Things about your co-workers that annoy you

[TheMadKing]

I'd serve him a nice laxative laté.

Every now and then I find something on this site that makes me completely derp out and my boss just walks by saying, "That must be a funny drawing." and continues about his business. When he asks what I'm working on, I tell him either [nothing/level 5 of candy crush/facebook/dropping sick tweets bruh]. I found it's nice to keep a professional level of insincerity with some people, that way once in a while you can tell the most absurd truth and they'll just chuckle and move on.

That's a great idea.

There's nothing professional about this man. He's a moody whimsical unhappy man who takes pleasure in controlling people.

If anyone is looking to hire a project management type person, I'm on the market for a new job and have 10 years of experience in the nuclear field, been a lead technician for 5 years, have a bachelors degree in english so I can write, generally good guy unless you ask my boss

 

[Rhumbline]

That's a great idea.

There's nothing professional about this man. He's a moody whimsical unhappy man who takes pleasure in controlling people.

If anyone is looking to hire a project management type person, I'm on the market for a new job and have 10 years of experience in the nuclear field, been a lead technician for 5 years, have a bachelors degree in english so I can write, generally good guy unless you ask my boss

www.usajobs.gov

Always interesting...

 

[TheMadKing]

www.usajobs.gov

Always interesting...

I've definitely been keeping an eye on there, thanks!

 

[DrunkleJon]

careful with adulterated beverages. Technically that can be considered drugging someone. Also, laxitives can have seriously adverse side effects. The last thing you want is to be arrested for making someone sick.

 

[hanuswalrus]

When they eat and I can hear them chew. Drives me frickin nuts. I definitely have this "misophonia" disease I've been reading about http://motherboard.vice.com/read/th...-hearing-someone-chewing-is-called-misophonia

 

[drainbamage]

Supervisor just walked into a conversation about pecan pie while we were working. Called us into his office and told us to cut the useless chatter. He doesn't want to hear talking unless it's about work. I hate this man.

My boss is the polar opposite; he comes into our offices to BS and you can't get rid of him, even if you want to do work.

It's become a running joke/competition amongst a few of us to see how messed up we can make the conversation before scaring him off.

 

[wobrien]

when they eat and i can hear them chew. Drives me frickin nuts. I definitely have this "misophonia" disease i've been reading about http://motherboard.vice.com/read/th...-hearing-someone-chewing-is-called-misophonia

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[sablesurfer]

When they eat and I can hear them chew. Drives me frickin nuts. I definitely have this "misophonia" disease I've been reading about http://motherboard.vice.com/read/th...-hearing-someone-chewing-is-called-misophonia

Despite the lack of knowledge about the cause, treatment is possible—pretty intense treatment, based on what Schröder told me. "The treatment consists of group therapy based on different techniques used by cognitive behavioral therapists," he explained. During the group sessions, which take place every other week, patients are taught how to disconnect the sounds from negative emotions.

"It's a lengthy process, people have to work at it for months," Schröder said. And that's necessary, because the brain is basically being reprogrammed. The behavior that reinforced itself over the years has to be completely disconnected.


Well crap. I will just go live by myself then. There are days when my stress is high that I can barely sit next to the GF when she is snacking. I always just listed it as my hyper sensitivity kicking in, cause those are the days when I hate socks, shoes, tight tshirts, armpit areas bunching up in my armpit, any weird cold breeze or area when laying down....yeah, i am weird.

<edit> LOL, should have read more of that article first - His team is exploring misophonia as a part of the spectrum of obsessive-compulsive disorders.

'Cause I have always wished I could stop just focusing on that one noise. And I might have one or two OCD behaviors.

 

[1977Brewer]

Despite the lack of knowledge about the cause, treatment is possible—pretty intense treatment, based on what Schröder told me. "The treatment consists of group therapy based on different techniques used by cognitive behavioral therapists," he explained. During the group sessions, which take place every other week, patients are taught how to disconnect the sounds from negative emotions.

"It's a lengthy process, people have to work at it for months," Schröder said. And that's necessary, because the brain is basically being reprogrammed. The behavior that reinforced itself over the years has to be completely disconnected.


