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By and large, I do my work, and take the attitude of 'you mind your business, I'll mind mine'.
There was one exception, about....wow, almost 20 years ago now (time flies.) Temp job, on a team of five contractors. Looking up defunct circuits that were still getting billed for a major telecom company. So basically, self-directed work. You got paid the same whether you found 1 circuit a day, or 20 a day. So no skin off my nose what everybody else is doing, that's for the managers to keep tabs on. I focused on me, as did three of the others.
The fifth guy though....was a PITA. Uber-Bible-thumping Christian. Kept trying to push the rest of us into Bible study (Got told, "Work's not the place for it, we're not interested.") Tried lecturing us about how 'ungodly' we were. (We would talk about something else as if he wasn't even there.) Tried leaving pocket Bibles on desks. (I left "Wicca For Dummies" on his, for some odd reason, he wasn't appreciative of that. Nor did he like another coworker leaving a book about the teachings of Buddha. Can't imagine why, I mean, sharing, right?) Basically, we amused ourselves by aggravating him as much as we could when he started in on us.
But....talk about a *hypocritical* Christian. He would regularly come in to work late, always with some bizarre excuse. Two hour lunches were the norm for him. So was leaving early. As was napping at his workspace. (For background reference, we were put into a repurposed conference room that we all shared as an 'office', so nobody else could really see us.) And for the topper, two of the other guys caught him watching porn on his *work* computer a few times.
I can't remember exactly what he did anymore that became the 'final straw', but he said something that got the other four of us incredibly hacked off. We sent an email to the managers, where we didn't snitch on him directly, but we did strongly suggest that maybe they should have his computer activity monitored very closely. He was gone three days later. He wasn't missed, and the office felt much more peaceful without him there.
I once had a hostile Catholic co-worker who made venomous comments about my family's "secular" attitude with Easter every year. For backstory, we aren't religious, and every year DH and I took our vacation days Good Friday and Easter Monday to treat our two DD's to fun extended Easter weekend mini vacays. This got co-worker really hypercritical for some reason. How dare we do something fun with our unchurched kids at such a holy time!! Visiting Hershey's Chocolate World, Hershey Park (free admission on late April Good Fridays) and Gettysburg; or Niagara Falls; or Pittsburgh and the Pittsburgh Zoo (free admission on Easter); or the Smithsonian and Washington, DC. Lying in bed in a hotel room Easter morning, stuffing themselves with candy (the Easter bunny ALWAYS knew where to leave their baskets). Oh, the horror.
The office closed Good Friday afternoon anyway, and those working always went out for drinks afterward...her included. On (to quote her) such a "sad, sad day".
Last edited by Mrs. Skeffington; 10-13-2023 at 12:14 AM..
Had a co-worker years ago that went running to HR with every perceived offense...ticky tack stuff.
Made a lot of enemies even among those that didn't get reported, we knew whom was behind the complaints despite them being anonymous as the person would make comments about others all the time, the tone was unmistakeable.
Eventually, one of those people got promoted up the food chain and layoffs came around and they got canned.
I once had a hostile Catholic co-worker who made venomous comments about my family's "secular" attitude with Easter every year. For backstory, we aren't religious, and every year DH and I took our vacation days Good Friday and Easter Monday to treat our two DD's to fun extended Easter weekend mini vacays. This got co-worker really hypercritical for some reason. How dare we do something fun with our unchurched kids at such a holy time!! Visiting Hershey's Chocolate World, Hershey Park (free admission on late April Good Fridays) and Gettysburg; or Niagara Falls; or Pittsburgh and the Pittsburgh Zoo (free admission on Easter); or the Smithsonian and Washington, DC. Lying in bed in a hotel room Easter morning, stuffing themselves with candy (the Easter bunny ALWAYS knew where to leave their baskets). Oh, the horror.
The office closed Good Friday afternoon anyway, and those working always went out for drinks afterward...her included. On (to quote her) such a "sad, sad day".
I wonder what the Catholic coworker would say about pedophile priests.
Had a co-worker years ago that went running to HR with every perceived offense...ticky tack stuff.
Made a lot of enemies even among those that didn't get reported, we knew whom was behind the complaints despite them being anonymous as the person would make comments about others all the time, the tone was unmistakeable.
Eventually, one of those people got promoted up the food chain and layoffs came around and they got canned.
Good riddance.
There are small bits of justice here and there after all.
You're too nice. I would have ripped up the stickers and laid them on his desk. Imagine if he was a Muslim/Hindu/Atheist/Satanic and did such things?
I probably would've asked him if he wanted to talk about Our Lady of Perpetural Felinity, the Most Holy Bastet...
(And mind you, I'm a Christian, but my religion is between me and my God... I don't want to talk about it to you, and I probably don't want you to talk about it to me.)
Because, nowadays, most workplaces are places that dogs eat dogs. People try to get their coworkers fired, so they could get their mothers, sisters, brothers, aunts, uncles, nephews, nieces, friends to come in. They also want to kiss the managers' butts, so they could have less or light work to do. Many managers are very evil too. They play favouritism and try to punish or get rid of employees they don't like for whatever reason (probably b/c those employees don't want or care to kiss their azzes), so they could get their relatives/friends to come in. Some managers even want to make employees to pitch one another, so they can have fun and laugh like devils. Not all though.
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