To ask, if you work in an office, what it's like?

[Pusheenicorn]

The reason I ask is, I work in an office and I literally feel like I am surrounded by stoppy, emotional, most, back stabbing, bitchy, overreacting 6 year olds... I enjoy my job and have a fab boss but wondering if it's time to start looking elsewhere or if all offices are the same?!

You say one thing in the canteen that somehow (like Chinese whispers) gets turned into sometgubg conpletely different and end up getting a bollocking. E.g. what was said - "I didn't think CEO woukd like the new girl because she has purple hair but he didn't seem to mind" ... By the time it had reached my boss apparently I had said "CEO said he's going to sack the new girl and he is gobsmacked that anybody thought it was acceptable to hire somebody with purple hair, whoever hired her is getting sacked as well"

Sent out an email the other day saying were FINALLY getting a coffee machine after approx. 1000 requests in the suggestion box- please vote on the link below (once only) whether you would prefer a Tassimo or Nespresso.

Cue everyone manually voting 70 times in the space of 30s seconds, crashing the website, making people who didn't want to vote vote for the one they wanted (this from senior managers!)... sent out another email saying "I can see when you've voted more than once these won't be counted" now literally nobody downstairs is speaking to me and one person has raised a bullying grievance against me because I was purposefully trying to make sure she didn't get the machine she wanted....

Another senior manager (new) through an almighty bitch fit when I handed her her contract to be signed and returned (I'm an HR admin and do all the contracts, offer letters etc) outraged that I knew her salary. My boss told her I have access to the salary database so know everyone's, issue everyone's contracts and she trusts in my confidentiality etc. New senior manager raises a grievance with CEO demanding I no longer have access to this information as it's demeaning that an admin should know "her" salary!!!!

Last one... another senior manager bent all the cutlery and put it in the bin so there is nothing to eat lunch with because somebody left a teaspoon in the sink....

Is your workplace like this or do I just work somewhere actually INSANE. I don't want to leave if it's the same elsewhere.

Bonkers. Points to a work culture where people are miserable and feel disempowered from what the business actually does.

I'm out of the corporate world now but I spent 15 years in it. So many businesses try to fix deep corporate culture issues by doing things like buying fancy coffee machines and expecting productivity to magically double overnight.

Workers: "Lots of people here are unhappy. It's stressful and we're not feeling engaged with what we do. Senior management treat us like infants."

Mgmt: "Yes yes yes but look! A beer fridge!"

Bloody hell OP, that sounds awful.

I mostly work with school leavers, my company pay them peanuts and have them working silly long days. Very few members of staff over the age of 25.

Our clients refer to our office as ‘the creche’

I hate it and I’m looking for something new!

PlausibleSuit my old workplace was like that. We'd have a meeting where we would all explain why we felt undervalued, our manager would give us biscuits and a verbal pat on the head. Nothing changed.

It sounds very similar to where I use to work. There were about 30 people in the office and only about 4 of them were men and the ages were from 18 to 30. The bitchiness and complaints were UNREAL and I think this was largely due to the fact the majority were quite young women. Grievances included "she gave everyone a chocolate bar but me".

I don't work there now but still work in an office, it's smaller and the women/men here are older (40-60); the atmosphere is so much better.

That sounds absolutely insane!

Good HR Admin are like gold dust (I'm an HR Manager). I'd try and find a job somewhere remotely normal.

Your office sounds insane and your colleagues sound horrible. Nothing like this has ever happened in mine. Everyone is just cheerful and friendly and will have a nice chat with you at the coffee machine!

So you tell them where to be and what. End of. People are like fucking Disney lemmings, lobbing themselves off cliffs.

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