The "Vent About Work Here" thread

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Just thought this would be a good place for all of us to come and vent about our frustrations with work and coworkers. I'll start.

Rude coworkers p*** me off more than anything. I'm nice to everybody, whether I like you or not, and if you don't like me, I really don't care, but at least treat me with the same respect you do everyone else. I work with this, we'll call her "Jennifer", and she is the single most rude person I have ever met. She's 24 years old, and she just thinks she's the best thing in the world. She hasn't liked me from the moment she met me, and I don't know why. I've never done anything to her. Whenever I ask for her help, she flat out ignores me, which is why I will no longer go out of my way to help her when she needs it. (Why should I bust my butt to help her when she won't do the same for me?) If I ask her a simple question, she talks to me like I'm the dumbest person in the world. She's very cliquey, and if you're not in her select circle of friends, you might as well just be dirt, because that's what she'll treat you like. She's also extremely bossy. She's a supervisor, and she's let that title go to her head. We've gotten into 2 arguments so far, which have both resulted in me telling her just how much I dislike her.

Another thing that irritates me is if you have more than one job, why does one job always give you the worst time with your availability? I started a second job last week, and I've told them I can't work nights because that's when I'm at my other job. I told them they could schedule me to work any mornings they wanted, just not nights. So what does my manager do? He schedules me to work all nights next week! Now I have to go through this whole mess of getting my schedule adjusted, when if he would've just listened to me we wouldn't have this mess. Just because I agree to work for you does not mean that I'm available whenever you want me. This is a minimum wage, second job. It's meant to supplement my income from my primary job. What is so hard to understand about the fact that I can't work nights?

I understand completely the thing with "Jennifer". I have a girl just like that at my job (a manager, nonetheless). I've had some luck with offering olive branches (bring coffee or donuts without being asked, complimenting her), but she seems to forget those in a few days. I imagine it takes a lot of work to maintain a relationship with these people, and she resents me, thinking I just don't want to put in the effort, as if she isn't worth it.

Like you said, they seem so quick to assume a person doesn't like them, and always act with that assumption. It's the most annoying part for me.

With her, it's not that I didn't like her when I first met her. I didn't even know her, so I couldn't make that decision. She was the one who didn't like me from the moment she met me, even though I didn't know her at all. I was willing to give her a chance, but she flat out refused to give me a chance and has been nothing but extremely rude and obnoxious. That's when I decided I don't like her. She's 24, but acts like she's 15, going around talking about people behind their backs and only ever being friendly to the people who are her friends. She reminds me of Regina from "Mean Girls". She also thinks that because we are caregivers for senior citizens that she can ma thm do whatever she wants just because she wants them to do it. For example, if she wants somebody to get ready for bed and they don't want to, she will pretty much tell them they are going to get ready whether they want to or not, and she will make them do it. Yes, we have some that never want to take showers or change their clothes, but we're usually pretty good about figuring out ways to get them to let us do things, and that's only a handful of people. But for everybody else, I don't believe in forcing them to do things they don't want to. I know I wouldn't like it if somebody came in my apartment and demanded that I do something that I wasn't ready to do, just because it was more convent for them. Our residents are anywhere from 80 to 100 years old. They deserve to be respected and have their rights respected.

Yesterday a resident's daughter came in and asked if "Jennifer" was working, to which the other girl that I was there said "no". The lady responded by saying "That's too bad. She's such a sweet girl and is so nice!" It took everything I have to keep from saying "Lady, IDK who you're talking about, but I'm sure it can't be the "Jennifer" that I'm thinking of, because I'm pretty sure that one has horns on her head and a tail that she probably disguises before she comes to work!"

Annoying coworkers are annoying as f**k.

Two words: office politics. I don't play them. I recently got a state job with the welfare office as a licensed social worker, and my social work colleagues have been warning me that we are resented by the other welfare workers for our higher paychecks, responsibility, and access to privileged information. I have not yet met with any overt animosity. Everyone has been polite and professional, as far as I can perceive (granted, my social perception is hampered by AS). I've caught myself taking notice of who might be watching and listening; I don't like this feeling.