Trouble at work.

[bretty]

I'm 21 years old and I work in a manufacturing factory in Canada. I'm also a full time student.

I had a run in today. Another worker ratted me out saying I've been 'slowing down' and wandering off lately and my boss told me to try to watch out for it. It's not a big deal but if anyone else has had a shitty job (which is probably the case for many people here) the only thing you really have to hold on to is the fact that you can work hard at the job and be a 'good' worker. On top of that I'm all for workers working things out between themselves. It's unfortunate when things like this happen, especially undeserved. I guess I just wanted to vent about working hard and having to deal with undeserved criticism. I guess it's also these working conditions that make me read Lenin.

anyone else have experiences like this at work?

[chimx]

Try to talk with some of your other coworkers. See if this little brown noser has a history of doing it.

[Joe Hill's Ghost]

Yeah. In my experience people tend to back each other so long as you're not very very lazy. Then they get pissed. Usually though they like it cause you make it easier for them to slack off by raising the "slack off" bar so to speak.

[AGITprop]

Well, on one hand it sucks to have others 'rat you out'.

On the other hand, people don't like seeing others slacking off.

I used to get very upset when my co-workers and even my supervisors would do shit-all around the workplace, though I'm not accusing you of that.

I don't think that the guy who went to the boss dealt with it correctly, he should have approached you first and ask you what the problem was if there was one.

But this is a good way to try and repair any issue with that other worker, and build stronger ties with other workers as well.

[bretty]

Try to talk with some of your other coworkers. See if this little brown noser has a history of doing it.

I know everyone fairly well, and he's basically had problems with everyone. I'm just glad I'll be back to part time work/full time school in a couple days. My buddy who works there said not to worry cause when i'm part time i'll probably be working back in the other area of the department again and I don't have to deal with this person.

[Charles Xavier]

Company stood pigeons always exist, they are the ones who love the boss more than their own mother.

Unfortunately, there is not much you can do about this unless you had a union to file grievances.

[Joe Hill's Ghost]

Company stood pigeons always exist, they are the ones who love the boss more than their own mother.

Unfortunately, there is not much you can do about this unless you had a union to file grievances.
Well it always helps to draw a circle around him/her and basically ostracize the worker in question. Stools tend to not like it when everyone hates em and seeks to sabotage their work.

[Charles Xavier]

Well it always helps to draw a circle around him/her and basically ostracize the worker in question. Stools tend to not like it when everyone hates em and seeks to sabotage their work.

Well depends on the situation, if they are a loner they could be okay to single out, else it may just create bigger divisions at the workplace.

[Bilan]

Personally, it really pisses me off when people slack off at work, as it leaves the rest of us with a fuckload more to do (I had a bad experience during my last shift where I copt a whole bunch of shit because a couple of people left without finishing the job).

But if this guy is just a boot licker (we have them at work, too), best idea is to talk to other workers about it.
We have a couple of people at my work who ratted co-workers out for not working had enough, even though they did, because they were jealous (It was actually fucking ridiculous), and this co-worker of mine got put under surveillance by the bosses to make sure he worked hard. Was totally fucked up.

With that, no advice can be given: it simply played out, and he was eventually left alone.

[redSHARP]

talk about it with other coworkers. i work at boy scout camp and i have the same problem. we all do. try to organize or something like that.

[Knight of Cydonia]

yeah i once experiensing things like this back then in the 2002. and you know what i done? i came to see my boss, and he's complaining about how i work..bla..bla..bla... and then after he stop yapping, i quit. i quit from my job because i don't like it when someone complaining about how i work and told me that i should do this and that. i just don't like it.

so i suggest, you should wait what your boss reaction about your behaviour. and if he complain and start commanding you to do what he want, just get the hell out of your work place, there's other better work you can do in other place.and you should choose which job that you feel suit with your ability and the job that you feel happy to done it.:)

[politics student]

I have done to shit jobs this summer to save cash for uni.

The first 4 weeks at a call center selling timeshare. (I still feel dirty) I then quite due to a combination of stress and guilt.

The 2nd I worked at a factory, I was sent home on my first day after 3 hours as they had too many staff due to an order not coming in. lets just say I quit when they phoned me that evening about work tomorrow (6am to 2pm phoned at 6pm to tell me).
From my experience workers rights where a joke at both places I worked. I do wonder if it was because I was the most productive as they seemed to send one home from each line, I was repacking the contents of 6 boxes every 10 minutes while the others got through 2 in the same time.

[nuisance]

The 2nd I worked at a factory, I was sent home on my first day after 3 hours as they had too many staff due to an order not coming in. lets just say I quit when they phoned me that evening about work tomorrow (6am to 2pm phoned at 6pm to tell me).

What did you honestly expect with shift work?

[Knight of Cydonia]

above all anyone.... any kind of work, any kind of it, it suck! but that's depend on how we do it, and does we feel so comfortable with it.

[Dust Bunnies]

There are always rats and suck ups where ever you go, unfortuantly capitalism makes such fierce competition that one may use underhand tactics to get a coworker in trouble.

[Holden Caulfield]

do what the you do to strike brakers, try to get people to 'freeze' him out, ignore him and let him know that the powers of the workers united even just in social setting is something to be wary of

[Knight of Cydonia]

do what the you do to strike brakers, try to get people to 'freeze' him out, ignore him and let him know that the powers of the workers united even just in social setting is something to be wary of
this:thumbup1:

[Sentinel]

The SAC has released a very good workplace activity manual called Vi har Rätt (we have the right), where this advice is given as well: exclude the asskisser from all freetime & coffeebreak etc activities -- yeah, generally freeze him or her out. An asskisser who runs the bosses' errands and rats collegues out is indeed no better than a scab and should be treated as such.

They are the scum of the earth.