What would think if ?????
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toggleswitch2
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They are trying to make a statement.
Looks like you are right-- next year: COAL.
Are we sure they know what your gift is and how it works?
Perhaps you need to have a few of your friends visit with this on their caps and jackets.
Looks like you are right-- next year: COAL.
Are we sure they know what your gift is and how it works?
Perhaps you need to have a few of your friends visit with this on their caps and jackets.
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Or tell them there will be a lottery/random drawing as someone has to lose their job due to budget cuts. Make a point of saying only __________'s name won't be in "the pool" since he had the proper attitude about the gift he received.
Don't you sometimes wish you really could do these things?
Don't you sometimes wish you really could do these things?
rollermatic
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good god!
what a bunch of assholes! i would have opened the cards and thanked them profusely for the wonderful 50 dollar gift cards! "oh, it's just what i wanted, you shouldn't have, how did you know" !!!!!!!!!!!!
and yea, next year not a damn thing to anyone! so what has happened to gratitude these days. never mind, i already know! people are basically idiots, as reflected i the appliances they buy now a days!
what a bunch of assholes! i would have opened the cards and thanked them profusely for the wonderful 50 dollar gift cards! "oh, it's just what i wanted, you shouldn't have, how did you know" !!!!!!!!!!!!
and yea, next year not a damn thing to anyone! so what has happened to gratitude these days. never mind, i already know! people are basically idiots, as reflected i the appliances they buy now a days!
Seriously, you really should ask them what is going on, at least you'll get an answer good or bad and won't be left summizing.
If they say something like I don't want this cheap companies gift certificate,, then you tell them it wasn't from the company it was from your own pocket,, then see what they say.
This is your opening to find out, take it.
If they say something like I don't want this cheap companies gift certificate,, then you tell them it wasn't from the company it was from your own pocket,, then see what they say.
This is your opening to find out, take it.
sudsmaster
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Well, you could use the gift cards to buy yourself something nice from Penney's, and then give them both thank you cards telling them what you bought and how much you appreciated their generosity... lol...
panthera
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A dose of reality
A very long time ago, a friend of mine let me work in his business while I was waiting for the government to process my paperwork to teach.
I was happy, he was happy, his customers were happy.
After I'd been there for two months, an acquaintance told me I was being radically underpaid and badly used.
I went in to work the next morning and something in my body language told the boss - my friend - I was unhappy. He asked what was up.
I told him. He showed me the books. I realized that I was damn lucky, he was paying me what I eventually became worth and not what I was worth at the beginning.
These ungrateful assholes have presumed upon your kindness.
Your answer was just right. If you're lucky, they will now quit. I'll bet you anything you like, they're cheating you where ever and when ever they can, including sabotage.
A very long time ago, a friend of mine let me work in his business while I was waiting for the government to process my paperwork to teach.
I was happy, he was happy, his customers were happy.
After I'd been there for two months, an acquaintance told me I was being radically underpaid and badly used.
I went in to work the next morning and something in my body language told the boss - my friend - I was unhappy. He asked what was up.
I told him. He showed me the books. I realized that I was damn lucky, he was paying me what I eventually became worth and not what I was worth at the beginning.
These ungrateful assholes have presumed upon your kindness.
Your answer was just right. If you're lucky, they will now quit. I'll bet you anything you like, they're cheating you where ever and when ever they can, including sabotage.
Didn't quite understand your last statement? They are right now what?
What did they say when you told them you bought those cards with your own money?
What did they say when you told them you bought those cards with your own money?
they know I bought them that does not seem to matter
Sorry all did not get printed.. I told them next year there would me NO bonous and they are now not happy at all.. I did tell my washman since he does not really work in the clean room he would remain on santas good boy list ,, He chuckled and is now working harder than ever. Most of the girls are doing as little as possible this morning.
Sorry all did not get printed.. I told them next year there would me NO bonous and they are now not happy at all.. I did tell my washman since he does not really work in the clean room he would remain on santas good boy list ,, He chuckled and is now working harder than ever. Most of the girls are doing as little as possible this morning.
panthera
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At this point
I think you've done all you can do. Are you stuck with these assholes or is it possible to get better people?
