Lazy workers

[carlos]

be glad of the oppportunty to shine brightly amoung your co-workers, imagine if they were all better workers than you?? would you prefer that?

[treequip]

I think you lot are being a bit harsh.

 

I've been on jobs, being paid by someone else, where other 'team members' have been tossing it off resulting in a late finish for everyone.

 

Not good.

 

Yup, me too and I did something about it that wasn't whinging to people I don't even know on the internet, then whinging to the internet because my whinge got moderated

[Stu]

I guess it comes down to pay to, if they get payed peanuts your gunna get monkeys!

[Joe Newton]

It is demoralising if you bust a gut to get a job done and other people are dragging their feet. Not only do you have to work harder and longer to compensate for it but it looks bad on the team as a whole. I, like you am employed, and have had new lads come (and go) because they haven't pulled their weight with the rest.

 

It's doubly frustrating since there's not a lot you can do about it, short of letting the boss know the reason why a job took longer.

 

From the other perspective, it's rare to find people that have the competitiveness and team spirit to work hard and fast, when the majority of employed workers don't get paid commensurate to what is expected of them.

 

A good way to point this out to slow workers is that their objective is to work hard and earn good money for their company, and hopefully this gets noticed and will come back around.

[Andy Collins]

In the workplace there are different categories of "worker". There is the grafter, busting his nuts to do the job, get the brush out, carry the logs out, rake up, and get on. There is the "empty can", he rattles around with a load of bluster, hey look how much I'm (not) actually doing, shouting at everyone else because he feels he's doing the lions share, but does next to nothing. There is the "puppy dog", the boss chucks him a ball, he runs around the yard wagging his tail furiously, chases up and down and gets nowhere, comes back and the boss pats his head, waiting for he ball to be thrown again. Then there is the older guy, who just gets on with the job, doesn't grizzle or complain, teaches the less experienced, quietly sorts any problems on site and without moving fast, gets through a pile of work. We're only human, with faults of our own. It's down to the bosses, the management, to gel together a team that can get the job done, with the minimum of hassle, and in each team with be a mix of different people.

[Mark Bolam]

We should have a poll, 'which type of worker are you?'

 

I'm an empty can.

[treequip]

We should have a poll, 'which type of worker are you?'

 

I'm an empty can.

 

I am the one crying over an empty (beer) can:laugh1:

[Mark Bolam]

That might be a popular category Andy!

[gensetsteve]

In the workplace there are different categories of "worker". There is the grafter, busting his nuts to do the job, get the brush out, carry the logs out, rake up, and get on. There is the "empty can", he rattles around with a load of bluster, hey look how much I'm (not) actually doing, shouting at everyone else because he feels he's doing the lions share, but does next to nothing. There is the "puppy dog", the boss chucks him a ball, he runs around the yard wagging his tail furiously, chases up and down and gets nowhere, comes back and the boss pats his head, waiting for he ball to be thrown again. Then there is the older guy, who just gets on with the job, doesn't grizzle or complain, teaches the less experienced, quietly sorts any problems on site and without moving fast, gets through a pile of work. We're only human, with faults of our own. It's down to the bosses, the management, to gel together a team that can get the job done, with the minimum of hassle, and in each team with be a mix of different people.

 

You forgot the one that struts around in his timber sports wearing designer sun glasses in the rain and cuts at least one body part of a week.

[mendiplogs]

In the workplace there are different categories of "worker". There is the grafter, busting his nuts to do the job, get the brush out, carry the logs out, rake up, and get on. There is the "empty can", he rattles around with a load of bluster, hey look how much I'm (not) actually doing, shouting at everyone else because he feels he's doing the lions share, but does next to nothing. There is the "puppy dog", the boss chucks him a ball, he runs around the yard wagging his tail furiously, chases up and down and gets nowhere, comes back and the boss pats his head, waiting for he ball to be thrown again. Then there is the older guy, who just gets on with the job, doesn't grizzle or complain, teaches the less experienced, quietly sorts any problems on site and without moving fast, gets through a pile of work. We're only human, with faults of our own. It's down to the bosses, the management, to gel together a team that can get the job done, with the minimum of hassle, and in each team with be a mix of different people.

HI ANDY i like way you put it mate well done there mate :thumbup1:jon