There's gotta be an a...hole at every job!

[FPAlpha]

Something that was in my mind the last few weeks..

In all my jobs i had since i worked (as a student, university student, regular job now) i had an asshole somewhere.

First job i got which paid for my sound system in the early 90s (with a CD player!) was handing out flyers for this new thing called mobile phones.. my boss was an arrogant prick.

Next thing was stacking boxes as a temp worker/student in the summer and i especially told the lady when applying that i couldn't work this one special day because i had an appointment i couldn't shift. She notes it, i don't go to work that day and she literally explodes in my face and fires me..

After school i got on job training as a logistics employee and our accounting lady was a mean, gossipy, needy, "rat you out to the boss immediately" bitch who always roamed around escaping from her duties while seeing if she can stalk someone and maybe pick up some juicy bits of gossip or a mistake. I hated that bitch.

Similar thing later on while i was in university and had a part time job delivering medicine.. the lady doing the accounting wasn't pleasant at all.

The cake however was the one guy when i worked for a huge IT company in their data center. He was a racist, bigotted, insulting and simply mean old guy who was handed through 6 departments until finally parked in ours until retirement. He was almost there since the founding of the company and its rise to become one of the leading companies for business software yet everyone from that era is at least in the middle management whereas he never got past simple employee.. go figure.

Currently i have to deal with an arrogant asshole who always covers his ass and handles himself by the attitude of "Attack is the best defense" which means he'll accuse you of doing something wrong or not on schedule (may or may not be true) when in reality it was his fault. It will be interesting to deal with him once i get to be teamleader and can really go to town with him

So tell me about your moles, assholes, bitches, dicks and just plain idiots and how you have to live with them (and especially how you dealt with them )

 

[An Officer]

I have known the receptionist from hell for a few years now.

 

[Ethros]

If anyone's thinking "there isn't one at my work"
That's because it's you

 

[auntiehill]

There are a few at my work. Luckily, all our communication is done over the phone, so they can't actually see me flipping them off.

 

[Holdfast]

I've generally been very lucky in terms of my colleagues, but one of my previous bosses was a complete moron. The rest of the staff in that job were a joy to work with (some of the best in fact), but she was easily the most annoying person I've ever had to work for. By a mile.

First off, she was irritatingly absent-minded. Unable to remember to do the simplest of tasks and cope with more than a couple of essential jobs at a time. Secondly, her judgement was often flawed, resulting in sub-standard (in my opinion) decisions. Thirdly she was exceedingly lazy, delegating work that she should have done herself, either actively or more usually through the passive means of her absent-mindedness: simply not doing it so someone from another department hassled the rest of us to do it instead.

Normally, I wouldn't give a toss and since it was just a year-long job I would have gone with the flow. But the worst of it was that she was completely and utterly charmless. No tact or finesse whatsoever. Braying laugh, loud pushy voice, annoying mannerisms and generally a complete bore to talk to. If you're going to be forgetful, lazy and hopeless you MUST be incredibly charming to compensate and she was the absolute opposite.

I did the equivalent of a second-in-command's job to her in the department and essentially made sure things ran smoothly despite her incompetence. Everyone - except her - recognised that, was considerate, and thanked me for it but it was still not an easy ride!

So I made sure I had my revenge - I ensured that when I left, she would not have someone replacing me. Everyone who I heard had applied for the post, I told the unvarnished truth to and advised them to look elsewhere. She didn't get a replacement, the post stayed vacant and I now hear on the grapevine that she is now suffering from having to work much harder, with more upper-managerial pressure on her, than ever before. I will carry on doing my best to ensure that post remains vacant for as long as I can and since I'm the most recent person to have filled it and that's a matter of open record, new applicants naturally call me for advice. And I tell them.

 

[M'Sharak]

So I made sure I had my revenge - I ensured that when I left, she would not have someone replacing me. Everyone who I heard had applied for the post, I told the unvarnished truth to and advised them to look elsewhere. She didn't get a replacement, the post stayed vacant and I now hear on the grapevine that she is now suffering from having to work much harder, with more upper-managerial pressure on her, than ever before. I will carry on doing my best to ensure that post remains vacant for as long as I can and since I'm the most recent person to have filled it and that's a matter of open record, new applicants naturally call me for advice. And I tell them.

I like this. It amuses me.

 

[SilentP]

So I made sure I had my revenge - I ensured that when I left, she would not have someone replacing me. Everyone who I heard had applied for the post, I told the unvarnished truth to and advised them to look elsewhere. She didn't get a replacement, the post stayed vacant and I now hear on the grapevine that she is now suffering from having to work much harder, with more upper-managerial pressure on her, than ever before. I will carry on doing my best to ensure that post remains vacant for as long as I can and since I'm the most recent person to have filled it and that's a matter of open record, new applicants naturally call me for advice. And I tell them.

I like this. It amuses me.

Indeed, I approve

For me, I had one annoying engineer I had to do work for. He was fairly competent (I would suppose, I'm fairly juniour so my technical knowledge isn't that great yet, though they were occasions where I doubted this) but he was the most indecisive person I've ever met.

Seriously, the drawings we'd need to get out really should only have changes made every few weeks at the minimum. With this guy however, he would seem to literally change his mind they day after we released a drawing as done. We were going through letters for drawing revisions faster than the Enterprise

I guess it wouldn't be so bad if the drawings weren't needed, you know like, yesterday. Fortunately, I'm on a new project and there are a few people on it who know him too, so they'll be letting the Discipline Chief Engineer know to hold off assigning him to the project

 

[Kestra]

If anyone's thinking "there isn't one at my work"
That's because it's you

 

[The Boy Who Cried Worf]

Unfortuantely the asshole at my last job was the boss. She would bad mouth on us on the phone while we were all within earshot of her office. She'd assign us a ton of special projects and then when we finished them she'd complain we were behind on our regular work. When another employee left she gave me her job and expected me to just know how to do it. When I went to her and said I was having trouble she said she didn't want to hear it. Eventually I ended up getting fired before I could quit. The only thing that really irritates me is that this bitch's firing me may still be having an impact on my not getting hired for anything to this day.

