Don’t play favorites
Posted by: info | February 23, 2007
To me it almost seems that every company, staff, family or organization has a favorite person or someone who gets special treatment over everyone else. This person may just be very special to the boss or at some point has done something special for the company. When this individual needs to leave early, request time off, needs vacation or comes in late the bosses seem to let it slip through the cracks or grant their wishes first. Companies don’t realize the money and problems this is costing.
What the managers don’t see is the people complaining and griping behind their back. When work is slow and company is letting people go this individual has first choice to stay or leave. If an argument comes up they always are siding with the favorite. How can you stop this?
First you should focus on yourself more and don’t worry about others or things you can’t control. Most of the managers or people in charge don’t realize they are showing favoritism. Worst yet they don’t know the rest of the staff has such a problem with it. If you are real concerned you may want to document all the activities that go on and have time, dates and examples of how this person is getting special treatment and keep solid records. Get others involved as well. You will need them when confronting management against a favorite employee.
I have seen companies write people up and even terminate employees for doing something a favorite has done with no actions ever mentioned in the past. This is real messed up.
A lot of parents even show some favoritism as well. Again, they may not even know they are doing it or don’t think it shows. A lot of times it happens to the baby of the family. I don’t care for this type of favoritism either. It can ruin and even destroy a family, or business for that matter. Just always do your best and try not to worry what others are doing and you will come out happy in the long run.
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June 2nd, 2007 at
I found this article to be extremely useful for me. Thanks!…
June 11th, 2007 at
Yea! This is correct. I hate people who brown nose and then get rewarded for sucking up.
July 5th, 2007 at
All of them play this unfair way!
July 7th, 2007 at
Tell this to my boss!
July 7th, 2007 at
Managers don’t play favorites. They just reward those who work very hard.
July 9th, 2007 at
We don’t play favorites. Better employees deserve best treatments.
July 11th, 2007 at
Managers don’t play favorites. Employees worry about being victimized way too often.
July 12th, 2007 at
I don’t know about you, but my boss has a couple of people in which he treats so different than everyone else. They always get special treatment and it is not fair.