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female
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36-40,
anonymous
writes:I have a problem in work. I started working in a warehouse a few months ago and have been doing really well. After a week and a half my supervisor gave me the option to work nights for time and a half pay which is a privilege usually given to people who have worked there for a long time. Two weeks ago they announced a random drug and alcohol test - which is fine - I don't do drugs and I drink on weekends when I'm not working. But my colleague however brags to me and other workers about doing cocaine and smoking weed everyday. He's a pretty unsavoury character. He's worked for the company for 13 years and never been promoted. We're a small team on nightshift so obviously we talk to each other to pass the time. This guy isn't very intelligent and doesn't seem like a good person but I talk to him because he talks to me and if I didn't it would be awkward. One night after work walking to get my taxi he was telling me how small his penis is which I nervous laughed and he said I was mocking him to which I told him I wasn't but that the topic was making me uncomfortable. He has started "joking" about how I'm lazy and not doing my job right which is not true. Saying I let my other colleague do everything which again isn't true. He said he knows he'll fail the drug test so he's going to cause chaos so I feel like he's trying to purposely make me look bad. I'm an agency worker so I have next to no rights. The job isn't the best but it's a job which during covid times I'm lucky to have a job at all and to have health. But being an agency worker they don't need any excuse to fire me. I spoke to my colleague after work today - I said I felt he was bullying me and singling me out to try and get me off nights. He started saying that wasn't true and that when I get back to my normal shift I won't get away with working the way I do on nights. I said I'm a good worker and none of the team leaders have a problem with the way I work - they tell me I'm a great worker. He said they're only telling me that to keep me happy so I stay because everyone leaves. He makes jokes in front of my other colleagues about how lazy I am and now they join in on the "joke" of how I'm going to be put on my normal shift and they'll swap me for someone who can do the job properly. I'm the only woman on nightshift I don't know if that's partly the reason. They're doing the drug test because they found cocaine one morning - after night shift. Now he's saying he told people it could have belonged to my supervisor ! Who doesn't even take drugs and that he's going to call the owners and tell them that he's not doing his job and only on nights to avoid doing real work. I don't know what to do. Another colleague said this guy had sold him cocaine before. I just want to go to work and do my job and get paid and now I feel like if I tell my supervisor maybe my colleague will twist it on me.
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reader, anonymous, writes (15 November 2020): I say just sit tight and don't do anything. Just wait for the drug test squad to come they will catch him and hopefully fire him.
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reader, anonymous, writes (15 November 2020): I spoke to my team leader over the phone about everything and he dismissed it all as me being over sensitive to banter and that my colleague probably just got angry and said some stupid this GS because he was embarrassed about being confronted. Despite the fact it's been going on for a few weeks.
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reader, kenny +, writes (15 November 2020):
 This guy sounds like a bit of work and i think that you need to steer clear of him.
Don't give him the time of day, by giving him the time of day and showing him you are interested in what he is saying you are giving him power.
He is a douch, and you need to brush him off. You are just there to do your job to the best of your abitities, thats it.
Don't feel like you have to keep things to yourself. Its 2020, not 1955, you have rights, and you have a voice. Don't be affraid to have a word with higher management, or HR and tell them whats going on.
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reader, Honeypie  +, writes (14 November 2020):
 Stay away from this drama dude. Keep your head down and do your job the best of your ability. DO NOT get involved with gossip, hearsay or drama.
Because THAT will get you fired.
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