Well crap. I will just go live by myself then. There are days when my stress is high that I can barely sit next to the GF when she is snacking. I always just listed it as my hyper sensitivity kicking in, cause those are the days when I hate socks, shoes, tight tshirts, armpit areas bunching up in my armpit, any weird cold breeze or area when laying down....yeah, i am weird.

<edit> LOL, should have read more of that article first - His team is exploring misophonia as a part of the spectrum of obsessive-compulsive disorders.

'Cause I have always wished I could stop just focusing on that one noise. And I might have one or two OCD behaviors.

My wife has it, and it's the reason I drink my snacks.

 

[TexasDroughtBrewery]

I worked for a place that did business between 7am and 3pm (3pm is when the majority of the staff left and most work has come to a complete stop) My boss would come in between oh I don't know...10...10:30 then start gossiping about her day until about 11:30 in which case most people are now sitting down for lunch, so she will eat lunch with the staff until about 12:15ish. So now its nearly 12:30 she just opened her email and is reading the days agenda and everyone else is literally wrapping the day up.

With all that being said she would always complain that people didn't want to stay until 5pm or later when they got to work on time between 6:30-7am when they were supposed to and want to leave at the time they are scheduled. She said that they had no work ethic b/c of this. She also would say how much better her work ethic is compared to everyone else and would continue to rub it in every ones face how late she stays at night to get things done and no one else does the same.

However, I could probably over look some of this except that she needs everyone to stay late with her b/c shes a complete idiot and rely's solely on her staff to get anything done so she can take credit for it. I dislike her and when the time came I quit in the middle of a very important project knowing good and well she couldn't do it without me. Why? Because she made me work 60hrs a week on work I can finish in 35 hour weeks b/c she couldn't come in on time and constantly reminded me that I needed to stay late until the works is done on a salary pay and if I didn't do that then I had no ethics.

 

[brettwasbtd]

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Never-nudes?

 

[slym2none]

That's a great idea.

There's nothing professional about this man. He's a moody whimsical unhappy man who takes pleasure in controlling people.

If anyone is looking to hire a project management type person, I'm on the market for a new job and have 10 years of experience in the nuclear field, been a lead technician for 5 years, have a bachelors degree in english so I can write, generally good guy unless you ask my boss

If he has his own office and you are still there next April, pull an April Fools gag on him by "Debbie Downer"-ing his office.

 

[slym2none]

I worked for a place that did business between 7am and 3pm (3pm is when the majority of the staff left and most work has come to a complete stop) My boss would come in between oh I don't know...10...10:30 then start gossiping about her day until about 11:30 in which case most people are now sitting down for lunch, so she will eat lunch with the staff until about 12:15ish. So now its nearly 12:30 she just opened her email and is reading the days agenda and everyone else is literally wrapping the day up.

With all that being said she would always complain that people didn't want to stay until 5pm or later when they got to work on time between 6:30-7am when they were supposed to and want to leave at the time they are scheduled. She said that they had no work ethic b/c of this. She also would say how much better her work ethic is compared to everyone else and would continue to rub it in every ones face how late she stays at night to get things done and no one else does the same.

However, I could probably over look some of this except that she needs everyone to stay late with her b/c shes a complete idiot and rely's solely on her staff to get anything done so she can take credit for it. I dislike her and when the time came I quit in the middle of a very important project knowing good and well she couldn't do it without me. Why? Because she made me work 60hrs a week on work I can finish in 35 hour weeks b/c she couldn't come in on time and constantly reminded me that I needed to stay late until the works is done on a salary pay and if I didn't do that then I had no ethics.

I hope this is how you let her know you quit:

 

[TexasDroughtBrewery]

I hope this is how you let her know you quit:

This made my day lol!

 

[MaxStout]

 

[n240sxguy]

Supervisor just walked into a conversation about pecan pie while we were working. Called us into his office and told us to cut the useless chatter. He doesn't want to hear talking unless it's about work. I hate this man.

Tell him to eat a bowl of dicks. Wtf. Screw this guy.

 

[hunter_le five]

a bowl of dicks

*"a bag of kittens", to use the proper moderator-approved parlance

 

[n240sxguy]

Best part of that movie

 

[Rhumbline]

Tell him to eat a bowl of dicks. Wtf. Screw this guy.

