She's Not Winning Employee of the Year
 

Couldn't resist sharing this one.

We just hired a new accounting person. She was replacing quite possibly the most vile human being I've ever worked with. Universally loathed.

Anyway, yesterday was her first day. She left for lunch.

...and never returned. Not a word to anyone. Took her pictures she brought in, and took off. Wheeeee!

I suspect she won't be asking anyone at your company for a reference anytime soon.

Used to happen all the time at the call center I worked at.

Just like you said it too. They'd show up at 8, bring small things like a coffee mug, pictures, day planner, etc. They'd pack all of it up before lunch and we'd never see them again.

Not sure how anyone could do that, but a lot of people do.

At my last job, we had that happen...new girl started in accounting, she came in for a couple of days and then disappeared. Funny thing was, her boss was out of the country at the annual meeting when she disappeared so no one knew where she was. Turns out she'd called and left a voice mail for her boss, but her boss had never given the information to anyone on the team. People are idiots.

On the other hand, that's probably smarter than hanging with something for 6 months and leaving on bad terms. You didn't waste time, you won't have any gaps in your resume to explain.

So..what do you think it was that made her leave the job? I've seen that happen when I worked in retail, but not really office jobs.

My money is on the penguin hat. I bet that shit freaked her out and she bolted at the first opportunity.

I've done this once. Although when I was hired, I was told I'd be doing one thing, but when I started I was doing something completely unrelated.

When I worked at Pizza Hut, it was the first day for one employee, she came in was there for 5 minutes and the police came in and arrested her and led her off in handcuffs.

Plus, I'm REALLY curious as to what someone could have done in a 4 hour time frame to make them the most vile person ever and universally loathed? That's some really quick work there... hell, I don't even think Jeffrey Dahmer's co-workers said that.

It's even stranger when someone that works there for a while does it. Back at one of the companies I worked for in the Bay Area, the guy that was in charge of the field techs did this. He had worked for the company for 10 years with no problems. One day he tells us he is running out to the post office for lunch, and never came back. He had a history of heart problems, so the owner thought that maybe something had happened to him while he was out, so went looking for him. We find out a couple of weeks later that he had decided on his way back from the post office that he didn't want to work there anymore, and just drove to a relative's house in L.A. Really bizarre.

She was replacing that person.

When i worked Telemarketing in High School we used to take bets on new employees and how long they would last, etc..

I think the fastest I saw someone break down in tears was like 45 minutes into their first day.

I wish one of my co-workers would do the same thing.

Man, I did telemarketing in HS too...those jobs SUCKED! But I still never just walked out, was tempted a time or two, but never actually did it.

Ahhhhh... missed that important little word. Kinda changes the whole meaning. :)

Thought maybe the new girl crapped on her desk and started throwing feces around like a monkey or something.

It was fantastic for me really. I thrived pretty well and made very good $$$ for a HS student.

It's ok, I reread it 3 times before posting to make sure. :)

Plastic Owl on her cube?

I wonder if it was because CW pulled out the Mr. Microphone and told her "Hey good lookin'! We'll be back to pick you up later!"

Trust me. There are WAY better looking people here than she was.

And they dig the penguin hat.

Dola...no freakin' CLUE why she just walked. She seemed normal and halfway nice to everyone here.

We have a suspicion some other job she applied for finally made her an offer, it was better, and she just bolted.

We has a DBA that brought in donunts his first day, and he left at lunch and never returned. He basically told our IT director that after getting in and seeing our situation he didn't feel up to the task of organizing our data...

This kind of stuff happens all the time in the retail and restaurant sector.

However, not for controllers. :)

+1

Are you a LOLcat?

i did this once, when i was in college. hired to work in a pet store. they asked me to wear nice clothing, i thought i was going to be groomed for some type of assistant manager/sales register role.

they told me to go into the bird room and clean the cages.


in my nice clothes.


i told the supervisor there i was going to step outside to grab a candy bar. i went outside, casually made a right, then proceeded to run all the way home (it was a mile away from where i lived). i was singing "run to the hills" from Iron Maiden the entire way.

i get home, i call the pet store up, and say "hi, this is anthony, i was just working there about 10 minutes ago", the supervisor says "yes?", "yeah, i won't be coming back. thanks for the opportunity!".

till this day my wife makes me tell this story at parties. it's funnier, cuz i include the part involving the parrot.


i wish i was in college again.

