Re: Co-worker Issue..Would you let it go?

Marienkaefer2 · ‎03-09-2010

On 3/5/2014 esmerelda said:
Supervisor seems to be happy with the way the clerk wants it done.

I'd do it the way the clerk wants it, then she won't change it.

End of story.

My guess is she doesn't like the clerk for reasons other than that she changes her work. She needs to get over it and/or find another job.

I agree.

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NoelSeven · ‎03-09-2010

IMO it's a really petty issue and if I was the supervisor I would be irked that someone complained to me about it.

If I'm wrong, please correct me, but it sounds like the reports/files are the purview of the clerk. If so, it would be better if they were consistent.

I'd tell your friend to let it go, she's making a mountain out of a molehill.

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Marienkaefer2 · ‎03-09-2010

On 3/5/2014 NoelSeven said:
IMO it's a really petty issue and if I was the supervisor I would be irked that someone complained to me about it.

If I'm wrong, please correct me, but it sounds like the reports/files are the purview of the clerk. If so, it would be better if they were consistent.

I'd tell your friend to let it go, she's making a mountain out of a molehill.

Hi Noel!

Yes, ITA.

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straykatz · ‎03-09-2010

On 3/5/2014 Buck-i-Nana said:
On 3/5/2014 occasional rain said:
The clerk sees it as her job and her choice how data is entered. She wants uniformity, who wouldn't? Having these outliers entered by your friend annoys her so she changes them. Your friend is in the wrong here, she should follow the form the clerk has established. Her insistence on capitals and formal names is a criticism of the clerk who doesn't.

Your friend should do her job and when she enters data for the clerk she should do it the clerk's way. Going to a supervisor over such petty nonsense doesn't put your friend in a positive light.

It has occurred to me that there is definitely resentment over the clerk's attendance problem and I wonder if that is really what is behind the data entry disagreement. Perhaps it's a passive/aggressive means of making an issue of it? Why would someone filling in insist on doing it differently and make so much an issue of it as to take it to the supervisor? I think there is a whole lot more involved here.

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chrystaltree · ‎05-10-2010

Sounds like kindergarten to me....LOL What difference does it make to "your friend"? As a manager, I wouldn't even want to hear about that garbage. It's childish on both their parts. So, your "friend" should simply make the manager aware of the situation and do her JOB. If the other one goes behind her back and changes things, your "friend" should just make the manager aware and let it go. This is the type of petty, foolish stuff that managers hate to get dragged into.

Kachina624 · ‎03-10-2010

On 3/5/2014 kittymomNC said:
I don't understand why the supervisor is putting this off on your friend to work out - if the supervisor is aware of the problem, why is she not directly involved in resolving it??? That should be in her job description......sounds to me like she doesn't want to deal with it....

That would be my opinion; it's the supervisor's job to resolve an issue between employees. If she's too wimpy to confront the clerk, she should at least put the formal procedure in writing so the postings are consistent. I can't believe her response to your friend's complaint.

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NoelSeven · ‎03-09-2010

On 3/5/2014 Marienkaefer2 said:
On 3/5/2014 NoelSeven said:
IMO it's a really petty issue and if I was the supervisor I would be irked that someone complained to me about it.

If I'm wrong, please correct me, but it sounds like the reports/files are the purview of the clerk. If so, it would be better if they were consistent.

I'd tell your friend to let it go, she's making a mountain out of a molehill.

Hi Noel!

Yes, ITA.

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Elstongunn · ‎03-12-2010

It is minor and I / your friend, should just drop it. The clerk is causing herself to do more work in making the changes, so it's her time she is wasting.

If it's okay with the supervisor that she uses all lower-case letters and slang, then it shouldn't be anyone else's issue.

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Photo Donna · ‎03-09-2010

I don't like it when things are not consistent. If the clerk (and perhaps others) enter words/names/etc a certain way -- then it should stand. I would think if it were considered incorrect by the supervisor the clerk would be informed.

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CouponQueen · ‎10-21-2010

I think we all have different degrees of what annoy us and what doesn't..and we need to pick our battles.

I do agree that this is just a tip of the ice berg here..there is resentment on behalf of the clerk and that then manifests itself to my friend then.

My friend ( I say friend we chat etc..but don't do lunch so to speak..but use it as a description for this thread ..I am in the office very infrequent as I work out in the field odd hours and days and shifts and do know them all and I have my own perceptions of everybody lol)..comes into the Dept with superivision duties and definitely has her own way to do things, she had def treaded slowly... Nobody likes change and nobody likes 'new people ' coming in and taking over.

At this point I think it is more of a principal type thing with my friend from what I gather. Don't bother my work as I don't bother yours. The Supervisor has spoken to the clerk before regarding issues and would do so on this one too if my friend wanted a sit down.

I agree with my friend in the fact I wouldn't like anybody changing my work just because....she asked me and I have seen how aggravated this gets her with her work being changed..over time and the best way to deal with it is to get it out. If you let it go it will just manifest into another area.

No reports are run off this database. It is one of those things that are still done because "I don't know that is the way we always do it.." when in fact there is actually a hard copy (book) kept too. The person in another area takes the demo info from the database and fills in her reports. It isn't run off it. So the entries being capital or not, abbreviated (my friend writes them out..clerk uses slang) has no bearing other then the differences to the two. If this database was lost there is several other areas to get the same info..but like I said it has always been this way lol.

I asked if everything in the database in uniform and was told no..over the years everybody who entered info did it their own way..some have abbreviations for various things. It is very old.

Thanks for the different feed back!