Ignoring work texts

[Southernmiss]

I had to google and I found this. I think it explains it.

Mattress Firm Hiring 2017 - Mattress Firm present a chance to fill Dispatcher that will be placed in Hicksville NY. You will definetly get much better prospect in addition to safer dwell in the future. Joining this company can make and individual competent to attain the goal easier and also create your own aspiration become.

To help to the company eye-sight and also vision comes legitimate; Mattress Firm is actually open up for fresh placement as begin as June 2017. Everyone who is interested about filling up this particular vacant, please participate in this Dispatcher recruitment inside . It is suggested for all contributors to arrange just about all essential demands due to this job recruitment procedure, for the reason that practice need you to definitely allow acceptable options how the corporation wishes with this placement. If you are that you are one that might fill up the standards, you can test your just read more information about Dispatcher Job Opening below.

http://findyourjobs.net/post/e8a0e5...dispatcher-job-openings-hicksville-ny.92f40bb

The link does actually provide info on what the job of dispatcher is

Does this even make sense? Looks like a bad Google translation.

 

[Westcoastwild]

I had to google and I found this. I think it explains it.

Mattress Firm Hiring 2017 - Mattress Firm present a chance to fill Dispatcher that will be placed in Hicksville NY. You will definetly get much better prospect in addition to safer dwell in the future. Joining this company can make and individual competent to attain the goal easier and also create your own aspiration become.

To help to the company eye-sight and also vision comes legitimate; Mattress Firm is actually open up for fresh placement as begin as June 2017. Everyone who is interested about filling up this particular vacant, please participate in this Dispatcher recruitment inside . It is suggested for all contributors to arrange just about all essential demands due to this job recruitment procedure, for the reason that practice need you to definitely allow acceptable options how the corporation wishes with this placement. If you are that you are one that might fill up the standards, you can test your just read more information about Dispatcher Job Opening below.

http://findyourjobs.net/post/e8a0e5...dispatcher-job-openings-hicksville-ny.92f40bb

The link does actually provide info on what the job of dispatcher is

Mmm. Hicksville. Too funny. So basically, minimum wage, and a literate monkey could do the job. Or a twelve year old, providing that you could teach the twelve year old how to use that ancient dinosaur that is the fax machine.

Sounds pretty sweet, actually, compared to some summer jobs I've had. I don't think the OP understands the difference between "skilled" and "unskilled".

 

[Westcoastwild]

Does this even make sense? Looks like a bad Google translation.

I had googled mattress dispatch jobs before and oddly did not find the job link but I did find the company link. Don't be too harsh on the little darlings- it looks like the place out here that can't keep competent staff for love or money, because they pay the lowest minimum wage possible and are determined to not pay out benefits. So it's very possible that they don't pay for spell check

 

[BLAZEY]

I don't have a work phone, just my personal phone. My boss has my number as does the lady I work most closely with and her son who also works for us off site and I am the emergency back up for. None of them abuse it. My coworker covered my work when I was in Florida in March she texted a couple of times and I even FaceTimed with at the hotel for a few minutes. She had some questions of clarification which I answered as it was easier to take the few minutes to answer than to have her guess wrong and fix the error when I got back. I covered her this past week while she was in Hawaii and and she quickly answer my question for the same reason. I have missed a text from my boss (phone on vibrate as I was at the movies, which he followed up with a call. He needed coverage for our off site quarry scale house and wanted to know it I could go there the next day rather than the office. I said I could. I do this out of courtesy, but I have some co-workers who don't own cell phones, so why should those with them be held to a different expectation just because they have them.

 

[justussix]

Not a big fan of how this thread is evolving into a referendum on an individuals job. Whatever one might think of the OP's situation at work, responses should not be critical of what that work is. What a person legally does to put food on the table or keep cash in their pocket is their business.

"Here's what I do for a living..... Am I allowed to complain?"

