Why should I work hard when no one else is ? Work related ...

[BelleCarolinaPeridot]

Why the hell should my co-workers and be forced to get 2 hours worth of work done in 30 minutes while our manager has everyone else just sitting in his office talking about golf doing NOTHING - when they could be helping us. Don't give us something that should have been done 5 hours ago 30 minutes before its time to go and then get mad if we don't finish it. Well we finished it but damn don't drown us like this. Just venting. Two people doing work while everyone else is just sitting there - I don't care if they don't know how to do it. That's the problem, some folks do and some folks don't. Its not fair to always rely on the same people. Bunch of BS. Thank God its the weekend.

[fizzgig]

1. amen

sounds a lot like my job. only there, it's also some of my co-workers that screw around.

but yes, thank gods its the weekend.

[BelleCarolinaPeridot]

2. Yes a lot of my co-workers screw around .

When its really time to get the work done, it does'nt get done the right way because some people don't know shit and they have to rely on others to get through their work day and its not fair. If I can do my job why can't you. I can't be responsible for what other people do, if someone does'nt print out their shit then get on them not me. Fuck that. I am not the one who can easily stop caring about my job but don't make some people do all the work and everyone else just collect pay checks. I hate the end of the month. BS week.

[Wcross]

5. "I hate the end of the month. BS week."

I would suggest some "strategic" vacation planning/sick days at the end of the month.

[BelleCarolinaPeridot]

8. I am stuck at work until April ... that's when I get new vacation time.

Right now I have ZERO vacation time. Sucks...

[leftofthedial]

3. you don't play golf with the "boys"?

what are you, a commie?

[BelleCarolinaPeridot]

9. I will talk about golf but not on work time.

Ya know ... ;)

[Skittles]

4. OK Carolina?

why are those people just sitting there - WHY AREN'T YOU KICKING THEIR ASS ??? I don't put up with that shit, not at ALL.

[BelleCarolinaPeridot]

10. Because this Zen thing about being Postive and peaceful is getting the best of me .

I need a balance.

[Skittles]

12. aw screw that

here's what I do - HEY HOW ABOUT YOU F***ING ASSHOLES WORKING FOR A CHANGE? I needle the lazy bastards non-stop until they either start working or remove their sorry lazy asses from my sight - YES INDEED

[XemaSab]

6. Why should I stay until 5 when my boss leaves every day at 3?

Why should I get there at 9 when she doesn't show up until 11? :shrug:

[skygazer]

7. It's like that in virtually every business

I know in my place of work, there are a select few who actually dig in and work and get things done. The majority of the people there do as little as possible and management knows they won't do any more. So when things need to be done and done properly, they dip into our little pool of doers, knowing that it will be finished.

There's never any extra compensation for this and promotion is based on seniority, not production so the slob who's been there 30 years will get promoted over the hardworking person who's been there 10. And no, it's not fair.

I'm one of those people who work. And I ask myself the same thing you're asking fairly often. And the only answer I can come up with is that I don't like feeling like I'm not doing my best. So I guess I don't do it for the money (because I don't get any), I don't do it for the appreciation (because I don't get any), I don't do it for the company (because they'd just find someone else to do it).

I guess I just do it for my own self-esteem. Which is sort of pathetic, in a way. ~sigh~

[BelleCarolinaPeridot]

11. You're the coolest skygazer :)

That's how I am , I do it for my own self esteem. And I do it because I want to leave every morning knowing that I did good - but then again, I also say I need some lottery numbers so oh well.

[Nikia]

13. I feel like that too sometimes

But I just got the equivalent of a dollar an hour raise for my hard work on a projectm and I did not even tell my department manager that the president of the company told me that I did a good job and gave me a raise. Things are finally starting to come together for me now (I have been there since June) and I think that I am going to really be kicking some ass and that it will become very evident soon to everyone there.
I hope that your efforts get recognized too.

[freethought]

14. Isn't that the way it usually works in any workplace.

You have a few people who are truly "workers" and productive, the others are hangers-on but are usually good at ingratiating themselves to the management. The hangers-on get promoted to managers because they have been licking management's boots for who-knows-how-long. The producers, but virtue of their productivity get themselves "stuck" in their positions because management does not want to promote them because it will make them look bad and they are more "valuable" in their present positions.

A perpetual treadmill, quick run to nowhere.

[BelleCarolinaPeridot]

15. The hanger ons are the ones who never know how to do anything ...

and I am not the kind of person that wants to hang out in the office because I don't want to be the manager's friend. There is just a line that you don't cross. And its all messed up. I don't plan to stay in this department long. Whenever I talk to people from my old shift (who I consider family because I have known them for so long, they are my support) my manager tries to prevent that by threatening anyone that I talk to. Happened last week and I don't like that at all. Don't tell me who I can and can not talk to. If I am doing my job leave the hell alone and stay out of my personal life.

[KitchenWitch]

16. I have worked in a lot of workplaces like that!

10% of the workforces does 90% of the work.

I was always part of the 10%. I always tried to look at it this way: I would not have felt as accomplished, or proud of myself if I had been one of the slackers.

[BelleCarolinaPeridot]

17. I really hate favoritism and I am so not jealous of them ...

I just hate someone riding on me when they are doing a lot of things that they should not be doing. You have 10 workers - everyone should be on the same level or they should be out. Everyone should be able to do the same thing. Balance it out - don't only concentrate on the same people because I will bring out the bitch.