Things about your co-workers that annoy you

[n240sxguy]

How about the one that makes a minimum of 15-20 bathroom trips during a 12 hour shift? Now he's taken up pissing in the trench out back even though he's only 30 feet from the control room. Broad daylight mind you. People potentially in the area.


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[Dfitz]

I don't have any co-workers but they still annoy me, and that annoys me

 

[UWDawg13]

Lady who is a year away from retiring and completely checked out. 45 minute morning breaks, hour lunches and checks out early for the afternoon break. Never lifts a finger to help anyone else when she has no files to work on, yet we are expected to drop everything to help her when she's out for a day or two. Not to mention the 6 months she had off last year for recovering from surgeries. (Insurance underwriter)

Edit:
Forgot to add that she works the 7-330 shift, yet schedules all appointments, hair cuts, and movie dates for around 1:30.

Also, while the manager was on vacation, came into work on Friday for 45 minutes then left for the weekend so she didnt have to use a vacation day.

 

[number40fan]

I have a co-worker that likes to try and finish my sentences for me. So we have been doing this "dance" for the past few months. I'll be talking to someone and see him show up (he should be working, but he hears me talking...so needs to investigate) and I'll look at him and touch my nose (nosey) and move behind something so he can't see me. He'll move while only watching me, not the person I am talking to, and I'll move again...again..again. Since this dance has started, not once has he tried to finish a sentence of mine. Yet, he still hasn't stopped trying to watch me speak.

I was going to type some more, but I think I'll just get pissed off. So, that is it for now...

 

[jekeane]

I used to work in a small office with several guys and one of them thought it was hilarious to walk up behind someone and stick his penis in their ear...

He did it all the time until he got smacked in the junk with a stapler.

 

[n240sxguy]

I used to work in a small office with several guys and one of them thought it was hilarious to walk up behind someone and stick his penis in their ear...

He did it all the time until he got smacked in the junk with a stapler.

A mechanic on the other side of the plant used to pull his out the side of his coveralls (must've been a foot long to do that!) and surprise the new guys in the storeroom. Apparently someone said something to HR. He was told that better stop ASAP!


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[ArkotRamathorn]

I have a co-worker that likes to try and finish my sentences for me. So we have been doing this "dance" for the past few months. I'll be talking to someone and see him show up (he should be working, but he hears me talking...so needs to investigate) and I'll look at him and touch my nose (nosey) and move behind something so he can't see me. He'll move while only watching me, not the person I am talking to, and I'll move again...again..again. Since this dance has started, not once has he tried to finish a sentence of mine. Yet, he still hasn't stopped trying to watch me speak.

I was going to type some more, but I think I'll just get pissed off. So, that is it for now...

In my mind I'm imagining like two scenes from Jurassic Park. First when they exit the cars and start swinging the flares around to distract the T-Rex and its sways back and forth watching them. Then the part with the dilophosaurus "hey, stick stick, go get the stick you stupid dinosaur".

A good plan would be either to print a picture of your face and put it on a little remote control helicopter and a little speaker to can speak through. As soon as you hear him coming, fire it up and fly it around the office, he'll be chasing that all day. Or print a picture of a different face and put that on, and a voice modulator so he doesn't know its you (or completly freeze everytime he comes by).

 

[Fordzilla]

What I used to get along those lines were calls at 7pm Friday night and the boss saying, "Can you be in LA Monday morning, for three weeks, and work 16 hour days on a project that is three months behind schedule? Thanks."

I'm glad those days are behind me.

I used to get this at my old job. It's not my fault the project is so far behind schedule, but I'm the one who has to take all the heat from the clients. Got out of there 2 years ago and don't miss it.

 

[Billy-Klubb]

I've been building/welding sprayer centers for a few years now as well as a bunch of small parts and odd ball stuff. quite a change from welding pipe and building methane vacuum pumps/injector plants/oil pumps, but welding is welding. there's many different ways to go about it, but the principle is always the same. I take pride in my work. I want to make things that last, are good and square, and with nice looking welds. I rarely make a mistake, but it does happen since I'm a human. it annoys the hell out of me when I do make a mistake, but downright pisses me off when any of my coworkers is all, "Oh man! Billy f-ed up!" 1/2 of these guys are constantly producing sloppy work and having to fix their own mistakes. even worse is when I get blamed for engineering leaving parts off the prints. I have almost a dozen different center sections that I build and some of them only once or twice a year. I build off the print. I expect the prints to be correct as the builders expect the centers to be correct when they put the sprayers together. I understand that mistakes happen, but I am not to blame for other peoples mistakes.

 

[Wingnutt73]

When They ask you a question that you know the answer to and they continue to argue with you once they have the correct information that you gave them. I hate this and it makes me see Red!!!

 

[ArkotRamathorn]

When They ask you a question that you know the answer to and they continue to argue with you once they have the correct information that you gave them. I hate this and it makes me see Red!!!

