People who shaft you at work.

[Donomni]

So today I'm working the luch rush at Popeye's, as is a normal day for me recently. One of the girls who is a regular on this shift was acting normal for herself: semi-snobby and rather unwilling to work. I was getting some cole slaw ready for the shift, and before I knew it, the assistant manager asked me where she was. I honestly didn't know, as I normally have my full attention on the current job(Do not trust me to notice a fire until it is too late ). She apparently left without so much as a word about it.

And then about 15-20 minutes later, we had waves upon waves of people come in, as if some massive vortex was sucking in people right off the street!

Needless to say, we had a VERY busy day today. We had to call in the manager and a cook to help, but we did fine. I talked to our manager about this, and he said he knew she was going to quit. But he didn't expect this: none of us did.

So I ask you: have you or any of you coworkers ever get shafted by someone during work?

[Jezebel]

This isn't quite the same thing, but it's pretty funny and kind of relates. One of our departments had two people leave last week. One of them had put in her notice and last Friday was her last day, the other one emailed in her resignation on Monday. So they hire someone new in that position and she fails the drug test, so she doesn't get the job. Today they hired another person and upon learning that she was going to have to take a drug test went to "get a drink of water" and never came back.

[AdmiralKnight]

I had a similar thing happen to me years ago. I worked at a casino/gas station (basically just a gas station with about 60 VLT machines in it, go figure heh) Anyway, they're open 24/7, and I was working the 3pm-11pm shift. I got a call from my supervisor at about 9:30 or so telling me that my replacement called in sick, but he was going to see if he could get someone to cover. Needless to say, he didn't. So, he asked if I could work the 16 hours. I agreed, but only under one condition. I was scheduled to work at 7am the next morning, and I told him that he needed to find a replacement for THAT shift.

So, of course, he left at about 11:30 that night and neglected to tell HIS replacement that I was working a 16 hour shift and needed my 7am shift covered. 7am rolled around, and I started wondering where my replacement was, so I called over.. and they had no idea wtf I was talking about.

Long story short, I ended up working 24 hours straight, all because this one supervisor 'forgot' to mention it to the next super coming on shift. Blah. So glad I got out of there.

[thejerseyminx]

We were doing a two grocery store run and this one new girl was talking about how her friend was trying to get her to ditch work. After we're in store and we're told where to go, and I start counting, she comes up to me and says she's leaving. Ok, fine. At least she wasn't going to hang around and count like shit. Well this kid Ivan decides that he wants... something from her. He has a girlfriend, and he denies trying to get in her pants- but I'm skeptical. Anyways... so he's outside trying to get the girl to stay and the area manager goes and and tells him to go back to work. Ivan doesn't say anything and basically walks off the job. So we're down two people.

When we go to the second store we lose another person who got violently ill on the car ride over. We still counted the store in great time though.

The fucked up part is Ivan still has a job AND this had been the 2nd time he walked out of a store like that.

[jimkatai]

I once had a cashier at Wal-Mart, when I still worked with them, take my bag (the thing we put our money in) while I had left to go help a customer. It was a busy as hell day (first day of a supercenter which happened to be two days after Christmas) and I had left to go help a customer and dropped my bag off with the CSM (our supervisor) who then left to go settle a blinking light and left the bag on the desk for somebody to pick up. He got caught on camera though, so all was well and good. Well other then the near heart attack since I had near to $7,000 in the bag.

[billf]

Several years ago (wow I'm getting old) my friend Steve and I worked for a small web design company. Basically it was Steve, myself, and a bunch of people who didn't know jack squat about HTML or basic graphic design, forget about trying to learn database software or Perl.

The boss treated his employees like shit. A common example of this is that if you took a day off, and something went wrong that day, no matter what it was or if you had even seen the project it was, it was your fault it went wrong.

One day things just went too far. Steve and I had busted our asses to fix something ridiculously stupid, we'd stayed late, and the boss gave US dirty looks when we filled out time adjustments for staying late.

I got pissed off, so I took the next day off, then when I came in on a Friday the jackass threatened to fire me twice in 15 minutes. I did my work for that day and then talked to Steve after work got out. It was then that we discovered that the only reason either of us was working there still was that we didn't want to abandon the other one at that piece of shit job, so we never came back after that Friday, leaving a web design company without anyone who knew how to make a web page.

[sneaky ninja]

At the photo lab we've had several people who've just stopped showing up for work. Zahra and Charmaine were complete no-shows, Zahra might actually be dead for all we know, but Andria was the worst. She went camping for the May long weekend, and called in sick two hours before her shift, for all three days she was scheduled, and subsequently made my life a living hell by having to cover all her shifts on top of mine. Stupid cow.

[LQDMTL]

Actually we have a DBA where I work that routinely passed off all of his work on the rest of the DBAs so that he could play video games and take naps in his cube, all the while proclaiming that he was too busy to help when someone came by asking for his assistance. And this was the case for over a year solid. Until I got there, called bullshit to my boss, and his boss, and convinced a few others to speak up. I come back to work after a long weekend about a month ago to my boss telling me that he'd spoke with the guy and basically put the fear of god in him. Things have been great ever since.

It's really fucked up, though, that people need that kind of motivation. I don't understand people that can't just show up and at least do the work they're being paid to do. I can't fucking stand lazy people. I tend to go to the other extreme and find my work for myself, by proactively approaching our systems and constantly looking for things to improve. And I end up working a lot of overtime as a result. I'm not expecting most people to do that. But for fuck's sake, at least meet the already-too-forgiving deadlines you've been given...

[Yira Heerai]

Right before the Summer semesters started my coworker, Issac, was asked to start deleting profiles off the lab computers. That way, Jem and I could pick up where he left off and then I could do whatever was left over since I worked later than Jem. Issac had left a note for us saying that he had done this on all of them. The whole lab. Aha. Ha. Ha. He lied. Hardcore.

The reason why I know this is because our supervisor hadn't seen the note; she had us work on the computers anyway. There wasn't a single one that had it done. XD;;; So we ended up having to do the entire fucking lab. All 80 or so computers. The bitchfest that ensued was very well needed.

Sad thing is, he still hasn't been fired and this was back in June.