If you currently, or have ever, worked for/with someone that you just absolutely could not stand....then tell your stories here.
My story:
There are a few people that I work with that can bug me sometimes, but nothing compares to the one person that just makes me sick to my stomach. She is the most controlling,condescending, and unappreciative person that has absolutely NO respect for others. She is ALWAYS right no martter what, and always has to be in control. Someone could be dying but if she wants something done, it's priority. She thinks she is the most valuable thing on this earth, and yet, she gets away with it because we have no "real" supervisor. We have someone who is supposed to act as a manager, but she has had no background in management and when you come to her about issues with this HORRIBLE woman, she says things like "why didn't you just say something to her?" or "Oh that's just how she is, she is like that towards everyone...". Excuse me?! So that makes it OK? It makes it OK for her to treat people like that because she treats everyone equally shitty?
I have watched this woman be disrespectful and say hurtful mean things to very undeserving people. Even if someone makes a mistake, they do not deserve to be talked down to. She talks to our BOSS and the PRESIDENT of our organization like they are children. The President sometimes will give it back to her, but she walks all over our boss and has made her cry. Admittedly, our boss should just say "Oh I don't think so, I will NOT tolerate that"...but again, she has no background in being a supervisor, so she just backs down and figures...that's how she is. I would never ever talk to my boss or the President that way....or anyone else for that matter. One of the people in our office has been positioned in the farthest corner from her because he just cannot work with her. I haven't heard ONE person say anything nice about her. You say her name and immediately people don't want anything to do with the project, or whatever it may be.
Today was just ANOTHER thing to add to the list. I was asked to make copies of these little cards on "any neon colored card stock" and then to cut them, and send them to a hotel where our annual convention was being held. So, sounds simple enough, but I still know how she is, so I asked advice from the other ladies in the office about WHICH neon color I should use (she wasn't there to ask directly since she was out sick for 2 weeks). We had neon pink, neon orange, and a few other colors in card stock, but they weren't neon so we were left with pink or orange. We decided I should go with orange so I did. Cards looked great, they were on neon....shouldn't be a problem right?
OF COURSE it isn't that simple. So now 2 weeks after the convention she comes over to my desk (she must've just felt like putting someone down because it is unlike her to wait for 2 weeks to tell someone they were wrong) and she says "I thought I told you to copy the cards on neon card stock." to which I responded "I did." Then she says, "come into the copy room" and I am thinking...f*ck...here we go. She says "You used this color, this isn't neon orange" and I said "Yes it is, what are you talking about?" (the label even says neon orane. I was so taken back, how do you say that the paper isn't neon orange..WHEN IT IS?!?!!?!??! That's like her saying the sky is red, and me trying to convince that it is blue. This is how whacked she is.) So anyway, she goes on to say "You couldn't even read the print on it".... WHAT?!?!?!?!?! What the f*ck is she talking about. It's BLACK BOLD PRINT on a NEON ORANGE CARD. I showed it to others in the office before I started printing, and looked at it carefully because I know how picky she is. It couldn't have been clearer. I am just so confused at this point, so I said "Oh come on Jane, you can't say that you couldn't read what it said, that is just a lie!" Then she says "You should've used one of these colors" and she points to the regular paper, and I said "Jane, that's not card stock" and she said "Well you should've ordered some then!!!!!" so at that point I walk out. She decided to follow me of course, so she looks at the mail that is sitting on my desk (the mail comes after I leave, so it is always a day behind) and she says "Is that the mail from yesterday?!" (DUH!!! I hate it when people ask questions when they KNOW the answer....this woman just doesn't stop) and I said "Yes" so she goes "Umm...do you think we could get that in our boxes" and she said it with SO much attitude. She just has to be in control, and she knows she is above me at least, so she just had to say that. I AM SO SICK OF HER!
Another time, she asked another one of the ladies there to UPS some orginial photos back to the owner. Jane explained that they were originals so we needed to be extra careful. Anyway, so Josie puts them in a padded envelope, and then adds a piece of cardboard on each side too, so that it wouldn't bend. Well UPS ends up damaging the package. They spilled some sort of red liquid ALL over the package, of course, damaging the photos. None of us wanted to tell her when this happened because we knew what was going to happen. So finally Josie tells her and she just FLIPS! She says "YOU SHOULD'VE PACKED IT IN PLASTIC, WHAT IS WRONG WITH YOU!?" Excuse me, how were we to know that UPS would be SPILLING LIQUIDS on the package. Should we wrap everything in plastic then? wtf? So I said, "Jane it isn't fair to yell at her, this isn't our fault, and how did we know that was going to happen?" She just went on about how we should've done this, or that and it's like ya know...ya just can't control some things. Her yelling doesn't change what happened...and what I really wanted to say was "Those were original photos, if they were so valuable why didn't you hand deliver them to the person, or wait until you would see that at a meeting etc. It's not the first time UPS has damaged a package of ours." It was really horrible, and so wrong of her.
