Hey, I have a new job!! One that is monday to friday! 9-5 cant wait I can actaully have a social life again and begin doing proper things at the weekend! I find myself just going to the local places coz I have work the next day!! Now I can do wot I want and if I want a weekend off I dont have to take is as part of my holiday! and I get all of the bank holidays off over xmas to! Happy new year to me!! :cloud9:
excellent news – it was such a shame you missed out on some of the parties in our area… I could never hack weekend working again (even though in IT it pays overtime rates) as I feel I work hard during the week and value my free time..
is it in retail as well? if its in the same product field you can also still get back at the woman who bullied you as you know your former employers strengths and weaknesses and can use them to advantage to take business from them (without giving away signs of obvious “industrial espionage”)
No its at an estate agents im an admistrator so wont have to work weekends and I have also taken a £1,500 wage drop but my happiness and time are more important to me than any amount of money someone will pay me!
Im only going to be doing that for a while though (until next summer) as im hopefully going to be a childrens entertainer(redcoat,blue coat) at one of the holiday camps in England Butlins, haven etc! This is something I really want to do and of coarse it will be a 7 day a week job with rubbish pay but its something that I will love doing! Bouncing about like a looney on stage and having lots of fun!
Yep last weekend will be the last weekend I will ever have to work in a mindnumbing job watching a load of mindless shallow zombies walking about coz they cant think of anything better to do on a sunday! ahhhh man I have so many things planned for MY weekends and MY time!
Congratulations on the new job babes you well deserve it. I work in an monday to friday 9-5.30 job and I swear to god I am never going back to working weekends! I am so much more relaxed since I got this job although I am the only girl working with a sex craved youngster and a deaf old bastard also a manager that dont know his arse from his elbow but still i get by and so look forward to the weekends.
It dont matter whether you have something on at the weekend or not you still look forward to it. I actually look forward to doing nothing but relaxing at home and staying in bed all weekend with my fella.
I hope things work out for you babes and follow your dreams… I plan to do that soon and try and get out of this so called great business people call travel… is not as good as you think .. in nearly 8 years the only perks of the job I have had is free pens and free scotrail travel … yee haaa!!
Anyway babes good luck to you and glad things are going great finally for you.
xxxxxxxxxxxxxx
IME the industries everyone wants to be part of are usually the worst for inter-colleague rivalry and destructive competitiveness if not actual bullying –
for 3 years I worked in the TV industry – although bullying wasn’t that bad lots of the engineers all competed with one another rather than worked together (wasn’t helped by modern business practices where organisations are encouraged to compete across business units for limited resources and work, and those who do not get enough are downsized)
I used to get service calls from one part of a national broadcaster saying a piece of equipment (which I had personally tested before despatch) was faulty; only to receive a further call an hour later from a very sheepish engineer admitting that another region had sabotaged the equipment because they had a similar bit of kit and wanted the work…
a few years ago, when me and my friends tried to do legal radio stations and raves the politics and backbiting was horrendous -there were near fights as stressful situations developed, and it was worse because everyone was supposedly friends so there wasn’t the social barrier which would have prevented you kicking off at your normal workplace because you would have been disciplined or arrested…
its got better now but quite frankly IMO only because wider society wants to destroy the rave scene and people have been forced to work together…
on the garage/grime scene where there is more of a commercial ethos sabotaging of rival events is commonplace, anything from hoax bomb calls to staged fights, CS being let off, DJ’s being beaten up and stabbings/shootings.
today I work for a public sector organisation, writing programs to and scripts to produce financial reports. this work is often boring; but everyone in the team is really sound, its such a boring job no one wants to take it off you unless they are really desparate….
remember a while ago I posted about the troubles me and my work mates were having with our assistant manager, well now our manager has announced he’s leaving and guess who’s hoping to fill his shoes??!! We did lodge a complaint about him….but if he gets into this position we are all walking out for sure……………..:get_you: :rant: 😥
Hand in your notice and make an absolute twat of her in the remaining time. Cuss her and just be cleverer, do a poo on her car as well if she has one.
Please do not walk out of your job if you enjoy it.. the reason I am saying this is because the guy would have won.
He wants you all to leave and it is obvious the way he is acting. I have been there and walked out before and it has done no good the people left there have had to put up with the shit. We get a mag in work every month and this month was about bullying so I will tell you what they said… You may have gone higher than this person and it may not have worked but still go higher and higher and get more people to do the same.
The more people that complain the better .. if it still dont work sign up to a union and they will do the work for you. At the moment I work with a guy younger than me but is at the same level as me but is the rudest guy you will ever meet… I never used to bite back but it is working….sometimes he is so rude I have to walk out the room for a breather.. I complained the other day to my regional manager and as I thought nothing was done about it.. went higher and it was sorted. You just need to put on the pressure babes and say if it carries on I am out… they wont want to lose you as will cost them more so they will have to do something as legally it is wrong to be bullied!!
Hope you get it sorted out babes
xxx
if in doubt go to the citizens advice as they are great and is free .. .will advise you what is the best option xxxxxxxxxx
. Anthing that I do is critisized
not read the thread fully so don’t know if anyone else has said this to you or not but my advice
Dont be a victim, confront your manager and tell them that on this occasion you are prepared to resolve any issues they have with you in person and that any further victimisation will result in you taking it further.
say it in such a way that gives the perception it’s not something you really want to do but feel you will have no choice if your hand is forced.
