Well,,if you have a problem listening to gripes or grievances,,,you shouldn't have accepted the "Lead" position.Comes with the territory.I was Union Steward for the Steelworkers at our shop for 30 years.I know all about hearing gripes and grievances.Problems need to be solved.

It's just part of supervising laborers. There's a chunk of society that believes everyone else is taking advantage of them even when they cause 99% of their own problems.

If your in a leadership position you need to make the young punks do what is best for them whether they like it or not...

Lol wasn't even something I accepted it was something I more or less got branded with. But whatever I've been working on my mentality with stuff, most of it's just white noise now. I just nod my head and shrug. As long as I'm not getting called early before work it's just whiners whining. Gone though like 30 of em by now . Water of the ducks back.
Actually just learned that this crew talks alot a crap about me behind my back, they been purposely been doin alot to make me look bad to eveyone else. Some stuff about how they hate how I'm good with all the supervisors and what not . It's all fine and dandy though. Just got locked into a new little gravy position working over nights . Haven't said a thing to anyone who doesn't need to know.

Some of y'all have never worked retail and I can tell lol

Don't follow Savells wierd dreams

We just fired a guy for acting that way. He decided to chew out his supervisor because he wasn’t getting paid enough. I work for the department of transportation, there’s a very well defined pay scale based on your years of service and certifications, it’s all laid out in black and white and everyone starts at the same place no matter where you came from. They tell you straight up your pay is not gonna be good for the first two years. Stick it out and after that you’ll get good pay on top of our incredible benefits package. He still felt the need to gripe and holler at his supervisor, so they canned him. No room on our crews for guys like that.

You going to be doing the 9-6 over night freight or the overnight MST job?

Always going to be a few boneheads on every job with multiple people. I do my best to ignore them. Those kind seem to have a new job every few months any way. If you watch the ones with kids that get big welfare checks at tax time, usually dont work anywhere till they spend their "refund". They all crowd into h and r block about Feb.1 and get the bank loan that gives them 2/3 of their return or whatever that day. Now if ever there was a money maker with no effort and almost no risk, those tax loans are it. They make more than the payday loan places.

You shouldn't assume so much, and underestimate folks life experience. How do you know that you may sound to many here, like the punk that called you sounds to you?

It's too bad that a lot of kids today are already ruined before they ever start their first job. Everything is handed to them, grades in school, trophies for not winning, $100 allowances, you get where this is going. To top it off, Mom and Dad never think it's little Jonny's fault. Their little angel is perfect. They are growing up in an entitlement culture. Many of these kids will probably never change without some really hard times. In fact, the parents are doing nothing good for their kids by allowing this. Most brought up this way will not survive a really rough patch in their lives. They will be unable to cope and turn to drugs and alcohol. We are seeing that now. A lot of these kids couldn't cope with wearing a mask and being locked down for a while. Can you imagine a real tragedy like another depression or another great war where everything is rationed? Many will never survive.

Poor kid probably doesn't make enough money to put a new sexy tattoo on his skank.

I'm sure many of us haven't worked retail and if we did it wasn't for long. Low paying jobs aren't known for attracting the best workers. You may get a few but not many.