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How would you deal with this at work?

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KurriKawari · 15/10/2019 15:29

I know this might sound trivial but it's really causing issues at work at the moment. I work in a team of about 15 at the moment. There are a handful of people who have to mention how busy they are at every opportunity. Everyone's busy but they want to act like martyrs. Every meeting huffing and puffing that they're busy. Dropping into convo that they logged onto emails at weekend. When they hand in work to repeatedly say "well this took me x hours". When someone else goes on lunch making a point of it that they don't have time for lunch. Management have done loads to support them but they've been so defensive. They don't want anyone actually asking them specifics about what they're doing because tbh they aren't any more busy than anyone else on the team. It's causing issues with (a) new members of staff who feel demotivted listening to this (b) the moaners shifting their workload onto others on lower grade who shouldn't be doing it. I really can't take listening to it anymore.

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wellhelloyou · 15/10/2019 15:38

Everyone just ignore and don't respond to remarks. People do this when they get a reaction.

KurriKawari · 15/10/2019 15:47

Well the person who mentiond about logging on at the weekend has a second job despite working full time at my organisation so I am a bit hmmm.
We have tried to ignore but last few team meetings have been "what can we all do to help these guys? Can we take on even more of their work?" Some days I just want to be petty and take in my spreadsheet and read out everything me and my team are working on, but its tiresome keeping up with their level of moaning.

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Loopytiles · 15/10/2019 15:51

So you’re their peer and are asked to take on extra work?

If your own workload becomes too high I would seek to address this and, if this is due to other work being assigned to take pressure off others, speak privately to your manager.

Ditto “gatekeeping” any unreasonable work requests to anyone reporting directly to you.

Otherwise, would ignore.

KurriKawari · 15/10/2019 16:05

So you’re their peer and are asked to take on extra work?

Yes :( I've started to push back on it. However the newer and young members of staff don't have the confidence to and it's really affecting their morale.

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Loopytiles · 15/10/2019 16:09

If you’re the newer/younger colleagues’ manager then you can seek to address it, if you’re not you could flag it to their manager.

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