If the problem persists then do take it further but make sure you acquire some evidence in case it ends up at a tribunal or whatever.
i haven’t posted on here before because i thought i worked somewhere quite unusual, where the employer’s ethos of trust and committment to a cause meant that all staff would be working to many aims, but with a common aim in mind, and doing so in such a way that bullying would never feature
but recently a void of power has emerged… we’ve always had what’s known as ‘horzontal management’… that is, everyone gets their own job done and the senior mangers get on with finding funds to keep us in a job and moving the organisation forward in a strategic way… but recently 2 of the 3 managers have had serious personal matters that have left the staff without management or supervision and two staff have tried to take over
their method? undermining everybody else, spreading lies about other staff, criticising the work of other staff without understanding the role
bullying at work is not illegal, but it challengable in an employment tribunal. the difficulty with that is that if you accuse someone of bullying, the can launch a counter sue, for which you are personally financially liable.
I’m applying for new jobs:rant:
but recently a void of power has emerged… we’ve always had what’s known as ‘horzontal management’… that is, everyone gets their own job done and the senior mangers get on with finding funds to keep us in a job and moving the organisation forward in a strategic way… but recently 2 of the 3 managers have had serious personal matters that have left the staff without management or supervision and two staff have tried to take over
their method? undermining everybody else, spreading lies about other staff, criticising the work of other staff without understanding the role
bullying at work is not illegal, but it challengable in an employment tribunal. the difficulty with that is that if you accuse someone of bullying, the can launch a counter sue, for which you are personally financially liable.
I’m applying for new jobs:rant:
Microsoft are reputed to fire 10% of their work force annually in order to keep the rest motivated and Enron made their employees vote on which of their peers got the sack or not each year…
bullying in the workplace is the only thing that makes my job worth turning up for.
i know it might hurt your feelings but try and look at it from your boss’s point of view.
I thought I had a good job until recently. We had 3 staff plus a regional manager however one member left and so did the manager so that has left me working with a 60 year old guy who is stuck in his ways and expects me to do all the meanial jobs which I am not happy about. we both should be doing it.
We are currently doing the job of 7 people and our head office dont seem to care. We have said that we need more staff but there has been a freeze on employment. We have had temps in to help us out but they only seem to last 2 weeks maybe 3 at a maximum and I can not carry on training new people all the time.
I had to call in sick today as I had a major asthma attack this morning. I know it is stress induced and can not carry on like this. I know I am going to get in major trouble tomorrow about being off sick but I really dont care.
I can not carry on like this and am trying to find a new job. The only thing good is we have the go ahead to employ new staff but how long is that going to take.
Why is it managers dont have a clue about what is happening in the actual work place… ours dont as we are up in glasgow and they are down in Surrey and never visit!!!
I read this today:
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/education/4614515.stm
And I’m a bit confused about the state of things.
In case you can’t be bothered to read it (it’s not particularly exciting), it says that 1 in 5 children between the ages of 11 & 19 are being bullied by mobile phones.
Now, I do not and will not condone bullying of any form, but I have never heard of anyone being bullied by phone ever before. Admittedly I’m not actually at school, so I am unaware of many things that (mass media) surveys tell me is happening in the playground – like the vast amounts of crack-cocaine being sold between the kids, the gangs of peadophiles hanging around the school gates ready to kidnap children, not to mention the force feeding of greasy chips by the Government (nothing to do with the parents not making sandwhiches, of course), but I digress.
Now, although I don’t doubt that children’s behaviour and activities have changed over the years, I can’t believe that 20% of children are victims not just of bullying, but of a specific type of bullying.
I’m beginning to believe that the adults who compile reports are actually unaware of what real bullying is.
When I was at school, I was one of only about 6 non-white people in the entire school (in case you’re wondering, I’m a Porto/Anglo Indian/Italian chap). I got bullied pretty much as soon as I stepped through the gates. At the time, it was absolutely terrible, but looking back, I realise that I didn’t have it half as bad as some other people. I know what being bullied is like, what it feels like and also how powerless any teachers or parents are to stop it.
What I also know, however, is that when someone comes up to me and says “cut your hair and have a bath you stinking fucking hippy”, which happens from time to time, that is NOT bullying. If they came back time after time, targetting me as I walked home from work, waiting round the corner for me, THAT would be bullying.
A text message calling someone fat is not bullying. It’s mean, it’s really mean and not fair. It shouldn’t be done, but IT IS NOT BULLYING.
Sometimes peoples’ memories of things will be slightly clouded, especially children. When they were passed the piece of paper with the qestion “have you ever been bullied?” the majority would probably answer “yes”, but this doesn’t mean that their life was made a constant hell all the way through their school life. I was bullied, but I can still look at my school days as relatively happy – but like I say, some had it much worse than me.
The thing that gets me most about the ‘nanny’ culture that’s coming out is that those children who are seriously bullied, who are victims of a sadistic louts most days they are at school, are still going unheard when the kids who have merely been teased are shouting to get their voices heard and drowning out the cries of help from people who actually need it.
It’s the ones who can’t ask for help who need it the most.
peace
I used to bully people by phone if you could call it that
0
Voices
65
Replies
Tags
This topic has no tags
