co-workers....
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hows everyone get along with their co-workers (or bosses)?? ive been at my job for almost a year. ive been really struggling with it. im a really slow learner and i struggled with almost all our duties at first ;___; but recently ive been feeling a lot better about my job because im working with some cool people and the people i dont get along with are going to leave lol...i feel more comfortable being a boss and i get along with my ""employees"" for the most part and i think they like me and ive been messing up a lot less...things are okay for the most part!
i do have one co-worker who i have a lot of problems with. shes actually caused a lot of problems and made new people leave (or so im told). shes very condescending toward everyone so its hard to feel confident around her. my friend left because they just felt really targeted and awful. she isnt above me anymore but she still talks down to me even shes been told that she needs to treat me like an equal. :/ the other day it was slow and things were running smoothly so there wasnt much to do and she asked me what i was doing, implying i wasnt doing anything. later i was doing inventory (very heavy lifting!) and she was standing around doing a very easy task, so it was very hypocritical and upsetting because i almost threw out my back lmao. our boss even brought that fact up :/ i know shes leaving soon though. shes an okay person but she really makes me feel bad about myself and had me on the verge of quitting like a dozen times -___-
what about everyone else? do you have a favorite co-worker? most despised one? do you get along with everyone? :D
People who are condescending are probably one of my least favourite people ever. I'm glad for you that she's leaving soon because that would be insanely grating. Glad things are going well otherwise!
I only have one other person I work with (well, two technically if you include her boyfriend), haha! I've been working for her for just over a year and things are awesome. We work really well together, and my joining her helped the company add close to 3x more clients (we're a dog walking/pet sitting/boarding company). I like having it be really small as I think it's comforting to clients to have the same people walking their dog, and it makes communication easy too, and we both know all the dogs.
I've always been one to get along with just about everyone though. Even if I don't particularly care for their personality, I just know how to make it work.
I tend to get along with most co-workers as long as they are doing their job, and not hindering me from doing mine. I have learned to separate work from friendship, so I could be really cool with someone at a job, but they are a terrible worker. I have had that happen quite a lot, actually.
I always play nice though, and in that respect, I usually don't have a problem getting along, or at least remaining civil.
I had a coworker who hated the fact that i went to with her boyfriend (YEARS before they met) and she was incredibly jealous and self conscious. The fact that I even talked to her boyfriend without her permission pissed her off, so she started telling everyone at my work I was a home wrecking whore and I was trying to steal her boyfriend....
meanwhile I hadn't talked to him in a year since she first got pissy we were friends... she was telling everyone all these nasty things while I was happily engaged to my now husband.
Her mother was of course the second in command and told me flat out it was "none of my business" what her daughter said to my co-workers and I was to ignore anything I was told she said about me because it was "no business of mine".... yea...
what she was doing was against company policy but mommy was there to protect her xD I did have a face to face with her (and her mom) and I just kinda held up my left hand, pointed at the ring on my finger and said "uh... I'm engaged! I don't want your boyfriend"
I really like my supervisor, I actually like all the supervisors where I work. And I like a couple of my coworkers a lot, but there's many I don't like. There are three that sit in my row that I detest. Two are mansplaining a-holes, the other is a girl who originally started out by vaping next to me--which my super couldn't do anything about until she actually caught her, but she still takes her vape stuff out and fills it, which REEKS and makes me nauseous. She's an asshole too, which is why it's just perfect she hangs out with the mansplainers. Then there's this kid that I swear is high. No one over the age of 6 acts the way he does without being on something. I've never heard my supervisor get annoyed before, but the other day her voice sounded like she was going to snap. His brother also works there and the brother gave me an anxiety attack a few weeks ago because of his behavior.
I work at a call center and my least favorite thing about my coworkers is when they clip their nails in the cubicles and don't pick up after themselves. What's even more messed up, they sell the clippers in the mini store we have here with snacks and drinks. Like??? Did they really think about that?
