Most individuals attempt to make a very good impression after they begin a brand new job. Others … don’t or, maybe, can not. Assume, for instance, of the brand new rent who was already badmouthing the enterprise on Twitter, the worker plotting a coup on her second day, and the brand new rent who introduced their mother to orientation. After which there have been these:
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I used to be requested to see if I might discover the model new pupil employee who was alleged to be staffing a entrance line desk, as everybody who walked previous seen nobody was sitting there. I occurred to go across the desk — and found her sitting beneath the desk, absorbed together with her cellphone. (She’d taken off her footwear, for an added contact.) I politely requested her to take a seat within the chair. She climbed out from underneath the desk, stated one thing about not feeling “people-y” as we speak, and sat within the chair, eyes by no means leaving her cellphone.
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Working as Corp Coach at a name middle. CEO comes storming right down to our workplaces asking who owns a automobile with a automobile wrap on the hood that claims “Cocaine Queen.” We discover out whose automobile it’s and inform them they’ll’t park the automobile within the workplace car parking zone as a result of it isn’t applicable. She will get indignant and tells us that it’s her “stage title” she labored nights as an unique dancer. After we inform her that’s superb, however it could actually’t be parked within the car parking zone, she tells us that she picks her youngsters up from faculty and nobody has ever stated it wasn’t applicable.
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This wasn’t their fault in any respect however I’ve by no means forgotten it. I occurred to look out the window as one of many new hires was strolling in the direction of the constructing. He seen that there have been geese within the fountain and detoured to go have a look at them. They’d nested and if you already know something about Canadian geese, they are often vicious! The geese began chasing him, he freaked out, ran round to get away from them, slipped on the geese poop, landed on his again within the grass, and had 4 geese honking at him. Poor man got here in coated in poop and moist grass. I informed him to go dwelling and we might strive once more tomorrow.
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We had a man apply for a workers job. His very first day he was serving to clear up brush alongside the sting of a mountain biking course. One of many different workers stated “whenever you’re finished with that axe, I want it,” and the brand new man proceeded to say “OK” and THROW THE AXE AT HIM. It went inside a yard of his torso. New man’s first day was his final day. He protested that he didn’t imply to harm anybody, he simply didn’t take into consideration the danger, and was informed “Look, we all know you didn’t imply it, however you’re so silly you’re harmful.”
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