Lazy People Whining

[blas87]

Note: By lazy, I mean people who aren't working or don't have hardly any hobbies whatsoever. And I do NOT mean unemployed people trying to find work. I am specifically referring to a few of my coworkers here. Or lazy coworkers in general.

One of my coworkers took extra time off for the holidays. Didn't leave the damn house (they rarely do, only for work and food). Because of the way their shift works, only had to work 2 days last weekend, and had had over a week off prior to that because of their vacation mixed with the holidays off that the company gives.

And today, they are whining that they don't want to go back to work and that they want to call in.

Seriously?

People like me who need money were barely able to take any time off for the holidays because we couldn't afford to lose our shift premiums or the OT we've been working. I lost my OT because I took a half shift the last day before Christmas weekend so I could get stuff ready for staying at my parents' that weekend. I haven't had a week or more off of work in a LONG time. Come to think of it, hardly ANYONE at work has. Most people just take a day here or day there or a half shift here or there so they don't break the budget.

This person literally sits on money and then whines that they are booooored or tired when they take weeks off of work and all they do is sit at home and sleep for 12-15 hours a day and play video games the remainder of the day, minus bathing and eating.

Another person I work with will NOT work the extra hours we have to work on the longer shift weeks. They've been with the company for many years, so they have the hours banked to take off, but it's not fair because they've booked every other Friday off indefinitely....what if someone else wants the day off or half the day off? Only so many people can have off.....and what's rich about that, is that person whines about how long and awful our shifts are, when they don't even work as much as the rest of us.

Along with the medical case people who call in sick constantly (or as I call them the attention seekers who raise our medical insurance premiums because they like to live at the doctors office for whatever dumb reason I don't know why and get on all kinds of assistance to get off of work and then parade around work "I can't stand for more than 10 minutes!") or routinely miss the same day of work a week, then complain that they want to go home when they do come to work.

[Boozy]

The more people do, the more they want to do, and the more they feel physically able to do. Unfortunately, some people get stuck in a trap where they work the bare minimum, and go home to eat, sleep, and lay around. It's hard to break out of that habit.

I spent three days doing virtually nothing over Christmas, and I can't believe how hard it was to go back to work! Not to mention dragging my ass to the gym, getting groceries, and cleaning up the Christmas decorations.

If a mere three days of laziness can start a habit, I can't imagine what three years, or thirty, would do to someone.

[jackfaire]

If a mere three days of laziness can start a habit, I can't imagine what three years, or thirty, would do to someone.

It's a pain in the ass.

It takes real work to get over.

[blas87]

I agree very much so, Boozy. In fact, by Saturdays, it usually takes everything I have to get my ass off the futon before 2 pm and go to the gym and get some food and come back and get some cleaning going on or get showered and find something to do.

I'm talking about people who have been in the same routine forever and can't understand why no one else is complaining that work is sooo hard and so long of a shift.

Sure, I've had a "long" weekend before and didn't want to return, but I didn't go telling people I wanted to call in sick.

[jackfaire]

Sure, I've had a "long" weekend before and didn't want to return, but I didn't go telling people I wanted to call in sick.

For me work doesn't end at work. I am working on a novel and in addition to that I always have a bunch of little projects going on so when I want to call in sick it's cuz I am looking at the pile of stuff and going "Oh my god I need more time"

[LadyBarbossa]

Her Tardiness was like this. She was constantly showing up late (As in, every. Single. Day), calling out sick, leaving early because she was not feeling good/had an appointment, and on and on. She'd often call in after her two days off, too. And she would ALWAYS complain about how small her paychecks were! Well no shit Sherlock, if you'd get up and work every now and then, maybe you wouldn't have that problem. Then she had the balls to complain about Shorty. "She'll do anything to avoid being on a register! I can't stand it!" Rich coming from someone who would sometimes not help with a line stretching into housewares until a pharmacist literally yelled at her.

None of us were really too upset when we learned that her 'high risk' pregnancy would restrict her from working and that she probably wouldn't be coming back.