Things about your co-workers that annoy you

[dkwolf]

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.

Oh my dog.

Our secretary.

She will spend two DAYS searching the internet for the cheapest toner cartridges available - and then used to come back and ask me to order them (she doesn't have a credit card, couldn't do online purchases). Even when she got burned on some absolute junk units out of California, didn't slow her down. Worst part... she'd save MAYBE $10/unit.

We're going through a massive office remodel right now - as in gut it to the studs, rip out all interior walls, and start over. Every day she throws a fit... "The painters are here, and the electricians are still working" Uh, yeah... the electricians are hanging lights in the drop ceiling. The painters are working at the other end of the building. They can both be here... and unless you want to be stuck in temporary office space for ANOTHER four months, crews are going to have to be working side-by-side.

And we're still a month away from moving back in to our offices, but she's throwing a holy fit because we'll be switching to VoIP, and "Well, MY fax machine and MY postage machine need phone lines, and WE won't have phone lines, we'll be network"... In our temporary space, she's sitting about 15 feet from my desk, so I have to listen to her phone calls as she's chicken-littleing about this stuff. I can only imagine how confused the support staff is when she calls...

 

[Dan]

I just read this whole thread and have to admit I must be pretty lucky. Some of the garbage you folks put up with would drive a good man to do bad.

Egotistical people who have the same training as you but think they are better. Ran across a person like that once. He put on a good show for management and they made him a supervisor. I'm truly surprised somebody didn't punch the guy out. Everybody I know, me included quit and got a better job, might have even taken a paycut but are now happy. I can't stand egomaniacs. Their insecurity is just to much to handle.

 

[forstmeister]

I work with the worst people ever. City. Government. Employees. I don't even have to post details do I? I win, right?

 

[RacingRam]

I'm a PhD student. There are 6 of us in the program. The professors encourage us to bounce ideas off each other, and have even set up weekly meetings where we share our work and get suggestions from the other students. I try to contribute something to everyone if I can, or at least ask a question to show I'm listening. The problem is that I'm usually the ONLY one contributing. If I don't say anything, everyone just stares in silence. Annoying.

 

[Jlaw3000]

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.

ME! Hahahaha

There are three men in my office of 20.... The women's bathroom is huge with multiple stalls. Men's is one room (and that's where we drug test new staff) can't tell you how many times I've had my morning Duce interrupted. The worst thing is they wait outside the door until you are done. I have nowhere to hide!!!

In all honesty though... I get a strange kick out of it o.0

 

[GrogNerd]

I work with the worst people ever. City. Government. Employees. I don't even have to post details do I? I win, right?

I was about to say, "please... you've never worked with federal government employees,"

then I saw your city

it might be a tie

 

[PapsD]

The good old boys club. You know who I mean. The "I've been blowing the owner since highschool" kind of guys. Have their own little club full of dingleberries and act like teenage girls.

The really annoying Mexican guy. Barks like a dog constantly; speaks no English yet is some how a citizen; sexually harasses people; works in shipping and recieving yet makes enough to drive a new truck.

The surley *******. Stinks like skunk piss and cigarettes. Acts like an ******* to everyone and think he's your best friend. Is a white supremacist and proud of it.

 

[gratus fermentatio]

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

Damned straight!
Regards, GF.

 

[tre9er]

I know a forum member who uses the word "like" too much.

I say "like" the way some people go "so then I say, so then he says, so then I say, so then he says" or "so he goes, then I go, so then she goes, so then I go"

 

[JoeyChopps]

I work with the worst people ever. City. Government. Employees. I don't even have to post details do I? I win, right?

I may have you beat I work for DoD as civil service. Great paying job however the boss cannot force anyone to work. So I work with guys that don't do jack **** all day and haven't for like 10 years.
I work on a flight line and we work on C-130s for anyone that doesn't know C-130s have four props and they will kill you if they hit you. I got a guy I work with that insist on standing within 6 inch of them while they are running to inspect something. I have been sitting in the flight deck pushing sticks and I've been at full power and look out the windscreen and not see him. I ask him on head set where he's at and he tells me looking at #3. Usually the guy in Copilot seat looks out and there he is standing a few inches from a 13 foot proper at full speed. Then when we tell him he's being unsafe he tells us to stop being pu$$ies. I have told my supervision countless times that he is dangerous and I think he has a substance abuse problem and nothing ever happens.
I work with another guy that lied and had his prior supervision lie to get him into a engine run trainee program. His supervision lied because he's such a turd. He has been on the line for over a year and can't do tasks that the Air Force makes 19 year olds do. He's is by far the dumbest person I have ever met. He's also a Topper Magee. As in everything you can do I can do better. He's a prior marine and tells us how he use to tell his gunny to f1ck off and all kind of other crazy ****. His wife is 24 years older than him and she drops him off at work to take his truck and spend all of his money this we talks about how if he has to he will smack a b1tch. I'm almost positive his wife beats him.
Also someone mentioned the guy that has been a the company twice as long and is always asking newer guys how to do stuff. I get that same stuff at work all the time. Some of the guys out here have been turning wrenches longer than I have been alive and ask me how to do stuff. Even worst we have over 100 technical orders in the library that are wrote at a 7th grade level.
I could go on and on.

