Longtime employee spies on colleague, accuses him of slacking for leaving 2 minutes early: 'I get my quota done by 2'

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  • an middle aged woman wearing glasses looks down to write something while working on her laptop
  • She literally stands up to check my screen if I stop typing

    I can't do this anymore. I work in medical billing, pretty standard cubicle farm. The woman next to me has been here maybe 15 years and acts like she owns the floor.
  • If I stop typing to take a sip of water or check a weird code on a physical invoice, I hear her chair squeak.
  • Every time. It's this specific high- pitched plastic creak. She shifts her weight and cranes her neck just enough to see if I'm on my phone.
  • I'm not on my phone. I'm working. Yesterday I had to take a personal call in the hallway.
  • My dad's having surgery next week, needed to confirm the insurance. I was gone maybe 4 minutes.
  • I come back and she's standing AT MY DESK. Holding a stapler like she was looking for one?
  • We have staplers. Everyone has one. Even we have this on a shared work table, which I've never even used.
  • She goes "Oh, there you are. The phone rang." We don't even have a shared line.
  • a closeup of a gray leather notebook with a silver pen on top of it on a black background
  • It was my direct extension. She didn't answer it obviously. She just wanted me to know she knew I was gone.
  • Then today, 4:58 PM. I pack up. I'm fast, I get my quota done by 2 usually.
  • I spend the rest of the time double checking just to look busy because of her.
  • As I zip my bag, she says loud enough for the manager to hear two rows over: "Leaving already?
  • I'm staying to help with the audit prep, but have a good night." She isn't even on the audit team.
  • She just stays late to browse Facebook and look dedicated. I just walked out but I could feel my face getting hot.
  • I know she's keeping a log. I swear I saw a notepad under her keyboard where she writes down times.
  • I need this paycheck for rent but sitting next to her is physically painful.
  • a man lays his head on his desk with his laptop, a pot of pens, and crumpled paper in front of him
  • chefboyardeejr I would start keeping a record too. Because if she's busy checking your every move, how much of her own workload is she actually doing? You have receipts of your completed work, but does she? So every time you hear that chair creak, turn around and ask her if she needs help with her own work since you are up to date and have a minute to spare. Then make a note of the interaction. Something tells me your deliverables are more substantial than hers
  • ks4001 Stop typing; wait for the squek; start typing again. Do that about 50 times and let her get a workout in!
  • Cheap Truck_1008 Do you get in before her? Maybe start showing up earlier and when you leave say yeah well maybe you can leave early if you get in when I get in
  • pinkflower200 Be careful. Don't let your coworker micromanage you OP.
  • bluetad That's sounds so petty for her. I would absolutely stop typing and stare over in her direction. Make eye contact when she peeps over. Catch her a few times and she might stop. That or do what she's does. Peek over when she stops typing, notice her taking a step out. Be petty back.
  • Noone_2See People like this always the laziest one but pretend to be competent while pushing away the actual competent and hardworking people. So you have a revolving door of new staffs every year and so nobody stick long enough to challenge them. Blink and suddenly they're there for a decade and now act like a boss. Miraculously though they never seems to get promoted so they make sure every potential staffs to get promoted get out because of them.

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