A bit of Nastiness at work

[suityou01]

Pssstt. Suityou. What's the fella over there talking about, you know the odd one who smells a bit. I heard he used to be a women and isn't very good at his job. Better warn everyone. (taps nose)

Admin?

[thunderlizard]

This is a fun book:
Rip-off!: The Scandalous Inside Story of the Management Consulting Money Machine: Amazon.co.uk: David Craig: Books

amongst the fun (but also horrible) bits is how to get a colleague sacked instead of you, while working for one of the big 6 (as it was) consulting firms. The company was obsessed with "living the values", which of course were unmeasurable woolly phrases like "client-centricity" and "360-degree proactive agility". So if you sensed the axe was about to swing, you'd say things like "Yes, sure Jim's a good worker. He gets his projects in on time and hasn't screwed up yet. It's such a pity he doesn't live the values."

[Halo Jones]

Thumper, is that you?

The only link I can get from that is to do with rabbits & only BGG should know about that

[MarillionFan]

Pssstt. Suityou. What's the fella over there talking about, you know the odd one who smells a bit. I heard he used to be a women and isn't very good at his job. Better warn everyone. (taps nose)

[wobbegong]

If cannot say something nice about someone, then do not say anything at all.

Thumper, is that you?

[EternalOptimist]

What did you learn?

I learned that an idle word can cost a man everything. Treating people with fairness and respect does not mean when you are with them, it means when they are not present.

treating people with fairness and respect when they are in front of you, and gossiping behind their back makes you a slimey scum sucking snide.

treating people with harshness when they are in front of you, and fairness and respect behind their back makes you hard but fair. a taskmaster

treating people with fairness and respect when they are in front of you, and fairness and respect behind their back makes you a top bloke. thats integrity.

[Halo Jones]

If cannot say something nice about someone, then do not say anything at all.

[suityou01]

I was thinking last night about something that happened about fifteen years ago, back when I was a permie business analyst.

It was a big service organosation, with about 2k engineers and other staff , and there were the usual cycles of redundancies, so everyone was always on edge. especially the engineers.

There was a blonde bombshell secretary type, who, like everyone is, was fond of a bit of gossip. who's sh@gging who, who is in line for promotion, who is in trouble, what happening in Corrie etc.

One day the conversation turned to a particular engineer, who was a nice bloke. She made some disparaging comments about his work performance, how he always did a half baked job, how he always left a mess for the next guy to clean up and how much he deserved to be next out of the door. She had obviously picked this ip from talking to some of the other guys.


Well, the girls from work control leapt to his defence. Then the work control team leader waded in, and it got extremely heated, she was spitting bullets.

'What do YOU know about engineering. You are passing on gossip that could lead to this guy losing his job. He is actually a good worker, but YOU would have him out on his ear, no more holidays for his kids, lose his company vehicle, lose his home then possibly his wife. Pension, self esteem and who knows what else. So In future KEEP YOUR MOUTH SHUT'

She crawled into her shell, crying and never came out of it really


I learned a lesson that day

What did you learn?

[thunderlizard]

<clint eastwood>
you're gonna be awfully uncomfortable with that sledge stuck up your ass
<clint eastwood>

(but if there was a "Malformed XML smiley" I'd use it at this point)

<clint-eastwood>
you're gonna be awfully uncomfortable with that sledge stuck up your ass
</clint-eastwood>

Element names can't contain spaces, and it needed a closing tag. There's nothing funny about malformed joke XML.

hth
tl

[EternalOptimist]

Wow!

You learned a lesson that day.

Big up to you EO. Takes a brave person to admit to have had a sex change. Are you still blond? How did the army take it?How did those around you take it? How did you get into IT from being a secretary.

Brave.

<clint eastwood>
you're gonna be awfully uncomfortable with that sledge stuck up your ass
<clint eastwood>

[minestrone]

I sometimes see myself having to train up people on this site to handle this type of treatment

Scary scary, scary feet.

[wantacontract]

I was thinking last night about something that happened about fifteen years ago, back when I was a permie business analyst.

It was a big service organosation, with about 2k engineers and other staff , and there were the usual cycles of redundancies, so everyone was always on edge. especially the engineers.

There was a blonde bombshell secretary type, who, like everyone is, was fond of a bit of gossip. who's sh@gging who, who is in line for promotion, who is in trouble, what happening in Corrie etc.

One day the conversation turned to a particular engineer, who was a nice bloke. She made some disparaging comments about his work performance, how he always did a half baked job, how he always left a mess for the next guy to clean up and how much he deserved to be next out of the door. She had obviously picked this ip from talking to some of the other guys.


Well, the girls from work control leapt to his defence. Then the work control team leader waded in, and it got extremely heated, she was spitting bullets.

'What do YOU know about engineering. You are passing on gossip that could lead to this guy losing his job. He is actually a good worker, but YOU would have him out on his ear, no more holidays for his kids, lose his company vehicle, lose his home then possibly his wife. Pension, self esteem and who knows what else. So In future KEEP YOUR MOUTH SHUT'

She crawled into her shell, crying and never came out of it really


I learned a lesson that day

nice story.....

[MarillionFan]

Wow!

You learned a lesson that day.

Big up to you EO. Takes a brave person to admit to have had a sex change. Are you still blond? How did the army take it?How did those around you take it? How did you get into IT from being a secretary.

Brave.

[EternalOptimist]

I was thinking last night about something that happened about fifteen years ago, back when I was a permie business analyst.

It was a big service organosation, with about 2k engineers and other staff , and there were the usual cycles of redundancies, so everyone was always on edge. especially the engineers.

There was a blonde bombshell secretary type, who, like everyone is, was fond of a bit of gossip. who's sh@gging who, who is in line for promotion, who is in trouble, what happening in Corrie etc.

One day the conversation turned to a particular engineer, who was a nice bloke. She made some disparaging comments about his work performance, how he always did a half baked job, how he always left a mess for the next guy to clean up and how much he deserved to be next out of the door. She had obviously picked this ip from talking to some of the other guys.


Well, the girls from work control leapt to his defence. Then the work control team leader waded in, and it got extremely heated, she was spitting bullets.

'What do YOU know about engineering. You are passing on gossip that could lead to this guy losing his job. He is actually a good worker, but YOU would have him out on his ear, no more holidays for his kids, lose his company vehicle, lose his home then possibly his wife. Pension, self esteem and who knows what else. So In future KEEP YOUR MOUTH SHUT'

She crawled into her shell, crying and never came out of it really


I learned a lesson that day