What buggs you most about your co-workers?

[XOMichelle]

Ok, so I totally love most of my coworkers. They work hard, are nice, and get along well. However there is one that really ticks me off. She's actually someone I know from outside of work, and we should be friends. However, she has used a number of situations to show how much "better" and "older" she is, and frankly, I am quite sick of it!!!
end rant.

What buggs you about your co-workers?

[maggieaxid]

well right now, if my friggin co-worker would get back to her friggin desk- that would be nice. i am tired of taking all her phone calls this morning while she takes personal calls from her new boyfriend and gossips around the office!

and the words that sum it all up are as follows:
"just because you got promoted, doesn't make you any smarter than you were an hour ago"

[Lady Pi Phi]

I can't stand most of my co-workers. All they do is gossip...hello is this jr. high?
They also feel the need to conduct all the business and gossip by my desk.
I wish everyone would sit down and shut up.

The only person I really got a long with quit last week (mostly because of the people we work with), so I am all alone. There are a few who I really like, so I can mostly tolerate it.

[honeychile]

I have to deal with "The Loud Chewer" every day! She has at least 2 pieces of fruit in the morning, two in the afternoon, and chomps & slurps like she'll never eat again! One of these days, I'm really going to lose it...

[ZTAngel]

I have "The Nosey Co-Worker".

He'll walk past my office several times a day while peering over at my computer to look at what I'm doing. I fear that his neck will end up becoming permanently stuck to the right since this is the direction his whole head is turned every time he walks by my office. He'll sometimes even walk out of his office and throw something away into the garbage can that sits right outside my office just so he can look at whatever I'm doing (he has a garbage can inside his office). I thought it was just me until another co-worker came over to me one day and said, "That guy is really annoying. He keeps walking by my office to check out what I'm doing."

[maggieaxid]

honestly, i really do like my co-workers. and i am sure there are things that i do that annoy them, but here's a little list of annoyances:
1. the lady who constantly talks about her kids, seriously I am happy that her finally stopped sucking his thumb, but really- i just got off the phone with an atty who screamed at me for a good 10 minutes. i am about to start sucking my thumb.
2. the internet boyfriend lady. yes, you love your internet boyfriend. i am sure he is wonderful. no, i don't care about the cute little flower e-greeting he just sent you. do we have any confirmation that he really exists?
3. the guy who's demanding wife calls him 6 times a day like clock work. 3 times in the morning and 3 times after lunch. you can hear her yelling at him across the room while he takes it.
4. the woman who hordes food at her desk. she goes around stalking out all the offices to see if we have any snaks and then keeps them in seoerate baggies in her desk for later. i think she has some issues with food.
5. suck up man- the guy who has no life, and lives for work. he volunteers for everything and is always the first one here and the last one to leave. he makes the rest of us look bad and he always has an alterative motive. like the time he went through the files on my computer and then tattled that i had been using my im. love him.
6. stop talking to my boobs guy. now i understand if he is sitting and i am standing, he may have to look up past my boobs. however having a conversation about billing with my breasts will not solve anything and i promise they won't talk back and have no hands so nothing will get accomplished.

[alikat2]

On this topic. There are a bunch of us in our early to mid 20s and some people just haven't outgrown the whole high school mentality. Hell, some of the guys even date girls in HS!!! Let's just say the rumor mill is rampant where I work.....

Anyway, there's one woman that works there that is sooooo nosy, and she won't keep butting into my personal life.......can't stand that. She hates that some of my friends and I like to go out partying together. HELLO--mind your own damn business!!!

[swissmiss04]

At my last job I had a huge problem w/ one of my managers. He would not get off the damn phone and sat in the office most of the time rehashing his boy drama to anyone who would listen. One night it took us 2 hours to close because he wasn't contributing sh*t. The next day when asked by the GM why it took so long he blamed it on the rest of us, not him. I told the GM to watch the tape. He got reprimanded. I just get friggin tired of people who don't do their jobs yet blame others when the crap hits the fan.

[maggieaxid]

I am amending my earlier post:

friggin why do people in my office open the windows with out asking anyone else if they are warm and would like the window open?
i sit right next to the windows, they are open and blowing my papers all over the place as well as being quite comfortable with the temperature in the room and now i need a friggin sweater.

[aephi alum]

My current coworkers are pretty cool, except that some of them have the annoying habit of IM'ing instead of walking ten feet to talk to the person in the next cube.

Former coworkers, now... there was the guy who would sneak up behind you and try to catch you surfing the web on company time , the girl who yapped incessantly on her cell phone at top volume, the guy who spent all his time in the bathroom, the guys who blew off an entire afternoon of work to go get drunk (actually I'm only mad at them because they didn't invite me ) and some very inept managers... but that's another thread...

[Speechpath]

Most of them are great, except the few who complain ALL the time about how busy they are except everyone else seems to be doing their work while they complain! Then there is the know it all...the rest of us could never measure up to how smart and productive she is, and she will gladly let you know it several times a day

[cuaphi]

My least favority co worker at the moment is a middle aged guy who is basically a wierdo. His favorite movies are horror and action movies, the gorier the better. He wouldn't shut up about Dawn of the Dead before it came out. We were all sitting around talking about Pulp Fiction and the first thing he mentions is the scene where they're robbing the restaurant and the woman wets her pants (funny because I don't remember that.) He said he fast forwarded through Lost in Translation "waiting for something to happen", has a laugh like a deranged snagglepuss and is always cranking the AC.

The real capper was the when I was talking to a coworker, L about the bars he had hit the night before and this guy busts out with:
"You keep partying like that and you're going to get AIDS."



The guy he said that to handled it a lot cooler than I would have and just said "No man, I don't party like that" and then dropped it.

How do I keep getting stuck working with such freaks?

[Rudey]

I hate the talker. Whether it's on the phone, blabbing about her weekend, or constantly interfering in my projects when she overhears, one thing never changes, I hate this girl. She's allergic to bananas and I make it a point to eat bananas around her.

-Rudey

[James]

They won't play poker with me anymore

Damn, it was a nice income supplemental.

[KillarneyRose]

I hate working with a bunch of women. I feel like I'm betraying my own gender when I say that, but whenever a bunch of women are put in a work situation, the gossip, backstabbing and nitpicking begin. And the one who may be higher up on the corporate foodchain than the others invariably spends most of her time trying to show off her "power" and generally trying to prove that she is Queen Turd on Poop Mountain.