If you're young, you might think that a workplace would be somewhat homogenous, because all these people come together to perform a task, even if their roles vary. They must at least have the same kinds of talents, right? Oh no, the workplace is often a collection of people whose abilities, social skills, ethics, and temperaments range from zero to 100. If you have a group of fairly random personalities together, there will always be at least one or two jerks, maybe even more. These fall into seven categories, according to Tessa West, author of Jerks at Work: Toxic Coworkers and What to Do About Them, and they are the kiss-up-punch down jerks, the credit stealers, the bulldozers, the free riders, the micromanaging bosses, the neglectful bosses, and the gaslighters. Read a description of each, and how you can deal with them, at Lifehacker. I hope you don't recognize yourself in any of these categories. -via Digg
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"Kiss-up-kick-downers" yep, we got one at my job. I get along with her most of the time. Also known as "I'm not a manager, but I want to be respected as a manager, and I want to talk down to anyone whos not a manager including customers." "free riders" we got a handful of these. "credit stealers" surprisingly not a many of these at my job. Most people at my job would rather just not being involved in anything than take credit. Sometimes taking credit backfires. "bulldozers" Don't really have any of these. Where I work, nothing changes no matter how much you bulldoze it. We keep bad workers, and bad policies, for 10 years before it changes. And often "good ideas" just disappear and the customers are left saying "huh?" "Gaslighters" I would consider everyone at my job as a gaslighter including myself :) Working retail means putting youself into different flowstates in order to not freak out and lose your job ;)
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