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We had a new girl at work tonight. Cleaning the kitchen at night is always hard work. She says to us, she has seen bigger messes at another restaurant. We are all facetiously impressed by her saltiness. I make her clean the dough press, full of nasty gooey concoctions of oil, dough, butter and salt. Suddenly she feels like quitting.
It's not the first lie she tries to live. She tries to say a few more and I keep shutting her down. She hates me, but I don't care. I need good workers, not good talkers. Unfortunately, this problem is not limited to her, or to people at work.
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I wouldnt have a problem with it, except women expect me to pay for things and spend time and energy supporting their lies. Fuck that. That's how I get used. Any time a woman tells a lie and expects me to actually support it I avoid, decline or shut it down. .
The problem is actually in your way of relating.
You are treating that girl at work as though you are an authoritarian parent or a shitty school teacher.
Punishing someone for not displaying the behaviour you want at work, as you have noticed, accomplishes nothing but to make them hate you. it's a very very unhealthy way of relating that denies other peoples autonomy and I guarantee if you bring that attitude into a LTR of a marriage you are never going to have the kind of relationships you want. Period. Those are one sided relationships.
Beneath every behaviour is a feeling or a need.
If you have a problem with someones attitude at work, take them aside privately and tell them something like what you have said here. "Look, everyone was impressed with your saltiness, but the fact is I need good workers not talkers. I don't want to have to give you shitty jobs to punish you, so tell me, are you on the level here or not? are you going to work hard and be part of the team? If so we will get on great and I will support you. If not we're gonna have a problem."
The problem with punishments of this kind is they are not a way of relating, they don't give another person any kind of information whatsoever on your thinking. They just make other people mad and blame you.
You have needs and those needs are valid. The clearer you can be when you tell people what you want the greater your chance of success.