cavernio (![[info]](http://p-stat.livejournal.com/img/userinfo.gif){kind=small} cavernio) wrote,@ 2006-11-01 21:29:00 |
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I'm disgusted
At work today, I was witness to the development of one of the most disturbing human states. I'm at a loss for exact words as to exactly what it is, although I'm certain there's general way of putting it.
In a nutshell, there was an issue with the till tonight, and everything *clearly* pointed in the direction of 1 particular person. The evidence went along the lines of something like this. Firstly, the general feeling for this person X is that she's slow at learning, she's not putting enough effort into doing a good job, she's not taking things serious enough, she's a little weird and juvenile. That she hasn't performed well from the beginning has black marked her, much in the same way I get an A-OK from people because I can usually pick things up quickly. Then there was an incident where was showing a product from the store she liked to another co-worker, hardly anything expensive, and the co-worker somehow knew that she didn't pay for it when she brought it up. This item stayed at the front where we work for a few days, and it kept being brought up in whispered conversation among the gossips who I work with. The item got returned to the store by someone who was fed up with clutter being up front. Apparently X asked the next day what happened to the item, but it was never, ever told to me that X said "Oh, I payed for that, it was mine", nor did she go back and try to get some more.
Another worker lost money a little while back, and she was sure it was stolen from her purse. I don't recall anyone ever hinting at anything about X doing it, although I wonder if people brought it to mind tonight. It was mentioned tonight that there had been other issues going on with X, that I didn't know all of it. The only issue brought up when I specifically questioned was the item shown off to a co-worker, which I had, in fact, already known about.
One of my co-worker's who was/is not impressed with the X has performed, told me a few days ago that she had blatantly lied about who's fault it was for a mistake which was made, and she couldn't stand it. X said that a different co-worker had done the mistake, as it was her who was showing her what to do. This other co-worker very much has seniority, but they also don't do the exact same job which we do, (anymore at least) and I've seen them make mistakes and be unsure when it comes down to the stuff most of us do. The co-worker did not believe for an instant that the senior person could have made a mistake, and was very unimpressed that X couldn't shoulder the blame. I suppose this could be an 'incident' that people were thinking about when saying 'there's been other things'.
Someone mentioned something about a camera this evening, but that's the first I heard about it, and it wasn't from our specific department.
In any case, the mood was ripe for instant condeming of worker X as soon as there was an issue with the till tonight. X was in a hurry to leave tonight. She was also acting rather giddy tonight, from what X said was a lack of sleep. As soon as there were problems though, and as soon as everyone thought it was her, people started saying, 'she was in a hurry to leave tonight' and 'she was acting all happy, no wonder, she's got money now'. No one likes this job enough that they're not happy to leave when their shift's over. Everyone acts up during the evening when things get slow and the minutes slow down to a snail's pace.
So far, I've only described things which I know I shouldn't be posting on the internet, but I haven't touched upon the vehemence and anger that the people there working with me that night gave off. They got instantly stressed, angry and panicky. As soon as I said 'we can't be sure that X did anything', they just looked at me, and said 'there's been other incidents'. Now, I know I'm out of the loop a lot with things like this, because I don't like to talk about things like that, but I don't steer clear of it like I should, I'm too much of a busy-body and far too bored at work for that. I ask questions all the time if I notice whispering and its not meant to be hidden from me. Regardless, nothing anyone's said convinced me that X had stolen before, nor have her actions shown that she was the person who stole money.
But wait, I'm not finished yet. After everyone got so...so...ack, I just can't help but bring to mind my co-workers as the jury in that TNG episode where they meet Q for the first time, and he puts them on trial, or like the way the kids become in Lord of the Flies. After people were starting to disturb me with their logical leaps and bounds, the person who noticed the problem in the first place (you're not actually supposed to do count the till at night) decided to complete all the paper work that's usually done in the morning. Might I add that that was the first thing I suggest be done while everyone else was transforming into a mob, but didn't actually get started until at least 5 minutes later. It turned out that although the cash itself was short, the actual funds collected from all sources (debits, visas, etc) matched up perfectly with the total sales rung in. No, things weren't perfectly right, but our total was correct. I'm fairly certain that tomorrow we'll find out that one of the people who worked earlier during the day did something odd with the cash, which HAS happened before. (One day while I was doing the paper work, I got a phonecall specifically from one of the people who worked this morning, telling me that she forgot to leave a note saying that the till should actually be short.)
The worst part is that once that was found out, the atmosphere didn't change. I left the co-op with people shaking in anger, saying they wouldn't be able to sleep tonight, they're disgusted, saying that something's definitely wrong. No one heaved a sigh of relief, or a sigh of 'well, no one's probably stolen anything'. What the hell do you think X was doing, laundering money for chrissakes? She couldn't learn simple things in our system easily, and in her defense, she's probably not smart enough to figure out how to screw with the system on her own such that she could have pocketed an amount of money which, if she had, included small change.
