What types of people at work annoy you?

The ones that really get on my nerves are the constant bitchers and whiners.

Granted, we all bitch about a project, boss or coworker on occasion.

The type I'm referring to are the negative ones who suck the air out of the room with their CONSTANT fault-finding, complaining and wringing of hands.

How about taking all that energy and channel it into DOING you freaking job!

Pretty much don't like them.

The one that NEVER shuts up, butts in on other people's conversations, and is very, very nosy. And those are her GOOD qualities!

That's too quiet to be her.


LOL - the new guy (Ralph) says if you hear her go *sharp intake of breath* you'd better RUN or you're stuck there indefinitely. :rofl:

I want to spend SOME time with you. :rofl:

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and co-workers who pretend to be busting their humps, but in reality, do an hours worth of work, in a 8hr shift....usually both are 1 in the same.

Currently my wife, has a severe dislike for one of her co-workers, and she fits the criteria above, plus; is a busybody know it all, who likes to know all your business, and share it with everyone else....and to boot, she cannot even do her own job...and constantly needs other people to fix mistakes.

I've got a pair that go on about this all day long. And we're all in one room together. Feel my pain. They also pray for snow days and spend half the day gossiping, bitching, and talking about their physical ailments. Someone, rescue me! Send me my own office, with a big thick door -- please!!

is the same as Lionel Richie's daughter and her last name is the same as the leader of Syria's. She annoys the ever-living shit out of me.

She *looks* for reasons to bitch, gripe, moan and complain. She'll take any little incident and act like it is affecting her and her alone and make a freaking scene over it whether it involves her or not.

Last summer she was on stress leave for 5 weeks because someone else at work walked out and quit one day. She made such a scene that she had several of us ready to go to management. Some of us actually *did* go to management. Her bitching and complaining, along with another couple of factors, sent me into a mental meltdown and I was off work with a nervous breakdown for three months.

NOW her majesty is off work *again* on a medical leave because of supposed carpal tunnel. Rumor has it that Blue Cross denied her disability claim. She was supposed to come back to work 2 weeks ago but hasn't shown up. I'm hoping that she never does.

It a hell of a lot more peaceful without her.

Edited to add: And she'd be constantly *not* doing her work and the rest of us would have to work doubly hard to keep up with the work load. She would be too busy flirting with guys that had no interest in her whatsoever.

Our sales person is a really big suck up. If the boss ever stopped walking abruptly this guys whole head would go up his ass.

They're not really helping. They're just in the way. :mad:

:mad: :grr: I'm currently dealing with that in my office. I had to kick some collective ass on Friday. I think they know now it won't work with me. :P

Mr. Radio Voice guy, who is the most artificial person I've ever met, thinks Ted Nugent s an awesome guy, and still votes Republican, and brags about it. What a DICK.

Then, the two-faced BITCH who sits in an office right near me, talks really gushingly sweet to and about people when they're right there, but then I hear her get on the phone to others (and she never closes her door), and badmouth them while I'm sitting right there. She is going to be the major reason I quit when I leave.

Did I mention she serves an HR purpose in this job? One where confidentiality about employees is paramount. I hope they get sued because of her. :eyes:

Of course, there's a bunch more. Those that screw off all day and then get painted as the martyr b/c they "stay so late."

more people annoy me than not, but i know that's because i'm not too happy with my job right now

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That's what I was going to say. It seems like there's one at every place. I hate 'em. They take all the fun out of work.

And yes there is one in every place. I'm dealing with one myself. She better watch it because she is far from Ms. Perfect.

prolesunited , you must have read my mind because I wanted to start this topic earlier but I said ahh what the hell its the weekend.

Well at my job I currently only have only 7 other co-workers. Everyone is fine except for Mr.PMSGrumpierThanThou-IWillTellTheManagerOnYouBecauseIAmAKissNoLife-Don'tKnowShitAndIfYouAskMeSomethingIDon'TKnowTheAnswerBecauseIAmTooBusySnitchingToDoMyJob.I could go on and on ...

I went off on this guy one night at work. Now I can handle jokes - but there are a couple of areas where I don't let people go into , my personal life and my job performance. MrPMS had an audience of three other co-workers and he played with fire making me the butt of his joke saying that I don't do anything,all I do is sit there every night - Ahhh hell no - I told him " The only person who should worry about my work performance is my manager and myself , therefore what I do at work is none of your damn business" - Everyone in the breakroom was in shock - " ooh she told you!" was what someone told him ---- Don't mess me. If I don't crack jokes on you , don't crack jokes on me. This is the type of guy who can talk shit to everyone else, but when someone says something to him, he runs straight to the manager.

