Stupidity in the workplace

[idrivejunk]

At the place where I work, each individal is quality-minded and pays attention. We are aware that its a fairly unique situation and all want to keep it this way. We work hard and have plenty to do, its amazing! My point is that places like that do still exist. Maybe they are all in Arkansas?

[SgtMarshal]

At the place where I work, each individal is quality-minded and pays attention. We are aware that its a fairly unique situation and all want to keep it this way. We work hard and have plenty to do, its amazing! My point is that places like that do still exist. Maybe they are all in Arkansas?

have you ever seen Lonesome Dove, where that dude keeps bumbling around telling everyone he is from Arkansas?

[CHI2000GTP]

To further expand on the OP, stupidity is relative. What one person sees as stupidity, another might see it another way. It's all in what YOU make it.

Ehhhh. Kinda. Some people are just ding-bats. I will give you an example. I work in printing, managing the print services for a gigantic law firm downtown. Hired this new employee. On day 5 or 6, some 3-ring binders were returned to our printing room, so they go back on the shelf. I give this new-hire instructions to put these 1½ inch binders back on the shelf. I see new hire by the shelves, walking by the 1" binders, skipping a shelf, going to 2" binders, wandering, looking confused. She comes back and says there is no place for 1½" binders. I say "Yeah there is, on the shelf with the sign that reads 1.5". New-hire response is: "no, these binders are one-and-a-half-inch, not 1.5"....."

Took me a lot longer to type this, vs. how quickly it played out in my head, LOL. But you get the point. Anyway, new-hire was fired yesterday, on day 90 of the 90 day new-hire probationary period. That's an IL law. Not sure about other states. You can fire within 90 days without reason, without fear of a law suit. New-hire made A LOT of mistakes (as you might imagine) and was a very negative person, so had to let them go.

[ericspecullaas]

my dad owns a print shop and i can write story after story of really ****ing dumb **** things that employees do. had 1 guy stack 2 yes 2 full boards of wet ink right on top of eachother. runed $2000 worth of paper then *****ed that he wasn't getting payed enough to work for a small shop. thats 1 story i have countless others but i would be here all day long typing. the long and the short is this: People will do dumb thing if they dont learn then you fire them. i wouldn't give most 2 weeks before i fired them.

[stealthee]

Ehhhh. Kinda. Some people are just ding-bats. I will give you an example. I work in printing, managing the print services for a gigantic law firm downtown. Hired this new employee. On day 5 or 6, some 3-ring binders were returned to our printing room, so they go back on the shelf. I give this new-hire instructions to put these 1½ inch binders back on the shelf. I see new hire by the shelves, walking by the 1" binders, skipping a shelf, going to 2" binders, wandering, looking confused. She comes back and says there is no place for 1½" binders. I say "Yeah there is, on the shelf with the sign that reads 1.5". New-hire response is: "no, these binders are one-and-a-half-inch, not 1.5"....."

Took me a lot longer to type this, vs. how quickly it played out in my head, LOL. But you get the point. Anyway, new-hire was fired yesterday, on day 90 of the 90 day new-hire probationary period. That's an IL law. Not sure about other states. You can fire within 90 days without reason, without fear of a law suit. New-hire made A LOT of mistakes (as you might imagine) and was a very negative person, so had to let them go.

I wasn't saying there aren't stupid people out there, I was just saying what one person sees as stupid, another person might not. The shop I work for is well run for the most part, but there are things about it that I find absolutely stupid that drive me nuts. Another person might be okay with the things that drive me insane.

I've worked with my share of ding bats as well. I remember one time when I was working shipping for a conveyor belt factory I got slammed with orders to ship so they sent the shop temp over to help me get orders out the door. We were down to one roll of tape on the shop floor so I told the temp to change the roll while I ran upstairs to grab more. When I come back he has the tape gun torn into 5 pieces. I look at him and ask wtf he is doing. He said, changing the tape. I grabbed the tape gun, put it back together, and showed him to change the tape all you had to do was pull the roll off the drum and put the new roll on.

[idrivejunk]

have you ever seen Lonesome Dove, where that dude keeps bumbling around telling everyone he is from Arkansas?

I have seen Lonesome Dove and recently but it was "after hours", so... what happened? If it was a Family guy episode, I'd remember probably just from repetition. I do remember Carl cracking a relevant joke in Slingblade, lol. About a bridge.

