Jobs...are you the human or the monkey?

[Wheetsin 714]

I'm part of a really good team right now, and truly don't have a monkey or an ass. My last place, on the other hand, oh my... let me tell you about the person who sat in the cube across from me, my "next door neighbor". You're getting me off on a tangent. :cool:

This guy, who will remain unnamed, would - in the middle of the day - pull of his socks and shoes and start clipping his toe nails. And they would fly. And one landed on my desk one day. So I tore into him a little because I'm a fairly nice person but enough is enough. From then on he was "considerate" and would actually ASK ME IF I MINDED if he cut his toe nails.

One day our department is having a nationality potluck, so whatever your nationality is, bring a dish to compliment. My mother's side of the family is Greek so I brought a big dish of homemade baklava -- which represented about $50 in ingredients, and a total time investment of about 6 hours. An hour before it was supposed to start I went in to get it out and cut it into pieces, and this guy is in there with Gladware, filling up his gladware containers with my baklava. I ripped into him again, and he says, "This stuff is way too expensive for me to buy, and I could eat this much of ir anyway, so I just figured I'd take what I'd eat and bring it home."

This guy would spend hours each day on e-bay. Since I sat next to him, any time I got up I could see his monitor, and over time I noticed he was spending a LOT of time there. Seriously - about 4 hours a day, at least. One day I get called into my director's office, and he's already there. The scoop was - she wanted me to take on his biggest project because he (he was hourly) was having to work too many hours to get his job done. She was an idiot too, BTW. So I look at her, stupified... and then ask him to leave, and then tell her that -- I will be the first person to volunteer to help a co-worker if they legitimately need my help, but I refused to take on his biggest project of the year (which happened to be one of only 3 he was responsible for, while I was responsible for something like 9), and add that workload and burden to my shoulders, because he couldn't keep his butt of of e-bay. I also told her it was a bad move on her part to even ask me to do it, because all it's teaching him is that he can do nothing, and it's ok because someone else will cover his butt. So she says, "Ok, we'll just outsource the project then." *sigh*

That's not even the tip of the iceberg. But it is a few examples of the biggest "monkey" I've ever worked with. This guy was a low-life, in every possible sense of the word.

Now I'm gonna go find my happy place.

[Woodys 0]

I am my own worst enemy.....my jobs have always been more "all consuming" than they needed to be. I won't deligate....I can't get past the mindset that nobody can do a job as good as me so I better do it myself to make sure it gets done right.

Carol

[FunnyDuddies 6]

Here, here Donna. I was wondering if someone would pick up on that as I was reading through the responses. I mean really, who was gonna admit that they're the one who doesn't carry their fair share? Of course we're all star pupils, prize employees and hard workers with work ethics to be enviable by all employers. lol

Actually, I don't think it is a silly question at all. The problem is not that everyone thinks they are the best. It is that in this environment you are going to find that 85% of the people hwere are here because they focus their attention on everything but themselves. We fat people are usually the ones that over compensate by working hard, taking care of others, putting everyone before us. And that lack of interest in our own well being and our own bodies is what makes us fat. Not all....but some. I can guarantee you there are a few lazy fatties here too. But I think they are too shy or embarassed to post here. :cool:

I have worked with some doozies in the past. I absolutely HATE clock watchers. Wheets...I had an almost identical exp to yours. When I worked for Microsoft we had what my manager would refer to as the "knuckledraggers". They were the ones that you would routinely not find in their offices. If you went looking for them they were either in the cafeteria getting coffee, or in the parking lot smoking. They were also the ones that would get really gung ho and work hard on parties and events, but could not pull their shit together to meet a deadline to save their souls. Then would complain that they would have to work past dark to get their work in on time. And they never had consideration for the fact that their laziness held up other people's job. It just makes me crazy!!! I am so glad I work out of my house now. I don't have to deal with idiot coworkers pulling crap anymore. Hiding my chair. Or worse yet, my computer. Setting my screensaver to porn pictures. Having candy fights where the whip tootsie rolls back and forth over my head. And I can promise you those people don't believe they are the hardest working individuals out there.