theoldwolf

Oi! I just wanted you to know that you're not alone in your suffering. Apparently the entire nation is filled with the same kinds of people you have to work with. Hang in there.

Bank
Australia

I work at a Bank as a teller behind the counter, and am also the treasurer responsible for the branches bulk money including damaged notes (called “mutes”) . One of my coworkers frustrates everyone else in the branch because she is a 30 year old woman who will always attempt to shift the blame for anything she does wrong to someone else. She is also amazingly lazy. This coworker is transferring me her lot of mutes so i can add them to those i already have and then clear them out. We have strict guidlines that we cannot accept notes if they are missing more than 20% of it, and we have a graph to help us judge how much theyre missing. If a customer hands us a note thats missing more than that we have to send it away to be valued and that amount will be credited to the customers account instead of the whole value of the note. Im going through the notes the coworker has transferred to me and sure enough……..

Me: (Coworker) , this 50 dollar note you gave me is missing almost half of the note!

Coworker: So?

Me: So? So i cant take it off you, cos it probably isn't worth 50 dollars anymore.

Coworker: Yeah, you do take it and send it off with your mutes.

Me: No, i cant take it. You shouldn't have accepted this. Its quite clearly missing more than 20% of it. Did you not think to check it?

Coworker: *Scrambling for excuse* Uhhh, see I didn't have time to check the notes. Its the customers fault for giving me this.

Me: *laughing* How is it the customers fault? Its your fault for taking it and not checking! And what do you mean you didnt have time?! You should be checking all notes before you accept them! That's your job! Now you'll wear a variance when that note comes back and you find out its not worth fifty dollars anymore.

Coworker: No, you have to take it and send it away-

* I cut her off

Me: No I don't take it! If i take it off you then i wear the variance instead of you when they find that notes missing half of it! No thanks! I'm not paying the price for your laziness and unwillingness to do extra work.

Coworker: No, you have to take it and send it off with your mutes-

Me: No, I don't have to do anything! You send it off to be evaluated, and then when it comes back valued at a lesser dollar value then fifty, you will have to put through a variance cos you took the note in! Its in guidelines and you know this!

Coworker: *almost maniacally yells* ARE YOU CRAZY?

( This makes me very angry)

Me: NO I AM NOT CRAZY! I'm just not lazy like you are, now send it away!

Coworker: No! I don't have to do that and I'm going to ask someone else who knows what the h*ll they're talking about!

(She storms down the front to ask two employees who are more senior than the both of us. I cannot hear the whole conversation through the security screens but I do hear the words

“What? No, (MY NAME) can't take this! You have to send it away to be valued, unfortunately you will wear the variance for accepting this”

I can see her face fall and I savour that moment. She storms back behind the counter. I fold my arms and raise my eyebrows, awaiting my apology for insisting that i was crazy and didn't know what i was talking about.

Coworker: Im going on break!!!

(Source: notalwaysworking.com)

How the workplace becomes infested with people this defective is truly beyond me.