I swear coworkers are ass

It's like a competition to see who can do the least amount of work and still collect a check. You ask them to do something and they'll tell ya no that's a power move I don't respect you. Lol

My coworkers are generally pretty awesome.

Yeah, I've had some pretty great coworkers. Including some who have become life-long friends.

But, of course, there are always selfish jerks who do so little work or are so incompetent they just make more work for the rest of us overworked, underpaid saps.

Kallainanna posted...

Yeah, I've had some pretty great coworkers. Including some who have become life-long friends.

But, of course, there are always selfish jerks who do so little work or are so incompetent they just make more work for the rest of us overworked, underpaid saps.

I think a lot of my colleagues wouldnt try it on because weve got a really sweet deal here.

Glob posted...

I think a lot of my colleagues wouldnt try it on because weve got a really sweet deal here.

I mean, until last year, I was in retail, so I very much am sympathetic to slacking off in that environment: it's incredibly stressful, unforgiving, endless, management ranges from indifferent to actively antagonistic, and you're inevitably going to have shifts here and there where you have a bad customer interaction that wrecks your mood and makes you miserable and not want to do much for a while. And, of course, you're paid nowhere near enough for all the BS, but I always tried my best because I wanted to make things easier on my coworkers.

Interning as a social worker is different: you're not getting paid, which is...frankly not consistent with the purported values of the field, but also you're working with people on their problems and you're presumably passionate about helping others, so you do your best. And I'm happy to say all my fellow interns seemed great and to take their roles seriously.

Kallainanna posted...

I mean, until last year, I was in retail, so I very much am sympathetic to slacking off in that environment: it's incredibly stressful, unforgiving, endless, management ranges from indifferent to actively antagonistic, and you're inevitably going to have shifts here and there where you have a bad customer interaction that wrecks your mood and makes you miserable and not want to do much for a while. And, of course, you're paid nowhere near enough for all the BS, but I always tried my best because I wanted to make things easier on my coworkers.

Interning as a social worker is different: you're not getting paid, which is...frankly not consistent with the purported values of the field, but also you're working with people on their problems and you're presumably passionate about helping others, so you do your best. And I'm happy to say all my fellow interns seemed great and to take their roles seriously.

Yeah, but thats to be expected. Youve gone from a job to a profession. They tend to feel wildly different.

If you work with a bunch of old ladies, it's a competition to see who can have the most rules that you made up.

Sometimes it's a competition to see how slow you can possibly go. One of my coworkers moves at probably 20% the speed that anyone else does, meaning you have to do two people's jobs and might not get a break.

don't snitch we can all slack off

ReturnOfFa posted...

don't snitch we can all slack off

When I see how hard the locals work for a tiny fraction of what the foreigners earn, any foreigners who arent pulling their weight can fuck right off.

Of course, every workplace is different.

ReturnOfFa posted...

don't snitch we can all slack off

Yeah, I never snitched on anyone LOL. Takes a low sort to be a manager's pet, especially in retail.

My coworkers are pretty fine OO

Also, my boss is awesome! ^_^

Kallainanna posted...

Yeah, I never snitched on anyone LOL. Takes a low sort to be a manager's pet, especially in retail.

It depends on the job, but where I work if you're lazy and slow literally everyone hates you and is too nice to say it

People think they're owning the system when they're owning their coworkers

I got a coworker everyone hates, she's lazy and avoids work but is a hawk about making sure everyone else does their sidework that she routinely doesn't do, she's a hypocritical snitch that gets people in trouble for things she does, offers people money to help her then "forgets", doesn't run food or clean her own tables, and worst of all she steals tables and tips. She's also a drug addict and takes pills out in the open, but she never gets in trouble for anything because she has friends in corporate, she has no redeeming qualities at all.

I always appreciated how group projects in grade school are supposed to teach you how to cooperate and work together to achieve a goal, and they instead teach you to hate your fellow man at an early age.

Muscles posted...

I got a coworker everyone hates, she's lazy and avoids work but is a hawk about making sure everyone else does their sidework that she routinely doesn't do, she's a hypocritical snitch that gets people in trouble for things she does, offers people money to help her then "forgets", doesn't run food or clean her own tables, and worst of all she steals tables and tips. She's also a drug addict and takes pills out in the open, but she never gets in trouble for anything because she has friends in corporate, she has no redeeming qualities at all.

that sounds about par for the course for a corporate-owned restaurant

CyborgSage00x0 posted...

