Most individuals attempt to make a very good impression once they begin a brand new job. Others … don’t or, maybe, can not. Suppose, 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 may discover the model new scholar employee who was speculated 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 along with her cellphone. (She’d taken off her sneakers, for an added contact.) I politely requested her to take a seat within the chair. She climbed out from beneath the desk, mentioned one thing about not feeling “people-y” at present, and sat within the chair, eyes by no means leaving her cellphone.
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Working as Corp Coach at a name heart. CEO comes storming all the way 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 parking zone as a result of it isn’t acceptable. She will get indignant and tells us that it’s her “stage identify” she labored nights as an unique dancer. Once we inform her that’s tremendous, however it could possibly’t be parked within the parking zone, she tells us that she picks her youngsters up from faculty and nobody has ever mentioned it wasn’t acceptable.
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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 direction of the constructing. He seen that there have been geese within the fountain and detoured to go take a look at them. They’d nested and if 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 lined in poop and moist grass. I instructed him to go residence and we might strive once more tomorrow.
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We had a man apply for a employees job. His very first day he was serving to clear up brush alongside the sting of a mountain biking course. One of many different employees mentioned “while 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 instructed “Look, we all know you didn’t imply it, however you’re so silly you’re harmful.”
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