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Edited by II Smiggles II: 4/26/2014 8:32:45 PM
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My Coworker Feels I'm a Threat

Alright, warning this is blog-ish Also TL;DR I left NSFW drawings out on a clip board accidentally and a coworker felt it was a threat of violence towards her. Put under the cut for convenience. [spoiler]I closed Wednesday night an it gets really slow. I've made a habit of drawing on napkins at work, be it on my break or during dead time. For the first time ever I accidentally left two of them on the clipboard by the safe. One was simply a bunny that I tried to make as cute as possible at the time and another was Yatagarasu, a three-legged crow of myth. It had a speech bubble that said, "-blam!- you. I'm a God". This particular coworker of which I helped when no one else would and gave her the nice towel treatment found it the next morning. She took it directly to my manager and said she was "scared, offended and very angry". Explaining to my manager that she felt I intentionally left it for her to find and that it was surely a personal attack/threat. One that needed to be taken very seriously. My manager today pulled me into her office where I laughed about it. I was asked simply not to draw at the store anymore and the napkins were confiscated. Though as I closed the door she complimented my art style. This isn't the first time I've been dirtied for ridiculous claims. When I first began working here another coworker had told my manager I scream at her, throw things, and make her feel unimportant. I hardly talk at all. [/spoiler] Anyone ever have something stupid happen at work? I'm still at mine so replies will be slow.

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  • Edited by Unisaur 64: 4/26/2014 7:48:34 PM
    You should probably explain this to your coworker, you don't want her to constantly think you're out to get her. That, or run with it and get her to quit by sending increasingly intimidating, yet plausibly denied messages. Whatever.

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  • >smiggles >threat Pick one [spoiler] hue[/spoiler]

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      Shit on her desk

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    • She was just jealous of your amazing skills. ;)

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    • Edited by Based Gatsby: 4/25/2014 8:56:54 PM
      Inb4GasaiYuno"killher" What a skank, it's just a doodle. Is she a religious nut? That might explain it.

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      • You are obviously a threat to all that you encounter and should be put down Old Yeller style... But seriously that's pretty ridiculous and I'm sorry you have to work with someone who seems so self important that they think random napkin drawings must be about them....

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        • Edited by Prototape: 4/26/2014 5:38:46 PM
          Sucks mang. At least it sounds like your manager is more or less siding with you. I don't get caught up in workplace drama. My co-workers have, but I've made it very clear that I have no interest in it. If they ignore that, I do what I did at my last job and quit. Long story aside, what made me decide to quit was my co-worker telling me "You gotta learn play the game man" ("The game" meaning workplace 'climb your way to the top by stabbing people in the back' game). Funny, I thought I was there to do my job.

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          • Lolz. Crazy 'Murrikans gettin crazy oh-fended. Should've said it was a religious custom and let the shenanigans unfurl. [spoiler]If you don't mind getting fired, maybe[/spoiler]

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          • Leave a blank napkin at her house.

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            • Seems like you work with a bunch of bitchy women except your manager she seems quite cool headed

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            • You are a threat!

