Who's the whiner at your workplace?
By nandans
@nandans (1160)
India
June 28, 2007 4:44am CST
Is the person occupying the cubicle/ desk next to yours at the office perpetually drowning in his or her woes? Well, that isn't such a bad thing, as long as your neighbour doesn't disrupt your work. 'Office whiners' are a new clan of urban working individuals who take their problems to work. According to psychiatrist, "These are socially dissatisfied people. Everyone has different social needs, and like gossiping with colleagues to vent themselves. Office whiners are not necessarily stereotyped women. Men too, chose their work stations to discuss their personal grievances."
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@anonymili (3138)
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28 Jun 07
I work in an open plan office of about 20 people. There are only 2 women here, one of them is me! The biggest whiner is one of the managers, who basically is very good at his job but whines at every opportunity. I do actually avoid having any kind of conversation with him as much as possible because of his tendency to complain about everything, whether it's people parking in our spaces in the car park (who cares, just park back in their spaces, it's quite easy going here) or how many extra hours he's working (so what? everyone else is going it and not whining about it all day) he's always got something to complain about. We all work extra hours when needed but we work for a company that appreciates it and gives you time off in lieu in the quieter periods, what is the point in making a song and dance about it? Sometimes I think he spends so much time whining and not working that this is the reason he has to work longer hours because he's spent so much work time moaning LOL! I get along with everyone in the office bar none as it's so relaxed here and the other female in the office is really quiet and shy. So we're definitely not the typical stereo-typical women in our office! :)
