Message #44761

[nifty50]

Sometimes it's easier to ignore the behavior of a workplace prima donna but when their performance is over the top and work isn't getting done (and it gets dumped on you, for instance), then it's perfectly okay to address the situation in the interests of being professional.  In my previous job, I had to step lightly around co-workers who were hired because they were the director's very best friends, and a completely different set of rules or standards applied to them despite having (on paper anyway) the same salary job title and classification level.  In that situation I felt it safer to just let it go due to the numbers being against me.  Happy to report that my current job doesn't appear to have any serious prima donna population, so it's such a relief having seen both arenas.