Boss called me an annoying snitch for complaining about my lazy co worker?

[Queenoftheuniverseandgalaxy]

Her laziness is affecting my job.

We both clean in a restaraunt. It’s just me and her, no supervisors.
She is extremely lazy, doesn’t do her work, leaves dirt and mess in her area, leaves most of the work to me. Often sits around on her phone. When I show her the mess and dirt she leaves, she rolls her eyes. One time told me « I don’t care, shut up, you are so annoying and you are not my boss, just do it for me, and left »

Management is often angry at us on WhatsApp and often complains about the mess and dirt she leaves. We both get blamed for her lazy horrible cleaning.

I tried speaking to her a million times, she told me she doesn’t care and to stfu.

After 6 months of this and yet another angry complaint hinting they’ll fire us, I had enough and contacted the cleaning company boss, asking him to please speak to her and that the area they were angry about, was hers.

I get this message

She never blames you Kate. We do not blame each other. Snitching is gross behaviour Kate. You are both a team and should work together! You are being an annoying snitch. A tattle tale. Just disgusting behaviour from you. Stop snitching, I don’t want to hear it

2 scenarios here, either it didn't happen or its a shagfest

"You are being an annoying snitch" is a weird way of saying "You are alerting me to a situation which falls to me as the manager to deal with, but I don't want to, so I am blaming you for it"

@blackheartsgirl

Yes it does happen. I think in a team you will always get people who slack .I learned to just do my bit and if there were complaints I just said do what I can and I can't do the work of everyone else .

"Yes and a "team" works together, not with one person doing all the work with the other person watching. You employ us to work, not sit around doing nothing. You might as well halve your wages bill and only employ one of us. I'll do you a favour in that regard - I quit! Good luck getting her to actually step up and do some cleaning"

Thank you @Queenoftheuniverseandgalaxy for being an honest and decent cleaner. We have one in our office now, but we've had so many like your "teammate" in the past and it's so bloody annoying for us as clients too.

I remember seeing our cleaner one day, wandering around with a manky duster, wiping, I kid you not, a dinner plate sized section on every desk. Our desks are 6ft x 3ft! One day I felt my desk was getting particularly grubby so got a fresh duster and cleaned it myself and it was disgusting. We even started drawing patterns in the dust on the window sill to see if she'd notice, but she never did, or never bothered. Thankfully her boss was pretty good - we complained, he had words, she didn't change, so we complained again, and he replaced her.

Are there really managers that manage their staff in this way?
Is this actually real?

@Queenoftheuniverseandgalaxy NOPE. Quit. They don't have your back. In fact, go off on sick leave and let the shit hit the fan then quit when you have a new job!

This response is absolutely out of order.

I would say you gave this woman too many chances, though. You were right to give her the opportunity to change her behavior but you should have raised it sooner for your own sake rather than putting up with it for so long.

I mean, your employer sounds shit so there's no guarantee things would have been different, it's just easier to write something off as playing the blame game after the fact. Assuming you had an employer who responded more professionally, they could still have reasonably asked why you didn't say anything before rather than let it get to the stage of losing a contract.

None of that justifies their response, though. You're better off somewhere else.

Oh my sweet summer child

I believe it. A friend who works in catering had to put up with a lazy colleague going outside for a fag whenever a delivery arrived. She spoke to the colleague, he told her to fuck off, you are not my boss etc. She spoke to the Manager who replied in a similar manner to your's. She got another job. I'm sorry this is happening to you and I hope you find something better quickly.

Get a new job!

There is plenty of work out there for cleaners, go find something else and leave immediately. These people do not deserve the energy even to reply.

Get a new job and take their clients with you.

My friend actually complained to HR (after she left) and their response was pretty decent so she wished she had done it whilst still there. Does your company have a separate HR department?

I did. I messaged him twice, with photos and videos too, and he said he’ll look into it, but nothing happened after that

You should have taken pictures of her mess with date and time, then record her conversation where she tells you to STFU, then handle them to your manager. This said it sounds like you're working for some very unprofessional people (both boss and co-worker) so I would encourage you to open your own cleaning business and find another more professional company to work for. Competent, reliable cleaners who speak good English are sought after.

Tell your boss to stick her job where the sun don’t shine! There are lots of cleaning jobs out there don’t work for anyone who doesn’t appreciate you life is too short!

Sometimes when they want you to leave they do all these things. Just find another job dear . Not worth talking to these sort of people. You will be much happier.

I would speak to the restaurant and offer to undercut the cleaning company!

leave asap,not worth the time and effort, obviously the manager is good friends with your Co worker.

Find another job as quickly as you can

Approach the restaurant and negotiate to clean for them independently. Cut out the middle man, cut out the parasitic waste of skin you currently "work" alongside ☺️.

Keep the texts etc. You might be able to claim constructive dismissal or similar

The employment tribunal will eat this up

What an extraordinarily unprofessional and ridiculous response. It's absolutely insulting and I imagine an industrial tribunal wouldn't be terribly impressed by it.

You'll have to leave, I think. You certainly don't want to have to deal with such ineptitude - or ingratitude! But when you go, make sure that your manager (and anyone above her) knows why you're going. Drop your lovely colleague and your manager right in it.

You need a new job.

(I have a gift for stating the bleeding obvious).