Wednesday 13 March 2013

My Two Least Favorite Co-Workers

I have a part-time fast food job. It's nothing special, the pay isn't amazing but my boss has a fairly flexible work schedule and I get a discount for food. Plus, it's not like I'm getting hired anywhere else anytime soon and I like most of the people that I work with.

The keyword is "most".

Is what I'd like to say to two people in particular.

Due to shifting in work schedules I have been working with 2 people more than I usually would. The first is a Filipino woman named Darla, the other is an East Indian woman named Karob. And they're both slowly driving me insane.

Darla wasn't so bad. She's always had a lot of energy, kind of loud, bordering obnoxious really but I kind of ignored it because she did her job and all the customers liked her. And honestly, what could I really say to her? Her English isn't that great and it be weird scolding a middle-aged woman.

But these last couple of months it's almost like she's losing her mind. It's like she losing her grip on reality. I'm not sure whether she doesn't understand or she can't understand. The clearest example I can give is "Darla! Don't do X. Ok? Don't do X. The customer doesn't want X on their sandwich". And she'll go "Ok! Ok!" and proceed to do X in front of you.

My face when.

The rumor is that she's having family troubles back at home or that she's worried about health issues. I personally think she's always been this crazy but I didn't work around her enough to really notice them. Also, she keeps slapping my butt. I may be single now but I'm not into women who are probably double my age.

But Darla is nothing, nothing compared to how bad of a coworker Karob is. After just one week of working with her I started to dread my shifts.

First, Karob is the only person in the restaurant who cannot work as a cashier AND a sandwich artist. For whatever reason she refuses to learn how to work the till. This presents multiple problems. For example, say it's just her and I working and I need to go throw out garbage or grab something in the stockroom.

NOPE. If we get a customer she comes running to the back to get me so I can take the order. I literally cannot leave her alone for a minute. Anyone else could take the order and then complete it. Meanwhile, she'll randomly ditch me to go on 15 minute bathroom breaks whenever she feels like it.

Which results in me making this face.

Fine no problem, IF she did a good job making sandwiches. Except that it takes her forever. I could take orders, and then run to the back to make sandwiches faster than this woman. And you know what? I have. So nice of her to ditch me in the middle of a dinner rush.

And even stranger is once she left to go to the bathroom and then we realized that she wasn't even heading towards the bathroom. In fact, she wasn't even walking anywhere near the bathrooms. To this day, we have no idea where she went or where she goes.

On second thought, I don't really want to know.

My dad recently took my resume and said he'd see if there were any jobs available in the company that works in. I'd happily take it especially if the entry-level pay is as good as my dad said it was.

Plus, it be nice to not come home smelling like fryer oil for once.

25 comments:

  1. It's frustrating when you have to carry other people in the workplace because they don't pull their weight, isn't it. But at least you're learning some pretty good multitasking skills!

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  2. That's right... you don't really want to know. But you do, don't you... ;) If a co-worker slapped me on the blue buttocks, I'd do the exact same thing next time. It's that simple. But, of course, before you know it yoy'd get summoned and called a rapist...

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  3. Haha. I feel guilty laughing, but damn your situation is messed up :P
    Well I can't really say what to do as I've never been in that position myself. But if you can't keep up with it, you can always tell the boss.

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  4. I find it a little funny that over time the people who were my least favourite coworkers have become some of my favourites. My least favourite is now a creepy old man that can't stop mentioning sex. Joy of joys. I wonder where the girl who just disappears to the bathroom and places not near it goes to, but then I think I'd rather not. I thought knowing how to work the till and making the food in a swift and productive manner would be something you needed to know how to do.

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  5. Ugh! Coworkers suck everywhere, but it still doesn't make it fun when you have to work closely with them.

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  6. Hopefully that job comes through, but you are going to find crazies everywhere, maybe not that bad though haha

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  7. Back when I worked at a rec center, I worked with an old Chinese guy named Harold who apparently didn't know much English. The boss would tell him to do something, and he would do the complete opposite. The boss would scold him, and he'd act like he didn't know what he was saying. Then one day, Harold decided to talk to me in near perfect English because he liked me. It was all just a ruse so he could be lazy and get away with it.

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  8. So why does Karob even have a job?

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  9. If you plan on murdering them make sure you get away with it. Hire an assassin or hitman, pay them in french fries.

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  10. Ohmygod Darla sounds like my driver.
    "Don't turn left here"
    "Ok"
    "Wait what are you..."
    "Ok"
    "I SAID DON'T TURN--"
    "--Ok"
    "FOR THE LOVE OF ALL THAT IS HOLY THAT ROAD IS UNDER CONSTRUCTION GET OUT OF THERE"

    And the other day, I asked him to drive me to the mall and he drove right past every entrance and realized about half a mile later that he missed the mall.
    I don't get people omg.

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  11. Ah working with a team, whether in a fast food joint or in an office building. They are the family you love to hate at times.

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  12. Sometimes I feel like I'm losing a grip on reality! LOL Hang in there!!!!!

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  13. I hate that feeling of being with someone in the work place and feeling as if they are not getting their job done.

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  14. Karob sounds annoying. Like I can understand being afraid to work the tills in case you weren't good at them or whatever but to not even really try and to not be good at much else, it just makes me wonder why he's still there. I feel sorry for Darla in all honesty though, it must be a pain to work with her but something isn't right up there by the sounds of it, whether it's just stress or whatever, hope things don't continue being so shit at this place for long, hopefully both wise up soon.

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  15. every place got its own problems

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  16. LOL...a crappy starter job will make any future job look good in comparison. Hope you can move on to something better soon.

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  17. Why don't these people get fired? Or more importantly, how do they tie their shoes in the morning?

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  18. I respect, but don't envy, all of those who are stuck in any sort of food service job. I got out of that line of jobs as fast as I could.

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  19. I'm guessing that those poor people simply don't know enough English and say OK to everything even though they don't get it what you told them.

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  20. You know there are some young guys out there that are into middle aged women. Age is just a number after all. But she shouldn't be smacking your butt, that is way out of order. If that were the other way around you'd be done for sexual harassment.

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  21. at least Darla is better than Karob. Haha

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  22. Keep these characters for use in a novel. Or a comedy sketch. Each of them could go a long way.

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  23. Darla sounds confused, but Karob. Ooph. Karob sounds like fun. Karob sounds like the type of person I'd get fired.

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