Favoritism in the workplace

[PyroChamber]

Have you ever experienced favoritism at work; whether towards you or towards someone else, especially if they don't deserve it?

 

[Team Andino]

I work at Fed Ex and when I started they use to be a disciplined place that would fire you if you were late a couple times and would toss your ass if you couldn't do your job. I remember my 2nd week on the job they fired someone who was a great worker for being late 3 times in a month, But over the last 2 years that place has become a dump and a joke of a company that's suppose to be the top 100 companies to work for. There's this one white kid who honest to god is one of the most unintelligent people Ive ever meet. No common sense, no disregard for anyone else, and no work ethic. This kids been late just about every other day since he started there about 11 months ago. Hes destroyed boxs, made racial jokes, made gay jokes, sexual harassment, and pissed off just about everyone he talks to. The thing is he doesn't do it to be mean hes just that stupid. If you actually talk to him you'll see hes really just a moron. He lives in a rich neighborhood near work and wants to be a rapper. I found out a few months ago that his dad has some connections with the company hence why hes yet to be fired. Hes been reported more then 10 times and its extremly frustrating since theres times when other workers have to walk on eggshellls at work while this kid might have to rape someone before a manager bats an eye

 

[PyroChamber]

Sometimes I feel like at my job no one gives a **** about the guys, except the store manager, seems to be all about the ladies. We do a majority of the stuff they don't/won't do, yet they can talk and not do anything all they want yet if we talk we get written up.

Sometimes we can't even say hi without getting looked at weird, as if we're a waste of time. Ask one question and you get a response in a "okay, now get away from me" sort of tone.

 

[The Spawn]

Wow....The Hype is ****ing dead right now.

 

[PyroChamber]

Wow....The Hype is ****ing dead right now.

Most of the Hypesters are at the Watchmen section.

 

[The Spawn]

Is you store manager a girl?

 

[PyroChamber]

Is you store manager a girl?

The store manager is a guy, and the assistant managers are 2 women and one guy.

But alot of the women like to give the male assistant manager a hard time. We had another guy who was assistant manager but he got transferred last week, and he was cool.

I don't have a problem with the ladies it's just damn can the guys get a little respect?

 

[Mike_D202]

I'm a supervisor at my job and my little brother works under me. Pretty much no matter what I do its still favoritism to the othe employees. I could give him 10 write ups in a week and they will still think that I let him get away with murder. Just a situation you cant really win.

 

[The Spawn]

Unless you fire someone.

 

[A.J.Rimmer(BSC)]

I work in a place that practices some preferential treatment to people endowed with glorious baps.

Its not that these women are ill deserving or aren't capable of their jobs, its just that they get a lot of slack from the all male 35+ higher ups. They get molly-coddled, spoken to politely and jobs/briefs are purposefully explained clearly and concisely.

However, the blokes (including myself) aren't really the effort and we get grunts and poor instruction because we aren't worth the effort (due to the fact that in their imaginary world we still won't blow their tallywackers).

 

[amazingfantasy15]

The second job I worked at after college was full of people getting perferrential treatment, completely worthless people would get promoted because they were just on the right accounts at the right time, while people who worked their asses off, would stay in the same position for years. I was one of the latter, I was good at my job and did it well, so my immediate manager kept moving me to different accounts if I was getting to close to a promotion, so he wouldn't lose me in that position. Finally got fed up and left, it was a great job, but I knew I wouldn't move up in the company.

Although my friend from college worked there too, he was really good at his job, but he also had some great luck. Each account he was on, within 5-6 months after he was promoted, his immediate boss would quit for a new job, so he'd just be able to slide in that role and move up to the next rung on the ladder and now basically runs his own dept. and is still under 30.

 

[The Apatow Crew]

Thats the story of my goddamn life!

Everyone gets hours but me.

 

[BlackLantern]

I think every workplace has those people that get over and continue to get over regardless of what they do or don't do....

 

[Winter Spleen]

I'm always unpopular at the workplace.

 

[Why Are You Crouching Spock?]

Yea, left school thinking the big wide world would be a more mature place, free of the shackles of such juvenile playground mentality. Boy...was in for a shock, it's just a bigger playground.

 

[PyroChamber]

Yea, left school thinking the big wide world would be a more mature place, free of the shackles of such juvenile playground mentality. Boy...was in for a shock, it's just a bigger playground.

Especially if you work at a place that's a mixture of grown men and women and people who are still in their teens.

 

[JayCaz]

It's swings & roundabouts I feel. Karma. I've worked in places where the Office favourite has been apparent, and it's p*ssed me off no end.

I now find myself as my Manager's favourite within our department. I feel mainly because she's a fellow Scouser, and because I'm a male in a predominantly female office, she's become a kind of Mother figure towards me, and I gotta tell you, it's not too shabby. Doesn't make me do my job any less professionally, but it's taken the stress right out of everything that I do.

 

[JTIZZLEVILLE]

I work in a small, family-owned retail store. It's a pretty good job. Good pay for a part-time job. They aren't too strict as long as we help the customers.

The manager for my department usually treats me as a favorite, and it isn't always a good thing. Because she knows I tend to get stuff done, I always end up having to do the stuff the daytime shift just didn't do or forgot about. Or, in the case that they actually get something done, the manager always puts it on me to go back behind them to check that they did it right.

At first I didn't mind it too much because she gave me great reviews and I got several raises within my first year and a half. Now our company has gone through a lot of financial problems so no one's getting raises for a while....

 

[Darthphere]

Um yeah, whoever hasn't I need to know where you work.

 

[Ahura Mazda]

Well I became freinds with one of the founding partners of a firm I used to work for. I would say I got preferential treatment in so far I went and had lunch many times with the guy which gave me insider's information as to the overall strategy and therefore a heads up when attending management meetings.

I currently run a company myself and I do my best not to give preferntial treatment but I will be honest and say I am more careful what i say around the girls then the guys and there are always those you get along better with but I make sure not to ever socialise with them.

 

[SuBe]

I would like to hear ShadowBoxings story about Favoritism in the Workplace. His is pretty interesting.

 

[Carcharodon]

My boss at my last job treated me like his right-hand man over my two other peers. I'd always be his go-to guy if he had a question regarding the marine animals at the center, or some other scientifically related question. He's a really smart guy, so we'd end up talking for a long time about some semi-random topic, both of us geeking out. The other two didn't seem as enthusiastic about it.

I ended up taking on a sort of unofficial leader role. The volunteers at the science center loved me, and so did the staff, mostly because I could answer most of their questions at least reasonably well and because I could repair exhibits that were on the fritz.

It got the point where my boss asked me to help him at the local aquarium for a NOAA special exhibit (there were many associated organizations with small exhibits that day). Ours was a miniature ROV exhibit where kids could come by and pilot this small improvised ROV in a pool/tank.

It doesn't sound like much, and it really wasn't, but there was a distinguishable difference in treatment between me and my other two peers. Sometimes it made me uncomfortable, because generally I don't like to think of myself as above the people around me in any way. On the other hand, it was kinda nice to be the favorite.

 

[xisaacx]

Meh I used to have a crappy job at McDonalds, and I worked over night with one of the young managers, so he let me read comics and just take payment and orders through the drive through while he got the food.

 

[Captain Planet!]

See the thread "Is it wrong to **** your boss".

 

[Abstract]

Yep. Favouritism runs rampant in my workplace. Especially under the regime of the old store manager, who didn't like me because of my haircut. I had to get in good with her and be all buddy-buddy just to keep my job.

With some of my co-workers the opposite is true though, they all do dodgy jobs of everything around the place and the management loves them.