#1
Her response? A cold, "Excuse me?"
I reiterated my concern, and she abruptly ended the call. Minutes later, I received a WhatsApp message from her stating that I no longer needed to work there. Within the hour, she contacted my professor to inform them they had "let me go." I ended up in tears on a Zoom call with my professor, who was supportive. As a result of the incident, my college blacklisted the company for future internships as they were clearly unprofessional.
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#3
-Bob is misogynistic, transphobic, homophobic, hates democrats, hates all non-christians, hates black people, hates mexicans, hates asians.
-Bob thinks Obama is a muslim terrorist planning to blow up the white house.
-Bob thinks all the girls in the office need to report their dating/sex lives to him. Bob also thinks that girls who date are whores, and girls who don't date are frigid.
-Bob has two adult sons. When his sons start dating an 'undesirable' woman (feminist, asian, jewish, whatever), he bribes the woman to dump them. Bob takes great pleasure in telling us how much money it takes each woman to be convinced.
-Bob wants to set me up with one of his sons. This would be hell.
-Bob chooses to make long, loud sales calls in my office, despite having his own that he rarely uses. He then quizzes me on what sales techniques he used during the call. F**k off, I'm not in sales and I have my own work to do.
-Bob recently tried to shame the new receptionist for not having a good relationship with her son. It's easy to be a parent, easy to make your children love you, etc etc. He wasn't pleased when I pointed out that one of his sons is currently no-contact, and the other is just using him to bankroll his new company.
-Bob thinks he has the defining knowledge on everything, but especially nutrition. He likes to criticize what people weigh, what they bring for lunch, etc. Bob is diabetic and about 75 pounds overweight.
-Bob thinks divorce is a sin. Bob is on his third marriage.
-On the business side, Bob likes to make promises that are impossible to uphold just to sell the product. Then he vanishes and makes the rest of the company deal with these customers with unreasonable expectations.
F*****g Bob. Glad I switched departments and don't have to talk to him as much anymore.
It’s no surprise that with people spending so much time at work, their colleagues play a rather significant role in their well-being. Talking about such a role, the MSU Foundation Professor of Management in the Eli Broad College of Business at Michigan State University, Dr. Russell Johnson, pointed out that “Quality interactions and relationships are incredibly important at work, especially given the increase in team-based and interdependent work (for instance, completion of core work tasks requiring coordination and inputs from multiple employees).
“Oftentimes, an employee’s supervisor and coworkers are the ‘face’ of the organization for them, and the quality of their interactions and relationships with coworkers ‘spills over’ to color their attitudes toward the job and organization more generally.
“For example, higher quality relationships with one’s coworkers are associated with higher job satisfaction, stronger commitment to the organization, better job performance, more citizenship and cooperative behaviors, less deviant behaviors (for example, taking longer-than-necessary breaks, stealing office supplies, verbal abuse), and lower turnover.”
#4
He tried to sexually assault my gf in the break room in front of me.
Took 4 coworkers and 3 customers to keep me from ending his existence.
The company took his side and I got a very small severance to quit.
#5
You'd have a little rest like drink from a bottle of water or just have a brief chat with a colleague and she'd flip out saying you're lazy and get a lecture about how important it is to work hard.
Turns out she ended up getting fired and lost out on all the bonus's the corp gave because they hated her.
She taught me a valuable lesson. Corps never give a c**p about how hard you work. Work hard enough so no one has to pick up your slack but otherwise just work for your money and that's it.
Don't give it your all, just do your job and that's it. Never do extra unless they are willing to pay you more.
The expert continued to note that people’s need for relatedness, as well as the need for a sense of belongingness and connection to others, are key psychological needs, which—when met—can make individuals more intrinsically motivated, productive, and innovative.
“When people have a close and genuine connection to one or more coworkers, it satisfies their need for relatedness. This can be a replenishing experience for people, which ‘fills up’ their mental and emotional energies at work, which gives them more resources to allocate to their work tasks,” he explained in a recent interview with Bored Panda.
