I dunno if any of this really works in the long run.


From a managers point of view there’s 3 sorts of people. The stars who get things done no matter what, the people who do enough and then there’s the pisstakers.

In a big company, it’s so difficult to get rid of the low level pisstakers, you keep them as a redundancy buffer to protect the rest of the team when times are hard. No career progression, no real pay rises….and they think they’re ones taking you for a ride.
( Ring Of Fire A petty, drooling belming butthurt retard., Mon 13 Sep 2010, 18:05, 3 replies)

makes perfect sense to me
though if you're working for a company that takes the piss, then these are all worthy time wasting tips to employ while you're lloking for a new job.
also, there's more than 3 types, I see you're not mentioned the people that do fuck all then take credit for others' work ;)
( real i'm not happy 'til you're not happy, Mon 13 Sep 2010, 18:14, closed)

I think they're a subset of the pisstakers

( Snappyuk gets BIGGER with free sample., Mon 13 Sep 2010, 21:32, closed)

If you are in the position
Of being a 'techy type' (read as: can use excel and photoshop), where there are no other such folk, then you can claim that what you are doing is extremely valid to the company, and nobody knows how to challenge you. Until they hire someone better, then fire you for lying at them.
(Scrumpy does not negotiate with terrorists,, Tue 14 Sep 2010, 11:05, closed)

I run a small business that I set up myself in 2008. I can't afford to carry pisstakers. I sold my house, invested all my savings & borrowed another £85k to get the company going. Finally we are starting to become profitable and I am repaying the debts. I have created 8 jobs by setting this company up.

If I had gone under due to staff taking the piss after I have made all these sacrifices (albeit sacrifices of my chosing) - and believe me I still could go under - I don't know how I would react, but I know I would be extremely hacked off.

Take the piss if you want, but please don't do it in a small business - it really isn't fair.
(lkjshaglkasjdhglkhjz lkcvl; g;aodh;owih, Tue 14 Sep 2010, 19:47, closed)