At your job, do you notice the lack of common sense with your employees/bosses?

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There is at mine. Makes me lose brain cells anytime I walk in the doors.

Curmudgeon · Accepted Answer

For me, I have a boss who likes to hear herself talk.

When she raised a concern about an office workflow or technical problem in the past, I used to try to helpfully interrupt that I had already taken care of the problem (because I HAD!), but that only infuriated her.

So I have learned to let her filibuster for 5 to 10 minutes on how troublesome the matter will be, and THEN I tell her I have already taken care of it.

Ugh.

I can quit my day job and semi-retire to my side businesses in 6 years, 5 Months, and 5 working days this month starting tomorrow, but who is counting? :D

Flatmanlewis · Accepted Answer

Not too much. Common sense is trained into the equation and part of the formula for success. For us common sense is literally SOP. When the unexpected occurs, which is frequently does, we have a handful of default fallback and acronyms to guide us back to a place of common sense.

Clyde_123 · Accepted Answer

Yes I work at hospital and patients asking us medical certificate where they just came from doctor who asked them to get medcert its not me who will they get medical certificate from they get it from same doctor who consulted them and yet doctors forgot to give them medcert and tell them to ask us medcert lol

FreyaRed · Accepted Answer

No. It's rather lack of any decency while lying and deceiving, because of anger when they realize you're always two steps further before them. Lack of common sense doesn't cause angry reactions, it's just the case when they want to manipulate you but they fail.

dustybiker2 · Answer

I notice this with stores. The amount of people hired who have no job knowledge is startling. But then I guess the selection pool is slim? Prob bad working environment and pay is what caused the competent employees to leave originally.

DryGermanGuy · Answer

Sometimes this happened. The two worst managers I encountered were a deluded twerp with Napoleon complex and a super nice guy afraid to make any decision at all.

exitseven · Answer

No, where I work they seem to have a lot of common sense. Fox news in always on tv in the lunchroom.

Simslover92 · Answer

I have a coworker who I always wonder how she even got the job.

electromagnetic · Answer

I will always bring my mantra ’my common sense is different from their common sense’

JacobJordan · Answer

Job, walking down the street, driving to places, in stores, everywhere

Jennz6 · Answer

I work in a strip club, what do we need common sense for lol 💃

Anonymous · Answer

Nah. I work in customer service and so my issue is with the customers. The amount of stupid questions I hear a day is astounding.

NathanDavis · Answer

my boss is an absolute dumbass...

JosyJosy · Answer

Oo don't remind me. You'll ruin my Sunday!

sheikalana · Answer

All the time.

dudeinohio · Answer

Yes. Absolutely. Daily.

DreamLife7 · Answer

Yes majority is women

Hellur991 · Answer

All the damn time

LEGENDARY4200 · Answer

All the time

Anonymous · Answer

Yes do you

Tstrbrainer · Answer

What happened?

eagle1951 · Answer

use too

At your job, do you notice the lack of common sense with your employees/bosses?

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