My job and the forums

i dunno....does it work in your favor? i'm gonna say it doesn't, but it could, i dunno

 

I'm going to have to agree..... well 97% of the time. Being an asshole has definitely had it's benefit from time to time.

 

i'll agree that being an asshole has its place at certain times.

 

At my job most of the new people think I'm an asshole. It helps sort out the people that are going to be dedicated to their job and the ones that just want to come in and fuck off until they get fired. I think that's about the biggest benefit.

 

yea, at my job this summer...some of the new people thought i was an asshole to them...well, i was, but i could have been a bigger asshole...i just wanted them to work hard and not be lazy, y'know...it was a sports camp for crying out loud. and some of the kids just sat around and did nothing all day. so me having quite a bit of authority, became an asshole to them...and well, they got there asses in gear.

 

Sometimes you've got to do what you've got to do. I don't have the ability to fire people at my job, but most people don't know that. Half of them think I'm their boss because their real boss doesn't do shit. I've never actually fired anybody, but I've told them to pick an exit and use it etc. Some of them definitely did. I lost it the first time that happened.

 

well, i didn't have the power to fire anyone either, but if i recommened a course of discipline, then, most of the time, its usually followed through. so when i'd tell someone to do something, they did it.

 

That's how it is here as well. If I feel somebody deserves a write-up or suspension they get it, but there's always those people you just wish you could skip the whole process with.

 

definately. there was 1 junior councilor (i was a supervisor senior councilor) who i asked to go get some cups for water, so the kids could hydrate. it took him over 20 minutes to get the cups. its not like he had to walk very far...the office from our station was less than a minute walk away. i tore into him, then sent him to my boss. if i could have fired him, i would have.

 

That's why I tell them to leave. They think they're fired, and when they leave I have my boss fire them for job abandonment.

 

haha, thats great...i wish i could have done that. but tis a city job and didn't have that much authority..

 

That kinda sucks. That's why I stay where I'm at for now. I could be making more money with less responsibility in just about any other call center but this one, yet I can't bring myself to leave. Probably because I can get away with damn near murder.

 

yea, i'm probably not gonna go back this summer...i like working with the kids a lot, but i think i really need to catch up with some summer courses so i can graduate on time...maybe find a cool internship that will help my career goals.

 

does anyone here *except me) know who you really are?

 

haha why do you ask that? yes im sure most people who knew me have figured it out.

 

What the 13th reincarnation of the bodhisatva?

 

close but no..

just a cat named sooty

 

You give yourself too much credit, bud.

 

He IS Death man.