New Job, Lazy Colleagues

MsBlonde

Takeaway_Addict wrote: »

I know you said the manager is a lazy so and so as well but what about the owner?

I've never met the owner, not sure he/she even exists lol

MsBlonde

theoretica wrote: »

If the manager is changing it is likely that the culture will change too, and I would incline to wait it out and see what happens. Have you thought about aiming for the assistant managers role?

It did go through my mind, since within the 2nd week of my employment there they had given me the spare set of keys and asked me to open up when the manager was taking his "holiday" since he's leaving soon. The other "newbie" who started the same day as me, didn't get any responsibility.

But there are others that have been there longer and would probably go for the position, not that I personally think they'd suit it, due to obvious reasons.

I also think the assistant manager is all talk, since he's the one who opened a grieveance against the manager, hoping to get him fired, yet the assistant manager is exactly like the other employees, lazy and always in hurry to leave wanting no responsibility, for example we were both working one day, but I had to lock up because he didn't want to ...

amiehall

Why don't you just go out to lunch with them too. You can't be left to lock up if you go home when they do etc... I would make sure you turn up on time and do your work when you're in the office, but I'd take other cues from the rest of the team.

Maybe if you relaxed a bit and got to know them, they might like you a bit better. If you're out as well, you can't be left holding the baby or doing other people's work for them. It's not your role to manage them.

Armorica

There is short term vs. long term.

Short-term you could continue to try to escalate to management, probably not gel with other staff working there, continue to get frustrated...but that would hinder a more strategic longer term plan of

Getting experience, getting a working relationship with peers (however useless you think they are), getting more responsibility at current or a higher role, waiting it out until the current jokers leave, perhaps responsibility for training/mentoring new joiners (and train them in your image, not in the image of those you don't like) etc.

MsBlonde

amiehall wrote: »

Why don't you just go out to lunch with them too. You can't be left to lock up if you go home when they do etc... I would make sure you turn up on time and do your work when you're in the office, but I'd take other cues from the rest of the team.

Maybe if you relaxed a bit and got to know them, they might like you a bit better. If you're out as well, you can't be left holding the baby or doing other people's work for them. It's not your role to manage them.

Very good points but we're not allowed to go to lunch all together, we're meant to take turns... That is what i've been told by management, sometimes I don't get my lunch until 3.30pm for this reason.

The only "socialising" you get to do, is when they go out for cigarettes together leaving me and the manager on our own (we're the only ones who don't smoke). I even thought to myself, maybe I should take up smoking, you get more breaks and possibly not "outcast" lol