Excessive phone use, very annoying.
Discussion
I work in a mechanical role in the construction industry, sometimes permanent sometimes agency work.
Two of us started on a new job last week, few months work at a decent rate. The company seems busy so you know get stuck in, make a good impression etc etc, might lead to more work.
The guy that started the same day as me is a right loser, 35 years old and got absolutely f
k all to his name, no car does not drive, no place of his own, string of failed relationships behind him, always moaning about women, always moaning about his step dad, (I think he lives at home). First week on the job he had a day off to go to Alton Towers, just a bit of a knob.
When I say he is never off his phone, fk me I have never seen anything like it, he is a grown man and he is constantly staring at his phone, he is out of his depth with what we are doing so has had to take a bit of a secondary role, as soon as there is a spare second the phone is out, on Friday it got to the point that other people were noticing this and it was getting on everybodys nerves. Even the foreman passed comment.
Is it some sort of mind control this phone use? What did people do before smart phones became commonplace.
I have one and I do use it, but within reason.
Two of us started on a new job last week, few months work at a decent rate. The company seems busy so you know get stuck in, make a good impression etc etc, might lead to more work.
The guy that started the same day as me is a right loser, 35 years old and got absolutely f
k all to his name, no car does not drive, no place of his own, string of failed relationships behind him, always moaning about women, always moaning about his step dad, (I think he lives at home). First week on the job he had a day off to go to Alton Towers, just a bit of a knob.When I say he is never off his phone, f
k me I have never seen anything like it, he is a grown man and he is constantly staring at his phone, he is out of his depth with what we are doing so has had to take a bit of a secondary role, as soon as there is a spare second the phone is out, on Friday it got to the point that other people were noticing this and it was getting on everybodys nerves. Even the foreman passed comment.Is it some sort of mind control this phone use? What did people do before smart phones became commonplace.
I have one and I do use it, but within reason.
Monkeylegend said:
If the Foreman and other people have noticed it he won't be around long.
You could always have a quiet chat with him as concerned colleague and tell him he is doing himself no favours and is probably risking his tenure, but I suspect you won't want to do that. Or you can keep your head down and let nature take it's course.
These days I just look after myself, earn a wage do my best and just get on with it.You could always have a quiet chat with him as concerned colleague and tell him he is doing himself no favours and is probably risking his tenure, but I suspect you won't want to do that. Or you can keep your head down and let nature take it's course.
Well, phone boy had another two days off.
The other blokes were commenting about him and his phone use/not signing in/being late/not mucking in etc,etc.
Earlier in the week the foreman said to me ' (he) obviously does not want to be here, so that is it, he is gone'. Finished him today.
So instead of playing it clever and finding the next job while still being in work he has thrown away taking home £615 a week for the next couple of months. He was frantically ringing around all morning trying to find work, but failed. Mad.
The other blokes were commenting about him and his phone use/not signing in/being late/not mucking in etc,etc.
Earlier in the week the foreman said to me ' (he) obviously does not want to be here, so that is it, he is gone'. Finished him today.
So instead of playing it clever and finding the next job while still being in work he has thrown away taking home £615 a week for the next couple of months. He was frantically ringing around all morning trying to find work, but failed. Mad.
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