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I had a meeting yesterday involving people up the organizational chart from me and a high profile client. I was in charge of it. Overall, it went really well. Afterward, we were doing small talk with the client as is custom. Our group is the client, me, my supervisor and my supervisor's supervisor. After telling a few fun work stories, the client gets on the subject of a coworker who is not at the meeting. The client proceeds to put my coworker on blast like few things I have seen before in a professional setting. The client tells us he has spoken to multiple other people in the industry and fields complaints from them on a regular basis about this one co-worker while never receiving any about others. To give you a gauge, he stated multiple people have spoken to him about the potential of how much he could help reduce our revenue to spur sufficient layoffs to ensure the co-worker was let go and/or statements about them wanting the co-worker to die. I have never wanted to run from a work talk so much as I did at that moment. During the debrief, my supervisor waited until it was just the two of us in the room and immediately and specifically directed me to not speak about the conversation with anyone at work "and I mean anyone". I hate having secrets.
Is your coworker really as awful as the client said? (Not that it changes the awkwardness of all that, I'm just curious.)
I had a meeting yesterday involving people up the organizational chart from me and a high profile client. I was in charge of it. Overall, it went really well. Afterward, we were doing small talk with the client as is custom. Our group is the client, me, my supervisor and my supervisor's supervisor. After telling a few fun work stories, the client gets on the subject of a coworker who is not at the meeting. The client proceeds to put my coworker on blast like few things I have seen before in a professional setting. The client tells us he has spoken to multiple other people in the industry and fields complaints from them on a regular basis about this one co-worker while never receiving any about others. To give you a gauge, he stated multiple people have spoken to him about the potential of how much he could help reduce our revenue to spur sufficient layoffs to ensure the co-worker was let go and/or statements about them wanting the co-worker to die. I have never wanted to run from a work talk so much as I did at that moment. During the debrief, my supervisor waited until it was just the two of us in the room and immediately and specifically directed me to not speak about the conversation with anyone at work "and I mean anyone". I hate having secrets.
Is your coworker really as awful as the client said? (Not that it changes the awkwardness of all that, I'm just curious.)
It's a long standing debate in the office. He is by far the strictest inspector in the office, so he is naturally going to get more crap than anyone else. On the other hand, he is kind of minimal in the warmth that he projects and makes little to no effort for small talk or hearing other people's sides of the story. The supervisor has long put it off on personality almost exclusively but I don't think it's all that. Like 70% personality 30% work choices.
I had a meeting yesterday involving people up the organizational chart from me and a high profile client. I was in charge of it. Overall, it went really well. Afterward, we were doing small talk with the client as is custom. Our group is the client, me, my supervisor and my supervisor's supervisor. After telling a few fun work stories, the client gets on the subject of a coworker who is not at the meeting. The client proceeds to put my coworker on blast like few things I have seen before in a professional setting. The client tells us he has spoken to multiple other people in the industry and fields complaints from them on a regular basis about this one co-worker while never receiving any about others. To give you a gauge, he stated multiple people have spoken to him about the potential of how much he could help reduce our revenue to spur sufficient layoffs to ensure the co-worker was let go and/or statements about them wanting the co-worker to die. I have never wanted to run from a work talk so much as I did at that moment. During the debrief, my supervisor waited until it was just the two of us in the room and immediately and specifically directed me to not speak about the conversation with anyone at work "and I mean anyone". I hate having secrets.
Your coworker has said to clients that he wants them to die or clients want him to die?
I mean, either way, that dude sounds like a real piece of work.
I had a meeting yesterday involving people up the organizational chart from me and a high profile client. I was in charge of it. Overall, it went really well. Afterward, we were doing small talk with the client as is custom. Our group is the client, me, my supervisor and my supervisor's supervisor. After telling a few fun work stories, the client gets on the subject of a coworker who is not at the meeting. The client proceeds to put my coworker on blast like few things I have seen before in a professional setting. The client tells us he has spoken to multiple other people in the industry and fields complaints from them on a regular basis about this one co-worker while never receiving any about others. To give you a gauge, he stated multiple people have spoken to him about the potential of how much he could help reduce our revenue to spur sufficient layoffs to ensure the co-worker was let go and/or statements about them wanting the co-worker to die. I have never wanted to run from a work talk so much as I did at that moment. During the debrief, my supervisor waited until it was just the two of us in the room and immediately and specifically directed me to not speak about the conversation with anyone at work "and I mean anyone". I hate having secrets.
Your coworker has said to clients that he wants them to die or clients want him to die?
I mean, either way, that dude sounds like a real piece of work.
The client relayed to us that others have said they want the co-worker to die.
The client relayed to us that others have said they want the co-worker to die.
Oh boy.
In a similar vein, I was recently told by a client that they would rather retire than deal with this co-worker if the co-worker was put into a position of authority.
Is your coworker really as awful as the client said? (Not that it changes the awkwardness of all that, I'm just curious.)
It's a long standing debate in the office. He is by far the strictest inspector in the office, so he is naturally going to get more crap than anyone else. On the other hand, he is kind of minimal in the warmth that he projects and makes little to no effort for small talk or hearing other people's sides of the story. The supervisor has long put it off on personality almost exclusively but I don't think it's all that. Like 70% personality 30% work choices.
