How to deal with uncooperative coworkers who don't do their work

“Mr. EssTeeEss9, is Ms. Redacted (no, not the cool one) using ChatGPT to create our assignments and tests?”source ↗

“Like, what the f--k am I even doing here?”source ↗

“Obviously, more than one parent was upset. Is this requirement strange? I feel kinda weird about it but don’t know how to bring it up with my co-teacher.”source ↗

“I have a para (52F) who has been at this school for several years and she is making my life miserable. Miserable to the level that I cry everyday before and after school.”source ↗

“Every single morning, I say "good morning" and she looks at me and says nothing. No smile, nothing. Her presence is truly like a cloud of darkness in my room.”source ↗

“She has rolled her eyes and scoffed at me more times than I can count. And she isn't like this with other teachers. I am excluded from conversations, everything.”source ↗

“I calmly and kindly told her that if her son was going to bring her anything, he had to check in at the front office. She looked at me with the most pissed off and disgusted face and said "says who?"”source ↗

“Please give me any input. Because I am ready to throw in the towel and quit.”source ↗

“Sped teacher stands in one spot the entire period and watches me teach, discipline, redirect, etc. while I am working my tail off to try and deliver instruction.”source ↗

“With another full grown adult special education professional in the classroom, I don’t feel I should be having to do the redirecting and behavior management of the sped students all on my own.”source ↗

“She does absolutely nothing.”source ↗

“We are in the 8th week of our semester & I am growing more & more frustrated each week.”source ↗

“At this point, I honestly feel like she is extremely difficult to work with, and I’m starting to question whether I’m expecting too much from her.”source ↗

“The biggest issue for me is that I don’t feel like she is actually helping me.”source ↗

“At this point, I’m wondering if I’m being too demanding, or if these are reasonable expectations for a Pre-K teaching assistant.”source ↗

“there's a new teacher in our hallway that needs too much help and doesn't actually do what you suggest.”source ↗

“she's not taking any advice. I don't know what else to suggest to her.”source ↗

“She will not take attendance with our student software. Will not send emails to parents (genuinely doesnt know HOW to send a group newsletter email). Finds the hardwired doc camera confusing. Cannot assist her kindie class with their chromebooks.”source ↗

“She calls a coworker into her room to turn on the doc camera every morning. Another has to send her emails. She refuses and says shes never had to learn tech before so theres no reason she should be required to turn on the projector with a remote control now.”source ↗

“Im stuck in a small office in her hallway so im getting 6 or 7 "i dont know what to do" in a day interrupting my own work.”source ↗

“I dedicate a lot of time in creating engaging lesson plans considering my district doesn’t have a set curriculum. I don’t mind sharing my lessons, but the all the newbies are rude. Like I don’t get a thank you or a good morning. They seem to be nice to me only when they need something from me.”source ↗

“This lady is being weird and I don’t know why. I think I know it’s because my general ed students have been beating her AP kids in our exams. She’s lashing out and starting to make life hard. I seriously don’t care about test scores this year, but it sucks to be in conflict with colleagues especially as the new guy.”source ↗

“At what point do recurring communication and collaboration problems outweigh someone’s artistic strengths?”source ↗

“What’s wearing me down is the additional time and mental energy I spend trying to make our communication, expectations and responsibilities clearer — without much lasting success.”source ↗

“I have been working with my co teacher for five years now. It wasn’t bad at first, but over the last few years her attitude and patience towards our students has drastically declined.”source ↗

“I request to be placed with her every year because I am the “safe place” for the kids and I fear if I am moved, she will be placed with someone who will not report things”source ↗

“Yesterday, she made a student cry twice because they couldn’t find their folder due to not knowing how to identify their name, she yelled at another student for spilling their lunch and said they did it on purpose.”source ↗

“My EA is relative of admin. When she is assigned even a small task, she sometimes refuses, asks to take a short break, and leaves the classroom.”source ↗

“On my second day, she recorded me twice while I was teaching after I had assigned her a task.”source ↗

“I now feel as though someone is watching and reporting on me while sitting in my classroom.”source ↗

