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Work Complaints
Awesome post from the Workplace Law Profs Blog:
NBC New York's news of the weird reports on a recent survey done by Careerbuilder.com of hiring managers across the country, asking about the top 20 strangest complaints they've received from employees.
The answers are often what you might expect, ranging from criticism of personal appearance to obnoxious idiosyncracies. These were ranked the best, though:
Employee suspected co-worker was a pimp
Employee smells like road ramps
Employee's aura is wrong
Employee's body is magnetic and keeps de-activating my magnetic access card
Co-Worker reminded employee too much of Bambi
Employee is so polite, it's infuriating
Employee is trying to poison me
Employee is personally responsible for the federally-mandated tax increase
Employee was annoyed the company didn't provide a place for naps during break time
Employee only wears slippers or socks at work
Employee breathes too loudly
Employee wore pajamas to work
Employee spends too much time caring for stray cats around the building
8 a.m. is too early to get up for work
But of the 20 complaint-worthy infractions noted by Careerbuilder, perhaps none is so commonplace and universally despised upon as this:
"Employee eats all the good cookies".
What's your best work complaint? HR folks, any good ones?
NBC New York's news of the weird reports on a recent survey done by Careerbuilder.com of hiring managers across the country, asking about the top 20 strangest complaints they've received from employees.
The answers are often what you might expect, ranging from criticism of personal appearance to obnoxious idiosyncracies. These were ranked the best, though:
Employee suspected co-worker was a pimp
Employee smells like road ramps
Employee's aura is wrong
Employee's body is magnetic and keeps de-activating my magnetic access card
Co-Worker reminded employee too much of Bambi
Employee is so polite, it's infuriating
Employee is trying to poison me
Employee is personally responsible for the federally-mandated tax increase
Employee was annoyed the company didn't provide a place for naps during break time
Employee only wears slippers or socks at work
Employee breathes too loudly
Employee wore pajamas to work
Employee spends too much time caring for stray cats around the building
8 a.m. is too early to get up for work
But of the 20 complaint-worthy infractions noted by Careerbuilder, perhaps none is so commonplace and universally despised upon as this:
"Employee eats all the good cookies".
What's your best work complaint? HR folks, any good ones?
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Permalink Reply by kommishoner on -
I'll start: when I was a union organizer, I talked to a guy whose biggest job complaint was that his boss made him cover up the naked lady tattoos on his forearms. He was really fired up about it, and wanted it to be one of the main talking points at the rally we were having (for better pay and health benefits), wanted to file a grievance, etc, pull out all the stops.
The best part: he worked as an orderly in the state mental hospital for criminal sex offenders. And wanted to be able to display his naked lady tattoos. Awesome.
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Permalink Reply by wookie on -
Crap, all I ever got was sexually harassed. Not recently, thank god, and not nearly as much once I learned to stand up for myself, but :P
There's a guy in our group who until recently had a 5ft snakeskin hung up in his cubicle. Real snake skin, as in the snake shed it and he brought it in to show off.
No one in my area has any other truly weird proclivities (that they share at work) but since we all work in an area with no windows (and very little ventilation) we all blink like moles when we leave the building at the end of the day.
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Permalink Reply by G.G. on -
perhaps not the best but one of the most memorable...
sr leader "yeah, um, my wife is in the parking lot keying my mistress' car"
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Permalink Reply by TeacherJ on -
This is kind of the opposite, but I once got chastised by an administrator for NOT hitting a kid.
Oh, bizarro school, I do not miss you at all.
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Permalink Reply by Mamawho on
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Crazy, smelly, pathological-liar coworker complained to boss that I was ruining his marriage. Why? Because his wife was in a terrible mood because I had called the police on her for harassing and threatening me and my grandmother with physical harm. Someone in the company had filed a sexual harassment grievance against him, and she was certain it was me because I was young, thin, "and swung [my] hips when I walked." Wasn't me. Well, he wanted me fired because his wife wanted to leave him because he wouldn't intimidate me into calling off the charge I didn't make. He had the nuts to tell this to the national HR director and the regional VP, whom I knew well.
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Permalink Reply by technophile on -
"Employee was annoyed the company didn't provide a place for naps during break time"
Oh boy, am I.
"Employee wore pajamas to work"
I fail to see the problem here.
"8 a.m. is too early to get up for work"
Can I get an 'Amen'?
I should add that normally I work from home. ;)
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I wouldn't be angry, but my eyes would probably pop out of my head if I saw someone bring a rodent to work. It would just be too funny.
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Permalink Reply by wookie on
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I think it depends on the job. If you work with small children or old people, that would make sense. If you work in IT, that shouldn't be a daily occurence.
Oh, wait, I'm thinking clients, not employees. Dude, where do you work?
Bettina Au Baking said:uh my employees always end up crying and whining and shitting themselves?
is that a good complaint?
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Permalink Reply by Herasmus B. Dragon on
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Please tell me you don't run a child sweatshop.
Bettina Au Baking said:uh my employees always end up crying and whining and shitting themselves?
is that a good complaint?
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Permalink Reply by StitchyWench on -
I worked with a Jehovah's Witness who complained that we had "too many birthdays in our office!" - that didn't stop her from eating the cake quietly in her cubicle after we were all done celebrating every time.
One of the truck drivers, when I worked in operations at the trucking company, was a vegan extra religious Christian (we're talking went on missionaries to Mexico every vacation virgin in his late 20's devout) who drove long haul before he came to work for us. One time I asked him if he was enjoying the job and he said, "Oh yeah! It's a lot better than long haul driving. I was tired of all the seedy truck stops. And a guy can starve in some parts of this country, trying to survive off vegan truck stop food."
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I know dozens of truck drivers, many of whom are sincerely religious, but not a single one is vegan. Or vegetarian, for that matter. He may be an oddity.
StitchyWench said:I worked with a Jehovah's Witness who complained that we had "too many birthdays in our office!" - that didn't stop her from eating the cake quietly in her cubicle after we were all done celebrating every time.
One of the truck drivers, when I worked in operations at the trucking company, was a vegan extra religious Christian (we're talking went on missionaries to Mexico every vacation virgin in his late 20's devout) who drove long haul before he came to work for us. One time I asked him if he was enjoying the job and he said, "Oh yeah! It's a lot better than long haul driving. I was tired of all the seedy truck stops. And a guy can starve in some parts of this country, trying to survive off vegan truck stop food."
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Permalink Reply by Pauperfamilias on -
I once worked at a laboratory where one of the genius computer programmers (we called him Wild B.) had a nervous breakdown and completely checked out. One evening the security guy was walking around and found B in his office - on the floor - sitting in his computer printouts - naked - except for his cowboy hat and boots. He took some time off, but was never really the same after that. He was later fired on a sexual harrassment charge.
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