When you tell him something he gets a hissy fit like a big ass baby. We had a winter storm and our manager wanted to make sure he had all of our telephone numbers in case work was closed. My manager asked me to tell everyone to see him before they went home. I went and told Mr.PMS that our manager wanted to see him before he went home - as usual a hissyfit for no damn reason. I told him " ahhh hush! He wants to make sure he has your telephone number in case work is closed !" - Everything is so fucking bad or either too much for him. I hate people who want to bring everyone down with their moods. Sometimes he comes to work and sits there before our meetings and says to himself " I don't want to be here." We get so sick of hearing that shit so I said " Why don't you quit then ?" So many people who need jobs can't have them but this idiot has one and he does'nt want to come to work.

One of our co-workers got a new job in a new department within our company so the other night we all took a picture so that she can put on her desk. He comes down the stairs "I don't take pictures." - Another co-worker of mine told him " You can go back to work, nobody is going to beg you to be in the picture." I pretty much ignore him but if he says something to me again I am going to tell his ass off in front of everybody. Believe me I have been storing up stuff to say but I am nice. Anytime someone has something wrong in a report he feels the need to tell everyone so and so made a mistake but when he hears that he made a mistake, he cries and has a hissydamn fit and goes home in a bad mood - the rest of us are laugh because it makes no sense for a person to act like that at his age . Get the hell out of here. We have found that the mistakes that we supposedly made are not our fault - its his fault because instead of working and doing what he was doing, he was watching what we were doing so that he can snitch. Mr.PMS is the co-worker that I can't stand so I just put him on ignore.

If you think about it, his own misery is punishment for him enough. You only have to put up with him for short period. He has to live with himself all of the time.

Those who dish out the taunts and the teasing and the insults all day but can't take them in return. At this one place I worked one time there was this girl that made fun of everybody from the minute she arrived. She made fun of one guy because he still lived with his parents, to his face. The guy was a recovering alcoholic and he almost quit because he was so embarrassed about it. She made fun of people if they were overweight. She was, unfortunately, very pretty, so she made fun of everyone that wasn't as good looking as her. Finally one night I'd had enough of her insults after she told me that my girlfriend was ugly, and I inquired about her husband.

"What kind of sick bastard would be married to you? Do you keep him chained up in the closet like the gimp in Pulp Fiction?" I asked her. Now, I have nothing against kinky sex, and I actually meant the comment as a sort of light hearted jab. I didn't say it in a mean or angry way. But she literally freaked the hell out. She started screaming at me that I was a loser in high school and had no friends (which wasn't true, but like that was even relevant to the present situation), that no one at work liked me (which again wasn't true, it was her that no one liked) and that how dare I speak to her like that. I then went on to tell her that she dished out the taunts all day long, but she sure as hell couldn't take them when they were thrown back at her.

Well, that basically shut her up for awhile, until I found out a few days later she had accused me of sexual harassment to the agency that sent us out to this job. I was about to be disciplined for that, which to me was a severe slap in the face, but fortunately several other people complained about her to the same agency and backed me up, so all I got was a little talking to about the inappropriate nature of my comment. I quit the job shortly after that, not because of these incidents per se but rather just the fact that it was a shitty work environment that allowed things like this to go on all the time and management didn't do anything about it. Sometimes, work can just really suck.

OR the people who get into meetings and suddenly start asking really stupid, obvious questions, and start making everything a lot more complicated that they are. "Yes, Kristen, you freaking dolt, there's a difference between the 100% we just acquired from another company and the ones we've already closed out." And she's always talking to her husband, who lives in Montana, on the phone making kissy noises, and I swear one of these days I'm going to walk over and vomit right in front of her. DO YOUR WORK, SHUT UP, and QUIT BOTHERING THE REST OF US. And in order to blow your nose, you do NOT have to blow it for all it's worth and sound like a freaking fog horn. GO TO THE BATHROOM if you want to do that.
THAT is the person who annoys the shit out of my everyday at work. I can even hear the idiot blowing her schnauz over my IPOD that I have purposely turned up ALL THE WAY. :grr: and there's nothing I can freaking do about any of it.
Duckie

Disclaimer : I know that I don't know everything ...

But I think there are some people who get drugged before coming to work because some people ask some of the most stupid questions - totally clueless. Don't know anything that is going on. I put my iPod on and leave it on until I get to my car. And like you there is nothing that I can do about it lol.

