Will do :)

At my former/seasonal job, the regular employees wear white smocks, the supervisors wear black, and the assistant managers and managers wear ties and button up shirts. I helped to open a new store in my area and there were a few people who came from different stores in the chain who came to work there as well. I was in the hotline/grill area with these two guys (both are 24 and 25, old enough to be like older brothers), and they basically trained me (and I’ll admit it, I was kind of reluctant to accept their help at first, but in the end I got along with them both great).

My friendship with these two guys had a sort of antagonism that was similar to that of siblings, and one who transferred to another store with me is probably one of my good friends that I’ve gotten to know while working for the company. (We refer to each other as “bro,” and whenever I talk to people about him I refer to him as my “work bro”).

Anyway, these two guys trained me, and one night when we were slow I was telling some other coworkers that aside from the managers and supervisors, I’d go to the two of them because they trained me and therefore know everything. Both guys appreciated the compliment. 

I wish I could say I was making this up.

During the holiday season, we got new coworkers in. Most of them ended up not working out because of bad work ethic. One of the few that managed to stay had a good attitude at first, but was horrible at working. I’ll call him Christian, since he reminds me of a certain infamous webcomic artist… 

Christian starts out friendly enough, but we notice he’s a bit off. He keeps awkwardly complimenting the girls, which gets an “Uh, thanks…” response from them. He has weird speech patterns and we suspect he’s Autistic, so we don’t really hold anything against him and give him the benefit of the doubt since he can’t help how he is. 

First day we teach him how to clean things, and he’s a bit reluctant to do it because he’s new. He needs to learn though, so he does it. The next few days he doesn’t want to clean anything because he already did it the day before. I tell him that doesn’t matter. No matter who cleaned it the day before, it needs to get done, and he needs to learn how to do it well. Even though I told him exactly how to clean stuff, he still left it disgusting and I ended up having to re-clean it after he left. I thought he’d just get better with time.

Things started getting creepy when a coworker came in on her day off and was wearing shorts. Christian notices and apparently likes what he saw. When she comes in, he asks if that was her who came in with the shorts. She said yes, but seemed creeped out that he kept talking about it. 

He started taking a liking to her and would always go out of his way to stand near her and start awkward conversation. It would even get to the point where he would come to work and wait outside for her shift to end, then follow her to her car. She was extremely uncomfortable and said she was dating another coworker to get him to back off. The other coworker went along with it and confirmed their status, which had Christian storm into the janitor’s closet. Everyone nearby could hear him yelling and cussing angrily inside. 

Eventually the two coworkers dropped their fake relationship, and that made Christian giddy as hell. He resumes stalking her when she gets off of work and she starts feeling scared that he might do something. She stopped having shifts with him, but he would still come in on his day off to wait for her. 

One night he was waiting for her, and she parked her car in the parking lot out front. She pretended to go towards the parking garage instead, and Christian hurriedly started walking towards it. When he was far enough away, she ran to her car in the parking lot and left. Christian turned around and went to his car on the other side of the building. 

By this time, everyone’s getting sick of how he’s harassing the girls. To add to it, he does a horrible job working and gives us all attitude. He leaves everything dirty and if he gets called out for it, he blames someone else, which doesn’t fly with the supervisors. If he doesn’t know how to take care of a problem with a customer, he just ignores it, which messes up our business. Instead of helping clean when we close, he just stands around doing nothing. If we ask him to help with someone, he gets snippy and says, “I thought that was (enter name here)’s job.” If someone else makes a mess, he refuses to clean it because, “(Name) did that though!” We tell him it doesn’t matter who made the mess, if he’s cleaning that area he has to clean all of it. Washing stuff and putting things away takes like 5 minutes. 

One time I threw away a napkin into a trash bag right after he changed it, and he flipped out on me. He yelled, “I just changed the trash bag!” 
Another time, he was holding the door open for exiting customers. When they were all out, I closed the door. He got angry about that, “You know, I have people who are going to leave in 15 minutes and you just closed the door!” It’s not that huge a deal to open a freaking door, Chris.
One night I was clocked out a few hours before him, so I gave him a checklist of things to do. One of them involved turning off a machine at around 9:45pm, or right before he left work. Instead, he did it an hour early, and when he got yelled at, he blamed me and said I told him to do it at 8:30. Luckily everyone knew he was full of bullshit.

He also creeps out the customers by complimenting all the girls who come in, and staring at them. 

He’s just a huge liability and we all hope he gets fired or laid off soon. He doesn’t contribute anything to the company.

I work in a relatively small office where we each have our own seperate desks that are divided by small little “walls”… So you can easily see everyone around you… Anyways, I work with this guy we’ll call “Todd” who sits across from me and hardly ever leaves his desk. He takes his breaks, lunches, etc.. at his desk and he’s constantly snacking on chips and other loud foods…He also eats with his mouth open and laughs loudly at the videos he watches on his computer…all…..day….long… I mean this guy has to eat chips like every 30 minutes! He comes to work with big grocery bags filled with junk…Sometimes I can hardly drown out the crunching, lip smacking and cackling with my headphones. It’s disgusting! He also has a very nerdy laugh, I mean this guy is obviously a hard core gamer and whatnot, dude is a shut in… But quite possibly the weirdest, most disgusting habit of his is that he likes to hang his tongue out of his mouth! Yes…he sticks his tongue between his top and bottom teeth and pushes it out of his mouth and just sits there staring at his computer with this vapid look on his face. I even had to take ninja pics to show my friends because they didnt believe me when i told them this, haha. It’s really bizarre and I always see it out of the corner of my eye… this tongue just protruding from his mouth!! Just now I witnessed chips falling from his mouth because he couldnt fit anymore food in there…true story.

