How to avoid drama at work?
How to avoid drama at work?
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Gosh. I'm too exhausted to write up a lengthy post, folks, but I'm up to here with drama at work.
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Gosh. I'm too exhausted to write up a lengthy post, folks, but I'm up to here with drama at work.
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RE: How to avoid drama at work?
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RE: How to avoid drama at work?
Work alone with no customers, no clients and no external factors beyond your direct control.
In some cases drama can be reduced but rarely if ever eliminated completely.
Some people seem to actively seek it out in fact.
KENAT, probably the least qualified checker you'll ever meet...
RE: How to avoid drama at work?
Stay home!
RE: How to avoid drama at work?
When asked about personal issues, depends on the person, I draw the line how much info I give them.
Usually when I start a new position I'm called the "quiet one". That is because I'm scoping out who are the drama queen's and who can I trust.
Then I make friends. Just stay away from the drama and don't listen to it. I listen to my iPod most of the time.
Chris
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ctopher's home (updated Jul 13, 2008)
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- Steve
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The best thing is to avoid the dramatists. I believe people have a right to enter their workplace without being assailed by coworkers' personal drama. Unfortunately, my view is not widely shared.
A good deterrent is to tell offenders that you don't think what they are saying is appropriate in a professional setting. Especially true with divorce/custody/child support drama.
RE: How to avoid drama at work?
Well hello. The fact is that there aren't many people who can force a project forward in the face of 'paralysis by analysis'- so ultimately you (I) just put your foot down and say this is the way to go. With the usual humpbacked profile of age vs seniority that we deal with now, that is going to become more and more necessary (and unpopular) as time goes on.
Cheers
Greg Locock
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"Hey, you can't sleep with my wife..........."
or work drama like
"The IT department requires that everyone stop uses form 3.2.1 and immediately start using form 3.2.2 for the submission of problem tickets; anyone failing to follow this policy will get a written warning" LOL
drama is what makes work fun.
RE: How to avoid drama at work?
MY1 reckon their product is "the one true product" and the MY2 team are wasting their time.
MY2 reckon the MY1 team are turd-polishing obsolete product.
MY1 & MY2 teams only talk via coded messages in department meetings.
- Steve
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They've also learned to beta-test software upgrades on me because if anyone is going to break it, I will.
Hg
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Syl.
RE: How to avoid drama at work?
Look at it as a comedy. Keep in mind that before you had this job, you had to go to the box office and pay for tickets to see a comedy in a theater. Now you get this for free. Just make sure the government doesn't find out you look at it this way, or you will have to pay sin tax.
RE: How to avoid drama at work?
I find a couple drinks at night also help...
RE: How to avoid drama at work?
KENAT, probably the least qualified checker you'll ever meet...
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i don't think many engineering offices have a Pam though..or any female for that matter, lol!
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myself though, i choose to go the 'comedy route' and ultimately have as much fun with it as possible....
or be sooo sarcastic that they catch my drift and leave me alone
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RE: How to avoid drama at work?
Shave your head, sew NRA patches onto your shirts, carry a side arm in a holster that is clearly visible; get lots of tattos and body piercings; stop brushing your teeth, washing, and using deodorant; and go "ballistic" when someone even talks to you. They'll leave you alone then!
Good luck,
Latexman
RE: How to avoid drama at work?
Failing that, a nice long stick with a few nails in it will keep most people away
Kevin
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RE: How to avoid drama at work?
KENAT, probably the least qualified checker you'll ever meet...
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SLH
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Hey, I missed that one...
Funny, every one I've worked with has had at least one. I just can't figure it out.... In fact I don't think I've ever worked at a more than one-engineer workplace where there wasn't more than one.
SLH
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This comedy is turning into a farce. Next it'll be a tragedy. Luckily we don't condone guns here.
- Steve
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Good Luck
Eddie
RE: How to avoid drama at work?
Private issues stay private - dont dump them on those that work with you at work.
Work issues well if they are bitching about work drama then this needs to eb acted upon - is there an HR department or someone able to get it in the open and weed out the dramatics? more often or not its the look at me types the ones that like to be in the spotlight and crave attention. Just ensure that you can give em the wrong attention, that often works and gets the issues resolved.
Some one used to like screaming the place down - made a scene and generally made it uncomfortable for others - so a microphone hooked up to the pc one day and sound recorder working on the pc. Recorded it saved it and then when the dramatics were finished played it back over the PC at full volume. That got her attention, tried to say it was harassment, said that what she was subjecting us to was harassment in its own right. Told her that I had a copy of that on the PC and would email the sound file to everyone if she continued to display those characteristics in the office. Good thing was that she crapped on about the boss and generall made a meal of everyone that she diding like and all the issues that she was having in life. mostly work - people who had cotton on to her I suppose. But it stopped from that day on, and the others in the office all said that they had copies and would send it out if she started again.
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- Steve
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