 

[jamestyler]

My lost full time/non freelancing job was filled with them...

The boss: Wanted everything done her own way, regardless if it was illegal, wrong or ineffective and would always bully staff if we actually followed the law.

The supervisor: Got the job after the previous (and more pleasant and helpful one) got sacked after being attacked on site. He was in constant competition with everyone for no other reason but to boost his own ego. Would throw hissy fits when he'd invite himself to the gym and be matched or outdone by the others as he used to be a pro-bodybuilder and that was only the start of it...

The colleague: Thought he knew best on everything. Similar to a guy I used to work with when I was a manager years before. Both guys were after higher jobs, went out of their way to discredit everyone around them and were completely unaware they were acting like, and viewed as, complete twats.

Within wrestling it gets worse as some people forget the concept of the show and let their ego get in the way. Fights have broken out when training due to this, thought the worst I've seen was a guy who ranted at his girlfriend (a trainee given a chance) telling her she didn't belong in the ring and she was just riding his coat tails, shouting in her face in front of everyone that he was the star and she should know her place.

And yet they stayed together for another year after that.

 

[Wally]

A few, but one by one, they are getting what's coming to them. Has nothing to do with me, just karma.

 

[Lindley]

I'm sure there are a few at my company, but I haven't had to work with any real problems yet. There was one guy whose style was a bit incompatible with mine whom I didn't really like, but it never got personal.

The only one who bothers me is my officemate. No particular reason, I'm sure it's not intentional, he just has some incredibly annoying habits.

 

[Crusher Disciple]

If you're going to be forgetful, lazy and hopeless you MUST be incredibly charming to compensate and she was the absolute opposite.

Why, thank you! I try.

 

[Holdfast]

So I made sure I had my revenge - I ensured that when I left, she would not have someone replacing me. Everyone who I heard had applied for the post, I told the unvarnished truth to and advised them to look elsewhere. She didn't get a replacement, the post stayed vacant and I now hear on the grapevine that she is now suffering from having to work much harder, with more upper-managerial pressure on her, than ever before. I will carry on doing my best to ensure that post remains vacant for as long as I can and since I'm the most recent person to have filled it and that's a matter of open record, new applicants naturally call me for advice. And I tell them.

I like this. It amuses me.

Indeed, I approve

I like to give karma a bit of a helping hand occasionally...

If you're going to be forgetful, lazy and hopeless you MUST be incredibly charming to compensate and she was the absolute opposite.

Why, thank you! I try.

 

[freak]

In the past, I've had some employees with whom I wanted to punch in the mouth and say fuck off but never did. And this is the same employee that spent his money on nothing but beer and alchohol and lived for weekends to drink himself to death.
I've also had a boss of a job at our quarry get on my case about an inefficient number of tons of rock on an invoice. I told him I had to void a ticket and then re-type it into the computer and plus I had like 40+ trucks lined out the whahoozie at the time he called and said that I needed to call him back that I was in the middle of something..he wouldn't take no for an answer and said: well this is more important and needs to be dealt with NOW. I told the bossman about it and he officially calls him and swears at him over the phone for getting mad at ME for an invoice malfunction when it was all right to begin with.
Then got chastized over the phone one time by a dumbass employee who was fired and wanted his paycheck. He was sending his wife up to get it but the boss told me to tell him NOT to send his wife up that HE needed to come up himself to get it. His wife hung the phone up on me..five minutes later the guy calls and curses me out on the phone and threatening me with something like: "my paycheck better be up there or else"..shit. I called the boss and told him what he said and he wanted me to specifically call him the moment the guy arrives. So I do, and the bossman comes up there swearing at him for getting mad at me for HIS stupidity of being fired from his job. I felt so much better later on about it too.

 

[Mistral]

My first boss was a grumpy old man who would literally swear at the customers when they pissed him off. At 7-11, of all things. If he couldn't find a paperclip it was, "What the fuck did you do with the goddamn things. Oh, fer Christ's sake are you completely useless?" It was my first job and I let the old bastard damage me but good. It took years to center my work personality and I'm sure the damage he did to my perspective screwed me out of a few promotions because I just didn't know how to act-to this day if the boss says he wants to talk to me I cringe involuntarily for a moment.

 

[AstroSmurf]

Well this thread is a bit serendipitous. I think I may have gotten our resident ass hole fired today. A small part of me feels guilty but he did bring it on himself. What 37 year old man throws temper tantrums and verbally abuses his coworkers without making a few enemies. And I pride myself in having the ability to work with just about anyone. However, this one made it impossible for even me to tolerate him.

And the saddest thing is how completely disruptive he was for the last year. I can't help but wonder at the things we could have accomplished if he hadn't been around. The rest of us work so well together but he completely destabilized the environment the moment he walked in the door. And not to mention the great employees he also managed to run off... it's so sad.

 

[Crusher Disciple]

^Um...congrats?

 

[AstroSmurf]

^ Maybe. I am just waiting for Karma to come back and bite me in the ass. It always does.

 

[Major Chord]

^ I wouldn't think of it that way AS. He got what was coming to him...you were just the tool Karma used to do the job. I think you'll be fine.