So I’ve been working at my job fast food for over 2 year and only ever gotten one 25 cent raise. We’ve since gotten a new manager and I’ve I guess aquired new skills and responsibilities since then. I’ve been opening, cooking, running the shift, covering for coworkers pretty much anytime I’ve been called in to do so, putting away our truck order, and picking up any of my manager’s slack from being late pretty much every morning since her mother takes her car to bring her grandmother to work. One would think I deserve a raise, right? Apparently not. I asked my boss for a raise and got told since our labor cost is out of wack her boss wouldn’t let her give anybody raisesso I’d have to ask again in March, and even then she has to do a preformance review, which is apparently new for our company considering I didn’t need one for my first raise. She said she’d tell me things I need to work on a few weeks before the review so I could for sure get my raise. Now I realize that I can get pretty bad anxiety but the only thing I can do about that is take a pill as needed and wait four hours for it to kick in until a doctor looks at my drug test from back in November or so. Also once in a blue moon she has to tell me what to do. Otherwise as far as I’m concerned there’s nothing I need to work on. I do have a feeling though that if her one most favorite favorite person asked for a raise she’d get it in no time flat. Which is in no way fair at all, since I really don’t see her doing half the stuff I do. The only thing she can do that I can’t is our closing books since I can never switch for a night shift because of people being in school and wanting to get all of their hours. I guess it’s just life but ugh. It really bothers me.

S: You’re a bit overworked. I hope you get that raise

Every morning, from 8-9, this lady I work with in my office has a phone call with people she obviously vigorously disagrees with.  She yells at them so loud that the rest of us can’t hear each other if we have a normal conversation.  And I mean anywhere in the whole room, which is at least 60x60.

It’s completely up to you. We’ll post it either way =)

-H

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Top Text: “what do they do”

Bottom Text: “in the bathroom?!?”]

Whenever I’m on my lunch I’ll see a male co-worker walk into the bathroom… and usually by the time I leave over 15 minutes later they still haven’t left the bathroom. What do they do in there for so long?!? I don’t think I want to know.

we had put him in the stockroom to fold shirts since he was being loud and obnoxious and not doing any work.. i went back there to take a drink of my soda and we chitchatted for a while.. then i announced my plans for my 10 minute break. we had the above conversation.. i left and came back to, guess what? a godawful clogged up toilet with actual shit in the bottom. oh my god. i was so upset. i ran to tell our manager about it, and the manager went to my coworker, who blatantly lied about being the one to fuck up our bathroom like that. its a small, one toilet bathroom :/

…nobody really likes him…

Any Best Buy peeps out there :D Or anyone else, really

well i don’t work per se but there’s someone i chat with who i regard as a colleague in some ways she’s funny sweet amiable and she tries to hard to be nice to everyone the thing is like i really irritate her sometimes and i don’t know how to behave..like i say stuff that’s inappropriate makes her uncomfortable randomly insensitive or rude, what should i do to be more polite?

Sometimes we treat our coworkers like we do our best friends, and can often forget that maybe we don’t know their boundaries. If you are in a situation where someone acts like this towards you, or you notice someone is uncomfortable with your behavior, talk to them. Ask them specifically what makes the situation uncomfortable. If a coworker is being rude, tell them what is exactly rude, and ask them to stop. If a colleague of yours is uncomfortable, ask them why, and amend the offending behaviors.

If, even after the talk, the behavioral issue isn’t resolved, get a mediator (manager, other coworker) to make sure things go smoothly. If there is a problem, SPEAK UP. Not talking never resolves anything

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Top Text: “OBNOXIOUS”

Bottom Text: “AND SEXIST”]

This fucking guy. He makes typical generalizations about women (for example, two of my female coworkers are talking about clothes shopping and he perks up and says “it’s better for us guys because we don’t go shopping.”) Just annoying shit like that. He’s also semi-racist too (about one of my coworkers wanting to visit India:) “Why? Everybody’s poor there!”

Just some of the comments from this guy are just verbal diarrhea. Typical cis, sexist comments and genuine ignorance that makes me cringe. 

at my old job, my district manager came in for an evaluation of the store, and immediately singled me out for my jewelry. yes, i do wear three bracelets, a ring, and two necklaces, but they are all conservative and i am very neat about my appearance. of these pieces of jewelry, i conceded to take off all but one bracelet. i wear said bracelet because it was my mom’s, and in her fashion, i wear it day in and day out, and never, ever take it off. my manager and assistant manager told him off once i started to cry, as i continued to adamantly refuse to take it off.

(not a complaint; looking back on it now, my managers were awesome, even if my store manager intimidated the hell out of me!)