Tubby Tobin caught sleeping on his new job, denies everything + a bonus bouncy

[BattleHymn]

http://www.democraticunderground.com/1018877777

Tue Jun 28, 2016, 01:02 AM
Star Member Tobin S. (8,805 posts)

A funny thing happened to me at work today.

I've been moving trailers around a company lot for a food processing company where I work. Sometimes there are lulls in demand for my services and I don't have anything to do. So I sit in the yard truck and listen to the radio. It's not like that most of the time, but maybe for a half hour a night I just don't have anything to do.

So I was sitting in the yard truck during one of these down times last week and my boss's office was nearby. He was on vacation last week and this woman in an Escalade would come over to his office once a night for some reason. She is one of the plant managers. She drove right by me and I waved at her one night. She drove right by me again on the way out and I waved at her again. She waved back.

I got called into my boss's office today when I came in. He's back from his vacation. He said the woman in the Escalade told HR that I was sleeping on the job. I, of course, denied it and I didn't know why she would say that. I have never slept on the job there and it's not even something I feel like doing.

The boss just warned me about it. I didn't get written up or anything. They got cameras all over that property, and if they accuse me of that again, I'm going to tell them to roll the video. It will show exactly what I was doing.

Tue Jun 28, 2016, 01:24 AM
Star Member CaliforniaPeggy (119,743 posts)
1. How very strange, my dear Tobin.

It's funny: my nearly first thought was what is she trying to hide by accusing you of sleeping on the job?

It's nuts.

Nothing.  Chances are that she rolled past later, and saw Tobin dozing. 

Tue Jun 28, 2016, 01:31 AM
Star Member Tobin S. (8,805 posts)
3. I don't know.

But she really needs to be sure of what she's saying if it's an honest mistake. She didn't stop and get out of the car and come over to me to really check things out and see why I was sitting there. It's my livelihood we're talking about here and she shouldn't be making accusations like that without knowing what she was talking about.

Tue Jun 28, 2016, 01:29 AM
PoliticAverse (15,419 posts)
2. "would come over to his office once a night for some reason."

Uh oh.
My advice act like sergeant Schultz.
"I see nothing"...
You don't see her.
Don't wave, don't look.

That's probably exactly what he did... when she rolled past once while he was sleeping.

Tue Jun 28, 2016, 10:51 AM
riderinthestorm (22,450 posts)
8. The thought of an affair didn't cross your mind?

Male boss, female visitor?

She's warning you to look away and not observe her (if not actively trying to get you fired since you've "seen" her).

Tread carefully my friend. If she comes at a regular time every week, I'd keep my head down and let her pass "unseen".

Tue Jun 28, 2016, 08:00 PM
Star Member Ptah (27,888 posts)
13. Um, his boss is on vacation.

Reading comprehension is not a primitive's strongest point.



Bonus Bouncy alert:

Tue Jun 28, 2016, 02:49 PM
underahedgerow (925 posts)
9. I had 2 incidents where I was accused of doing some pretty awful things by total strangers, while

on the job.

In one, a temp who was working on the other side of my pod wall told my boss that I was making racist and homophobic statements to people I was talking to on the telephone (which was part of my job, talking to constituents). Fortunately my boss knew my character and that I would never, ever make such statements. It was never brought up again after my absolute denial. I just wouldn't ever do/say -- or even think -- such things. I have a multi-racial family, and I worked at the gayest city in the USA for many years -- that's where I was! I couldn't imagine why this person would say such terrible things and make up lies. Hopefully, he was just mistaken, and not psychotic. He didn't last long as a temp, perhaps there were other issues.

In another case, a constituent for whom I was the go-between during a rather traumatic (for him) saga involving the city's purchase of private land on which he was renting a house, and from which he was given a couple years to move and loads of money to do so, made up a whole bunch of lies about me, in writing, to the city manager and my boss. I believe he made similar accusations about statements he alleged I had made. He was having massive anxiety and stress over his situation, and I had never once said anything inappropriate, and I was always patient, kind and helpful -- that's why I was the go-between, because I was the only one he could talk to without freaking out, so I thought.

