Annoying/Cringeworthy things your co-workers do....

Correction: he does not associate with Mix. He associates with his business partner. Bullet dodged.

 

I make deviled eggs for my office every morning

 

what kind of weirdo doesn’t like eggs in morning?

 

I had a roommate in college that ate so many eggs that it turned me off to them

 

what was his/her favorite way to prepare them?

 

Fertilized

 

I want to say scrambled but it was over 10 years ago. Whatever’s considered the healthiest is probably what he did as he’s a total meathead.

 

Someone just sent me an IM that’s says

/md hey goose


What does /md mean?

 

They want to know if you want a Mountain Dew.

Or some command native to whatever application you’re using.

 

It feels like some west coast tech bro hippie shit

 

Some WMD level farts heading your way.

 

/md then enter in Slack toggles dark mode, or maybe he's just sending a goof.

 

We are launching a new partnership this week so we have three days of training. I’m sitting here in bed and just realized that of our leadership team the actual presentation distribution is totally out of whack

Internal company assets will give 12 hours of content. The breakdown is my boss .5 hrs, three peers 3 hrs, Simon 7 hrs, marketing 1.5 hrs of which all content was created last week for the most part. I was wondering why I was feeling exhausted

 

I know

 

I’m in the midst of a really shitty situation where my direct supervisor is not producing and it’s directly affecting me and my colleagues. To the point other mgmt at their level are asking me and others very direct and uncomfy questions. I don’t want to lay out too many details here but am looking for some advice. If anyone has experience with this type of situation, is in upper mgmt or HR…. DM me please.

 

Do you mean you're getting blamed for him not doing his job?

 

Throw him under the bus

 

take his job and his pay

 

I’ve been working on a bunch of projects with people at their same level and have been getting hammered with why other things arent moving forward. My side of things is all good for all projects. Same thing is happening to others. If feels like walls are caving in.

It’s really not my style but it’s where I’m working towards. Makes me uncomfy but dunno what else to do.

 

first thing you should do is never say “uncomfy” again

 

Fair point. I’m putting kids to bed and trying to keep this going

 

Document document document

 

your two options are:

1) to be proactive and let someone you trust know that there have been recent issues with his performance. They will likely want examples and to document what you say though so this could be dicey; or

2) wait for someone to ask you questions directly and then tell the truth

you may think there’s a third option where you cover for this guy but that’s a terrible option and shouldn’t seriously be considered unless he’s a close friend or something.

you could also tell him that it’s uncomfy for you to have to say this but people are noticing there’s been recent issues on some projects he’s working on and you want him to know so he has a chance to step it up

 

Contemporaneous memos for the record are also a good idea to cover your own ass even if you don’t proactively share them

 

I obviously know what a contemporaneous memo is but you should probably make it more clear for the guy who is going to bury his manager

 

You aren't throwing him under the bus if you're telling the truth.

 

goheels10 when you do memos to the record, it’s important to document the issues as they happen or within a day or two at most. The easiest and best way to do this is to send yourself an email documenting the specifics of the situation so it has a date and time stamp right there on it.

 

talking shit about poor performers at work is actually one of the few things that makes me comfy in this hell hole

 

I ended up pulling him aside, going for a walk and laying it all out. I framed it in that I'm being asked a lot of questions about the status of his work and its putting me in a difficult situation, and that I'm worried about him and the safety of his position (which was true). It was awkward for the first 15 minutes or so but then got much better and I think it ended on a good note. He's not a friend, I keep pretty strict boundaries between my work and personal lives, but he's a good boss for my personal workstyle and I'd like him to stick around.

Time will tell if it worked though. I'm documenting the discussion.

Thanks for being an ear the other night. I was panicking and didn't sleep much.

 

We know what you really wanted to say here

 

I do give great advice tho. Someone should pay me to do this

 

Showed a great amount of managerial courage to address the situation.

 

The sexual tension was heavy

 

But I didn’t…. You should be proud of me

 

One of my coworkers is a sovereign citizen. I never would have guessed because he is very competent at his job and in general just a no bullshit kind of guy. But he honestly thinks there are a series of magic words you can say to police to avoid citations or arrest.

 

I mean, they exist: "I'm a cop".

You run into a lot of those types in the military, you know, the organization where your food, housing, healthcare, and paycheck are all taxpayer funded and run by government employees for government employees.

 

I'm not driving, I'm traveling

 

Talent Acquisition guy reaches out to me.

TA: I’m hiring for a role at XYZ Company are you interested?

Me: Please send me a job description

TA: If you’re interested book a meeting with me through Calendry

Me: Thanks but I don’t know what the job is so my interest or people I may know that would be good for it is undeterminable. I don’t want to waste your time


Seriously you are searching me out. What the fuck is the job and if it sucks so bad you gotta try and sell me on it, no thanks

 

Can you send me your resume? You reached out through LinkedIn. My resume is on there.

 

Maybe I’m doing things wrong but my LI profile and my resume look totally different from each other. I’m not putting on LI what I’ve delivered in roles, just what they are. I probably should be better at it

 

I have zero desire to fill out my LinkedIn like it’s my resume. Some of that shit is cringey. I always laugh when I see a current/former coworkers and I just know it’s a complete load of shit.

 

Mine’s a very watered down version, but you can attach your actual resume.

 

Yeah that’s gonna be a no for me dog

 

If you're actively looking for a job, I've always heard that it should look very close to your resume.

 

Well that makes sense but I am not actively looking at all