why there are minimum wage jobs....

And why there are so many temp (no benifit) jobs.

Made up stuff isn't near as entertaining........
Working today so walked across the street to our little convenience store at 0905 (it opened at 0900). Big neutral colored lady with about 3 bottles of perfume, a tube of lipstick, and about 2 inch fingernails was havind a cigarette in front of the entrance. Guessed she was a cashier ecause she grunted something and threw down her cigarette when she saw me.

1st the funny part: you couldn't tell what kind of cigarette it was because there was lipstick well past the filter.

Then, at the cash register, I had cup of coffee that cost $1.30. Gave her a dollar bill, a quarter, and a dime. She looked at the total on the register, the money I gave her, punched it in and put it all in the drawer and dug out a nickel (good so far) and the same dollar I just gave her and handed me $1.05 and a receipt that showed that I gave her 1.35 for 1.30 and got 5 cents back.

Gave the dollar and the receipt to the manager and she told me to get another cup of coffee and a donut cause I was the only one to give anything back. Said that cashier was routinely about 20 bucks short after a 6 hour shift.



Next one:

It's a major cleaning day for our building. Twice a year the cleaning contractors swoop in and do a complete, empty out the room cleaning.

2 crews of 15 show up with buckets, rags, and assorted cleaning goodies. Gotta watch this to believe it.

The crew stands and watches 3 guys move everything into the hall. Those 3 set down. 2 or 3 others go in with dusters and brooms to brush down ceilings and walls. They come out and chill while a couple more run in and clean windows. Next is the dusters, then the vacuumer, then the mopper. They all go outside for a cigarette while the floor dries.
Come back in, the first 3 put everything back in, couple go in and arrange said furniture. The supervisor of the crew (idle til now) goes in, looks it over, nods her head, and they move to the next room.

Can only shake your head......

Dave

Yup. I'll never forget the pothole repair crews in Italy (not picking on that country, just happened to be where I was at the time).

Usually six guys would show up with shovels, etc. and have a big discussion that involved a lot of pointing at the hole and hand waving. Finally, one would pick up a shovel and stick start digging as the others yelled at him; he'd throw the shovel down and they would all yell at each other for a few minutes. Then another would pick up the shovel and start digging while the others yelled at him...

Cleanup folks are local nationals (Germans). little joke about a landscaping crew. 4 guys, 1 digs the hole, 1 puts a tree in, 1 fills it, and the last pours on water.

One day the crew was moving along digging, filling, and watering. Customer comes along and asked where's the tree?. The tree guy is sick today.........

How bout them unions????????

Dave

Buzzman72 and Spook are gonna be right over and beat ya up!

You sure you were not in Maricopa County Arizona?Sounds a lot like what I witness repeatedly by MDOT road crews.

When I was down in Gulfport after Katrina, I gave one of the crew kids something to do, and went ahead on my rounds. Came back 45 min later, he's still standing in the same spot shooting the breeze, so I ask him what about that thing you were supposed to do? He replies "I'm fixin' to get ready to start on that"
And he was the best one on the crew, the pick of the litter

(quoted from post at 09:09:13 09/04/10) When I was down in Gulfport after Katrina, I gave one of the crew kids something to do, and went ahead on my rounds. Came back 45 min later, he's still standing in the same spot shooting the breeze, so I ask him what about that thing you were supposed to do? He replies "I'm fixin' to get ready to start on that"
And he was the best one on the crew, the pick of the litter

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ire hydrant painting by city crew in my city. One painting, three standing/watching. Parks crew: 3 guys in a truck, one weed whacker. Let one out with trimmer. Other 2 drive to most remote/hidden part of park, sleep in truck with engine running for A/C. I have observed our tax dollars at work.

i understand how your feel, if you want to see something really funny from these "educated" people, next time while the room is empty hand one of them a 50 foot tape measure and tell them you need to know how many square feet are in that room,

I really don't care.

Witnessed a very funny scene out my window a few years ago.

City crew is there to re-pave a portion of the alley where the pavement had broken up. 7 or so guys, no more than 3 doing anything at any given time, the rest leaning on something. In other words, typical guvment operation.

Next to the alley is a parking lot for a private business- probably a dozen parking spaces, so not a little tiny deal. In the same time it took the city drones to re-do about 15 feet of the alley, ONE GUY broomed sealer onto the whole lot, then brought out an air compressor and stencils, and re-striped all the spaces, plus the blue handicap space as well. He was at a "runnin' crouch" the whole time.

Chances are the guy doing the parking lot by himself was self employed or working by the job,square foot or something.The City guys would get the same pay,no matter how long it took.
I always worked for myself,so wasting time cost ME money,so I had to stay moving.

Was workin at a butcher looked out the window and there's all these red and yellow things.Went to take a closer look turns out it's all railway workers.They were all lined up,we counted 27 in a row.all standing watching the train go by and 2 people doing something.They were there for 6 hours and not once did they do anything,(well they did smoke and sit for coffee,lunch so they did get somthing done.)

Yeah, I'm self employed and always bid by the job rather than the hour. I can usually make good money per hour if I get a good night's sleep and hustle...

Christopher

Boy do I have a cartoon running in my head after the description you just gave!

Christopher

Did you ever stop and think that people on these jobs are standing around doing nothing because the supervisors do not care enough to correct it. Union or not, it can be taken care of, but most supervisors do not want to do the work required to get rid of the goof offs.

(quoted from post at 23:16:14 09/04/10) Did you ever stop and think that people on these jobs are standing around doing nothing because the supervisors do not care enough to correct it. Union or not, it can be taken care of, but most supervisors do not want to do the work required to get rid of the goof offs.

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They probably promote the goof offs in that sort of operation. Wouldn't want to unduly stress the workers now with actual work for their pay, would we?

You're right- I told the guy I'd like to call his boss and give him an attaboy- he just laughed, and said, "You just did".