Well those are two examples...there are many more LOL
My story:
There are a few people that I work with that can bug me sometimes, but nothing compares to the one person that just makes me sick to my stomach. She is the most controlling,condescending, and unappreciative person that has absolutely NO respect for others. She is ALWAYS right no martter what, and always has to be in control. Someone could be dying but if she wants something done, it's priority. She thinks she is the most valuable thing on this earth, and yet, she gets away with it because we have no "real" supervisor. We have someone who is supposed to act as a manager, but she has had no background in management and when you come to her about issues with this HORRIBLE woman, she says things like "why didn't you just say something to her?" or "Oh that's just how she is, she is like that towards everyone...". Excuse me?! So that makes it OK? It makes it OK for her to treat people like that because she treats everyone equally shitty?
I have watched this woman be disrespectful and say hurtful mean things to very undeserving people. Even if someone makes a mistake, they do not deserve to be talked down to. She talks to our BOSS and the PRESIDENT of our organization like they are children. The President sometimes will give it back to her, but she walks all over our boss and has made her cry. Admittedly, our boss should just say "Oh I don't think so, I will NOT tolerate that"...but again, she has no background in being a supervisor, so she just backs down and figures...that's how she is. I would never ever talk to my boss or the President that way....or anyone else for that matter. One of the people in our office has been positioned in the farthest corner from her because he just cannot work with her. I haven't heard ONE person say anything nice about her. You say her name and immediately people don't want anything to do with the project, or whatever it may be.
Today was just ANOTHER thing to add to the list. I was asked to make copies of these little cards on "any neon colored card stock" and then to cut them, and send them to a hotel where our annual convention was being held. So, sounds simple enough, but I still know how she is, so I asked advice from the other ladies in the office about WHICH neon color I should use (she wasn't there to ask directly since she was out sick for 2 weeks). We had neon pink, neon orange, and a few other colors in card stock, but they weren't neon so we were left with pink or orange. We decided I should go with orange so I did. Cards looked great, they were on neon....shouldn't be a problem right?
OF COURSE it isn't that simple. So now 2 weeks after the convention she comes over to my desk (she must've just felt like putting someone down because it is unlike her to wait for 2 weeks to tell someone they were wrong) and she says "I thought I told you to copy the cards on neon card stock." to which I responded "I did." Then she says, "come into the copy room" and I am thinking...f*ck...here we go. She says "You used this color, this isn't neon orange" and I said "Yes it is, what are you talking about?" (the label even says neon orane. I was so taken back, how do you say that the paper isn't neon orange..WHEN IT IS?!?!!?!??! That's like her saying the sky is red, and me trying to convince that it is blue. This is how whacked she is.) So anyway, she goes on to say "You couldn't even read the print on it".... WHAT?!?!?!?!?! What the f*ck is she talking about. It's BLACK BOLD PRINT on a NEON ORANGE CARD. I showed it to others in the office before I started printing, and looked at it carefully because I know how picky she is. It couldn't have been clearer. I am just so confused at this point, so I said "Oh come on Jane, you can't say that you couldn't read what it said, that is just a lie!" Then she says "You should've used one of these colors" and she points to the regular paper, and I said "Jane, that's not card stock" and she said "Well you should've ordered some then!!!!!" so at that point I walk out. She decided to follow me of course, so she looks at the mail that is sitting on my desk (the mail comes after I leave, so it is always a day behind) and she says "Is that the mail from yesterday?!" (DUH!!! I hate it when people ask questions when they KNOW the answer....this woman just doesn't stop) and I said "Yes" so she goes "Umm...do you think we could get that in our boxes" and she said it with SO much attitude. She just has to be in control, and she knows she is above me at least, so she just had to say that. I AM SO SICK OF HER!
Another time, she asked another one of the ladies there to UPS some orginial photos back to the owner. Jane explained that they were originals so we needed to be extra careful. Anyway, so Josie puts them in a padded envelope, and then adds a piece of cardboard on each side too, so that it wouldn't bend. Well UPS ends up damaging the package. They spilled some sort of red liquid ALL over the package, of course, damaging the photos. None of us wanted to tell her when this happened because we knew what was going to happen. So finally Josie tells her and she just FLIPS! She says "YOU SHOULD'VE PACKED IT IN PLASTIC, WHAT IS WRONG WITH YOU!?" Excuse me, how were we to know that UPS would be SPILLING LIQUIDS on the package. Should we wrap everything in plastic then? wtf? So I said, "Jane it isn't fair to yell at her, this isn't our fault, and how did we know that was going to happen?" She just went on about how we should've done this, or that and it's like ya know...ya just can't control some things. Her yelling doesn't change what happened...and what I really wanted to say was "Those were original photos, if they were so valuable why didn't you hand deliver them to the person, or wait until you would see that at a meeting etc. It's not the first time UPS has damaged a package of ours." It was really horrible, and so wrong of her.
Well those are two examples...there are many more LOL