I work for a health insurance company, I and my team process medical insurance claims (medicaid and medicare so I'm not the bad guy here, I'm really happy I don't work for a commercial plan f'ing over normal joes). Long story short I am a sort of "expert"(my title really does have "expert" in it) on procesing for my states plan (well really basically all of the states at this point because I'm the only one with the cajones to be confident (aka arrogant) about how to process an insurance claim). Every so often I get people that will argue with me about something.

I've said the same thing to the 'regular' (don't take this as a deragatory term), "Ok, if you think I am wrong or not sure about my answer, copy, paste and save this conversation for your records, I can email it to you as well if you like and you and I both have the same records. If someone from compliance or quality review think my answer is wrong, I will answer for it." Not bragging I have yet to "answer" for anything. Obviously this might not work for other businesses but, why argue? If someone has the confidence to answer your questions, why argue? Otherwise if you think you know better, dont ask, just do it and avoid wasting time arguing.

(yes, I can be a total arrogant ****** at my job so you don't need to point out that I sound like one)

To be on topic, whenever I tell someone at my job "I know you know how to do this, and I want you to have the confidence to do it because I *KNOW* you can do it" and turn around a week later "I don't know how to do this".

 

[yyvjpv]

Lady who is a year away from retiring and completely checked out. 45 minute morning breaks, hour lunches and checks out early for the afternoon break. Never lifts a finger to help anyone else when she has no files to work on, yet we are expected to drop everything to help her when she's out for a day or two. Not to mention the 6 months she had off last year for recovering from surgeries. (Insurance underwriter)

Edit:
Forgot to add that she works the 7-330 shift, yet schedules all appointments, hair cuts, and movie dates for around 1:30.

Also, while the manager was on vacation, came into work on Friday for 45 minutes then left for the weekend so she didnt have to use a vacation day.

Wow, you hate to wish someone ill, but that's someone who has earned a firing if I've ever seen one!

 

[yyvjpv]

I have a co-worker that likes to try and finish my sentences for me. So we have been doing this "dance" for the past few months. I'll be talking to someone and see him show up (he should be working, but he hears me talking...so needs to investigate) and I'll look at him and touch my nose (nosey) and move behind something so he can't see me. He'll move while only watching me, not the person I am talking to, and I'll move again...again..again. Since this dance has started, not once has he tried to finish a sentence of mine. Yet, he still hasn't stopped trying to watch me speak.

I was going to type some more, but I think I'll just get pissed off. So, that is it for now...

You sound like you work in a Seinfeld episode.

 

[yyvjpv]

I don't want to seem like I am bragging but reading these makes me really glad for my job. My closest co-worker is a 3 hour drive away.

 

[Billy-Klubb]

I don't want to seem like I am bragging but reading these makes me really glad for my job. My closest co-worker is a 3 hour drive away.

but you live in Canada. isn't the nearest person at least 3 hours away?

 

[dkwolf]

Training for a new position at work; the guy I'm replacing has been told up front that he is being replaced, and that it is his responsibility to help train me to do the job (part of the agreement was he would train me in exchange for a "soft landing" when he is ultimately terminated. I'm not sure what "soft landing" means, but I'm guessing healthy severance package, and I've heard mention of allowing him to come back part-time during his off seasons -- he's made no secret of the fact he's looking for a "Plan B" job in teaching)

We've been working together/training for going on two months now, and despite being told that I'm going to take the lead on a given project, still tries to maintain himself as the client contact -- a couple days ago we were on the jobsite, and while I was packing up my truck, he was going to drive over to the contractor and visit with him about the project progress. He wasn't real happy with me when I jumped in the truck with him and said "Okay, I'll go along."

It's also really starting to piss me off that he's been rather...lacking...in his site inspection work for the past several years, and now I'm having to be the hard@$$ with the contractor to fix things that "<coworker> never said anything about before"

 

[yyvjpv]

but you live in Canada. isn't the nearest person at least 3 hours away?

Haha, touche. And I do all my lagering in my own personal igloo!

 

[SupervisingChildren]

They wait until the last minute to call off so you have no options for coverage, then I get screwed into working. Rather pissed off right now.

 

[DrunkleJon]

They passively aggressively decide to stop working since other coworkers do not do anything and as a result make for more work for the rest of us.

They work so ineptly because they know that they are kinda untouchable and management is rather toothless with them that anything the do actually causes more work for the rest of us to un-f*ck than if they did nothing at all.

 

[Beernik]

The staffing in our section is down from 10.5 FTEs to 7.5 FTEs and there is no plan to fill a vacancy before December.

My boss's job has finally been filled after 6 months. The email announcing it was basically an explanation of why I didn't get the job. It's all right, though, I know I'm not the favorite son and if the other guy applied that it would be his to lose.

But that means I get to spend the next 6 months having to continue teaching him the financial aspects of our program of which he knows very little.

