Dealing with a "kiss ass" work colleague

Jay794

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So I've been working in this job since July and I finally feel like I'm finding my feet, I've dealt with the majority of situations so I now know how to handle them e.g. what to do when the lift breaks down.

However, 1 of the guys I work with felt it necessary to report me to the boss because I ****ed up on one thing, now I'm dreading what my boss is gonna say to me about it. Basically, I work security at a call centre and we have a girl who manages the gym, she was off and got cover in freely admitting that the people they get to cover are ****.

Anyway, the cover turned up and signed in as usual, but it wasn't until after the gym manager got back she noticed they'd signed their names but not the times the start or finished. I admitted it was my fault for not checking and I said it wouldn't happen again (now I'm checking every time we get a visitor)

But one of the guards felt it necessary to let my boss know. Now this gaurd, at first seemed nice, but I was warned by the night guards to watch myself. Whenever he ****s up I just tell him, because it's minor stuff, I do 1 thing wrong and he throws me under the bus, problem is, he's been getting complaints ever since I started but I never took it further because technically he's doing his job properly.

He's a real kiss ass though, everything must be done by the book, no exceptions. Hopefully I won't be in this job much longer and I can tell him what I really think.

So what should I do? Should I throw him under the bus too?

What makes it worse is I found the email that he sent my boss and it's complete lies just to make himself look better
 
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Speak to your boss. Tell him what happened, that you noticed you'd made a mistake and it won't happen again.

Eventually this kind of person will hang themselves, given enough rope.
 
If you say something now it may backfire as you should have reported I earlier if you're that way inclined. Just apologise, stick to the rules by the book and wait for colleague to stitch himself up.
 
I find the best thing is to tell these people exactly what you think with speaking in a general sense.

So ask what do you hate most about work, when in a casual chatty environment.

Then just saying what you hate. say that you hate two things, one of them is incompetence of work that creates more work for you. Second thing is that you hate people that try and get you fired or cause trouble for no reason. start going on about how people don't think that when they cause trouble for someone they could be affecting that persons life as they need a job to survive etc. Make up a story about how you use to work with this one guy who use to tell the boss try and get a head when this other guy made mistakes and this other guy lost his job over something ridiculous because of this guy, he ended up getting divorced and lost his kids and then he killed himself :(

Well you don't have to go to such extremes. but you get the idea.

But those are my two hates about work. The worst is when they are combined, when we have incompetence people that create work for me and then try to set me up to fail and make out as if i am crap because it will make him look good. Incompetence and trouble causes/kiss asses are the worst combination and enough to make me get serious about that.

Some people will do anything to get a head.
 
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I would wait until your boss brings it up. If he is that bad then the boss will know and the other guards might have said to your boss about it previously as well...

When your boss brings it up, accept the fault as you said, everyone makes a mistake, but then also add into the conversation that you feel his actions were not needed as you don't tell your boss all the mistakes that he makes.

And before your boss retaliates, simply say (politely) that you will also raise any problems this **** makes with your boss.

If that makes sense lol
 
just go and be straight with your boss

tell him the truth, that you know you messed up

cant see that it would be a big problem from the bosses point of view

and just watch your back around this guy
 
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I find the best thing is to tell these people exactly what you think with speaking in a general sense.

So ask what do you hate most about work, when in a casual chatty environment.

Then just saying what you hate. say that you hate two things, one of them is incompetence of work that creates more work for you. Second thing is that you hate people that try and get you fired or cause trouble for no reason. start going on about how people don't think that when they cause trouble for someone they could be affecting that persons life as they need a job to survive etc. Make up a story about how you use to work with this one guy who use to tell the boss try and get a head when this other guy made mistakes and this other guy lost his job over something ridiculous because of this guy, he ended up getting divorced and lost his kids and then he killed himself :(

Well you don't have to go to such extremes. but you get the idea.
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Passive aggressive behaviour is even more annoying than kiss-ass behaviour so don't do this.
 
a what to do thread full of excellent help.

I do often wonder why people ask GD members for help.
 
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