Favoritism In The Workplace

Favoritism? Says Who? 
Some people are slackers and can't hold their own. They see any positive move for someone who might spend more time with boss as favortism...stop complaining ...

Favoritism at the London NYC 
I work at the London NYC I'm a union delegate and a very vocal one at that. My boss has had it in for me since I spoke out about how he favors certain ...

The Group and I’m On the Outside.  
I started working at a reputable Newspaper as a Temp in January 2010 so I haven’t been there that long. Although I work in Circulation the main reason ...

Getting ahead because you're either prettty or a kiss-ass 
One example of favoritism at my workplace involves a 22 year old beauty who has all the curves in the right places, and she looks like a million bucks!...

Favoritism in the workplace 
In my experience, favoritism in the workplace is more prevalent and more tolerated in smaller work environments, say companies with only a handful of staff....

Tipped employees at the mercy of favoritism 
My job is a waitress, I work with a variety of age groups, and experience levels. My boss repeatedly gives this one waitress really great tipping parties....

When A Supervisor Makes Threats For Reporting His Favoritism 
I work at Walmart, and have pretty much had enough. My department manager in Lawn & Garden not only displays blantant favoritism to two of the new young ...

Blatant favoritism and making more money because of it! 
At the restaurant I work at the favoritism is blatant. As a waitress you make 2.13 an hour and all of your taxes are taken out of that therefore you never ...

Favoritism and racism 
I work for this company for 8 months and I found that our site director and manager shows favoritism. On our team we have 9 African Americans, 3 White ...

Brown Eyed Girl 
I am witness to blatant favoritism at my work place. I submitted a letter to my bosses explaining how I saw my position at the company and some of the ...

BLONDE BUBBLY AND BEAUTIFUL 
I am in a position right now where I have to compete for hours with other employees. One in particular girl is a blonde bubbly type of girl. That is ...

Nepotism 
Nepotism is something I've witnessed personally in my work life. Specifically, I've worked for family-owned businesses where it's fairly obvious that the ...

Tricked to lower pay. 
Because of the economy last year the store I work at was struggling. My boss pulls me into the office and offers me $10hr and half commission versus the ...

New boy in the office 
For a long time, I was the favourite, lots of attention and lots of perks and I never really appreciated the impact on one of my colleagues in the office ...

favoritism in the government?  Not rated yet
A fellow employee and I were up for a promotion to manager of a department. The qualifications required a minimum of a Bachelor's degree in Management....

Boss's Lazy High-School Aged Son  Not rated yet
Ok, so I work at a small gas station. My boss's teenage son also works there. I didn't put much stock into it at first, but he keeps telling coworkers ...

Employing the wrong people  Not rated yet
I was working at a company for 9 and half years and it was getting tight for funding so everyone was aware that their would be a possibility for temporarily ...

i work for a union local 333  Not rated yet
i work for a security guard company unionized by local 333 and i am in windsor ont. i have been on my current shift and same hours for the past 6 months....

not as cool as the rest  Not rated yet
ive been washing dishes at the same restaurant for over 5 years. when i was first hired i was told that this particular restaurant hired and promoted ...

husband and wife team  Not rated yet
Several years ago I worked in a small company in a sales role. I got on well with my line manager, but his wife 'worked' in a similar role to me. She was ...

Favortism in a warehouse  Not rated yet
Ive held the same job for nearly 9 years now.I work hard always,I am not the fastest but I am very dependable and helpful. There is a female employee who ...

The Royals and the Peasants  Not rated yet
I work at a Mortgage Firm there I have been for 2 years, and still there. My boss upon opening his business hired here and there friends that worked with ...

No where to go  Not rated yet
I work in a private Catholic school. The Principal and his wife are both administrators. Over the past 10 years, I've seen alumni, husbands of wives ...

favortism at its finest  Not rated yet
I am a Supervisor at a well known insurance company. I have been with the company for 12 years now. There are 3 Supervisors that report to my manager....

boss shows admin asst preferential treatment  Not rated yet
I work in a small office. 4 women total and the boss who is male. We have just been giving a new work schedule. going to 4 10's for the work week. We ...

greedy, promoted and tolerated   Not rated yet
I work at an automotive dealership, where there are different levels or qualifications achieved by us throughout the years, however having all the credentials ...