FWIW guys, some of the stupidest crap you'll ever see is when you look back on your own life. Live and learn.

[WarStryker13]

With how it works in the Army, once you get in you have to REALLY **** UP in order to get kicked out. There's too much "corrective training" and not enough "corrective ACTION"

Stupidity begets stupidity, so when one of the new guys gets back from a stupidly difficult field exercise, they come back and immediately get drunk, or worse. It can take up to six months for somebody who pops hot on a piss test to be put out, because of all of the paperwork and stupid ****, and while that d-bag is still hanging around... brand new privates who are barely 17-18 and don't know **** about life in general are looking up to anyone who has been in longer than the few months they have. So when they pick up the bad habits and attitude of the d-bag, it's even harder to beat it out of them when you can't lay a hand on them or even yell. Making them do push ups until they puke is "cruel and demeaning", I can't call them anything but "soldier" or "warrior" because their feelings could get hurt...

This "kinder, gentler army" is a load of bull****, and these "kids" (I use quotations there because I'm only 23.) have no discipline or sense of honor, integrity, or anything resembling a person that I would want holding a rifle behind me. That's a really big issue when you have to trust your life to the people you work with.

THAT IS WHY the stupid here pisses me off, because it's teaching the gullible new guys that stupid is ok, and just keeps the vicious cycle going.

[stealthee]

PC is ruining more than just the military.

[SgtMarshal]

I have seen Lonesome Dove and recently but it was "after hours", so... what happened? If it was a Family guy episode, I'd remember probably just from repetition. I do remember Carl cracking a relevant joke in Slingblade, lol. About a bridge.

FWIW guys, some of the stupidest crap you'll ever see is when you look back on your own life. Live and learn.

scroll down a little more than half way on page 399, and you will see where the guys says I aint from Texas, I'm from Arkansas.

https://books.google.com/books?id=GX...kansas&f=false

the way the actor portrays the character is pretty comical.

[SgtMarshal]

With how it works in the Army, once you get in you have to REALLY **** UP in order to get kicked out. There's too much "corrective training" and not enough "corrective ACTION"

Stupidity begets stupidity, so when one of the new guys gets back from a stupidly difficult field exercise, they come back and immediately get drunk, or worse. It can take up to six months for somebody who pops hot on a piss test to be put out, because of all of the paperwork and stupid ****, and while that d-bag is still hanging around... brand new privates who are barely 17-18 and don't know **** about life in general are looking up to anyone who has been in longer than the few months they have. So when they pick up the bad habits and attitude of the d-bag, it's even harder to beat it out of them when you can't lay a hand on them or even yell. Making them do push ups until they puke is "cruel and demeaning", I can't call them anything but "soldier" or "warrior" because their feelings could get hurt...

This "kinder, gentler army" is a load of bull****, and these "kids" (I use quotations there because I'm only 23.) have no discipline or sense of honor, integrity, or anything resembling a person that I would want holding a rifle behind me. That's a really big issue when you have to trust your life to the people you work with.

THAT IS WHY the stupid here pisses me off, because it's teaching the gullible new guys that stupid is ok, and just keeps the vicious cycle going.

after my first deployment we had one guy test positive for cocaine. he was out within a month. a different soldier had more than 3 dui's and never got kicked out. he was too good at his job. we had another guy who we all swore was juicing, and he never got kicked out. that guy had like 5% body fat, weighed like 275 and was like 5'10".

as far as PC goes, my platoon didn't care. if you weren't tough enough to hang, you got pushed out of the way. my unit was an attack helicopter battalion, and we loaded the ammo on the helicopter, so you could kind of say we could get away with a lot. there was one occasion where some of the guys duck taped one individual, tied him to a chair, and pushed him around the hangar for everyone too see, well it turned out that individual's dad was a general, and everyone involved got a letter of reprimand in their files. he wasn't the first or last person to get duck taped and pushed around the hanger like a war trophy, just the first one who didn't have skin thick enough to handle it. that dude ended up leaving shortly after.

my first deployment we were stationed at Bagram and lived next to some active duty retards. this was back in 2004, and even then there were pussies in the military. I remember one mortar attack where the active duty guys were being yelled at by their boss to "move move move, get in the bunker, hurry hurry hurry." we hadn't even felt any mortars hit or seen any incoming. it was pathetic how he overreacted to such a degree. the base at Bagram was huge and 90% of the time we didn't know we were being attacked, except that the giant voice system announced it. one of the few times we did know we were attacked was when an rpg or whatever it was hit a conex about 200 yards from our housing area. it blew a big hole in the conex and one lucky random guy walking by got hit by shrapnel. the really lucky part was that the conex was on one side of a hesco barrior, and on the other side was the flight line with the runway, and about 15 hemmits that were used to store JP8. there would have been a hell of a firestorm if it had hit about 10 feet in the other direction.