Could be worse. They could have actually groomed you.

Alright, I'll take the bait...what's the part involving the parrot????

it was not harmed. that's all the info that is needed for the sake of this thread/story.

Dear HA,

Could you please give us a call?

Sincerly,
PETA

Man - you've got to be kidding! After all the inappropriate stories you've told here, you aren't going to tell us what happened with the parrot???? You suck!

Don't feed the HA.

I did this once....okay...twice.


The first time was when I was 18. I got a job at Toys 'R' Us during the holidays. Right out of the gate, I worked 9 full days in a row. Then, we had "Black Friday" which was just insane. The worst part about the job is that they wouldn't let me leave the register for any reason. When there were no customers, I still couldn't even walk 10 feet away. There were hours where I'd just stand there and daydream about opening up one of the super soakers and launching a full-out guerilla-style war on my fellow employees.

One day, about three weeks into the job, I showed up wearing jeans. This was a no-no. "khakis only". So they told me to go home and get different pants. I didn't have a car, so I decided to make it a permanent search for khaki pants.

The other time was at Mervyn's. I got hired, went through orientation and all of that. Really boring stuff. Then, on my first real work day, they put me in the shoe section. My first customer asked me if I knew where the matching shoe was for the one in her hand. I went over to where she found it, and there was just a massive pile of shoes, boxes, and tissue paper strewn all over. I asked to take my first break, and drove home, never to return!

And now Mervyn's is out of business. Nice job, asshole.

lol

Yeah, temporary agencies do that a lot and it's really irritating. I was told that I'd be doing one thing and when I got to the place, it was completely different. I told my supervisor and he was embarassed and apologized. The next day I called the temp agency and had a talk with the woman that sent me on assignment. She was embarassed as well but lucky for me, I got a job quickly after that so no harm done.

You know, I took a job with a call center, working one of the highest paid accounts...filled out all my paperwork....work up the morning I was supposed to go in....and just could not see myself behind a desk on the phone all day...Being a tech support person to old people and their diabetic sugar testing machines......

Close call Bundy. Might have needed to change your nick to Alifornia

Weird. You'd think they would get doctors or nurses involved, if there were problem with diabetic sugar testing machines.

I thought the same thing...but it was mainly support on how to load the drum of the machine, test it, and calibrate it.

I went to a temp agency twice to find work, and both times they did this to me. The first time, though, I made sure to leave on good terms because the people there were nice and it wasn't their fault some bitch lied her ass off to me. The second time, the manager at the place I was sent to work for was a total asshole, so I just left.

i went to work for a consultant firm.. I got offered XXx/year conditioned to finding a job...

anyway, i got interviewed for a unix admin job.. was asked if i knew anything about networking, dropped cisco and bgp keywords, got offered a position that i was unqualified for... learned a bunch during their window of preparing for a massive upgrade and voila, i'm still there working as the tech team lead. :)


--tim

I'm boring...I think the shortest amount of time I've ever worked at a non-Summer job was four months. And I've never not given my two weeks...

About 2 months ago, we hired an old child psychiatrist who had decided to come out of retirement to make some extra money. We were desperate for someone as the wait time for a new eval with myself or my colleague is 3-4 months. So, we were very excited when he started. He saw one patient and then announced to our clinic manager that he made a mistake and was going immediately back into retirement. I guess I should be glad that he didn't just leave without a word.

And now you figured out the parrot part of the story.

HA, fucking sandwiches and fellating parrots since 1992.

QOTM!

And got an untweetable canarial disease.

We had a guy start at the call centre here where I work a few months ago. On his first day he arrived an hour late due to "car troubles". Then on the second day he messaged in to his boss saying that he couldn't make it because he had to take his girlfriend to hospital for some reason or another. Never saw the guy again.

I remember my first job back when I was 19. I did half a shift, ate lunch, realized that the food didn't get that awful taste out of my mouth, and I didn't return to that job until I turned 28.

Oh, so you were a male whore before?

:D