Things about your co-workers that annoy you

[BamaProud]

One particular guy bothers me a bunch. He's a close-talker, always wanting to show me things on his I-Phone, usually pictures of his cats or something else stupid. He always wants me to read company e-mails on his computer screen I tell him at least once a week "you know I get those e-mails too". He can't sit still for more than 10 min's and listens to bad music. I put on ear buds and tell him he should do the same.

 

[gratus fermentatio]

The fact that I have coworkers is enough to irritate me. Somebody likes to stink up the mens room at about the same time every morning, don't know who, but you could almost set your watch by the stink. He turns the light & fan (they're connected) off when he leaves & allows his stink to linger far longer. I'm really starting to hate that guy, whoever he is.

There seems to be an attitude of "ignore a problem long enough & it'll just go away" that is entrenched in MGT. I can't even begin to count how many times I've heard "That's the way it's always been, it's never going to change." They're right, with that attitude, it never will. <Sigh>

The HMFIC here likes to hand out praise for a job well done like it was candy on Halloween. Apparently all you have to do to get an "attaboy" is show up.

There's a LOT of people here that won't say "good morning" when they come in, and they won't say "goodbye" before they hang up the phone. I could go on & on & on...
But I won't.
Regards, GF.

 

[Frige]

The owner my of my company seems to care more about drag racing that life itself which is very annoying to all the other employees who are trying to rehash the latest episode of american idol. Not only that but he puts in at least 55-60 hrs a week. Then rebuilds old cars and brews beer in his downtime. He also has been known to fire people for gossiping and creating a hostile work environment.

I would quit but I own the damn place.

 

[paulster2626]

Hi everyone. I am that annoying guy you speak of. Here's my strategy:

So I fart a lot. Basically I try to fart at the desk of someone new every day. And I steal things from the fridge. People stole my stuff for years, but now I'm the ****** who takes your lunch/salad dressing/soft drink/etc.

Clog the toilet? Just leave it. Don't bother with that plunger right beside it.
Use all the TP? Don't leave a note, just leave it hoping the next guy doesn't notice.
I don't pee on the seat, but I like to splash a little water around so people think I do.

What else, what else.... nothing comes to mind. But you know when you play Trivial Persuit, and when you're setting up the game and there's all the pie pieces jammed in to the circle things the wrong way? Yeah, that's me too.

 

[forstmeister]

My boss is notoriously non-confrontational. Most of the time it's ok, because he doesn't try to micromanage or start trouble where there doesn't need to be any, but there have also been times where there have been serious interpersonal problems between employees, and he won't step in to do anything about it until people are ready to kill each other.

He's also really slow to return phone calls and emails, so usually by the time he asks me to respond or the person calls back and reaches my desk, they're livid at the lack of response and I'm the one that's left looking bad.

You work for my boss too?

There's nothing worse than a boss who is afraid to be the boss.

 

[TxBrew]

Deodorant. Wear it. I hate being my own boss.

 

[andysim]

Deodorant. Wear it. I hate being my own boss.

+1 on that. We had a guy in accounting who was anti deoderant.

 

[ILoveBeer2]

My boss is Carl from Slingblade who takes over all projects when they get interesting. Interesting in this case is public facing. He is the worst micromanager ever.

 

[Yesfan]

Look here, I said in that post that it shines a bad light on people who NEED to take that time off for the right reasons. When the lazy bastards I work with run out of personal time they sign up for FMLA due to "stress and anxiety". If your job is so stressful to you but not the others that do the same job, QUIT! Nobody is forcing them to stay there and when they pull that bull**** it only puts the workload on people that aren't so lazy they can't show up to work.

We have another guy that has a cyst in his wrist that he got while in the military years before starting this job. It didn't hurt him or stop him from doing his job until they moved him to a job he didn't want to do. To spite the company he goes to medical and has THEM pay for the surgery to remove the cyst and pay him to do next to nothing for 3 months while it heals.

I'm sorry but I'm just simply not a fan of doing somebody else's well paying job only because they're lazy.
You should think about changing your user name to "NotAFanOfReading"

Maybe you should re-read my post. I was paying you a compliment! I never said my job was stressful, so don't know where you get that. Just that it is filled with some drama queens, that's all. I only took my FMLA when I NEEDED it as you say. Trust me, after almost losing my older brother to a lung infection and losing my mother to cancer this year, my job has been nothing but a sanctuary to me. I can also pull my weight there and , unfortunately, others' as well.

Never thought I would get yelled at for agreeing with someone. Geez!

 

[Darwin18]

I seriously wish it was possible to quarantine the co-workers with children and the co-workers without children from early September to end of June. These are the people who get sick from their kids and typically bring it into the office instead of taking sick days.

