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Shieldmaiden's picture

EFF OFF to Beanie Boy!!

Dear Ann Landers:

I am dealing with a new coworker who I've talked about before here. I call him "the bro" or "beanie boy." He wears one of those little floppy knit condoms on his head every day, and comes in yawning because he played video games until 3 am. (He is a father of a 5 year old girl, by the way.)

This sack of lazy, entitled shite is in his mid twenties and interferes with me doing my job every hour of every day. I am exhausted and furious. He wants to be liked and seen as "important" so he shouts down the women in the office and interrupts them constantly to correct them, only he is wrong. He doesn't know what he is talking about. Being interrupted or ignored is my pet peeve, so I find myself stifling the urge to tell him "sit the F down and shut the F up!" on an hourly basis. I have complained to the boss once, and I am ready to do it again.

This kid is not reliable. He takes off without telling coworkers that he is going to rubberneck at a passing amublance or "at lunch" (how many lunches does HE get?) and we get stuck answering the phones by ourselves whle he is off chasing cars like an ADHD chihuaha. My main issue is that he acts like he is my manager and tries to steer every conversation that I have with our customers. He confuses them, and he messes up my train of thought, and it makes me want to tie him to a chair and gag him and stow him in the back room until its time for me to go home. 

How do I stifle my inner Dexter and not hurt this man? He is tap dancing on my last nerve, and its PMS week, which means I have less control over my anger. There are only so many Reeses Peanut butter cups in the office vending machine.

Help. I need my fellow s-talkers! Any ideas on getting him fired? He is trading company supplies for free energy drinks from a customer, so I will likely start with that complaint. 

Comments

JRI's picture

Is management aware that his interactions with the customers are not optimum?  You might want to start keeping notes.  Most companies need a record of poor behavior before firing, a documented record vs. opinion.

thinkthrice's picture

Gen Z entitlement!  He would probably prefer being on UIB (or UBI).  Start with any infractions against company policy.   If customers complain that is even better! Wink!

 

TheAccidentalSM's picture

Document everything.

When he interupts or bothers you, ask the customer to hold for a minute and then calmly tell him to go away.  Only once he's removed himself do you carry on with the customer.

Shieldmaiden's picture

Thanks, everyone.  I talked with his supervisor and he is going to follow up with him on these behaviors. Apparently I am  not the only one to complain about the interrupting and interfering. 

Rags's picture

When he is rude, shut him down, when is perpetrates his mesaginist crap, make immediate complaints to the manager present and file an HR complaint. When is is on one of his car chasing barking lunches, for the X time that day, send an e-mail to the manager and HR to cover the phones.

If you tolerate it, it will not  change.  His personal situation is irrelevant.  He does his job, or he deals with the consequences.

Having said that, I am struggling with some hind sight second guessing over my former #2. I am of the mind that I should have fired him.  The challenge in that was that he did a great job on the technical side while he was the kiss of death for customer and team relationships.

Protect yourself, the team, and the business.

IMHO of course.