"Sorry, since your job is entry level and doesn't require a post-secondary education, you have no right to be frustrated."

 

[Hikergirl]

Not a big fan of how this thread is evolving into a referendum on an individuals job. Whatever one might think of the OP's situation at work, responses should not be critical of what that work is. What a person legally does to put food on the table or keep cash in their pocket is their business.

"Here's what I do for a living..... Am I allowed to complain?"

"Sorry, since your job is entry level and doesn't require a post-secondary education, you have no right to be frustrated."

I'm not sure why the OP is complaining, she isn't the boss right?
And I don't think that someone working an entry level job in a mattress store, that doesn't require a post secondary education, that anyone with or even without a HS diploma can do should be "required" to be at the beck and call of their manager. They shouldn't feel any obligation to answer texts on their days off. And while the OP can be frustrated at that person, its not really any of the OP's business if that isn't her job.If she wants to answer her boss right away then go ahead. If someone else doesn't then what has that got to do with the OP?

 

[Jennasis]

Mmm. Hicksville. Too funny. So basically, minimum wage, and a literate monkey could do the job. Or a twelve year old, providing that you could teach the twelve year old how to use that ancient dinosaur that is the fax machine.

Sounds pretty sweet, actually, compared to some summer jobs I've had. I don't think the OP understands the difference between "skilled" and "unskilled".

It's a funny name for a very un-hick town on Long Island NY.

 

[Heidict]

I had to google and I found this. I think it explains it.

Mattress Firm Hiring 2017 - Mattress Firm present a chance to fill Dispatcher that will be placed in Hicksville NY. You will definetly get much better prospect in addition to safer dwell in the future. Joining this company can make and individual competent to attain the goal easier and also create your own aspiration become.

To help to the company eye-sight and also vision comes legitimate; Mattress Firm is actually open up for fresh placement as begin as June 2017. Everyone who is interested about filling up this particular vacant, please participate in this Dispatcher recruitment inside . It is suggested for all contributors to arrange just about all essential demands due to this job recruitment procedure, for the reason that practice need you to definitely allow acceptable options how the corporation wishes with this placement. If you are that you are one that might fill up the standards, you can test your just read more information about Dispatcher Job Opening below.

http://findyourjobs.net/post/e8a0e5...dispatcher-job-openings-hicksville-ny.92f40bb

The link does actually provide info on what the job of dispatcher is

Oh my word. I would be scared to apply, wondering what it was I was walking into.

 

[Poohlove]

Just based on what I have seen OP post it seems to me there are a few things at play here. First of all, OP is not a manager and I do not feel that she should be privy to management's attempts to contact employees on their day off to come in to work or any other management decision. IMO she shouldn't have had the knowledge that a manager contacted an employee and that said employee did not respond and she certainly does not have the right to be put off in any way about the situation. As a manager sharing this information will cause unnecessary conflict between employees, case in point.

Second, anytime that I have ever bought furniture one of two things have happened. Either the salesperson sets the delivery time at the time that you are completing the transaction or they give you a ballpark delivery window and tell you that their delivery department will call to set up a delivery appointment. I'd imagine, based on the description, that this place is the latter in which I'd also think that there is more than one person who handles that responsibility. Given my experience in the trucking industry I know that just because it is a holiday doesn't mean that the dispatching stops, the logistics need to be handled for the stops that come in over the course of the day. If you were to let an entire days worth of sales build up and try and arrange the deliveries, etc for them on top of the next days work there would for sure be some unhappy customers out there. Especially if there is more than one store making sales for the day, things may take longer to deliver than usual or be lost, etc. If they are working out of a retail location it is my understanding that some stores have limitations on their scheduling based on their sales for a certain time period, maybe the manager wasn't able to schedule someone for that day but was able to call someone in if need be. Either way at the end of the day this is a management issue, not an entry level one and OP needs to grow some thicker skin. Just based on the choice of words and defensive nature I have drawn some conclusions about this person and it seems to me like they are someone who is difficult to appease. In a small employer setting there is no place for that (it is easier to skate by with that attitude when there are more people around you).

