Thursday, October 04, 2007
Safety and Sensibility
I twigged the other night one of the reasons Billy Talentless really annoys me. He has pretty much self appointed himself Health and Safety head of the lab group and has also got himself another H&S related role across the department. Like I think I said in an earlier post I think proper H&S precautions and attitudes in the lab are really important. Unfortunately Billy has taken on these roles not because he cares about best working practices and similar in the lab, but because he likes to make himself feel important by being able to antagonise people and tell them off. He always makes a big deal to me how he is going to give such-and-such a bollocking for not being safe in the lab and is always sending out a million emails that generally get automatically deleted by most of the lab group as he is very much seen as the Boy Who Cried Wolf. He is truely appalling at dealing with other people and I've never seen him modify his behaviour and attitude to fit a situation as ultimately it is all about him. Often in situations I think people respond better if you treat them like adults, have a quiet word with them rather than first off get the secretary to send out an email detailing the health and safety breach (generally only something very minor) and humiliate them in front of the entire lab group.
Labels: health and safety, lab stuff
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