We have one who is pathologically obsessed with the notion that everything has to be written in exactly a certain way, that way having been determined by him (though he's not a manager and he has no authority to make these determinations). He really went overboard, in a weird passive-aggressive way, when he responded to a co-worker's e-mail by complaining that it used *the wrong fucking font,* saying something to the effect that: "You should keep in mind that X Corp. only uses non-serifed fonts. We use only Arial 10 in email correspondence, not Times New Roman as you used. Just a friendly reminder." Actually, there is no such policy; the guy pulled it out of his own ass. And ever since, we've been intentionally using every font except Arial 10, hoping to yank his chain good and hard. Dude drives me nuts; wish he'd just STFU and do his job (which has nothing to do with regulating other people's e-mail styles.)

i don't want to hear all about your husband's 2nd cousin who's face lift went bad

:banghead:

Oh wait, I don't work out of the house...

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I guess it'd have to be the types of people that breathe on a regular basis. I've been at the new job for two weeks now and I'm already fed up with trying to be manipulated into the snitty little political shit going down all the time. Arrogant-ass workers from China, and India who pretend to be vastly knowledgeable about a subject, and give you a shitty attitude when you call them out on something. Jabba-the-Hut type men and women who've been there 20+ years, threatened by my presence because I was hired to do a job they aren't capable of doing. I'm fed up with being told three different things by three different people, all of which conflict with each other. I'm fed up with not doing the job I was hired to do. Everyone's apparently my boss. I need to go to work for myself, and soon. I'm getting too old to put up with small-time shit anymore. When I was young, I'd just take it with a smile, but these days, it just wears me out...

Especially ones who state that the reason that they do not care is because they are not paid enough.
Darn it, when I was making $6.50/hour at a fast food restaurant six years ago, I cared about every single order that I took and handed over to the customer. If they cannot care about doing their jobs right, they don't deserve to have jobs.
I know that probably sounds elitist. I know that they don't get paid well and there are issues with managment. I am responsible for quality control at the plant though as well as research and development and I cannot be everywhere at once. I have to rely on people being willing to do their jobs right. I get frustrated that some of them don't care if they are doing their jobs right.

My job deals with a lot of accountability - and I really believe that some of these people should not have been hired - because they don't give a damn. We are responsible for making sure that everything that is there (I try not to give too much away about what I do and where I work so bear with me lol) is supposed to be there , and if something is missing find where it is , and why it did'nt get to where it needed to go. Lately when I get to work, I am very quiet , and I HIDE - because I get tired of answering questions that people should know about. But I shut up and smile :)

in my last incarnation as a corporate travel agent, in an office of 12 agents on-site at Rotary International World Headquarters- i billed more revenue than the other 11 agents combined. i quit when i was passed over for a promotion after being told that i was too valuable on the floor as an agent- and that a 3% raise was the highest the company would allow without a promotion.

Because then I have to keep an eye on them, and then their work becomes my work too.

polluting the entire floor with that smell

once with popcorn, and once I was defrosting something. :rofl:

Weird thing was, at the time I was our area's fire warden. :hide:

1) The lazy and incompetent ones: they screw up things all the time but somehow never get held accountable for their actions, others are. They usually have some flake in management willing to walk through fire for them, for some unknown reason. They'll get placed in your area because no one else in the department wants them in theirs.

2) The drama queens- have an inflated sense of their own importance. Usually are outwardly friendly when you agree with them, but can turn vicious when you don't. Feels the need to talk loudly and play music loudly as well because management is a little scared of them and won't tell them to shut the @#$@#$ up.

3) the know it all nose pickers who need to ask you questions all the time even though you spent a whole summer training them: sometimes can be seen staring at fellow co-workers whilst picking their nose. "yup, yup, yup, yup, yup.....knows what you are talking about what needs to still ask you all the time........

4) The "flip" artist- is just too flip for their own good. Thinks they know everything and has a major attitude that when displayed to customers, makes the WHOLE department look bad. You've been there 10 years longer than they have, and you have experience to boot, but they've been on the job 6 months and they know EVERYTHING. Just EVERYTHING.
They don't.......but they don't care because they had bad childhoods and need to take it out on everybody. Has pictures up on her desk of all the afterhours drunken parties she and some fellow co-workers went to. They aren't your friends, lamebrain.

