I have one male coworker that I can't fucking stand. I KNOW he will be the first one to make an assy comment about my outfit, hair, whatever. He will throw anyone/everyone under the bus and 99.9% of the time it's HIS OWN FUCKING FAULT and blames everyone else.
He just came over and asked me if I saved a scrap of paper he gave me last week with some scribbles on it. I responded that I had cleaned my desk and sorry I didn't have it anymore. He started in on a lecture about how he NEEDED it, and now what was he going to do? Uh, maybe tell me that you want it back, or it's important or something? I DON'T FUCKING CARE DUDE. I turned around and started typing something else. No matter what he says/does he pisses me off every single day. Totally BEC territory.
I work with a teacher who hates the kids and teaching, and I generally want to punch her in the face on a daily basis (during the school year). I exerted a LOT of energy this year trying to talk her into leaving teaching. We do not make enough money to hang on to this job, crazy, and (MORE IMPORTANTLY) you are killing kids' spirits. Terrible classroom management, then blames the kids. Probably racist. GAH. I could go on, but I'm getting pissed off just thinking about it.
I almost quit in 2012 because of a woman I had to work with. I've talked about her before. Does little to no work, complains about everything - and I mean everything, is generally miserable 99.9% of the time, blathers on her cell phone (after she was repeatedly talked to about personal calls on her work phone) to her grown ass sons multiple times per day, yells and swears at people, and just generally inflicts misery and anger on everyone around her.
I got promoted at the beginning of 2013 (oooh, was she pissed, as I'd been here the shortest amount of time out of the three of us in the department), and now my office is on the opposite side of the building. I cannot tell you how much that improved my work life.
I used to work with this woman I called Stanky. She retired a few months ago.
She was super annoying in many ways.
She smelled like concentrated cigarette smoke. She had long red hair down to her butt that she would swing and dip into food. She never contributed to potlucks or gift exchanges, but she would take stuff.
She was just crotchety and weird. Glad she retired.
Coworker who sees herself as the person who has inside information/the real picture/special contacts on everything, when really, she runs around having stupid little side discussions with everyone that then have to be re-discussed with the whole group. Or she leaves people out of emails/meetings that they legitimately should be included in and tells them she'll fill them in later, but then doens't really understand what was being discussed and so leaves out important details in the telling. And so on. So really just totally fucking up communication, and annoying the everloving crap out of everyone.
About 75 years old, probably been smoking for 60 years. She stinks, she smells like a dirty ashtray. You can tell that she's been in the back stairwell recently because it smells like smoke, even if there's no one there. I have witnessed people speed walking to get in front of her so they aren't stuck in her smoke stench going up the stairs. She has so much crap in her lungs that you almost dry heave listening to her cough in the morning. Her skin is a grey-ish yellow, she really looks unhealthy.
My current coworkers are pretty great, but my last job was full of terrible people who would treat people like crap and talk behind your back. The worst was a drafter who wore workout shorts and a hoodie every day and smelled like he never showered. I would send drawings back to him and get them back with footprints all over them. When confronted by the boss about it, he said that he stomped all over people's drawings in order to get his anger out instead of punching them. Surprisingly, he was not fired on the spot. Not surprisingly, I have left the company.
S contributed literally nothing. Most days he would show up for just a few hours and sleep at his desk or stream ESPN live, or just not do any work at all.
One day, he didn't show up. No call in for being sick. Nothing.
I had a friend that was a supervisor pull up his timecard electronically and the little fucker had charged 9 hours that day.
In my current position (almost 9 years) I don't "hate" anyone.
My previous job there was a woman I despised. She was two years older than I, but she acted like a "mean girl" from junior high. She would whisper about me to a couple of our other co-workers who were also mean girls. I complained to my supervisor and he told me to handle it myself. If I had done that, it would have made things worse...guarantee...so I just suffered in silence. I was being bullied and it really got me down. It later lead to AD's because it got so bad.
She had a hard-on for me for years, but eventually I moved to a different higher paying position--we still worked in the accounting department, but at least I was no longer sitting next to her and I didn't have to listen to the whispering. So things got better.
After I left there, and after DH had passed away, I saw her at the grocery store. In the past she would quickly turn her head and not speak to her, but since we were no longer co-workers, she acknowledged me and we chatted a bit. As I walked away, I realized my hatred had gone away. What a relief.
"Why would you ruin perfectly good peanuts by adding candy corn? That's like saying hey, I have these awesome nachos, guess I better add some dryer lint." - Nonny
I can honestly say that there is not a soul here that annoys me. There have been in earlier years, but the annoying people seem to get driven out of here pretty fast haha. I have been here over 8 years now and most of my team have been here close to that!