I had discovered that the property was up for sale as another massive condo project in an already dense neighborhood. I brought it to the attention of the City council, that it would make a lovely neighborhood park, and would certainly be more beneficial than another pile of faceless condos. The City bought the property, and eventually we turned it into a glorious park space that is truly appreciated, and will always be, in perpetuity.

A couple years later, shortly after the park was completed, I got a letter from this guy, directly to me, with the most heart-felt apology for the lies he'd made up about me. He'd had an addiction problem during that time of stress, and was now in rehab/recovery and making amends. It was perhaps one of the nicest things anyone has ever done for me. I was of course happy to show my boss and prove that my character was intact after all, although he'd had no doubts. I called him immediately and thanked him, and that I appreciated his honesty and integrity in stepping up like that.

People do weird shit. Just keep being you and keep your guard up.

[Ralph Wiggum]

Something is rotten in the state of this story.

[fatboy]

Dummies are slipping. Tobin left out the fact that the Escalade had a Trump sticker on the bumper.

[I_B_Perky]

Translation:

Tubbs was sawing logs and they heard him snoring clear across the yard. Someone complained, he got verbally warned, and made this story up.

[USA4ME]

Tobin S.

I've been moving trailers around a company lot for a food processing company where I work. Sometimes there are lulls in demand for my services and I don't have anything to do. So I sit in the yard truck and listen to the radio. It's not like that most of the time, but maybe for a half hour a night I just don't have anything to do.

Look tubby, you can ALWAYS find something to do. If anything, pick up a broom and start sweeping. But "I just don't have anything to do" gets your fat butt a pink slip in my book.

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[FiddyBeowulf]

Dummies are slipping. Tobin left out the fact that the Escalade had a Trump sticker on the bumper.

And a set of truck-nutz hanging off of the trailer hitch.

[Ralph Wiggum]

And a set of truck-nutz hanging off of the trailer hitch.

Yes! A needed Bouncy element to this story.

[Big Dog]

Look tubby, you can ALWAYS find something to do. If anything, pick up a broom and start sweeping. But "I just don't have anything to do" gets your fat butt a pink slip in my book.

If I was the shop foreman, and the management had saddled me with an overall-wearing turd who takes half hour breaks on the clock (asleep or awake), I'd slip a pot brownie into his lunchbox, and give him a surprise drug screen the next day.

[Karin]

Bonus Bouncy alert:

You should have said "warning."  That was the dullest story, using the maximum words possible.  Also, as usual with the DUmmies, it's all about them.  And of course she makes a hero out of herself by calling whatever to the attention of the city council, and a glorious park is the result.  All because of her. 

and I worked at the gayest city in the USA for many years

That seems like a slur somehow. 

[Tess Anderson]

http://www.democraticunderground.com/1018869692

and underahedgerow was on that thread, too. So either this never happened, or Tobin actually was sleeping on the job and the video did catch him and he was unaware of the cameras at the time, because there's no way this supervisor would say all that if a tape could prove otherwise, she has to know about the cameras.

[FlaGator]

You should have said "warning."  That was the dullest story, using the maximum words possible.  Also, as usual with the DUmmies, it's all about them.  And of course she makes a hero out of herself by calling whatever to the attention of the city council, and a glorious park is the result.  All because of her. 

That seems like a slur somehow.

They do love to orate and pontificate in as many words as possible. You'd think Hillary was paying them by the word or something.

[98ZJUSMC]

Dummies are slipping. Tobin left out the fact that the Escalade had a Trump sticker on the bumper.

[98ZJUSMC]

If I was the shop foreman, and the management had saddled me with an overall-wearing turd who takes half hour breaks on the clock (asleep or awake), I'd slip a pot brownie into his lunchbox, and give him a surprise drug screen the next day.

   

[98ZJUSMC]

They do love to orate and pontificate in as many words as possible. You'd think Hillary was paying them by the word or something.

Yeah ............  whenever something happens to me, I always run to a board full of drooling infants. Then again, those are their fellow travelers.

[Texacon]

Interesting to note Tubby doesn't say he never sleeps on the job, he says he's never slept in the job, THERE. LOL!

KC


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