People hating people they work with

[JohnKay]

I worked at the Leccy board and it was the best job I've had until it was privatised,you left the depot first thing then would go to one of numerous local cafes'often full of gas board lads,GPO and council workers for a bit of craic and camraderie then go and get the jobs done and help the local economy out also.It was slowly going downhill when I left mid 90's and you felt as if you were being watched all the time,saw one of the lads who is still there a few weeks ago and he said it is all home based with no depot and the only interaction with co workers is at a monthly meeting which turns into a rant as all the lads are fed up .

My Dad worked for the council in Chester-le-Street when I was a bairn, still goes on about how good the banter was with the lads and how much he looked forward to going to work. Was laid off in the early 90's when the council started cutting positions left, right and center.

 

[The Voice Of Reason]

Most people are OK unless they are mags

 

[Mr.Thunders]

Yes

I punched my boss because he’s a Tory (I know because he wears a blue tie sometimes), and then started correcting my colleagues’ grammar before flouncing off and blaming everyone else

I can imagine, the staff must dread a trip to the stationary cupboard to place an order for a pencil

 

[Boris Bear]

Good luck for any future ventures BB, any specific reason you left and are willing to share ?

Got to a position where my job became more about laying people off to reduce costs so I lined up alternative employment and applied for voluntary redundancy instead. Start the new job on Monday and excited about it as it seems like a good place to work.

Still have mixed feelings though as I like most of the people that I work with. There are some that I dislike though

 

[Frijj]

I can imagine, the staff must dread a trip to the stationary cupboard to place an order for a pencil

If it isn’t exactly 60% shorter than it was when it was issued they don’t get a replacement

 

[JohnKay]

Got to a position where my job became more about laying people off to reduce costs so I lined up alternative employment and applied for voluntary redundancy instead. Start the new job on Monday and excited about it as it seems like a good place to work.

Still have mixed feelings though as I like most of the people that I work with. There are some that I dislike though

Shit situation to be in, as I said good luck in your new job marra.

 

[Deleted User 11453]

I can imagine, the staff must dread a trip to the stationary cupboard to place an order for a pencil

I’d be more scared of the moving cupboard.

Got to a position where my job became more about laying people off to reduce costs so I lined up alternative employment and applied for voluntary redundancy instead. Start the new job on Monday and excited about it as it seems like a good place to work.

Still have mixed feelings though as I like most of the people that I work with. There are some that I dislike though

Our department is to make 5% savings and posts aren’t being replaced when people leave. Our team of 5 is now a team of 2 .....

I’d like voluntary redundancy but they can’t afford it!

 

[Boris Bear]

I’d be more scared of the moving cupboard.


Our department is to make 5% savings and posts aren’t being replaced when people leave. Our team of 5 is now a team of 2 .....

I’d like voluntary redundancy but they can’t afford it!

Our place (or my old place now) treats people pretty bad because they hope that they will leave

 

[Deleted User 11453]

Our place (or my old place now) treats people pretty bad because they hope that they will leave

It’s happening with us. There is new senior management and they look to be here to do a hatchet job. A reorganisation is occurring and one team of 5 has been totally binned already.

 

[Doggerland Mackem]

Seems like most people on here absolutely despise the people they work with. Or at least struggle to tolerate them.

Am I lucky that I’ve largley enjoyed the company of the people I’ve worked with, bar the odd one or two?

Are the people whingeing about people they work with just difficult bastards themselves?

I've worked with on the whole some really good sets of people. However, one place I've worked in was full of twats.

I guess sometimes it's the luck of the draw who you get.

If the people I'm with are difficult or the situation is uncomfortable, then I concede I can become very difficult myself.

In one place, twats were dealt with by the MNH approach. This means they were given the minimum necessary help as defined by people's job descriptions and no more.

 

[bernardbresslaw]

I'm not at work to make friends.

 

[sick]

I usually have to work closest with the person that everybody thinks is the dick.

I've just added up , it's happened in 5 of my last 6 jobs, f***ing luck.

