Since I've only had a few jobs so far in my life time, I decided I'd widen my veiw to see how the majority of everyone's workplace would see this. So I'm going to give you a senario and you answer what/how you or your place of work would respond or what their procedure would be. Please feel free to leave a reply that gives your answer in more detail.
Your place of work hires a new employee. The new employee was given minimal training before being thrown into working a weekend shift with no managers present. The only people the new employee will see are customers and other employees who aren't even trained for what this particular position (maintenance, janitors, etc.)
You come in for your shift, taking over for the new employee. You find out that she/he has been in the back office working on a test for school, which a manager had told the new employee that it was okay. You find that nothing has been done as far as the previous shift closing their shift or doing their final drawer count along with other questionable tasks that the statuses of were unknown. While you wait for the new hire to count the drawer, prepare the drop and close out her shift, you try to clearify what else needs to be done. One of which is something along the line of the system is saying that something/someone is there that shouldn't be and that there's an alert flashing on the alarm panel.
You try to find out if both had been looked into and after some blank looks, the new hire snaps at you and tells you to stop talking that she knows how to do her job. The conversation continues with the new employee being extremely disrespectful to you and tell you that you needed to be quiet . You decide to find out if the new hire is meaning to sound so rude or not because you know from past experiences some people tend to sound rude when they don't, she says she doesn't but immediantly returns to telling you to stop talking. You stop counted the drawer and to look at her telling her that she needed to start keeping better tabs on her tone of voice because she was sounding very disrespectfuly especially since you're only trying to help and find out what all has or hasn't been done. She tells you she doesn't care. You tell her that she's a new hire and that she's not going to know everything and since its everyone's responsibilty to make sure things get done, she needed to listen to what was being said. The new hire tells you that she doesn't have to listen to you because you're not a manager. You respond saying that you have worked here longer than she has so she needs to listen to what she is being told or asked because you know what needs to be done and the manager expects more established employees to make sure that new employees are doing things correctly. She says that it doesn't matter who has been at a job longer, she doesn't have to listen to any one but the manager.
The new employee leaves after both of you state that the manager will be notified about this situation.
Your place of work hires a new employee. The new employee was given minimal training before being thrown into working a weekend shift with no managers present. The only people the new employee will see are customers and other employees who aren't even trained for what this particular position (maintenance, janitors, etc.)
You come in for your shift, taking over for the new employee. You find out that she/he has been in the back office working on a test for school, which a manager had told the new employee that it was okay. You find that nothing has been done as far as the previous shift closing their shift or doing their final drawer count along with other questionable tasks that the statuses of were unknown. While you wait for the new hire to count the drawer, prepare the drop and close out her shift, you try to clearify what else needs to be done. One of which is something along the line of the system is saying that something/someone is there that shouldn't be and that there's an alert flashing on the alarm panel.
You try to find out if both had been looked into and after some blank looks, the new hire snaps at you and tells you to stop talking that she knows how to do her job. The conversation continues with the new employee being extremely disrespectful to you and tell you that you needed to be quiet . You decide to find out if the new hire is meaning to sound so rude or not because you know from past experiences some people tend to sound rude when they don't, she says she doesn't but immediantly returns to telling you to stop talking. You stop counted the drawer and to look at her telling her that she needed to start keeping better tabs on her tone of voice because she was sounding very disrespectfuly especially since you're only trying to help and find out what all has or hasn't been done. She tells you she doesn't care. You tell her that she's a new hire and that she's not going to know everything and since its everyone's responsibilty to make sure things get done, she needed to listen to what was being said. The new hire tells you that she doesn't have to listen to you because you're not a manager. You respond saying that you have worked here longer than she has so she needs to listen to what she is being told or asked because you know what needs to be done and the manager expects more established employees to make sure that new employees are doing things correctly. She says that it doesn't matter who has been at a job longer, she doesn't have to listen to any one but the manager.
The new employee leaves after both of you state that the manager will be notified about this situation.