It’s beyond frustrating when a new person shows up at a business and they automatically think they run the show.

I remember I worked in an office a while ago, and a new woman got hired, and things got weird and uncomfortable in a hurry…

Because she was trying to tell people who’d been there for years what to do.

Saayyyyyyyy whaaaaaaat?!?!

Let’s just say that it didn’t work out too well.

Check out what this warehouse worker had to say about a woman who got hired and immediately threw things into chaos.

Take a look!

The new hire: Andrea. 6 months of thoughts and notes about her.

“I have a coworker called Andrea who started less than 6 months ago at our company as a favor to the CEO’s longtime friend.

That in itself isn’t good, but we’re used to working with oddballs and she’s billed as your classic operator.

Nothing in her documentation says she’s management.

This place sounds…interesting…

Our hybrid warehouse/factory is like the last chance saloon for wayward workers. I could legit write a sitcom like the office for this place but today is about Andrea.

It was eyebrow raising enough that she was taken on simply because the CEO’s friend begged him to get her a job because she was made redundant at her last one but then… the eyebrows kept raising.

She’s 21, acting as though she’s 41 and been here forever as a manager.

After we took her on, we took on a few fresh faced 18 year old and she bosses them around as though she’s running the show.

Yowza!

The radio – oh god the radio! She’s constantly singing in a high pitched buzzing under her breath, and that was after she was singing full volume and got told to stop as it was annoying.

The younger operators once asked to change the radio station as they preferred newer songs. Something like capital, but they’d take smooth. Before I could intervene she snottily replied “You and I are senior and we get to pick the music and we like listening to this.”

Woah, hold the phone. I never said that and she’s in no position of authority to make that call.

This was DEFINITELY a bad hire.

She’s told the younger ones to put all the legs of their chair on the floor like she’s a school teacher because they were leaning back.

Andrea has never been trained on delivery procedure, or how our stock works, but left alone for the briefest time after an important component delivery, she proceeded to unbox and decant half the components before scribbling an unintelligible note about quantities.

When called out about it when it was discovered, she denied it was her handwriting, while also simultaneously having examples of that handwriting everywhere. She had also bragged to me that the component had been delivered and she’d gotten it set up and ready for us to use.

Baffled was an understatement.

Andrea has bragged about being the only working adult in her household. No shame there, I’m the breadwinner in my own. But she then went on to brag that she dictates the weekly budget for food to her two retired parents and usually wins.

And on and on it goes…

She continuously pestered our other 21 year old autistic coworker until he told her his birthday because she wanted to know if he was younger than her and was then delighted when it turns out he was.

Another coworker with anxiety, she walked in to the work area and told him to get off his phone, break was over. Again, not a manager. These were quite honestly the first words she’d spoken to him that I know of.

When she started, she was assigned her training on one of our easiest longtime projects just to ease her into procedures and the work we do.

That project lead is knowledgeable and easygoing but the downside to the project is that there isn’t enough hours for more than one or two people so she got moved to much busier job a few weeks later and she can’t stand it.

Has tried countless times to get back to that job and was told there were no hours in it that warranted more people.

What a nightmare she is!

She will be asked to do something and if she doesn’t feel like it, or want to, she’ll wander away and do something completely different which has resulted in her project lead flipping her lid on her a few times.

She’s argued with the supervisors and our warehouse lead. Anyone else, instantly on a warning, if not fired. Not Andrea.

This week, the easygoing project lead for her favorite project starts a two week holiday. And for the entire week previously she has been noticeably happier, as though she were waiting for something.

Someone has to manage our holiday bound coworkers project while they’re gone and guess who that is?

Not Andrea.

Me.

Because I have the most knowledge on it besides my coworker. 3 years of running that project.

This part is actually pretty funny…

Andrea has not taken it well. Stuck to sulking for most of the week and avoiding talking to me.

Why she thought she was in with a chance of getting to run the project less than 6 months after joining boggles me.

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We have been keeping notes, she’s already been given a warning but hasn’t slowed down or changed attitude gears at all.

Andrea has been working with us for less than 6 months and we’re all just waiting to see what she does next.

I’ve talked too much about Andrea for my mental health but it feels good to get everything out.”

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Folks, this is never a good idea.

And if you’re a young person just getting started in the working world, do the exact opposite of what this woman did.

Good grief!

Jeez…talk about a co-worker FROM HELL.