Useless Co-Worker For Sale

[postcrypt]

Yeah, there's no shortage of useless co-workers. A few years back, when the drum scanning business was still decent, we hired an ex-photographer with minimal prepress skills, and I trained him to run the scanner. Of course, the drum scanner these days is about as useful as tits on a boar, but as of last year the guy was still around, and still avoiding learning any new skills by pretending complete ineptitude at anything else.

So, the owner decides to make the guy a delivery driver. Still gonna pay him like a scanner operator, but now he drives the truck. Hmmm. In my capacity as production manager, I had to sit in on the "reassignment" discussion. He takes the news that he's now the delivery guy pretty well. I figure, hell, he ought to, since he's gonna be making twice the money anybody ever made doing that before... then, he proceeds to go into a rant because he's hasn't had a RAISE in two years.

Didn't have to sell him; we GAVE him away.

[PrepressCrapFixer]

Yeah, there's no shortage of useless co-workers. A few years back, when the drum scanning business was still decent, we hired an ex-photographer with minimal prepress skills, and I trained him to run the scanner. Of course, the drum scanner these days is about as useful as tits on a boar, but as of last year the guy was still around, and still avoiding learning any new skills by pretending complete ineptitude at anything else.

So, the owner decides to make the guy a delivery driver. Still gonna pay him like a scanner operator, but now he drives the truck. Hmmm. In my capacity as production manager, I had to sit in on the "reassignment" discussion. He takes the news that he's now the delivery guy pretty well. I figure, hell, he ought to, since he's gonna be making twice the money anybody ever made doing that before... then, he proceeds to go into a rant because he's hasn't had a RAISE in two years.

Didn't have to sell him; we GAVE him away.

Jesus, what a total dumbass!

[DigitalCrapShoveler]

Right this very second... I am gritting my teeth listening to the Blood Sausage droll on about his church picnic Saturday. He has no idea I am typing this, while he reminisces about balloons and macaroni salad and the dunk tank, that his pastor hit his head on... WTF? After he is finished I think I will bludgeon his skull with the PC. I don't want his thick cranial cap cracking my Mac.

[hotmetal]

Right this very second... I am gritting my teeth listening to the Blood Sausage droll on about his church picnic Saturday. He has no idea I am typing this, while he reminisces about balloons and macaroni salad and the dunk tank, that his pastor hit his head on... WTF? After he is finished I think I will bludgeon his skull with the PC. I don't want his thick cranial cap cracking my Mac.

and they're always such nice, What, Me Worry? types... firing one would be like firing the family dog...

[DigitalCrapShoveler]

But beating that family dog would be oh so satisfying...

[frailer]

Right this very second... I am gritting my teeth listening to the Blood Sausage droll on about his church picnic Saturday. He has no idea I am typing this, while he reminisces about balloons and macaroni salad and the dunk tank, that his pastor hit his head on... WTF? After he is finished I think I will bludgeon his skull with the PC. I don't want his thick cranial cap cracking my Mac.

Mate, I thought I had it bad in the co-worker stakes. Sheesh. That would be unbearable. We don't want to see you in the wrong kind of news report. We sometimes get stuff like that here:

"A worker in a printery in the US today bludgeoned a fellow worker to death by repeatedly....with a desktop PC....". That would not be nice. Just post here. Far fewer consequences...unless of course you've gone for a pee and left it on-screen... :laugh:

[DigitalCrapShoveler]

Right this very second... I am gritting my teeth listening to the Blood Sausage droll on about his church picnic Saturday. He has no idea I am typing this, while he reminisces about balloons and macaroni salad and the dunk tank, that his pastor hit his head on... WTF? After he is finished I think I will bludgeon his skull with the PC. I don't want his thick cranial cap cracking my Mac.

Mate, I thought I had it bad in the co-worker stakes. Sheesh. That would be unbearable. We don't want to see you in the wrong kind of news report. We sometimes get stuff like that here:

"A worker in a printery in the US today bludgeoned a fellow worker to death by repeatedly....with a desktop PC....". That would not be nice. Just post here. Far fewer consequences...unless of course you've gone for a pee and left it on-screen... :laugh:

LMFAO! You have even a more vivid imagination than I do, or do you? :evil: Death to the Blood Sausage !

[hotmetal]

you've all been here, right?

http://www.addictinggames.com/whackyourboss.html

[DigitalCrapShoveler]

you've all been here, right?

http://www.addictinggames.com/whackyourboss.html

I play it daily. I think you posted this before, but I am glad you did again, for everyone else. Very therapeutic.

[jezza]

Nice, found all 16   :smiley:

[PrepressCrapFixer]

Nice, found all 16   :smiley:

So did I!  Loved throwing his ass out the window!! :laugh:

[jezza]

I like the kicking he got with the waste paper basket  :wink:

[DigitalCrapShoveler]

I like the kicking he got with the waste paper basket  :wink:

Nice, found all 16   :smiley:

So did I!  Loved throwing his ass out the window!! :laugh:

You see, therapeutic.

[jezza]

I must confess though, that I do actually like my boss, I have had a lot worse

[Joe]

I must confess though, that I do actually like my boss, I have had a lot worse

Ditto.