I think you've done all you can do. Are you stuck with these assholes or is it possible to get better people?
runematic
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"What would you think if 2 of your workers brought you christmas cards this morning and when opened the Gift cards that you gave them christmas were inside. It happened here. a few mins ago not sure what to think ??????"
I'd tell my dad & bro to kiss my a$$!!!!!! LOL!!
I'd tell my dad & bro to kiss my a$$!!!!!! LOL!!
I just solved the problem
i told the 2 that are causing most the problems since they are so unhappy here the new year would be a good time for them to start a new job. And gave them their checks.. Additudes have made a 100% turn around in less than 5 mins. Amazing..
i told the 2 that are causing most the problems since they are so unhappy here the new year would be a good time for them to start a new job. And gave them their checks.. Additudes have made a 100% turn around in less than 5 mins. Amazing..
toggleswitch2
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You want something to bitch about?
FEH
Have someone put a strong acid (and I don't mean lemon, orange or tomato juice) on the products vended in the ladies' room.
JUST KIDDING!
FEH
Have someone put a strong acid (and I don't mean lemon, orange or tomato juice) on the products vended in the ladies' room.
JUST KIDDING!
veroroger
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You did the right thing
Sometimes in business you have to be a bitch and tell people this is the way it is - like it or leave! I am quite sure their attitude has changed radically but I'd be on the lookout for trouble down the line if they don't leave. My experience has been that once a trouble maker, always a trouble maker.
About the gift cards....keep them and buy something you want but wouldn't/couldn't afford. Or, keep them as bonuses for the one employee who showed gratitude during the coming year.
Roger Brown
Sometimes in business you have to be a bitch and tell people this is the way it is - like it or leave! I am quite sure their attitude has changed radically but I'd be on the lookout for trouble down the line if they don't leave. My experience has been that once a trouble maker, always a trouble maker.
About the gift cards....keep them and buy something you want but wouldn't/couldn't afford. Or, keep them as bonuses for the one employee who showed gratitude during the coming year.
Roger Brown
Lee.
In a few months I'm going to be in the states for my vacations.
If you want, "Miranda Priestly" can spend some days in your company and make things work...
In a few months I'm going to be in the states for my vacations.
If you want, "Miranda Priestly" can spend some days in your company and make things work...
Thank you Thomas
But I assure you there is not much they can come up that I have not already delt with over the years.. Most of the time I like to give them a little time and plenty of rope and let them hang themselves. and most of the time I let them dangle awhile before I cut them down!
But I assure you there is not much they can come up that I have not already delt with over the years.. Most of the time I like to give them a little time and plenty of rope and let them hang themselves. and most of the time I let them dangle awhile before I cut them down!
So Lee, these employees who are so ungrateful are all women? They work in a hospital laundry and expect their boss to give them $100 out of his pocket for Christmas and have the nerve to haggle over the amount of a gift? I wonder who they know on their payscale who receives $100.00 from their boss at Christmas. They are so stupid to have given up the $50.00 gift card. They now have nothing. What about the one who gave the gift card to a friend as you handed them out? Is she acting all pissy also? Fifty dollars and they turn up their noses. I am still amazed. Best wishes for a better new year with better employees.
bosch2460
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Lee....
You absolutely did the right thing. I probably would have done the same. I look at it like this. When you have a bushel of apples, and just ONE rotten one, it will make the rest go bad, too. You just tossed out 2 rotten apples. Let them be miserable somewhere else. Bitches.
You absolutely did the right thing. I probably would have done the same. I look at it like this. When you have a bushel of apples, and just ONE rotten one, it will make the rest go bad, too. You just tossed out 2 rotten apples. Let them be miserable somewhere else. Bitches.
panthera
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Good for you!
There are people out there who need jobs and are good workers.
Hope you can replace those jerks with nice employees.
There are people out there who need jobs and are good workers.