 

[MustBeZ]

Maybe you should re-read my post. I was paying you a compliment! I never said my job was stressful, so don't know where you get that. Just that it is filled with some drama queens, that's all. I only took my FMLA when I NEEDED it as you say. Trust me, after almost losing my older brother to a lung infection and losing my mother to cancer this year, my job has been nothing but a sanctuary to me. I can also pull my weight there and , unfortunately, others' as well.

Never thought I would get yelled at for agreeing with someone. Geez!

Sorry man...I did re read your post and the tone was completely different after this post. For some reason when I read it last night it came off as very condescending, doesnt help that I can't see this ( ) when I'm reading on my phones app. Sometimes I'm just an idiot :smack:

 

[tre9er]

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"

 

[Brewsncrabs]

I get the pleasure of working with one of those "beeches" who lies and lies about everything to make you look bad while doing nothing for herself AND is getting promoted. My job depends on her getting info to me which she just never would do and i was working extra to get things done. I finally had to sit the boss down and show him documentation to prove my point. Probably wont make a difference but I felt better.

 

[user 157712]

We've got that guy that's always got a bigger and better story than you. And not just just a little...guiness book stuff. He'll walk by while a bunch of you are talking and bud in. "Oh ya, well I hit a drive like 400 yards on saturday...I couldn't even see the ball i hit it so far!" Ya I'm pretty sure those long drive guys struggle to hit it that far, but sure buddy whatever.

 

[Yesfan]

Sorry man...I did re read your post and the tone was completely different after this post. For some reason when I read it last night it came off as very condescending, doesnt help that I can't see this ( ) when I'm reading on my phones app. Sometimes I'm just an idiot :smack:

That's alright bro. I work with the same kinds of people, and it can be frustrating at times, especially when they seem to get more recognition than you.


Next beer's on me.

 

[VApatriot]

1) There's a guy in my group that's been with the company at least 20 years, I've been here less than 10, yet he continues to ask me "how do you do that again?" Dude you've been here in this job for 20 years and you can't remember something simple???? Why are you still here again?

2) H1-B1 Visa recpients, there's a ton of them here (it's a huge corporation). The most annoying are the ones from a cretain very large country that's famous for spicy food and telephone support. Almost all of them think they're in a higher cast than you even if they couldn't find their way out of a wet paper sack with a running chain saw...

3) All of them that insist on comming to work when they are sick and refusing to cover their mouths when they cough or sneeze, gawd I hate that.

4) IT support is farmed out to a small island nation in the Pacific ocean, don't even bother calling the support line, they'll never understand what your problem is and you'll never understand them.

5) English as a second language, gives me a headache evertime. Look you came here to work right? At least try to learn a little of the language...

/rant off/

 

[BoomerHarley]

I seriously wish it was possible to quarantine the co-workers with children and the co-workers without children from early September to end of June. These are the people who get sick from their kids and typically bring it into the office instead of taking sick days.

I have this coworker, who I already dislike, who does this. He has had a cold since November, off and on. The other day he calls me and wants me to come over and talk. I say I am busy and he replies "Oh, well I am sick and am hoping to go home soon cough cough weeeze)."

So my immune system is a little screwed up from an illness I had last year and I hate being sick. I ask if we can just talk over the phone. He agrees and that was that.

Ten minutes later, he is in my cube hacking and coughing "I know you are avoiding me because you don't want to be sick, but I had to talk to you."

Mother****er.

 

[DrunkleJon]

The smelly, extra loud guy who can't spell, has terrible grammar, and does below the minimal amount of work. He is also unreliable, often times smells like hay and horse dung (we work in IT Support in DC, where are there horses around here?). Been here for 20 years longer than myself, seems to be a lifer, and is oblivious or too lazy to remember the simple things.

The girl who is my relief on sunday nights when I get off work at 11 pm and come back in on monday morning at 6:30. I live half an hour away so I do not get a full nights sleep anyway, yet she is consistently half an hour late for her shift which means I get even less sleep.

Oh, and our management, we have more PMs than actual workers, and the management has no backbone and gives in to our 'customers' for things that are against policy just because they want to avoid confrontation.

 

[Grannyknot]

1.) The people who constantly play dumb & plead ignorance so that noboddy asks them to do anything.
2.) The people who consistently screw up something on the front end of a project, yet refuse to help one single bit to fix the problem on the back end.
3.) The people who, for some reason, bring every single document that comes across the fax machine to me and ask me who they should give it to. I AM NOT THE CATCH ALL.
4.) Managers who ask us not to envolve them in the day to day operations of the company and then flip out when they haven't been told about something.
5.) People who come into my office and stand there waiting on me to get off the phone
6.) People who come into my office and shake a piece of paper to get my attention.
7.) People that want to complain about trivial things like parking spaces.
8.) Loud talkers that use speaker phone constantly.

and last but not least....

People who don't understand when to stop using the "Reply to All" feature on emails.

I hate my current job by the way and could name at least 50 annoying co-worker traits.