It sounds like OP is just disenchanted with their job in general and sales is tough, it can be discouraging. Especially if you aren't a people person who is able to understand all sides of a situation. The best sales people I have ever met listen to what people have to say and then talk to them like they have been there and they get where they are coming from. Just based off of OP's responses on here I don't get the impression that they are able to do that.

As far as knocking what someone does for a living, shame on all of you! As long as you are getting up and going to work everyday and trying to make a go of being a productive member of society more power to you!!! If everyone felt the way that these people do then who would do whatever tasks these people feel are beneath them???

 

[kamik86]

I have definitely ignored work texts for a while... Most of the time because I'm not in a situation where I can fix it. Also missed calls from work.

My job has a few times where you are doing something extremely time critical and they expect to be able to get ahold of you. When I'm on site for a test event I'm running for example. But then at that point the company paid me to fly somewhere and is paying for all my meals, I don't have plans because I'm not in my home city so yeah its pretty reasonable to expect me to answer my phone.

On a random day off? I'll answer it when I'm next near my work computer to log in.

 

[Westcoastwild]

Not a big fan of how this thread is evolving into a referendum on an individuals job. Whatever one might think of the OP's situation at work, responses should not be critical of what that work is. What a person legally does to put food on the table or keep cash in their pocket is their business.

"Here's what I do for a living..... Am I allowed to complain?"

"Sorry, since your job is entry level and doesn't require a post-secondary education, you have no right to be frustrated."

I have got no issue whatsoever with what her job is. You think I haven't worked that kind of job to make ends meet? I've worked worse.

But she spent the whole time deliberately attempting to mislead us because (as I suspected) she wanted her job to sound way more important than it actually is, so that we would agree with her that the guy should drop everything and come running. For a boss who is unprofessional enough to send out work texts and gossip with other employees. On a holiday weekend for a shift the boss did not schedule him for. No, that says absolutely nothing about his work ethic. It says a whole lot about the OP, though.

Honestly, you want to know the worst thing about this kind of job? It's not the job. It's not the customers. It's not the hours, or the pay, or the sheer frigging boredom. It's having bosses and employees like the OP who instigate petty workplace drama and politics. Over stuff that is none of their business or unbelievably stupid. They create a toxic working environment because they are bored and often because they are resentful that they have to work that job in the first place. And because they want to feel superior to someone, usually the low man on the totem pole who really is just working it for the money and not even pretending the job is anything more than putting food on the table.

If her boss was professional, the OP would never even know about this. If he was competent, or even a decent boss, he would have had enough people scheduled to begin with. She's using the "unprofessional" coworker as a whipping boy and that just isn't right.

 

[Westcoastwild]

It's a funny name for a very un-hick town on Long Island NY.

I figured! The happenstance just made me crack up!

 

[Wishing on a star]

Well, the OP isn't the only one here with the "you owe your job/boss (no matter how non-critical/un-important/mundane) your job requirements. There is one other poster who seems to be even more off-the-rails.

And, I am not convinced that the OP is not some kind of manager/boss, and is just not going to admit it for the purposes of this thread.

The thing is, just by human nature, people can be narcissistic and power/control hungry.
I know the personality type/disorder very well.

No way am I going to let some manager in any position where being on-call is not a necessary and unavoidable part of the career (first responder/law enforcement/medical/etc) think they can require my attention and attendance with a 'text'. Not gonna happen.

 

[SharonZ]

I'm in the minority here, I don't check my personal phone for texts on a regular basis. I would probably respond to a phone call or voicemail before a text.

 

[MaryLovesPoohBear]

I'm in the minority here, I don't check my personal phone for texts on a regular basis. I would probably respond to a phone call or voicemail before a text.

I'm the same way.

