Each leader wants to see subordinates efficient, motivated and happy. And enjoy life with them. Well, dreaming is not harmful, because often a corporate barrel of honey is spoiled by a single fly in the ointment in the form of an employee who systematically does something wrong and wrong. Moreover, this spoon often smells so bad that it significantly distorts the picture of the office idyll and turns the boss into a nervous monster. If there are several such spoiled apples in the team, then management can sympathize and wish for more patience and endurance.
What are the habits, actions and behaviors of employees cause only negative emotions?
1. Permanent sick leave
Agree, when instead of high-quality reports, the manager continually receives medical certificates from the employee - over time, this will bring even the most balanced boss to white-hot. Moreover, legally, such a reason for truancy has no grounds for claims. In the end, a person can really have serious health problems. However, companies are no easier for this. As a result, it is problematic to dismiss such an eternal patient, and there is little sense in him at work. And the salary, meanwhile, has to be paid according to all the rules.
Aerobatics in this area recently showed one Italian doctor. For nine years of service in a hospital in the Italian province of Catania, he worked for a total of 15 days. The rest of the time I was officially studying, sick or on vacation. At the same time he regularly received a salary. The head doctor of the hospital only shrugs - legally, all the absenteeism of the unfortunate doctor were within the law, so no sanctions or disciplinary sanctions can be applied to him, although, of course, I really want to.
2. Tardiness
To oversleep, get stuck in traffic, get sick or miss an electric train - for these and other reasons, everyone was late for work at least once. However, for some office characters, being late is a chronic and indestructible habit that infuriates management. And if you add to this the constant lies and inefficiency of talking about discipline, then this factor can be attributed to one of the most annoying.
According to Anna Ivanova, the head of the Office Selection department of the STS Group outsourcing company, this reason is often the main headache of managers. “Who will like it when a subordinate slowly enters the office 40 minutes after the official start of the working day? Not only is he late, he has the audacity to lie about the reason for his late arrival. On the way to work, anything can happen, but “didn’t have time for the bus, and the next one only after half an hour” or “I had to give my grandmother a turn in the clinic” - no excuses, ”Anna Ivanova is sure.
According to the expert, one of the ways to train chronic truants is through negotiations and discipline. “Of course, if the problem cannot be solved by negotiating with the employee, then his dismissal is the optimal and at the same time radical option. Another thing is if the employee is of great value to the company, we are loved and respected by other authorities. In this case, the leader can step over himself and try to establish relations with him, ”says the specialist.
3. Excessive initiative and ambitiousness
It would seem that active, enterprising, energetic employees are the dream of any leader. But what to do when an employee’s qualities are overwhelmed and their concentration is so luscious that they want to drink tea without sugar?
As Natalya Biryukova, a consultant at the Oil and Gas Department of the Cornerstone headhunting company, notes, bosses can be divided into two types: some love ambitious, smart and promising employees, while others, on the contrary, see them as a potential threat.
“Managers of the second type have unstable self-esteem, therefore, they in every possible way suppress excessive professional and personal activity of employees. The situation can be significantly aggravated if the senior management supports the determination of such a subordinate, ”the expert says. - The success of an ambitious employee is especially offensive to a boss with a narcissistic type of person who loves to control everyone everywhere, to be at the peak of fame. If the situation went wrong, and he saw a potential competitor who surpasses him in something, then his unstable self-esteem suffers in the first place, envy appears and strong hatred follows her. ”
4. Non-compliance with subordination
Another category of employees with whom management prefers not to meet again in the corridor is familiar personalities who seek to be on short foot with their superiors.
According to Irma Bochorishvili, the head of the personnel selection group at Unity recruitment agency, such relationships often appear during many years of joint work.
5. Errors in documents and reports
What can infuriate more than unverified, distorted or erroneous data in reports and other documents prepared by employees? As a result, the boss, tortured by the incompetence of his subordinates, either toughens the requirements for the quality of work, or double-checks and redo everything himself. As a result, the leader’s nervous system is constantly tested for strength.
And if the negligent employee is a relative or close friend of the leader, then the situation is aggravated at times. In this case, the classic saying about a suitcase without a handle is recreated. Such a character cannot be fired, and there is no strength to mess around.
6. Gossip and constant chatter with colleagues
A gossip-free collective is a science fiction phenomenon. To a greater or lesser extent, in the smoking room and at lunch, colleagues wash their colleagues' bones constantly. However, in some cases, the level of gossip and intrigue goes beyond the permissible limits and stops the work process. Enthusiastic about discussing the events of someone else’s personal life or debriefing after a corporate party, the subordinates have no time for work and it doesn’t matter that their leader has already noticed everything, singled out the main gossip, made conclusions and is noticeably nervous, preparing various kinds of sanctions.
7. Rudeness
The word is silver, and silence is gold. And in the event that the expressions distributed by the staff are obscene and cause the ears of others to bleed, then the price is worthless. Unsinkable rudeness and rudeness in relation to the leader and colleagues is another good reason for the leadership to wriggle heart-rendingly and look for the fifth corner.
Variants of influence on boors - comments, disciplinary sanctions in the form of fines and even a boycott from colleagues
8. Office noise
Thinking, as you know, is more convenient in silence. At least in relative. Nevertheless, there is a category of employees who manage to create a constant noise background at work. To do this, they have a whole arsenal of funds - rustling packages from McDonald's, thieves chorus as a mobile phone ringtone, too loud peals of laughter, constantly tapping hairpins on the marble floor, discussing on the mobile phone the latest events from the Game of Thrones and making plans for evening. If the leader was not lucky enough to isolate himself from the staff with a wall, he can only sympathize. Work in constant noise is a direct path to neurosis, inefficient work, and hatred of employees.
9. Bad smell
In the practice of one real company, the following situation arose. The owner of the company hired a new head of one of the departments of the organization. The professional qualities, work experience and other necessary requirements of the appointed manager led the employer to delight. It is fully consistent with the stated expectations. But subordinates, after several days of work under the guidance of a new specialist, were simply taken aback. And not so much from the competencies of the new boss, but from the terrible smell that he spread in the office. Whether the specific aroma was the result of non-observance of personal hygiene rules or the use of Spetsnaz cologne was not specified. However, a week later, employees came to the owner and prayed for help. The owner did not want to lose a quality shot, nor did he provoke a negative attitude towards the new leader. As a result of delicate negotiations with the newly-made object of hatred of employees, it turned out that the cause of everything was a chronic disease that was difficult to treat. It is unlikely that this information made it easier for workers to breathe, so general dislike continued to be in the air. As a result, after six months of work, the manager himself left the company.
This situation works in the opposite direction - when it is impossible to approach without wrinkling your nose to one of the employees. As a result, a “skunk”, as a rule, either solves the problem at the delicate request of the management, or eventually seeks out a new habitat for itself.
10. Using the office as a trading platform
You can work as an official representative in your own office if, when communicating with customers, you represent your own company, and do not use others to sell network cosmetics, pencils to remove scratches from cars and exclusive tea strainers. Even the most tolerant boss will begin to boil a little if the representative office of a real estate agency with the help of a particularly entrepreneurial employee turns into a point of sale of environmentally friendly household chemicals with direct supplies from the United States. In this case, from love to hatred of the leader is a stone's throw.
