Girl at work is a loose cannon

John400

Hi all, looking for opinions on this one.

I've been working at the same large company for 10 years and there is a female colleague of mine who has been there for the same period of time.

She has a tendency to constantly rock the boat, whinge daily about everything and anything. She is effectively a loose cannon.

We have a staff update session coming up this Friday lunchtime which 40 employee's will be attending, thankfully things have been going well for us as everybody has been working as a team but the majority of employee's are expecting a grievance from this girl about this, that and the other.

The Supervisors/Managing Director will be attending on Friday and she will have us in there for probably an hour whinging about stuff.

She works out on the warehouse floor but also in the offices, so she sees what happens in both parts of the company.

At the last staff update session she complained that office staff had a vending machine installed in their canteen and insisted that a similar vending machine was installed in the warehouse canteen (without consulting warehouse employees). Management then put a new vending machine in the warehouse canteen which is now rarely used! Also she has not bought an item from the machine since it was installed!!..after moaning about it for two weeks!

Also during the cold spell in December, our facilities manager took a spare radiator from close to an area where she was working to give it to female office staff upstairs...she then came back after her lunch went upstairs and confronted the three girls (office staff) insisting that radiator was hers (but she already had one!)....the facilities manager can move whatever he wants without her blooming say-so!!

Any advice on how to deal with her? As she's going to have us all out of a job in the not too distant future.

messymess

I'm not really getting your post? You think because an employee is a whinge that management will sack the entire company? That's a bit silly now in fairness.

wylo

This really isnt your problem,and I wouldnt underestimate the intelligence of your employers. Do you think they cannot distinguish between her and the rest of you.
Anyway, maybe she'll get some things sorted for ye that ye mightnt have expected to get sorted.

Also regarding that vending machine issue, I say fair play to her. As someone who has been involved in the whole "them and us" situation in many workplaces I see her point. There is nearly always a culture where office staff/admin tend to get treated better than floor/production/warehouse/whatever. I dont know why, I dont think the office staff even realise this, I dont think management even realise it, it just goes that way because the decision makers are up the mingling with the office staff. She might have been just trying to make sure everyone is equal.

ztoical

messymess wrote: »

I'm not really getting your post? You think because an employee is a whinge that management will sack the entire company? That's a bit silly now in fairness.

+ 1 I'm not understanding what the issue is. Nothing seems directly related to you and if she whinges at management then they are going to ask staff for their side of the story before going around the sacking people.

amdublin

So a woman whinges in work

That tends to happen a lot tbh.

Me personally, I'd just zone out whenever she starts whinging. Let her direct line manager deal with her sh1t.

Firetrap

I think most workplaces have at least one pain in the ar$e on their books or at least that's the way it seems to have happened to me and to my friends. There are some people who are never happier than when they've got something to whinge about. Short of telling her to tone down the complaining which I doubt anyone's going to do, there's not a lot ye can do about her. I think if the rest of you have put your heads down and done your work, that will be seen by management.