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 Posted:   Jun 14, 2011 - 11:52 AM   
 By:   Redokt64   (Member)

We were held up and my car was stolen, and I was punched in the face and was a bloody mess.

No offense to your coworker story, but what is THIS? What happened HERE? Did it have any relation to the coworker thing?


The funny thing was, everyone except the "jerk" knew we were seeing each other. When this awful thing happened the night before with her, being held up, punched in the face and the car being stolen...

The "jerk" could care less that we were victims of violence and robbery. He was more concerned about the "conspiracy" of his ex and I being together (for two months at that point). But, he did say later we deserved what we got because we went behind his back.

The actual incident of being held up was one of the most surreal moments in my life (as of 1992). Four years later a similiar incident happened with me (alone)... and let us just say I turned the tables on the thief. Another story, another time.

Let's just say my Nordic blood was boiling.

 
 Posted:   Jun 15, 2011 - 10:32 PM   
 By:   Warlok   (Member)

I am unfortunate enough to work around (you don`t work *with* this character...) an asshole at my workplace. He is an ignorant, ungrateful, drug-addled burn-out prick. He responds as a low IQ burn-out would to stimuli, seemingly thrilled at the same things over and over again, complaining about the same things over and over again. His stench is awful, he generally plays music too loudly for all others concerned, and he has one way of working - his way.

He expects accommodations be made for him, to extravagant extremes, but he refuses to do so for others. His whiny belligerence serves him well, perhaps subconsciously, in that he generates an air of bulliness that wards against anyone confronting him on his assininity. He has regularly - point or not - spoken to management in profoundly insulting ways, referring to one individual as a f**king liar. Made my head spin what he was getting away with.

The guy doesn`t get fired. He doesn`t get fired because he is also a whiny Union Shop Steward. That plays into his whole demeanour, how he 'rules' his 'kingdom'. People are intimidated by this prick.

He doesn`t like me at all (BONUS!) because I don`t put up with his bullshit. Arising from a strong disagreement (!), I told him that I couldn`t recall, in three plus years that I`ve been there, any moment where I have ever heard him having a civil conversation with anybody about anything. He seemed to be angling to fight me after that, to egg me on, and he also threatened my job. Management has my full record of his actions on file.

He thinks he plays chess, but he`s really only playing checkers.

I don`t speak to the prick, and I don`t do him any favours. He should be fired, on the spot. Be the best thing the local store could do for itself.

Example: Something wasn`t done in his department to his satisfaction (my words have far more syllables than his...), so he refers to the kid (kid mind you) as nothing but a complainer. He then proceeds to complain about this complainer for the next 20 minutes, non-stop.

You can hear this loudmouth across the entire store.

 
 
 Posted:   Jun 16, 2011 - 3:29 AM   
 By:   Thor   (Member)

Ouch. Sounds like a troubled guy, to put it mildly. But what's a Union Shop Steward?

 
 Posted:   Jun 16, 2011 - 6:10 AM   
 By:   Warlok   (Member)

In this case, a Union Shop Steward is an asshole!

(grin)

Seriously, a shop steward is a local union representative. The ideal is that he or she is a point-man or woman for grievances with the company. I am quite certain such people acquire/draw a salary of some sort in addition to their own wages, which I`m sure is just icing for this useless prick. Did I mention he is notoriously cheap? Think Sandford & Son, but without any of the mirth. Not kidding.

He also has a disgusting opinion of women. He`s a wonderfully ugly guy when you really get to know him...

 
 
 Posted:   Jun 16, 2011 - 6:29 AM   
 By:   Thor   (Member)

Of course I'm only hearing your side of the story, so I shouldn't really judge from where I'm sitting on the other side of the Atlantic, but I wonder how people like that end up as representatives for a workplace?

 
 Posted:   Jun 16, 2011 - 11:04 AM   
 By:   David Kessler   (Member)

If someone step on my toes, I tell them "Don´t make me angry, you wouldn´t like me when I´m angry" then I step on their necks, then I make thatt a-hole cry and I feel good about it (for trying to bully me)...fair enough

 
 
 Posted:   Jun 16, 2011 - 11:26 AM   
 By:   riotengine   (Member)

so I shouldn't really judge from where I'm sitting on the other side of the Atlantic, but I wonder how people like that end up as (union) representatives for a workplace?

Usually nepotism or good ol' boy affiliations. wink

Greg Espinoza

 
 
 Posted:   Oct 21, 2011 - 4:47 PM   
 By:   henry   (Member)

RISE OF THE JERK AT WORK!winkI know how that sounds, but he's acting up again. I'm gonna have to have a talking to him on Monday, enough of this shit!big grin

 
 
 Posted:   Oct 21, 2011 - 6:25 PM   
 By:   Yen Fai   (Member)



Remember Lt. Cmdr. Philip Francis Queeg? That's my manager. Thankfully his position is more of a title with little clout.

