I work in Admin for a retail store and I actually enjoy my work, apart from having to get out of bed in the mornings. I don't have a nagging boss, while he knows you are doing what is expected off you, he leaves you to do your work without checking every 2 minutes if you are doing it right or doing it at all. When you know you are trusted to work to your own pace and methods there is nothing to complain about... Or is there ???
Well ... my colleague whom I share an office with is a few years older than me and for the past 3 -4 years we never had issues or problems with each other ... until recently ... I was asked to stay in late with the one department of the store to do a stocktake.
Now to jump back a few steps and give you some background ... I do not suck up, never have and never will, I don't beg and I treat my boss and the management staff at the same level as the other staff ... don't get me wrong - I'm not disrespectful to them, I just treat all staff as equals and with the respect I was brought up to show. So whether you are management or the cleaning staff, you will get the same greeting when I get to work and when I leave and I am not too good to help the staff with a "lower status" - yet I am also not a pushover to those with "higher status" ... you get the picture ???
So when my boss walks into the door and I might be busy sending an sms or something - i do not drop my phone, jump up and salute ... I look up and I greet and continue what I am doing. If I hide that I'm sending an sms in work time it makes me a liar and a fake and I ain't no liar or fake. I show openly when I take a minute to do personal things.
Everyone around me now, they jump up and I think they try hard not to jump up and down to try pretend they are happy he is there. Like I said, he is not nagging and the typical boss so whether there or not, things are the same, you do your work and make sure when he asks for something then it is always up to date. That strategy has never let me down.
When they see him all try act as if they were sooooo extremely busy and its like kindergarden kids telling their teacher what they did for the day to impress .. I did this filing today and I did this and that ... and they make sure that he HAS TO SEE how busy they are.
I know I don't have too much work - It is enough to keep me busy at a steady pace and still have time to break my eyes away from the screen for 5-10 minutes every hour and still have everything finished a while before hometime. In my opinion, he knows what work each one does and I am sure he knows who is not really working - so what does it help faking it.
Now my colleague is one of those - if he is here she hits the extra hours like you wont believe because she has "just too much work for one day" - LMFAO - I often on her off days finish all her work by 9am (the amount of work never changes except for start of month on the 1st of each month - it is the exact same amount of sheets every single day). And on the first of the month the only difference is that you print 3 of each instead of 1 of each ... whooooaaaahhh ... way too much work for some.
So now to get back to my story - I was asked to come in with the one department to assist with a end of month stocktake for the specific department as that department manager was off sick. And that started a war ... she was not asked ... now I am seeing myself as better than her because I didn't ask for help. To end off that part of it, I am now her worst enemy.
This happened nearly 3 weeks ago and she still doesn't let go of the attitude about it. The atmosphere in our office can be cut with a knife - it is unbearable. Worst of it is that there is no grown up way about it. I booked my leave about a month and a half ago ... now she wants her leave at the same time I am taking mine but she makes it now my fault for not "asking her first" on what days she wanted to take leave. Oh, I wish she could just Grow up !!!!
The leave issue has just made everything even worse - she refuses to change her date and neither will I (maybe childish of me too, but we have already booked our holiday accommodation and my husband booked his leave for same days and if we have to change then other managers have to change who already had their family book leave to fit in with theirs - so swapping weeks would make it difficult for at least 4 or 5 people and costing me the loss of our booking).
Only alternative is that we don't go on holiday together as a family and he takes kids on holiday alone - or I stand my ground and let this spiteful woman change her date
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