“Also, as mentioned above, our immediate social environment at work is essentially a proxy for how people view the broader organization. So, when you like your coworkers and have positive experiences, it ‘spills over’ to more positive attitudes and behaviors directed at the organization. For example, people don’t typically quit to escape organizations; rather, they quit to escape uncivil and prickly coworkers and bosses.”
#6
Arrive at his place. No cars out front, it's quiet. Lights are on though. I ring the doorbell and Manager answers and lets me in. "Where is everyone?" I ask as I enter, as I notice there's hardly anyone else there. Except for one couple, both dressed to the 9's.
At this point you might be thinking it was some sex thing, but no, it was worse.
They pitched me Amway.
I got a job at Wal-Mart a week later.
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#8
The fact that the son was actually convicted and publicly shamed happened only because the severity of his crimes was so egregious that the courts couldn't ignore it and the family couldn't overcome the victims' statements the way they ran over everyone else. The son's defense in court was a window into the way this family treated everyone - the victims were at fault, because they were trying to get something from him. My boss viewed everything that way, he saw his employees as money sucking expenses and instantly discounted any work they did as unimportant, unskilled, worthless. Worst boss ever.
The same way good relationships with co-workers can have a positive influence on an employee, bad ones can have one, too; but a far less positive one. Many people know that few things are more aggravating than having to deal with a co-worker you despise on a daily basis, be it because of their annoying habits, their jokes you find borderline sexist, or something else, for that matter.
Discussing the way working with someone you are not that fond of can affect a person, Dr. Johnson suggested that dealing with an aggravating coworker places a heavy tax on people’s ability to control and regulate their behavior.
“Each of us has a pool of cognitive/attentional resources, which are needed to process information cognitively and execute actions behaviorally. When we are able to rest or experience respites, this pool of resources replenishes (much like filling up a gas tank). However, when we engage in challenging cognitive and behavioral activities (for example, suppressing thoughts, regulating emotions, fine motor control requiring high vigilance), it drains these resources and, if it continues unabated, we can soon find ourselves depleted and unable to take further action (until the pool replenishes).”
#9
Now, reader, you might assume she was evil (she was) and malicious (indeed)… but she was also as dumb as a box of rocks. This woman couldn’t tell accounting from hieroglyphics if her life depended on it.
When I finally quit that job, she requested an exit interview to which I ever so politely declined and wished her ill.
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#11
“An aggravating coworker, unfortunately, elicits several demanding activities that deplete people’s resources, including emotional control/suppression (for instance, suppressing feelings of anger, frustration, and anxiety from being treated in a rude or threatening manner), cognitive rumination (victims worrying about whether they are somehow responsible for the aggravating treatment), and problem-solving (thinking of strategies to somehow stop or avoid the mistreatment),” Prof. Johnson continued.
“Note that these activities are in addition to the ‘typical’ cognitive and behavioral activities that an employee is required to engage in to complete his/her core work tasks. Thus, having an aggravating coworker can quickly leave employees feeling emotionally, mentally, and physically depleted.”
#12
We have a 50 meter pool which requires 5 tarps to cover it overnight. We have a deal with the coaches that their students will help swim the tarps across and help us clean up outside before we close down for the night.
One night, the last tarp was stuck on the pool cover reel. One of the 5th graders was trying his damnest to get it unstuck. Brandon allegedly kept telling the kid to let go so he could use his scissors to cut the stuck portion. The 5th graders wasn't listening or maybe didn't hear. Next thing I hear from the other side of the 50 meter pool is Brandon shouting at this 5th grader and calling him the n word with a HARD r. A fight broke out because his parents went over and immediately started to whip his a*s.
After pulling them a part, I sent Brandon to my office (I was the aquatics director at the time), and sat with the parents, the child, and the coaches and it boiled down to "fire the racist or lose our business". I told them I'd resolve the issue and they'd hear back from me before the masters session began the next day at 12.
