I'm a nice guy...
...normally, I'd help customers. I wouldn't go miles out my my way for them, but I would at least do something.

I prefer to do my jobsworthing in the direction of the management.

Unless I'm specifically helping out a colleague, (in which case your mileage my vary dependant on how much I like you or how big your tits are) I won't go out of my way at all for the job.

Cue TJ Hughes- a minimum-wage weekend job- having to call me up on a Thursday afternoon because someone's off sick and they need extra people in anyway because they're trying to refurbish.

TJH: "Hi. We're understaffed, could you come in for a few hours? Not many, just two or three. Say.. four till six?"
Beem: "Do I get paid extra?"
T: "Yes, you'll be paid."
B: "No no, do I get paid a better rate for this?"
T: "Um..."
*shuffling of papers, talking in background*
T: "No, it's normal rate, not time and a half or anything like that."
B: "Right. Not interested then, I'm afraid."

...not that I would have bothered anyway, but it's nice to know I've wasted their time slightly.

I also make a point in interviews and on the first day if they ask me if I have a mobile, that yes, I do, and no, they're not having the number. Not even to give them the false hope of being able to call me in for extra work and just not picking up the phone.

The catch is that I can't give my mobile number to my colleagues in case it filters up to management. Oh well.
(beemoh, Thu 12 May 2005, 18:33, Reply)