A few of his salient traits:
-if there's a convoluted or nonsensical way of doing it, that's the way it will be.
-it's par for the course to solely reference the performance of apples when deciding what to do about oranges.
-double standards apply to middle management (Do as I say not as I do.)
-runs to upper management with any bit of gossip or incriminating evidence.
-whines to subordinates when upper management doesn't care.
-loves to tell (untrue) stories about how he put other managers and upper management in their place.
-complains about everyone when they leave the room.
-uses the subordinate "we" which really means "you." (We need to do this=You need to do this.)
-it's his way or the highway.
-uses the word 'hate' on a regular basis.
-uses upper management as an excuse (So-and-so wants this done now.)
-constantly talks about previous jobs as if he were the CEO.

seriously I could go on. Thankfully everyone sees through it, or it could be unbearable.

 
 
 Posted:   Oct 21, 2011 - 8:23 PM   
 By:   Reeler   (Member)

Does anyone here also have a problem with someone from work?


Actually I do. I work in a grocery store and my boss is the fourth generation who owns this store (next year this store will have it`s 100th birthday). I am the only one who works there who is not from "the family". You see my boss' mother works there (my boss' father died a few years before I started to work there so I never met him), my boss' daughter works there, my boss' son works there, my boss' stepdaughter works there and occasional my boss' wife works there (she actually really don`t work there but helps out sometimes).

I get along with everyone except for my boss' mother who apparently thinks that whatever I do I do it wrong and if it is something wrong I am always the person to blame according to her. I really hate that old woman. Sometimes thankfully my boss saves me and defends me.


You weren't hitting on her granddaughter now were you?

 
 
 Posted:   Oct 21, 2011 - 8:27 PM   
 By:   Reeler   (Member)

Does anyone here also have a problem with someone from work?

Basically my entire management. I hope to transfer before long.

 
 
 Posted:   Apr 19, 2013 - 9:03 PM   
 By:   henry   (Member)

The jerk at my work, no longer a jerk! Nice rhyme isn't it?smileWe get along fine now.

 
 Posted:   Apr 19, 2013 - 10:56 PM   
 By:   Justin Boggan   (Member)

I've had my encounters, and I've also witnessed some.

I had this temp job at a warehouse. The supervisor in out area would yell, and scream at people, tear things up and throw them at people, and would have a pregnant employee do physical labor like climbing ladders to pick up heavy stuff.

When I complained, my they stopped using me and had a security officer escort me out. Turns out the super visor, as the security guard told me on the way out, is best friends (crossed two fingers to motion to me) with the owner of the company.


I remember a CSM at a Wal-Mart/WalMart here in my county, chewing out a chsier and callign her stupid infront of customers. Before the CSM was even out of ear-shot, I looked at the cashier and told her, "Oh, she's just so adorable you just want to fucking hug her and squeeze her and call her George, huh?".

 
 
 Posted:   May 12, 2021 - 7:22 AM   
 By:   henry   (Member)

A new asshole has emerged at my work!

 
 Posted:   May 12, 2021 - 7:52 AM   
 By:   Josh   (Member)

A new asshole has emerged at my work!


 
 
 Posted:   May 12, 2021 - 8:41 AM   
 By:   Prince Damian   (Member)

The jerk at my work, no longer a jerk! Nice rhyme isn't it?smileWe get along fine now.

You must have mellowed smile

 
 
 Posted:   May 12, 2021 - 8:48 AM   
 By:   henry   (Member)

At my work there's always one jerk, no more no less! Sounds like something Yoda would say.wink

 
 Posted:   May 12, 2021 - 8:58 AM   
 By:   Solium   (Member)

Yep, got one on my shift that has pretty much made work miserable for me and everyone else.
She bad mouths everyone, not a team player, purposely screws over other co-workers (at the expense of our residents) , is always the victim, complains to management and gets her way. Sucks because the rest of us work together really well. But my job is total sh*t right now. This on top of other ridiculous demands put on me by my employer. They should just chain me to the nurses station and not let me go home. Its pretty much come down to that.

 
 
 Posted:   May 12, 2021 - 9:05 AM   
 By:   Ado   (Member)

Jerks at work are all about ego and control. It is all about seeking some kind of validation or reward that they cannot find in themselves in their private life.

 
 
 Posted:   May 12, 2021 - 9:07 AM   
 By:   Prince Damian   (Member)

There's been a big one at work for years. Unless I'm off, that isbig grin

 
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