Am I a better employee than my co-worker? (work, fired, best)

[Northside904]

Exactly. Competition in the workplace is rather juvenile.

[glass_of_merlot]

I have worked retail for over 10 years and I still failed a couple of those tests when applying for other retail jobs with different companies. I was told I was not a good fit?!

[samston]

Originally Posted by Koale

1. What are you competing for?
2. How is your attendance? You never mentioned either one.
Koale

We're not competing for much as such. Just she is very smug, and I don't like smug people.

And my attendance is near perfect. I've never had any complaints from higher up concerning it.

[Northside904]

Just she is very smug, and I don't like smug people

Pot...meet kettle

[Malkiel]

Originally Posted by samston

I think my co-worker and I are the best members of our team.

We both work as security consultants for a company in the UK. I want to compete with her, and on these bases:

- I am better at her from a communication standpoint. My boss says I can write, and I am noted in our department for being very articulate. I also speak up a lot in meetings, she does not.

- In terms of knowledge of security systems, I know more than her in some regard. This relates to things such as intrusion detection, and PSIM. But she has specialty in fire alarm systems, but it is not difficult to learn the rudiments of one (I already do know).

- I dress the best in my team, and am known the most amongst persons who matter. A few of the universities top management know me, and I am known to have impressed them. I have produced presentations in which VPs have mentioned to me that they're well constructed and compiled. She has not lol...

So, how should I compete with her?

What kind of troll post is this?

You're asking strangers about how to be a good employee in your own company? Why not ask your boss or another co-worker?

Do you earn more than her? If yes, then you're better.

[STT Resident]

Originally Posted by samston

We're not competing for much as such. Just she is very smug, and I don't like smug people.

And my attendance is near perfect. I've never had any complaints from higher up concerning it.

Oh for goodness' sake, read what you write. Just do your job to the best of your ability and try not to be a pompous little twit.

[samston]

Originally Posted by Malkiel

What kind of troll post is this?

You're asking strangers about how to be a good employee in your own company? Why not ask your boss or another co-worker?

Do you earn more than her? If yes, then you're better.

Earning power simply denotes seniority/responsibility. A higher up can still be incompetent.

Oh for goodness' sake, read what you write. Just do your job to the best of your ability and try not to be a pompous little twit.

I do perform my job. I just don't like my co-worker much, so I want to show her up.

[Northside904]

She could probably care less if you don't like her, since she's not the one making threads about how to show someone up. She's too busy doing her job.

[samston]

Originally Posted by NorthsideJacksonville

She could probably care less if you don't like her, since she's not the one making threads about how to show someone up. She's too busy doing her job.

I just want to for the sake of it. It's the norm in the working world. She is too smug and needs knocking down.

[samston]

Originally Posted by kodaka

Starting from such an arrogant standpoint is a sure way to lose a competition--although I sincerely doubt that such a competition even exists to the employer; it's probably entirely made up in OP's mind.

I know we are the best employees in the team. I don't give a **** about her, and couldn't care less (I see my co-workers as just that, nothing closer). But competition is always good.