I have had a ongoing conflict at work where my coworker wants to pick and choose the nice jobs and leaves me with the crap. This has been going on for a year now and the supervisors have had to address this many times, It got worse recently. My problem is that the supervisors keep telling is to fix it, give is lectures and ultimately do ABSOLUTELY NOTHING!
Any suggestions because we cannot seem to come to an agreement and I really feel it should not have gotten this bad. I believe the supervisors should have stepped in and did something that would have taken it out of our hands. I really want to tell them that this situation as bad as it is was a direct result of their inability to do something and “fix it” is a cowards way of not dealing with the situation.
Supervisors make a list of jobs. Coin flip. Whoever wins the flip gets first choice of ONE job, then the other person gets a choice, then the first person again. Repeat until you’re out of jobs.
is your co-worker young, pretty, single, and does she have a cute round face? Does she spend an inordinate amount of time on Skype with this supervisor?
Dang, looks like Anafiel sold her soul. Tried to warn her.
“If I could fix this, it would be resolved. I don’t have the power to make (co-worker) act differently, and as you should see by now given how many times you guys have had to talk to her about this; talking is doing no good. Frankly, I’m not enjoying being lectured about how I should ‘play nice’ when I’m the one who is playing nice and the other person isn’t.”
I had this issue with a co-worker years back when I worked security. We had two posts, the front desk and the truck gate. Third shift, 12-8am. We were working 4 hours in one and then switching. We were supposed to alternate nights. Well, at the truck gate, you were busy from 12-3, then nothing until 7-8 when you’d get a rush of traffic. Inside you had nothing to do until about 5am when you’d be busy straight through to 8am. So he’d get there before me (no matter how early I showed up) and then just tell me that he was working inside to start. Often, on the one night a week when there were no morning shifts and the front desk had nothing to do all night, he’d just tell me that he refused to change posts at 4am (winter, it was “too cold” :rolleyes:).
Of course, I complained about this, and our boss would tell us to work it out, and of course, it takes 2 to tango (or cooperate) and he refused to do so. So I’d complain some more. Boss made a schedule twice, asshole ignored it and continued to tell me where he was going to work.
Story didn’t end with him getting disciplined or supervisor doing jack about it. Story ends with him walking out to put up the flag in the morning, and being seen dragging it on the ground all the way to the flagpole. And being fired on the spot by the site GM, a military vet.
So the moral of the story is: If your supervisors haven’t done jack shit about it yet, don’t expect they ever will.
You can bitch, moan and groan all you’re worth but until such time that you can quantify it in writing your supers won’t do a damn thing about it. I’m talking time, dates, conditions, jobs and anything to support your position. And when and if you present this report let the report do the talking, you keep your mouth shut.
That’s one. Here are some other alternatives.
You say you’re co-workers. Are you of equal position? Are you or him/her have the same seniority? Does your co-worker chat up or brown nose the super and you don’t? Are other workers sympathetic to you or your co-worker? These are all things that play into the mix. You have two choices, fight fire with fire or kill them kindness. Maybe you can or should turn those “crappy” jobs into enviable jobs. A job is what you make it. If you can show that those crappy jobs are better than they appear then maybe co-worker will want them too. Pretend you’re having a good time with them. On the other hand what if you were hired exclusively for just those crappy jobs? Would you still have a problem?
Another poster alluded to the fact that maybe co-worker is a female and pretty. Well that is a hard thing to fight. But unless she has brains it won’t last for long.
I’ve had shitty jobs in the past and took them in stride when nobody else would do them. Eventually it was obvious that I had the where-with-all to do it and nobody else did. I became the more valuable employee.