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              • I'm going to let it rip on my construction job here and now. You want stupid shit? I'll give the utmost biggest pile of stupid shit I've ever done in my life. Okay so this first bit takes place pretty much when I was new at the job, about two weeks in. We'd finished the basic concrete foundation of the building and had to lay some more groundwork before all the iron came in. Our goal was, to create a slope in the basement so all the water would drain into a sump pump that would suck it out. So, here's the catch. We had a caterpillar that brought over all the sand, but it didn't drop it into the pit, just outside. #1. It could have dropped the sand into the pit. This meant that we had to shovel several tons worth of sand into the pit by hand. #2. The caterpillar could have gotten into the pit, moved all the sand, and then made a perfect slope with it's bucket. It did not. We shoveled several tons of sand once more, and sloped it out by hand. And, at the end of the day, our boss comes over and says that the slope wasn't right. We need to pull away all the sand in order to work on the wall again. This is when one of our co-workers quit, leaving me and another guy alone for it. So, on a -blam!-ing muddy slope, we tossed sand into a wheelbarrow, pushed it up the slope, lifted it above the pit, and threw it back out. Yeah, that's right, we lifted out several tons of sand that we'd already moved around twice out of the pit and back onto normal ground. Just two of us. And to top it all off, our boss was pushing us because we were going slow apparently. And over the next few days, the sand froze solid. Any guesses who the -blam!- had to move it by hand when things were all good to go again? Just me. My buddy got sick so I had to break the sand apart with a jackhammer, shovel it into the wheelbarrow, and toss it down into the pit. And I had to set everything up for sloping it. Then, for the next few weeks, we did work inside the existing building. We broke apart a lot of concrete and were tasked with moving it outside. We weren't allowed to go out the front where it would be easier, so we tossed it all out the back door into the pit. And had to move it out of the pit. And here's where we get to sand bullshit part two. Our boss specifically stated that we could dump the broken concrete off to the side of the pit since it was closest, and the ground was pulled back big time there. So we did. Not a week later, the caterpiller dropped more sand off to fill some stuff. And guess what we had to fill by hand again? The side of the building where we threw all the broken concrete. Rather than use the caterpillar to fill the trench, we filled it by hand, driving a wheelbarrow over a slope of broken concrete. Then we called it quits because more alterations needed to be done. And the sand pile froze again. So skip ahead a few weeks later, and all the iron has been laid over the pit and it has a basic floor and supports now. What does the boss say? We need more sand down there on one side of the building, and we need to slope it. That meant we had to throw sand down a tiny hole int he floor, jump down there when it became too full, and, crouching underneath the iron beams and supports, shovel and slope more god damn sand. And it was wet down there. It was a mudhole. Getting all the sand down there like that, and then moving it took two weeks, just me and my co-worker. Every single day, from 5 o clock in the morning, to 6 o' clock at night, we shoveled sand through mud for 14 days straight. Now we speed things up to about a month later. The basic walls have been set up, the concrete was laid over the iron, but we had no roof for some stupid reason. So the rains came. And started raining all over the exposed walls and other important stuff. Boss waved it off, and our task was, to collect all the water that was collecting on the concrete floor. While it was still raining..... And, another month later, we come back to the frozen sand pile. I shoveled the whole thing by myself since my buddy was sick again, for the next couple of weeks. And now, we come to spring time. The base of the building was all done, and we had to get ready for the roof. Guess what stood in our way. A layer of ice, overtop of the roof, 5 feet thick. Want to guess what we were forced to use instead of a jackhammer or an ice breaker because it was too noisy for the workers in the building? Standard hammers. Regular, everyday hammers. Not even a sledge hammer. Over half of the roof was covered in a layer of 5 feet of ice. And then we came to the worst part of the job. Stripping away the roof. Over the years, the solution to the leaking, saggy roof was to put more tar over it. We ended up cutting out the tar with a [i]diamond[/i] concrete cutting saw because it was so thick. Each slab of tar weighed about 40 kilos each. And we struggled to pull each and every one out, walk across the whole building, and toss them over the roof into the garbage truck below. Me and my buddy did this alone for an entire week. And worst of all, up in the roof, it was cold because of the wind, but still hot under the sun. And pulling up the tar gave you about 25 years worth of dust blowing in your face. Underneath that, was a layer of yellow scratchy insulation. We had the windiest days for that. By the end of the day, you couldn't stop scratching. Next up came chipping off the stuco all over the outside of the building. We spent one month chipping away at poorly glued on stucco with hammers and crow bars. I say poorly put in place because normally, it should have a layer of wire under it to strengthen the bond, but this stuff didn't. So rather than dig into a little bit into the stucco, grab a hold of the wire frame, and pull hard, we had to chip it all off, piece by piece. And after all was said and done, we found out we didn't even have to do all that. Next up would be near the end of my time on the job. The roof was put up, and we had to crawl underneath it into the attic which was about three feet tall in the middle. We had to crawl to the very end of the rafters, and hammer in metal supports. Thing was, the rafters had about two feet of space in between them, and by the time you found a way to crawl to the very end of them in a tight, awkward manner, there was barely any room to move. And once you got the supports in, you crawled all the way back out of one row, and went down another. And all of it could have been avoided if we'd put them on while we put the rafters up and the roof didn't sit overtop of them. And last, but not least, at the very end of my job, when my buddy was sick, and I was sick, alone, I took a jackhammer to one side of the entire building, and took apart all the bricks, hauled them out of the building, hauled 70 pound windows out without breaking them, and then hauled double panned 120 pound windows in to the building, lifted them up into place, and made sure they were secure. Never again.

