Kathy. She used to work front desk at our computer/phone/tablet repair shop.
Sometimes our customers would buy a new phone and wanted their SIM card transferred over. Sometimes the new phone took a smaller size SIM card than their old one. No big deal, we had special cutout punch tools just for that. Should be simple enough right?
You just put the SIM card into either one or the other tool, depending on what size the card originally is and what size it needs to be cut to, press down on the handle, and out of the bottom pops out the cut card. The card only fits properly one way into the preformed tray divet for it, super simple to use, so what could possibly go wrong?
Well that dumb bitch couldn’t even comprehend the simplest concept of matching up the shapes, on many occasions she’d some fucking how end up cutting the card upside down or backwards, or both, thereby ruining the customer’s SIM card ☹️
And even when she managed to get it right, well unfortunately those punchout tools tended to leave light burrs on the edges, which could and indeed would damage the contacts inside the SIM slot and basically ruin the phone. Kathy was as dumb as a box of rocks and when she wasn’t playing on her own phone, she’d be filing her fingernails. Kathy, if you can hear me telepathically, USE YOUR FUCKING NAIL FILE TO KNOCK THE BURRS OFF THE EDGES!!!
Thank you for your time and attention to this matter.
I worked as a CAD guy for a cabinetry shop when I met ‘Stewie’ (still am, different place). Stewie was an old dog who started drafting when AutoCAD was in DOS, apparently wrote a lot of LISP routines and made lots of parametric blocks (blocks are a graphic you can copy paste that stretch or change based on options you pick).
Dude sure as hell wasn’t able to demonstrate any of that capability, nor did he listen when we told him not to use it. Dude would write a routine that didn’t work, then be shocked when after running it it broke the AutoCAD plug-in we use that has it’s own database cuz it doesn’t communicate it’s changes to that database.
So we’d get broken drawings from this dude we have no idea how to correct, using something he took two hours to write to do something that the system already could do in 10 minutes, which necessitated redoing all of his work from scratch cuz parts wouldn’t come out right. He’d then talk to you for TWO HOURS about his thought process writing it, what it should’ve done, how our plug-in was stupid, how it reminds him of his glory days, how he used to watch hockey in 1982, how he misses hockey, how did you know I saw the clearest ice ever at a hotel bar like two months ago?? How do they make the ice?? The government is putting flouride in the water, which is bad for you, just like lectins in tomatoes - they break holes in your gut lining and cause diabetes
The most miserable, self-absorbed, unempathetic, conspiracy-minded son of a bitch. I thank God I will never see stewie again
Yeah, those kinds of people are horrible to work with. I know you figured out how to make this work thirty years ago, but they built it into the program twenty years ago.
I get on well with a big cross-section of people, part of my job is to smooth over the gaps between clashing personalities (IRL, online I’m an argumentative bitch)
Anywho, there was one guy who I just couldn’t work with - he blamed anyone but himself for his mistakes, and he kept on repeating them. He was also intensely lazy, and called off during covid for a total of about 6 weeks. Then, every time someone tried to help him improve, he’d file a complaint of harassment against them - at separate times against me, my boss, and every single other person he worked with.
He raised a complaint with our union (which I’m still a member of, since I’m just a supervisor) saying there was systemic harassment. It took over a year to fire him.
The moment he went, productivity went up, and has stayed up :-)
I had a nurse manager once who loudly shushed us, multiple times, every single day she was on site. At the nurses station, which was small, but like even if all of us are whispering it’s going to be audible. Her shushing loudly only contributed to both the noise level, and me quitting that job. She was even shushing doctors when they were conferring with one another and us nurses, like girl go back to your office. Kim, you were the worst.
Looooong ago we did interviews for an open position we had. With one applicant, at first sight i thought “no, not him. never ever him”. Later learned the others felt exactly the same at the very same moment. Never found out why but it was strong and clear feeling.
I remember I was working at my old job, and me and this other dude both worked at GE in the shop together before that. There was this older dude who was a massive dick to everyone, would just bark and complain about stupid shit at everyone all day long. Well since GE closed the plant and everyone got laid off, he applied to work where we both did. It was a pretty small shop too so it’d be even worse. Word got out and we were like ehh yeah it’d suck but I’d hate to get in anyone’s way of securing employment, maybe he has a family. But after a bit I was like man I’d really hate for this dude to fuck up my daily life and ruin this shop, especially since it was basically brand new and I was one of the original hires there.
So I went to my boss and was like hey I heard that this dude applied, you might want to rethink it. And before I could even give reasons why, he was like “just based on his phone interview alone, I’m not going any further with him as an applicant. Seemed like a bad fit”. And this was a dude with a lot of experience in our field. Like how do you fuck up a phone interview hahaha, it’s basically there just to make sure you’re a real human and can come in for one in person.
