What do you think of colleagues who pretend "smile" at you?

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I find my colleagues are ill-trained, rude, ignorant & all around very, very suited for the minimum wage they are paid. What "skill" they have is mostly due to on-site training & that in itself is often lacking - none of them can train worth sh*t. The senior staff spends more time gabbing or shifting work off to temporaries, students, etc. than doing their jobs (if they did do their jobs they wouldn't feel so overworked).

I am at this job more as a favor for the business owner than for actual work as I have a unionized job that pays my suited wage. Do I feel guilty or something taking a minimum wage job for another nitwit worker? No. Because if I did this place would go under... the owner's running himself into the ground trying to compensate for the staff. Why he hasn't fired them? His wife is HR & is of the same personality as them (two-faced, etc.) so they're all sort of friends, and as they bitch to her about him this gives her a sense of power in an industry she knows little to nothing about.

Pretentious

Bothersome

Ignore them / Not worth a second thought

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Answer 1

R3DthatDude | 70 opinions shared on Education & Career topic.

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He needs to fire all of them and get a fresh new staff lol

R3DthatDude

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Even his wife
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To be honest I've no idea why he married her. She's not a nice person. Very fickle, etc. She's not of our field so she's rather uneducated about the ins & outs of how this industry works. In fact, from what she told me in passing I believe their relationship began as a convenience & lasted more due to compliance & kids than the sort of rapport I see with my parents, aunts/uncles, etc.

But beyond that due to her favoring the nimrods, as they as said bitch to her about him (he's a "meanie" - in reality he wants people that can actually work/think for themselves) gives her a sense of power suppose, I am pretty sure she costs him good employees. He told me the nimrods haven't had help in a year or so... personally I can't imagine why anyone would willingly want to hang around unless they can't get hired anywhere else. I came on expecting a decently organized business that might need some tweaking as has happened elsewhere I've worked/done relief work at and it was like stepping into a circus. Disorganized, lazy, water-cooler gabbing rude/ignorant (nasty, talking behind your back, etc.) nitwits all unable to think beyond their noses. To someone who got hired in the field by a hospital before ever graduating college/university, it was like holy-fking-shit. As others in the field have said the staff are unprofessional.

But yeah it's like I am still on probation. If the HR/wife says no I'm going to point blank tell her thank god & tell him good luck cause he's definitely going to need it.

Answer 2

R3DthatDude

Even his wife

Answer 3

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To be honest I've no idea why he married her. She's not a nice person. Very fickle, etc. She's not of our field so she's rather uneducated about the ins & outs of how this industry works. In fact, from what she told me in passing I believe their relationship began as a convenience & lasted more due to compliance & kids than the sort of rapport I see with my parents, aunts/uncles, etc.

But beyond that due to her favoring the nimrods, as they as said bitch to her about him (he's a "meanie" - in reality he wants people that can actually work/think for themselves) gives her a sense of power suppose, I am pretty sure she costs him good employees. He told me the nimrods haven't had help in a year or so... personally I can't imagine why anyone would willingly want to hang around unless they can't get hired anywhere else. I came on expecting a decently organized business that might need some tweaking as has happened elsewhere I've worked/done relief work at and it was like stepping into a circus. Disorganized, lazy, water-cooler gabbing rude/ignorant (nasty, talking behind your back, etc.) nitwits all unable to think beyond their noses. To someone who got hired in the field by a hospital before ever graduating college/university, it was like holy-fking-shit. As others in the field have said the staff are unprofessional.

But yeah it's like I am still on probation. If the HR/wife says no I'm going to point blank tell her thank god & tell him good luck cause he's definitely going to need it.

Answer 4

Iron_Man | 484 opinions shared on Education & Career topic.

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I hate fake stuff

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