Yeah, I was thinking about this and I wouldn't have been able to ignore the opportunity to look at my watch at the end of the meeting and point out that he'd just wasted x number of minutes times x number of employees bitching us out for wasting time talking while we were being otherwise productive.

Wanna have some fun? tell him that you suspect that for the last several months Bill has been pecker-whipping his coffee mug every chance he gets.

 

[Onkel_Udo]

OK, White People Problems but this one got me today.

Today was closing day. I handle about $16M in accruals on closing day. Closing day is stressful.

Every time closing is coming up I do a pre-closing activity to help out my division and as a courtesy allow all the other divisions access to the data. I also includes a warning "Tomorrow will be the closing runs so please exit the database this evening before leaving and to not open it until the email that it is updated is sent."

Today, someone from one of those "courtesy" divisions contacted me that data in the database was inaccurate. "When did you pull it?" "About 1 minute ago". So I resent the email from yesterday and politely asked that he exit the database as the update takes HOURS longer if someone is in it. He proceeds to inform me that the way he accesses it does not affect my update. I send him the screenshot showing that he has "locked" the database.

This jerkwad then schedules a meeting with me and his boss (but he did finally exit) for Monday morning at 8. He did not invite my boss. He ignored my blocked out hours of 5 AM to 9 AM for reporting updates.

I declined his meeting, proposed a new time and added an agenda item of their division paying their fair share of the cost of the weekly, pre-accrual and closing updates to the database...and I invited my boss. My boss laughed and told me to block all outside access to the database...and when people asked why, refer them to the jerkwad in question. There will be 40 angry folks on Monday...and the Monday after...and Year end might be really tense.

All because he could not wait an additional hour. Might I add I show up at 4 AM on closing to make sure everyone has what they need by 10 AM...I was cranky.

 

[Rhumbline]

...I was cranky.

No, you were pretty laid back. I have a zero tolerance policy for imbeciles. I have a job that means I get to see people at their worst. My method is to email their boss, copying them and my boss, and explain why I'm disappointed in their behavior, explaining that I know their boss will handle the situation.

In the few occasions when this hasn't provided relief, I email their boss's boss and explain the situation and ask for a resolution.

Now, I get away with this only because it's very rarely used. The first time you do it, word will get out and it becomes unnecessary. It helps that my boss's boss is a tyrant who feels like he has to fire at least one person a month to stay in practice and he has the authority to do anyone in. I mentioned once that he is "the one who knocks". I had to explain it to him.

 

[Quadrupled]

OK, White People Problems but this one got me today.

Today was closing day. I handle about $16M in accruals on closing day. Closing day is stressful.

Every time closing is coming up I do a pre-closing activity to help out my division and as a courtesy allow all the other divisions access to the data. I also includes a warning "Tomorrow will be the closing runs so please exit the database this evening before leaving and to not open it until the email that it is updated is sent."

Today, someone from one of those "courtesy" divisions contacted me that data in the database was inaccurate. "When did you pull it?" "About 1 minute ago". So I resent the email from yesterday and politely asked that he exit the database as the update takes HOURS longer if someone is in it. He proceeds to inform me that the way he accesses it does not affect my update. I send him the screenshot showing that he has "locked" the database.

This jerkwad then schedules a meeting with me and his boss (but he did finally exit) for Monday morning at 8. He did not invite my boss. He ignored my blocked out hours of 5 AM to 9 AM for reporting updates.

I declined his meeting, proposed a new time and added an agenda item of their division paying their fair share of the cost of the weekly, pre-accrual and closing updates to the database...and I invited my boss. My boss laughed and told me to block all outside access to the database...and when people asked why, refer them to the jerkwad in question. There will be 40 angry folks on Monday...and the Monday after...and Year end might be really tense.

All because he could not wait an additional hour. Might I add I show up at 4 AM on closing to make sure everyone has what they need by 10 AM...I was cranky.

I want to know the post meeting update and fallout!

 

[Onkel_Udo]

No, you were pretty laid back. I have a zero tolerance policy for imbeciles.

My (temporary) new boss has taken a "no tolerance" policy to other division riding on the coattails of what the Capital Projects Group has accomplished. He is a 32 year veteran of the refinery. I have a feeling this meeting will be very different than originally intended.

