jetsonx wrote: » We all know the type... Have you ever worked with someone who spend more time playing office politics than actually doing productive bottom-line work? Do you know the type of person?(a) the expend vast quantites of effort and time doing "ass covering" work (b) the also specialise in doing "high visibility" (but not v.important) work that they know well be seen by the boss (c) they work hard at "looking busy and productive". Every office has one or two!...Tell us your story?
Deleted User wrote: » I work alone Hmmmm where's the mirror.. :P
sharpshooterH wrote: » * points * under the porno mags.:p
Darragh29 wrote: » Hah, I read the OP and I recognised the type immediately. Sadly, they make up the vast majority of Irish management personnel in Ireland. In Ireland, we promote the incompetent people who can talk about meetings, who can talk about organising meetings about discussions, talk sh*ite about organising meetings about meetigs and at meetings about organising meetings about meetings, organising meetings about meetings about decisions, pick up the buzz words and throw them out at meetings about decisions about meetings, throwing shapes at meetings, etc, etc... Meanwhile, the people who are covering for and carrying these utter gimps in the workplace while they are talking utter sh*te at meetings, about organising meetings, and organising meeting adout meetings, are the people who we should probably be promoting... It's an Irish thing!
Darragh29 wrote: » Hah, I read the OP and I recognised the type immediately. Sadly, they make up the vast majority of Irish management personnel in Ireland. In Ireland, we promote the incompetent people who can talk about meetings, who can talk about organising meetings about discussions, talk sh*ite about organising meetings about meetings and at meetings about organising meetings about meetings, organising meetings about meetings about decisions, pick up the buzz words and throw them out at meetings about decisions about meetings, throwing shapes at meetings, etc, etc... Meanwhile, the people who are covering for and carrying these utter gimps in the workplace while they are talking utter sh*te at meetings, about organising meetings, and organising meeting adout meetings, are the people who we should probably be promoting... It's an Irish thing!
Nodin wrote: » Currently I'm sitting 30 feet away from somebody I recently learned earns considerably more than me. They have less experience, aren't here as long, and have (and I can actually prove this) contributed far, far, less. They do however, do something I don't do. They laugh at the directors sisters jokes. They buy her pressies. They suck up to that Director and MD. They invite said Director to their Ann Summers party. They go repeating "OOOooooo My GOOOOD" (I counted 4 this morning) every time Directors sister has new outfit or hairdo, or shoes, or other such crap. They spend an hour and a half to two hours every morning talking small talk (which I can hear perfectly clearly from here) with Directors Sister. Throw in backbiting, keeping the training of new staff to the basics so they always have to rely on her and there you have it. Scum, really.
SheroN wrote: » Sounds like someone is bitter. Hate the game not the player.
Wagon wrote: » Director is just as bad to actually fall for that crap. I don't have any respect for those who allow themselves to be led by the sycophants.
Wagon wrote: » But it's probably because they themselves got the job by flattery of the highter management. What's she like to everyone else though? Is she nice at all?
BroomBurner wrote: » On a note of how pathetic kiss-arsing can be, however, was in one place I worked in where all the lads that worked there would switch from pints to bottles of whatever the boss was drinking, just to be like him. As soon as the boss would go, they would be back to their pints.
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