Work Drama

[Nebulous]

So last night the school had Open House. Its an event they do every year where the teachers showcase their rooms & go over how each student did all year + give the parents all the kid's art work and other assignments to take home. Also the band does a concert at the end. Usually all the big bosses from the District Office and the board members attend this event as well.



Anyway, last night one staff member went up to my night guy and nudged him in the arm and said Whats up? He snubbed her and told her to stop because the big bosses were looking at them. That pissed her off. She felt disrespected and felt like he was rude. According to her, he should portray a friendly demeanor and not be afraid to interact with her just because important people were in the room. Now they aren't speaking. Today when she was leaving she said Bye, have a nice weekend individually to everyone who was in the room EXCEPT the guy who snubbed her last night.



Who do you think was in the wrong?



Do you ever have any petty drama like this at your job?

 

[Evil Eye]

You should film this and sell it

I guess she's right though, he's putting up a different face for the important people, that's hardly honest.

 

[Jazzy]

No doubt in my mind that the night guy was wrong. I agree that he should portray a friendly demeanor regardless who was there. All he had to do was say hello to her and politely walk away. For all this guy knows, the big bosses were watching all of this just to see what he'd do. Oh man, he's in deep poop now.

I think at any job your going to find petty drama. I just stay clear of those who I know are drama kings & queens.

 

[Corleone]

They're both wrong. While all of us will say we shouldn't act any different in front of our friends when important people are around, well, it's time to face reality, we all do it. I'm not saying it's right, but we all do it from time to time. When no one is around we run that stop sign or speed a little, but when a cop is around, it's time to come to a complete stop and obey the speed limit. No difference. Being informal with your co-worker with important people around isn't a good idea. Is it going to cost you your job? No; it's not the end of the world but it's not a good idea at the same time. If he felt he shouldn't be speaking to her informally then he could of remained formal himself and just let her look bad . That way, he doesn't have to worry about being in the wrong. Anyhow, she shouldn't be getting her panties in a wad over this, and he shouldn't of called her out on this to act different in front of important people.

 

[DrLeftover]

Jesus H. Tap-dancing Christ.



I absolutely cannot Stand immature people playing office politics, sucking up to bosses, and trying to make themselves look better at the expense of others.



To make it simple, I ignore them. Period.



Leave me the (insert profanity of your choice here) alone.



I do my job, stay out of that crap, and if they try to involve me, sarcasm usually suffices, if it doesn't, I have a substantial vocabulary to make the point, to put it mildly.



And for the last ten years or so, for the most part, it has worked.

 

[BeautifulAngel]

I think she shouldn't have taken it too seriously, I mean if he doesn't want to talk or anything because the big bosses are in she should respect that. It was nothing against her he just didn't want to do that stuff infront of the big bosses.



Though he didn't have to be so rude. I mean he could have just said hi and leave it at that.





Also it's pretty imature that she wouldn't say good weekend or whatever to him just because of the previous night, it seems kind of childish to me. I mean you have to work with each other for the rest of the year and possibly next year too, just relax and let it go. It happened it's done you're good to go.





I love my job since there is no drama what so ever. See I work with my boss and my boss only. I'm a conference assistant for a College meaning I set up the audio, visual and log them online when they have conferences, I also have to keep the computers, mouse, keyboards clean, as well as make sure everything is working and what not. It's not a hard job as well and my boss and I get along great. I'm really happy because when I worked at McDonalds, Tim Hortons, Dominos there was ALWAYS drama and I just couldn't stand it. To me you're here to work who cares who did what on what day and who's in jail or got pulled over, that's their life live your own and do your job, isn't that what you're getting paid for?



Just my opinion =)