I'm just glad that my supervisor wasn't a part of it.
At work today, I was witness to the development of one of the most disturbing human states. I'm at a loss for exact words as to exactly what it is, although I'm certain there's general way of putting it.
In a nutshell, there was an issue with the till tonight, and everything *clearly* pointed in the direction of 1 particular person. The evidence went along the lines of something like this. Firstly, the general feeling for this person X is that she's slow at learning, she's not putting enough effort into doing a good job, she's not taking things serious enough, she's a little weird and juvenile. That she hasn't performed well from the beginning has black marked her, much in the same way I get an A-OK from people because I can usually pick things up quickly. Then there was an incident where was showing a product from the store she liked to another co-worker, hardly anything expensive, and the co-worker somehow knew that she didn't pay for it when she brought it up. This item stayed at the front where we work for a few days, and it kept being brought up in whispered conversation among the gossips who I work with. The item got returned to the store by someone who was fed up with clutter being up front. Apparently X asked the next day what happened to the item, but it was never, ever told to me that X said "Oh, I payed for that, it was mine", nor did she go back and try to get some more.
Another worker lost money a little while back, and she was sure it was stolen from her purse. I don't recall anyone ever hinting at anything about X doing it, although I wonder if people brought it to mind tonight. It was mentioned tonight that there had been other issues going on with X, that I didn't know all of it. The only issue brought up when I specifically questioned was the item shown off to a co-worker, which I had, in fact, already known about.
One of my co-worker's who was/is not impressed with the X has performed, told me a few days ago that she had blatantly lied about who's fault it was for a mistake which was made, and she couldn't stand it. X said that a different co-worker had done the mistake, as it was her who was showing her what to do. This other co-worker very much has seniority, but they also don't do the exact same job which we do, (anymore at least) and I've seen them make mistakes and be unsure when it comes down to the stuff most of us do. The co-worker did not believe for an instant that the senior person could have made a mistake, and was very unimpressed that X couldn't shoulder the blame. I suppose this could be an 'incident' that people were thinking about when saying 'there's been other things'.
Someone mentioned something about a camera this evening, but that's the first I heard about it, and it wasn't from our specific department.
In any case, the mood was ripe for instant condeming of worker X as soon as there was an issue with the till tonight. X was in a hurry to leave tonight. She was also acting rather giddy tonight, from what X said was a lack of sleep. As soon as there were problems though, and as soon as everyone thought it was her, people started saying, 'she was in a hurry to leave tonight' and 'she was acting all happy, no wonder, she's got money now'. No one likes this job enough that they're not happy to leave when their shift's over. Everyone acts up during the evening when things get slow and the minutes slow down to a snail's pace.
So far, I've only described things which I know I shouldn't be posting on the internet, but I haven't touched upon the vehemence and anger that the people there working with me that night gave off. They got instantly stressed, angry and panicky. As soon as I said 'we can't be sure that X did anything', they just looked at me, and said 'there's been other incidents'. Now, I know I'm out of the loop a lot with things like this, because I don't like to talk about things like that, but I don't steer clear of it like I should, I'm too much of a busy-body and far too bored at work for that. I ask questions all the time if I notice whispering and its not meant to be hidden from me. Regardless, nothing anyone's said convinced me that X had stolen before, nor have her actions shown that she was the person who stole money.
But wait, I'm not finished yet. After everyone got so...so...ack, I just can't help but bring to mind my co-workers as the jury in that TNG episode where they meet Q for the first time, and he puts them on trial, or like the way the kids become in Lord of the Flies. After people were starting to disturb me with their logical leaps and bounds, the person who noticed the problem in the first place (you're not actually supposed to do count the till at night) decided to complete all the paper work that's usually done in the morning. Might I add that that was the first thing I suggest be done while everyone else was transforming into a mob, but didn't actually get started until at least 5 minutes later. It turned out that although the cash itself was short, the actual funds collected from all sources (debits, visas, etc) matched up perfectly with the total sales rung in. No, things weren't perfectly right, but our total was correct. I'm fairly certain that tomorrow we'll find out that one of the people who worked earlier during the day did something odd with the cash, which HAS happened before. (One day while I was doing the paper work, I got a phonecall specifically from one of the people who worked this morning, telling me that she forgot to leave a note saying that the till should actually be short.)
The worst part is that once that was found out, the atmosphere didn't change. I left the co-op with people shaking in anger, saying they wouldn't be able to sleep tonight, they're disgusted, saying that something's definitely wrong. No one heaved a sigh of relief, or a sigh of 'well, no one's probably stolen anything'. What the hell do you think X was doing, laundering money for chrissakes? She couldn't learn simple things in our system easily, and in her defense, she's probably not smart enough to figure out how to screw with the system on her own such that she could have pocketed an amount of money which, if she had, included small change.
I'm just glad that my supervisor wasn't a part of it.
