I just read an email from the head of another area to my boss saying that I am a fool on the basis of someone from his area misunderstanding/misrepresenting me about this dumb waste of taxpayer money some asshole thought we should do.
So now I don't know whether to address this (and admit my habbit of standing by the printer idly reading what other people are printing) or just keep my head down and let this dumb project go ahead in its dumbness.
I wish I had never been faced with this dillemma. I should learn not to mind my own business, but I know I won't. Has eavesdropping ever worked for you?
― isadora (isadora), Tuesday, 16 December 2003 01:45 (twenty-two years ago)
no it's not. I was going to say "oh isn't it horrible that you know something and you shouldn't and you just wish you didn't" which is how I felt when my parents had a v similar thing.
But then I thought maybe it you were really pleased to learn the truth and it happened last week and your nerves would be raw and I couldn't think what to say.
Re the work thing I ended up giving the printout to my boss and saying "I never said that" and he said "I know, it's all so confusing now though who knows what's going to happen" so that's all good.
Except that our image as a high perfomance agency is completely shattered for anyone reading this who knows where I work. ah well.
― isadora (isadora), Tuesday, 16 December 2003 06:22 (twenty-two years ago)
Actually, I am glad I heard it. It was...goodness, about twelve or so years ago, right when they were getting divorced. So it wasn't a huge shock, or at least not as huge a shock as it could have been.
― Prude (Prude), Tuesday, 16 December 2003 06:35 (twenty-two years ago)
I don't even think it counts as eavesdropping to read something that comes out of a shared printer, hey, you have to at least look at the sheets of paper to see if it's yours, right?
― Hanna (Hanna), Tuesday, 16 December 2003 10:53 (twenty-two years ago)
eight months pass...
I don't know where to put this complaint.
There's a manager here who can't keep his mouth shut. He never has anything good to say about anything.
I heard him talking about two female colleagues, and it's clear that he thinks they're incompetent airheads. They're not, but now they have some of their responsibilities taken away from them and given to him. Oh, just to cover their butts, the firm gave these women new titles that sound fancy and they probably threw some money at them. But taking away responsibilities from them is impeding their ability to advance, no?
I've been here 8 years and know all kinds of stuff, but Mr. Bigmouth has decided that, even though he has only been here 2 years, he knows all and should take on just about everyone's job duties. Now I'm getting complaints from other departments about him, but I am afraid to say anything.
This person is toxic and is profiting at the expense of others. And I wish he'd kept his mouth shut because I don't really want to hear other people's (probably sexist) garbage. I'm sure he sabotaged these women.
I swear, if I find out he's done the same crap to me (he's always second-guessing me to my face, so I'm sure he has questioned my 'competence', the little overrated shithead) I don't know what I'd do. I'll find some way to fuck him over. I won't tolerate someone talking about me like I'm an airhead.
He doesn't even do that job very well, doesn't care and keeps getting promoted by badmouthing people and going behind their backs and over their heads.
Why isn't this shithead ever called on the carpet for his destructive behavior?
And then I heard another white guy here viciously berating a black woman as if she were an idiot. The woman is a professional and very intelligent. He presumed she must not know basic math.
I swear, the less I know about people I work with, the better. This is supposed to be a 'liberal' place, with a black president, of all things, and some of the people here are extremely prejudiced.
― bob nope (bobnope), Thursday, 9 September 2004 18:49 (twenty-one years ago)