Annoying Co-workers

[blankall]

Originally Posted by Super Nintendo Chalmers

A co-worker who is not longer there:

• Writes the dates of her menstrual cycles on the staff vacation calendar.

Wut? That's a little extreme.

[Komskies]

Originally Posted by me_dennis

What are your stories of co-workers that drive you absolutely insane?

I''ll start...

I have a co-worker who sits in the cube next to mine. All day long he talks on his phone in his native language, trying to be sly about it, but he's not kidding anyone. He also likes to drink pop during lunch, usually letting out a huge belch or two. He sniffles all the time. And he doesn't turn his cell phone on silent or vibrate at work, so when his phone rings (multiple times a day) the whole floor gets to hear "Michael Buble - Sway"

drive's me absolutely insane!!!!

You didnt say it, but your co-worker is East Indian or Pakistani, isn't he? The sniffling and burping seems to be a cultural thing. It may be worthwhile to let him know he's doing it, because it's possible that he doesn't even realize it.

[Senator Clay Davis]

We have this one woman in our office, and the fact that a) She has a tendancy to talk to herself b) She uses a hands-free headset to talk on the phone...means no one ever knows who the hell she is talking to. You'll hear her ask a question and then you're not entirely sure if its for you, so she gets all pissed when you don't answer her, but when you have the headset on how do I know you aren't on the phone? And when you talk to yourself all the time, how do I know you aren't doing that either? I need my own office.

[Super Nintendo Chalmers]

Originally Posted by blankall

Wut? That's a little extreme.

Seriously. When I started working there, I saw "lmp" all over the calendar. I thought it was something that's specific to that workplace so I didn't bring it up. Later, someone told me it stood for "last menstrual period".

[Rathji]

I have annoying people at work.

They are called Users.

[Bill Bumface]

Originally Posted by Rathji

I have annoying people at work.

They are called Users.

Ah, the ole methadone clinic!

[Table 5]

Working remotely, I don't really have a lot of face-to-face interaction with people most days. Sometimes it gets a little lonely, and I think of how nice it must be to be able to interact with people in a work environment. You get to feed off the energy of others, and be part of a team.

But as I'm reading this thread, at home, pants-less, with my music on 11, I'm quickly reminded why I quit my office job in the first place. Thanks guys!

[Hockeyguy15]

Originally Posted by Table 5

Working remotely, I don't really have a lot of face-to-face interaction with people most days. Sometimes it gets a little lonely, and I think of how nice it must be to be able to interact with people in a work environment. You get to feed off the energy of others, and be part of a team.

But as I'm reading this thread, at home, pants-less, with my music on 11, I'm quickly reminded why I quit my office job in the first place. Thanks guys!

I'm sure your wife has some complaints about her pants-less coworker

Have her swing by the thread and tell us some stories.

[Table 5]

Originally Posted by Hockeyguy15

I'm sure your wife has some complaints about her pants-less coworker

My lack of pants is probably the least of her complaints. I let people down in all sorts of ways!

[frinkprof]

Originally Posted by Nyah

2. When I receive an email from a coworker who's grammar is horrible, and who can't differentiate between
- they're, there & their
- your & you're

Sorry to do this, but I can't let a "grammar mistake while complaining about grammar mistakes" transgression slip by.

Where you use "who's," you mean to use "whose."

[Puppet Guy]

I usually work by myself, but a couple of months ago I had to share space with some co-workers. I was saddled with a guy who never stopped talking (usually about himself), had a Napoleon complex and wouldn't give a straight answer to a simple question. Happiest day of my year so far was when I didn't have to share space with him anymore.

[Nyah]

Originally Posted by frinkprof

Sorry to do this, but I can't let a "grammar mistake while complaining about grammar mistakes" transgression slip by.

Where you use "who's," you mean to use "whose."

Indeed.

[Ashartus]

Originally Posted by polak

I got moved recently so I'm surrounded by exclusively older women. Individually, none of them are bad but being a 23 year old guy surrounded by women of whom the youngest is in her early 40's and most are in their 50's, is a nightmare.

Especially when your last jobs were all dominated by dudes and/or young people, where swearing, joking around and otherwise inappropriate behaviour was the norm.

I was in that situation in my first job. Lots of listening to the joys of giving birth and raising kids, just what an 18 year-old guy wants to listen to. Also lots of being told they hoped their daughters would bring home someone like me - but those daughters were all too young (and what girl brings home a guy their mom would like anyway?).

I haven't had too many annoying coworkers recently - mostly people who talk too loud on the phone or use a speaker phone with the volume cranked up. The only other annoyance is when the junior employees don't do their work as well as I'd like and I have to fix everything, but that's happening less and less too.

[Cowperson]

In my office is one thermostat and two air outlets.

After five years of periodic freezing and boiling, I recently discovered my thermostat controls one outlet in my office and the single outlets in several nearby offices. The other outlet in my office is controlled by a thermostat in someone else's office and that one also controls several other offices.

And there are other thermostats besides those two.

It's virtually impossible to have a uniform temperature throughout the office space while people sneak in and change temperatures to suit their personal circumstances.

It's like we are part of some alien science project where they're observing how much antagonism we can take before general fighting breaks out.

Cowperson

[sevenarms]

Originally Posted by Rathji

I have annoying people at work.

They are called Users.

Is your boss the Master Control Program??

[skudr248]

Oh god, I have way to many...

[Nsd1]

I worked in a small office with two other people. One guy would follow me around all day. He would always walk behind me while looking down at is phone and texting. If I went to one side of the building he would follow me there. If I went to the washroom he would wait until I was done and follow me again. It was pretty creepy at first but he did it to everyone though. I started messing around with him, I would walk really close to a desk and turn quickly and since his head was usually down he would knock into it. I would spend along time in the washroom and make struggling noises and he wouldn't be outside when I came out. One time I turned around really fast and got him really nicely in the chin with my shoulder, he was kind of dazed after that and he stopped following me altogether.

At the same place I worked with this one girl who was about 20. All she would talk about was getting pregnant. The she would tell me how much coke her and her boyfriend did on the weekend and how he rages and beats her but a baby would solve all their problems. She would tell me soo many personal details about her life and sex life all because one day I asked if she wanted anything for lunch.

[Byrns]

Originally Posted by Nsd1

I worked in a small office with two other people. One guy would follow me around all day. He would always walk behind me while looking down at is phone and texting. If I went to one side of the building he would follow me there. If I went to the washroom he would wait until I was done and follow me again. It was pretty creepy at first but he did it to everyone though. I started messing around with him, I would walk really close to a desk and turn quickly and since his head was usually down he would knock into it. I would spend along time in the washroom and make struggling noises and he wouldn't be outside when I came out. One time I turned around really fast and got him really nicely in the chin with my shoulder, he was kind of dazed after that and he stopped following me altogether.

At the same place I worked with this one girl who was about 20. All she would talk about was getting pregnant. The she would tell me how much come her and her boyfriend did on the weekend and how he rages and beats her but a baby would solve all their problems. She would tell me soo many personal details about her life and sex life all because one day I asked if she wanted anything for lunch.

Gross

[Locke]

I see...

[PsYcNeT]

Originally Posted by Nsd1

At the same place I worked with this one girl who was about 20. All she would talk about was getting pregnant. The she would tell me how much come her and her boyfriend did on the weekend and how he rages and beats her but a baby would solve all their problems. She would tell me soo many personal details about her life and sex life all because one day I asked if she wanted anything for lunch.

So did you give her a baby?