Bastard ColleaguesYou've all known one. The brown-nosing fucker, the 'comedian', the drunk, the gossip and of course the weird one with no mates who goes bell ringing, looks like Mr Majika and sports a monk's haircut (and is a woman).
Tell us about yours...
Thanks to Deskbound for the idea
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chthonic, Thu 24 Jan 2008, 9:09)
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When I used to work in ad sales(which isn't as long ago as I'd like to think), the turnover in the ad sales department was understandably high. Which is why my boss, when recruiting for a new position, wasn't unduly worried if the list of candidates wasn't particularly strong. Chances are they'd be gone in 6 months anyway.
His worst mistake, as many of my colleagues and I agree, was A. She is a monstrosity. A moody, sickie-pulling, attention-seeking woman of truly hideous proportions. She started fine: she was very jolly, matey and helpful. Then things started to slowly change. She'd deathstare all of the female members of the team, sending snide emails about them to other people. In fact, she bitched about every single person in the team to every other person. She'd suddenly scream at us, accusing us of ganging up on her. She fell for our boss, and then got angry and abusive when he turned her down (and told us all that she believed him to be in love with another girl on the team, and that they were having a secret affair). Worst of all, she stole our leads, and then accused us of taking them away from her if we complained. In short, she was an unstable, unreliable psychopathic bitch, who couldn't even do her job.
I'd like to say that she was another example of swift turnover, but nearly two years later, she's still hanging in there, a millstone around my ex-boss's neck. Everyone there still hates her, but she can't be fired without risk of her suing the company.
I am so glad I don't work there anymore. Everyone else was lovely, but she was just mental.
(, Thu 24 Jan 2008, 16:26, 1 reply)
Can kind of relate...Whereabouts was this?
I'm a planner/buyer and in my experience all the sales guys and gals are as tight as a ducks wotsit (in a good way). Can imagine if someone was to rock the boat things would go downhill fairly rapidly.
Its also very annoying when your contact fecks off to Australia (which by my reckoning must be chockfull of former sales execs) every 3 months.
(, Thu 24 Jan 2008, 16:54, closed)
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