Comments on: Top ten ways anyone can guarantee an angry workplace

By: Mr Angry

Mr Angry — Sat, 23 Sep 2006 23:46:29 +0000

Ms X: it sounds like you’re doing all you can. You’re not indulging in the behaviour yourself, you’re suggesting that she should tone down her behaviour but you can’t live her life for her. Stick do your own integrity – if she starts having a serious negative impact on yourself or others maybe you should say something but you can’t really stop her from destroying herself.

By: Ms. X

Ms. X — Sat, 23 Sep 2006 16:31:40 +0000

I work in corrections for a particular….agency, and there’s one employee who can not keep her mouth shut. She talks about the clients, calls them nasty names, wants me to tell her personal information concerning my boss, and has enough nerve to tell other program managers in this …agency how they should do their job. I have a graduate degree and am very much involved with the corrections field, attended many different types of meetings, do many different types things, and know many individuals in our small community. This employee that I work with has not only gossiped about people at our agency, but also about some highly professional people I attend meetings with. I’ve told this particular employee that what she’s told me was “SICK,” yet have not told her to “PLEASE,” keep your mouth shut around me. Now I could inform the people that she has gossiped about that this person is “Slandering their names,” but this will really make me look bad. I believe in keeping peoples information confidential, but where do you draw the line? This particular employee also likes to tell me about her drunken escalades, which really is none of my business, but she tells me how she’s acted-out and hung out at the local bars (we live in a very small community) and I have informed her that this type of behavior is unacceptable, primarily due to her working in the corrections field. This did not seem to faze her! What can I really do?

By: Mr Angry

Mr Angry — Thu, 21 Sep 2006 21:21:28 +0000

Congratulations on getting out, Cory! You’re doing absolutely the right thing – taking control and making positive changes.

By: Cory

Cory — Thu, 21 Sep 2006 13:55:28 +0000

Hello

Today is my last day at my corporate job. For the past six months I’ve been dealing with a co-worker who thinks she has the right to invade my personal space at work (my own cubicle) as well as indulge in character assasination directly to our boss. She called me a liar and other wonderful decriptive words right in front of my boss. The sad thing is, my boss did nothing to intervene or resolve the issue. I knew at that moment who was really in charge of our office and decided to leave. I am re-starting my own company (I originally had my own business and came back into the corporate world) to determine my own future and never repeat this negative experience of dealing with a controlling co-worker and ineffective boss.

By: Mr Angry

Mr Angry — Sun, 10 Sep 2006 03:49:49 +0000

Sue: and there’s no I in team but there’s two in “individual” – how confusing is that?

timethief: killer acronym!

timothy: glad you concur, now we only need to convince the poison spitting types who like to take other people down with gossip

By: Timothy Johnson

Timothy Johnson — Sun, 10 Sep 2006 01:44:42 +0000

Nice post, Mr. Angry. My contribution to your list would be to quit caring. Anger takes so much energy when you could just stop giving a rip and get the same end game. I’m glad to see you differentiated on the “negative side of office politics” – favorite topic of mine on my blog.

By: timethief

timethief — Sat, 09 Sep 2006 17:05:57 +0000

@ sue – rotflomao
Oh I get it – you mean MINNOW WAVE training.
Minimal Intelligence Nerds & Nobs Organize Well When Asked to Validate Entropy.

By: Sue

Sue — Sat, 09 Sep 2006 05:11:42 +0000

FISH training is what you (are usually forced to) do after management have created a total SNAFU. The reasoning goes that it’s basically your fault that your morale is bad, so the training is to “help” you adjust it. It’s the latest management fad.
I told them I rather stick my finger in a light socket than to attend. This, of course, has revealed me to be “not a team player”. There may be no “I” in team, but there sure is one in “dickhead” and there’s one in “fish” too, but I think that’s a coincidence.

By: angry workplace « the white elephant

angry workplace « the white elephant — Sat, 09 Sep 2006 01:12:46 +0000

[...] This is intriguing, Mr Angry tells all about crazy-making behaviours at work. Sounds exactly like my old workplace of 4 years ago, where I spent the majority of 7 years working! Whadya mean, gossip? If there was no gossip what would people do at work? Oh, duh, you mean do some work Mr Angry – novel idea. I like the idea of an anger blog and this guy seems to be Australian also. I’m just not sure I could handle reading anger too often let alone writing it. [...]

By: Mr Angry

Mr Angry — Fri, 08 Sep 2006 08:38:07 +0000

kate: I haven’t worked in schools, sounds bad. Glad you enjoyed the catharsis.

modeski: good list! Number 3 reminded me of the time some bastard actually stole my birthday cake out of the fridge at work.

Sue: I don’t even know what FISH training is but it sounds bad

Saly: Glad you liked it