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                • And, while I'm at it, I'd like to say one last thing. Now, imagine this. You spend most of your spring, summer, and fall working. You're stronger than you've ever been, super healthy, stamina of horse. Feels good right? 8 months of winter roll in. Over these 8 months, there is hardly any physical labour whatsoever, you can't go outside because the average temperature is between -20 to -40, and you're living in a very small house. Over the next 8 months, every gain you've made is lost. All your strength, all your stamina, just slides right on down the shitter. And come springtime, when it's time to work again, it's not easy. It's never easy because you're so atrophied. Which means you have to work twice as hard to keep up. And this cycle will repeat, ever single year. I want you to imagine this. This, terrible feeling, of knowing all the work you're going to be doing in the spring and summer, and possibly fall. And I want you to take the hardest physical thing you've ever done in your life, and remember the feeling of how hard it was. Every, single, year, you will have to go through this feeling as you build up your body again. Through the weeks and months of work to reach the peak you got to last year, only to have it slide back down during the winter. And finally, I want you to imagine this. Tomorrow, whether or not it's -10, or it's freezing rain, you're going to drive for about an hour or two, out to the woods, with a 4 foot long chainsaw, and cut trees down all day. And you're going to haul them, all day. And this is your first day of work after 8 months of winter and atrophied muscles and stamina. I'm not complaining about the stupid people. But sometimes, this province is really, really god damn stupid.

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                • I used to work at a thrift store and the manager in charge was a sexist, lesbian bitch. Every chance she got, all of us men (like 5 out of 40 employees) would get yelled at for the smallest thing that if a female did it, nothing would be said. Used to work in the warehouse and Saturday's was so busy with donations no other task could get finished (couldn't help to bring back sold furniture or put more furniture out) and group that with a VERY limited space (no carts to place the shit in and no place to put full carts) it turned into a nightmare whenever that bitch would walk in (Had to refrain from lashing out on her). Oh and we had this "3ft rule" where you must maintain a 3ft walking space and not let stuff flow over. So if something like a lego fell in the 3ft she would flip the -blam!- out but if the women (who sorted out all the clothes and other shit) had boxes in the walkway, she'd ignore it

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                  • Edited by WhitePowder: 4/26/2014 7:29:54 AM
                    One time my boss forgot to send my hour log to corporate so I had to go 4 weeks without a single paycheck.Pretty sure she was stealing hours from me and putting them on her own timesheet. She continually screwed up my paychecks until I quit. I ended up cussing her out calling her a bi**h and fat and an ugly fat bit**h etc etc. My hours at that job consisted of this 4:00am-9:00am 3:00pm-6:00pm 7:00pm-9:00pm 6 days a week That schedule drove me insane. I would have literally no time to enjoy anything not even sleep. I literally would sleep about 30 hours a week maybe then on my day off just sleep for the majority of the day. Couldn't do anything on my day off either because I would get out of work the previous day at 9pm and go right to sleep. wake up mid day have a little time to BS and then have to go to bed early since I would have to wake up at 3am the next day so really I had no day off it was more of a "sleep a few hours then go back to work day"

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                  • It's not work, but during my CNA (Certified Nursing Assistant) Clinicals I had a old man, suffering from dementia mind you, demand that I be kept out of his room. The reason he gave was that he felt that "This young man is trying to steal my penis! He thinks that his isn't big enough so he wants to chop off my privates and sew them onto his own!"

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                    • If there's cameras at your work, tell your manager to check those. Also you should mention that employees who lie might be a threat to the company.

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                      • One last thing to throw on the stupid shit pile about my construction job. There was a small shed of sorts, the kind that you could pack up on a trailer and haul away. This was our base of sorts. And rather than have it on the premises of the god damn building we were working on, it was in a lot about two blocks away from the site. So you know what our fantastic -blam!-ing wake-up in the morning ritual was? Haul all the tools two blocks to the work site. Haul all the stuff we were going to need such as lumber, iron, and so on. And, there was one day that really, really sucked above all others. After chipping all the stucco off the building, rather than us cleaning as we went along like we suggested, the boss just said "na, add on to the scaffolding as you go." So when they needed the scaffolding, we had to dig it out of knee high piles of stucco and wire frames. And to top it all off, at the end of the day, we removed two 400 lb signs from the top of the building by hand and lowered them down with ropes because the company was too dopey to send a crane over or even a cherry picker. And we carried these damn signs for two blocks back to the -blam!-ing home base shed thing.

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                      • Seems the co-workers that don't get along with you are females. You must be attractive which in turn threatens them. Hmm...

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                      • Your co-workers a dumb ass.

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                      • Lol

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                        Good lawd ._. You should definitely slide a small drawing of an innocent looking smiley through her letterbox that just says 'We know' :D

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                        • Sometimes you cannot prevent people from being stupid. But what you can do is be more social to your coworkers. Build up a reputation for being a nice guy. That way if somebody tries to accuse you of being violent, it will be less believable.

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                          • Punch her in the throat.

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                          • Naw man, that sucks. People really are too tightly wound! I dun have any stories to share :3

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