[Bronco Boy]

.....some of the stupidest crap you'll ever see is when you look back on your own life. Live and learn.

This could be a bumper sticker.

[WarStryker13]

after my first deployment we had one guy test positive for cocaine. he was out within a month. a different soldier had more than 3 dui's and never got kicked out. he was too good at his job. we had another guy who we all swore was juicing, and he never got kicked out. that guy had like 5% body fat, weighed like 275 and was like 5'10".

as far as PC goes, my platoon didn't care. if you weren't tough enough to hang, you got pushed out of the way. my unit was an attack helicopter battalion, and we loaded the ammo on the helicopter, so you could kind of say we could get away with a lot. there was one occasion where some of the guys duck taped one individual, tied him to a chair, and pushed him around the hangar for everyone too see, well it turned out that individual's dad was a general, and everyone involved got a letter of reprimand in their files. he wasn't the first or last person to get duck taped and pushed around the hanger like a war trophy, just the first one who didn't have skin thick enough to handle it. that dude ended up leaving shortly after.

my first deployment we were stationed at Bagram and lived next to some active duty retards. this was back in 2004, and even then there were pussies in the military. I remember one mortar attack where the active duty guys were being yelled at by their boss to "move move move, get in the bunker, hurry hurry hurry." we hadn't even felt any mortars hit or seen any incoming. it was pathetic how he overreacted to such a degree. the base at Bagram was huge and 90% of the time we didn't know we were being attacked, except that the giant voice system announced it. one of the few times we did know we were attacked was when an rpg or whatever it was hit a conex about 200 yards from our housing area. it blew a big hole in the conex and one lucky random guy walking by got hit by shrapnel. the really lucky part was that the conex was on one side of a hesco barrior, and on the other side was the flight line with the runway, and about 15 hemmits that were used to store JP8. there would have been a hell of a firestorm if it had hit about 10 feet in the other direction.

I literally got an Article 15 for "punishing an individual too harshly"

One of my guys decided to get drunk at a local bar, to the point that he was beligerent. We dragged him back to the barracks, where he proceded to headbutt the big window in front of CQ, broke it with his head, and then stripped naked and ran through the halls, including the female's hallway, then outside into the street.

I made him pick up every bit of glass with a pair of tweezers, latex gloves, and a biohazard bucket(bloody glass), and write an apology letter to every single person in the barracks. and THEN had him self enroll in ASAP, before he was command referred. He doesn't drink anymore.

I got in trouble, because somebody saw him picking up the glass who didn't look at the whole situation, and said "that was too harsh" and whined about it to the Battalion Commander. Didn't even speak to MY commander, whom I had run this punishment by before making him do it.

[Bronco Boy]

Speaking of stupidity in the work place...... when you take a stinky dump, please leave the fan on when you exit the bathroom.

I just found out the hard way that I can't hold my breath and take a lone pee at the same time. LOL

[ericspecullaas]

i have one worse. we had this employee that would take a crap and leave **** on the seat and wouldn't clean it up

[Bronco Boy]

Jesus. Are we in grade school?

[SgtMarshal]

i have one worse. we had this employee that would take a crap and leave **** on the seat and wouldn't clean it up

when I was in AIT, (school where the army teaches you how to do your job) we had a phantom crapper. someone would take a dump in the middle of the bathroom on the ground and leave it.

[Bronco Boy]

Phantom crapper.

[SgtMarshal]

Phantom crapper.

it was pretty funny, but disgusting and annoying at the same time

[ericspecullaas]

Jesus. Are we in grade school?

also had a dead rat in that same toilet then the pressman freak out like a little girl and kicked the toilet tell it flushed. funny thing is this guy was really mellow and would scare really easy

[WarStryker13]

Nothing is worse than seeing **** smeared all over the walls of the only porta-john... and needing to use that one porta-john BAD.