Dealing with a nasty co-worker

intparent
Sat, 19 Oct 2013 11:18:16 +0000

we report to different people



Ah, this is part of the problem. Your boss has no ability to get this employee in line… and obviously HER boss has let this go on and isn’t going to do anything. Sigh… I hate it when companies do this. They don’t get that someone who gums up the works by being rude or nasty to other people really ISN’T doing their job – being civil and cooperative with others should be part of every employees job description, and they should can people who can’t do that. But some companies keep people for years and years who are awful to their co-workers. The excuse is usually something like “but they are good at their work”, “no one else knows how to do what they do”, or (if the boss really tells the truth) “this person works cheaply for me because they know they won’t get anyone else to put up with their crap, and I like not paying a lot for the work I am getting out of them”. So short sighted of the companies, as other employees can’t get their work done effectively and often come to hate their jobs and sometimes quit because of the nastiness of the bad apple.