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Old_Fart Donating Member (805 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Jul-26-05 11:29 AM
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How do you handle brown nosers?
We have a person in our office that pretends like it is one of the bosses birthdays almost everyday of the week. If its not a boss its someone that can do something for her. The lady bakes a cake, puts up balloons and celebrates that one person all day long and sometimes it lasts a week. The odd part about it is its not their birthday, anniversary or any special day. She just wants to kiss their ass and she wants the rest of us to go along with it. Yesterday she asked me to kick into a fund for a worker and I refused. She called me a partypooper. I thought that I was at work and not at a party.

How do you handle kiss ass brown nosers?
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Squatch Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Jul-26-05 11:31 AM
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1. Milk it.
Put them to work.
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Old_Fart Donating Member (805 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Jul-26-05 11:39 AM
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9. Work?
If taking food orders at lunch time is work then I guess she does work.

She helped me with a project one time and took the credit for it. But, I didn't feel like she singled me out because she does the same thing to everyone except to the people that she has these crazy party days for.
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Squatch Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Jul-26-05 11:44 AM
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11. A brown noser works for me....
I give him all the jobs nobody else wants to do.
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Old_Fart Donating Member (805 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Jul-26-05 11:47 AM
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13. He hasn't noticed?
:rofl:
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Bunny Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Jul-26-05 11:32 AM
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2. That's weird. She brings cake, balloons, etc. for a boss, and it's
not their birthday? And she celebrates all day and sometimes for a week? That's just weird, and I have no idea how to handle that.
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Blue-Jay Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Jul-26-05 11:32 AM
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3. I fart a little bit.
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arwalden Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Jul-26-05 10:06 PM
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19. Oh!
:spray: :rofl:
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skygazer Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Jul-26-05 11:32 AM
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4. Tell her it's your birthday
Next week, tell her it's your anniversary. The following week, tell her it's your dog's birthday. ad infinitum.
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movie_girl99 Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Jul-26-05 11:33 AM
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5. we have one too
the thing is he says shit about the boss behind his back but then has his nose so far up his ass any other time. I handle it by not saying shit to him about work because he repeats everything. Occasionally i'll make a comment about it like yesterday, i got a snickers out of the vending machine and it was a bit melted. After i ate it i had melted chocolate on my fingers and someone passed by and asked what it was. I told them that i had just wiped off ---- nose.
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two gun sid Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Jul-26-05 11:33 AM
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6. I like to give them a little shove in the stairwell...
I should say I ensure there are no other witnesses also.
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libhill Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Jul-26-05 11:37 AM
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7. I ignore the stupid shits
Edited on Tue Jul-26-05 11:37 AM by libhill
people like that aren't worth bothering with, but you have one in every company. Or two, or ten.
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jody Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Jul-26-05 11:39 AM
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8. People like that often try to get others to do his/her work. Politely
refuse and they usually fail on their own.
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Wapsie B Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Jul-26-05 11:41 AM
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10. Thing is, the people who do it well
aren't that obvious about it. They come to work doing cartwheels, never in a bad mood around superiors. Only when they have subordinates to pass the buck to is there hell to pay. First and foremost, there's never any public questioning of company policy, not even with a gun to their head.
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pitohui Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Jul-26-05 11:46 AM
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12. ignore them
certainly don't contribute funds

your bosses know who the time waster is
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Wapsie B Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Jul-26-05 12:06 PM
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14. Welcome to DU!
:bounce:
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Strawman Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Jul-26-05 12:31 PM
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15. Keep party pooping. She'll back off
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Old_Fart Donating Member (805 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Jul-26-05 09:47 PM
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16. It's been going on for a while now
This woman goes all out like its Christmas.
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MrSlayer Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Jul-26-05 09:49 PM
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17. Call them out and mock them.
Then again I'm a construction worker, there is a lot more leeway for what you can say in my industry. If you are a nut-swinger you will definitely hear about it.
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Starlight Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Jul-26-05 10:00 PM
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18. I'd say, "Why do you waste so much time with this? Don't you have work to
do? I've never been known to keep my feelings to myself. :evilgrin:
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Old_Fart Donating Member (805 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Jul-26-05 10:38 PM
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20. "Construction workers don't put up with shit"
We have a boss thats leaving on friday. He isn't leaving on his own accord either. Got any ideas on what to bring for a downsizing-firing. He is a freeper that blames Clinton for everything from A to Z. A few times I have come close to hitting him with a newspaper but I backed down instead. I should have hit him with the paper and said that I was trying to kill a fly.

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