag bandit would make it's way across the road. Obviously, they sent him packing.

So, he decides he is going to earn his way back in to washing cars for $6.50 an hour. He just shows up at random times and washes cars for free. We notice this, and ask the service manager what's up. He said that they told him again in no uncertain terms that he wasn't going to work there again, and he still didn't seem to understand that was always going to be the case. I asked the GM about it, and he said it was ok as long as he didn't drive the cars since he wasn't insured as an employee. I should mention that the lunch pirate's best friend worked there washing cars, and he loved telling people dead serious that his 305/wire wheel covers/plush upholstery equipped 80's Monte Carlo made 400 hp from the factory.

maybe it made 400 sheep power

 

[Steve]

Damned if you do, damned if you don't. I love the field of study I took in college but looking back on it, not a super great career move. All us gen. X and gen. Y folks remember how hard our parents pushed us to go to college. I lost count of how many people I knew who majored in undecided or even just drinkin' and partyin'. I did alot of the latter but not as much as some folks since I always worked full time and actually enjoyed most of the courses I took.

I've been out of the auto business so long I'm not sure anybody would take me back, even though strangely I have way more skills and knowledge nowadays just from teaching myself to do rather complicated repairs on my own vehicles and side jobs that people bring me. In the business there was no time to learn, just get sh!t out the door before the boss gets mad and decides to dumb down the jobs you get. I'm planning to teach myself auto body work also.

My company is working on going nation wide right now. If they end up popping up in your area I'd recommend you check them out. Or you can move here. I'll have you a job the second you cross the Mississippi!

 

[Junk Meister]

Glad you brought that up, it reminds me of a story about the last dealership I worked at.

Was a car wash guy there who had previously worked at the Toyota plant. Back then, the plant started people out at $13.00 an hour as temps, and if you stuck it out long enough to make full time you would top out at like $27.00 an hour pretty quickly. Helluva good job for someone with no skills or education. Somehow this dude didn't make it at the plant and so comes to our dealership as a car wash guy for like half that much. He works there awhile and gets caught eating other people's lunch right out of the break room fridge. So, he gets fired or encouraged to quit and leaves. He immediately goes to the Nissan shop across the street to look for a job. We own the Nissan dealership, it has the same company name on the sign and I did most of their alignments at the time. I guess he didn't think the story about the brown bag bandit would make it's way across the road. Obviously, they sent him packing.

So, he decides he is going to earn his way back in to washing cars for $6.50 an hour. He just shows up at random times and washes cars for free. We notice this, and ask the service manager what's up. He said that they told him again in no uncertain terms that he wasn't going to work there again, and he still didn't seem to understand that was always going to be the case. I asked the GM about it, and he said it was ok as long as he didn't drive the cars since he wasn't insured as an employee. I should mention that the lunch pirate's best friend worked there washing cars, and he loved telling people dead serious that his 305/wire wheel covers/plush upholstery equipped 80's Monte Carlo made 400 hp from the factory.

I worked at the USPS GMF KCMO before they moved to the Sears bldg. (How's that for Gov't acronyms?)
Occasionally I worked a weekend (10 days in a row no premium pay) for a 4 day weekend. I brought KFC and ate 1/2 of it on SAT. and planned on the rest for SUN. some one took a Bite out of each piece and put it in back in the fridge. No meal for me that day and no where to get food on SUN. ...
Next time I ate half and put 2 drumsticks back in the fridge. Only dif was while it was still warm I used an injecting needle and injected fresh cow squirts (was spring time and easy to find) into the drum sticks. Same thing happened but only one was bitten. Monday at lunch I told one guy in the break room, He busted out laughing and before long all were aware of it. Charlie Brown (Real Name) was a custodian and he was mad and ready to fight. He told on himself. I never left anything in the fridge again 'cuz I was Leary of paybacks.

 

[Mack 880]

my job wouldnt be so bad if my company was the slightest bit caring. but they dont give two *s-wordes about anyone. greed is all they care about

In "B" school that is what we were taught. Shareholder's are the true customers. Everyone else is the means to this end. There is no "value" in an employee, other than what they produce for the shareholder.

Don't hate the player, hate the game. It's capitalism.

 

[pbillyi69]

ever heard that happy employess will work harder and make more money for the company?

 

[Bjorn]

if I got paid according to how many stupid people I had to deal with at work, instead of per hour, I could retire next week! 48 years old

 

[pbillyi69]

me too.....i should be paid more to have to deal with stupid managers

 

[pbillyi69]

i dont know if i posted this already or not. if i did my appologies. we have a polaris buggy at work that we uses to drive back and forth on the lead which is roughly 1600'. It gets driven back and forth 24hrs a day. It is a rental and this one is gas. when it needs gas a manager needs to come and either take it up to the card lock place a few blocks away or fill the gas can more on the gas can in a minute. when it gets to 1/4 tank we start telling them we need gas....the other morning we said the buggy is out of gas. we said this to our yard controller he is our direct supervisor kind of. he IMs the manager. the managers reply is what do you mean it out? he says back its out, empty, no gas. the manager how out is out will it start can they drive it for a while? he says what part of out dont you get its OUT. manager the last time they said it was out it had a quarter of a tank. he says back no they said it needed gas not out yet. so this manager comes up there and gets in the buggy and proceeds to try and start it for five minutes......i went out there and said do you think we are *f-wording lying to you its out of gas. he then says there is a gas can in that shed down there. we said yep there sure is but it has diesel in it. its pretty common knowledge that gas cans are red and diesel cans are yellow. there is diesel in a red gas can. so he drives off. he comes back in half hour with a yellow diesel can with gas in it.....to which i say did you really fill a diesel can with gas instead of taking the gas can and dumping the diesel into one of the many diesel operated equipmet sitting everywhere. the response well i didnt want any of the residue from the diesel left in the can to be dumped into the buggy......WHAT? so the used diesel can with diesel residue is fine but not the other can......you really are an idiot i said its no wonder this place is always in melt down mode because all of you people are completely retarded. so now we have a yellow diesel can with unleaded gas written in sharpie on it and a red gas can with diesel written on it........the icing on the cake there is a thousand gallon gas tank that is empty all it needs is a recertification right next to a thousand gallon diesel tank that is full and in working order. we had a diesel buggy for a long time that we could just fuel up as needed. all of the yard vehicles that run on gas have to be driven to a gas station instead of recertifying the gas tank.........i work with dumb people