I am very lucky at this job in that I get along with all of my coworkers - some of them I even consider friends. There's only a couple that I'm kind of 'meh' about - one who talks way too much and doesn't really listen to what I'm saying, and one who thinks I'm supposed to get his jokes all the time and looks at me weird when I don't - but those aren't a huge problem. Also, my boss is pretty much the best boss and nicest person I've ever worked with. She's amazing - always helps in every department, always there to listen, even understands my mental issues (which not even my own family does)...she's just fantastic. Which is why I'm extremely upset, heartbroken actually, that's she's leaving for another job soon. The boss we had before her was a horrible excuse for a person, racist, mean...just horrible. So we're all kind of having PTSD about getting a new boss, thinking they'll be horrible like bitch lady and never as nice as our current boss. I just hope she's at least a decent human being. I'm going to miss my current boss so much.
hi!!! my boss is cool. she tells me about her acid days a lot
My main boss is amazing. But I do have one boss who is condescending. Not sure if she knows it yet but they've already posted a job listing for her position, so in the end she is out the door! She talks down to everyone and what really gets under my skin about it is that most of her employees are more qualified for her position than she is. She should step down and get more experience/education in my personal opinion.
Ugh. I'm not working right now (been off for a year due to disability) but when I had been working retail and I swear almost everyone there never evolved past a high school mentality. Grown men and women fighting with each other all the time, bitching and whining about every little thing... god damn. It was exhausting listening to everyone fight all the time and try to get others on their side. Some things were legitimate like when someone was staying out of that shit and just doing their job and they had to put up with everyone around them going out of their way to do their job wrong and screw others over but most of it was just, "I don't want to do the job this way! I'm gonna do it this way even though it makes everyone else's jobs harder!" and people fighting over the dumbest things.
I always dreaded going into the employee lounge on supper in case some of the worst drama queens and kings were there. If they were I'd have to listen to them bitching loudly about others for no reason.
There was all that fighting and then there was a gay man who "collected" LGBT people. If he found out you were LGBT he immediately tried to befriend you and would ONLY talk about LGBT stuff. Dumb stuff too like, "Did you watch Glee last night?! AGH there was an all trans choir! You would have loved it!" (Why??) He seriously would approach me and be like, "My husband and I watched an awesome movie last night! You and your girlfriend would love it!" "Oh, what was it about?" "A lesbian couple!" Like... okay? So??? I mean, I like it when I find LGBT stuff but if it's JUST about that and has no plot then it's boring af. When I thought I was FTM and was transitioning he absolutely ADORED me as if I was some rare collectible. Once I decided not to transition I was just a run-of-the-mill lesbian (sort of... still not 100% sure about my gender but whatever) so I wasn't as exciting and he didn't talk to me as much. He used to ask me loudly on the salesfloor how my transitioning was going, if I was getting surgery, etc. Outing me to all the customers and coworkers who didn't know and just being an ass. Not that he was trying to be, it's just that doing that kind of thing makes you an ass.
There's quite a few people I don't miss from that place.
I get along with my coworkers and my boss(es) pretty well. I guess I'm lucky in that regard. We're a small team (5 total, including director + COO) so it's not too difficult. There are things that annoy me about each person, I'm sure I annoy them in some aspects too haha. But generally it's pretty pleasant.
My boss is myself and I'm pretty cool. So no problems here. Hope it gets better for you though. Sorry <3
omg i forgot i even made this post...i know it wasnt that long ago but things have really changed since!!! we changed managers twice and our new one is super nice. i get along with her really well...everyones attitude is better since the new management because no one is stressing over really little things. we all realize how authoritarian the old bosses were and how much that sucked!! i really like most of my coworkers and i even hung around after my shift just to talk to people today lol. i am still super awkward but like they invited me to dinner and everything ;_;
im also in the works to becoming assistant manager....so i feel a lot better emotionally at my job!!
That's great to hear. It's really important not to be miserable at your job, at least for me. When such a huge chunk of your day is spent somewhere you really dislike it puts a strain on you. Crossing my fingers for your Assistant Manager position!
That's amazing! It sounds like your job is really trying to improve work relations. Great way to turn around the new year.
Glad to hear everything is going well for you!
I get along with pretty much everybody at my job fortunately. There’s one guy who’s only been there a month that is painfully irritating but he’s not a bad guy. I wish he’d just stop talking rubbish and distracting my staff hahaha
