# Because thinking about how much you hate your coworkers on the weekend is productive. **URL:** \ **Category:** The BBQ Pit\ **Created:** [September 20, 2010, 12:05am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/because-thinking-about-how-much-you-hate-your-coworkers-on-the-weekend-is-productive/554340 "2010-09-20T00:05:45Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 6\ **Page:** 3
**Author:** ![pikey\_pete](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/8edcca/32.png) [@pikey\_pete](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/pikey_pete)\ **Post date:** [September 29, 2010, 1:16am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/because-thinking-about-how-much-you-hate-your-coworkers-on-the-weekend-is-productive/554340/41 "2010-09-29T01:16:19Z")
> [@Fish\_Nya](#): > > Background: I work at a YMCA nursery. We watch 6 month- 5 year olds for up to two hours while the parents work out. As we are not a full daycare or preschool, we don’t have to stress about lesson plans or _teaching_ the kids. We just make coming to the Y fun for them, so that you have no reason not to work out. > > I like my job. It’s the other people that are the hassle. (But isn’t it always?) > > Dear coworker, > > I used to like you. You had a few quirks that bothered me, but everyone has those. But now… > > Yes, I know I’m younger than you. Significantly so. But, I’ve also been working here just as long as you. Hell, I started months before you! I really don’t need you telling me how to do my job. > > Yes, I know it’s a rule that babies have to be wearing socks. Almost all of the parents know this, too. Sometimes they forget. A few times, it will be their first time coming in. This is not the end of the world. Casually remind the parents and half of the time they’ll have extra socks in their bags or cars. > > But for the times that they don’t? Yeah, I’ll let the babies come in. Because we are here to make the members happy. That mom who drives waaay out of her way to come to our Y because she likes us best? I’m not going to make her drive home just because she forgot socks that day. Doing that little thing might be the difference between keeping a member or losing one. And with the economy as it is, a YMCA membership is far down on the list when people are struggling to pay mortgages. We don’t get paid on how many kids come or how many members there are. Still, the more we have and the happier they are the less hours corporate will cut. > Also, I don’t need your editorializing about my hair, or nail polish, or shoes. Remember when my hair was dark brown? At least once a week you told me “it looked better blonde”. Now half of it is purple. Our boss has no problem with it; most everyone knows about my habit of changing hair colors with the seasons and they think it’s fun. I have to brace myself for whatever you might say every day before work. > > Your words don’t hurt me- it’s just fucking annoying. Every time I paint my nails my favorite green I hear you going “that looks like a gross pea green” in my head and get angry. If I had less self confidence or more ‘gives-a-shit’ I might stop doing the things I like. > Finally, every time you talk about your grandson with autism and how it was because of vaccinations, or how your daughter didn’t vaccinate her other kids because of that, I have to hide in the bathroom for a few minutes so I don’t scream. That time you told one of the members this, and that was probably why her son was autistic? I didn’t run to the break room because I had a craving for bad coffee. It was because that was the only way to stop the homicidal urges. > > Yeah, I tried to talk to you about this years ago. I even brought in a book to lend you. Your absolute disinterest in it has made me stop trying. Heck, when I mention scientific studies on anything you don’t care. You are the type of person who blindly believes and forwards all those emails. The hilarious thing is that you don’t even have a computer. So all those myths that can be solved with a Snopes link? Doesn’t work in real life. > > So, yeah. Everyday I work with you I hate you a little bit more. I cringe when I see your name on the schedule. I hate getting in the middle of work place gossip. My mom is close friends with several of the bosses- I’ve been hearing things since before I got this job. I also hear the other workers complain about the boss and each other. I don’t spread it. Well, I didn’t. Lately when others complain about you I join in. And after hearing how you have complained about me behind my back? I do not give a shit. > > Not so much love, > Fish. fish…I like you. ---
**Author:** ![pikey\_pete](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/8edcca/32.png) [@pikey\_pete](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/pikey_pete)\ **Post date:** [September 29, 2010, 1:20am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/because-thinking-about-how-much-you-hate-your-coworkers-on-the-weekend-is-productive/554340/42 "2010-09-29T01:20:54Z")
thank god for owning my own business, that way all I have to deal with is dumbassed customers. ---
**Author:** ![Yeticus\_Rex](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/y/a698b9/32.png) [@Yeticus\_Rex](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Yeticus_Rex)\ **Post date:** [September 29, 2010, 5:44pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/because-thinking-about-how-much-you-hate-your-coworkers-on-the-weekend-is-productive/554340/43 "2010-09-29T17:44:05Z")
> [@pikey\_pete](#): > > thank god for owning my own business, that way all I have to deal with is dumbassed customers. BWAHAA…you must not have employees, cause **some** of them could surpass your customers by a country mile. ---
**Author:** ![Nava](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/n/da6949/32.png) [@Nava](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Nava)\ **Post date:** [September 30, 2010, 12:32pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/because-thinking-about-how-much-you-hate-your-coworkers-on-the-weekend-is-productive/554340/44 "2010-09-30T12:32:41Z")
Even then, I figure that one advantage of being a small business owner is that, so long as you have the time and energy for it, looking for new employees is more feasible (not easier, just more feasible) than looking for a new boss without changing jobs. ---
**Author:** ![Don\_t\_Call\_Me\_Shirley](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/f4b2a3/32.png) [@Don\_t\_Call\_Me\_Shirley](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Don_t_Call_Me_Shirley)\ **Post date:** [September 30, 2010, 3:45pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/because-thinking-about-how-much-you-hate-your-coworkers-on-the-weekend-is-productive/554340/45 "2010-09-30T15:45:01Z")
> [@Dogzilla](#): > > > [@Nava](#): > > > > If my (hypothetical at the time) roomie borrowed my car to go for a drive and hadn’t brought it back or called within two hours, she would have to do some seriously convincing begging before being able to borrow it again. > > Um yeah, after she/he got out of jail because I called the cops about my stolen car. > > Hey. Don’t want to be charged with Grand Theft Auto? Then bring my car back or answer your damn phone when I call you looking for it. If you gave her the keys willingly, do NOT call the cops and report the car stolen. Regardless of how long she keeps it. Cops don’t want to get involved in your family squabbles. If you gave her the keys, the car’s not stolen. And if you “forget” to mention to the cops that you gave her the keys, you will find yourself in jail rather than your daughter. ---
**Author:** ![Sattua](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/sattua/32/11906_2.png) [@Sattua](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sattua)\ **Post date:** [October 1, 2010, 9:01pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/because-thinking-about-how-much-you-hate-your-coworkers-on-the-weekend-is-productive/554340/46 "2010-10-01T21:01:01Z")
YOU STUPID ARROGANT FUCK. You introduce errors into MY database and then leave for the weekend at 1:00 without putting things right? FUCK YOU. Why don’t you shit on my desk while you’re at it? I refuse to upload it to the software because it will BREAK THE SOFTWARE. Your fucking moron peon will upload it anyway, because I’m being “a small minded pencil pusher”, then the tools will break and I DON’T GIVE A FUCK. It’s YOUR FAULT. You hire someone with no education or experience and put her on a level WITH ME on MY JOB and let her piss all over what I’m trying to tell her? Lets find out just how accurate your typing ISN’T, dumbass. Fuck my job. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/because-thinking-about-how-much-you-hate-your-coworkers-on-the-weekend-is-productive/554340.md?page=2)