23rd August 2004, 04:29 PM
[xx(]We've had a couple of idle gents working for my unit since last year. Due to the fact we've had a moderately heavy workload and work for a local authority they haven't been got rid of. As a supervisor there's nothing worse than having people idling away, as it increases my stress levels enormously. If you tell them to get on with the work they take offence and do a ****e job anyway.
The idlers never seem to realize they're doing a responsible job. Slowing down a project by pissing around impacts on (i) the supervisor, who gets it in the neck from the managers for not meeting targets, (ii) the other diggers on site who have to pick up the slack, and thankfully we've had diggers with us of late who've been able to do that (iii) management, who get it in the neck from the client/agent/landowner/whoever.
I've always been in favour of a rigorous interview process and a thorough background check to filter out these bastards. Unfortunately good diggers are like gold dust these days and people can't afford to be that picky.
A message for all lazy bastards out there - for ****s sake give up and do something else.
I'm not bitter BTW.
The idlers never seem to realize they're doing a responsible job. Slowing down a project by pissing around impacts on (i) the supervisor, who gets it in the neck from the managers for not meeting targets, (ii) the other diggers on site who have to pick up the slack, and thankfully we've had diggers with us of late who've been able to do that (iii) management, who get it in the neck from the client/agent/landowner/whoever.
I've always been in favour of a rigorous interview process and a thorough background check to filter out these bastards. Unfortunately good diggers are like gold dust these days and people can't afford to be that picky.
A message for all lazy bastards out there - for ****s sake give up and do something else.
I'm not bitter BTW.