I refrained from posting another creepy lawyer guy story because I couldn't make him trying to stuff every fish in the store into an overstocked 5 an interesting story.
But on the longhaired dude rule, it's really hit or miss. I don't have a customer story about this, but one dude that worked with me for about 3 minutes was a guy I'll call Doug here. Doug had classic unwashed metalhead hair, the kind that tells people the guy wearing it probably know what he's talking about because they are too offputting to have much of a social life, Doug was/is "that guy". Doug filled out an application, understood the nitrogen cycle, basic water chemistry, and a little bit of taxonomy, so he was hired to replace another longhaired dude who knew his stuff, but was a sociopath and stole from the register.
Doug turned out not to be any better, his first day he showed up 2 hours late, half of his shift, and clearly high on something. In his first day he siphoned 12 South American puffers into our wastewater system, dumped an entire bottle of buffering powder into a tank of julidochromis, and scared a tang he was trying to net into jumping into an overflow drain. In half his shift.
His next day he didn't show up. No call, didn't come in late, just a no show. That day was fun because we were mobbed and we had to let the moron we hired to do waterchanges and carry peoples water jugs talk to people and do water tests... I have a whole different set of stories about him.
On Doug's third day he came in late again, only 15 minutes this time, with a medical tag on his wrist and needlemarks all up his arm. His carreer ended about 6 minutes later.
The moral of the story kids is that if you plan on shooting your paycheck into your arm you might want to go to work long enough to get said paycheck, show up on time, don't ruin everything you touch, don't OD on your second day, and for f*cks sake if you're going to OD on your second day have the sense to wear long sleeves on your third day.
But on the longhaired dude rule, it's really hit or miss. I don't have a customer story about this, but one dude that worked with me for about 3 minutes was a guy I'll call Doug here. Doug had classic unwashed metalhead hair, the kind that tells people the guy wearing it probably know what he's talking about because they are too offputting to have much of a social life, Doug was/is "that guy". Doug filled out an application, understood the nitrogen cycle, basic water chemistry, and a little bit of taxonomy, so he was hired to replace another longhaired dude who knew his stuff, but was a sociopath and stole from the register.
Doug turned out not to be any better, his first day he showed up 2 hours late, half of his shift, and clearly high on something. In his first day he siphoned 12 South American puffers into our wastewater system, dumped an entire bottle of buffering powder into a tank of julidochromis, and scared a tang he was trying to net into jumping into an overflow drain. In half his shift.
His next day he didn't show up. No call, didn't come in late, just a no show. That day was fun because we were mobbed and we had to let the moron we hired to do waterchanges and carry peoples water jugs talk to people and do water tests... I have a whole different set of stories about him.
On Doug's third day he came in late again, only 15 minutes this time, with a medical tag on his wrist and needlemarks all up his arm. His carreer ended about 6 minutes later.
The moral of the story kids is that if you plan on shooting your paycheck into your arm you might want to go to work long enough to get said paycheck, show up on time, don't ruin everything you touch, don't OD on your second day, and for f*cks sake if you're going to OD on your second day have the sense to wear long sleeves on your third day.
