mattbcl
15th June 2011, 03:43 PM
We're having a rocky period of adjustment at work lately. At the moment there are 3 of us at my branch and we're expanding to 5. We hired one for three days, then found out he had a record and promptly got rid of him. I tried to get a friend of mine a job, and amidst the dozens of applications we got, my boss even offered him one... but then he failed a drug test. He was supposed to start training today, but we only got the news about the drug test yesterday. I feel like this made me look like an idiot that hangs out with the wrong kind of people, and I'm pretty disappointed in him, both of which I told him. I haven't heard back from him since.
So we called another guy, told him to be at my shop by 9:30 am. He never showed. We moved down the list to the fourth most liked candidate, and he said he couldn't be there until 2 pm, which left me holding the bag in my shop for almost two hours after I was done with the other trainee (thank God he made it through screening). Why? He needed a nap... maybe more than a job. I dunno. He arrived late even for that.
He's friends with one of the other two guys here, by the way, and that current employee was told this past Monday to take a driver's test online - he was given all the resources to do it and encouraged to do it soon. "Soon" apparently means "four days from now" to this guy; he told my boss today, after considerable hocking, that he was planning on doing it tomorrow evening and have the results Friday morning.
I've already bitched about my writing issues in another thread, so I'll simply leave it at this: distraction gets to me and I put it off for intolerable amounts of time.
Is there anyone else here who's having similar issues in the daily grind with relation to tardiness or procrastination? How do you deal with the inevitable frustration that results? (Before any replies come, I wish to note that anybody who answers "I drink a lot" is really not using their imagination.)
So we called another guy, told him to be at my shop by 9:30 am. He never showed. We moved down the list to the fourth most liked candidate, and he said he couldn't be there until 2 pm, which left me holding the bag in my shop for almost two hours after I was done with the other trainee (thank God he made it through screening). Why? He needed a nap... maybe more than a job. I dunno. He arrived late even for that.
He's friends with one of the other two guys here, by the way, and that current employee was told this past Monday to take a driver's test online - he was given all the resources to do it and encouraged to do it soon. "Soon" apparently means "four days from now" to this guy; he told my boss today, after considerable hocking, that he was planning on doing it tomorrow evening and have the results Friday morning.
I've already bitched about my writing issues in another thread, so I'll simply leave it at this: distraction gets to me and I put it off for intolerable amounts of time.
Is there anyone else here who's having similar issues in the daily grind with relation to tardiness or procrastination? How do you deal with the inevitable frustration that results? (Before any replies come, I wish to note that anybody who answers "I drink a lot" is really not using their imagination.)