My manager is a sneaky bugger. I don't even know where to start with this one.
We have this female temp in our group who one day stopped showing up to work. When we inquired, our manager got a bit defensive. He said her mother was sick and that she would be working from Seattle for a while. That's fine and all. Our company supports such flexible working locations and such.
However, prior to this gal 'working' from Seattle, there was quite a bit of chumminess going on between the two. I don't think anything was going on, but I am certain he had a little crush on this gal.
Anyway...so back to the sneaky bugger reference. Later on we come to find out that our manager has been asking us to do different things on her behalf. It didn't come to light until one pow wow session with my co-workers where we realized that we were all doing a portion of this gal's work, which then lead us to the ultimate question, "WHAT THE HECK IS SHE DOING??" She can't be doing much, given that we are all supporting her desk. So what gives?? Is she just collecting a paycheck? We're all overworked and have enough to deal with on our own. This seems fishy to me.
We had a co-worker who actually did have a personal emergency and had to be out of the office for roughly 4 months.
Her job duties were divided between 3 of us at the office, the head boss, the supervisor and ME. We were able to do our own work and juggle her various duties. No one complained because it wasnt exactly complicated, maybe just time consuming.
She comes back from her personal issue and acts like we havent done anything in those 4 months. We try to explain we did things a lil differently, aka..more efficiently. She called us dumbasses. The nerve!!
Curiously enough she doesnt complain she is swamped anymore or that our department would crumble without her. Frankly, if she did no one would listen cause now we know better.