The Princess and the Paupers  Not rated yet
Unfortunately, I am in an organization where brown-nosing is more valued than analytical skills. I have seen people firmly affix their mouths to various ...

My boss and my colleague are very close friends  Not rated yet
I work in homecare and my colleague who i work 3 long days a week with is a long and good friend of my boss and this shows, i have appraisals every 3 months ...

Doing what he wants  Not rated yet
I have worked for this paper mill for 4 years now. The assistant Foreman does what ever he want and tells everyone that he can do what ever he wants. He ...

Carl, where's the benefit of your 'advice?'  Not rated yet
Carl, I've read a few of your responses to these people begging for help -- and it really seems like you're a 'sounding board' more than anything else....

unpaid leave refused  Not rated yet
I asked for an unpaid leave of absence for 6 months to help my learning disabled child with the transition between high school and adulthood. It was refused ...

Hired Employee Over a Temp??  Not rated yet
The company that I've worked for for the past 8 years recently changed to a new system last year and with that change came a need for extra labor. The ...

Sales favoritism   Not rated yet
I work for a company that pays based on sales per month. We have 7 employees but 3 get quotes fed to them daily. The rest of us have to work for our sales....

Work overload  Not rated yet
I work for a catering company as a driver delivering food to airplanes. We load our trucks and unload them. Most of the time we have to be rushing because ...

Favoritism and the military  Not rated yet
I work in the military and the director of my unit always gives better opportunities to friends. It seemed hard to prove, but now I have discovered that ...

My boss favors the least competent but most confrontational employee in our office  Not rated yet
There is an employee in my office who thinks she can do no wrong. Evan when you show her what she did wrong, she denies it and tries to place the blame ...

Emotionally shattered by effects of favoritism. 18 year old  Not rated yet
I have worked at a local sonic for close to a year now My boss has her son and nephew working for her. I am not a pompous man, but I do know that I bust ...

Annoying  Not rated yet
Okay, So I work at a store. I just started working there and I've had no problems but I noticed my boss practices favoritism and its really bugging me....

Rules only apply to me  Not rated yet
I am a single mother of two and I am not permitted to work from home when my child is sick. My colleague sits in the same office area as me and works from ...

Blatant preferential treatment  Not rated yet
I have been trying to do research on whether I can make an official complaint about this but I want to know if it is actually worth the hassle. I am currently ...

Life is unfair  Not rated yet
I work at a family owned grocery store. You can see favoritism everywhere you look, its so strong you can taste it. There are many employees who are related ...

Duck hunting and fishing gets you ahead.  Not rated yet
I'll make this a brief as possible. My 53 year old boss has a problem with being perceived as a 53 year old man, he enjoys being in the company of those ...

Is this favouritism?  Not rated yet
I'm 18 and have been working in a fast food restaurant for 2 years. I have always gotten along with my boss and fellow team members. I'm not a perfect ...

Betrayed  Not rated yet
My story of favouritism is this. I have been working for my employer for 3 years, I work hard, never go off sick and feel I contribute a lot to my team....

The Chosen Child  Not rated yet
I work for a bank and transferred departments, there is one other lady who has seniority over me, we both wanted the same days for vacation and I was told ...

Does this seem unfair to you?  Not rated yet
My boss went out to drink with the servers after a shift more then regularly. It seemed like it was a tight network when I arrived into the company. I'...

A Tale of Two Christmas Parties  Not rated yet
Not long ago, there was a little west coast company. Their pockets were full, their ambitions were high, so they purchased and merged with a larger east ...