5) The martyr : The "my job is my cross to bear" types. Won't change their jobs or try to change their situation, but will keep griping about the same people/same siuation for years. LEAVE because you DO have the opportunity, you just don't want to take it.

6) The person who just doesn't get it : doesn't see that her situation wasn't 1/100 as bad as it was for the previous people who left that section. Thinks her boss is just great anyways. Doesn't see that the reason people left was because of that same boss. Geez.

I hate when my nap is disturbed for that.

They annoy the crap out of me, since I'm one of the bitchers and whiners. LOL

but you would absolutely hate me. In fact, I have an entire work history of annoying the bitchers and whiners. I just figure out how to get things done, usually with a smile on my face. Bosses love me (although I'm no ass kisser or flatterer), co-workers, for the most part, not so much.

I have learned over a long career to keep the bitchin' to myself and to do what I'm told. That doesn't mean I have to like it or agree with it.... but no one is really interested in my opinion. Just do your job, is my philosphy. Honestly!

I am new at my job. Very new. And my job includes a ton of paperwork. I must have 50 emails from people saying that there is a long learning curves and that everyone makes mistakes on the paperwork because there is so much of it. The deadlines come fast, so as a new hire, do your best to get everything in on time. They will walk you through your mistakes and help you in any way they can.

Well, I made an error on some legal documents. Nothing that can't be fixed, but I did. And I didn't try and hide it either. I was upfront- ok, I messed up, what can I do to fix it? They said do X, Y and Z. So, I put everything else on hold and did X, Y and Z immediately. I scanned the documents and emailed them for inspection to be sure it was all done fine. No big deal.

We all work from home, so email and the telephone is basically our connection to one another. My direct adviser is suppose to be the one I deal with on a daily basis. I take everything to her and she brings everything to me. Everything gets cc:'d to the director and the person who trains everyone (although I'm not exactly sure why the trainer gets cc:'d.) Anyway, the director called to be sure I was ok and that I saw my errors. I said I did and I was sorry I caused people extra work. She said no problem, the person who caught my errors was fine with it and said that is what being new is all about and not to give anything a second thought.

And now suddenly, our "trainer" has decided to reopen the closed case. There are emails flying all over the place about my error, and I'm not really sure why. It really has nothing to do with her. My adviser has moved on. My director has moved on. The poor person who caught my error has moved on. I've moved on. Yet, somehow, we're back at it again. And she has taken a very snippy tone toward me. While it is email and tone is not necessarily a given, I can just feel the hatefulness dripping from her words.

There is a system in place at my work that three people look over all the paperwork. It is their job to find our errors and have us make the corrections. I had to go back and redo some of the work. I missed the deadline, but it wasn't by much and I made the corrections within 24 hours, much faster than they anticipated.

I do get the sense that the "trainer" never has been very wild about me. I don't think she despises me. Maybe she doesn't even realize how she comes across, almost like an unconscious dislike. I can't name you one particular thing and say "There! That proves it!' And maybe she's just passive aggressive. I can certainly see that quality in her, as well.

Bear with me here while I go into some detail about the "trainer." She is a bit frumpy. Her hair is always frizzy and pulled back. She dresses a bit sloppy. She could be quite lovely. And she has the cutest little figure and a beautiful color of red hair. but it seems she doesn't care anymore. She is married to a struggling actor who looks damn good. He's very handsome and very well put together. He always look appropriately dressed and has perfect hair. It's not really a obvious match. Now, I'm not elevating myself here and saying I am the defining model of all women. When I'm working from home, I don't doll myself up. But when I leave the home for a work-related function, I do dress appropriately. I style my hair and dress like a professional. Not stuffy, but a bit together. She has made some comment about how she doesn't know what to wear with what. She has scoffed at her own frizzy hair. I offered that I use Frizz-Ease to tame my curls. I don't walk up to her and say "Honey, that hair? No way."

I have to wonder if she has created some impression of me that isn't true and has something against me. I know it sounds silly and petty, but I have done nothing to this person and I get this cold-shoulder treatment that I can't figure out. I hope it is something else that I can do different and fix because this kind of stuff is silly and petty and what can I do?

a two-fer that drives me fookin' crazy.

At the job I'm currently at, I think they think it's ok to pry about your personal life because we all work from home, so therefore, it is considered the workplace. :eyes:

I'm getting real tired of updating them on my mother-in-laws health. Although since they know she's ill, they cut me some slack. But now it feels like I'm using her to get off the hook. That totally isn't true, but this whole situation is so annoying anyway (see my prior post) what the hell difference does it make anyway? :eyes;

:P

We have a guy here, whom I was friendly to when I first started, but I soon realized that he is one of those people who can't recognize a natural END to a conversation and just KEEPS TALKING. And if he can't talk to you, he'll find someone else.

