The Silent Treatment ... at Work

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Beefcake		#61	[-]
Posts: 3456 (06/23/09 7:41 PM) Registered User Reply Quote More Recent Posts Message Connection Block Invite	At work or at home, the silent treatment is the stupidest thing anyone can do. It makes it impossible to resolve any problems. It can't make things better and almost always makes it work. The big problem with passive-aggressive behavior is that it doesn't work!!!
hersavvyness		#62	[-]
Posts: 4785 (06/23/09 8:14 PM) Registered user Reply Quote More Recent Posts Message Connection Block Invite	at the Jeannie Darcy reference.
frisbeehead		#63	[-]
Posts: 15664 (06/23/09 8:20 PM) Make it a funny one! Reply Quote More Recent Posts Message Connection Block Invite	I am putting all of you on "ignore".
factoryhurl		#64	[-]
Posts: 9861 (06/23/09 8:25 PM) Registered user Reply Quote More Recent Posts Message Connection Block Invite	i am giving this thread the silent treatment.
frisbeehead		#65	[-]
Posts: 15665 (06/23/09 8:26 PM) Make it a funny one! Reply Quote More Recent Posts Message Connection Block Invite	I didn't hear what you said.
Zzunk		#66	[-]
Posts: 5534 (06/23/09 8:28 PM) Registered User Reply Quote More Recent Posts Message Connection Block Invite	factoryhurl wrote: i am giving this thread the silent treatment. With that kinda of attitude, you don't deserve to be in this thread, Missy.
frisbeehead		#67	[-]
Posts: 15666 (06/23/09 8:29 PM) Make it a funny one! Reply Quote More Recent Posts Message Connection Block Invite	^Serial micro silent treatment manager.
factoryhurl		#68	[-]
Posts: 9862 (06/23/09 8:31 PM) Registered user Reply Quote More Recent Posts Message Connection Block Invite
SmrtAss		#69	[-]
Posts: 6586 (06/23/09 8:32 PM) Lazy ass bitch, please Reply Quote More Recent Posts Message Connection Block Invite	.
frisbeehead		#70	[-]
Posts: 15667 (06/23/09 8:35 PM) Make it a funny one! Reply Quote More Recent Posts Message Connection Block Invite	What is the sound of one pity post?
ObservingEgo		#71	[-]
Posts: 8503 (06/23/09 8:36 PM) Hi, you two!!! : ) : ) Reply Quote More Recent Posts Message Connection Block Invite	..
managerr		#72	[-]
Posts: 15602 (06/23/09 8:43 PM) Registered user Reply Quote More Recent Posts Message Connection Block Invite	So three weeks ago, I told someone that I supervise that they need to speed up their work and they should also read some quarterly publications to be better versed on the industry. Since then, that person has improved their work speed by roughly 3 percent by mainly by avoiding interacting with others. They have also gone from business attire to casual Friday attire everyday, leaving the complex for most breaks/lunches and departing promptly at 5 PM. From a supervisor's point of view, they are digging the rut deeper, not climbing out of it. This is the fourth person in five years that I've noticed this pseudo-hibernation behavior when they gets some critical remarks. All have either quit or being shown the door because they couldn't turn it around and get on par with the rest of the office. I've experienced this kind of behavior in relationships (and it often leads to capitulation/apologies on my part), but will someone explain why someone does it at work when it could cost them their job? You seem really micro-managy especially to the point to where you're watching how often they go to lunch/check out every day. Why not just care about their work output? It also sounds like you think that they should appreciate whatever the fuck they job they have. I don't know what they do, but some people just don't give a fuck. Once their in that mode, they're already looking and waiting until you get rid of them for their severence package. Getting rid of someone who clearly isn't happy to be there is doing you both a favor. Cut the cord. How many people in 5 years have "turned it around" after you've talked to them? If more people are behaving that way than actually turn it around, the problem is likely your delivery.
frisbeehead		#73	[-]
Posts: 15668 (06/23/09 8:44 PM) Make it a funny one! Reply Quote More Recent Posts Message Connection Block Invite	Were the slacking employees posting from work?
superguppie		#74	[-]
Posts: 26094 (06/23/09 8:46 PM) Registered user Reply Quote More Recent Posts Message Connection Block Invite	They do it because they're immature assholes who can't deal with constructive criticism. Look for and find a reason to fire them immediately.