One of the ladies I works with wears leggings as pants. I bet I can count on one hand the number of times I have seen her wear real pants. It is maddening to me. Some of them are not as opaque as they should be. And she plays around online all damn day long. She doesn't even try to hide it. But when you ask her to help you with something all of a sudden she is super busy.
Post by mariafromnj on Jun 23, 2014 13:11:11 GMT -5
I work with a 61 year old woman who basically has checked out and is waiting for retirement. She refuses big projects and always has an excuse why her work isn't done. She has come out to me and others saying that she just needs to get bye for a few more years. As if that wasnt' bad enough, her life is full of drama.
Last Oct. the man she has been living with for 15 years tried to throw her out of the house because and here is his quote "as you know there have been other woman over the years but I found one I want to be my girlfriend so can't be. When can you move out because I want her to move in". She completely falls apart. She spends weeks crying then weeks on the phone with lawyers and friends trying to get her shit figured out. Feb. He tells her the other woman left him and they should get back together. Now she spends hours on end talking to him and telling anyone who will listen how wonderful her man is.
The rest of the team has to pick up and finish her work.
We don't work together any more but she was so hot and cold, one day she would talk to me and the next day she'd only speak Spanish and ignore me. It was so bizarre
Hmmm...the coworker who has made me the most insane ever in my life was one with whom I shared an office as a paralegal for about a year, before I got my own office (when he continued to annoy me).
1. He was a snarfer. All day long, sucking up snot. GET A FUCKING TISSUE AND BLOW OUT NOT IN.
2. He was an insufferable hipster before hipster was a thing. "Oh, you don't have Belle and Sebastian's prelabel work? Recorded from concerts they gave at a basement bar in Prague?"
3. He used to open up westlaw to search things, and then just walk away from his computer. And our contract with them was on a per-minute basis, so if you weren't actively clicking around after a minute, it would start beeping at you. Until it logged you off. After 5 minutes.
4. He thought he was too good for the job and sooooo unchallenged. Guess what motherfucker? WE ALL ARE.
5. We were applying to law school at the same time. He smugly told me his LSAT score. Mine was higher. I didn't say anything but "congratulations." So he asked me my score. I told him. He flipped out "NO WAY!!!" I found out later he went around behind my back asking anyone if they'd seen documentation of my score because he was convinced I was lying. I mean, my score was good but if I was going to lie I'd have said I got a 180.
I used to work with this woman I called Stanky. She retired a few months ago.
She was super annoying in many ways.
She smelled like concentrated cigarette smoke. She had long red hair down to her butt that she would swing and dip into food. She never contributed to potlucks or gift exchanges, but she would take stuff.
She was just crotchety and weird. Glad she retired.
Post by prettyinpearls on Jun 23, 2014 13:19:17 GMT -5
I don’t hate him, but there’s a manager I work with who makes my skin crawl. He fills up a tiny Dixie cup at the water cooler, slurps it, and goes “Ahhhh” as he’s walking past my desk back to his office. He does this multiple times a day. He’s also ::that:: coworker who will send you an email and then come over to your desk to say “Hey, did you see the email I sent you about XYZ?” before it’s even had a chance to pop up in my Outlook. He comes and goes as he pleases. He passed the buck ALL THE TIME when it comes to work. He’s fake nice to everyone he talks to. He’ll forward me an email wanting me to take care of something and I reply back with the email I sent 2 weeks ago confirming the work was done. Yeah….
At my old job my assistant drove me nuts! All she did was talk about herself. EVERYTHING came back to her. She had all these aliments was allergic to chocolate (but ate it anyway), and all around annoying. When I announced I was pregnant, I discovered (working on her computer for something and her email was open. She had a duel monitor) that she wrote her husband something like. "Guess who's pregnant? *myname*" Her husband wrote back..."of COURSE she is!" That was all wtf because a) I was older than her. b) I was married longer than her. So I guess the feelings were mutual.
My CW thinks she is very important and needs to spend all day at her computer on Facebook or doing her homework processing rentals according to an arbitrary system, but gets very upset when the students interact/take instruction from me lab because I am on my feet working with them, not hiding behind a computer.
Post by delawarejen on Jun 23, 2014 13:33:41 GMT -5
I have 2 current ones. They giggle all damn day long. Yes, like they're small children. Business calls, personal calls, doesn't matter. They're constantly yelling over the wall, socializing with everyone instead of working, and I swear they mishear things just so they can giggle. They have cubes next to each other and they call each other on the phone. Thank goodness for the introduction of the IM'ing software so sometimes it's just typing and giggling instead of yelling and giggling. Also - cubicle walls are not soundproof. If you're 3 feet away from me I can hear you. They're 37 and 45.