As an aside, jerkwad...works for the same contracting company I do so now I have to report the incident internally. He and I are the two "golden boys" of our company so an internal come-to-Jesus meeting is inevitable. Neither of us will lose our job but jerkwad is about to find out the difference between $1.5M billable and $450K billable for our company. He is a tiny man in more ways than he may understand.

PS those two dollar values are not our billable rates...they are the billable rates of all the folks in our respective divisions from our contracting company.

 

[Lepetitnormand]

This morning peer feedback sent to an unknown agent in my company :

Please refrain to send an all caps message this is not needed, nor any unnecessary additional comments you made.

Everyone makes mistakes and while it is important to correct these mistakes and ensure that whoever made the mistake understand where the error was made and how it could have been avoided we do need to keep a professional tone while communicating about it.

And please be mindful that anyone can make a mistake, you are receiving this peer feedback after escalating this issue to the wrong team and inappropriately blaming them for the error you made 2 weeks ago and created this lengthy issue for your customer. Do not worry about it anymore I have ensured that this issue is resolved and that proper communication about it is provided to your customer ( well ours really at that point as he already came back to us for his next order as he was happy with the swift resolution provided.

Kind regards

PS : please pardon my digression concerning the new account I won today, but I wanted to make sure you did not heard about it from your ex customer on the 1st day of the next quarter, having a heads up on a lost account is always nice as it help us to be prepared to explain why we lost the account to our manager.

PPS : I forgot your manager will provide the peer feedback as per company policy, no need for you to explain why you lost the account he already read about it.

 

[sablesurfer]

Every time closing is coming up I do a pre-closing activity to help out my division and as a courtesy allow all the other divisions access to the data. I also includes a warning "Tomorrow will be the closing runs so please exit the database this evening before leaving and to not open it until the email that it is updated is sent."

I feel ya. In our world it seems that someone built reports that people can actually leave open, on their workstations. This then locks the whole database for some monthly work. I get the notifications when the job fails. GREAT design and WONDERFUL users....sigh.

 

[n240sxguy]

OK, White People Problems but this one got me today.



Today was closing day. I handle about $16M in accruals on closing day. Closing day is stressful.



Every time closing is coming up I do a pre-closing activity to help out my division and as a courtesy allow all the other divisions access to the data. I also includes a warning "Tomorrow will be the closing runs so please exit the database this evening before leaving and to not open it until the email that it is updated is sent."



Today, someone from one of those "courtesy" divisions contacted me that data in the database was inaccurate. "When did you pull it?" "About 1 minute ago". So I resent the email from yesterday and politely asked that he exit the database as the update takes HOURS longer if someone is in it. He proceeds to inform me that the way he accesses it does not affect my update. I send him the screenshot showing that he has "locked" the database.



This jerkwad then schedules a meeting with me and his boss (but he did finally exit) for Monday morning at 8. He did not invite my boss. He ignored my blocked out hours of 5 AM to 9 AM for reporting updates.



I declined his meeting, proposed a new time and added an agenda item of their division paying their fair share of the cost of the weekly, pre-accrual and closing updates to the database...and I invited my boss. My boss laughed and told me to block all outside access to the database...and when people asked why, refer them to the jerkwad in question. There will be 40 angry folks on Monday...and the Monday after...and Year end might be really tense.



All because he could not wait an additional hour. Might I add I show up at 4 AM on closing to make sure everyone has what they need by 10 AM...I was cranky.

Your boss is awesome. Nice when someone has the balls to tell everyone off. If someone at my plant screws something up, everyone gets to sit through a little meeting about why not to do whatever was screwed up. They can't just tell the person who screwed up why not to do that anymore.

 

[n240sxguy]

This morning peer feedback sent to an unknown agent in my company :

Please refrain to send an all caps message this is not needed, nor any unnecessary additional comments you made.

Everyone makes mistakes and while it is important to correct these mistakes and ensure that whoever made the mistake understand where the error was made and how it could have been avoided we do need to keep a professional tone while communicating about it.

And please be mindful that anyone can make a mistake, you are receiving this peer feedback after escalating this issue to the wrong team and inappropriately blaming them for the error you made 2 weeks ago and created this lengthy issue for your customer. Do not worry about it anymore I have ensured that this issue is resolved and that proper communication about it is provided to your customer ( well ours really at that point as he already came back to us for his next order as he was happy with the swift resolution provided.

