Spare me your EXCUSES

I am so glad that I am not the owner, or part of management, in the company for which I work. The turnover/attrition in the company since I moved to Montreal would most certainly have been higher.

I am a stickler for punctuality, and at least 2 of my co-workers, when I first moved out here, took their shift start times very lightly. One would be 10-15 minutes late on a regular basis – she has been re-educated, thankfully. The other co-worker seems to think that “I had to do my hair” or “I just woke up” are legitimate excuses for being an hour or more late for her shifts. Apparently, at one point, she also had a schedule that was different from THE schedule posted in the office – which I have yet to see, to be sure.

Thanks to these two, mostly, everyone in my department must email our manager at the start of each shift, every day. Pathetic. Thankfully, co-worker numero DUH! is most definitely now a short-timer – I can only hope we hire someone by the end of this month.

My parents, and former managers, drilled into me, quite successfully, that being on time meant arriving at work a good 5 to 15 minutes BEFORE my shift started. Apparently this is a foreign concept to my two co-workers, and to many others – I shudder to think. Is it so hard to do this? It shows management you take your job seriously enough, and it shows your co-workers CONSIDERATION – so that they know they won’t have to stick around to cover your ass and help anyone else on your shift.

So, unless a family member has died, etc (only ONCE per family member, please) – STFU! – we don’t want to hear it. We certainly don’t want a “produce a corpse for time off” policy put in place.

UPDATE – 12 Apr 2005 @ 1530 ZULU – TRANSCRIPT:

- TERMINATION OF SHORT-TIMER COMPLETE
– …thwack!! [tintin] See yaaaaa!! [/tintin]
- REPLACEMENT WITH SUPERIOR STAFF COMPLETE
- MISSION ACCOMPLISHED

SECOND SORTIE: TAKE OUT DRAMA QUEEN on 15 JULY