Things about your co-workers that annoy you

[Melana]

had a boss once that was a good guy to work for - knew his stuff, backed up his employees with higher-ups, etc - but had the manners of a goat. You'd be in his office talking to him about something and he'd roll up on one cheek and let one rip - and i swear to dog something died up there 'cause the stench would peel paint.

And did i mention that he picked his nose? Constantly? He came over to my desk once when i was eating lunch - a few of us had ordered pizza that day. He saw the slice i hadn't gotten to yet and proceeded to whip out his pocket knife and cut a portion of the slice off and eat it without so much as a "mind if i have a bite?"...and without washing his hands from his last nasal mining expedition. I told him to take the rest of the slice because i was full. <shudder>

wow.

 

[n240sxguy]

Reminds me of a coworker of mine. We always wait to bring in food til he takes a day off.

 

[Beernik]

I sit next to Loud Howard (see Dilbert if you don't know the reference). His volume starts at 10 and goes up from there.

There are times when I'm talking on the phone at the same time he is talking on the phone. I always get "Is someone in your cubical talking to you" from the person I'm talking to.

I've sat near him for 6 years. He's retirement eligible this year. So, maybe I'll finally get some relief.

 

[Billy-Klubb]

they keep showing up! but then again, so do I...

 

[BreezyBrew]

How about the most annoying person that works for the company becomes your boss. Bleh. One of those pretentious hipster types that you really can't trust for squat. Seems as though he weaseled his way into the position and got the current manager to resign right before Christmas.

 

[paulster2626]

Lately I'm being annoyed by people who put inspiring quotes in their email signatures and on whiteboards.

 

[paulster2626]

My latest annoying thing that I do - we all got new phones at work and there's like 50 different rings to choose from. The guy beside me keeps changing his to be different and the second I hear it I change mine to the same one. I can tell it's pissing him off...

 

[Thesomeguy]

I currently work 12 hours a day 7 days a week, in our office there are 5 people, 2 of which play travel guitars to kill time between flights and in our down time (no big deal). One guy plays his relatively quietly the other plays his like he is playing a full size guitar in an amphitheater, it would be different if he could play well or anything but one line in a song.. but Nope same line over and over again.. it even cuts through my noise canceling headphones on occasion.

 

[mattd2]

Lately I'm being annoyed by people who put inspiring quotes in their email signatures and on whiteboards.

Current quote on the whiteboard in my office "I've got enough shades of grey on my paint programme" and the site painter was trying to get a tank painted HI-Viz orange just to be different!

 

[smakudwn]

How about the guy who asks you how to do something and then argues with your answer. Here is an idea, just don't ask me and do it the way you want to.

 

[m3n00b]

Annoyed by people who don't lift the toilet seat when they urinate. if you're too much of a pansy to use a urinal..at least lift the lid and don't spray all over the stall. Also...make sure your poopy paper actually makes it into the bowl...and not on the lid. I work with 150 5 year olds.

 

[DrunkleJon]

Annoyed by people who don't lift the toilet seat when they urinate. if you're too much of a pansy to use a urinal..at least lift the lid and don't spray all over the stall. Also...make sure your poopy paper actually makes it into the bowl...and not on the lid. I work with 150 5 year olds.

Weirdly enough I have found that the center stall is the least likely to get the seat hosed down. The worst are the one closest to the door and the deluxe extra space with an Oh Sh! grunter bar (read handicapped stall).

 

[nasty_rabbit]

My latest annoying thing that I do - we all got new phones at work and there's like 50 different rings to choose from. The guy beside me keeps changing his to be different and the second I hear it I change mine to the same one. I can tell it's pissing him off...

The guy that keeps changing his ringer to match mine.

 

[DrunkleJon]

The guy who has been working at my office for longer than anyone, and when approached with a simple everyday request (IT Support) he has no clue what to do. The boss was asking him straight out what his next step and I was wondering if it was as painful for him to suffer through as it was for me to hear it. So the thing that annoys me is that this guy still has this job.

 

[Rhumbline]

The guy who has been working at my office for longer than anyone, and when approached with a simple everyday request (IT Support) he has no clue what to do. The boss was asking him straight out what his next step and I was wondering if it was as painful for him to suffer through as it was for me to hear it. So the thing that annoys me is that this guy still has this job.

People like him are the workplace equivalent of the ablative coating on a missile's re-entry vehicle. He exists to be burned off when things get too hot, thus protecting the more important core.

Every manager I've known keeps a few deadbeats on the payroll so that when corporate tells him to cut x% of his budget he can do so without adversely affecting productivity.

Embrace this guy, without him, it might be your job that gets eliminated.

 

[dkwolf]

People like him are the workplace equivalent of the ablative coating on a missile's re-entry vehicle. He exists to be burned off when things get too hot, thus protecting the more important core.

Every manager I've known keeps a few deadbeats on the payroll so that when corporate tells him to cut x% of his budget he can do so without adversely affecting productivity.

Embrace this guy, without him, it might be your job that gets eliminated.

All of a sudden, some of my coworkers make sense.

 

[DrunkleJon]

People like him are the workplace equivalent of the ablative coating on a missile's re-entry vehicle. He exists to be burned off when things get too hot, thus protecting the more important core.

Every manager I've known keeps a few deadbeats on the payroll so that when corporate tells him to cut x% of his budget he can do so without adversely affecting productivity.

Embrace this guy, without him, it might be your job that gets eliminated.

Only problem is he is the Govvie. The rest of us are contractors. No one ever recorded his screwups.

 

[Billy-Klubb]

All of a sudden, some of my coworkers make sense.

I don't want to sound conceded, but I must be the most valuable welder in our shop. bwahahahaha!!!

