"Is it your job to do this?"

What is the world coming to? I have encountered situations similar to this over the years in various places where I have worked. Waitresses who have no more cutlery to set the tables because the lady who washes the dishes has not yet put them in the correct place. All that they had to do was open one door and get them before she put them through the hatch on the other side but it wasn't their job to do that Years ago when working in a supermarket there were no more trolleys available where they should have been because customers had taken the shopping to their cars and just abandoned them all over the car park. There was a boy whose job it was to collect them all and put them back where they should have been. The cashiers were not particularly busy and could have collected them but it wasn't their job to do so We have become too sophisticated? Is it the fault of unions?

Weirdly enough, today on the phone with customer service-we got over billed for something, well actually charged for something we never ordered, or received...they kept passing the buck to other phone reps.

I remember, at my old house, a beautiful job being done to pave the roads nearby. And a few weeks later, trenches were dug for sewer work. And somehow the people scheduling the paving work had no way to know that the sewer work was scheduled? How dumb is that. But this beats all. It's not just dumb, but it's lazy, it's buck passing, it's wasteful (no doubt there will be a work order to go back and fix it after the badger has been removed)...

I have a kinda sorta reverse story. My son worked for a large retail store here in the US. He worked, basically, in he back room. One day, his job was to place large boxes of merchandise on a high shelf that required a large ladder. Well, it seems the store manager had given the ladder to a fire department, so it wasn't available. The only other ladder was too short and not sturdy, making it very difficult and unsafe to place large packages over his head. He wanted to get the job done, so he climbed up a sturdy pile of pallets to do it in a safe manner. He was fired for a safety violation...not allowed to clibm on pallets. If he hadn't done it, he probably would have been fired for not doing his job. Talk about a rock and a hard place

This is Minnesota. As in the State Of. State builds building. State inspects building. Building can't open until the State fixes problems. Building sits empty for a year so far because the State hasn't allocated funds for the repairs. The State however pays the utility bills every month from tax payer money. Cost? $5000 a year.

Just because you get a job, doesn't mean you have to lose your common sense...

Oh yes, this sort of thing happens all the time where we live especially when it comes to collecting the rubbish. They may spill someting all over the road and into my driveway and leave it there because it is the job of the street cleaner to clear it up. That badget incident takes some beating though! _Derek

owlwings, I just have to say that this is very rampant with what is happening to the society of today. People will just follow some stupid rules and restrictions to the core blindly, abandoning every inkling civic mindedness, common sense, initiative and sense of responsibility. "Rules are for the guidance of wise men and the obedience of fools." Douglas Bader

This is definitely a prime example of political correctness gone mad, pure insanity! I think there are too many rules and regulations and nothing should replace pure common sense which seemed to be hugely lacking in the example you have given! I guess it's almost laughable but he could easily have removed the carcass and continued with his job! I think the powers that be should be ashamed for making life difficult for the little guy! Andrew

Just imagine if everyone thought like this...would the world be a good place to live. Imagine a person is dying on the road may be he has got a heart attack and a surgeon is walking by and says i only operate people that not what i do...wont it sound sick or absurd.

yeah, just imagine if the world we live in is like this? we cant have peace and order. How can we live? just imagine if a student see someone who are fighting in the school... He'll say i wont go between them, its the job of the guards and teachers. how stupid.