But he'll HOVER over my cube while I'm working thinking we're still talking, even if I turn and try to busy myself with work. I finally have to put on my IPOD before he takes the hint and leaves!

But go around talking and complaining about how hard they work while everyone else is taking up their slack.

People who are always late (I work in a grocery store - when the checker is late, it screws everyone else up because instead of stocking my shelves, I end up checking).

People who call in sick on weekends and holidays all the time - nothing against people who are legitimately sick or even those who want to blow off a day now and then. But I hate the people who deliberately call in sick on the busiest days - they're usually the same ones profiled in my first paragraph.

And yes, I agree about the negative types. We have those, too and they're a major downer.

One is the parent who will not stop talking about how great their son or daughter is and their accomplishments.

every single day. One sounds like she's retarded (constantly snorting when she laughs) and the other has a high pitched voice and sounds like a 10 year old girl. They are both churchies who constantly, loudly talk about how misled other people are in their life choices. They both can't say good morning to me without asking me about my appearance (did you get a haircut? did you get new shoes?) and if I'm feeling ok. If I get a snack from the break room they demand to know what it is as I'm taking it back to my desk. I can be sitting at my computer, working away and sneeze.. and the older one yells "BLESS YOU!" so loud the entire building can hear it. At first it wasn't a big deal, then I started whispering FUCK YOU under my breath, now it's almost unhealthy because I try to suppress my sneezes so as not to hear her little "prayer" for me.

Neither of them know anything about their computers and I constantly have to show them things over and over again like how to save files. The younger one is so ignorant and paranoid that she thinks computer viruses are constantly in her computer. One day she came into my office with fear stricken face and proceeded to tell me how the Microsoft Office Assistant, Clippy.. was sticking his tongue out at her and she was convinced there was a virus in her machine. No joke. They keep the front office at about 80 degrees constantly, plus have space heaters under their desks. When they ask me to work on their computers I always tell them to turn off the space heaters and come back in 15 minutes because I won't even sit in their chairs when the damn 10 foot space around their desk is 100 plus degrees.

The counter in the bathroom is very small and for some fruitloop reason they've decided to keep their dumbbells on it. I don't know if they go in to the shitter and sit on the toilet while doing arm curls or what. I have moved them across the room to on top of the lockers before, within 10 minutes they are back. They seem to think that I need their advice on getting pregnant too, which is about the most annoying thing of all. Add it all up and I really, REALLY hate going to work in the morning.

I know, it could be worse.. but it leaves me frazzled.

sticking his tongue out at her? :rofl:

that is a classic. :)

they totally suck. Almost as bad as managers. And human resources. The janitorial staff are usually pretty cool though.

There is one guy around my work place who is the biggest food glutton I've ever seen. Once a week, one of our co-workers brings in a box of donuts for the office. Now this is ONE box of donuts for 55 people. Most people don't partake and those who do, only take one donut or half of a donut in the interest of sharing.

NOT the office glutton! He will take one, two, three, however many donuts he can get away with. Good Grief! He just doesn't give a shit about taking more than his share, nor does he understand how rude it is.

He'll come to lunch meetings that are only for certain departments and partake of the free lunch that was provided for that department. My snack has disappeared from the refrigerator more than once.

There are many other qualities about this co-worker that are beyond irritating, but I will spare you the full rant. Just to summarize, he does the following: interjects himself into situations he does not belong in and tries to act like an expert, is threatened by the new people who have been hired, makes inappropriate jokes and comments, is generally clueless.

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I have to tell her to take just one until everyone else has had a change to get a donut. The girl will stuff her face if you turn around long enough. And she's the stereo-typical fat girl. She's ugly, stupid, rude, and has no manners at all.
Duckie

Who is so used to talking to three years olds that she speaks to everyone that way.

I'm not looking forward to work tomorrow. :-(

I need a new job....

No matter what you do. No matter where you are. They will find you and talk at you.

and those "smiling faces"

If I click over to a web page: "Why are you looking there?"

If I go to my bag: "What are you looking for?"

If I get up to leave the room: "Where are you going?"

If I go to get something to eat: "What are you going to eat?"

On most days I just laugh it off, but on days when I am not in the best mood, very little stands in the way of me shoving her out the window. She means well, and is generally curious, but some days....