Idiots we work with or for

[Certaindeaf]

Unless of course you work for the "postal" office.
lol

 

[Just Jim]

Better to move on, find a good job with decent people and let the socialist live in the hell they create.

 

[The Heretic]

Better to move on, find a good job with decent people and let the socialist live in the hell they create.

Unfortunately the socialists take the rest of us to hell with them.

 

[Just Jim]

In my working life I never got anywhere around stupid people. It takes smart people working hard to get ahead. The environment the op posted tells me he is surrounded by idiots, life is far too short to suffer idiots.

You are right that the socialist are creating a hell for all of us but we can live in our own little slice of heaven by staying away from them. Don't support them in any way.

 

[coastal steelheader]

I really enjoyed reading your post, just because I've known these characters in the past. If you have the patience (which I personally ran out of after some time) shower him with facts and numbers about issues, typically people of this sort know a lot of buzz words and very little actual facts. If you factually put them in their place over and over they will start avoiding you The other solution, is to totally ignore them, let them talk a lot, the more they talk the more they make mistakes and the more they'll be hated by everyone, at some point management will have to either fire everyone but this person or fire him/her or put them in their place.

Have you ever heard of the term "psychic vampire", where the person drains you of your energy by just being around you.
This guy is the IQ vampire. Just being around him you can feel your intelligence drain away and your brain just stops working.

 

[coastal steelheader]

The best advice I can give is to stop smoking!

I'm trying. Once again I will be going cold turkey this Friday when I get off work

 

[coastal steelheader]

Find a way to avoid all coworkers. Trust me. I've been through enough crap to have learned my lesson. Even those you think are close will turn on you at work. Coworkers in my eyes are not friends. They are coworkers and nothing more. I keep my mouth shut, do my job, then go home. It took me a while to get to this point trust me. Since getting here work life is much better

It is going to come down to that. I already am very careful about what I say and the attitude projected when talking with women, the LGBT crowd, and other minorities in the workplace. No after work partying, no relationships with the opposite sex if they are coworkers, no giving out emails or Facebook links is pretty much the way to go nowadays

 

[clearconscience]

I was talking guns with a couple like minded people at work one day showing them a couple pictures and our LP regional mgr walked up behind me asking what we were talking up knowing dang well what we we talking about. I got nervous and the she asked me where I go shooting and started telling me her favorite spot. Phew!
I thought I might be in trouble. Got lucky.

But i work with the public and usually the ptown hippies. I usually avoid conversation at all costs, unless they mention firearms or politics first and I know their opinions mirror mine. Then I share some of my views. It's amazing what you get to know when you just listen.
Met a guy that retired from the DEA and worked as a contractor in Iraq for a few years.
And a old man. Sweet as could be, always smiling. Old as dirt.
Come to find out he was in the Army. When asked if he saw any adventure. He said yeah, ran up a little beach in normandy!
This little old man, was a BadA$$

 

[Scrammer]

How about pulling a pocket recorder and asking him to go on record. If he asks why, just say you want to go home and some fact checking.

 

[Oregonhunter5]

Frag him...

 

[etrain16]

But i work with the public and usually the ptown hippies. I usually avoid conversation at all costs, unless they mention firearms or politics first and I know their opinions mirror mine. Then I share some of my views. It's amazing what you get to know when you just listen.

I'm fortunate to work with some pretty decent folks - there are always some flakes, but I don't work side-by-side with them, so it's not a big issue.

Regarding your comment on knowing what the other person thinks/believes, it's good advice. I had a young guy knock on my door this weekend. He was politicking for a state candidate and opened his spiel up with the comment "You probably know him, we trounced the conservative candidate in the last election". I informed him, with a fairly stern look on my face, that we are conservatives. His demeanor changed and it was fun to watch him backpedal, suddenly claiming that his candidate was really more of a moderate, heck, almost a conservative. Good grief. I let him flounder on my doorstep a bit, educated him on a few things regarding liberty and less government, then politely invited him to go talk to my neighbors instead. Lesson learned - never assume what someone believes before you open your big mouth.

 

[CoastRange57]

Find a way to avoid all coworkers. Trust me. I've been through enough crap to have learned my lesson. Even those you think are close will turn on you at work. Coworkers in my eyes are not friends. They are coworkers and nothing more. I keep my mouth shut, do my job, then go home. It took me a while to get to this point trust me. Since getting here work life is much better

This is stellar advice. I did work with some great people back in the day, and they are still my close friends. I also worked and still do work with many DB's, who were incompetent, arrogant, back stabbing mother fing liars. My last couple of jobs, I went in, did my job, produced the results I was hired to, went home at the end of the day. The people I HAD to work with were NOT people I was going to socialize with or hang out with. Could not stand most of them. I was civil to them to maintain work place civility, but beyond that wanted nothing to do with them. None of them knew my prepping / defense lifestyle at all. Most of them knew nothing of my life beyond work and I wanted it that way.

One of our extended family members is a young man of 34 who has got lucky and hit it well in business. He is an arrogant, abusive pick to his family and most of us cannot stand him. His co workers think he is the neatest thing to come along in years and just love working with him. Of course he likes them to kiss his a** all day long, so they hump his leg all day and he is sooooo happy.

In my world, your co workers should think of you as a jack a**, and not like you, and your family should truly love you for who you are and what you do.
.

 

[Caveman Jim]

When I would meet people at new job sites I could tell from the first comment if they were worth speaking to again...
Good paying jobs were just that Go to work to get the good pay, all else was BS as I was too busy workin...

 

[deen_ad]

<- Why there aren't any school shootings in Israel!
Teacher with long gun slung over her shoulder!!

