Anybody else find it nye on impossible to get on with people in the workplace? Not long started at my current job and find it alarming how many people fucking irritate me.
I tend to be quite a likeable person and chat to anybody, but the older I am getting the more and more I can't be arsed mixing with people, and the more I spot red flags of sly behaviour and lazy bastards at work. An easy option is to fall into the comfort zone and become a lazy bastard yourself, but I don't get any fulfilment out of that when at work.
Can't win either way, trying to force rapport with people you don't have any common ground with, or offend precious fuckers by having a difference of opinion. Maybe I just have bad luck with the colleagues I come across, but I really hope it gets better or I've got a long career ahead of me stuck around arselickers. Find a lot of people's behaviour intolerable, especially people under 30 like myself.
My job has a bonus structure which is partly affected by 'interaction with colleagues' and I scored 2 out of 4. I go to work do my job then fuck off home. isnt that enough? Got a team night out next week so after over a year there I'm finally boozing with colleagues.
I work for a large US company but I'm based in U.K. and whilst a few of them are good guys the work and HR ethos is out of the 1970's. They believe in the stick and maybe dangling the odd carrot ...but it's usually the stick or if unresponsive then fire the deviant
My new boss has never lived outside the US before and he's recently been put in Europe. Talk about archaic ideas of management, this guy has no idea what good management is and merely cuts people out of the picture so he can make all of the decisions....
Oh and he's a Cnut of the highest order, sneaky as fuck, anything to pass your work off as his own
Fella at my place just got binned as the boss checked some paperwork, didn't amend it correctly and sent it off to the client. The boss was the last person to save it on the system, but pinned it on the lad despite there being electronic proof. My guard is up big time.
It's important to stamp out cliques in the workplace. They can be detrimental to a team. We, as City fans, know that only too well.
I change jobs soon and it sounds nice where I'm going.
This is why i thank fuck everyday i am my own boss and my co worker is an American Bulldog.
It's how to do that though? Team building exercises or days out are good, as are rearranging seating plans in offices. But if the management are detached or have a conflict of interest, then I find this to be nye on impossible.