slackers

I hate them.

There are always slackers at work and they think they are much better workers then they are.

I know everyone slacks from time to time. There will be a day when you are like....can't deal with people, and avoid register at all costs. Or when you feel so overwhelmed and stressed that you call in sick, and take a personal day, knowing that you'll be a better worker the next day for it. I understand these things. It happens to everyone from time to time.

However, when it's a constant pattern...

YOU. ARE. A. SLACKER.

And no one likes a habitual slacker.

I had a dream last night that we had four closers at the theatre. Me and A, B and C. I'm not going to use their names to protect their identities. :) Me and A are good workers. I love closing with her. She is enjoyable to be around and she does her work. B and C are slackers and in this particular dream, they both called out sick. B has a habit of doing that and this past weekend C has missed two days out of three being "injured" although when your co-workers are in the same social circle as you and you aren't injured...we know what you are doing. We had a 1:20 am showing of Alice in my dream and me and A were there closing the stand until we opened the next morning. Now, I realize the dream is pretty unrealistic. Our scheduling manager wouldn't only schedule four of us on a day that had such a late night showing. We'd have six. Also, there isn't any reason for us to have a 1:20 showing on a Sunday. School nights we don't tend to have showings that late except for Thursdays-the midnight showings of the stuff opening Friday. And if we got cut down to two closers, the managers would probably step in and help or make 4-12's stay late and get overtime in order to get us out of there before we opened. There is no way we would be allowed to stay that late. It would be like 5 hours of overtime. They'd just send us home.

Anyway, so by the time I go on break B, who is actually working today HAS gone home, claiming she didn't feel well. But, since she always "doesn't feel well" when she has to mop, all of us think differently. It can't just be a coincidence. Our shift lead then says he's going to assign her mopping every time now, because he doesn't like it that she keeps going home sticking the job on other people. He said, either she'll suck it up or if she keeps going home to avoid it-she'll make no money and the managers will catch on. Although judging by the managers talking-they've already caught on and are unimpressed. Mopping isn't even that bad. It makes you stick around for like 15 more minutes? Which is 15 more minutes you get paid. i don't mind. I don't want to do it every time because the mop is heavy but it's not the end of the world. But I seriously can't remember the last time B mopped and we all have noticed. And are subsequently unimpressed.

C was also working and he stuck around the whole time even if he did take a super long ten minute break in the middle of closing (I hate people who do this unless they have a legit reason like they need to call their ride but most people are just being assholes.). He sucks though and was doing everything fucking horribly and I was like SERIOUSLY? He swept behind all the poppers but didn't butler it up so it was all over the floor, waiting to get swept back behind the poppers and he started drains without sweeping and tried to do them without taking the drain covers off and sweeping behind there and I was like -.-
It shouldn't be too hard for me to advance when I'm working with people like this who are idiots.

We had three 4-12's and only one of them stuck around. Our shift lead stuck around until midnight. He rocks. One of the other ones had done a couple of poppers and closed the side stands and was the last person on register so we could do stuff, but the other girl, is the new girl I don't like and she didn't do like ANYTHING after closing side stands. She wiped off a few counters but they weren't clean at all and I had to re-do them later and then she left a half hour early because she had to be there at nine am the next morning. LAME. I've closed and then opened before. It's not that difficult. You'd tired but it's doable. She wasn't even closing. She was getting off at midnight and she couldn't stick around for half an hour? She dawdled around for like an hour doing nothing useful and then left? Unimpressed man. I name you slacker. For the record the other one who left early is usually pretty decent to close with.

A had to leave early because she was never sent on her forty, but I didn't mind because she was busting her ass to help us get as much as she could help us get done before she had to leave at one in order to not get break violation. Another girl had to leave when her ride got there but she ended up sticking around. I felt like a shift leader though, because the other girl-I don't think she is a natural leader and the guy is pretty much a lemming in my book. It was kinda awesome. The funny thing is that B wants to BE a shift lead. No way in hell if she keeps leaving like that. Managers like team players. I'm pretty sure the managers are catching on to her ways. Maybe she'll get demoted to floor and get fired like the other girl who was a slacker-even if she amused me and I liked her.

I don't understand slackers though. I know we don't get paid a whole lot, but we have opportunities for raises every three months. Shouldn't that make it worthwhile to do a half decent job?