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PrimalInstinct

So I do some part-time at a business. I stay because I like most of the staff from other departments. My own colleagues they could find the brooklyn bridge & jump for all I cared (I really only like 1 out of 18+, pathetic). 

Anyway tonight while leaving two of these fools sort of started mocking me about a situation that happened last year. I was in the right, two other idiots were in the wrong. They've been kept on. And this was what the mocking was about. As I've suspected for a bit 'behind the scenes' as they say. 

But in a few days I'm having a meeting with the big boss (a guy) about something else and am wondering if I should just bluntly say... look do something about this or I'm pissing off. I'm good at my job but unlike most of my colleagues I can easily get another job. Very easily. 

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I would consider speaking to your boss, but not in a way that you've suggested.

Ego doesn't have a place in this situation and though you are able to find a better job, some tact would go a long way. Consider making it clear that you're unhappy about these two and they need to be spoken to by someone in a position to do so, i.e. your boss or the alternative is that you make it apparant that you're going to begin to look elsewhere.

If you have proven your worth at this company then the boss should take some credance to what you say, and if he doesn't seem interested, then you're better elsewhere and these guys just lost someone good. 

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17 minutes ago, alakhiin said:

I would consider speaking to your boss, but not in a way that you've suggested.

Ego doesn't have a place in this situation and though you are able to find a better job, some tact would go a long way. Consider making it clear that you're unhappy about these two and they need to be spoken to by someone in a position to do so, i.e. your boss or the alternative is that you make it apparant that you're going to begin to look elsewhere.

If you have proven your worth at this company then the boss should take some credance to what you say, and if he doesn't seem interested, then you're better elsewhere and these guys just lost someone good. 

I agree with this approach.

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You can't tell someone else how to run their business, and without background info it's impossible to advise on how to approach it. I'm just going to assume there's some serious principles involved or you wouldn't be so bothered by it or by colleagues making a joke of it. Strange things happen in work environments, and bosses all too often think the sun shines out of some butt-kissy employee who's actually bad for their business and brings down the morale of other staff. The risk you run if you decide to actually complain about another staff member is that the boss takes no action or takes weak action and then you end up working with people who resent you. Being as you say you could find another job easily, I would take that option and then when giving notice I would make big mention that the reason I had chosen to leave was that I felt compromised by the lax workplace behaviour code and undermined by the fact that other employees were laughing at me. Don't ever pull punches with your job, always find the new job, THEN deliver the punchline.  

I once found out something really bad about a business associate of my bosses, (this guy was also a relative of my bosses) and I tossed up whether I should tell them what I knew.  I decided against it, because based on previous observations of my bosses attitudes my gut told me that I would be ignored and would just come off looking like a gossip and a troublemaker, and then have to deal with the extra irritation of not being taken seriously. The 'wrong-doer' was served karma in the form of the joint business venture failing dismally, (he ended up looking kinda stupid after big-noting his expertise and experience at the beginning and strutting around our office like Foghorn Leghorn). Sometimes in life you just have to sidestep the a-holes and let karma take care of them. 

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I dont think "the big boss" will have too much time for this sort of thing,

he will say to sort out your own petty squabbles among yourselves,

you sound fiesty enough to me, I think you can handle this one yourself.😉

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