I used to have one who has since retired. She was a nasty witch who thought the world should bow down and kiss her feet because she was over 60. She was responsible for a supervisor getting demoted, she bullied a coworker into retiring early, and she just stopped doing her job the last few months because her son told her it would make everyone appreciate how much work she did?! (She paid invoices, it's not a difficult job. And we didn't need everyone putting us on credit hold either...)
There's one in the next department who is annoying but I would hate if I had to work with her. She spends the day scrapbooking and putting the pages on her cubicle walls (all stuff about how awesome she is), texting, taking 2 hour lunches, walking the halls and bitching at her boyfriend, goofing off, and can't seem to grasp simple concepts even after 7 years. She's 32 and I can't imagine dealing with her for 30+ more years. (Oh, and she can't manage to follow the dress code. She always looks like she was going to the gym.)
Ok, really I could go on all day, but after this I'm done...
This dude has the biggest attitude problem ever, and I'm not the only person who actively hates him.
There are 22 males in my department, and I am the only female. So I believe he's especially a dick to me because I am a woman AND he thinks he's smarter than me.
Not hate but really can't handle the negative nellies that are always bitching about work. Social work is stressful but when you get to the point you exude nothing but negativity it is time to evaluate yourself.
Post by BunnyMacDougal on Jun 23, 2014 13:53:52 GMT -5
Fellow teacher. Gawd. She's an enigma.
Half of her is a name-dropping desperado who "knows" the "influential parents and grandparents" "personally" and the other half is a sicko who will talk to ANYONE about the ejaculating penises she finds drawn on stuff. (We had a kid drawing them in people's notebooks and textbooks last year.) She would bring up either the "influential people" or the gd penises anytime I was around her.
She's also very inconsiderate. When we have field trips or assemblies the first email reply from her is ALWAYS the status of her planning period break with whatever schedules are proposed. Not if its intact, I mean...but that it will be shortened or eliminated that day. Everybody loses his or her break to this stuff sometimes. Its a craps shoot and it evens out. But if hers is in danger of being even reduced by half, she must make everyone aware of it.
She did this ANNOYING ASS board game activity in her social studies class. Sounded like a neat concept really, but she fucking killed me with it. All year. Kids make up a board game to learn some event...and make two sets of game board/pieces with craft stuff (poster board size). Then they play the games when they get to the units. But she made the kids keep these things in their homerooms. I had that shit all over my room all gd year.
She also uses a majority of the time teaching note-taking skills with her social studies - so the kids hate the daily class for the most part. They gripe and I had to chase them to it after lunch every single day. "awwwww....I haaaate social studies......".
I use to work with a lady who generally hated the kids and teaching. She did everything she could to get out of teaching them, often leaving them alone with her assistant while she was "testing" and I once saw her making them keep their hands held over their heads as a punishment. These were 3 and 4 year olds.
She was also a born again Christian who asked me flat out what religion H is and then when she found out he's an atheist said "Oh that will never work. He has no moral compass."
When early childhood funding was cut I got furloughed, and she still has her fucking job!
There is one that gets on my nerves and grosses me out sometimes. She licks her fingers when counting money. Unnecessarily creates more work for herself and others.
T-Rex: She would eat you alive! Yelled at and belittled everyone. Every mistake I caught (that were not mine!) turned into my fault.
Mr. Smelly: Horrible breath! Every time he came into the office, I'd have to offer him some gum. Bully.
Mr. Smelly #2: Even worse breath. Even after he'd leave the area, the halitosis smell would be lingering for a couple minutes.
Mr. Smelly #3: Horrible BO. Everyday he rode a bicycle like this
And not change his clothes. I would have to open the door every time I saw him coming, because if I didn't, I couldn't hold back my gag reflex. Nice guy, though.
Mr. Potatohead: Got in trouble for not doing something correctly and yelled "She's a fucking liar!" thinking it was my co-worker he was yelling about. It was really me that caught the mistake. He didn't like her apparently.
The Alcoholic: Drank on the job. Would disappear for his hour lunch which turned into 2 or 3 hour lunches or even not coming back to work. Apparently at the bar down the street.
Miss OCD: Everything must be in a certain spot. You can NOT move it. I put a stapler out by the copier/scanner. It was too much clutter for her. But her bowl of potpourri was not clutter.
The Bull in a China Shop: Slammed everything. Literally rammed another coworker into the corner because there wasn't enough room. Yelled a lot. Total bus driver.
Toothless: Wouldn't wear her teeth. Extremely rude. Covered up huge mistakes causing a large loss in profit. Completely ignored people if she didn't like them. Was suspended for a couple days for shoving another coworker.
The Racist: Refers to all Asians as "Orientals." Mexicans are ruining the country because they don't give Thank You cards.