Hope you can replace those jerks with nice employees.
dogboy44
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just curious
did they get more in years past? I know in years past, Christmas was much more generous in all arenas. We got parties, lunches, gifts, bonuses. And now it is all very scaled back. They have mentioned having "self-hosted" events, I think that is corp america trying to spiff up the pot luck. Pot lucks at work used to be really fun years ago, now all everyone wants to bring is a big bowl of "screw you."
I tell you what. There is a line long enough to circle the earth of people that would like to have your job, and sad to tell you could do it well, don't kid yourself.
did they get more in years past? I know in years past, Christmas was much more generous in all arenas. We got parties, lunches, gifts, bonuses. And now it is all very scaled back. They have mentioned having "self-hosted" events, I think that is corp america trying to spiff up the pot luck. Pot lucks at work used to be really fun years ago, now all everyone wants to bring is a big bowl of "screw you."
I tell you what. There is a line long enough to circle the earth of people that would like to have your job, and sad to tell you could do it well, don't kid yourself.
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sudsman,
For what it's worth, if I wasn't in school and I lived in your area, i'd be estatic to work in the clean room! As for gifts, I don't get such where I work. I would say those women don't know what they had. But I'm thankful that I do have a job. Judging by the events that unfolded earlier, I'd say that you were on fire!! I hope that the rest if your day is better. I love your machines by the way.
For what it's worth, if I wasn't in school and I lived in your area, i'd be estatic to work in the clean room! As for gifts, I don't get such where I work. I would say those women don't know what they had. But I'm thankful that I do have a job. Judging by the events that unfolded earlier, I'd say that you were on fire!! I hope that the rest if your day is better. I love your machines by the way.
kqkenmore
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Damn I wish that I had boss that gave out 50.00 dollar gift cards to anywhere.It is good that you got rid of the bad aditudes I know because I work in a place that has the same issues and as some of them are leaving it is getting better.You are a good employer and deserve better.I would give the one that is so good an extra gift card out of the ones that were returned.People have just turned so rude I do not know what the hell is up.Crap like this is how things get ruiened for everybody.Just keep being the good person that you are.
Lee, try to find local Brazilian immigrants in your area to replace those 2 employees.
And let them know there's a brazilian "boss" giving you tips about how do brazilians work. if you want I can also explain them the company rules and I'm sure I'lll have to say only once to get the target you wish.
I'm sure they will be the employees of the decade.
By the way, I'm sorry to say but by the picture I saw, the dirty area is a mess. Competent workers (at least here in Brazil) tend to do their main work and also keep their areas always perfectly clean and organized. The boss usually don't have to ask for it.
My boss became shocked when at my first day as international logistics director (wearing a suit and a tie), I cleaned the ceramic floor, vaccum cleaned the chairs and waxed/polished my desk BEFORE start working. Until today my room is considered one of those pharmaceutical clean rooms wile all the other rooms in that awful building look like hell.
By the way, there's a Paraguayan cleaner at the company... they are not allowed to enter my room LOL. Can you belive she cleans the entire floor without changing the bucket's water? When she reaches the 3rd of 9 offices, that water looks like chocolate with suds.
And let them know there's a brazilian "boss" giving you tips about how do brazilians work. if you want I can also explain them the company rules and I'm sure I'lll have to say only once to get the target you wish.
I'm sure they will be the employees of the decade.
By the way, I'm sorry to say but by the picture I saw, the dirty area is a mess. Competent workers (at least here in Brazil) tend to do their main work and also keep their areas always perfectly clean and organized. The boss usually don't have to ask for it.
My boss became shocked when at my first day as international logistics director (wearing a suit and a tie), I cleaned the ceramic floor, vaccum cleaned the chairs and waxed/polished my desk BEFORE start working. Until today my room is considered one of those pharmaceutical clean rooms wile all the other rooms in that awful building look like hell.
By the way, there's a Paraguayan cleaner at the company... they are not allowed to enter my room LOL. Can you belive she cleans the entire floor without changing the bucket's water? When she reaches the 3rd of 9 offices, that water looks like chocolate with suds.
toggleswitch2
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O C D?
