Toxic Coworker Won't Do Job Correctly, Everyone Quits

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mattstaff
Mar 31, 2021 5:30 PM EDT

Sometimes the best way to get through to a company that stubbornly insists on not listening, is to orchestrate an en masse walkout. This particular coworker sounds like a real nightmare to share a professional working space with. 

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    Text - r/ProRevenge + Join u/ftwipftfiy • 3y Have fun finding six new receptionists! This is VERY long, I'm sorry in advance. This story if kind a continuation to the one I posted previously on prettyrevenge. TL;DR for that post, one of my coworkers never did her job correctly and I had to end up picking up her slack. Other employees noticed, we decided once our boss was back from vacation we'd speak to her about the slacking coworker. Our office had a rotation of eight receptionists, two of whi
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    Text - Now, my slacking coworker (let's call her Marilyn) all but refused to scan anything in, and waited for whoever was relieving her to pass off her paperwork to them. This was dangerous, honestly. There were certain patients that could have been diagnosed with brain tumors and her not doing her job would delay their diagnosis. Five of my coworkers and I spoke to her privately about the matter, stating that we would go to our boss if Marilyn didn't change. She said she'd start scanning everyt
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    Text - Another thing to note about the office - it was basically like being in high school again. It was mostly women working, most of whom were 30-40's, but acted like teenagers. There was a lot of gossiping and a LOT of passive aggressive behavior. Like, if someone wanted to order lunch they would purposefully NOT tell one person or a group of people because s/he was mad at them that day. It was just weird and childish, and I was lucky not to get caught in the crossfire. Until the day I told m
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    Text - She then made it her personal mission to try and make our work lives miserable, which included: • encouraging the rest of the staff to not speak with us. This didn't work for the most part, but there was definitely a lot of coldness from a few people on the administrative staff. taking 30 min bathroom breaks when she worked with one of us, and just disappearing altogether if a rush of people walked in. she refused to physically speak to us. Instead, she would send an email for a request (
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    Text - • constantly printing out and doing things for her personal life, but if she caught one of us doing the same she would immediately tell the administrative staff. If anything, this brought all of us closer together. We wouldn't have gone to the work happy hour anyway, since we were all hanging out together elsewhere. We all had our frustrating Marilyn stories, but we all also worked part time and in varying degrees of finishing schooling, so it didn't really matter what she pulled. We were
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    Text - Font - However, she somehow convinced the administrative staff to shorten all of our hours. I went from about 20 hours a week to 10. The two other people who had gone to the boss were in similar boats, while the ones who had been frustrated with Marilyn but unable to make the meeting suddenly had their workloads doubled. We were ALL angry at this point, because no one wanted the hours they were receiving. When we asked the staff why the hours had changed so drastically, they said it had b
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    Text - Once again, we went to our boss - this time all five of us. Instead of listening to us, looking at all our evidence we had against Marilyn, letting us explain how toxic of a work environment it had become - she completely blew us off and told us that either we do our work or we find somewhere else to be employed. Later on that week, I overheard her talking to a girl in the billing department about how Marilyn was going to come over to boss' house that weekend and cut her hair free of char
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    Text - Only two receptionists had the ability to work past 5pm - they both quit. No more late night appointments. I was the receptionist that worked on Sundays. Can't be open seven days a week now. Our boss practically begged three of us to change our mind, or at least change the date of resignation so she could have more time to find replacements. No dice. By my estimate, by the time they manage to find and train all the people they need, they will have lost at least $50,000 between not working
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    Text - This all happened about six months ago. Last I heard, the administration quickly realized just how lazy Marilyn was and decreased her pay and hours as a result. The newer receptionists can barely last a month before quitting due to how bad the work environment is, and they still haven't found anyone to work weekends or late nights. And remember how I mentioned that Marilyn would frequently do her personal work at her desk? Well, turns out she was filling out forms to get her children free
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    Text - to ensure they were under the amount of money needed to be eligible for the program. It just so happens that the vice principal of the school received a call from someone to let them know that Marilyn was lying about being unemployed and had no qualms giving out Marilyn's work address and hours. I know for a fact that her kids were kicked off this list, given that the VP called me back to confirm it. :) TL;DR: my coworker refused to do her job, created a toxic work environment, and convin
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