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AIBU?

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Collegue lying about illness and blaming me

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Grindelwaldswand · 24/12/2016 00:54

Absolutely fuming a new starter at work decided she wanted to go home early last week because she was "ill", 2 hours later i go on my break and check my phone to see a long message from her about how she's gone into town to do her Christmas shopping and her DP has bought her an expensive lunch etc etc. So i tell my supervisor when i get back on shift and show her the message and she says she'll deal with it today,so later today i get an angry message from this co worker calling me a snitch and saying she will make my life hell if i don't fess up i told her she shouldn't send people messages like that if she wants to pull a fast one and that when she left her shift we all had to pitch in to do her work for her (she was 30 mins into a 12hr shift when she decided to leave) and ive just found out today she has handed her notice in already as its too hard working in retail !! She's been here two weeks AIBU for telling my boss what she had done ?

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SnatchedPencil · 24/12/2016 11:55

YANBU, good job she has handed in her notice though.

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Grindelwaldswand · 28/12/2016 16:54

She was 25 so knew better and she's gone now !! thank god. My manager had a huge grin on her face telling me. And no I don't go tell tailing over small things but when i see someone taking the piss i will because it affects me and my work which i take seriously

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Grindelwaldswand · 28/12/2016 16:59

And yes i have a brilliant relationship with my management and other colleagues I'm actually in line for a promotion in august

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Waltermittythesequel · 28/12/2016 17:06

You sound insufferable.

I can imagine you sprinting to tell on her

You should change your NN to Professor Umbridge. Much more fitting, I think.

SapphireStrange · 28/12/2016 17:16

You sound insufferable.

And you sound like a tit.

I'd have told the manager too. Apart from anything else, I'd feel intensely uncomfortable if a colleague tried to make me piggy in the middle like that and I'd want it out in the open straight away so I couldn't be accused of covering for the colleague.

PlanIsNoPlan · 28/12/2016 18:08

She's played a blinder then hasn't she...as you say it's known what you will do, she'd earned what she needed to earn and wanted out. What quicker. swifter way than to let you know what she was really doing. Good luck with your promotion.

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Grindelwaldswand · 28/12/2016 23:49

It's interesting to see how many "shirker types" are on MN as if you can condone behaviour of that sort and think im bad at my job for caring for you all

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Charlottelouisa · 29/12/2016 12:55

What a terrible grass you are!!!

SVJAA · 29/12/2016 13:04

I find it odd that so many people are attacking the OP. Surely the people who are fucking over their workmates and getting paid exactly the same for doing fuck all should be the target of more ire? I can't abide people who fuck about and let everyone else pick up their slack constantly. It's lazy, selfish and rude.

HolidaySpiritsReinbeerAndWhine · 29/12/2016 13:06

Grindelwaldswand, why are you still going with this thread, the matter seems to be resolved? We get it, you're super proud of being a teacher's pet, well done you. Unfortunately MN doesn't do Blue Peter badges, so not quite sure what you're aiming for now?

Oh, and I don't believe myself to be a 'shirker' in any way. I've worked since I was a teenager, often alongside taking responsibilities no teen/young person should have to in their personal lives. I would never tolerate a true (and I quote a pp) 'piss taker', but I always realised that every so often I might need a favour from a colleague and pissing them off doesn't help. No one has much time for the known 'brown noser', for my years of experience. Obviously where you work may be different though.

GilMartin · 29/12/2016 13:23

"everyone at work knows I won't hesitate to inform a manager if i know they are doing something wrong"

Well done head girl.

Don't be surprised that when you fuck up at work or have the occasional off day when you do the bare minimum to get through the shift or you are distracted by other important things going on in your life, your colleagues take great delight in telling your boss all about it.

rollonthesummer · 29/12/2016 13:33

I am most certainly not a shirker but this leaves a nasty taste

"everyone at work knows I won't hesitate to inform a manager if i know they are doing something wrong"

I would hope that at work I'm known for being a hard worker, good with people, helping out others, accurate paperwork etc There are quite literally hundreds of things I would hope I'd be known at work for rather than being the person that will be first to inform to a manager for others' wrongdoings!

Waltermittythesequel · 29/12/2016 14:19

I'm not a shirker. I'm not a dick head either, to my knowledge...

miserablesod · 29/12/2016 14:30

I would hate to work with you. Not because i'm lazy or take the piss but you sound like an arse licker. No one likes a brown noser

cherrycrumblecustard · 29/12/2016 14:31

I hate people who are passionate about their jobs. They are usually very annoying.

GilMartin · 29/12/2016 14:38

I agree.

Enjoy the job, yes.

Like your colleagues, yes.

But passionate about it? Either something is lacking in the rest of their life or they've bought wholesale into their organisation's pr guff 'Here at Fleecum and Scarper we are passionate about chartered accountancy'.

Buttercupsandaisies · 29/12/2016 14:38

You may think you're popular but I'm guessing behind your back it's different. I've never once pulled a sickie but to tell on someone - gosh I haven't done that since infants! How old are you?!😮

SapphireStrange · 29/12/2016 14:43

But passionate about it? Either something is lacking in the rest of their life or they've bought wholesale into their organisation's pr guff

Oh sod off. Why shouldn't people be passionate about their work? Good on em.

dovesong · 29/12/2016 14:43

Tbh I think it's a good thing that management know that a new starter's taking the piss in these circumstances, but God, the thought of being known for grassing on fellow employees makes my skin crawl.

GilMartin · 29/12/2016 14:54

Yes. There were kids like that at school who would grass people up for things that whilst against the rules didn't effect them in any way. By all means if you are being bullied or put in danger speak out, but I have nothing but the sort of people who got people in trouble just because they could, were held in contempt by their fellow students and by a good section of the teachers who were pestered with an endless refrain of:

'Miss, miss I saw Anna Jones smoking a cigarette behind the bikeshed' 'Miss, miss Bobby McIntosh is chewing gum in class', 'Sir, sir Gil Martin told Davey Carter a joke with a swear word in it at breaktime'.

I often wondered what happened to snakes in the grass when they hit adulthood and it seems they perpetuate the same behaviour at work.

Madshiplollipop · 29/12/2016 15:30

Hardly the same as telling on someone for smoking behind the bikesheds - someone was getting paid for doing nothing and expecting colleagues to cover for them so they could get away with it.

00100001 · 29/12/2016 15:34

gilmartin. But the other worker skiing had a direct impact on. The OP. She had to do Skivey's work for them.

If you have ever no issue doing someone else's work for them whilst they show off about how they are doing SFA whilst you are covering for them. Then great.

But in my eyes it takes the piss.

Buttercupsandaisies · 29/12/2016 15:53

I don't get how people say she's doing her work - surely she's just doing her own work - you just work at your own pace surely!

GilMartin · 29/12/2016 16:10

I wasn't talking about this incident in particular, rather the OP's seeming delight in running to management to grass at any given opportunity.

I'd be amazed if someone working in retail (especially for a short period) would get sick pay. I wouldn't be high fiving them, but I can't get that worked up over it either. if they want to run the risk and loose a day's pay in the process it is their lookout. It has happened plenty of times to me where people have got hammered the night before on a night out and then not come in as they've got a tummy bug (read hangover) you cope, there should be contingencies in place for unexpected absences.

All of which is a moot point, as the op seems not to have been motivated by a sense that she and her other colleagues were being to cover this woman's slack and more to do with ingratiating herself with management.

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Grindelwaldswand · 29/12/2016 16:37

Some questionable morals on MN for people to actually side with skivers says a lot about them as a human, can't have gotten far in life

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