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How to go about dealing with an employer who is the same level as you and everyone else in your department (accept for the night lead), but is always trying to boss you around? I kinda wanna tell them to f*ck off when they come up to me and ask me to 'make sure you do _____, please' or 'can you please do ______, thank you'. It is seriously annoying to the point where I want to skip going to the department manager with my problem since they both seem to have this buddy-buddy thing going on and I really don't want any backlash from this, and just go to the store manager with this.



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Who has more seniority?  Typically the senior people are told by heads and managers to keep others on task. And if this person and department head are "buddy-buddy" it may not end well for you going over them.

 



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you don't gotta listen to anyone except your boss. if anyone else is trying to boss you around, kindly tell them to shove it.

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so this is the thanks I get for working overtime? 

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Hate these people as well. Seniority should not determine whether or not you can manage other employees. If you are that great and have been around forever, you would have been promoted to a managerial position by now, if you have not been promoted and have been around forever, you are probably not that great.



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Hate these people as well. Seniority should not determine whether or not you can manage other employees. If you are that great and have been around forever, you would have been promoted to a managerial position by now, if you have not been promoted and have been around forever, you are probably not that great.



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Seniority doesn't have anything to do with that. You're right! They obviously aren't doing something right or didn't want to take on the responsibility. I hate people who think they can tell you what to do because they've worked their longer. The only seniority they have is vacation time, availability, hours, open positions (if the qualify), transferring.   Nothing else!!!!!



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A little more context and details are needed here---like what's your department, and are they asking you to do these tasks when you're already busy--because I can see both sides of this.

Sure, I've had to deal with older and/or senior busybody co-workers that constantly critique my work, as if anyone asked them or their opinion is relevant (at Kroger and in other jobs). That's never fun.

But like someone else here mentioned, sometimes if a newbie doesn't do something right, department heads be like "Why didn't you show New Guy how it's done? We're a TEAM, guys! We have to help each other!"

Like when I told my CSM yesterday that she needs to teach these 15-year-old Courtesy Clerks not to bag a bloody beef roast with a tub of egg salad, or a quart of OJ with Tide (I'm not being funny, I actually saw this).

My CSM was annoyed that I didn't correct them. I told her they weren't bagging for my customers so I stayed out of it. CSM said that it doesn't matter, I'm the senior experienced worker, show em the ropes, blah, blah, blah.

I mean if the bossy employee is being a dick about it, then tell your department head, but if they're not rude and they're only doing it because if they don't get help with something it negatively impacts their work, I'd let it go.

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Lane Hardy wrote:

A little more context and details are needed here---like what's your department, and are they asking you to do these tasks when you're already busy--because I can see both sides of this.

Sure, I've had to deal with older and/or senior busybody co-workers that constantly critique my work, as if anyone asked them or their opinion is relevant (at Kroger and in other jobs). That's never fun.

But like someone else here mentioned, sometimes if a newbie doesn't do something right, department heads be like "Why didn't you show New Guy how it's done? We're a TEAM, guys! We have to help each other!"

Like when I told my CSM yesterday that she needs to teach these 15-year-old Courtesy Clerks not to bag a bloody beef roast with a tub of egg salad, or a quart of OJ with Tide (I'm not being funny, I actually saw this).

My CSM was annoyed that I didn't correct them. I told her they weren't bagging for my customers so I stayed out of it. CSM said that it doesn't matter, I'm the senior experienced worker, show em the ropes, blah, blah, blah.

I mean if the bossy employee is being a dick about it, then tell your department head, but if they're not rude and they're only doing it because if they don't get help with something it negatively impacts their work, I'd let it go.


 Dude we have senior busy bodies and a younger one in our store(that even rubs the senior ones the wrong way. But I just think to myself, she gets it from them! I mean none of them are the back up managers. But they still think they can tell other co-workers what they should be focusing on next. I sorta look to the DH for this kind of behavior. Cause if he says nothing about it. It kind of persists and keeps on going).

And I also hear where you are coming from in regards to trying to tell a new person how things are going down. As I was informed that I was to do that with a chick that transferred from Starbucks to our dept. But, any time I would say something that I had been told myself before. I was told I was wrong about this or that. So that is why it makes me nervous whenever they say we have a new person coming into the dept. Simply because if my DH wants me to show em the ropes. I feel like I could be steering that person wrong. When I've most likely been steer wrong in my own "training". Not to mention, it sorta makes you feel kind of incompetent when others are like, "why are you doing it that way?" when it should be X,Y, and Z. And yet nobody ever told ME that it should be X,Y, and Z in the first place!



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