How to Make Enemies

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to "utep99"
sure this may be in the Postal Service as well as other workplaces, but we all have choices, and the one choice we have is to be a part of the solution and not the problem. A) by you naming our employer, you yourself are committing numbers 7,8,11,12,16,20,23,24 and 26. If you do not like your employer and or the environment, by all means do something about it. Quit, and find that perfect company. Or am I correct by saying you are "maxed" out in your salary and would not think about leaving the Postal Service, because you have no marketable work skills after being employed umpteen years with the USPS. Oh and let's not forget the 60k plus salary you are receiving, plus full benefits. I have completed my 20th USPS year and I LOVE my job. I am appreciative and I know that someone somewhere would love to have my job.
"I work to have a better life, not a better job!

Mail`lady of FL 8:54PM December 19, 2010

Here's the all-time number-one example of that. After having checked with Human Resources, one of my co-workers (we'll call him Ed) posted a request on the company classified ad email site asking for blanket donations. He volunteered to collect the blankets and deliver them to a local homeless shelter. He included in his email the not particularly controversial statement that during economic hard times donations go down while the need for them goes up.
A manager in another division (we'll call him Jherk) took it upon himself to phone Ed and challenge that opinion. Did Ed have hard numbers to back that up? What was the basis for Ed's statement? Could he prove it?
What did he think Ed was going to do with all those blankets -- sell them on the blanket black market? What a creep Jherk was and how sorry no one was when he died under peculiar circumstances.

Mandy Cat of AZ 2:27PM April 25, 2010

"How to become a manager"
My boss does ALL of these things; a lot. She's not alone either, seems nearly all the managers (not all but most) are the same way.

can't say of IN 11:14AM April 25, 2010

Sadly if you have ever worked for the Post Office this is your work enviroment every day. Hate and politics rule for your co-workers to your management.

Leonard Goodboe of TX 2:54PM April 24, 2010

Be too immature to approach the person you have a problem with. Instead tattle to the boss.

Reg of WV 11:36AM April 24, 2010

And the easiest way to make friends? Bend over.

hahahahah of LA 7:12PM April 23, 2010

Sounds like you've met my old boss.

of 5:02PM April 23, 2010

I'd recommend Snakes In Suits: When Psychopaths go to Work, by Babiak and Hare.

jo of LA 12:22PM April 23, 2010

My boss does at least 20 of these, and almost all of the passive aggressive list.

Jay Green of OR 1:37PM May 11, 2009

If we add the passive aggressive ways of making enemies:
1) Ignore deadlines;
2) always under deliver, but have good excuses;
3) never feel that the pressure includes you too;
4) discover 3 new ways of sabotaging other's tasks;
5) be always grumpy and silent;
6) can't tolerate the upbeat mood? act resentful and angry;
7) don't share important info with the people who need it;
8) spread a negative view of everything;
9) when in doubt, retreat and disappear from the line of duty;
10) find somebody else to blame for team failure.
www.passiveaggressiveworkplace.com

Nora Curtis of FL 1:24PM May 11, 2009