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Anybody else watching the series Dating Around on Netflix? I can’t stop. If you’re looking for me, that’s where I am.
I will check it out - we've been watching The Man in the High Castle on Prime when I have a spare minute. I'm trying to follow along as best I can, but I'm usually multitasking or dozing off so within minutes I'm like, what just happened?
One of my first jobs was for a company where we had to punch in a number combination to gain access from the loading dock to the offices. One of the forklift drivers was fired one night by the night ops manager. He was about 5'10" of stocky build, about 220 lbs, early 40s. Night ops manager (NOM) in question was about 5'6", early 20s and weighed about 120 soaking wet. Fired guy came back the next day, uninvited, to the office after making a series of threatening calls. Do you think anyone thought to change the entry code, knowing they now had a disgruntled ex-employee (DEE)?
The way the office was set up, the first point of entry opened to customer service, with middle managers' offices nestled behind the CS area (so they could watch everything going on from behind their glass walls). The General manager's office was at the end of the hall behind middle managers and sales reps' private offices. DEE walks up to the security door, punches in the code, and begins making a beeline to the back, right for NOM's office. In the CS area, I worked the day shift with two other females and one middle aged male (MAM).
The MAM stood up just as DEE was about to pass his desk and attempts to physically block DEE who was having none of it. MAM does the unthinkable - he tackles DEE and knocks him across his own desk, monitor, phone blotter, the whole kit and caboodle flying in all directions. The two female CSRs leapt out of their seats, screaming and shouting and bolted for the door. My desk was the first at entry so I had stood up earlier and was standing in front of my desk, watched the two CSRs as they ran out into the parking lot as I was fumbling with my phone to dial 911 (upside down dial pad, mind you). RBPD was on the scene within minutes.
This isn't even the biggest story to come from that job, and I worked there less than a year. We had a swarm of DEA agents take over the whole terminal once when someone decided to ship a crate of 1100 lbs of cocaine to NYC, a corpse in a casket flown in from Italy, an in-house ring of thieves specializing in electronics theft, loose weed falling out of the corners of cardboard boxes arriving from Mexico, and radioactive waste that sat in the warehouse for about 6 months. Shortest lasting job I ever had but with tons of stories for the grandkids if I ever have any.
These stories are wild and everything, but I just cannot get over you calling a "middle aged male" a "MAM." I'm giggling. I could hug you for that. Mostly because I hate "Ma'am" to me it is one of those phonetically irritating words, sounds like a sheep or goat bleating..."MAAA-AA-AAM" That's not a people word, don't call me that dammit! lol So yeah. Funny. MAM.
I think the most alarming things to happen to me at work were when I worked nights at a convenience store. I had a frat kid who wouldn't stop chasing me for sex, a drunk guy drove a car through the front of the store one night, and some dudes waving a gun around in the parking lot. Which was finally what got me to quit. I was just thinking, a stray motion of that guy's one finger and my babies would have no mother. I'm out. Done.
I worked for a company where the person about to get fired would suddenly have a security guard standing at their desk with an empty box. Everyone around them would keep working and pretend they didn't notice. Some of the "selected" a were surprise to everyone, it kind of made it seem less humiliating, it could happen to anyone. Then of course there would be security at all of the doors the week after. (The escort out always happened on a Friday). It kind of made me think..."well if you didn't just jerk his chair out from under him and practice group humiliation, maybe you wouldn't be so scared of being ambushed?"
Did your HR have a more civilized way of letting people go?
You bring up a good point in regards to HOW people are terminated. Although difficult, there is a dignified way of doing that. Unless there is workplace violence involved, a blatant violation of safety practices in which there is employee risk, etc., a termination can be a smooth process. It was never easy though and I hated doing it.
We had a private meeting with the employee, where the manager and I would sit with the employee and let them know they were being let go. If there are good policies and practices in place and a step-disciplinary process, that employee should know where they stand anyway. We had these policies and all details leading up to the termination were documented. Some employees still acted surprised anyway....
Once the meeting concluded, that employee would be walked out to their locker (if necessary) by the manager and then they would walk out of the building. We always tried to make it as civil as possible as to not call attention to what was happening. There was not any dramatic event unless the (now former) employee decided to throw a fit. And that happened a few times.
Anybody else watching the series Dating Around on Netflix? I can’t stop. If you’re looking for me, that’s where I am.
I was binge watching it last night. Some of those dates are so cringey. I felt bad for the Indian girl, that guy was a douche, he wouldn't even let her explain herself and was then shocked that she rejected him first.
You bring up a good point in regards to HOW people are terminated. Although difficult, there is a dignified way of doing that. Unless there is workplace violence involved, a blatant violation of safety practices in which there is employee risk, etc., a termination can be a smooth process. It was never easy though and I hated doing it.
We had a private meeting with the employee, where the manager and I would sit with the employee and let them know they were being let go. If there are good policies and practices in place and a step-disciplinary process, that employee should know where they stand anyway. We had these policies and all details leading up to the termination were documented. Some employees still acted surprised anyway....
Once the meeting concluded, that employee would be walked out to their locker (if necessary) by the manager and then they would walk out of the building. We always tried to make it as civil as possible as to not call attention to what was happening. There was not any dramatic event unless the (now former) employee decided to throw a fit. And that happened a few times.
Much better than having a detached 3rd party show up with a box! I would think treating the person being let go as an actual human with feelings, who’s now going through something that could be traumatic would be a better atmosphere for everyone. After giving my notice, I appeared at each of my coworkers cubes with what looked like an empty brown packing box, and advised them that I had cupcakes 🧁.
(Some thought that was not funny at all. )
I was binge watching it last night. Some of those dates are so cringey. I felt bad for the Indian girl, that guy was a douche, he wouldn't even let her explain herself and was then shocked that she rejected him first.
Yeah, who did he think he was, talking to her like that? He could’ve just decided he didn’t want to go out again, sheesh. If you haven’t seen the episode with the old guy yet, mute it when he gets to the frog joke. Seriously.
Yeah, who did he think he was, talking to her like that? He could’ve just decided he didn’t want to go out again, sheesh. If you haven’t seen the episode with the old guy yet, mute it when he gets to the frog joke. Seriously.
Watched the whole season
Heard the joke I actually thought he has a good rapport with the artist...until that joke.
I have to admit that if someone asked me to tell them a joke i would probably panic and default to something crass and inappropriate.
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Jeez...
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I actually thought he has a good rapport with the artist...until that joke.