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Just Told Off a Pain in the Ass Coworker, How About You?
- Thread starter Papa Satanás
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Hey man you have poop in your name, but I bet you don't leave it on work toilets 😛
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Canada! And yeah, HR might take the (literal) shit seriously - we've never gone to them specifically for that, actually. Just assumed it would be lumped in with "address it with her supervisor".
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She keeps them in binders so she can go back if she needs to. She has emails from 2013. And honestly that's fine, she can keep whatever she wants in binders, but why the hell do we need a paper copy?
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Yeah we all did that. Eventually you get a bit fed up when you realise most of your day is spent either deflecting, coaching, or pacifying a coworker who won't help themselves.
You see, now this thread is delivering. I'm still caught up with the whole printing emails and then sending printed emails to everyone.
Yes. I worked with someone who clipped his toenails on his desk, spit sunflower seed shells everywhere, and had phone sex with his wife almost daily. But he never shit on the floor, as far as I know, so... silver linings I guess.
For a little less than a year I worked at a smaller design agency. About 25 employees total.
I was hired as the Director of Interactive Services but I also somehow wound up becoming the IT guy. The owners did not think we needed a dedicated IT person (ie they were cheap), and one of them was the one that usually took care of it. Well when I was hired the position basically got thrown to me on top of my other duties. This was not part of the job description when I signed on.
Oh yeah, all of the owners were 60 and older. Way out of touch with shit. They hired me to bring some life into their agency as up until that point in time they only were offering their clients print services and losing people left and right.
We butt heads almost immediately. They were not open at all to why they hired me. Shit was just not a good fit. Me also being asked to be the IT guy on top of everything else was just the icing on top of the shitty cake.
Somehow I stick it out almost a year. I did see it as an opportunity to do something good for my career.
I was supposed to come into the office 2 hours early on a Monday morning as we were doing something with the local servers. I honestly do not even remember what it was. I think just applying an update.
On the way to work there was an accident involving a car and a train. Shit was backed up for miles. So I wound up being about 90 minutes late. I really did not think anything of it. I literally could not go anywhere due to the accident.
When I arrived, the owner of the place started screaming at me like I was a kid. Mind you I was almost 30 years old at this point in time. He was over 60 years old.
I just attempted to walk away as I was about to lose my shit, and my man literally pushed me as I turned around and my back was to him.
So I turned around and said "we can take this shit outside right now if you are feeling brave old man."
My man literally lunged at me, some punches were thrown, I avoided them all and called him a "miserable old fuck." I also started laughing which just enraged him even more. It was a truly ugly scene.
Since no one was there except this kid that was interning, it was my word against the owner.
Fortunately that kid did tell HR (the lone women) what actually went down.
That was my last day there and I actually received two months severance.
I was hired as the Director of Interactive Services but I also somehow wound up becoming the IT guy. The owners did not think we needed a dedicated IT person (ie they were cheap), and one of them was the one that usually took care of it. Well when I was hired the position basically got thrown to me on top of my other duties. This was not part of the job description when I signed on.
Oh yeah, all of the owners were 60 and older. Way out of touch with shit. They hired me to bring some life into their agency as up until that point in time they only were offering their clients print services and losing people left and right.
We butt heads almost immediately. They were not open at all to why they hired me. Shit was just not a good fit. Me also being asked to be the IT guy on top of everything else was just the icing on top of the shitty cake.
Somehow I stick it out almost a year. I did see it as an opportunity to do something good for my career.
I was supposed to come into the office 2 hours early on a Monday morning as we were doing something with the local servers. I honestly do not even remember what it was. I think just applying an update.
On the way to work there was an accident involving a car and a train. Shit was backed up for miles. So I wound up being about 90 minutes late. I really did not think anything of it. I literally could not go anywhere due to the accident.
When I arrived, the owner of the place started screaming at me like I was a kid. Mind you I was almost 30 years old at this point in time. He was over 60 years old.
I just attempted to walk away as I was about to lose my shit, and my man literally pushed me as I turned around and my back was to him.
So I turned around and said "we can take this shit outside right now if you are feeling brave old man."
My man literally lunged at me, some punches were thrown, I avoided them all and called him a "miserable old fuck." I also started laughing which just enraged him even more. It was a truly ugly scene.
Since no one was there except this kid that was interning, it was my word against the owner.
Fortunately that kid did tell HR (the lone women) what actually went down.
That was my last day there and I actually received two months severance.
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No worries, you're not too late to throw a no-deets fit 😉
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.... holy shit 😂 He seriously went at you? What was his plan there? Glad the intern had your back at least. It sounds more like they just wanted someone to come fix their mess and take care of their computers, unfortunately.
Anyways on topic the only time I ever "went at" a coworker was when I texted him after our shift because for a few weeks he was being an asshole making underhanded comments and being super condescending, so I sent him a text telling him that I've been noticing his condescending behavior and insulting side remarks/backhanded compliments, and that it's getting on my nerves, and I would like for it to stop. He didn't reply but he stopped.
It was crazy, as I knew he was a bit of a hot head, I had seen him scream at some other people before me and thought wow, he is a dick. But it was like a switch flipped in him. He was bright red and just like the old bugs bunny cartoons. I felt like I could see the steam coming out of his ears.
