Inspired by Browneyes, Do you have a co-worker that watches when you come into work??

[annemariec]

Browneyes thread on clocking in at work reminded me of a former co-worker that made the rounds in the morning to see what time people came in. Drove me crazy!!

Annemarie

 

[preshi]

How rude!

 

[helenabear]

Nope... I am lucky, hardly a soul is in when I come in. But I swear some do watch when I go to leave (since I leave just as early as I come in)

 

[annemariec]

Yes, Preshi. I thought so too. He'd come in pretty early so he could be "in the know".

Oh yes, he'd watch when people left too, heleanabear. Drove him nuts when people came in before him and he didn't know what hours they were working. But he wasn't too shy to ask!

There were times I didn't even get a chance to take my coat off, because he'd "drop by". I'm not very big into small talk before I even settle in. So I just started coming in earlier myself, before him and got right into working. (He didn't come over so early nearly as often when I did that.)

Ofcourse I'd say hello to him later in the morning. I'm the type that likes to make a plan for the day, settle in and then a little small talk.

Annemarie

 

[JohnTBap]

I am that person.

 

[annemariec]

JTB!!!


Annemarie

 

[Goofball]

I don't (that I know of!), but my sister talks about hers all the time. They call him Hall Monitor.

 

[catsrule]

Shep has one that watches him while he is at work....***

 

[Tony-NJ]

99 out of 100 times - it's me who open's the office every morning.

 

[Pooh93]

Also, watches when we leave. I come in at 6:00 am and leave around 3:30. Our "wonderful" secretary never hesitates to ask me if I'm leaving already, when I leave at 3:30. Others don't come in until 8:00-9:00, but everybody always seems to forget that some of us come in starting at 6:00. Always makes me want to give the late arrivals a 4:30 am wake up call when I get up!

 

[LunarLady]

My attitude has always been:

If you have time to clock your co-workers, you obviously don't have enough to do.

I dispise this kind of self-appointed policing almost as much as I dispise the people who think it's their duty to "park" in the passing lane and drive the speed limit.

 

[shep]

Originally posted by catsrule
Shep has one that watches him while he is at work....***

Yep... drives me insane..

 

[Poohbear123]

considering one of the managers lets me in the door, I guess yes. But, I LOVE it when I go thru the checkout, and the cashiers I USED to work with says: "Going HOME already?" (This at 12:00 noon). and I say: "Yes, I have been here since 5:00am, that is WHY I took this position over still being a cashier!"

 

[annemariec]

Originally posted by LunarLady
My attitude has always been:

If you have time to clock your co-workers, you obviously don't have enough to do.

I dispise this kind of self-appointed policing almost as much as I dispise the people who think it's their duty to "park" in the passing lane and drive the speed limit.

LunarLady, I've often said the same thing. I never kept hours on anyone. It isn't my business. I have work to do and that keeps me busy enough.

Needless to say, I didn't like being watched at all. Especially when it was under the guise of being friendly. I didn't even add the watching was at lunch times as well. I decided to take lunch after he left just to drive him crazy a bit. It did. "What did you have for lunch?Which restaurant? That far away? I can never make it there and back in time...etc. etc.". (I wouldn't have a problem we got an hour. And I always brought it back.) But ofcourse he would say that to find out the particulars of when you left and came back.

I just tried to make the best of the situation. I'd be friendly but I knew what he was doing. In that office environment he was the "mole". Every move and discussion was relayed to the boss pronto, and we all knew it.

Annemarie

 

[helenk]

We got a woman like that in our office, not only does she know what time you have come in and leave, she knows when you make a personal phone call and when there is just idle chit chat. She is not a supervisor just a co-worker who seems to be on some kind of mission

 

[tkyes]

Yep, we call her Roz (as in Roz from Monsters, Inc.)

She's our receptionist. She writes down when people go to lunch and when they come back in. She also writes down if someone is in really late. Then she gives that list to our HR person.

Tamie

 

[browneyes]

I've inspired.

No, I don't have anyone at my work like that. Thank goodness! Everyone I work with are pretty laid back. They save their pettiness for the other departments.

 

[snoopy]

She is not a supervisor just a co-worker who seems to be on some kind of mission

LOL! Yup, I do think its sort of a mission for these type of people. Too nosy for their own good.

There was a guy at my former job like this. So nit picky, yet when push came to shove, he was the one who produced the least amount of work. I guess he was too busy watching everyone else to get much of anything else done.

 

[Disney Doll]

I don't have a co-worker that watches when we come into work, because we all have to be there at the same time..shifts start at 7AM,3PM,11PM. I do have a co-worker that has everyone's schedule memorized, how many shifts of each type each person works, are they all even, what holidays everyone worked throughout the years.

Of course, this is a single 42 year old woman whose mother drives her to work, so I'm thinking that a life is not something she has!!!!!

 

[Boots]

All the time!! I only work for two or three hours each day on my bookkeeping job. I do not have a set time to come in and it really bothers just about everyone else I work with. I was hired that way and I on purpose do not come in the same time any two days in a row. I usually arrive between 7:30 and 8:00am as I am a morning person. But when DH is on second shift I don't come in until he leaves in the afternoon.