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Do you have a workplace Mafia?.
U96
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You know the ones.They are shit at their job yet seem to get the promotion you've been after for years.
Maybe they play football or golf.In with the in crowd.Socialise together but you're never there.
You try your best,never off sick or late.Yet you never rise through the ranks.
Tell us about your workplace Mafia.
Maybe they play football or golf.In with the in crowd.Socialise together but you're never there.
You try your best,never off sick or late.Yet you never rise through the ranks.
Tell us about your workplace Mafia.
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Suffice it to say that they all live in the same ass-backward small town, have been in their job for years, and see themselves as upwardly mobile. I don't see my job as an opportunity for anything other than CV padding.
Workplaces always seem to attract such.. unhealthy and illogical dynamics.
I'm not that fussed about climbing the greasy pole.But i do wonder how guys who have been on their final written warnings, seem to turn it around- and have meteoric rises to the higher echelons of the career ladder.Maybe they're Masons or something?.
And you can never break into their secret society.You can ask as many questions as you like.Even make it formal.But you just hit the brick wall of excuses and silence.
Not personally but I have witnessed it many times in the voluntary sector.
It's all just self-serving cronyism and nepotism.. try not to take it personally I guess?
Ditto - the voluntary sector can be some of the worst.
People wonder why so many companies and organisations are 'corrupt' and 'useless'.. it's because of people like that.
It's not even because of anything particularly sinister, but because people are solely focused on 'me, me, me' to the detriment of everything else.
My other job seems to be a bit more open but some folk do tend to gang up and give the better hours to their pals
Even in the voluntary sector?.I always thought it was just in the 'the grabbing hands,grab all they can' paid sector.
'They smile in your face,all they wanna do is take your place'.The Backstabbers.>:(
In the non-profit sector there's no incentive for anybody to get rid of anybody, especially if they aren't being paid.
Think of how this problem affects the public sector (and how it's so hard for councils to get rid of lazy ikes etc), and then extrapolate...
That doesn't come naturally to me.They probably think of me as 'naive'.Doesn't bother me.
'We don't like strangers round these parts -OUTLANDER!'.:D
I hated them, they hated me. Mostly because I used to rather happily and loudly tell everyone else to ignore their pathetic excuse for a management style whenever they tried to make one of the girls cry or similar. The company couldn't do without me, making me untouchable from their nonsense, but eventually it had to because I got a much better job elsewhere. About 9 months after that I heard they'd all been fired for misconduct by one of the partners. Laughed my socks off about that
Yes,it seems the same for both public and private.I'm always on the outside,looking in.I'll never be one of them.But that makes me happy!.:D
I didn't even go to his Wedding reception.I'm a right unsociable bastard.Mybe that sealed my fate?.
They certainly didn't practice the word of the Lord.These people are always the same.
I had the same problem.Left school at 16 and got bullied by the guy 1 level higher than me.I grassed him to the boss and he never spoke to me again.
As Hypnodisc said, there's is a LOT of nepotism in the Third Sector, people seem to get away with a lot more due to lack of scrutiny.
Sometimes, the Trustees sit on boards without any real 'power', so they tend to be honorary postions and don't have anyone to report to, themselves, as they are unaware of the structures.
Also the Charity Commission won't get involved in disputes so whistleblowing is rare.
There are MANY fantastic charities though which are run impeccably, it's just that I have experienced a fair few that haven't been.
'self important tossers promoted well beyond their ability'.That's my workplace.
They seem to think they're'untouchable'.
It's funny to see people who you used to consider as fairly down to earth.Become total arseholes and up themselves with a couple of promotions.They lose touch with reality.
There's no excuse for that in my book.
I can see why people go self employed.
If I'd won the £107 million Euro Lottery.I would've went round my workplace and hand picked the good people to start my own company.The majority of them would've been from the lower ranks.The so called 'Senior Managers/Managers/Senior Supervisors etc would've been left behind.
No, they got the easiest hits too, or knocking off business with high income and no weapons in the house, while I got the hardened liquer stores. We might have all dressed the same in black suits and ties, but they were definitely treated better.
It was very much a mafia mafia.