Lazy Co-workers, is there any justice?

[kyrenecopy]

Re: Lazy Co-workers, is there any justice?

i dont have any trouble with other techs, my beef is with the dispatch. we get bitched at for calls piling up (we have around a 4 hour response time) and they keep sending us back and forth between towns. in a single day i could travel to the same town 4-5 times. then i get the calls for cleaning the slit galss that they should be weeding out. and they dont get all the information. heck just today i got a call but couldnt go to it because they didnt know what finisher they had. it may sound stupid, but the call is that the staples ran out on their finisher and they were dumb enough to try to use regular staples. and dispatch had no clue what finisher was on it (a df73 fd71 or df75 on a 3035). and the end of our fiscal year is november 30th so we do inventory in november. well instead of being intelligent, dispatch always decides the day the inventory is done. its always a friday.... so calls pile up while all us techs do inventory and the dispatch sits on their butts playing games. and now our waranty papers need to be filled out by me because they dont have "time" even though every time i go by their desks they are on facebook or playing a game. and then they dont respond when i beep them. they are just too busy busy busy.

used to have the same problem many years ago when we had individual dispatchers per office. She would send us back and forth across town/state because she had no idea where we went and she didn't know the area. At the time I was running all the out of town calls in Southern and Eastern Arizona and my manager told me to take the dispatcher with me one day on one of my out of town calls run. Drove about 100 miles before my AC went out (August in Arizona)! spent the rest of the day doing calls 100-150 miles from home with no car AC. got home that night and dropped her off and the next day she started asking where places were before just sending techs where ever she pleased. She was a damn fine looking woman too! I was hoping the heat would make her get a little less dressed but no such luck. Was a fun trip though!

[kyrenecopy]

Re: Lazy Co-workers, is there any justice?

Unfortunately the economy enables laziness.

I know two techs who hit the mythical 50k plateau and both were recently canned.

Its so sad and unAmerican that working hard and making big bucks forces you to look over your shoulder.

That is why I am glad I now have a pay nothing job, job security!!!

[linuxgyro]

Re: Lazy Co-workers, is there any justice?

Lol yeah, we have tried again and again to get the dispatchers to ride with us one day each, but from the way my office is run the dispatchers get what they need we get nothing. My calls arent 100 miles apart and she knows the area, its that she cant stand customers calling to complainso im at the mercy of the customers.

[atwageman]

Re: Lazy Co-workers, is there any justice?

Myself and a former boss used to have fun destroying the lives of lazy techs. We would build a personnel file with all the I's dotted and T's crossed and then fire their arses when it would be the most inconvenient for them to be fired.

Waited to fire a tech the day after he signed the paperwork for his first house purchase.

Lazy techs sometimes had it in their minds they were God's gift to working on machines, so we would promote them to positions they would be guaranteed to fail at.

I'm no longer that mean spirited, but it did have a positive effect on the other questionable techs at times......all of a sudden they would get with the program most of the time.

I sleep good at night.