 

[biilymack]

My Dad worked for the council in Chester-le-Street when I was a bairn, still goes on about how good the banter was with the lads and how much he looked forward to going to work. Was laid off in the early 90's when the council started cutting positions left, right and center.[/QUOTEAll the bosses were fine.I once told mine my daughter was in the school nativety the next day a 9.30 and he said I could go as long as I gave cafe a miss and did a job early doors.

 

[monkeytassle]

I usually have to work closest with the person that everybody thinks is the dick.

I've just added up , it's happened in 5 of my last 6 jobs, f***ing luck.

Hmm

 

[Charlestonian]

‘Tolerate’ is the best way to describe most of them. Very wearing at times.

 

[Doggerland Mackem]

Yeah, there’s always someone. There’s one I work with who I can’t stand, and believe me I’ve tried and given him the benefit of the doubt.

It’s when you hear people twisting on about literally everyone they work with I don’t understand.



I f***ing love my own company tbf.

Well, there's always the resident plastic Chelski or Man Utd. fan. They're nailed on knobs.

Besides, with you being the resident ex-academic, you'll have come from a breeding ground of workplace knobs?

My bosses are class.
The lad opposite me is a legend. There's 3 other lads are great too. The rest are arseholes though. A loudmouth feminist vegan bell end, a 47 year old lazy twat and a director who has no f***ing clue what he's doing.

They're the type normally promoted out of harm's way.

I wasn’t pointing fingers. Just if someone works with a group of people and can’t spot the nob head, then it’s them

My last place was good in that they paid us £30 each a month to go out. I stopped after a few years to the point that when I left, my team had written a computer program called "Will Restless attend a work's night out?" Whatever series of answers you gave, the answer was always no.
Apparently they all just have drinks in the office on a Friday now instead which I think loses some of the purpose of the entertainments allowance.

People want to get away home now for family reasons. Partners are less tolerant of their other halves going out boozing all the time and expect them to take their fair share. Also, being an alcohol-induced plonker in front of your workmates and potentially bosses seems these days to have more ramifications for your employment and people want to separate work and social life more than ever now.

A lot of places also have random drugs and alcohol testing, meaning bar Fridays and Saturdays drinking more than an odd glass is a no no. Also chuck in drink driving laws now being more rigidly enforced and drink-driving being (rightly) a big taboo, then opportunities for works socialisation are now much, much less than they were.

 

[FootballFan]

Lad we have to work with makes it his business to shout at the top of voice trying to cut the legs of those who know much better than him, so the bosses will hear him.

Fortunately they all know he is a muppet and ignore him, but it is still annoying.

 

[humbug]

i don't hate any of the people i work with, i have contempt for a couple as they're a bit sneaky but being on the wagons i can go weeks between seeing them. one lad i get on really well with. we both lost a parent at the same time and i suppose our friendship helped both of us cope with it. we spend hours on the 'phone talking bollocks.
there's one lad who although i don't dislike him as he's a decent bloke is absolutely hopeless. the amount of damage and destruction he's responsible for is unbelievable. i'm convinced he's got pictures of the boss hanging out the back of a sheep or something. it's nothing to do with me but he'll end up hurting someone or even worse.

 

[Doggerland Mackem]

i don't hate any of the people i work with, i have contempt for a couple as they're a bit sneaky but being on the wagons i can go weeks between seeing them. one lad i get on really well with. we both lost a parent at the same time and i suppose our friendship helped both of us cope with it. we spend hours on the 'phone talking bollocks.
there's one lad who although i don't dislike him as he's a decent bloke is absolutely hopeless. the amount of damage and destruction he's responsible for is unbelievable. i'm convinced he's got pictures of the boss hanging out the back of a sheep or something. it's nothing to do with me but he'll end up hurting someone or even worse.

See my earlier comments. He'll be promoted out of harm's way and made a director or senior manager of nothing in particular (normally "Quality") in no time.

 

[humbug]

See my earlier comments. He'll be promoted out of harm's way and made a director or senior manager of nothing in particular (normally "Quality") in no time.

i doubt it mate, he's a wagon driver.