Monsieur Muggles		#75	[-]
Posts: 7455 (06/23/09 8:52 PM) Reply Quote More Recent Posts Message Connection Block Invite	I'm also confused as to how this classifies as the silent treatment. Is this employee forcing everyone not to talk to them? The silent treatment is when you ask someone a question and they don't respond/ignore you, not when someone doesn't interact with their coworkers in a social manner.
Zzunk		#76	[-]
Posts: 5536 (06/23/09 9:13 PM) Registered User Reply Quote More Recent Posts Message Connection Block Invite	How simple do you Sucksters need it? Employee does substandard work, and gets repeated feedback to improve the situation. When no improvement occurs, supervisor confronts employee, and tells them to get with the program. Employee goes into silent mode, makes noticeable changes to their usual routine that it's obvious they are avoiding contact with everybody and still not improving. Supervisor wonders why an employee would make it easy to fire them, especially when there aren't other jobs out there right now. This isn't a mico-management issue, it's a productivity issue. Of course, all of you passive-aggressive fucks will deny this and continue to accuse me of something that absolves you of any accountability.
managerr		#77	[-]
Posts: 15603 (06/23/09 9:20 PM) Registered user Reply Quote More Recent Posts Message Connection Block Invite	How simple do you Sucksters need it? Employee does substandard work, and gets repeated feedback to improve the situation. When no improvement occurs, supervisor confronts employee, and tells them to get with the program. Employee goes into silent mode, makes noticeable changes to their usual routine that it's obvious they are avoiding contact with everybody and still not improving. Supervisor wonders why an employee would make it easy to fire them, especially when there aren't other jobs out there right now. This isn't a mico-management issue, it's a productivity issue. Of course, all of you passive-aggressive fucks will deny this and continue to accuse me of something that absolves you of any accountability. How simple do you want it? JUST FIRE HIS ASS. Do you really need and/or care what his motivation is? Not everyone cares about their job. Some are young, some are irresponsible, some can't take criticism, some just hate their boss. Haven't you ever had a job you didn't give a shit about? For whatever reason, he just doesn't care anymore. It's not all about you.
tmaxx		#78	[-]
Posts: 154 (06/23/09 9:22 PM) Reply Quote More Recent Posts Message Connection Block Invite	Lila Fowler wrote: meh, shit like this is why I can't work for the MAN. can't stand the cubicles, can't stand the business lunches, can't stand the hours, can't stand the work "friends" who secretly hate you, can't stand the performance reviews, can't stand the forced teamwork, can't stand hearing the bitch in the next cubicle breathe, can't stand the arbitrary raises and bonuses which seem dependant upon who has kissed the most ass that quarter, can't stand the dull colours, can't stand the temperature, can't stand the stolen lunch goodies, can't stand the apathy, can't stand the boring old peeps, can't stand the doods shamelessly checking out my backfat, can't stand the hierarchical system because no matter how hard you work you will never really change things since the problems with the company start at the top but they'll never admit to it, can't stand the pointless goal setting, can't really stand any of it I must be one of those terrible brats you won't hire, except I start out quiet and then slowly let out the RAGE until the inevitable firing/quitting scene. So if you could have any job, what would it be?
Lila Fowler		#79	[-]
Posts: 1461 (06/23/09 9:22 PM) Reply Quote More Recent Posts Message Connection Block Invite	I don't know what you peeps are talking about with this generation that has never been criticised thing. It must be kids younger than me --> I received more than my share of criticism. AND when I worked for THE MAN, I was actually a great employee, but I was incredibly bored and turned off by everyone else's apathy. Coupled with an insatiable curiousity, I ended up getting my shit done in the morning and constructing eraser people and those paper things that tell your future in the afternoon. No one cared. It's the setup --> that's what has to change. AND silent mode is how I operate in the normal world with the Normies. You people really shouldn't feel insulted. Things really are better off that way.
Iku		#80	[-]
Posts: 302 (06/23/09 9:24 PM) Reply Quote More Recent Posts Message Connection Block Invite	If you fire him, I bet he'll come back and gun you down! It's typical behaviour with these passive-aggressive types. I'd be wary. Oh, and by the frickin' way: why the fuck do you keep referring to "they" and "them"? Why can't you just reveal this person's gender?!!! It's a woman, isn't it? She's giving you the silent treatment 'cause you fucked her, huh?

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