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AIBU to be angry with office snitch!

234 replies

Catchuptv · 09/02/2020 18:02

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.

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Tombliwho · 09/02/2020 19:59

What's going on with you that causes you to be so unkind at work?

BritWifeinUSA · 09/02/2020 19:59

Just because she’s been there for only a year doesn’t mean she doesn’t have good ideas on how to streamline things. That may well he the very reason she was hired. If she continues her streamlining, she may even manage to streamline you out of the process completely. So what if it’s “easier” (in other words “I’m too lazy”) for you to email the information to her? It’s not easier for her or the general workflow. You weren’t even prepared to try it.

LondonJax · 09/02/2020 20:01

Have you ever thought that her boss may have asked her to come up with a new system? Possibly because mistakes have been made by one person sending the information to another person so they can input it. When the system obviously exists for everyone to input their own information directly.

Maybe her boss has asked her to take on another project and she's explained about the 'old way' of doing things. Now she's had to explain that people are refusing to do it the 'new' way.

As for sneaking off - you're paid to do your hours. Unless you have agreement to flexitime or you've agreed a few minutes with the boss, you should do those hours.

What would you do if someone refused to follow a new system? Cover for them? Keep trying to win them round? Nope, you'd talk to your boss. Who would talk to the manager of the person causing the trouble. I'd suggest you get your head down and get on with your work - people are watching you now and it's not this woman. Working there for years without any complaints won't save your job if you're seen as a problem.

PleaseStopCallingMe · 09/02/2020 20:03

OP from your other threads you've been pulled up for taking too many personal calls at work and for workplace bullying.

Time to stop pointing fingers at other people and evaluating your own workplace behaviour

SpaceCadet4000 · 09/02/2020 20:06

Chances are she went up the line because you've left a long-standing trail of obstinate refusal to cooperate. Management have probably informed your colleagues to raise it with them when you pull this stuff.

Oulu · 09/02/2020 20:10

I'm sure it was easier for you not to bother inserting the information, but that doesn't make it easier in terms of the process as a whole. It makes lots of sense to take one step out of the process - if you have to note down and send off the information in an email, you might as well note it straight into the matrix.

You're paid to work your contracted hours. You say that you get your work done, but it may well be that you would be more productive and therefore pull your weight better if you didn't sneak off. Are you available, for instance, to help out when someone else is off? In any event, if you skive out of the office you really can't complain when you're pulled up on it.

SinkGirl · 09/02/2020 20:12

If I give you a smidge or benefit of the doubt, why do you think she should input the data and not you? Is this part of her role and not yours? Do you divide up tasks so that she does this and you do something else? Are there issues with the file is you both work on it at the same time?

Or (more likely) do you think that your years of service means she’s your lackey?

icansmellburningleaves · 09/02/2020 20:13

Given that you sneak off from work early and refused to put something on a spread sheet that streamlined the process I’m not surprised she went to her boss. You sound like you’re threatened by her.

heartsonacake · 09/02/2020 20:17

YABU. She approached you first, you failed to do anything about it so she rightfully approached her boss.

You have no right to leave early and you know that, otherwise you wouldn’t have to “sneak” out, you’d just tell your boss you were leaving early because you felt like it.

It’s irrelevant how long you’ve worked there, you work the hours you’re allocated as a bare minimum.

BirdieFriendBadge · 09/02/2020 20:17

@BettysLeftTentacle - I'm really hoping you and OP work together!!!

She's said she off next week!

Just imagine!

Oblomov20 · 09/02/2020 20:27

I'm surprised at the responses aswell.

I guess complacency when you've been in a job a long time, and someone new comes in, is tricky!

cabbageking · 09/02/2020 20:28

She will have presented a procedure to her boss and provided reasons why it was better. The Boss appears to have agreed with her.
This is normal business procedure. Shows she is interested in her job and you are not.

You have nothing to complain about other than why did you not think of a more efficient system before her did? Because you are too busy sneaking off and making phone calls.

I suspect the boss is questioning your value if a newer employee has brought this up?

Disfordarkchocolate · 09/02/2020 20:30

The way to tackle this was to suggest a way of improving the process so there was no data entry. If you couldn't do that then enter your own figures and make life easier for everyone.

Oh, and work the hours you are meant to.

Di11y · 09/02/2020 20:35

if I'd come up with a good suggestion I'd mention it to my boss if I thought worth taking further. maybe she's made a mistake with the data and wants to avoid it happening again.

JosefKeller · 09/02/2020 20:39

Why do you pretend she went behind your back Catchuptv?
She went to you first, you dismissed her, so she went to her boss as she should do.
She did exactly what she was supposed to do.

MissGuernsey · 09/02/2020 20:41

I actually voted YANBU. I can sort of understand her suggesting to the manager a method of streamlining processes but saying about you leaving early was out of order. Nobody likes a telltale or brown noser.

BootShakin · 09/02/2020 20:42

You are unprofessional and unpleasant. And 'snitch'? Lol. What are you? 7?

BettysLeftTentacle · 09/02/2020 20:42

@BirdieFriendBadge doubtful. There’s details in her past posts that don’t match up but there’s plenty of the CFs about!

BaolFan · 09/02/2020 20:42

Nobody likes a telltale or brown noser.

People also don't like those who routinely take the piss by leaving early without permission.

BahMooQuack · 09/02/2020 20:43

Oh believe me. The OP leaving early 'sneaking off' early will be no surprise to anyone. No Big Reveal by the newbie.

Everyone, but everyone knows who the shirkers are in any office.

Cheeringmeup · 09/02/2020 20:44

@Walkthedinosauuuuur

Was that a typo? Surely you mean
I refuse to believe anyone is this odious.

FleurNancy · 09/02/2020 20:44

Wtf? What she suggested makes perfect sense, why have twice the amount of processes? Sounds like you're trying to get away with the bare minimum in order to facilitate sneaking off early. Bad form OP.

Bluntness100 · 09/02/2020 20:46

Seems like she did the right thing, it makes no sense if you're in the same position for you to send her the info to put into thr matrix, you should do it youtself, she's not your assistant.

As for the sneaking off early, calling her a snitch etc, that's a bit childish.

I'm guessing this thread didn't go as you planned. A bit like refusing her reasonable request didn't go as planned.

Try to play nicely op.

Bluntness100 · 09/02/2020 20:51

I'd also think twice about speaking to her op
Because if she tells her boss that, you'll likely be in deep shit.

Look, enter the data in the excel. It's your job. Don't send it to her to do. You're going to have to suck it up, you got away with it for long enough.

Is there other things you've been trying to get her to do for you too?is that why you're leaving early has come up?

BahMooQuack · 09/02/2020 20:56

I also want to know if this colleague is the one the OP in the other thread calls Pussy and Flapperjack.

Seems to me the Op more likely than not has a fairly bulging personnel file that may not be to her credit.