Putting up with a suck up at work

getmore4less

ETTDDan wrote: »

I was a student. Sorry, I should've mentioned before.

did you study anything useful for a career?

bouicca21

Am I understanding this right? You are 25, have no ambition other than to get more hours, yet are jealous of someone who is ambitious and prepared to do that bit more to show the bosses that he is promotion material?

Stigy

ETTDDan wrote: »

When I started the job, my original boss gave me as many hours as he could, verging on or jst over 40 hours a week, as one particular member of staff had just left suddenly. I was happy with working all the time. I'd often do two weeks straight without a day off because we were short staffed. I didn't complain. I loved it. But now I happen to be on 25 hours a week minimum, fixing colleague errors. Granted 25 hours is better off than most, but still... a student in £18,000 worth of debt, age 25, still living at home with parents having the ability to get his or her own place any time soon? Unless the national living wage goes up to the anticipated £9 an hour, I don't think I'll be in my own house or vehicle until my mid 30s.

I think you just need to get out of the place and find another job. As has been said you've got no ambition and just want more hours. You say you were a student? Are you now qualified in a particular field?

Why not apply for one of these graduate posts many companies recruit for these days? It doesn't matter what you're qualified in, a degree is a degree to most employers. Why don't you become that other person and actually change your life for the better? It'll be better than jealously whinging.:beer:

Bogalot

Stigy wrote: »

I think you just need to get out of the place and find another job. As has been said you've got no ambition and just want more hours. You say you were a student? Are you now qualified in a particular field?

Why not apply for one of these graduate posts many companies recruit for these days? It doesn't matter what you're qualified in, a degree is a degree to most employers. Why don't you become that other person and actually change your life for the better? It'll be better than jealously whinging.:beer:

Those graduate posts are looking for people that want to progress, that are willing to go the extra mile. OP may struggle there

20aday

My tuppence worth-I've been accused of being a "brown noser" over the years!

Take my current job for example-I've done a shed load of overtime because the hours have been offered to other people and they've turned it down for one reason (or another).

My contract is 16.5 hours/week and periodically, when business is quieter, the overtime is cut or stopped altogether for a short period until things pick up again. So if my manager asks me if I can just have one day off a week etc I won't say no; the extra money comes in handy.

That's led to me being called a 'brown noser' but quite frankly I couldn't care less-I might be "just a number" but I'm there to do my job, and do it well. My efforts might go un-noticed and I could adopt the attitude that no one else gives a fig, why should I... but that isn't my style.

It's not possible to get on with everyone. You can be civil etc but some people will rub you up the wrong way, that's natural.

If you feel your nose has been pushed out of joint you could find other employment? Sometimes you have to jump out of the frying pan into the fire; Retail is all I've ever known but if I saw a role in a different environment that really appealed to me I'd try my best to see what happens.

Dird

lulu650 wrote: »

Sounds like two young people trying to fit in and be liked by colleagues. Nothing wrong with that as far as I can see .

Only 1 of them is a recent graduate. It's not fitting in when everyone else adapts the cba approach

daytona0 wrote: »

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ybt8wXIahQU

Good film, irrelevant video

daytona0

Dird wrote: »

Good film, irrelevant video

Make what you wish out of the relevance.