If you, as a manager, heard this at work...?

[Chaicoff]

Would you tell the other manager.

The team who sit next to me in the office (small wall partition), their manager is off this week and one of their team came in this morning and joked with 2 of the other members about their manager being off.

She said "we can relax now ahhhh "name" is off all week"

This person has said something before which I did tell the manager about. I feel irritated that she openly complains about her manager.

WIBU to tell the manager when they return next Monday?

God no! It sounds like a joke. I’d maybe remove the stick from my behind and keep my nose out….

i say this as a manager!

Why does this remind me of that line from Sister Michael in Derry Girls: "You will go far in life Jenny. But you will not be well liked."

Also if another manager said this to me about my team I’d be very 🤨 unless there’s a context of performance queries etc

The fact you even considered reporting this shows how incredibly petty and nasty you are.

It's a fact that most teams like it when a manager goes on holiday, because the atmosphere changes, it's more relaxed. Even if they worked doubly hard, the atmosphere is different.

If you don't know that, then you are a fool. You sound petty and unpleasant with a total lack of people skills and staff understanding.

Same.

It's normal joking around. I manage three teams and I tell them not to plan any coups while I'm off 😁

No!

What the… 🤣

you really think people 50 years ago weren’t complaining about their managers?!

please get a grip

people say much worse about their boss 😂😂😂

that is nothing!

I am a woman and I regret to say that we don't need Trump or Musk to save us from the notions of equality - we are doing a pretty good job ourselves, not a single chess champion among us, practically absent meaningful Nobel Prizes (sciences and medicine) and lamentable lack of female composers. I am genuinely sad.

You seem like you'd be great fun at parties

If my employees said this about me, I'd laugh along with them. Surely you can't be serious?

Have you restarted the Stasi?

I bet you're popular at work!

Christ.

Non event! Move on!

I work in a team of four. We all love our manager but also enjoy it when he's not in the office. We can be a bit more relaxed when he's away and we say it.
He wouldn't mind at all if he knew he said it. He'd probably just laugh and say "I bet you are!".
I don't really understand your mentality that makes you want to report a harmless and very human remark.

Haha yep!!! Bet they do.

This joke is said in every job eveywhere by everyone whenever the manager is out. If you manage people, they make the same comment whenever you're off.

Actually, if the other manager was offended by this then I'd seriously consider resigning. Couldn't deal with management like this.

You sound like one of those people who reported their neighbours to the police for doing an extra walk during covid OP...

Tell tale.

No. In 25 years many of which at varying levels of seniority, it would never have occurred to me to think this comment was something the other manager needed to know.

For goodness sake are you always such a literal thinker? I thought tattle tales ended in the playground.

Oh i really want to know what the last comment you reported was.

You clearly don't like this person - go ahead and report it, it will help build up a case against you for workplace bullying.

Sounds like an every day office comment.

What's to tell? Your colleague has not said anything defamatory, she hasn't divulged anyone's private information, she has not confessed to doing anything which would amount to misconduct or a crime.