Tuesday, January 27, 2009

The Devil's In The Details

Hey y'all, what's good? I'm trying to maintain. The stress of living apart from my wife coupled with the ever increasing aches and pains of a daily workout is giving me the blues. Along with the weather and the economy, it's shaping up to be a pretty shitty next few months. In the meantime, I always have the joys of my job to fall back on...

Last week Office Broccoli, filing clerk, got paid too much in her check. Payroll gave her 40 hours of pay EXTRA. She brought it to my office staff's attention a couple of days after it happened, and they brought it to me. Simple solution, right? Give us back the money now or keep the money and we'll just pay 40 hours less on the next check. Case closed. Not so fast.

"I used the extra money to pay back my nephew some money I owed him. And I can't afford a short check next week." What the fuck is this? You used the money that wasn't yours AND you don't want to subsequently pay us back? Your nephews money came before our money, the place you earn a living, with no skills except alphabetizing? Really, dumbass?

So she complains to her union rep that we're trying to take money from her, money she hadn't earned yet. Now the union rep wants to talk to me. I ask him "What is there to talk about? She can pay us back or she can keep the money and be short on the next check. She doesn't get to keep the money and keep getting paid. That doesn't make sense." He asserts that it's the payroll processor's fault, that she shouldn't have to pay back the money, the payroll processor should. "I don't care who pays back the money, it's gotta be paid back with uncompensated work or cash. By the way, the payroll processor's in your union too. Are you willing to sacrifice one union member over the other?" His dumbass couldn't fight that logic.

Today she signed the agreement to receive a short check next week.

KZ

13 comments:

Nexgrl said...

So now you must add telling the Union Rep how to do his/her job, in addition to your office staff.

chele said...

She shouldn't have to pay the money back??? WTF is that about? Does OB smoke crack?

calikim9 said...

LMAO! I guess the union rep will be representing the payroll processor next. What ever happen to accountabilty?

Knockout Zed said...

@Nexgrl
He was really willing to throw one member under the bus for another, based on principle. BAD principle! He's a fucking idiot, too.

@Chele
Office Broccoli is a clown. Always talking about bailing her son out of jail, and trying to help her granddaughter drop of of high school, loudly, at work. She's the old broad wearing leopard patterned tight pants with a sequined shirt to work. She's that chick.

KZ

Knockout Zed said...

@Calikim
That's the game the union plays here. They'll rep one member in spite of another, then rep the other one, putting management in a no win situation. Then they get mad when try to circumvent they asses. You know, I came to this job as a pro-union dude, but this is a horrible union. Stupid and corrupt.

KZ

A.u.n.t. Jackie said...

one of my co-workers "lost" a thousand dollars and called in sick permanently and never came back to work...

He said he MIGHT have left it in a rental car, but he's not sure, so he might find it, but he might not...

On what planet is that acceptable?

Knockout Zed said...

@AJ
You mean they shitted on their good name and career instead of trying to work out an installment play to pay the employer back? That's the stupidest shit I've ever heard.

KZ

Anonymous said...

Damn people stay on stupid. In this economy someone would be more than happy to take her job. She can't really be that sloooow...maybe she can.

Wifey615 said...

wow, just wow

A.u.n.t. Jackie said...

yup, that's what he did, but the good news is that Hollywood is filled with crooks and liars so he'll fit right in!

Anonymous said...

I got aggravated just reading that nonsense! What kinda dumb stuff is that.

proacTiff said...

Sounds like she wanted them to be paid back in installments when her nephew should have been on the receiving end of her payment plan. Nephew must've been about to take her ass to Judge Mathis (and you know your fellow from the 'D' would have clowned her dimwittedness). lmao

LoveMyselfFirst said...

that is some hilarious yet asinine shit. lol of course she had to pay it back. what world do they live in? union or not? gtfo!