is there anyone else who absolutely can't stand their coworkers? i feel like i don't like 99% of them, and the 1% i can stand i don't really feel a connection with them. i understand it's normal in the workplace not to like people you work with, but i absolutely have been so fed up with everyone lately. everyone is lighting fast to call me out on my mistakes, but when they make one, they act like they've done nothing wrong. if i'm busting my butt all night doing my stock work, and just so happen to forget to put a case up or i sloppily stack a cart in a hurry, i get the shaft for it like i made a grievous mistake. i'm only one man, and i'm not perfect, so get off my back. if you don't like the way i work, feel free to give me some pointers or help me out. don't just yell at me like i'm a peasant who can't tie his own shoes. why can't my team just work as a team, rather than a bunch of bickering babies? rant over.
I'm an honest person. So I always, just speak my mind. I have several coworkers that don't like me because of this and will talk about me behind my back. One thing though. They always whined up telling the ones who tell me what they are saying. It's funny! I don't want to know what they are saying unless they can say it to my face. I don't care if they like me or not. I'm there to work. I don't say anything I wouldn't say to your face, to anyone else.
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I'm an honest person. So I always, just speak my mind. I have several coworkers that don't like me because of this and will talk about me behind my back. One thing though. They always whined up telling the ones who tell me what they are saying. It's funny! I don't want to know what they are saying unless they can say it to my face. I don't care if they like me or not. I'm there to work. I don't say anything I wouldn't say to your face, to anyone else.
That's the way to be. Be able to say it to the person's face just as easily as one would say it behind their back. Folks may not like it or can't take it. But at least they can count on you for not being two faced.
As to the original poster, I can totally see where you coming from and have lived where you been. Most especially when some of my co-workers try and be all cute and say stuff like "well when SOMEONE, took that particular order, or when SOMEONE did X,Y, and Z" prefaced by pointing out that person's faults. But when they do something, they never really own up to it. Or if they do, it's always so dramatic. Like "It wasn't MEEEE , this time." Being so childish about it. I mean I get we all make mistakes and some folks at times need a bit of a talking to about things. But dude it's always in how you do it. And if the person just has a recurring issue, learn to stop witching and pitch in and just help the hell out. Not everything needs commentary from the peanut section.
Come to think of it, I think there should be a few assessment questions about things like that people have to answer before getting hired. Such as, will you be the one standing about pointing fingers instead of helping your team to achieve it's daily goals? Or are you someone that is willing to discuss things in reasonable manner, solve the beef, and keep moving forward or are you one to keep stirring the pot? Cause seriously even though the peeps I work with are "friendly" enough towards customers. They are definitely not that great with their own fellow associates and that is definitely some ****.
I work front end and even so, most of my co-workers are lazy as hell in the easiest job physically in the store. I'm in the middle of a 2 month, unpaid, LOA because I couldn't deal with my store's BS anymore.
I have been employed with my store for 3 years. When I was first hired, I didn't talk to any co-worker for any reason and honestly, I was happier that way. When I get back from LOA, I may just do that again. I come to work, not to make friends.
My front end co-workers will purposefully either shut off their lights or walk away from their registers, therefore funneling more customers towards me and my lane. If I have no one in line, I stand in front of my register or pull from another lane; co-workers just stand around and talk.
I work at King Soopers. (Kroger affiliate) and we call our Front End managers head clerks. (I don't know what actual Kroger stores call them.)
Anyways, Our Head Clerks will allow their favorites to stand around and talk or talk to them but if I shut off my light momentarily when we are not busy to take care of something else quickly, I'll get chastised for it. Our Head Clerks will stand around and talk allowing Que-Vision to dip even if we need baggers or checkers.
As you've stated, they laugh or chastise you if you make a mistake but when they make a mistake, they don't acknowledge it and pretend as though they are infallible.
Late at night, if I'm closing, other late working cashiers will shut off their lights to wipe down registers or talk leaving me to run U-Scan AND a regular register if a big order comes up.
Point being... I dislike most of my co-workers as well. That 99% figure you stated fits accurately with me. I can count the amount of people that I think are decent workers on half of one hand.
It's Kroger, you're working with people who are willing to work for basically food and a ghetto studio apartment, and a 20 year old car that only breaks down 6 times a year if they're lucky lol. The lowest of the low of American society are your coworkers so that's part of it, although in any workplace environment it's all competitive as*holes who will step on you while smiling at you. But at Kroger it's especially heinous.
I work front end and even so, most of my co-workers are lazy as hell in the easiest job physically in the store. I'm in the middle of a 2 month, unpaid, LOA because I couldn't deal with my store's BS anymore.
I have been employed with my store for 3 years. When I was first hired, I didn't talk to any co-worker for any reason and honestly, I was happier that way. When I get back from LOA, I may just do that again. I come to work, not to make friends.
My front end co-workers will purposefully either shut off their lights or walk away from their registers, therefore funneling more customers towards me and my lane. If I have no one in line, I stand in front of my register or pull from another lane; co-workers just stand around and talk.
I work at King Soopers. (Kroger affiliate) and we call our Front End managers head clerks. (I don't know what actual Kroger stores call them.)
Anyways, Our Head Clerks will allow their favorites to stand around and talk or talk to them but if I shut off my light momentarily when we are not busy to take care of something else quickly, I'll get chastised for it. Our Head Clerks will stand around and talk allowing Que-Vision to dip even if we need baggers or checkers.
As you've stated, they laugh or chastise you if you make a mistake but when they make a mistake, they don't acknowledge it and pretend as though they are infallible.
Late at night, if I'm closing, other late working cashiers will shut off their lights to wipe down registers or talk leaving me to run U-Scan AND a regular register if a big order comes up.
Point being... I dislike most of my co-workers as well. That 99% figure you stated fits accurately with me. I can count the amount of people that I think are decent workers on half of one hand.
No one ever admits it's the easiest job in the store even though it obviously is. I'm trying to get up to the front end myself. I'd kill to be able to sit on U scan for my whole shift lol.
Here's the thing about Front End : It's not that it's physically harder than whatever your current position is, but it isn't for everyone. You need to have a VERY high tolerance for the public, and must have a lot of patience and a pokerface. Many of my buddies in Meat and Grocery say they couldn't do the Front for that reason. in fact, we lost 6 cashiers to Produce within a year, because they hated the Front so much and kept begging management to move them.
UScan attracts real a**hole customers, and you have to have an 80% rate of going to the customer(s) if they call for help (yes, that is tracked and you're graded on it.) We have one UScanner that just sits there the entire time, and even gets short with customers or ignores impatient ones. But they're actually 90-years-old and have been with Kroger for over 50 years, so they can do things that we can"t.
You also may need to clean piss, ****, and menses if you're "scheduled" as a bagger (this happens even if you know the register). Many supervisors will disregard that and have you on the register if you know it. But you'll get a supervisor that'll refuse to let you check, Que-Vision be damned.