I work with my younger brother just the two of us most days. I swear he has a switch that shuts off my voice. He can be a genius at times and not so smart at other times he used to be anti gun but the more i talk about protecting family and home the more he gets it.

My wife used to be like that but now, after 28 years and once having to use a gun to defend myself she gets it.

Deen
NRA Life Member, Benefactor Level
NRA Golden Eagle member
Defender of Freedom Award

"A gun is like a parachute. If you need one and don't have it, you'll probably never need one again!"

 

[deen_ad]

<- Why there aren't any school shootings in Israel!
Teacher with long gun slung over her shoulder!!

The polar ice is melting, it isn't a political opinion; it's a scientific fact.
OK back to the rant, already in progress.

True, but it's been happening for probably millions of years and is a natural cycle.

Deen
NRA Life Member, Benefactor Level
NRA Golden Eagle member
Defender of Freedom Award

"A gun is like a parachute. If you need one and don't have it, you'll probably never need one again!"

 

[44mag2ndamend]

I have worked with a lot of jerks in the past but dear God the guy I have been putting up with for the last year or so takes the freaking cake.

In addition to being the office snitch he is also a loudmouth, liberal, douchebag.

Usually what happens is that a few of us are outside having a smoke on our break and talking about things in the news. Of course he sees us and just has to come shuffling on over and give us his insights. Gun control (of course everything comes down to lack of penis size when he isn't ranting about assault weapons and high capacity "clips"). Global warming/any environmental subject (He drives a Prius and is still convinced that polar bears are drowning). Foreign policy (its still Bush's fault), the economy (Bush's fault, and he ran up the debt!). Bullying (the fault of Republicans, Christian's etc, he also has a "bully free zone" sign in his cubicle),

Today we got to hear his take on the Brown shooting in Missouri. According to him the police officer should be charged with murder because he shot to kill. He should have shot the kid in the leg, or better yet just used pepper spray. He then went on a tangent how cops could just shoot weapons out of suspects hands, or disarm them using martial arts (he took kung fu as a kid and knows how disarm any attacker).

The rest of us just sit there in silence. Mostly cause we are in shock at the amount of stupidity that comes out of his mouth, and of course there is the cowardice factor. In addition to being the office snitch, he also seems to have the ear of our boss the - HBDIC (Head Bull Dyke In Charge). We know of two guys he has snitched on - one for cruising the net on the computer, and the other for commenting on a smoking hot new hire. Both guys ended up down the road.

As I said he is also the HBDIC's favorite. I'm convinced if she ever came to a sudden stop it would take a team of surgeons five days to cut his face out of her bubblegum.

I have to fight the urge to punch this guy every time I see him at work. On the other hand I like having a job and not being incarcerated too.

Any advice how to deal with this guy would be helpful. Also feel free to post you're experience with guys like this you have worked with.

I have seen this before, you have a group behavior problem, and or political allies committee, running havoc over productivity.

My last position (started out on the bottem) led into supervisory work after I discovered my company owner and direct boss was being inundated with drug culture, crime and company theft. We had to let things work their course. I.E. We let them burn their own butts! They did it to themselves, and had no one to blame but themselves. Even months after most of them where gone he was still getting property broken into at night.

I had one attempt an assualt, and two others caught by direct subordination harming company productivity and profits. One other whom was the bosses close friend at one point, busted himself stealing directly from the boss. I had informed my boss beforehand he had tendencies to pocket things that did not belong to him.

That pucker finished himself real good, with a Felony Charge. I just planted the seed ahead of time, and the employee did exactly as I predicted.

Now if you are in a corporate environment, like say a retail outlet, or division, separate from the main office or base of operations here is one thing that will come into play eventually, but hopefully before any more wreckage comes.

Obviously these two has a little figured out, and you can not play into their B.S. Read some management material about group behaviors, human motivation, Especially by credible writers with PHDs' in management about motivating work groups . I have worked at a few other companies where our direct leaders were less than desirable, but it was a status quo thing if you went against them, you were next on their kill lists. Office politics is you will. Companies like to let these games play out until the local leadership is put to the acid test and expected to perform regardless of their little power struggle game.

Now comes the good part, this charade they are playing, just to protect their belief system, is contradictory to what is best for the whole. The Company being productive. Keep in mind complaining to the most upper levels will almost certainly put yourself on the bubblegumlist, You have to let them do it to themselves.

You of course have been hired on qualifications to do one thing, PRODUCE PROFIT. And you are smarter than you think because you have already noticed these two and the game. Just get along with them and you will shine with your upper superiors. ( hopefully this is the type of dynamic environment )

The upper hierarchy ( if such is present ) will eventually become aware of the hostility they are creating by not letting others be themselves and it takes a toll on the entire workplace. AND PRODUCTIVITY!

Most likely what will happen is the 2 pot stirring political action committee will be busy smelling each others bubblegum so much they will not see the sniper in waiting. Blind sided, BLAM, SPLAT!

Keep in mind to not ever underestimate your opponent and play to win, the right way. It can be very tricky, keep your guard up always, and one thing overall, stay the most productive. Its a strategy that has one for me, in multiple work environments.

I would still be with that employer but I came to realize a couple of things and it was time to move on. #1 he was not on firm financial ground. #2 He let this whole thing happen because he allowed it to begin with. There are better things to do with your time.

The other to remember this dip whiz zhit is already scared and that can be used to make him his own worst enemy. No smart employer likes this.

 

[44mag2ndamend]

In addition to being the office snitch he is also a loudmouth, liberal, douchebag.

Let the shoe fit!
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[44mag2ndamend]

and Ha phucker!