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How many rollockings do you get over the course of a working week?
carlos_jackson
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How many and is it possible never to receive any?
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Just wondered what was considered 'normal'.
Although I did end up reduced to tears because of it at one point last week. (Not my colleague's fault though, I just beat myself up too much over it).
When you do get one just nod your head and agree to anything said.
Too many... Only when I'm not there
Some managers still behave like this you know - and some companies have a culture of blame and blamathons (although is usually more of a whining officiousness).
SO depends what the OP meant by Rollicking, (It means any sign of displeasure in some parts of the UK)
I'll have to say that I have only ever seen the word used to mean a severe reprimand, being chewed out. Not some sign of displeasure.
I recognise it does still happening though its pretty much considered bad management, but it sounds OP is saying that it happens a lot to them which makes me think they are either bad at their job or they have a bad manager.
It could be construed the what the OP is referring to is workplace bullying I suppose. A lot of that is reported in highly paid jobs that you would not expect or it could be just a young person in their first job and people react by treating them like school children.
OP would need to elaborate.
Those two blokes lost a lot of friends in our office, some of whom had been their friends for years longer than I'd worked there. I didn't report it upwards, but definitely felt I'd got my revenge when I was promoted above both of them, especially the more senior of the two who was 20 years older than me! ;-)
Since then, none. Just the occasional "put more in, you'll get more out" and "you're not working to your full potential" type comments, like i got at school!
The worst I have come across is doing IT support in the city, especially with traders who think they can get away with murder. I heard it was pretty bad in the 80's, when I worked in the field in the 90's is was a lot better but you still had to be thick skinned at timed. Speaking to people who still work there now, bullying still happens.
I would say about 7 or 8 a day.
I'm IT in London
A lot of stuff goes on for (what I would have thought) very little gain - It's sort of
managerial territory fights with engineers in the middle.
If its justified fair enough I'll take it, if its unjustified they get as good as they give, not done cheekily but I'm not one just to roll over