 

[paulster2626]

Just had one. Was in some kind of safety meeting thing, and we had to get shown the fire exits like we're all a bunch of morans.

Anyway, as 20 people are all walking down the hall, the inevitable "mooooo" cattle sound comes from the back. People actually laugh, too. Like it's funny. But it's not funny. It's stupid, and unoriginal.

 

[GrogNerd]

my co-worker... CONSTANTLY wanting me to stroke his back, scratch him behind the ear, then he rolls onto his back, expecting me to rub his tummy.

never does any work, always sleeping

asks me every time to go use the bathroom, then does it outside

every day, bugging me to prepare his meals

gets upset when I leave the office, then jumps on me the second I return

if he weren't so damn adorable, I would fire him

 

[Grannyknot]

I WANT THE WHOLE OFFICE TO KNOW THAT I FOUND A WAY TO SAVE 3 CENTS ON THOSE PARTS WE ARE BUYING

yeah that guy.

 

[Darwin18]

People who clip their finger/toe nails in their cubicles. Do that @*%$ at home.

 

[fuzzy2133]

The group of guys who gather to talk in the morning and have a smoke right next to my tool box. The ashes get all over my box and in a few drawers drives me nuts because I don't smoke. I started using my blow gun to dust every thing off first thing in the morning and they finally got the hint after two days. Or it may have been dusting them off too.

I don't have anything against smokers just be courteous about it.

 

[Darwin18]

my co-worker... CONSTANTLY wanting me to stroke his back, scratch him behind the ear, then he rolls onto his back, expecting me to rub his tummy.

never does any work, always sleeping

asks me every time to go use the bathroom, then does it outside

every day, bugging me to prepare his meals

gets upset when I leave the office, then jumps on me the second I return

if he weren't so damn adorable, I would fire him

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Be careful. Once Corporate learns that you've convinced your co-worker to be harnessed and leashed to his work space, the rest of us will soon follow.

 

[GrogNerd]

Be careful. Once Corporate learns that you've convinced your co-worker to be harnessed and leashed to his work space, the rest of us will soon follow.

gah! once a week, I gotta work down at corporate. coworkers there act like they're 1½, 6 and 8 years old. get almost no work done. it's not so bad between september and june, when they don't show up to work until 3:30 and I leave at 5.

summers they work the same schedule as me, it's relentless

 

[drainbamage]

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"

At my last job, there was this guy that had to weight 400 lbs. He kept pretty much a brick of cheese by his computer and would eat off it all day long. Not only that, but he'd profusely sweat moldy cheese the entire time. The smell was horrendous, and of course his cubicle was right next to the door heading out to the hall where the bathroom was, so you had no choice but to go by him several times a day. I'd have to hold my breath every time I walked past him.

People who clip their finger/toe nails in their cubicles. Do that @*%$ at home.

Seriously. Every place I've worked has had at least one person who does that. Do you not have 5 minutes to spare at home to do it?

 

[b-boy]

Yet another co-worker I have insists on parking in the farthest possible parking space to avoid door dings in the employee lot, but whines like a little girl that the landscaping contractor gets grass on his truck when they mow next to his vehicle.

I have a guy like this where I work. He has an average car at best, but he is completely obsessed with it. He parks outside the window near my department. He parks as far away from the rest of the cars as he can, and there is usually about 10-20 spaces between his car and the closest car.

One of the guys I work with had an old beater car. It was a red 80s cavalier. The muffler was gone. He spray painted a big 01 on the side and duct taped a confederate flag on the roof so it looked like a Ghetto General Lee from the Dukes of Hazard. He even had the Dixie horn. It was the ugliest beater I've ever seen.

He brought it into work one day and parked right next to the OCD guy's car. Within 10-minutes the guy came out and moved his car. Of course, our guy went and moved his car right next to it again. This kept up for a few hours. Finally Mr. OCD started calling people in our department demanding to know who owned the car. He'd figured out the culprit was in our group. We played stupid. The whole thing kept going for about 4-hours.

Finally Mr. OCD actually called the cops. They showed up and were not too happy about being called in for a parking lot dispute. The facilities manager wasn't too happy either. I heard they chewed the guy out pretty good. They said it was a public lot and he had no parking rights there.

It was very funny, but we stopped after the cops showed up. I think people were a little worried about the guy going postal if we kept pushing him.

 

[Zuljin]

We've streets inside our facility. People will stop their trucks side by side and chat. Move! Get out the way! You have cell phones and/or radios. There's lots of space to have a chat.

 

[Tinhorn]

The owner my of my company seems to care more about drag racing that life itself which is very annoying to all the other employees who are trying to rehash the latest episode of american idol. Not only that but he puts in at least 55-60 hrs a week. Then rebuilds old cars and brews beer in his downtime. He also has been known to fire people for gossiping and creating a hostile work environment.

I would quit but I own the damn place.

Sounds unbearable to be stuck with a guy like that haha