My family and friends know if they want me to actually respond, they better call me.

If work needs me, they call. And I can probably count on one hand how many calls I have received from work.

I couldn't imagine any job sending out a group text message. Then commenting to other employees about someone not responding? That is the height of unprofessional.

 

[mummabear]

I don't have a work phone, just my personal phone. My boss has my number as does the lady I work most closely with and her son who also works for us off site and I am the emergency back up for. None of them abuse it. My coworker covered my work when I was in Florida in March she texted a couple of times and I even FaceTimed with at the hotel for a few minutes. She had some questions of clarification which I answered as it was easier to take the few minutes to answer than to have her guess wrong and fix the error when I got back. I covered her this past week while she was in Hawaii and and she quickly answer my question for the same reason. I have missed a text from my boss (phone on vibrate as I was at the movies, which he followed up with a call. He needed coverage for our off site quarry scale house and wanted to know it I could go there the next day rather than the office. I said I could. I do this out of courtesy, but I have some co-workers who don't own cell phones, so why should those with them be held to a different expectation just because they have them.

Why should they? Well they shouldn't, but you have allowed it, you have allowed your work to use a phone number that they do not pay for to contact you in hours you are not being paid for. If you don't like it then then no.
Otherwise accept that you are allowing it because it is making your life easier and possibly your chance of bonuses or promotion higher that those who don't give out their numbers.

 

[sam_gordon]

you have allowed your work to use a phone number that they do not pay for to contact you in hours you are not being paid for.

But before there were cell phones, didn't everyone allow their employers to contact them using a phone number the company didn't pay for? IMO, it's only bad if the company expects you to answer (or give an immediate reply) every time they call/text. Taking an employer to task for calling an employee on their personal phone is ridiculous. Should they only talk to employees during their shift?

 

[Westcoastwild]

But before there were cell phones, didn't everyone allow their employers to contact them using a phone number the company didn't pay for? IMO, it's only bad if the company expects you to answer (or give an immediate reply) every time they call/text. Taking an employer to task for calling an employee on their personal phone is ridiculous. Should they only talk to employees during their shift?

Yeah. I've never gotten tons of calls, and I've had only a cell phone for years. I don't think most professional bosses abuse having your home/phone number. And I've never had a boss assume I was ignoring their texts or calls but that could very well be that the county is rural with fairly bad reception and a lot of people go hiking or camping on their days off.

 

[mummabear]

But before there were cell phones, didn't everyone allow their employers to contact them using a phone number the company didn't pay for? IMO, it's only bad if the company expects you to answer (or give an immediate reply) every time they call/text. Taking an employer to task for calling an employee on their personal phone is ridiculous. Should they only talk to employees during their shift?

Talk to me to ask me to come in? Sure
Ask me questions about a project? No-that's working and employers should respect shift boundaries. If they are the type of employer that would get upset for you making a personal phone call during work time no way I am using my time for work, if they aren't that sort of employer and there is give and take I think that is beneficial to both them employer and myself.

Before cell phones and employer wasn't interrupting people's time, or expecting an immediate response.

For the poster I was quoting though they were upset that they had given their number and were accepting calls and other employers were not, I was pointing out it is their choice to do so.

 

[kaytieeldr]

Attitude can make a huge difference, you're right, but in this context- as I doubt "mattress dispatcher" is a career path for this guy- he's working what sounds like a lousy part time job with unpredictable hours and likely an incompetent manager.

Hmm. This got me wondering. Maybe the employee in question works multiple jobs.

Just based on what I have seen OP post it seems to me there are a few things at play here. First of all, OP is not a manager and I do not feel that she should be privy to management's attempts to contact employees on their day off to come in to work or any other management decision

Maybe the OP is the manager or manager on duty and doesn't want to own up to it? Or maybe she and the coworker do the same job, and she needed/wanted to leave but couldn't if he couldn't come in and cover for her?