Kind regards

PS : please pardon my digression concerning the new account I won today, but I wanted to make sure you did not heard about it from your ex customer on the 1st day of the next quarter, having a heads up on a lost account is always nice as it help us to be prepared to explain why we lost the account to our manager.

PPS : I forgot your manager will provide the peer feedback as per company policy, no need for you to explain why you lost the account he already read about it.

Wow

 

[kirbcheck]

Coworker is always last to arrive, first to leave and calls in sick on about a weekly basis.

1. Annoyed at Coworker for insinuating nobody does anything around the office, and everybody takes too much vacation. Then saying crap like "It's inconsiderate to come into the office with so much as a cold and sharing that with everybody around here."

2. Annoyed at boss for letting this crap continue.

 

[odorf]

Same guy I mentioned 100x already also smells worse than any human being I've ever experienced. It's like B.O. plus sweat socks plus something growing in the skin-folds that don't get clean. It's so bad that you can walk down an empty hallway and smell that he must've passed-by not long ago. If he leaves a room, it smells like him for a good 5 minutes afterwards. I've mentioned it to my boss...I mean, hygiene is something they can demand as employers, right? Someone help me here. I can't stand to be 10' from the guy but I don't want to come off like the "complainer"

I had one of those, I fixed it.

I bought a can of spray lysol, eveytime he came with in 5 ft of me
I started spraying till he left.

It took a week,his dense ass finally got the message

do not say a word, just spray

 

[Calfj60]

I found co-workers so annoying that I haven't had a job in 35 years........ My work ethic was "The company needs to make a profit for me to have a job" .......... Nothing more and nothing less. I "flew the flag", and everything I did was productivity / profit oriented, and my tolerance for those who didn't was zero or less. I always documented everything in terms of operations from my late teens onward..... What worked and why it worked, what didn't and why it didn't.. and that included "human liabilities, and every week a write up of my notes went to management...... and I'm sure many of them went into "file 13".......... Many didn't as I saw changes instituted........... I was the "co-worker from hell"........... You throw a monkey wrench into the works..........literal or figurative, and I'd jump in the middle of your "s__t", and you know for a fact that management will know. I regard business as a team, and the goal is to win..........I've never worked for a publicly traded company without owning stock in the company....... even if it's just a few shares..............

Unfortunately it's a losing battle........the world is full of idiots and ********........ I want to make it work...... it seems sometimes like everybody else wants to make it fail. I had a series of employees over the years since I quit working for other people......... until I got tired of dealing with the very same stupidity........ I learned that being a big shot with numerous people working for you generated more cash flow, and more problems, and sometimes more profit..... sometimes not. That "quality of life" deteriorates with complexity and complications.

I have many less customers these days, but the bond between us is far stronger, and the trust 100%.......... I don't promise what I can't deliver, and I deliver it with my own hands. My income is far less, but my freedom is far more. Customers know that if they have a crisis, I will put other plans on hold and leave no stone unturned in dealing with it....... And they pay well and willingly for what I offer. Self employment is not cake walk... it's a 24 / 7 commitment. If I'm hundreds or thousands of miles away when I get the call, I know what resources are available and deploy those resources relentlessly until the problem is solved......... People know that when they call me, the problem WILL be handled one way or another, wherever I am.......... And that's the foundation of my business.

I would not go back to a situation where I had "co-workers" for all the tea in China....I'm not a hard person to get along with.... If you are a team player. I will back you up every inch of he way ..........If you are NOT, I will destroy you without mercy, and never look back....... You will find me to be the co-worker from hell!! If you cheat, steal, sabatoge, etc........ Look out..... I'll get you! You may not work for or with me, but I am utterly relentless!! I've literally "fired" people who work for customers. "You are through here... You'd just as well "pack your bags", and in each of the several cases, it was "sound advice".............My relationship of trust with management was such that they were done. My tolerance for BS is zero!! I can be an absolute ******* when I need to be.

I'm not the "co-worker from hell"...........I'm far worse..........


H.W.

Now you sound like my kinda guy! I would be very interested in your business