Stupid CoWorkers

I work in an office area where we sit close to each other (but not in cubicals). We each get our own computer, desk space and trash bins. The co-worker on the right of me is a germaphobic. I’m ok with being clean and everything, but this is a bit extreme.

My co-worker get so upset when her trash bin gets almost half-full, she cannot stand it. So, while I am in a meeting, at lunch, or just anytime I am away from my desk, she will empty her trash into my container. This must go on 3 to 4 times a day. While I have confronted her about this (in a nice matter) she totally denied it.

I wouldn’t care except then my trash overflows and makes me look like a complete slob. I just cannot believe someone would be so rude!

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Stupid CoWorkers

Okay, where do I begin? I started this job in the fall of 2007 with a community mental healthcare facility. I should have picked up on the fact that no one else working at this facility was jumping at the opportunity of working with this woman! She is foreign born and as nutty as a snickers bar! She is very insecure about her intelligence and skills. As a result of this, she tends to be overbearing, suspicious and controlling with our team of casemanagers whom she supervises. She has boundary issues with regards to sharing her personal life, with me in particular. Only four months or more into my employment, she shares her divorce in detail with me. She tells me about how her husband cheated on her with their next door neighbor. I really didn’t care to know this, but I listened respectfully because I needed the job. She definitely has issues with men, and tends to favor the female opinion when ideas are presented. She ignores suggestions at team meetings by select male staff members as if they were invisible! We guys call it the Girls Club. As for her work habits, she undermines, lies, or forgets and refuses to take responsibility for her mistakes. She never apologizes when she is blatantly wrong. I myself have a two degrees, one is a masters and the other a bachelors. She has two also, but her masters doesn’t command as much attention as my masters. I personally don’t put that much value on degrees. I value experience, teamwork, honesty, and work ethics. I feel that she is intimidated by me without justification. I have done my best to reassure her that I am there to support the team and that ego and arrogance have no place in a team oriented workplace. It drives me crazy to think that is some cases, not all cases, but some cases, the U.S. gets foreign born individuals that could only make it as Wal-Mart greeters in their country. But they can come to our country, speak with an accent and immediately be considered highly knowledgeable with little scrutiny. And I mean no disrespect to those foreign born folks who are indeed very knowledgeable and an asset to their employers here in the U.S. The strangest thing that she has ever said to me was at a staff meeting in front of other team members. She was planning a cookout at her house and strongly suggesting that we all clear our calendars for this cookout. I had plans, so I respectfully declined to attend this after work social activity due to a personal commitment with a family member. When I declined, she said with a smirk on her face, “You remind me of my ex-husband” She added: ” He always had an excuse for why couldn’t do something”. I looked at her and thought, WOW!!! she has no insight, no professionalism and poor to no management skills with subordinate workers. This Ditz should be deported back to South America on the next flight!!

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Stupid Bosses

I run a coffee house/bakery on a college campus and last semester, we had a large number of requests for bottled water to be sold in our shop. Now the reason that we didn’t sell bottled water was because we thought it would be in the students best interest to offer free water, by placing a water cooler in the back with little paper cups next to it. In our end of the year meeting, the vice president of the college said that he wanted us to sell bottled water instead, and that he would prefer that it have our logo on the bottle. So we nixed the water cooler idea and ordered some bottled water, personalized with our logo. The bottling company required that we buy 1 palletful(about 30 cases, with 25 bottles in each, costs about 250 bucks) of water to get the label done for free. This semester starts, complete with our new bottled water for sale, and we haven’t been open for a week when the same vice president comes down and says that he has changed his mind and that we need to have the free water cooler out within the next day or two, because the trustees will be taking a tour of campus. Now we can ignore the waste of money, because I am a retail center, and I can make up a loss of 250 bucks fairly easily, but tell me what the hell I am supposed to do with 30 goddamn cases of bottled water that no one will buy now that we have the same stuff in the back for free?

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Stupid CoWorkers

My boss is an attorney. We are a 2 person firm, with various other practitioners renting other offices in the suite. My bosses wife calls demanding to know with whom he is in a meeting with, ” is it a female”.

And if I reply no she asks why I am ling to her ! ( of course, I am not)If she calls and I say that he is in court, she replies, “Did he tell you to say that?”, she comes in the office and reads her husbands email when she knows he is in court & tells me to not tell him.

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