Family in Management  Not rated yet
I've been working at a local Burger King for 7 months now. The general manager's wife is the assistant manager, and their son is a shift manager. Their ...

management/owners/HR- all close friends  Not rated yet
I work for a privately owned veterinary hospital. All of the managers/owners/HR are all friends and extremely unprofessional. If you're liked by the management ...

Showing up to work 8 hours a day but not actually there when the work needs to be done  Not rated yet
I work in a small office with 7 secretaries and 1 floating secretary. All seven of the secretaries work everyday from 8:00 or 9:00 until 5:00. Our floating ...

Work the hardest, get the worst treatment  Not rated yet
I've been working in a photo studio for over a year. The studio consists of three photographer/sales persons (myself included) and a manager. I am on the ...

I am a minority in my own country and work  Not rated yet
I have a office manager that goes on rants and witch hunts that is from a former communist country, and when she gets someone fired she brings in her kind ...

some make the same mistake as others but dont have to deal with the comments  Not rated yet
i am a server at a restaurant it is a fast pace high pressure work zone and in the restaurant business you're bound to make mistake and some times its ...

Office Manager/Team Lead/Coworker all friends  Not rated yet
Last week we had a Conflict Management Training Class. Our company trainer came to Ohio from our main office in Fla. We had a morning and afternoon class ...

One Boss Mom and Two Co-worker Sisters  Not rated yet
I work in a daycare with two co-workers that are sisters, plus other co-workers that are non-related. The mom just happens to be the person in charge. So ...

Friends with the boss  Not rated yet
Having a coworkers mom & boss being friends. Discussing what the coworker does wrong with his mom before coworker is talked to about the matter/disciplined ...

cousins  Not rated yet
When the supervisor and one of the staff are cousins and you think that the supervisor is showing favoritism because the cousins has better hours than ...

My boss cut my hours for someone else....TWICE!!!  Not rated yet
I'm a security officer and have been working for this company for two and a half years now. I have been tossed around by this company but have always retained ...

Maurice...a despicable excuse for a human being!  Not rated yet
I work at a printers in Manchester England and the boss discriminates all the time. Because I work on the printing and finishing department I am not allowed ...

Favoritism at Cable Company  Not rated yet
I've been selling Cable door-to door for a few years now. I've always been in the top 3 in every company I've worked for, due to my effective time management ...

Favortism regarding overtime  Not rated yet
I work for a company where policy for over time is seniority based but the supervisor ignored the company policy and called the employees for overtime ...

Academia And Elitism  Not rated yet
I'm going to start my year and a half at a Polytechnic, to get my Master's degree in engineering, next month.

So far, I've seen different types of favoritism,...

Attrition of good employees for a few buddies  Not rated yet
I was hired by a startup company in 2007. I was one of 6 employees at the time. My boss reported to the VP of Operations in our corporate office, and ...

boss brings in girlfriend   Not rated yet
While I was on medical leave my boss brought his fiance into do my lead job. Well I got a letter in the mail telling me I was demoted from my lead position....

Favoritism on Differentiated Salary - Both employees have same qualifications and amount of experience  Not rated yet
This was supposed to be a lateral offer. A white and Hispanic male employees applied for the position. I was the Admin. Asst. to the Sr. Manager doing ...

FB friends  Not rated yet
One of my managers has not just one, or two, or three of their employees as a friend on FB but several. It is so blatantly obvious that the manager is ...

Boss' girlfriends  Not rated yet
Two of my bosses are dating two co-workers. Both girls miraculously get the time off they need and the shifts they want while the rest of us have to wheel ...

Manager drinks with employees and gossips like house wives in a laundromat.   Not rated yet
My manager was promoted from within. As a person, he is a nice guy. As a manager he is unprofessional and irresponsible as he seems to drink with the ...

Is this an office - or a brothel?  Not rated yet
I am very discouraged. I have a degree in Communications and great NYC marketing experience. When I hired in, I was hired as an Administrative Assistant....

"You have to go along to get along in this office."  Not rated yet
I witnessed a friend and ex co-worker be verbally attacked because of favoritism between one employee and a manager. The situation could possibly turn ...

