AIBU to be angry with office snitch!

[Catchuptv]

I'm still feeling resentful - thank god I'm off work next week. This woman at work who's only been there for a year but same position as me asked me last week if I would update a matrix instead of sending her the information to add. I do this on a weekly basis and she was on about 'streamlining' the process. I told her no - that it was easier for me just to email her the info but she said again it would make it easier and avoid mistakes transporting the information. I disagreed and left it at that - next thing is I'm called into my managers office and told I've to follow the new procedure! I'm really pissed off about this. I'm off next week but plan to speak to her when I get back for going behind my back. She went to her own boss who is the Head of the Department and must have spoke to her about it. She brought up other stuff about my leaving/arrival times - yep - I do sneak off early sometime but I get the job done. Livid.

No, I don’t think it’s pathetic. IME, people who make a habit of ‘sneaking off early’ often make a habit of being ‘5 minutes late back from lunch’ and ‘5 minutes late starting’ but don’t make a habit of starting early or staying late or having a short lunch to balance it all out. And that starts to piss people off after a while.

Work places should be flexible. But that flexibility has to be adult and reciprocal.

Not ‘sneaky’

Are you being serious?

She's asked for something perfectly sensible - which is for you to input the information directly rather than using her as a mailbox.

And you may well have been "sneaking off early" for years but that doesn't mean it's the right thing to do. You can hardly say you're getting the job done when you have just refused to comply with a reasonable work-related request.

By all means go and speak to her directly - and then be oh-so-surprised when she quite rightly goes back to the HoD and HR to complain about your attitude to feedback.

Grow up, work your hours and stop being petty.

This is a reverse!

Why are you ok to 'sneak off early' ?

Why cant you fill out the report instead of emailing her? It is more streamlined for you to do it.

This was probably the last straw.
Your behaviour is not acceptable.

Of course it's easier to email someone else information and get them to do all the work. And sneak off early so everyone else has to pick up the slack. Everyone should do it shouldn't they?

And it's couldn't care less.

This is either a reverse or a wind up.

It would only be snitching if she hadn't tried to address the issue with you first. She obviously felt like she was hitting her head against a brick wall with you so escalated the issue to her boss.

Well, hold on: whose job is it to add this information? Hers or yours? I get that it’s easier for you to email her the info and easier for her if you update the matrix, but to whose role does the information pertain?

Are you trying to sound like an entitled PITA, OP?

She's going to make lots of friends.

Why does the amount of time you've been working there matter?

Are you saying that the longer you've been in a role, the fewer rules you have to abide by?

What kind of organisation do you work in?

So...anyone who hasn't had a complaint about their work gets to leave early as they see fit?

How did you expect the situation to be resolved? Suggestion from her was how to do something more efficiently, you said that you don’t like change and want to stick to old way. Next move?

You are the same level, one doesn’t trump the other therefore someone more senior needs to decide the process. I’d be happy if one of my team had a streamlining method but annoyed if someone said no, so I’d want to hear it

YABU
She has a better 'company' attitude than you. Coming up with new ideas to streamline work and being a good timekeeper. She will be the one getting higher pay, bonuses and promotions.
When you go back you need a more positive, pragmatic company centred approach.

Yabu in every level

So what would happen if everyone left early?

You're being really difficult & yet she's the snitch.

You sound horrible. She’s asked you a reasonable thing politely and you’ve refused. You’re also not doing the hours you’re paid for - if you can get everything done and leave early then they could give you more work to do. This sort of attitude really does wind up other people on the team who are conscientious

How do you know she’s spoken to her boss about you sneaking off early? Maybe your manager had noticed it and decided to raise it alongside the new policy issue?
It does make more sense for you to enter the info directly, rather than using a middleman. Maybe she raised it as ‘wouldn’t it be more efficient if the info was entered directly’ rather than ‘can we change the process to deliberately annoy catchuptv’

Sounds sensible to me. She's new(ish) in the role, so can bring a fresh set of eyes to processes, and streamline old methods into more effective ones.

Also, it's work. Don't waste your non-paid hours thinking/worrying about it!

You sound annoying and immature tbh. Good for her.

YABVU and I think you know that. You're expecting her to do something you should be doing and when you refused to do it, having politely requested, she told her own boss. Do you seriously expect her to put up with your lazy attitude because you've been in post longer?

As for sneaking off early, you definitely already know YABU which makes me wonder if this is a reverse post.

To the poster who said to tell her "Snitches get stitches"; that's the languages of cowardly little playground bullies. Are you one?

She tried to sort it out with you and didn't get anywhere, so she went to her boss. Sounds reasonable.

The timekeeping thing probably wouldn't have come up if it wasn't for this, but she may have been asked for other feedback on you. Either that, or everyone knows you sneak off early and this was a chance to bring it up.

So you've got complacent and some one newer challenged it, good!