“The reason I got upset is that as my PARTNER, I feel like she should have come to me and mentioned that students were feeling this way. Instead, she told the student to report it to admin or their parents and never mentioned it to me.”source ↗

“At this point, I'm grey rocking her the rest of the year. Anything I need to say will be in an email so it can be documented.”source ↗

“I’ve had some uncomfortable experiences with a coworker that I’ve been unsure how to address.”source ↗

“There is one male coworker who seems to have difficulty understanding that I am not interested in him romantically.”source ↗

“I think I was unsure whether I was overreacting or how to explain what was making me uncomfortable.”source ↗

“If your team lead sucks, your time will too”source ↗

“If they’re already yelling at you though that’s wicked unprofessional”source ↗

“Fellow case manager on my grade level sped team ratted on me for a small error in data on a progress report. For reference in did data for like 60 different goals that quarter and she audited what I did and found a tiny inconsistency. She called a meeting with admin to discuss something pretty minor and I was directed to redo the progress report and do an IEP amendment (a lot of extra work).”source ↗

“Ugh. This is why co-teaching sucks. You don’t want to throw them under the bus in front of the students, but when they do shit like this, it adversely affects your reputation.”source ↗

“I'm a new SPED teacher working in a co-taught classroom, and I'm honestly reaching my breaking point.”source ↗

“This person often talks down to me as if I'm an assistant rather than an equal co-teacher.”source ↗

“I'm honestly considering resigning, but before I leave, I want to know if there's anything else I can do to escalate these concerns, especially regarding the way this person talks about students and families.”source ↗

“Day 1 and my coteacher has already yelled at me.”source ↗

“I just don’t know if I want to continue feeling the frustration and isolation of dealing with someone who I have so much difficulty communicating with.”source ↗

“Half the time I feel confused because we came to agreements that are then ignored and half the time I feel like she sees me as a nuisance when I only ever ask or tell her about things to support her.”source ↗

“In middle school, teachers have co planning with the same exact subject, which depending on who the hell you have as partners, can suck the life out of you.”source ↗

“I just want to get to the client’s location on time without having her panic brake every 6 seconds because an 18-wheeler is passing us.”source ↗

“Also she refuses to let me vape in her car and has made passive-aggressive comments about how my smoke show girlfriend dresses.”source ↗

“I dread all my conversations with every single engagement team, bar like one or two where the people are actually chill.”source ↗

“People pressuring me for updates when they normally wouldn't.”source ↗

“People being extremely sensitive to the words I say when they ask for an update.”source ↗

“People just being plain rude when their dreams of you being better than a regular human don't come true.”source ↗

“This is difficult to handle directly because they insist you sit in their loser Volvo.”source ↗

“When I asked for a list of activities my position was responsible for, she shouted that she was here to teach me and I was not here to teach her!!!???”source ↗

“I guess I blew budget however instead of asking why I was taking longer she went directly to her engagement partner snitching about my hours not making sense.”source ↗

“Since I started, I’ve felt uncomfortable around her. I keep catching her staring at me around the office and in the elevator, and sometimes she comes across quite hostile.”source ↗

“What bothers me is that she still seems angry and keeps staring at me.”source ↗

“How does anyone deal with this for years on end without going nuts? Just regular staff auditors and accountants acting like they're C-suite assholes to everyone is wild.”source ↗

“I'm coming up on 2 years of dealing with these people, their petty political games, and almost losing my mind.”source ↗

“your senior/manager/partner are always ready to throw you under the bus because there are always fresh bodies coming.”source ↗

“not sure if it’s just my org but nowdays it feels like i’m the only one actually trying to keep the damn lights on while everyone else is either confused, checked out, or pretending things will magically fix themselves”source ↗

“some days i swear the job isn’t even project management it’s just managing the people who are supposed to manage themselves.”source ↗

“I dread working with A because every interaction feels difficult and unpredictable.”source ↗

“Constant reminder to do something, urging and asking for answer, with clear tasks, deadlines and still being ignored.”source ↗

“The situation I’m in is that our software can’t meet the needs for what the client is contractually obligated to meet.”source ↗