Only problem is he is the Govvie. The rest of us are contractors. No one ever recorded his screwups.

that was something I noticed about our welding shop in WY. all the contract welders were under close eye, while us single hands screw ups were looked passed a bit more.

 

[MaxStout]

There's a guy in our office who tries to stir things up by sounding off with bits of "pop culture." He's a big guy with a loud voice who has a penchant for spouting TV/movie quotes, etc., for all to hear. This past Wednesday it was "Guess what day it is...anybody?...guess what day it is..."

Lucky for him nobody's coffee mugs became airborne. But the thought did occur to me.

 

[Cathedral]

Weirdly enough I have found that the center stall is the least likely to get the seat hosed down. The worst are the one closest to the door and the deluxe extra space with an Oh Sh! grunter bar (read handicapped stall).

That's because it's against the rules to take the center stall in an empty bathroom. One should always try to maintain a one-stall gap, so the ends are the only logical place to start. From there it's a simple 1-0-1 sequence. If you take the center stall in an empty room, you're just ****ing up the whole system. And rest assured, if you do choose to take that stall, there WILL be someone who comes in next, and the whole time he WILL be thinking, "Who is this ******* who took the center stall and now I have to **** next to him!" Better hope it's not your boss, and he starts trying to recognize you by your boots.

This also applies to urinals.

 

[vNmd]

Weirdly enough I have found that the center stall is the least likely to get the seat hosed down. The worst are the one closest to the door and the deluxe extra space with an Oh Sh! grunter bar (read handicapped stall).

Either you work down the hall from me or your finding is confirmed. Its the same way here. I hate to even walk by the first stall here.

 

[CRoth36]

A bunch of racist bastards. I'm white like them so I get treated good but I can't stand their racist stuff. Planning on quitting soon because of it.

 

[vNmd]

The most annoying thing here is the loud people. I can't believe how loud they are. And of course being in Maryland they have no compassion for anyone else. They think it is perfectly normal to yell over the cube wall to someone two cubes away and have an entire conversation. No one else does this in the room. They don't get it and / or don't care about the others that are trying to work. I first brought in those squishy ear plug things as a joke, but they were kind of nice. I eventually bought Peltor digital hearing protectors. They are a little bulky but they block out even the most annoying Marylander and connect to a mp3 player so I have tunes playing quietly in the background. I look like an idiot but it is so nice to be productive and not listening to these loons yelling at their computer when they can't figure something about it out. We have office "managers" who won't do anything about it. The quotes around the word managers is like a picture (1000 words).

 

[Rhumbline]

A bunch of racist bastards. I'm white like them so I get treated good but I can't stand their racist stuff. Planning on quitting soon because of it.

I'll have to disagree with you. You may be white, but you're not "white like them".

As someone who grew up south of that Manson Dixon line I can tell you that there's nothing a white racist hates more than another white who doesn't share his views.

Don't make the mistake of thinking that you're safe around these people, they've got enough hate to spread around.

 

[Rhumbline]

Here's my latest addition.

The meathead in the office that has that stupid bird tweet on his phone every time he gets an email or twitter message.

Yes, princess, you're very important and we all know that by how many emails you get per day. But I don't need to be notified every time some retard you know wants to share the fact that they've just belched the alphabet.

 

[fuzzy2133]

That's because it's against the rules to take the center stall in an empty bathroom. One should always try to maintain a one-stall gap, so the ends are the only logical place to start. From there it's a simple 1-0-1 sequence. If you take the center stall in an empty room, you're just ****ing up the whole system. And rest assured, if you do choose to take that stall, there WILL be someone who comes in next, and the whole time he WILL be thinking, "Who is this ******* who took the center stall and now I have to **** next to him!" Better hope it's not your boss, and he starts trying to recognize you by your boots.

This also applies to urinals.

Remember to teach this to your son(s). There are plenty of grown guys that violate it when there are 8 urinals open and only 2 in use (yes they head right for the one between the 2 guys so it is 3 in a row).

 

[dryboroughbrewing]

getting called.. on my vacation... again, twice today. I'm looking fondly at my nail gun.

 

[JoeyChopps]

I'm an aircraft mechanic so mines a little different than most. But what pisses me off more than anything is I have a work lead that is a f1cking moron and can't perform basic tasks ( I work for the government so him getting a work lead position is to keep him from working on planes) he likes to stand over your shoulder and just watch you work for like 30 mins. All he wants is an update so he can run to supervision and tell them what's going on. The worst part is since he doesn't know what he's doing he often tells supervision the wrong thing because he doesn't grasp any of what I'm doing so then I have to have a dog and pony show with upper level management to explain what he screwed up telling them and the mofo gets paid more than me.

 

[SupervisingChildren]

The fact that I get called for non emergencies when on call.
The fact thay I'm trying to fill a shift for when I'm on vacation, and noone will step up.
Boss is grumpy as hell lately and left me with a ton of stuff to do before I'm on vacation.
The fact that I'm on call while outta town and need to worry that someone will screw me over when I'm 8 hours away...

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[Cathedral]

I'm an aircraft mechanic so mines a little different than most. But what pisses me off more than anything is I have a work lead that is a f1cking moron and can't perform basic tasks ( I work for the government so him getting a work lead position is to keep him from working on planes) he likes to stand over your shoulder and just watch you work for like 30 mins. All he wants is an update so he can run to supervision and tell them what's going on. The worst part is since he doesn't know what he's doing he often tells supervision the wrong thing because he doesn't grasp any of what I'm doing so then I have to have a dog and pony show with upper level management to explain what he screwed up telling them and the mofo gets paid more than me.

I feel you there. I started my working life as an aircraft mechanic so I know how much the paper trail and chain of command weighs more than the aircraft you're working on. But believe me, it's the same way in the rest of the world. We all feel your pain.