Man of Honour
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- 29 Mar 2003
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I worked in the Engineering industry for 33 years solid with 1000's of people and some were awful to work with but never bad enough to complain about.
In the last 2 months I've had to complain about 2 workers.
1) A Temp was put with me because I was on my own in a very busy department.
She became a liability instead of help and I had to keep picking up the pieces.
For example we always work out of shared folders so that everybody gets the updated information but she would drag that file to her desktop and work on it there.
A bit later she would act on her file but wouldn't see the latest data and no matter how many times I warned her she would not see reason.
After about the 10th irate phone call from other professionals I had to go to my Managers about her.
She did some good work but kept all her data on a USB stick that we had paid for so in the end my Manager had to stand over her while she dumped the stuff to the shared drive.
2) About 6 weeks ago a young woman (about 23) joined the team but sat in the other office.
At a meeting about 4 weeks ago she attacked everything I said, talked down to me and saying I was wrong etc.
One of my Managers called me into an office to ask what was going on but I'd only said hello to her up to that point.
She recently moved into our office and it's great to see that it wasn't me but everybody she talks to.
There are 10 of us and every time somebody opens their mouth she jumps on the subject and basically gives her opinion and only her opinion is valid.
She thinks she is the only one who has done a certain job and won't listen to the others who have done the job longer.
It got to the point on friday where I had to leave the room because I was talking about something that I had experienced many years ago (basically pouring my heart out) and she was telling me I was wrong.
It was at that point that other staff told her to be quiet and to respect my bad experience.
On Friday I went out with my immediate Manager and 3 other women out of the office and I mentioned that if she keeps on I would tell her to STFU.
They were all in agreement and tomorrow something is going to happen.
I feel awful having to 'tell' on fellow workers after all these years.
Have you ever had to go to the boss about work colleagues?
In the last 2 months I've had to complain about 2 workers.
1) A Temp was put with me because I was on my own in a very busy department.
She became a liability instead of help and I had to keep picking up the pieces.
For example we always work out of shared folders so that everybody gets the updated information but she would drag that file to her desktop and work on it there.
A bit later she would act on her file but wouldn't see the latest data and no matter how many times I warned her she would not see reason.
After about the 10th irate phone call from other professionals I had to go to my Managers about her.
She did some good work but kept all her data on a USB stick that we had paid for so in the end my Manager had to stand over her while she dumped the stuff to the shared drive.
2) About 6 weeks ago a young woman (about 23) joined the team but sat in the other office.
At a meeting about 4 weeks ago she attacked everything I said, talked down to me and saying I was wrong etc.
One of my Managers called me into an office to ask what was going on but I'd only said hello to her up to that point.
She recently moved into our office and it's great to see that it wasn't me but everybody she talks to.
There are 10 of us and every time somebody opens their mouth she jumps on the subject and basically gives her opinion and only her opinion is valid.
She thinks she is the only one who has done a certain job and won't listen to the others who have done the job longer.
It got to the point on friday where I had to leave the room because I was talking about something that I had experienced many years ago (basically pouring my heart out) and she was telling me I was wrong.
It was at that point that other staff told her to be quiet and to respect my bad experience.
On Friday I went out with my immediate Manager and 3 other women out of the office and I mentioned that if she keeps on I would tell her to STFU.
They were all in agreement and tomorrow something is going to happen.
I feel awful having to 'tell' on fellow workers after all these years.
Have you ever had to go to the boss about work colleagues?
) and was basically a detriment to the department. We had a new boss come in and he wanted 1 to 1 meetings with all of us and in the "is there anything else you'd like to say" section, i told the boss what I thought of that guy.