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Boss has no backbone plus Toxic CoWorker

Posted by: OnLastNerve
Date: 1/23/2007 3:55:36 AM

Where do I start? My boss I'll explain first. Within months after starting my job,my boss became sick mentally. They had been undergoing treatment for depression,then discovered they were manic-depressive. This boss doesn't like to rock the boat in anyway, doesn't come to work,works from home a lot!

Now, the toxic co-worker, I would say extremely narcistic personality, obsessive compulsive, under treatment for depression, etc. you get the picture. Co-worker monopolizes all conversations including phone calls. I once told the other person on the phone to please hold...listened to the co-worker then went back to the phone conversation stating that now the other conversation was over we could continue ours. This infuriated the toxic co-worker. This person critiques everything I do. I could go on forever. I will give you an example of what happened this evening. The toxic co-worker constantly complains about being bothered at home which she does quite often to me. Back to this evening. I called in sick with an illness today. I was called at home in the evening with the co-worker wanting to know if I would come into work tomorrow regardless if I were still ill so they could go out of town on a personal unimportant thing they wanted to do. They were going to dump an important meeting on the boss as well. This toxic coworker just had a 4 day weekend to house sit for a friend. They have already taken their vacation time. Plus was allowed to take 8 weeks off with pay for medical reasons. This is just one of the perks they ask for and get for some strange reason. When I confront this person with what additional perks they get with their job which I don't they feel it is fair because I am married and have an additional income and they are single and do not. When that was thrown in my face, I stated very firmly that this was discrimination. This was all in front of the boss, the boss said nothing. Btw both of them are on salary and I am an hourly employee. The toxic co-worker is not my supervisor but acts as if they are and the boss lets them get away with it. My feeling is the toxic coworker makes the bosses life so easy the toxic behavior is overlooked. I was once told by the toxic that I could lie but they could not as I did not have a conscience. This was regarding something they had done and wanted me to lie for them if they got caught. Sorry for the rambling, besides finding another job, does anyone have any suggestions for shutting this person down. I am not the only one who has problems with this person. Out of the 50 something employees I have yet to hear one say a nice thing about them. I feel I need hazard pay working with this person.

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