 

[tre9er]

The loud smelly guy is yelling into his phone again, right now. There is no other sound in the room, a very large one, but him talking at an 11 into a brand new VOIP phone...

 

[paulster2626]

New one: people who complain that it's too cold in the office, yet refuse to wear a sweater or anything with long sleeves.

 

[Grannyknot]

New one: people who complain that it's too cold in the office, yet refuse to wear a sweater or anything with long sleeves.

how about those that complain that its cold, then take it upon themselves to adjust the thermostat for the entire office.

We had a secretary at one time who would turn the heat pump on in the morning during summer.

 

[forstmeister]

The loud smelly guy is yelling into his phone again, right now. There is no other sound in the room, a very large one, but him talking at an 11 into a brand new VOIP phone...

Is the handset black? If so take a couple small pieces of black electrical tape and cover the mouthpiece mic ever so discreetly. When done properly it is almost impossible to notice and no matter how loud he talks the person on the other end won't hear him. At least that way you get a little chuckle out of it.

 

[tre9er]

New one: people who complain that it's too cold in the office, yet refuse to wear a sweater or anything with long sleeves.

We have the guy who's hot all the time, wears short sleeves in the dead of winter, and likes the thermostat on 64 all the time...The rest of us are wearing our coats all day indoors.

 

[tre9er]

Is the handset black? If so take a couple small pieces of black electrical tape and cover the mouthpiece mic ever so discreetly. When done properly it is almost impossible to notice and no matter how loud he talks the person on the other end won't hear him. At least that way you get a little chuckle out of it.

it is. that would be funny, but I don't want to enter his cube. Seriously, the entire room smells of him. When he's off work it's noticeable. I hold my breath when I walk by him or his workspace. I refuse to sit near him in meetings. I'm not exaggerating, either...he's the worst smelling human I've ever encountered.

 

[00radio]

I'm actually a bit annoyed by a former coworker who did too much work. He recently basically burned out and took a position with a new company. So I got to take over all his work. And since he was doing a stupid amount of stuff for the client, they now expect it for all the jobs going forward.

I get going above and beyond, but there's a point where it's just too much.

 

[dkwolf]

New one: people who complain that it's too cold in the office, yet refuse to wear a sweater or anything with long sleeves.

Yep. The women in our office are like that. At least the 'bad' ones will leave a sweater at their desk. Our accountant keeps a small space heater in her office, and it's not uncommon to see it running in August. Meanwhile I'm sitting in short sleeves with a fan running at my desk in January.

May have been mean of us, but we had one former employee who looked like an overweight, female version of the kid on the MAD Magazine cover. Seriously fugly. She b'd us out one year for having the thermostat set at 72, saying "I'd like to be able to wear summer clothes sometime".... in the back of our minds, we were thinking "Yeah, but we'd prefer you wore a burkha. Or a tarp." (Yes, we're @$$holes. We're comfortable with that.)

(She had this god-awful fleece vest she'd wear... it was seriously "Safety Yellow". She looked like a freaking traffic cone in it. Didn't help she was a redhead)

 

[aygov]

This is a former co-worker story...

I used to work for a small credit union doing IT stuff. In the IT department were me and 2 other guys and then our boss who was probably one of the most disgusting human beings I have ever met.

We were housed in a converted portion of a large garage while the credit union itself was across the parking lot from us. Our office area was a few rooms framed out in the garage with cheap doors, dry wall and no insulation. There was a bathroom though. Of course with 4 guys and one bathroom in a small connected space with little to no sound or odor isolation there were rules for the toilet. You do not drop a deuce there! If you need to do that you went across to the credit union proper and used a bathroom over there.

Well, our pig of a boss heeded those rules for a while after I started, but then they went out the window. He would take the smelliest craps in that bathroom then either leave for the day or to go out to lunch and leave the door wide open to share his gift with the rest of us. Nothing like the office smelling like sulfur and fetid meat for a few hours. When he did have the courtesy to shut the door after he had ruined the toilet (read when he was staying in the office) he wouldn't leave the vent fan on so you would unknowingly wander in to the bathroom only to be hit with the most unholy smell in the world. It was all you could do not to gag and pass out as you made your retreat.