OCD? What does it mean?
brianl
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Here is how Web MD explains it. I'm sure just a joke on Toggleswitch's part, as I doubt you are as obsessive as some people I know. Good practices to keep your office clean. Come do mine next 
http://www.webmd.com/anxiety-panic/guide/obsessive-compulsive-disorder
http://www.webmd.com/anxiety-panic/guide/obsessive-compulsive-disorder
Oh yes, I didn't realized it before...
No, i'm not obsessive-compulsive.
I just want things clean. I don't think a client would like to go to a company where everything is dirty.
As I spend more time in my office than in my home, why don't make it more comfortable? I'm a human, not a pig.
Isn't nice to enter a room that even the air smells clean?
You'll never see me using one of those steamers to clean the tiniest gaps, but a simple mop by the end of the shift, a vaccum cleaning once or twice a week and some polishing every two weeks won't kill.
It's funny that some of my colleagues always say "i wish I had and office as clean as yours" but they don't even get the dustbuster to vac de debris after eating a sandwich. They just wipe the desk using a dirty rag, throwing the debris on the floor.
I think the most obsessive thing I do is keep a large paintbrush in my personal drawer to clean the computer's keyboard when it's too "hairy".
As I have some hair on the back of my hand and 99.999% of my work is using the computer, it's normal to find some hair "growing" between the keys.
Well, once the cleaner used the vaccum cleaner to clean my boss' room (carpet floor) maybe that was an obsessive moment... LOL
When I saw that, I almost cried.. the vaccum club members would tell the brand of the vaccum cleaner by the HUNDREDS of random brush marks left on the floor.
I couldn't resist. I had to vac his office again just to "comb" the carpet.
Sometimes (if i'm on the mood) i use one of those adesive lint removers on my boss's suit when he has an important meeting. It's horrible to see the CEO wearing a black suit with millions of white lint dots.
He's one of those guys that are "too straight to care about the appearance" so, somebody has to be his personal stylist.
By the way, a long time ago I had to go out just to buy him new socks and until today he doesn't understand why....
black suit, black shoes and brown socks are a little bit shocking.
I also taught him the pot of hair gel is for multiple uses, sometimes more than a month, not a pot per day.
his "wet" look used to be "a little bit" exagerated like a wet cat. now he even knows some fashion and buy fashion magazines.
There's nothing like a queer eye for a straight troglodyte.
No, i'm not obsessive-compulsive.
I just want things clean. I don't think a client would like to go to a company where everything is dirty.
As I spend more time in my office than in my home, why don't make it more comfortable? I'm a human, not a pig.
Isn't nice to enter a room that even the air smells clean?
You'll never see me using one of those steamers to clean the tiniest gaps, but a simple mop by the end of the shift, a vaccum cleaning once or twice a week and some polishing every two weeks won't kill.
It's funny that some of my colleagues always say "i wish I had and office as clean as yours" but they don't even get the dustbuster to vac de debris after eating a sandwich. They just wipe the desk using a dirty rag, throwing the debris on the floor.
I think the most obsessive thing I do is keep a large paintbrush in my personal drawer to clean the computer's keyboard when it's too "hairy".
As I have some hair on the back of my hand and 99.999% of my work is using the computer, it's normal to find some hair "growing" between the keys.
Well, once the cleaner used the vaccum cleaner to clean my boss' room (carpet floor) maybe that was an obsessive moment... LOL
When I saw that, I almost cried.. the vaccum club members would tell the brand of the vaccum cleaner by the HUNDREDS of random brush marks left on the floor.
I couldn't resist. I had to vac his office again just to "comb" the carpet.
Sometimes (if i'm on the mood) i use one of those adesive lint removers on my boss's suit when he has an important meeting. It's horrible to see the CEO wearing a black suit with millions of white lint dots.
He's one of those guys that are "too straight to care about the appearance" so, somebody has to be his personal stylist.
By the way, a long time ago I had to go out just to buy him new socks and until today he doesn't understand why....
black suit, black shoes and brown socks are a little bit shocking.
I also taught him the pot of hair gel is for multiple uses, sometimes more than a month, not a pot per day.
his "wet" look used to be "a little bit" exagerated like a wet cat. now he even knows some fashion and buy fashion magazines.
There's nothing like a queer eye for a straight troglodyte.
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