Secret work enemies

[peteblue]

Never used it in my life. I know you do but that's to be expected.

I only found out it existed yesterday….in future I’ll be more organiZed……

 

[SerenityNigh]

He’s chatting you up…..

*brushes up on semicolon usage*

 

[peteblue]

*brushes up on semicolon usage*

Tbh mate, you’ve been letting the side down here with your lack of paragraphs. I’ve no idea how GOT allows you to publish stuff. Perhaps you could use our new proof reader to put it into shape and then I’ll check his spelling. Although I appreciate you would have used the z…….

 

[DavidH]

*brushes up on semicolon usage*

"semi" "colon"

 

[Jamo Martinez]

This reminds FB92 of a DM he received from a lad in the States a few month back asking how to emotionally handle a difficult member of his University class group project who was bringing the team morale down with his unhelpful antics.

My answer then is the same as it is now - somewhere on another existential plane (or another forum) you may have someone asking that very same question in regards to yourself.

They'll always be sources of conflict in a group setting. How you process that conflict essentially determines how close you're to understanding "enlightenment".

You forgot to tag yourself mate.

 

[Daveysgingerlovechild]

There are definitely some people with some very bad habits in that respect where I work. Once went into a cubicle and there was a big brown smudge down the flush button lol

In another place I used to work some lad got fired and he came back in the middle of the night and shat on the doorstep of the fire exit where we all used to smoke

Ah, dirty protests.

Yes, I've encountered such creatures at two places I've worked.

First, one disgruntled male employee (freshly fired) daubed "company name are andycs" in poop on the toilet wall.

Second, someone took a dump in the sink in the gents. No one knows why. Might have been desperate and the cubicles full? For a laugh? Did he even poo in the sink? Maybe he scooped it out of the bowl and placed it in the sink as a weird form of public art?

Anyway, I strongly suspect such individuals become public work enemies quite quickly

 

[Kurt.]

One prestigious building site I worked on, the site offices would regularly have someone leave one of the traps absolutely devo’d which in turn would result in a strongly worded email from the site office manager / Proj Directors assistant with an accompanying photo of the offending deposit. This would be send to the entire project directory inc the clients. After around the 8th or 9th instance she was ordered to refrain from sending the images out as the client was deeply offended by them.
The irony was her husband worked there too as a one of the civils construction managers, he was an ex squaddy, rough as a badgers a-hole, and almost certainly responsible for the offending excrement.
Also worked on another site where some one would regularly take a dump in the office showers occasionally pushing it into the plug (presumably ‘toeing’ it in).
While that all sounds very much the norm (ish) for construction sites, I now work at an investment bank in London and was surprised to find that the kharzi’s there get just as much of a hiding as anything I’ve see on a building site including the portaloos on site itself.
Proving if there were ever any doubt that we do indeed ‘all **** out of the same hole’.

When I worked in construction years ago we were working in the sub station at the Trawsfynydd nuclear power station, we had a bathroom cabin installed on site which was kept immaculately clean… only weird thing was there were 2 lads on site from another company but they used to go to the cabin together every morning at 9.30am and sit in the traps next door to each other chatting away whilst sharing the experience of their daily morning dump. I found that totally weird.

 

[Daveysgingerlovechild]

This reminds FB92 of a DM he received from a lad in the States a few month back asking how to emotionally handle a difficult member of his University class group project who was bringing the team morale down with his unhelpful antics.

My answer then is the same as it is now - somewhere on another existential plane (or another forum) you may have someone asking that very same question in regards to yourself.

They'll always be sources of conflict in a group setting. How you process that conflict essentially determines how close you're to understanding "enlightenment".

 

[Alanbileysfeathercut]

Some girl hated another in our place and wrote xxxxx sucks willy's on a poster.
They knew it was a females writing, not cos it was eligible, because she didn't write c..ks....
True story btw

 

[Alanbileysfeathercut]

When I worked in construction years ago we were working in the sub station at the Trawsfynydd nuclear power station, we had a bathroom cabin installed on site which was kept immaculately clean… only weird thing was there were 2 lads on site from another company but they used to go to the cabin together every morning at 9.30am and sit in the traps next door to each other chatting away whilst sharing the experience of their daily morning dump. I found that totally weird.

Impossible to converse while dumping...imo.

 

[Kurt.]

Impossible to converse while dumping...imo.

It’s a very private moment for me personally

 

[Alanbileysfeathercut]

It’s a very private moment for me personally

GOT moment for me mate.....

 

[Daveysgingerlovechild]

I'm all for the sisterhood, I think we women should support each other whenever and wherever we can. However after 20 odd years as a union rep I found that some of the biggest bullies and the most downright nasty horrible managers I encountered were women. It made me sad. I often wonder if they thought that to get to that position they had to be more scary and aggressive than any man. I have also dealt with lovely female managers who have so much empathy for their staff and I have also dealt with some shockingly awful male managers but the worst bullies always seemed to be female.

Example 1 - colleague's Mum was terminally ill and eventually passed away. Female manager tried to refuse him bereavement leave beacuse ' you know she was going to die so you could have planned in advance'

Example 2 - female manager tried to refuse a disabled AA (lowest grade in Civil service) whose main job was doing shredding a half day off because the team would be understaffed and that couldn't happen. My reponse ' Are you saying that X is so important that tis whole organisation will collapse if he has a half day. I hope his worth is reflected in his pay packet.' He got his half day.

There are some terrible control freak weirdos in the civil service Anj. Properly lose all sense of perspective and get into a mode of thinking where their relatively unimportant process / section is all important.

I had a marvellously time running various things in a very different way to other teams and rebuffing certain individuals angry attempts to make me do things their way 'for consistency' or because 'his team sets a bad example'.

Comedy gold. "Do you really need to be doing that though?" is the magic phrase.

Heads blow.

 

[Daveysgingerlovechild]

Impossible to converse while dumping...imo.

 

[anjelikaferrett]

There are some terrible control freak weirdos in the civil service Anj. Properly lose all sense of perspective and get into a mode of thinking where their relatively unimportant process / section is all important.

I had a marvellously time running various things in a very different way to other teams and rebuffing certain individuals angry attempts to make me do things their way 'for consistency' or because 'his team sets a bad example'.

Comedy gold. "Do you really need to be doing that though?" is the magic phrase.

Heads blow.

Oh how I agree. I managed 22 staff at one point. We were in the filestore ( a massive warehouse with no windows) remote from the office so there was me and 22 AAs. They had the dullest job in the world- pulling files to send to all the offices around the country and then refiling them. My job was a complete doss. As you can imagine however, the slightest issue was blown out of all proportion- just because it alleviated the boredom. So my main focus was keeping them happy. We had a kitchen on site so I would cook them a full English every Friday, would re- write briefs that they needed to listen to, to include song titles and give a bottle of wine to whoever found the most; when one of our bogs was out of action for 5 months I organised a grand re-opening event. I got a cake made in the shape of a toilet, persuaded two of the AAs to dress up as a toilet brush and a loo roll to perform the opening ceremony and had a buffet featuring mini rolls, chocolate peanuts etc ( you can see where this is going). It was class. They worked really hard for me, I never refused leave and as long as the work was done I didn't actually care if they had a half hour break instead of twenty minutes. You catch more flies with honey than vinegar.