Interesting.
Also, apparently, today is the day for hearing stories about difficult coworkers, as someone posted this story on Facebook today.
As I'm about to switch jobs, it makes me so nervous hearing about difficult people in the workplace. I've had my complaints about my current supervisor, but at least he's the devil I know.
Apparently, today is stand-outside-my-office-door-and-have-long-conversations day!
You should also officially declare it get-up-and-shut-the-office-door-day! I soooooo miss having an office. You know how they say "good fences make good neighbors"? Same goes for office doors! The best!
(But I also know the internal dilemma of shutting the door and having people take notice)
Apparently, today is stand-outside-my-office-door-and-have-long-conversations day!
You should also officially declare it get-up-and-shut-the-office-door-day! I soooooo miss having an office. You know how they say "good fences make good neighbors"? Same goes for office doors! The best!
(But I also know the internal dilemma of shutting the door and having people take notice)
I'm actually the only person in my department who is here today, so it probably wouldn't have even been noticed. Thankfully, it's been quieter this afternoon anyway.
I just can't stand my store anymore. I'm spending most of my time stopping fraud. I got attacked by a customer who stalked me because of it. I'm not a manager. And I can't believe no one filed a report. I wish I had at the time, but I was in shock. I'm really tired of all the whining from my co-workers.
I take a lot of pride in my work. Please don't sh!t talk my position in front me , while you cry about being poor. You just tracked overseas, down the east coast, and went to a music festival. YOU ARE SO POOR. I used to beg one of my co-workers to take money from me so she could eat.THAT IS POOR.
Post by trantsgiving on Jul 24, 2017 12:42:57 GMT -5
Wednesday is my last day as a trivia host since I'm going on a two week trip then starting college, but holy shit the coworkers are intolerable.
Since we have hosts across America, we use a private facebook group for posting the questions each night and various other work stuff, but some people go in there and post vacation photos for absolutely no reason. In addition, since the new management took over, they make us print off what's called a "visual round" where we have to go to a store and print 25 pages each night we host out of pocket. They "reimburse" us but that reimbursement is taxed for some reason.
Luckily, they're terrible at keeping inventory so I've ended up with about 2 free mixers, 5 free 1/4 cords, and 2 PA systems that they probably won't ask for back.
WOWWWWWW this project I'm working on. the directors working on it are just... well, let's just say I have NO IDEA how they have their jobs. ignoring everything my strategy partner and I are saying, going with gut reactions that are inaccurate, and then wondering why what they're presenting doesn't work. feels like a 1st-semester-of-grad-school level expertise.
cannot wait to move on from this one. it had soooo much potential and it's just killing me that it's going down this way when I have so many great ideas for it. OH WELL.
EDIT: my signature is quite reflective of how I've been feeling in meetings.
Is there a problem that you can have to where you perpetually belch? Like, really loud? There's one person that's always walking by my cube knocking on the walls and burping obnoxiously loud.
I want to say something, but I don't want him to like, have some kind of burping disability.
Is there a problem that you can have to where you perpetually belch? Like, really loud? There's one person that's always walking by my cube knocking on the walls and burping obnoxiously loud.
I want to say something, but I don't want him to like, have some kind of burping disability.
Might have GERD or some other acid reflux disorder thing.
Is there a problem that you can have to where you perpetually belch? Like, really loud? There's one person that's always walking by my cube knocking on the walls and burping obnoxiously loud.
I want to say something, but I don't want him to like, have some kind of burping disability.
Might have GERD or some other acid reflux disorder thing.
I figured. Even though I dont think its the case. He just looks like a slob, and the reason hes always walking by is to go on smoke breaks.
Post by Fozzie Bear on Jul 25, 2017 18:50:58 GMT -5
Got two weeks left of my current job, received a proof for a directory with 300+ changes. Normally member updates are taken before the data is submitted for design, but sometimes associations use our proofing process as a way to receive updates to their database. Can't wait to leave.
Serious question: if you take pride in your work (even if you don't LOVE your job), can you be friends with someone that doesn't respect you, your job, or well anyone else's job including their own?
Post by thepeppers on Aug 29, 2017 15:27:50 GMT -5
Been a struggle to get anything accomplished at work today since A) I'm still coming off and re-grouping from Lockn this part weekend and B) I was informed this morning I needed to come in an extra day this week because of Labor Day and it's took awhile to swallow that pill. I start to get in groove a late in the afternoon and my managers farther (original owner who is barley involved with the company now) comes to my work area and interrupts because he needs help printing an article titled "Does God Blah Blah Blah".
I hate how I have become one of those "living for the weekend" guys.
Multiple publications going to print, the Silver Plume award date is finally set and we have less than 3 weeks to get this shit done (me I have to get it done), got bullshit test results today and I am over it all. Today can suck it.
Post by Dave Maynar on Sept 12, 2017 8:21:52 GMT -5
Just got publicly criticized by my supervisor to talking too much to a co-worker. I was talking to her because I was helping her with a work process issue. It's a great day.
