GloBug
Senior Flea Coller Tester
I've posted a lot about the customers that come in, but I've never posted about some of the workers there. One of them is the most frustrating individual I have ever worked with.
Dave is 70+ years old, insists he does NOT have a hearing issue though he constantly does not understand what customers are saying, and is famous for doing only what he wants to do. He sees nothing wrong with talking on his earpiece and eating a sandwich while waiting on customers. He and my boss have had numerous arguments about how Dave goes against my boss's orders, but he continues.
My boss left work yesterday for the rest of this week, and I knew that Dave would Do His Thing during that time. Didn't realize it would be today.
He wanted to clean something, and decided that gasoline would work. He filled a Styrofoam cup with the gasoline and when the cup dissolved and leaked the gas all over the carpet, he just shrugged and walked away. The smell started making us all nauseous, and I told Dave he needed to clean it up. He said no and insisted it would go away on its own and that there was nothing you could do to clean up gasoline in a carpet.
I printed off for him a very easy procedure to remove the gas and the horrible smell knowing he wouldn't do much more. (You blot up as much as you can with newspaper, you pour baking soda all over the stain to absorb the remaining gas and neutralize the odor, and leave it for 4 hours before vacuuming. Repeat if necessary.)
He absolutely refused to do anything with the gasoline in the carpet, said it would stop smelling by the time the boss got back. I pointed out that we were not closing down the store until the boss got back, and that customers were complaining about the smell too, and that it was not healthy to breath those fumes. Not to mention static electricity??
So he sprayed it down with 409 and insisted that was all it needed. Hello, this is GASOLINE! He still refused to do anything further about it , so I picked up two boxes of baking soda, poured it on the gas, and went back to my cash register.
Ten minutes later he decided to vacuum it up. He used an old vacuum without a bag, and within seconds he was surrounded by a white cloud of baking soda. The gardening section has a fine white haze on everything. He just shrugged and walked away from that.
I give up. :bang:
Dave is 70+ years old, insists he does NOT have a hearing issue though he constantly does not understand what customers are saying, and is famous for doing only what he wants to do. He sees nothing wrong with talking on his earpiece and eating a sandwich while waiting on customers. He and my boss have had numerous arguments about how Dave goes against my boss's orders, but he continues.
My boss left work yesterday for the rest of this week, and I knew that Dave would Do His Thing during that time. Didn't realize it would be today.
He wanted to clean something, and decided that gasoline would work. He filled a Styrofoam cup with the gasoline and when the cup dissolved and leaked the gas all over the carpet, he just shrugged and walked away. The smell started making us all nauseous, and I told Dave he needed to clean it up. He said no and insisted it would go away on its own and that there was nothing you could do to clean up gasoline in a carpet.
I printed off for him a very easy procedure to remove the gas and the horrible smell knowing he wouldn't do much more. (You blot up as much as you can with newspaper, you pour baking soda all over the stain to absorb the remaining gas and neutralize the odor, and leave it for 4 hours before vacuuming. Repeat if necessary.)
He absolutely refused to do anything with the gasoline in the carpet, said it would stop smelling by the time the boss got back. I pointed out that we were not closing down the store until the boss got back, and that customers were complaining about the smell too, and that it was not healthy to breath those fumes. Not to mention static electricity??
So he sprayed it down with 409 and insisted that was all it needed. Hello, this is GASOLINE! He still refused to do anything further about it , so I picked up two boxes of baking soda, poured it on the gas, and went back to my cash register.
Ten minutes later he decided to vacuum it up. He used an old vacuum without a bag, and within seconds he was surrounded by a white cloud of baking soda. The gardening section has a fine white haze on everything. He just shrugged and walked away from that.
I give up. :bang: