My turn to vent...

Every time I start getting proud of my people skills, someone screws it all up..

Work in an emergency operations center that is manned 24/7 with 4 guys working 12 hour shifts (one on duty at a time). We work 50 meters from a convenience store and about 100 from a food court and 7/11 type store. I'm working night shift so stocked up on a few cokes and goodies to cover my shifts this weekend. Store just closed and I opened the fridge to get a coke and everything was gone. Called the guy up that worked the day shift (he was the only one in the shop ) and he said he grabbed them cause had a long trip and he didn't know it was mine. Told him that the important part was it wasn't his and pointed out that he was more or less an oxygen thief and it wasn't a good idea to let that happen again.

Only a couple bucks and I'd be the first one to help out someone that was hungry. this jerk drives a jaguar, has about as much gold chains and rings as Mr T and a mouthful of gold caps. Not what you'd call hurting, just completely worthless.

Done now.

Dave

Your people skills are just fine. You called a spade a spade. No need to apologize.

Typical porch monkey depending on those who work to provide his food.

Little TESTY ain"t ya DAVE?SEEMs your people skills need more honeing.lol. Stop and get a package of chicklets gum,and a package of Feenamints(laxative).Switch products in the containers, and then watch the fun begin.Another suggestion,get your self a Cooler ,stock up with goodies,eat em all your self,that way only you will benefit from your selfish un-caring acts of people failure skills,(should have locked up the fridge).Look on the bright side.He just may have saved you from a nasty health issues ,i,e Gout,bloating, gas ,excessive weight gain. You can have the last laugh when his golden teeth fall out on the seat of his Jaguar. Any way Dave, best return to the drawing board for additional helpfull hints like I just described.Similar to your mis=fortunes with the horse episode.lol. My skills are really honed to a razors edge huh?
LOU

back in the early 80's i sub contracted for a fella he was very sucessful and had a lot of federally funded work
part of the deal was he had to hire so many unemployables ner do wells his youngest son was in charge of one job site that had quite a number of these darlings.
he said to me he didn't mind chasin them around to get any work done but it made him mad that while being so dirverted some one was stealing and eating his lunches.
he wants revenge and he come up with a scheme to find out who was eating his lunch,he buys these hot dogs that had cheese in the middle of them heats them up a little and takes a tube of liquid teflon injects into the dogs squeezes out the cheese and now you have a waterproof dogs.
i said to him that he was running the risk of killing someone, but later one of the boys said he was sick and wanted to go home.
some people have no sense of private property
al

Sounds like a candidate for a BB superglued in a valve cap. Tire wont stay up but no hole in tire. Swap caps with another tire after a couple days.
Ive not done this but I hear its a real pain in the arse.

At a tire plant where I worked someone kept stealing homemade cookies from a friend , he whipped a special batch of chocolate chip. ya know with Ex lax. never lost any cookies after that ??? and one guy missed the next days work. don't know if he was the one that stole them --- LOL

I worked with a crew of about 25 guys a few years back. We (the crew) had trouble with people that came in from a temp service the company used taking food from our lunches stored in fridge at lunch room along with our drinks. Well that didn't last very long when rumors of urine in drinks, exlax in lunches, etc. started getting back to the temps. I also marked my items so i knew if they had been tampered with.

Worthless b@stard just called me 5 minutes before my shift ends and said he is 180 miles away and overslept. Gonna be an extra 3 or so hours for me.

People skills folks.I's gots'em.

Dave

I think your people skills are stellar, he's still breathing. I'm impressed.

Huh...how 'bout that. And when I went to hear Sheriff Joe Arpaio speak, there was a businesswoman in the audience who complained that her business HAD to hire illegals because, as she put it, "white people just won't work when you give them the chance." Glad to hear you got the chance for the extra time, Dave.

Sounds like a typical case of "@#&% you Jack, I'm alright"

At a tire plant where I worked someone kept stealing homemade cookies from a friend , he whipped a special batch of chocolate chip. ya know with Ex lax. never lost any cookies after that ??? and one guy missed the next days work. don't know if he was the one that stole them --- LOL

A while back I read the book "Predictably Irrational" by Dan Ariely. Ariely did a bunch of experiments to understand human behavior. In one of his experiments he left a 20 dollar bill in a college dorm refrigerator. A week later the twenty was still there. Then he left a six-pack of soda in the same refrigerator. The soda was all gone a day later. His conclusion: people don't consider theft of property the same as theft of cash.

Story time: My grandfather was a well known moonshiner, back in the day, had some problems, when he lived over in PG county, seems the indigenous personnel kept stealing his product, before he could get it marketed. Now, ole doc Lancaster was a good friend, he suggested that croton oil was the solution to the problem, he gave him a pint bottle of it. Now the dose of this particular brown fountain inducin medicine, for an adult male is half a drop! How do you get half a drop? Put a drop in a glass full of water, and drink half. Oh well, that didn't matter much, cause grampa Joe didn't believe most doctors, anyway, so he put half a pint in a gallon of whiskey (he didn't make shine, he made whiskey), and made a big deal of hiding it, somewhere where the IP's could see him doin it. He went down the hill, as usual, only he waited for a little while, and they came running down the hill ( in more ways than one!). There was about a half a dozen, all in the same condition, they flagged down some unfortunate individual, to take them to the hospital, and the effluent that ended up in that car, made the owner sell it for scrap, or so the story goes. The important thing to remember here is that Croton oil is an old medicine still used today. AKA Phenolphthalein, the active ingredient in a lot of laxatives, and as a laboratory indicator dye, where it is used in higher concentrations than in today's laxatives. Just thought this info might come in handy, y'all be good, now!

Bartender's Revenge- the "old formula" Visene. Had several old bartender buddies who always had a bottle under the bar for PITA customers- just a drop in a drink produced very quick and quite harsh results..
Did the Chicklets/Feenamint trick on a classmate one day, he was always mooching gum, got him in Math class, didn't even ask the teacher if he could go, just ran out the door