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Having a stressful quarter-end
Apr. 8th, 2006 01:34 pm...more so than usual, I mean, mainly thanks to my colleague, Boris, who has decided to try & get fired, as far as I can tell. He's been rude, argumentative, lazy, surly, coming in at 9:30 & leaving before 4pm, when he's meant to work from 8 to 5:30 and almost unbearably sloppy with his approach to work. One of the rows he's had has been him sitting in his chair and shouting at my (& his) boss 'I'm not TALKING to YOU!', in a very aggressive tone that stopped the office dead & (in any other organisation) would have seen him fired on the spot.
The downside of this is that we're not only a man down, we're a man down who is still in the office and is being both actively obstructive & deliberately going out of his way to p1ss other people off, meaning that there is less tolerance in the office than there usually is, and also that 13 hour days are the norm for everyone else, rather than the exception. We're all tired, and the fact that Boris is doing 6 hour days is putting a lot of peoples backs up - mine included.
So its going badly right now, but the company is behaving in a strange fashion; they've given him a lap-top in the last 3 days, so that he can 'work from home' (which is physically impossible during quarter end as he *has* to be in the office), moreover, despite there being a whispering campaign around him (with the words 'gross misconduct' being used regularly), the company hasn't taken any procedures against him yet, and seems determined to cut him ever larger amounts of slack. My only conclusion about this is that there is something very stressful happening in Boris's life outside of work that I (and the rest of the office) dont know about, but the company is trying to make his life as easy as possible.
Anyway. Its put the breaks on the running, the dutch and my PBEM game, and will do so for the next 7 days or so, but I feel dog tired, so I'm going to go back to bed in a moment (at 1:45 in the afternoon, local time, which gives you an indication of just how sh1t I feel right now)
S
The downside of this is that we're not only a man down, we're a man down who is still in the office and is being both actively obstructive & deliberately going out of his way to p1ss other people off, meaning that there is less tolerance in the office than there usually is, and also that 13 hour days are the norm for everyone else, rather than the exception. We're all tired, and the fact that Boris is doing 6 hour days is putting a lot of peoples backs up - mine included.
So its going badly right now, but the company is behaving in a strange fashion; they've given him a lap-top in the last 3 days, so that he can 'work from home' (which is physically impossible during quarter end as he *has* to be in the office), moreover, despite there being a whispering campaign around him (with the words 'gross misconduct' being used regularly), the company hasn't taken any procedures against him yet, and seems determined to cut him ever larger amounts of slack. My only conclusion about this is that there is something very stressful happening in Boris's life outside of work that I (and the rest of the office) dont know about, but the company is trying to make his life as easy as possible.
Anyway. Its put the breaks on the running, the dutch and my PBEM game, and will do so for the next 7 days or so, but I feel dog tired, so I'm going to go back to bed in a moment (at 1:45 in the afternoon, local time, which gives you an indication of just how sh1t I feel right now)
S
