People at work you hate!

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Right guys need some friendly advice please. Started a new part time job ( 15 hours a week ) while im at uni around 1 month ago. Its a rather large retail store with around 25 members of staff. Trouble is there are two people who work there who I literally cannot stand. The way they talk to people, there personality, even the way they look at people makes my blood burn. I have never felt like this before at work and its difficult as obviously I cant avoid the interaction with them. At the same time I cant just up and leave because I do need the money and experience.

Has anyone else been in a similar situation or enviorment and have any suggestions on how to try to overcome this ? Like blanking them out etc.
 
Be pleasant and polite. Do not bitch about them to other staff members. Do not ignore them, but keep interactions down to as little as possible without resorting to ignoring them or being snotty. Its only a job, you do not have to be friends with them. They pay you money to work with these people. There will be people who hate you but are too proffesional to say so.
 
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Right guys need some friendly advice please. Started a new part time job ( 15 hours a week ) while im at uni around 1 month ago. Its a rather large retail store with around 25 members of staff. Trouble is there are two people who work there who I literally cannot stand. The way they talk to people, there personality, even the way they look at people makes my blood burn. I have never felt like this before at work and its difficult as obviously I cant avoid the interaction with them. At the same time I cant just up and leave because I do need the money and experience.

Has anyone else been in a similar situation or enviorment and have any suggestions on how to try to overcome this ? Like blanking them out etc.
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Ignoring them isn't going to work. It's like me saying to you "don't think about elephants"...now all you can think about is elephants...

Find out what it is about you which makes them annoying, fix that within yourself and it's job done!
 
Smile in the face of adversity.

It isn't worth walking out or losing your cool.

I had a heated bust up with a previous supervisor who was a sergeant then and is an inspector now. She went out of her way to make my life uncomfortable for reasons I still don't know.

It got to the point when I confronted her and unleashed with exactly what I thought albeit consructively and professionally, ending with the fact that while I respected her rank, I did not respect her.

Stick with it. It can be put to one side of you try.
 
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I detest my boss and could do without another member of staff who thinks they're better than everyone else, I just do what I can to avoid spending too much time with them, I have little digs at my boss purely because he doesn't listen to anyone else and doesn't pay attention to what anyone says, so you can say whatever you want really :p

Just know where to draw the line, keep a cool head and don't blow up at stupid little things.

Spend as little time as you can around them, and whenever you're near them, be pleasant, to the point and walk away at the first opportunity, make an excuse to go do something else

Oh, and obligatory smash their pasty/kill with fire/nuke from orbit etc :D
 
Just get on with it, you might not like them, but you have to work with them. So conduct your self in a proffesional manner.
 
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As about 10% of all people are absolute jockeys and about 20% of the remainder are intolerably stupid, yes, everybody has worked with awful people. Just do your job well and be professional - you don't need to like, respect or be friends with the people you work with. In fact most of the time it is better to keep work relationships pleasant but not close and keep the bonding for outside work.
 
It's all part of the experience. Every job will more than likely involve working with people you don't like. It's an opportunity to learn how to deal with it.
 
I can't say I've ever hated anybody I've worked with and it runs into 1000s.
I treat people like that as though they have a disorder.
Be careful not to bitch about them to other staff members even if they are bitching about them - things always get back.
 
There are only a minor few that dislike (can't say i hate them) but they are just lazy in general and get away with a lot of stuff!

Just have to bite the bullet and take it
 
For me without highlighting certain individiauls it's teachers, I find 90% are ironically braindead and void of common sense while believing they're more important than everyone else and as pretentious as hell .
 
Honestly, i'm willing to bet that everyone has worked with someone that has utterly ****ed them off. Laugh about it and remember that you are only going to be working at the place whilst at uni - it's likely they'll be there for many many years to come.

Personally, i've never really had a run in with anyone when working and everyone i seem to work with is great most of the time! I guess i'm just lucky.
 
The people you work with are Not friends so don't treat them as such, Don't confide in them or get involved with them just go do your job & then go home.
just because you spend so much time with them does Not mean you have to get on, You are there to do a job so concentrate on Your job & let management sort out the rest.
It really is not worth getting involved in all that work politic BS.
 
I work with thousands of people who I cannot stand. They're called customers.

But either way theres always going to be colleagues you hate, and usually managers. Deal with it, thats retail for you buddy. You say you want to work with people to get the job, the truth is you'd rather nail your balls to a plank than deal with a cunchabunts. It's just money, from experience you've got to try and switch off and blank everything out at work.

That and you just take the mick, theres one lad I work with, we got a collaberative thing going accross the department to just call him girls names. "Alright shirley" but he's just a massive helmet.
 
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