Bad Attitude at Work

Denerick

There is this one woman at work who is a truly vile person. I mean if you ever enter the same room as her you could genuinely cut the air, thats how difficult she makes the workplace environment. She has this clique of older ladies who literally do nothing but complain. The younger lads (Like myself) do the lions share of the work yet all they ever do is complain that the 'men' do no work, leaving it all up to them. She moans and moans and moans. She is the kind of person who drags everyone down with them. I can't be having it.

Is there any way of dealing with these kidns of people? She exaggerates every mistake and goes squealing to managers if anything goes wrong. Luckily the managers have no respect for her and so just nod and agree and hope she goes away.

I have to work alone with her next week and am really not looking forward to it. I get a little nervous around her too, she has got a real death glare and you have to step around on tippy toes in case you somehow offend her. She is emotionally exhausting to be around. Any advice will help.

P.S. I work in a supermarket and in a specific department so there is no chance of simply hiding somewhere else in the store for the day!

astra2000

Hi tbh you will probably just have to grin and bear it next week. She will never change and it sounds as if management, while aware of what she is like, can/will not do anything about her. I believe there is someone similar to this lady in the majority of work places unfortunatly!
You are better off if you accept she will never change and that she is probably going to be there for a long time to come. What you can do is control how much you allow her to get to you. If shes moaning walk away, change the subject or if its just you she is moaning to tell her you dont have a problem with whatever/whomever she is moaning about and dont engage the conversation further. As for her comments about you younger men doing no work ignore them other people arent blind they can see whats going on she is fooling nobody excepy her self and her cronies.
Best of luck next week keep yourself as busy as possible and it will hopefully fly.

Forest Master

I worked with a cow like this in Mercury Engineering years ago - I left.