Do you have any annoying co-workers?

I work with an older woman, she's super sharp for her age but she's one of those people who needs to talk about everything. About the last phone call she had with a client, about an order that went wrong, about how she dropped a *kitten* jacket on the way to work. IT DRIVES ME INSANE.

i thought i was pretty tough, but my last contract but one about finished me. little in-house team, where they'd all been together for 6 years and just done their own thing the whole time. i called them the marsupials. they'd just evolved in their own directions without any reference to the real world.

to their credit, they opened up a designated role and brought me in because they knew how cut off and incestuous they'd become. but oh my gawd. the 'senior dev-analyst' made me foam at the mouth. he was one of those people who just love debate, but who are in denial about how abnormal they are. he'd follow me around the space, literally, trying to restart debates about 'why did you word the title of this test case like this? and not like this? there must be a reason. we're paying you to come in here and teach us, so teach me or you're not doing your job.' you could literally tell him to get out of your office and he'd say 'i'm just asking. and i want to know.' short of calling security he could not be got rid of.

and then the guy on the security desk in the lobby, *kitten* me. i hated that man. i started out with some sympathy, but it was literally not my fault that he was chained to a desk with nothing to do all day long - and no personality to do it with, either. i started taking the stairs just because if you stood still for five seconds in his presence he'd try to force some lame one-upsy conversational card onto you. 'so, how 'bout them creative anachronists, huh? i'm actually gandalf in the real universe. lemme tell you my new conspiracy theory - no, lemme try to trap you into asking me to tell you about the latest conspiracy thing. let me tell you how to push the buttons to make the doors open. let me raise my voice to make sure it follows you into the elevator when it arrives, how dare you walk away when i'm talking at you. now let me vibe you with aggro hostility or deep passive-aggressive depression you *kitten* because you will not talk when i demand that you talk.' i overheard him at one point complaining to somebody else that he'd been reported for creepiness, but eff that; creepy is just what he was. he was like the office space dude ready to burn the place down because he's so unliked.

melmelw03 wrote: »

I used to share a small office with my old boss. He dipped tobacco and every 30 seconds I would have to listen to him spitting into his trash can.

At the same place there was one guy who was notorious for not washing his hands after going to the bathroom and immediately digging into the candy dish at the receptionist's desk.

I have a similar coworker, only he also goes and visits the strip club next door at lunch everyday.
I never stick my hand in that candy bowl...

Another coworkers flirts with every woman in the place, farts loudly in the breakroom, warms up sardines in the microwave, and asked a senior manager if he could use the women''s restroom near his desk when he hurt his foot recently. The answer he got was...Uh, no.

My coworkers just complain about anything and everything. It's like if you hate your job that much find a new one!

Yes... All of them. The end.

"Do you have any annoying co-workers?" is like asking "do you breath regularly :-) I think the clue is if you don't have any annoying co-workers, it's odds on favourite that you're the annoying co-worker :-)

gothomson wrote: »

"Do you have any annoying co-workers?" is like asking "do you breath regularly :-) I think the clue is if you don't have any annoying co-workers, it's odds on favourite that you're the annoying co-worker :-)

However if you're the annoying coworker'd it be annoying, to that coworker; that their coworkers're annoyed by them?

Yess! There is this female co-worker. She's about 50 years old but acts like a 12 year old. Everytime the managers ask her to do something, she always says she doesn't know how/never been trained( she actually has been trained do do these tasks multiple times). As a result, I end up having to do her work. She's also very bossy. Constantly tries to tell me what I should be doing. One day she walked into the store and my manager asked her if she could go work in the fitting room and 2 minutes later, she walks up to me and tells me to get off the register and go in the fitting room ( because she hasn't been trained. LIAR.)We work in a retail store and have to recover the store by picking up any clothes on the floor and putting them back in the correct area. So when this co-worker has to recover the clothing department, instead of putting away the clothes she picks up from the floor, she brings them to me in the fitting room so i can do all the organizing( not how it's suppse to work). She also takes credit for my work all the time. Lets say I clean up a whole department and she's suppose to be helping me, she literally spends all her time on register and as soon as I'm done cleaning, she asks the manager " how well did we clean this area?".I just absolutely hate her. Hope she gets fired.

I worked with a guy who was so cheap. We ask who wanted breakfast burritos, collected $4/each (he declined). Later, he served me my burrito (should have been suspicious). A coworker said he only gave you half your burrito and is eating the other half. I walked into his desk and said in front of everybody, "Are you eating half my burrito? Uh, yes; You owe me $2 or you need to barf up my half of the burrito" The $2 is still posted on the wall 4 years later.

DeficitDuchess wrote: »

gothomson wrote: »

"Do you have any annoying co-workers?" is like asking "do you breath regularly :-) I think the clue is if you don't have any annoying co-workers, it's odds on favourite that you're the annoying co-worker :-)

However if you're the annoying coworker'd it be annoying, to that coworker; that their coworkers're annoyed by them?

I cant argue with that...at least I think I cant :-)