The real crazy thing is he was a pretty big dude for an old man. Like 6 foot 3 and in fairly good shape. Truth be told I am not sure I could have taken him on. LOL But because he was so angry he was out of control. And because I was relatively calm I had the upper hand. But he literally came at me came at me. If he was not so angry, I do wonder how shit would have went down.
But you no doubt hit on something. I was living proof his company of like 40 years was failing. That is literally why I was there, to try and save them. So I think he was just in fuck it mode.
As a side note, he wound up selling his share of the company a few months later and retiring. They actually called me after and asked if I was interested in coming back. I did not.
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Telling off the person who frustrates me at work would be pointless, because they don't understand why they're so bad at their job and explaining it wouldn't help.
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I think that's the wave we'd all been riding up to now. Today wasn't planned, but I can't say I regret it too much :/ Maybe if I'd legit cursed her out.
The shit thing and the coughing thing is obviously disgusting.
The email thing...does she not know about "return receipts"? If you're using Outlook or Lotus at your job, you can send an email with a return receipt, and it will notify the sender when the recipient views/opens the email, therefore eliminating the need to print out a paper copy to "make sure they got it." I'd imagine other email services have this feature as well.
The email thing...does she not know about "return receipts"? If you're using Outlook or Lotus at your job, you can send an email with a return receipt, and it will notify the sender when the recipient views/opens the email, therefore eliminating the need to print out a paper copy to "make sure they got it." I'd imagine other email services have this feature as well.
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Absolutely. She does the same when she sends a fax, calling the person on the other side to make sure they got all the pages because one time back in 1997...
Go to HR rather than acting like an ass next time. It's what they're there for.
I program and had an asshole go to of my 6 open tasks and post a "maybe you should be working on x instead" comment awhile ago. It wasn't even something I knew I should be working on. He'd communicated with me about it zero times.
I called him a dick. He came back with some sort of dumbass "there's no need to be offended" comment.
I don't think that really counts as telling someone off though but it's really fucked me over when i need to ask him to fix his shitty code.
I called him a dick. He came back with some sort of dumbass "there's no need to be offended" comment.
I don't think that really counts as telling someone off though but it's really fucked me over when i need to ask him to fix his shitty code.
What kind of insane hellhole do you work in that nothing is being done about this?
I'm now imagining you slowly swiveling around in your chair and, completely devoid of emotion, saying "You have gotten me cross".
I'll take it, my dad used to get pissed off about everything, so I'm happy swinging the other way. :P
I will side with OP, your coworker sounds obnoxious. I sit in an office with 600 collegues and not a single one of them behaves like this (though a bunch of them do other things that are perhaps not as obnoxious but much scarier; there are certainly some people with psychopathic tendencies).
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I mean people are gonna be weird at work, but those precious few take it to a whole other creepy-ass level.
Your coworker sounds like a damn caricature. How is someone that shitty?
we need some foreplay up in this bitch
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Sorry to hear that :( Hopefully they sort it out - if it's really going nowhere, maybe it's good that you spoke up. Could save you some sanity.
How did she take the (very mild) telling off? Think you might get a couple of days of the silent treatment?
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Her response on the spot was "very well then", and she went back to her desk. I'm sort of expecting nothing, though. She's been told off (gently and not so gently) by clinic staff, and her behaviours didn't change.
Silent treatment would be really nice
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Some people crave the feeling of being part of a small mob of shitballoons.
The art of telling someone off is doing it without it sounding like you're telling them off.
Learn this and you will climb the ladder.
Learn this and you will climb the ladder.
This is two of my coworkers right there. I work in a small business and one constantly tells the same stories over and over again and the other can't get out of their own way with life decisions. It's super annoying.
On a separate note op reading some of these responses on here is crazy. Some of you are so scared of hr and actually having a confrontation that clearly needed to happen that it's mind boggling. When things like what the op stated are allowed to linger and fester it affects everyone and if management won't do anything then you should take things politely but firmly in your hands. You might be seen as overbearing or over stepping your bounds but for your own mental stability sometimes you need to step up and protect your neck.
She sounds like a nightmare OP.
The email thing, fuck me that's dumb. Someone needs to calculate the cost to the company in paper and toner and binders and so on just so she can pointlessly create waste. She keeps them so she can go back over them if need be? Like that would work, the idiot, 1000 times quicker to simply filter outlook by a name or a subject or whatever than trying to flip through 4000 pages of old correspondence across what I assume is multiple binders.
My company is on a real drive to reduce printing costs once someone did the calcs and realised current usage, people printing emails and reports that they really don't need to was costing almost £200k a year.
I'm sorry, but what the flying fuck at that pooping behavior.
Come on now, how can this unsanitary shit happen more than once!?
And here I was thinking how crazy it was, that time I found footprints under the toilet seat at work.
Come on now, how can this unsanitary shit happen more than once!?
And here I was thinking how crazy it was, that time I found footprints under the toilet seat at work.
Can you please think of a more exotic word than 'crumbles'?
I think that's straight to there with moist as worst adjectives.
I think that's straight to there with moist as worst adjectives.