I wish I was high up enough to do something like that!My old boss had a message on her OOO which said she was away and if you send her anything whilst she wasn’t there it would be deleted on return. She did have alternative people on it to cover her work but sadly I am not high enough up to get away with a mass delete
Exactly.Speaking of ooo, you know what grinds my gears. When you're the named person on the ooo and the sender just forwards it on without so much as a "hi emsie can you pick this up whilst such and such is out". Just a blank forward
In the end the boss got moved to another department because of all his toxic behaviour! Shame he didn't get sacked, but at least it solved the problem for our team.Poor girl. I hope she escaped that toxic environment.
Ugh they never seem to get fired for these things or even called out. Just moved to be someone else’s problem. At my last place there was a woman who would make people so stressed they were unable to do their jobs well. I reported her for bullying 3 times and I know there were more complaints. She just got “training” and nothing was resolved. Another woman I worked with used to throw people under the bus left right and centre to cover up for the fact she didn’t know what she was doing. Rather than putting her on a plan where she either pulled her socks up or managed out, they just moved her teams. The management scratch their heads when people leave due to toxicity.In the end the boss got moved to another department because of all his toxic behaviour! Shame he didn't get sacked, but at least it solved the problem for our team.
Best one was when a pretty senior dude did this on their OOO, assuming I'd be around with nothing better to do than reply to their emails. What they'd failed to do first was check I wasn't on leave myself. Oh dear what a shame.Speaking of ooo, you know what grinds my gears. When you're the named person on the ooo and the sender just forwards it on without so much as a "hi emsie can you pick this up whilst such and such is out". Just a blank forward
That‘s basically what’s happened in one of my jobs. There’s a woman working there who’s been there for years but she’s utterly toxic. Management have consistently failed to deal with her, partly because she got herself made union rep and raises grievances and complaints against any managers who try to address her behaviour and partly because they literally have no clue how to manage people. Her current game appears to be to hide her own belongings, keys to pool cars, job books etc, then make a complaint that she’s being victimised. Last year, she was off sick for 8 months after making a false allegation against a colleague to the police.Sadly a lot of it is down to managers not wanting to have difficult conversations and letting what starts as a small issue turn into something huge that impacts large numbers of people.
Managing is a skill and until mandatory and regular training is provided sadly you’ll always get crappy managers who just shunt the dross from team to team. Incredibly frustrating though
I worked with someone like this too. She managed to not do any work for over 20 years in the public sector. It’s so disheartening for the rest of us who work hard.That‘s basically what’s happened in one of my jobs. There’s a woman working there who’s been there for years but she’s utterly toxic. Management have consistently failed to deal with her, partly because she got herself made union rep and raises grievances and complaints against any managers who try to address her behaviour and partly because they literally have no clue how to manage people. Her current game appears to be to hide her own belongings, keys to pool cars, job books etc, then make a complaint that she’s being victimised. Last year, she was off sick for 8 months after making a false allegation against a colleague to the police.
Much as I hate to say it, having been chewed up and spat out by the private sector myself, if we weren’t in the public sector, she’d have sacked years ago.
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