I go to security to watch the footage and have it saved for later use, I go into my office to talk to Brandon and he is eating my stash of pretzels and has his feet on my desk, leaning back in my chair. I tell him to give me back my chair and sit in the seats provided, and he looks at me and says "so are you gonna fire me? The n****r and his s****y parents obviously have it out for me..." And then some other racist and aggressive s**t that I'm not recalling exactly. He was always going to be fired, but after he said that, I went up front to grab security and have him forcefully escorted off the property.
He was fired, within the hour I called the team back and told them he had been fired effective immediately and that word has been passed to all other facilities to not hire him with documented proof as to why. Skip to a few months later and I'm about to enlist in the Navy and my boss gives me the go ahead to hire my replacement before I leave and to find someone new to replace Brandon. I had my new hires, trained them up myself, and left the place in good standing.
I come back a year later and everything went to s**t. Apparently everyone I hired was immediately let go, and they rehired Brandon and some college kid with a financial degree to run the aquatics department. The facility I was at decided to let Brandon work before the masters team showed up so no one would be aware he was still active. He got caught and that swim team pulled out and our facility lost the majority of it's income. There's more that happened with Brandon, but he is by far the biggest a*****e I have ever worked with.
#13
This guy's head was acoustically tuned to maximize volume. He would eat frosted mini wheats out of the box allllll day. **CRUNCH** **CRUNCH** **CRUNCHCRUNCHcrunchcrunch**
He had the literal worst takes I have ever heard. Not like, political stuff. Just objectively wrong things. Provably wrong. It was infuriating because our cubicles pointed directly at each other, so I had unfettered access to the flow of stupid.
I eventually popped and quit after two years, and didn't have a job lined up or anything because he actively made my life terrible for 8 hours a day.
#14
According to Dr. Johnson, some research suggests that experiences in the social domain at work (for instance, the quality of interpersonal interactions and relationships) are more important than experiences in the task domain at work (for instance, task autonomy and skill variety) for employee well-being and productivity.
“Relationships matter, especially at work, and employees are better able to overcome—or at least tolerate—challenges and hindrances at work when they feel socially valued and supported by others. When this social support is removed, or nullified by an interpersonally challenging coworker, the subsequent stress and mental depletion can quickly overcome them,” the expert said.
#15
The manager apologised to the woman inappropriately touching me about having to "do this and have this conversation". It stopped but nothing came of it at that point.
The woman in question also spent most of the time telling other members of staff that she'd be able to turn me and that was also dismissed in my complaint.
A few months down the line, this manager failed my probation. A few months after that the manager was sacked and the woman touching me up left aburuptly. HR offered me my job back.
#16
After every tragedy, there would always happen to be a Gofund me or an office collection to help pay for funeral/repair/god knows costs. I don't think she was actually grifting on purpose but she probably realized early on in her life if she talked about tragedy in grisely detail, she'd get some type of handout. I think she only managed this for so long because we worked at a non-profit with a very high turnover rate. She had the perfect sympathetic audience that wasnt around long enough to call her on her s**t.
#17
I worked at Pizza Hut and she was hired after I was. I hadn't seen her often and didn't know her well (not real close with most of my family, much as I love them) so I didn't know enough to warn my boss.
She is the most petty, narcissistic, angry, confrontational, evil little b***h I have ever met in my life. Nothing is ever her fault, she's always the victim. Will straight up lie to your face ABOUT THINGS YOU WERE THERE FOR.
She'd throw fits in front of customers, throw things, scream, curse, etc.
...she didn't last very long, and her boyfriend was trespassed from the property for getting in the manager's face and threatening him.
I'd like to note that manager was one of the kindest ,most badass men I've ever met and he could definitely have wiped the floor with the asshat if he had just a bit less patience.
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#19
We started working for a client last year who thought they were wealthy.
Hands down the biggest d**k head ive met in my life.
Still owes us nearly 20 grand.
Total prick. Driving round in financed cars, likes to act like money is irrelevant and it doesn't matter if its just wasted. Then doesn't pay bills.
Looking forward to the day he loses his high paid job and his financed world comes crashing down.
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