I Hate Working With My Co-Worker.

linx

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#1
I'm interested in seeing what others will think of this.

Basically I hate working with the lady I work with. She's a 56 year old woman. She's 56 and not exactly the BEST person for her particular job. Especially not the physical aspects.

* She's slow and takes more than double the time to do shit I could do in no time. And i'm not just talking physical work.

* She is extremely inconsistent and fucks up a lot on a daily basis. One of her jobs is "checking in" stuff that we receive via trucks to our location. She's horrible at it. She doesn't look at the paper to make sure what's there matches. So there's times where we get stuff we shouldn't and times we don't get stuff we should.

* She doesn't catch on to things after doing them time and time again. I've literally showed her how to do some things 10+ times. Something as simple as last name first, first name last. It's been over 2 and a half years and she still does it wrong, lol.

* She talks on her phone a lot while working. We're not supposed to talk on our phones while we work and I could care less.. but it's the fact that she does it more than she needs to.

* She's a fucking gossip queen. I have to hear stories about what she does all the fucking time. And not only do I have to hear her tell me.. I have to hear her tell EVERYBODY ELSE too! It's annoying and repetitive.

* She doesn't cover for me like she should. I don't care if she doesn't do it all the time, but she hardly does it at all. I come back from lunch or a break and there's stacks of shit for me to go through. This is one of the things I care not so much about though.

* I have more responsibilities than she does and although I CAN handle them without her help.. it gets overwhelming at times and it annoys me that she doesn't work fast enough to help me like she should. We basically have our own stuff we do and we meet in the middle when it comes to this one other thing. Yeah.. that one other thing is done 95% of the time by me.

I literally pull up to work every morning and see her car and think to myself "here we go again". The reason I don't mention how I feel to her is because she's not the type of person that admits she's wrong. She doesn't take responsibility for shit. If I tell her how I feel, she'd probably get real defensive and it would be awkward from then on seeing her 8 hours a day. I think the fact that I have to pretend nothing's wrong bugs me more than working with a fuck up. Know what I mean? Cause i'm the type of person to speak my mind. But she's the type of person that's not worth the time.

My boss is aware of the fact that she's a fuck up, but rather than firing her.. he'd rather let it play out on its own. He figures if she messes up enough and the manager of the place catches on to enough shit, she'll be gone. That's fine and all, but it's like she has 9 lives. I can only take this shit for a little while longer before I blow up and tell her what's what. I'm not stupid enough to do it in an asshole way and lose my job, but i'll say what I need to say regardless. Every time I say "fuck it, i'll forget it and just work".. she does something else to trigger it off again, lol.

What would YOU do in this situation? The person is actually making your job harder and your boss is aware of it, but he'd rather let it play out on its own instead of letting her go himself. You speak to him about the way you feel and he insists it'll happen eventually. But you don't know how much longer you can deal with the shit.

I don't blame you if you don't want to read all that btw.
 

Shadows

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#3
What exactly is your job? You can't transfer a departments or something?

Answer me those, and I'll try and answer a bit better next time around.
 

linx

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#4
What exactly is your job? You can't transfer a departments or something?

Answer me those, and I'll try and answer a bit better next time around.
I work for a medical supply place. Like I said, we both have our different responsibilities. I could probably transfer to a different department, but I like the one i'm in. It's just her that's the problem. I love my boss and i'm cool with what I do. I'd say responsibility wise.. it's probably 65/35 me. Again, it's just all the little things building up that make working with her so goddamn hard.
 

Bobby Sands

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#5
you should just tell here that she needs to do the stuff right.

start being more authoritative. try to motivate her to do the job right. you dont have to be an asshole about it either.
 

Shadows

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#7
Well, since transferring departments is not what you want to do, or isn't a fair solution to yourself, I would just say to politely ask her to stop gossiping so much. Say that you believe that it will allow her to finish her work much faster, and that lunch is more than enough time to gossip with someone.

As for her checking in things, I would say to tell your manager to double check with the vendor (or whatever you guys call it) to whomever gives her the products. THEY should know the order and not just trust the person checking in on what's going on.

Linx, if she is still getting things wrong for 2 years...i don't think she will get fired any time now. So, get to it on solving it yourself in a polite way.
 

linx

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#8
Linx, if she is still getting things wrong for 2 years...i don't think she will get fired any time now. So, get to it on solving it yourself in a polite way.
Yeah, I think I agree with that. I know she's the type of person that thinks she never does anything wrong and she doesn't admit when she's wrong.. but fuck it. I should probably say something regardless of how she's gonna take it. Regardless of how it's gonna change the mood of our work environment.

I've been so hesitant to say something because I don't want to come to work every day to a tense environment. She's not gonna like what I have to say, lol. Like I said earlier, I think the fact that I have to pretend nothing is wrong gets me more aggravated than the fact that she does her job so poor. Maybe i'll arrange a meeting with her, myself and our boss. He can be there to moderate and make sure nothing gets out of hand, lol.
 

_carmi

me, myself & us
#10
Just talk with her in an non arrogant/asshole way. It sucks your boss is not able to own up to his job description and fire her.

I hate people that age cause they always think they are right because you know they are old and know it better. It just sucks you're stuck like that cause you're stop with an incompetent bitch who doesn't want the way she does things because she is used to do it those ways. Tell her she's wrong and prove her wrong.
 

Jokerman

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#11
Set her up for a fall. Mess something up big-time and make it point to her. Like put swine-flu virus on all the sterilized stuff. No, mess the paperwork up or something.
 

linx

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#12
Set her up for a fall. Mess something up big-time and make it point to her. Like put swine-flu virus on all the sterilized stuff. No, mess the paperwork up or something.
Thought about that, lol. Minus the swine flu part of course.. haha.
 

S O F I

Administrator
Staff member
#13
I swear you bitched about her like 2 years go on this board...lol

obssessing over a 56 year old fat woman. it's like a shitty romcom.
 

ill-matic

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#14
it's not you who should say shit. talk to your boss / manager about it and have him work out a solution.

his idea to "let it play out" is bullshit. that's not how you manage people in any organisation. if there's a problem, then he should take steps to rectify it, otherwise HE'S not doing HIS job properly.

capiche?

management should tell her to smarten up, or to have some sort of review policy where they analyse your performance.

i can run this business through SH. fuck.
 

THEV1LL4N

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#16
you need to tell her to sort it out because your not happy with the lack of co-operation and teamwork.

pretend (to an extent) that you are struggling and could do with some help which would make all the difference.

the less talking on the phone idea sounds pretty good. she needs to be a lot more efficient in the workplace.
 

linx

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#17
I swear you bitched about her like 2 years go on this board...lol

obssessing over a 56 year old fat woman. it's like a shitty romcom.
I'm not obsessing over shit, lol. And i'm not sure if I mentioned it before. If I did, it wasn't 2 years ago. Honestly.. I just wanted to see what other people would do in my situation. That's all.
 

linx

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#18
it's not you who should say shit. talk to your boss / manager about it and have him work out a solution.

his idea to "let it play out" is bullshit. that's not how you manage people in any organisation. if there's a problem, then he should take steps to rectify it, otherwise HE'S not doing HIS job properly.
I agree. If I didn't care about my boss or have a great deal of respect for him, I would have pushed him much harder about it or went to HIS boss about it. He's a good boss, but not when it comes to confrontation. He likes to let shit play out on its own. I'm starting to hate that.
 

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