Feckers who back-stab ya....... like a Salieri-Colleague in the workplace

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Mozart movie re-make is on its way. So tell us.

Every workplace has one. Sometimes dozens of them. They go about stabbing all their colleagues in the back, especially the talented hard-working colleagues. Choosing to feather their own nest by removing anybody who challenges their own position. Keeping all the lazy untalented dross on the payroll. Surrounding themselves with Goons to secure their own position.

We also saw this on 'The Weakest Link' the stupid clowns get voted off....and then the clever ones get voted off.

We have even seen this in football. New talent arrives in and the existing players won't pass him the ball or otherwise thwart him.

Some are famous....others are little people from your own experiences. So tell us......

1. Rolf Harris....other presenters/comedians hated working with him cos he insisted on hogging all the limelight and putting them down.

2. Tony Blair.....stabbing the career of the popular Mo Mowlem after her excellent work in Northern Ireland.

3. Josef Stalin sidelining Georgi Zhukov , the best General in the Red Army. The movie 'Death of Stalin' did a nice coverage of the idiotic bumbling buffoon who was Malenkov the Deputy Leader. Stalin was clearly a Salieri.

4. Two Tier Keir ? he certainly has chosen a few un-electable types as his immediate subordinates. How would he manage a charismatic crowd pleaser ?

5. Hitler. He spent far more energy fighting feckers within his own party. And probably much less time fighting Stalin, Commies and everybody else. Backstabbing ? 'The night of the Long knives' being that all these Nazi-colleagues were not good enough. The gay Ernst Rohm was sexually unacceptable for a Hitler whose own niece topped herself from the bedroom horrors. Hitler normally arose at lunchtime and spent most of the day off his head on amphetamines and was a failure at every academic endeavour he ever attempted. The lazy looney then ran about telling everybody else they weren't good enough.

6. Giovanni Trappatoni.....Football manager.....he feuded and fought with so many Republic of Ireland Internationals that there was almost nobody left to field a team by the end of Trap's tenure. Macbeth sitting in the castle, all on his own.

7. Roy Keane.......the work-Colleague from hell. If your performance is anything below that of Messi, Keane will rip you apart to the journalists who matter. And Keane as a manager ? compare and contrast to Glasner folks.

Or tell us about your personal experiences. You are working in a job, minding your own business, and you sense a scorched-earth policy from gossipy colleague in your wake ? A work-colleague who burns more calories dissing their own workmates than actually doing any work themselves. Salieri incarnate.


What others ?




 
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Laura Kuenssberg: British journalist and presenter

Just my own feeling. During the last GE and the previous, she was asking a lot of awkward questions and making politicians very uncomfortable. I felt she got side-lined very quickly from the political news into a comfortable Sunday show.
Couldn't have put it better, than the BBC title:
 
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just about every bloody place I've worked in, I'll go for that Latvian owner of Hearts who sacked George Burley cos they won their first eight games and his ego couldn't take the manager being more important than him. We used to have the divine right of kings, now it's the divine right of line managers, weasly stuffed shirts who see ability as a threat instead of an asset.
 
just about every bloody place I've worked in, I'll go for that Latvian owner of Hearts who sacked George Burley cos they won their first eight games and his ego couldn't take the manager being more important than him. We used to have the divine right of kings, now it's the divine right of line managers, weasly stuffed shirts who see ability as a threat instead of an asset.
Workplaces have changed in the last few years. For most of my working life anyone who discovered an error or omission would go and see the person responsible to let them know to give them a chance to sort it out. In the last few years that stopped with new staff members who couldn't wait to bring anything to the attention of the big bosses and drop someone in it. Strange behaviour.
 
Indeed, weasel Managers are stuffing a lot of workplaces. Somehow they have found themselves mid-table, and their lack of experience/knowledge means they are effectively conduits for passing the crap down from upper management (which they should really own), and stopping the praise from senior levels reaching the workers. They are glory thieves. They rely on an overachieving workforce to entrench their fragile position, and are first out the fire exit when the kitchen gets too hot.
They don't deserve to manage anyone, if they can't do the job themselves, and know the workplace inside out.
Manual labour jobs are fairly straight forward. You have a problem, you speak to the person.
Office jobs are far more treacherous. After I was put on a verbal warning a few years back, my Manager said to me "Watch out for the people that are nicest to your face. They're the ones stabbing you in the back".
 
Indeed, weasel Managers are stuffing a lot of workplaces. Somehow they have found themselves mid-table, and their lack of experience/knowledge means they are effectively conduits for passing the crap down from upper management (which they should really own), and stopping the praise from senior levels reaching the workers. They are glory thieves. They rely on an overachieving workforce to entrench their fragile position, and are first out the fire exit when the kitchen gets too hot.
They don't deserve to manage anyone, if they can't do the job themselves, and know the workplace inside out.
Manual labour jobs are fairly straight forward. You have a problem, you speak to the person.
Office jobs are far more treacherous. After I was put on a verbal warning a few years back, my Manager said to me "Watch out for the people that are nicest to your face. They're the ones stabbing you in the back".
I see this. Middle managers can’t do the hands on stuff, not good enough for the top jobs and so full of their own self importance. Wankers most.
 
Office jobs are far more treacherous. After I was put on a verbal warning a few years back, my Manager said to me "Watch out for the people that are nicest to your face. They're the ones stabbing you in the back".

Aint that the truth. The drinks in the pub, with the work-crowd, is a war-zone of gossip. And its also an excellent bulletin-board to what is really happening in the workplace. Which secretary is doing the boss and which new arrival is actually a niece/nephew of somebody in the boardroom.
 
Aint that the truth. The drinks in the pub, with the work-crowd, is a war-zone of gossip. And its also an excellent bulletin-board to what is really happening in the workplace. Which secretary is doing the boss and which new arrival is actually a niece/nephew of somebody in the boardroom.
The after works drinks that i used to swerve. They really opened my eyes. A bit of tiredness and alcohol, and people start talking a lot of reality. Also, that's why I don't do office politics any more. You reach a certain age, and it just becomes time-consuming. Things never really change in certain workplaces, which is probably why I've had to move jobs a few times. There'll always be some b'stard ready to rip into a co-worker, I just don't want it to be me.
 
The after works drinks that i used to swerve. They really opened my eyes. A bit of tiredness and alcohol, and people start talking a lot of reality. Also, that's why I don't do office politics any more. You reach a certain age, and it just becomes time-consuming. Things never really change in certain workplaces, which is probably why I've had to move jobs a few times. There'll always be some b'stard ready to rip into a co-worker, I just don't want it to be me.
Drink… the truth drug 🤔
 
There'll always be some b'stard ready to rip into a co-worker, I just don't want it to be me.

software programmers are notorious. They read the code, that a colleague wrote, and tell all & sundry that its all wrong. But you do get this backstabbing in most business activities.

An acquaintance, who employs a dozen tradesmen in the construction business, recounted a familiar story. The tradesmen often gang-up on any newcomers who may be impinging on their patch.

It seems to be only football where new talent is welcomed with open arms. Although even then we have all seen a striker sitting on the bench and looking slightly bemused when his buddy scores a winner.
 

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