It’s never easy being the new person in the office. There are twice as many things to remember as when you are established in a role, or at least, that is what it feels like. Along with trying to remember the training and not make any mistakes, you have to remember names, not get lost …
Seguir leyendo Manager excludes new hire from Friday pizza meeting until she has worked for 90 days, gets annoyed when she tells department head: ‘Now there’s no more pizza meetings’
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Coworker continues to suggest colleague will get fired despite having no basis for that comment: ‘The first time she said it tears came to my eyes and I guess that’s why she’s continued to say it’
Nobody deserves to be singled out in the workplace, unless it’s for good. Especially by your coworker. It’s one thing to not be friends with a coworker. After all, you didn’t exactly choose each other. It’s an entirely different thing to feel like you coworker doesn’t respect you. That can be helped. There is never …
Seguir leyendo Coworker continues to suggest colleague will get fired despite having no basis for that comment: ‘The first time she said it tears came to my eyes and I guess that’s why she’s continued to say it’
Longtime employee spies on colleague, accuses him of slacking for leaving 2 minutes early: ‘I get my quota done by 2’
Few people are less popular than the workplace busybody. Most of the time, none of their coworkers enjoy their company because they feel like they are always mere seconds away from being snitched on, and more often than not, it is over something inconsequential and not a legitimate grievance. It is often the case that …
Seguir leyendo Longtime employee spies on colleague, accuses him of slacking for leaving 2 minutes early: ‘I get my quota done by 2’
Coworker pretends not to know what Brooklyn is to get back at annoying colleague who constantly unplugged his computer: ‘Oh is that some town in Ohio?’
Some people are so annoying about a certain aspect of their personality. They take one fact about them and base their whole life around it. This can be painful to witness as a bystander. Some people make their taste in music their entire personality. If you don’t know the niche bands that they’re into, then …
Seguir leyendo Coworker pretends not to know what Brooklyn is to get back at annoying colleague who constantly unplugged his computer: ‘Oh is that some town in Ohio?’
Coworker takes it upon herself to fire her colleague, claiming to their boss that they ‘quit’: ‘A week later I found out they took me out of the schedule COMPLETELY’
What would you do if you were fired… by someone other than your boss? Lots of things can go wrong in a work setting. You can be laid off, you can find out that the job isn’t right for you, or you can make an enemy that turns out to hold a lot of power. …
Seguir leyendo Coworker takes it upon herself to fire her colleague, claiming to their boss that they ‘quit’: ‘A week later I found out they took me out of the schedule COMPLETELY’
Coworker constantly chastises colleague for minor mistakes, abandons night shift 2 hours in after blowing up: ‘You better stop talking before it gets much worse, I don’t even care if we have to call the police’
Nobody likes to be constantly criticized. It’s our job as coworkers, bosses, and friends to keep our scolding to a minimum. We’re not their parents, and there is always a nicer way to say something. This is especially true at work. Maybe you’re training someone, or you’re supervising, and it’s your job to make sure …
Seguir leyendo Coworker constantly chastises colleague for minor mistakes, abandons night shift 2 hours in after blowing up: ‘You better stop talking before it gets much worse, I don’t even care if we have to call the police’
Coworker secretly uses desk mate’s mechanical keyboard and breaks it, refuses to pay for a new one: ‘I’m wondering if I overreacted’
Accidents happen, but they are not always easy to deal with in the aftermath. This is where you learn who your real friends are. If your friendship is easily jeopardized by a simple mistake, then it probably wasn’t a genuine friendship to begin with. Real friends let things slide when they need to. This is …
Seguir leyendo Coworker secretly uses desk mate’s mechanical keyboard and breaks it, refuses to pay for a new one: ‘I’m wondering if I overreacted’
Employee whispers all day long at his desk, having full-blown conversations with himself about things unrelated to work: ‘He was arguing with himself over his personal life or people he knew.’
This is almost as bad as having a whistler in the office. There’s nothing worse than having a coworker who is annoying in a way that you can’t quite call out without breaching professionalism. If you’re a higher-up, you have more leeway to tell your employees that they shouldn’t sing under their breath in the …
Seguir leyendo Employee whispers all day long at his desk, having full-blown conversations with himself about things unrelated to work: ‘He was arguing with himself over his personal life or people he knew.’
Wife returns from maternity leave after husband is promoted to feared plant boss, tanking her social life as his strict policies at work start spilling into their marriage: ‘Even people I know stopped inviting me for lunch’
Work-life balance usually means answering one email on the couch. In this case, it means being married to the guy who makes the whole plant stop laughing on sight. Same building, same company, one shared home, two completely different universes. At work, he is the top exec with a personal assistant, a reputation for being …
Seguir leyendo Wife returns from maternity leave after husband is promoted to feared plant boss, tanking her social life as his strict policies at work start spilling into their marriage: ‘Even people I know stopped inviting me for lunch’
Colleague insists woman get takeout with work team, protests when she refuses to pay $60 after making a $14 order: ‘She said I never buy dinner for the crew’
Food is a surprisingly common reason for disputes in the workplace. Whether somebody keeps stealing things from the breakroom fridge or a colleague rages at missing out on a free meal, there are all manner of problems that can arise on the topic, even when the work itself has nothing to do with food. What …
Seguir leyendo Colleague insists woman get takeout with work team, protests when she refuses to pay $60 after making a $14 order: ‘She said I never buy dinner for the crew’