Let’s get this straight when you work for me I want to see
work done.
Your place of work is for work it is not an internet café nor
is it a social media site
I don’t want to see you texting when you should be working
nor looking at the damn things either. I don’t want to be party to your love
affairs or break ups because you are yelling into your phone to be heard. Nor
do I want to hear you arranging your night out in fact I don’t want to hear you
on your mobile full stop!
Ditch the phone and get on with the job at hand.
When you come to work for god’s sake come prepared. Unless
otherwise stated I do not have specialist tools at hand because you have left
them at your girlfriend/boyfriend’s house. I am not a hardware store. Nor am I
chemists when you come to work with a hangover. Don’t try to pull the wool over
my eyes or think I have forgotten that you told me you were going out the night
before to get bladdered.
I don’t care!
I am paying for the job to be done and you have a responsibility
to be in a fit state to do it.
Whatever you do don’t lie to me about being ill because of a
hangover or because it is Friday/Monday and you just don’t feel like going to
work; invariably I have been there and done that, so excuses won’t wash. If you
are ill you’re ill. You don’t miraculously get better from flu after 24 hours
and if you have a sick bug I don’t want to see you for two days.
Be on time for work and turn up when you say you will it is
called being be reliable. I don’t care that the trains were late or the bus
cancelled build in some bugger it time so that you are always where you should
be at the time you should be and if that means you have to get up half an hour
earlier then so be it!
Don’t let me down at the last minute. Remember the world
does not revolve round you, I may have had to organise my whole day to fit you
in, I may even have had to take a precious day off from my own job to do so.
Take pride in your appearance. Unshaven dirty looking people
are not welcome. If you have no pride in yourself it is hardly likely you will
have pride in your work. I am relaxed about tattoos and body piercings but I
can’t cope with body odour, bad breath, dirty smelly clothes, stubble and lank
greasy hair. Would you like someone like that serving you at Tesco’s?
If I call you or text you about work I expect you to answer
promptly not the next day. It may be that I have an emergency and you’d look a
complete nit turning up for work to find there was no one about to let you in.
Don’t be rude or surly or you’ll find you won’t have a job
at all.
A reliable, polite, well turned out employee who gets on
with the job is like gold dust and is far more likely to be recommended for
future jobs, and promotion etc. than one who is not.
So what are you going to do about it?
Do you think you could work for me…?
