Chef works part time at a place that does tire installations, etc. He has a co-worker who is a 20-something useless blob. ZERO work ethic. Chef told me that this kid's parents divorced at an early age and then fought over who had the house with the fewest rules (sound familiar?)

Anyway, classic tale of dad spending tens of thousands in attorney fees to take custody of his coddled son; only to have said son go running back to mommykins.
This is a part time job for said kid, I'll call him "Comic Fan" because he loves to dress up as super hero comic characters and go to Comic Conventions (instead of work.)

Comic Fan has almost killed a few customers by not tightening lug nuts, failed to follow procedure, argued with customers, sat around on the job, making messes instead of cleaning up, blasted the heat to kiln levels when no one was there.

He has caused about $5K in damages to customers vehicles due to failure to follow instructions over the past 6 months or so.

Comic Fan was FIRED from WALMART!!

Sadly the boss of that dept. is a practically a kid himself and will not terminate Comic Fan but wants to be buddies with Comic Fan. So much so that Comic Fan's slovely ways are rubbing off on "the boss."

Chef shows up for work early, cleans up the place and does various "lowly" duties that neither Comic Fan nor the boss will do. Chef has even stayed late to help out other departments and covered both Comic Fan's and the boss's shifts for them.

Fast forward to a few weeks ago. The "Boss" forgot to turn in Chef's request for leave when we went to Texas even though he had been reminding the Boss since late January and had marked it on the calendar.

Even though Chef won "employee of the month" for April, he received a phone call from the "big boss" asking where he was while we were in Texas. Chef works alone on his shifts there so Chef's immediate Boss didn't contact him. Instead the big boss was giving him a hard time over the phone for "not advising he would be out." Chef texted HIS boss and asked him WTF in so many words. Of course the kid-like Boss started making excuses as to why he didn't submit the time off form after being reminded since late January.

SIGH!!