Favoritism Resulting in Not Getting Enough Experience  Not rated yet
2 years ago, a group of us (the most experienced in our roles) were promoted to management at the same time and several of us were moved under a new boss....

Favoritism based on the employee being friends with the company Administrator  Not rated yet
I have participated in chart reviews where the employee displayed poor work performance and the chart was witnessed being out of compliance.
The employee ...

Same target, different commissions doing the same job  Not rated yet
I am working at the middle east in a sales position. I just found out that a colleague of mine is paid more than twice what I get on commission on sales ...

The boss has her favorities  Not rated yet
So I work at this spa where apparently work ethics don't exist. My boss clearly has her favorites and it happens to be the girls that actually talk behind ...

At Lowes of Owensboro, ky  Not rated yet
There had been several cases.

1- There had been many ppl waiting to get a full time position, but guess what? These new hired got the positions, even ...

One employee stays at work while its "equal" leaves.  Not rated yet
2 Clerks in a Hospital 2 pacu's one runs one floor the other Clerk the main floor. The main floor is 24/7 the other floor is 9-4-5pm depending on the work ...

Favoritism within Human Resources  Not rated yet
I am in the HR department and experiencing favoritism. The other two people in my department chit chat for an hour at a time about personal topics. They ...

The manager and her sister in law  Not rated yet
I have been a server for 28 years. Most recently I have served at my job for three years. 2 years into the job, my managers sister in law is brought onto ...

Lunch with the boss daily  Not rated yet
There are two of us department managers under the General Manager (male). My counterpart (male) goes to lunch almost daily with the boss...the boss pays ...

Roommates and lovers  Not rated yet
The operations manager who schedules crew for jobs often schedules his roommates/friends more often than others. Also, several people who are couples and ...

CFO's granddaughter  Not rated yet
At the company I work for the CFO's grand-daughter works there too. I have been there a year and a half longer than her and she makes more than me and ...

First Time Manager's Favoritism  Not rated yet
I came to this company with 12 years experience and a college degree. I am told by my manager that in order to move up to a senior role I must lead a ...

Brown nosed bff  Not rated yet
I work in a school kitchen with 6 other ladies. One of the ladies is the boss's best friend. At Christmas she will announce to us (not the boss) that she ...

Friends and Family Plan  Not rated yet
I've worked at a company for 20 yrs now and we have an assistant plant manager who also has a lawn care service and snow removal business.
This guy brings ...

Boss favouritism  Not rated yet
We are 3 ladies in our section. My boss favours one lady who is from their tribe. Based on the nature of work,nobody is supposed to work in one place for ...

It's who you know..not what you know  Not rated yet
I work for a local Government in my area and will leave it at that. I have worked for this company nearly 22 years and have watched people climb over me ...

Rules apply to some and not others  Not rated yet
I had to perform the job of a vacant position for 8 months. When someone was hired she worked 1 month and took maternity leave and I had to do the job ...

Work hours  Not rated yet
Due to economic downturn the company cut several employees' working hours, however the company decided to hire a former employee and cut our hours even ...

Bank Favoritism  Not rated yet
I work @ bank for 7 years. My coworker does not like me and she always looking for something I do wrong so she can go to the boss and tell on me. She is ...

My Coworker is the Boss' Brother  Not rated yet
I work with the brother of the owner of the company. We are in commissioned sales; and the boss of the company gives his brother the most lucrative leads....

He was discharged!! She was not discharged!!!   Not rated yet
There is no record to show that I have been suspended for anything at any time while working for security Company in Atlanta Ga. If there is a record ...

Sittin Pretty  Not rated yet
In our section, seniority has always been the practiced method of selecting shifts when a vacancy became available. However that changed with one recent ...

Workplace Favoritism Example from Carl  Not rated yet
Let me start things off by submitting an example of workplace favoritism that I noticed early in my career.

The example of workplace favoritism that ...