Secret work enemies

[Daveysgingerlovechild]

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.

Absolutely right. One person used to refer to herself as taking a "mean mummy" approach to her staff.

And wondered why folk left in droves with a ridiculous turnover rate or were absolutely demoralised.

 

[Littlesue]

Large groups of women in factories can be scary. I was a Union Rep for GMB back in the late 80's and I worked at a place that made Electric Motors. The Labour Party MP Claire Short was campaigning to get page 3 and lad mags banned so the Unions sent out word to work places to lead by example.Non of the Male Reps would do it so I was asked to go out on to the shop floor to persuade the men to take any explotive pics down. I spent a whole day going round the men and they mostly agreed as long as the Women would take their male pics down. Next day I approached the women, who mainly worked in a section of their own, and asked the same. They went crazy!!, who the hell was I to tell them what to do, they threatened to do all sorts to me , The Security guard had to escort me off the site that night as I was that petrified , I soon left

 

[Toffe3m4n]

There's a handful of 'goody-two-shoes' type characters in my place but I can't honestly say that I actively 'hate' them.. I just tend to avoid them if anything lol

 

[Toffe3m4n]

I have a particular dislike of people who create meaningless and not particularly useful tasks and processes, just to make themselves appear busy and relevant. Or "bullshit jobs".

I had about 3 work enemies from my time in the civil service. They absolutely catastrophised about a relatively minor change to something and wasted approximately 33hrs of my time bitching about it in informal and formal meetings prior to implementation (yes I calculated and logged it - this was across two months). When literally no negative consequences emerged afterwards, I quietly put in complaints to their respective team heads about their behaviour and approach to work.

That may seem harsh, change is difficult, but they were classic "I'm so busy, I've got time to do things" merchants. You do, simply stop moaning and bitching about everything.

Hits quite close to home this haha but I won't say any more lol

 

[COYBL25]

My current main job is a Cleaner in a Car showroom/Repair shop, me and 12 men, no women, so paradise. I reckon I've had about 50 jobs over the years and find men easier to work with than women, nothing worse than walking into an office/shop/factory and catching two women talking about you

My missus has been a nurse for over 25yrs and she says the exact same thing.

She also reckons that if you put at least one man into a predominately all female work place, it almost stops dead, the bitching and talking behind each others backs.

 

[COYBL25]

There's always one nob that microwaves fish at dinner time too.

We had one fella, that used to micro wave tripe and also eat pickled pigs feet at his desk.

Both the smell and the noises he made whilst eating them at his desk, was off the scale horrendous.

The boss had to have a word with him in the end, even then he couldn`t see what the problem was.

 

[Rita_Poon]

My missus has been a nurse for over 25yrs and she says the exact same thing.

She also reckons that if you put at least one man into a predominately all female work place, it almost stops dead, the bitching and talking behind each others backs.

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[IrishBlue2022]

One work colleague (Not line managed by me but will soon be) is quite annoying.

Always off with something going on, complains about how busy they always are when they have the least responsibility and output in our whole department, talks about how they turned down better paid jobs to stay like we should be grateful, talks about staff from other departments when she barely knows them, tries to talk people out of promotion opportunities by telling them how she is qualified for and has done that level of job before and wouldn't go for it (Even though they are on a development plan in their current job for absences and underperforming) and the most annoying thing is they share a desk with their partner ehen working from home so while on work calls they stop mid sentence and involve their partner.

They are also generally quite strange. A colleague invited them round for a drink with another colleague and she showed up with her husband, who the other had never met or invited and sat there all night. It was all apparently very awkward.

Think this may cause some headaches for me in the future. Not quite my enemy yet, but potential is there for the future.

 

[Daveysgingerlovechild]

Hits quite close to home this haha but I won't say any more lol

Was it you? Ffs

 

[Littlesue]

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In our dreams

 

[Rita_Poon]

One work colleague (Not line managed by me but will soon be) is quite annoying.

Always off with something going on, complains about how busy they always are when they have the least responsibility and output in our whole department, talks about how they turned down better paid jobs to stay like we should be grateful, talks about staff from other departments when she barely knows them, tries to talk people out of promotion opportunities by telling them how she is qualified for and has done that level of job before and wouldn't go for it (Even though they are on a development plan in their current job for absences and underperforming) and the most annoying thing is they share a desk with their partner so while on work calls they stop mid sentence and involve their partner.

They are also generally quite strange. A colleague invited them round for a drink with another colleague and she showed up with her husband, who they had never met and sat there all night. It was all apparently very awkward.

Think this may cause some headaches for me in the future. Not quite my enemy yet, but potential is there for the future.

bit lost here.

 

[IrishBlue2022]

bit lost here.

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Basically to summarise she's a bit of an expletive deleted.

 

[COYBL25]

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Most of the male nurses tend to be friends of Dorothy for some reason.

 

[Rita_Poon]

Edited with better descriptions.

Basically to summarise she's an expletive deleted.

Ah, so she's even a pain in the arse when working from home.
Sounds like a common class of moron, the busybody, happiest with it's nose in everybody elses business, constantly moaning on about being expected to do anything, has strong opinions and forcefully presents them even though ridiculous, such individuals are all in with the belief the universe (not the world) revolves around them. Become quite hysterical when they mess up, and then anything that moves is going under the bus. Best managed out of the door on a rocket sled.

 

[IrishBlue2022]

Ah, so she's even a pain in the arse when working from home.
Sounds like a common class of moron, the busybody, happiest with it's nose in everybody elses business, constantly moaning on about being expected to do anything, has strong opinions and forcefully presents them even though ridiculous, such individuals are all in with the belief the universe (not the world) revolves around them. Become quite hysterical when they mess up, and then anything that moves is going under the bus. Best managed out of the door on a rocket sled.

Sounds like you know her too.