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Of course, if a co-worker's actions might have negative consequences for everyone.
But if someone decided to jog across the parking lot to the liquor store for a bottle of water on company time or make a quick call when it's slow, I am not going to waste the boss's time bringing it up.
The thing about the tattletale running to the boss with every petty complaint about a co-worker, is that they rarely have the boss's (or anyone else's) respect.
I'm sorry but I think people who go out of their way to snitch should just go jump off a bridge, if what they do has NOTHING to do with you, no bearing on your job, etc, then you should stay out of it. At most if you feel something is wrong then go talk to that person, not just run to the boss like a little B****. I have no respect for people who snitch.
And strangely enough many times THEY are the ones that are the biggest troublemakers in the office. They are so busy watching others and being a snitch all the while trying to cover up what they themselves do.
Yes, very true. I worked in a very specialized field in medicine and was at my job for 10 years total. I always got along well with my boss and co-workers, that is until this new grad started and then things started changing. This little minion was brown-nosing like crazy! Then, anytime there was a vacancy, without question and right away, one of the back-slider's college-mates was hired! She had major back-up at work because she was working with friends. The last three years, my boss started being hypercritical about my work, and started encouraging my co-workers to give her "reports" of anything and everything I did. (A former co-worker told me that boss-lady came to her as well to watch over me and tell her about me!) She started writing me up for ANYTHING and EVERYTHING. One of the times she called me to her office, I observed her favorite was on the internet, instead of working, and was STILL on when I got back from the "meeting"! My boss was well aware of her laziness, but did nothing about it because it continued. I did get fired, and I was told later, that, another one of the a$$kisser's friend was hired for my former full-time position one hour after I was fired!
I'm very tempted to go to an attorney to sue.
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[FONT="Arial"]I totallyknow how you feel. I’m in the army and I’m constantly surrounded by brown nosingsnitches every minute of every day. I have to constantly be careful of what Ido because people around here are just waiting to pounce on the opportunity totell on someone to make themselves look good whether the soldier was doingsomething wrong or if it just kind of looked like it. There was one situation Iwas put through recently where I felt very sick and had a very bad head ache.About 90% of our battalion was sent to training out of the state so therereally wasn’t anyone around and not too much to do so I decided to just closemy office door and lay my head on my desk for 5 min since the work day didn’t startuntil 0900 and it was 0800. Usually I would have been doing pt at this time butI recently tore a ligament in my knee so I just went straight to the officeafter morning formation. Well apparently someone was trying to get a hold of mebut came by my office and the door was closed so she called. I let her knowthat I was still in my office and was just laying my head down for a minute andshe said ok. So I get up after 5 min and start working on my computer but Ikeep the lights off and the door opened but next thing I know I have a seniorNCO banging on my door saying I don’t need to be sleeping in there and I needto keep the light on because this girl went to the first NCO she saw so shecould tell on me. Like she had nothing better to do with her time then to tellon me!! And to believe I actually gave this girl a Christmas card. Some peoplejust can’t feel validated unless their putting others down. [/FONT]
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I have a work colleague who has told the police that I drive around town drunk, now 50% of my job is driving around and if I had been drinking I would have been caught. It just happens that her husband is a cop. I was at home one afternoon after finishing work and a cop knocked on my door to say there had been an anonymous call to the police station that I was driving around town drunk. This women is toxic, she has worked for the company for about a year and tries to divide and conquer. I have been a successful employee for 12 years and it is very upsetting.
Everyone including management knows what she is like and now they don't know how to get rid of her, any ideas?
I have a work colleague who has told the police that I drive around town drunk, now 50% of my job is driving around and if I had been drinking I would have been caught. It just happens that her husband is a cop. I was at home one afternoon after finishing work and a cop knocked on my door to say there had been an anonymous call to the police station that I was driving around town drunk. This women is toxic, she has worked for the company for about a year and tries to divide and conquer. I have been a successful employee for 12 years and it is very upsetting.
Everyone including management knows what she is like and now they don't know how to get rid of her, any ideas?
employment is at will. if management wanted to fire her they would have done so already.
So wait.
If you start doing stuff you aren't supposed to be doing...
and someone reports that back to management.....
That's wrong of the person who told the manager???
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Originally Posted by marcus903
People who do things they are not supposed to do deserve to be snitched on.
Agreed.
If you are a professional with a good work ethic that understands that work time is for work, and not play or personal time, then there is no reason to feel threatened by snitches, busybodies, or whistleblowers.
If you are a professional with a good work ethic that understands that work time is for work, and not play or personal time, then there is no reason to feel threatened by snitches, busybodies, or whistleblowers.
Oh trust me, people who are out to get you will find ANYTHING they can get on you.
If you are a professional with a good work ethic that understands that work time is for work, and not play or personal time, then there is no reason to feel threatened by snitches, busybodies, or whistleblowers.
I don't know why this old thread was resurrected, but I have to comment about the above.
I completely disagree with you. I overheard a group of women talking one time with the new person staying out of the conversation until one of them said, "Haven't you ever noticed that she (their manager) can be moody in the morning? You've never worked for someone like that?" She said, "Uuhhh, yeah, I guess." Two hours later, the manager is in my office asking for advice because someone on the team told her the new woman said she's moody.
This is just one example I could give you where I've caught something like this happening.
I've said it before and will repeat it - I'm sorry to say it's mainly females going after females. Male managers should be aware of this high school dynamic because it's toxic and generally starts with one bad alpha apple and a few followers who lord over the place like a wild pack of I don't know what.
My advice to those who find they have someone like this on their team is to cut the monster off at the head and let the followers know they're next if it continues.
I don't know why this old thread was resurrected, but I have to comment about the above.
I completely disagree with you. I overheard a group of women talking one time with the new person staying out of the conversation until one of them said, "Haven't you ever noticed that she (their manager) can be moody in the morning? You've never worked for someone like that?" She said, "Uuhhh, yeah, I guess." Two hours later, the manager is in my office asking for advice because someone on the team told her the new woman said she's moody.
This is just one example I could give you where I've caught something like this happening.
I've said it before and will repeat it - I'm sorry to say it's mainly females going after females. Male managers should be aware of this high school dynamic because it's toxic and generally starts with one bad alpha apple and a few followers who lord over the place like a wild pack of I don't know what.
My advice to those who find they have someone like this on their team is to cut the monster off at the head and let the followers know they're next if it continues.
By definition, a snitch is someone that reports wrongdoing or questionable activity. If you don't do anything wrong/questionable/embarrassing, the snitch will have nothing truthful to report to your boss. To be safe, avoid even the appearance of questionable/embarrassing behavior.
In your example, the employee made a mistake. Instead of focusing on her work, she took part in the gossip. Just as you shouldn't send an email to someone that you wouldn't want forwarded to the entire company, you shouldn't say aloud anything that you wouldn't want your boss to hear. Assume anything you say/email will be passed along to your boss. You can't control what others say behind your back, but you can control whether what they say (about you) is true or not. Don't give others the proverbial knife to stab you in the back.
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Snitches suck
