Co-workers dropping you in it...

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Anyone else just hate it when co-workers drop you in it by bodging something and then scampering off home before the customer/client/etc can phone back in a panic because its all ballsed up and not fixed?
 
Nope, just the usual "office politics" bubbling below the surface where you know people are talking **** behind your back to cover up their own lack of action/failures.

It hasn't come back to me full frontal, yet, but it's only a matter of time. Make enough of an impact, and people will start to pull the knives out, it's just human nature. You just have to make sure that you can counter or disprove every single action when the time comes. Might make it worse in the long run, but damn it's satisfying.
 
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Sorry sorry, read it wrong. Yeah people shouldn't do that. People like that are arse holes.
 
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I'm a sales rep and one of my neighbouring reps is next to useless so I end up taking calls from his customers. It's not just office jobs that this crops up in.
 
im honest with my co workers, if i dont like somthing about them and they ask me then ill tell them. no point in hiding what i think and just being a female dog about the subject.

i a little brash but at least im straight with people.
 
Hate it.

But I'm so used to it now I just take them on by myself and get familiar with the case before it gets to that point. Might as well do it all myself and do it right than to take over their mess :p
 
Maybe I've been fortunate but I don't ever really recall that happening, at least not deliberately. Closest thing was probably many years ago when I used to work Saturday mornings, girl who worked in the postroom wanted to leave rather than wait for the postman (had finished her other work) and asked if I could cover for her (since I worked in an adjacent office and would be there for another hour or two). Foolishly I agreed and ended waiting around for ages, in the end had to dig out a number to ring to find out where the hell the guy was to pickup our mail.
 
Nah, it's great in my current job in customer services. We're a team of 7 and we get on like a house on fire.

My old place (1st-line tech support) was full of secret squirrels and back-stabbers though. Ego trips and power struggles, which led to the company's demise in 2009.
 
my favorite is the guy at our work who asks you for help, so you go to whoever, wherever the pc is, start looking at the problem, and half way through he says, "oh i got to go for tea, you alright to keep looking at this"...

we also have a guy who just cant be bothered doing things, so he comes up with some stupid excuse not to look at a call during the day, then we end up getting called out at night because he couldnt be bothered..... unfortunatly modern law prevents me opening a can of woop ass on this guy, because when you get called out at 3am for something he should have fixed during work hours, you just want to put him in a blender.

Fortunatly where i work most people seem to deal in conjecture and rumour, whilst i deal in facts and evidence, so anyone who has tried dropping me in it in the past has quickly found themselves undone.
 
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Septym said:
I'm laughing at the posters who seem to think they're perfect at their job. We've all cut corners once or twice.
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no one has said there perfect, that is probably just in your head.

there is a difference between accepting a less than ideal solution, and notifying the relevant people and putting in place things to deal with it and cutting corners, or just basically not doing your job properly. Where i work you cant get away with it, because its 24/7 clinical systems, and if somebody screws up, by cutting corners or whatever, were obligated to find out what happened and if that involves bringing in third party investigators to find out what happened then thats what we do.
 
It is literally my job to fix other people's mistakes. The vast majority are down to normal human error but it's getting more common for people to bring me their work because they don't know what to do with it rather than ask their trainer.
 
Yeah we have two members of staff like this. I've always been the type to stay late to fix the problems I am dealing with, can't stand other people who do 9 to 5 and that's it annoys the fsck of out me.
 
I get something similar at my work with a certain lady. I pack operating trays, and this one woman will pack one, but as soon as 12:00 comes she is straight out the door and then she puts it back on the shelf for somebody else to do.

Not good when I have the Surgeon on the phone requesting it.
 
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