“Unfortunately this team put their feet down and said they will not be doing any enhancements so team 1 created a workaround with code, deployed it, and here we are with the needs still not being met.”source ↗

“I feel like I should have pushed team 2 harder to develop a solution. I don’t think I had a solid grasp of aligning both teams on the issue and regret how I handled the situation.”source ↗

“The biggest issue is that he says all the features they’re working on now are complete, when they haven’t even been touched.”source ↗

“Is there a way to force them to actually change and show what is really going on and being worked on in their team? It’s very frustrating not to mention impossible to get a product out with the software on time.”source ↗

“I’ve literally asked for development timelines for the past 3 weeks and nothing has been said. I’ve just marked development as a “watch closely” on the executive deck”source ↗

“It’s what my manager keeps saying “why aren’t we aligned” “let’s meet with the teams to align”. I feel sick”source ↗

“Its truly amazing how computer illiterate people can be this day and age and still somehow secure employment.”source ↗

“Like no, I don't have time to teach someone in bookkeeping how to use fucking QuickBooks.”source ↗

“whenever mr vibe coder wants something (such as a permission or to implement something) he just comes up to my desk with instructions given by chat gpt and wants me to do that straight away the exact way chat gpt is telling him to do.”source ↗

“he was upset simply because I told him to wait as id have to look into it 😭”source ↗

“the appropriate thing to do with any developer who refuses to test and confirm but simply wants to push to prod, whether its code or configuration, is report their ass.”source ↗

“I am a sys admin in a medium organization. I have a senior coworker also a sysadmin. He doesn't do anything I request him do.”source ↗

“One week later, the tickets are still open. This is not an isolated incident.”source ↗

“I genuinely don't know how to handle him anymore.”source ↗

“We recently have been receiving complaints from a cook A about cook B.”source ↗

“He was asked to prep something on the fly from cook A & cook B got huffy & puffy attitude & almost refused to do.”source ↗

“Cook A also told us they both noticed the walk-in a few degrees out of temp & cook B wasn’t going to text my husband about it, saying “he doesn’t work tomorrow, it’s not his problem”.”source ↗

“I feel like I'm constantly attempted to be overridden.”source ↗

“one cook who complains incessantly said during a meeting for me to 'buy a 4 burner stove instead?”source ↗

“Today, I gave a customer a free lemonade refill, and she puts her hand in my face and says 'No', insinuiting refills have a charge.”source ↗

“what I’m running into with the event I’m planning is people fall through because they aren’t getting paid and it then falls on me and it’s become super stressful.”source ↗

“For example I need social media posts done by a deadline and the person who volunteered to help didn’t do anything so now I’m scrambling to do it last minute .”source ↗

“The biggest issue I have is a couple members of the team I work with who make it difficult. They need constant redirection and follow-up. They are not completing their daily tasks or meeting deadlines and have a million excuses.”source ↗

“e two people on my shift just coasted while the rest of us ran ourselves ragged. Management knew, HR knew, nothing ever happened. I stuck around way too long hoping it’d get fixed and it just ate at me.”source ↗

“I have a coworker who is supposed to guide me on things, include me in tasks and sort of groom me to be equal to her ( according to the manager). But they sort of gate keep things , they don't include me in conversations and keep me in the dark.”source ↗

“I am thinking she doesn't want to give up the choke hold she has on the project by revealing things to me ( for **her own job security**).”source ↗

“I am worried about my own job security, I don't want to appear useless and I actually want to learn and grow both personally and professionally.”source ↗

“My daughter, 8, plays on a travel soccer team with girls from her school. There seems to be a lot of cliquey behavior and relational aggression going on on her team this season (even at this young age).”source ↗

“She cried the whole way home and now wants to quit the team.”source ↗

“I am wondering how other parents would handle this?”source ↗

“Trust me, nobody there was remotely excited to see me.”source ↗

“Their process was simple honestly, but way too many steps for a team that had never used a CRM before”source ↗

“We forget that if nobody fills it in... Then whats the point of it all.”source ↗