How to Alienate Your Coworkers and Scar Your Employees for Life

Tons of humor and light-hearted commentary about the co-workers and bosses who make our lives miserable.

 

This show marks the one year anniversary of Crina and Kirsten Get to Work - and what a great and fun ride it has been!!  From KMRE Community Powered Radio to the Clubhouse, from Zoom and now from the barn - Crina and Kirsten Get to Work has been on the move and evolving.  Most important - thanks to our listeners - we appreciate you and what you contribute to your world and workplaces - and you ask great questions and make great comments.

 

Because it is our anniversary episode, we want to indulge ourselves and have a little fun calling out some folks who make our workplace miserable - and to laugh a bit and point some fingers - cuz every once in a while that feels good.  

 

Here are the co-workers who bug us . . . .

 

• Co-workers who suck all of the joy out of the room and have nothing good to say or contribute
• The know it all who uses information as an aggressive act in the workplace
• Co-workers who form cliques and play favorites.
• Co-workers who broker information and triangulate - and just anyone who uses communication as an offensive or defensive weapon.
• Co-workers who don't accept responsibility and worse, throw others under the bus to avoid being wrong
• Co-workers who take up your time without a good reason (and it is not fun)
• Co-workers who do not know anything about the people they work with 

 

And here are the Covid complaints  . . .

• Co-workers who cannot get there mute on (or off)
• Co-workers who refuse to turn on their video
• Co-workers who behave in a way that makes us think their screen is frozen - we want active listeners!

And just because we can, here is what bugs us about bosses . . .

 

• Bosses who act like everything is urgent
• Bosses who continually change strategies and direction
• Bosses who keep communication vague
• Bosses who are never wrong
• Bosses who take credit for your work
• Bosses who micromanage us.

 

And Crina offers some helpful tips to make sure you are not one of these people.

• • Carve out observational time to observe how you interact with others in the workplace
  • Put yourself into new environments to get feedback - if you do some volunteer work and run into the same issues you run into at work, it may be you

• If the circumstances are right and the environment is safe - ask for feedback from your co-workers.

• Understand your own triggers and what causes you to behave in ways that alienates your co-workers and scars them for life - :-)

Seriously, our listeners are perfect - and we hope you enjoy this episode with some light-hearted ribbing.