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[–] Matriks404@lemmy.world 68 points 3 days ago (6 children)

Who the fuck behaves like that in a workspace?

[–] VitoRobles@lemmy.today 20 points 2 days ago* (last edited 1 day ago)

Jobs with shitty cultures. Restaurants, bars, places where managers are like in their 20s, the owner and management team are "family", and HR is some random woman in her 50s who chain smokes.

Once I worked at a office job, everything was so much more chill and drama moved outside High School BS to real adult stuff, like whose doing cocaine on the boss's desk.

[–] foxglove@feddit.org 71 points 3 days ago (3 children)
[–] FinishingDutch@lemmy.world 21 points 2 days ago

God yes. The obnoxious, extroverted sales monkeys are a menace. We’re finally getting some new walls at our workplace so we can work in peace as non-sales, actually-doing-work employees.

[–] Rai@lemmy.dbzer0.com 7 points 2 days ago

And automotive repair, according to some of my friends.

[–] SaharaMaleikuhm@feddit.org 9 points 3 days ago
[–] TankovayaDiviziya@lemmy.world 17 points 2 days ago

If you are as lucky as you and I who haven't really had a coworker who acted like this, there are assholes like this in workplaces.

[–] ILikeBoobies@lemmy.ca 10 points 2 days ago

“This was locker room banter, a private conversation that took place many years ago,” Trump said

There’s definitely a type

[–] InputZero@lemmy.world 11 points 3 days ago (1 children)
[–] schnurrito@discuss.tchncs.de 12 points 2 days ago (3 children)

Oddly enough that isn't quite my experience. I went to university immediately after finishing school and was pleasantly surprised at how civilized and mature everyone at university was, compared to just a few months ago at school, even though many of them were still teenagers. It's something about the environment of school that causes so many young people to behave awfully.

[–] gandalf_der_12te@discuss.tchncs.de 8 points 2 days ago* (last edited 2 days ago)

i suppose a large part of the misery of school is because most people who go there don't actually want to go there, so that sets it up as a place for suffering. which is different for universities, where most people who go there actually want to go there, which improves the climate by many orders of magnitude.

[–] Ilovethebomb@lemm.ee 4 points 2 days ago

I'd guess the ones being assholes didn't go to university.

[–] TriflingToad@sh.itjust.works 3 points 2 days ago (1 children)

in the workplace yeah the worst I've seen another teenager do is have their headphones in while sweeping. When they don't have a wage tied to them however...

[–] aeshna_cyanea@lemm.ee 3 points 2 days ago (1 children)
[–] InputZero@lemmy.world 2 points 2 days ago

If their music is too loud to hear the fire alarm or other alarms. There were places that I worked that hearing an alarm would save your life. When I was a supervisor I should have said no ear buds, but that's a bit ridiculous. So I only got on a person's case if they had both in, a compromise. This way the teen sweeping can listen to their music and hear a hazard alarm if it happens. Workplace safety is important.

[–] TimewornTraveler@lemm.ee 5 points 3 days ago

lol it was probably at school