Ever yell at someone at work?

Not face to face, but working 2nd shift, and also because of that having the entire office space to myself. I've had many Ari Gold moments after hanging up the phone with people on my team at other sites/in the field.
 
A few times. The worst was at a Probie who continually screwed up. A Lt. had to pull me aside and tell me to calm down.
 
Red Beard said:
Working in a prison, I have yelled at both inmates and staff. Never a proud moment, but sometimes, I have no choice. As I age, I am much more cutting than loud. For an example, if an inmate gets disrespectful, I will say, "Let me remind you of our relationship." Then I make them turn around and pat search them in front of everyone. As I do it, I lecture them on respect and how I always show it, but need to receive it back to continue that relationship. If the inmate shows respect moving forward, we are fine and I never, ever hold it against them. We all have bad days, but unfortunately, I need to be the alpha occasionally.
Click to expand...
You (or anyone else you know - fellow worker) ever ask one inmate to straighten out another inmate?
 
Red Beard said:
Working in a prison, I have yelled at both inmates and staff. Never a proud moment, but sometimes, I have no choice. As I age, I am much more cutting than loud. For an example, if an inmate gets disrespectful, I will say, "Let me remind you of our relationship." Then I make them turn around and pat search them in front of everyone. As I do it, I lecture them on respect and how I always show it, but need to receive it back to continue that relationship. If the inmate shows respect moving forward, we are fine and I never, ever hold it against them. We all have bad days, but unfortunately, I need to be the alpha occasionally.
Click to expand...

Red Beard said:
I bet you are wrong. The thing is, I am super chill so if I get to this point, the population would be checking said punk after I was done. I have earned respect as I do my job daily. I actually do more than what I'm supposed to do. @Bobby Boulders will tell you how inmates check other inmates for messing with decent staff. It's code that you don't bite the hand that feeds.
Click to expand...

Relax tough guy...:rolleyes:
 
Adamant said:
You (or anyone else you know - fellow worker) ever ask one inmate to straighten out another inmate?
Click to expand...

Directly? No. I have spoken to the car before and made them aware of behavior that was an issue. What they do with that information is on them.

WarDronx said:
Relax tough guy...:rolleyes:
Click to expand...

It isn't about toughness at all. It's about roles. It's a game of cat and mouse and it isn't personal. We all do time and those roles keep things neutral. If I e side gets out of that balance, issues happen. Everyone plays a role and sometimes that has to be the alpha role. 99 percent of the time, that isn't even required. Every year, we do a climate survey and my name is always at the top of the list for best staff members. Why? I play my role to a T and the inmates need that to balance things well. They get what they have coming and I'm comfortable checking those that challenge that. Nothing tough about it at all.
 
Red Beard said:
It isn't about toughness at all. It's about roles. It's a game of cat and mouse and it isn't personal. We all do time and those roles keep things neutral. If I e side gets out of that balance, issues happen. Everyone plays a role and sometimes that has to be the alpha role. 99 percent of the time, that isn't even required. Every year, we do a climate survey and my name is always at the top of the list for best staff members. Why? I play my role to a T and the inmates need that to balance things well. They get what they have coming and I'm comfortable checking those that challenge that. Nothing tough about it at all.
Click to expand...

Sure buddy. Hope you won't get shanked or something in your quest for enforcing "respect" (lol). This shit doesn't fly with some people, especially when you uniform types are involved.
 
giphy.gif
 
WarDronx said:
Sure buddy. Hope you won't get shanked or something in your quest for enforcing "respect" (lol). This shit doesn't fly with some people, especially when you uniform types are involved.
Click to expand...

lol sure thing bud, I guess I could let things go to shit because I'm a pussy. You know better than me though...
 
JoeyJoeJoeJr said:
We have this old guy at my work and he's a complete princess pain in the ass. He wont unload his truck properly if even a single box or piece of debris is in his way, he will throw a tantrum and put stuff where it doesn't belong. Today he puts something where it doesn't go as usual, so I get it and bring it to where it does go. He starts yelling at me not to put it there because its blocking his way. I tell him its not blocking anything, all he had to do was move one crate an inch over and there was room. He says he doesn't have time to do my job for me. I tell him its his job and he could have figured it out if he didn't fuckin suck at his job. He tells me to move my shit out of his way. I told him to shut the fuck up.

I definitely lost my cool, but people who suck at their jobs annoy me
Click to expand...

Get a better job. It weeds out the morons.
 
I caught one lady lying about me one day, I was sitting 5 feet away and she somehow didn't see me and I let her have it. Felt great.
 
Thai Domi said:
Does being in the military count?
Click to expand...
I had the same question lol! In the Navy I yelled a fair bit, and was yelled at a fair bit. Since then, not that much. Once, maybe.
cincymma79 said:
Click to expand...

While in the Navy I somehow ended up escorting a captured AWOL sailor to the brig. I wasn't in any way law enforcement or security; I was just on temporary duty at the barracks and had enough stripes. Once I get there, they shut the doors and start the strip search with me awkwardly standing 3 feet from the dude.
 
Cyrano200 said:
I had the same question lol! In the Navy I yelled a fair bit, and was yelled at a fair bit. Since then, not that much. Once, maybe.

While in the Navy I somehow ended up escorting a captured AWOL sailor to the brig. I wasn't in any way law enforcement or security; I was just on temporary duty at the barracks and had enough stripes. Once I get there, they shut the doors and start the strip search with me awkwardly standing 3 feet from the dude.
Click to expand...
 
Peter Gibbons:
You see Bob, it's not that I'm lazy, it's that I just don't care.

Bob Porter:
Don't... don't care?

Peter Gibbons:
It's a problem of motivation, all right? Now if I work my ass off and Initech ships a few extra units, I don't see another dime, so where's the motivation? And here's another thing, I have eight different bosses right now.

Bob Porter:
Eight?

Peter Gibbons:
Eight, Bob. So that means when I make a mistake, I have eight different people coming by to tell me about it. That's my only real motivation is not to be hassled, that, and the fear of losing my job. But you know, Bob, that will only make someone work just hard enough not to get fired
 
You must log in or register to reply here.

Latest posts

Forum statistics

Threads
1,238,244
Messages
55,546,191
Members
174,824
Latest member
Rank Wang

Share this page

Back
Top