I could go on for hours about all the disgusting ******* stuff he pulled while I was there, but needless to say I was more than pleased when he got canned for having an inappropriate relationship with the crazy HR lady.

 

[Grannyknot]

Look at all theses posts about co-workers that piss you off. I betcha there are co-workers who are pissed off about you.

you're quite the voice of reason now aren't you?

 

[tre9er]

I bet there are people who I piss off. The things that really get me are common hygiene and such, though. If you physically stink from the moment you walk in the door until the moment you leave, so bad that I can smell where you've been without even seeing you...that's a problem. If you don't wash your hands after dropping a deuce, that's a problem. Etc, etc.

 

[Beernik]

Mostly it just the whistlers that piss me off.

Is this for my listening pleasure? I don't think so. IMO: whistling to yourself is one step away from muttering to yourself at full volume.

 

[tre9er]

Mostly it just the whistlers that piss me off.

Is this for my listening pleasure? I don't think so. IMO: whistling to yourself is one step away from muttering to yourself at full volume.

I curse out loud sometimes...where does that rank?

 

[Subsailor]

Is this for my listening pleasure? I don't think so. IMO: whistling to yourself is one step away from muttering to yourself at full volume.

I don't whistle but I mutter/talk with myself alot. OK not really with myself, I am arguing with the voices in my head. You don't even want to know what they're up to!

 

[Beernik]

The trick with muttering is to buy a Bluetooth earpiece. Then you move up the social pecking order from "crazy person" to "douchnozzle".

Swearing doesn't bother me. I have to make an effort to not swear. Too many years of construction management and growing up in a military family.

 

[McBrewskie]

Mostly it just the whistlers that piss me off.

Is this for my listening pleasure? I don't think so. IMO: whistling to yourself is one step away from muttering to yourself at full volume.

 

[JoeyChopps]

Not only co-workers but even others who drop the f-bomb in normal conversations

Well then you would hate me

 

[Zuljin]

We've a guy who whistles. It's when he stops that causes concern.

We've a stink pot, too. Dudes reeks like sour milk and staleness. He even looks dirty. Greasy. It's bad hygiene. He's a damn funk ball. And a teller of tall tales. He's raced the fastest muscle cars. Ridden a motorcycle across the country, and back. Flown on and photographed the inside of Air Force One. Yeah. But he doesn't have the pictures because the DoD asked him for them to put in their historical archive. He's been on numerous top secret missions, the kind where they delete your identity before you go and don't reinstate it until you're back. He invented and built a tank bunker. He's an honorary member of the Banditos. He's an engineer of all sorts. Has numerous degrees. Builds his own computers, but can't map to a drive or connect to a network printer. All this and he's two ranks and a license behind me, despite being there near twice as long.

 

[JoeyChopps]

but you are not my co-worker, so I gotta like you til I hear the f-bombs

I seriously say the F word at least 50 times a day but don't really mean to. I'm a flight line mechanic everyone one says F1ck a lot.

 

[dkwolf]

We've a guy who whistles. It's when he stops that causes concern.

We've a stink pot, too. Dudes reeks like sour milk and staleness. He even looks dirty. Greasy. It's bad hygiene. He's a damn funk ball. And a teller of tall tales. He's raced the fastest muscle cars. Ridden a motorcycle across the country, and back. Flown on and photographed the inside of Air Force One. Yeah. But he doesn't have the pictures because the DoD asked him for them to put in their historical archive. He's been on numerous top secret missions, the kind where they delete your identity before you go and don't reinstate it until you're back. He invented and built a tank bunker. He's an honorary member of the Banditos. He's an engineer of all sorts. Has numerous degrees. Builds his own computers, but can't map to a drive or connect to a network printer. All this and he's two ranks and a license behind me, despite being there near twice as long.

I think that guy used to work for us... BMW sent his uncle a prototype of their motorcycle so he could write the owners manual for it, his aunt played with Elton John, he never sleeps (might have something to do with the coffee you could serve with a fork...)

Dude was always the first to the office - like, 4:30-5:00 early. Lived a mile away from me, and I have a 30 mile commute. During the winter, I drive my 4wd if there's snow on the ground. One morning, after the second snowdrift over my hood, I turned around and took a day off. Called him to let him know that hey, the roads are crap, we're not going to work. His response? "Oh, I'm already here. Had to thread the needle between two semis stuck on the road, but made it." He drove a Dodge Neon.