 

[paulster2626]

guy beside me slurps his 3pm coffee every day. seriously, slurping? **** off.

 

[gratus fermentatio]

It's bad enough that somebody stinks up the men's room at about the same time every day, but if you're going to stink it up, then LEAVE THE DAMNED FAN ON!!! Don't let that horrid stink waft out into the rest of the bldg, informing EVERYONE that something crawled up your ass & died; and you just left it in the men's room for EVERYONE to enjoy. Thank you soooooo much for sharing that bit of effluvia with us all. And yet I'm the bad guy for throwing empty herring tins in the trash instead of taking them outside to the dumpster.

And to those of you who like to start the day off by dousing yourselves with aftershave, STOP IT! I can identify you from the stench of your aftershave from 30 ft away; when you get any closer, it makes my eyes water. Just a quick FYI: those Axe commercials aren't real, you won't get elevator sex because you smell that way, it's ADVERTISING.
End rant. Regards, GF.

 

[bobo31]

I am with you on the aftershave and cologne thing. No one wants to smell your Justin Bieber cologne

 

[drainbamage]

It's bad enough that somebody stinks up the men's room at about the same time every day, but if you're going to stink it up, then LEAVE THE DAMNED FAN ON!!! Don't let that horrid stink waft out into the rest of the bldg, informing EVERYONE that something crawled up your ass & died; and you just left it in the men's room for EVERYONE to enjoy. Thank you soooooo much for sharing that bit of effluvia with us all. And yet I'm the bad guy for throwing empty herring tins in the trash instead of taking them outside to the dumpster.

Consider yourself lucky you even have a fan in yours. We sometimes have a bottle of Lysol in the stall. Sometimes.

 

[fsr_racer]

Lady who is a year away from retiring and completely checked out. 45 minute morning breaks, hour lunches and checks out early for the afternoon break. Never lifts a finger to help anyone else when she has no files to work on, yet we are expected to drop everything to help her when she's out for a day or two. Not to mention the 6 months she had off last year for recovering from surgeries. (Insurance underwriter)

Edit:
Forgot to add that she works the 7-330 shift, yet schedules all appointments, hair cuts, and movie dates for around 1:30.

Also, while the manager was on vacation, came into work on Friday for 45 minutes then left for the weekend so she didnt have to use a vacation day.

I have one of those, and she isn't even close to retirement. Eats more for lunch than I eat in a day and just can't understand why she feels bloated all the time with high cholesterol. Has absolutely NO sick leave on the books, but is being allowed to go in the hole (still gets paid) for a MONTH while the doctor adjusts her medication. Perfect timing since we are about to receive several new laptops that she would have to get set up and ready for use. Sorry, but if you eat 2 bags of chips, a 600cal 30gm fat honey bun, then order Jimmy Johns extra large sub w/ double meat & cheese AND more chips & cookie, then chase it all down with the super size DIET soda... Your a dumba**, and I don't want to hear about you feeling bloated and having 400+ cholesterol.

Oh, and the woman behind me needs to cover her mouth when she's hacking. I'm not a germaphobe, but the sound makes my skin crawl.

 

[Grannyknot]

Those people who like to lead you on a wild goose chase every chance they get......

 

[BreezyBrew]

Or how about when you end up working weeks or months on a project only to get it cancelled.

 

[number40fan]

My co-worker is just a lazy F&*(. Can't clean up after himself. Can't start and finish a job without playing on his phone, taking a break or talking to anyone that is willing to listen to him. Sad to say, but we used to be good friends. Now, I don't even talk to him. Too dumb to even know why! Oh well. Have my beer to keep me company. 5:00 yet?

 

[Accidic]

I actually get along great with my immediate peer co-workers. We're all very similar in behavior, work ethic, and our quirks offset.

As for non-immediate peers... Oh dear god. People who ask you to explain something to which you do so three different ways and you know in the back of your head they're clueless. So then the supervisors come to you for guidance because the garbage they're being fed is nonsensical and you clear it up for all but one but it creates a screaming tantrum by the other person because you made them understand and they were supposed to. After all, I like redoing my job over and over and over because you fail at yours. Don't even get me started on the micromanagers, or the people who don't understand why you don't just snap your fingers and make things outside your job just magically happen. Oh, and how easy every little thing is of course. Nothing like being taken for granted. And that's just the tip of the iceberg...

 

[jhoneycutt]

Apparently someone was my supervisor and never bothered to tell me until he realized he wasn't getting any credit for all the work done around here. Now that we've went through alot of frustration over this new found fact he tries desperately to tell me how to do my job all the time yet is clueless. I was hired directly into this job because of my years of experience and knowledge. Basically I'm the subject matter expert here. Now he constantly is left wandering why nothing gets done as quickly or at all when we do things his way all the time and constantly tries to blame things on me or my workers.... Some people