I always appreciated how group projects in grade school are supposed to teach you how to cooperate and work together to achieve a goal, and they instead teach you to hate your fellow man at an early age.

Tbf that helps you learn how to deal with shitty, lazy coworkers

When I was in college a couple of years ago, the ages were pretty mixed. We were doing a group project - me being 31 at the time, two guys being 18-19 and two other guys being closer to 40. One of the 18 year old guys was not engaging with the group project, whether out of shyness, laziness, or ineptitude. We were being very straightforward while working together, so we'd tell him we were assigning him certain stuff when he wouldn't volunteer or work with us.

At one point, he came back with his 'work' which was pretty much copied from us. We told him how bad that would look and requested that he re-do it. We got the professor involved pre-emptively before the day we were scheduled to present, so that he would know that we were not simply letting his lack of work slide, and to be prepared for his portion of the project to be poorly done.

We forced the young dude to do his own original work, and it was pretty crap. But we were entirely straightforward with him the whole time, and did our best to make clear to the professor where we dilineated all of our individual work on the group project. That may not have been possible with a less understanding professor, but in the end we got good grades and he got a crap one. Most of us had dealt with enough real-life job crap where we knew how to navigate the one bad group member. Although you definitely also don't have the priviledge of being so straightforward and critical at all workplaces.

I think the guy ended up being thankful that we were so honest with him, because he did improve his work ethic throughout the program.

HelpingOwl posted...

Also, my boss is awesome! ^_^

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Muscles posted...

Tbf that helps you learn how to deal with shitty, lazy coworkers

Reminds of something I heard a while back, a politician (I think) who said that bad teachers show students how to handle incompetent coworkers later in life. I don't think anyone bought that line though.

Kallainanna posted...

Interning as a social worker is different: you're not getting paid, which is...frankly not consistent with the purported values of the field, but also you're working with people on their problems and you're presumably passionate about helping others, so you do your best. And I'm happy to say all my fellow interns seemed great and to take their roles seriously.

The concept of unpayed internship feels highly exploitative to me and should be illegal. You work, you get payed, it's that simple. Anything else is slavery.

Salrite posted...

The concept of unpayed internship feels highly exploitative to me and should be illegal. You work, you get payed, it's that simple. Anything else is slavery.

It's terrible in general, yes, but especially duplicitous in a field that tells itself it's about uplifting people.
And yet, unpaid internships are an aggressive form of financial gate-keeping that keep a lot of people who would be great social workers from being able to enter the field to say nothing of the cost-reward ratio of basically needing a Masters in a field that mostly pays high five figures at best.

I hear all the horror stories from my friends about coworkers wanting to run them out. For me, I am good. No more since my last job.

I only ever had issues with one coworker. My old supervisor didn't really know what he should be doing on a daily basis so he left it to me and spent most of his time wasting other people's time by talking to them so they couldn't do their jobs. One of my crew members used their stopwatch app for a day and it clocked in at over 5 hours just for that one person.

I transferred departments and found a good fit with good leadership. Great choice and now my old supervisor has run another person out of my old position and has the manager asking him why he has run two people out of the position.

Kallainanna posted...

And yet, unpaid internships are an aggressive form of financial gate-keeping that keep a lot of people who would be great social workers from being able to enter the field

Financial gatekeeping is a really good way to look at it. It's used from the perspective that one should be so lucky for the experience alone to get ahead in the future, when all they end up doing is fetching coffee for the assholes at the top. "Let's get the intern to do it" is a quote used too often.

I've never really had issues with coworkers because of laziness and unwillingness to do the job. They exist for sure, but I'm always able to work around it and it doesn't bother me too much, and those people usually end up getting fired anyways.

What is really the problem is the people who are in a position where they're untouchable, whether from seniority or popularity and they use the position to be condescending assholes.

I've only truly hated one coworker in my life, and everyone else thought it was funny. In retrospect, it kind of was. We all didn't like him, but I really feel like he knew that he annoyed me and went out of his way to antagonize me. It was a lot of passive aggressiveness and annoying quirks. One time I was trying to walk away from him while he wandered through the building but he kept following me. Did a lap around the building and get back to my other coworker and she laughs and says, "You looked so annoyed with him!"