Let's bitch about our stupid, annoying co-workers

omg omg omg

My co-worker the one who is awful and crazy and weird and inappropriate.

Ha I'm so upset I'm still shaking.

I asked her a question about this budget she has access to but I don't so she looks it up and gets me the answer right away. Then she folds her hands, leans on her desk and says, "You see how I just answered you like that right away? It would be nice if you did that for me too." In the most condescending, snotty and completely ridiculous way you can imagine.

I just looked at her and said, "Are you kidding me? That was the snottiest thing I've ever heard and you can't talk to me that way. You can't talk to anyone that way? Are you serious? What planet do you come from?"

Then I went and was like really shaking and worked up and told her supervisor because fuck that was just totally inappropriate.

When I got back to my desk she apologized if her tone came off wrong. I asked if there was something she was waiting for from me and she said that there wasn't. It's just a feeling she has. A total bullshit feeling btw but that's not even the point. I honestly don't think anyone has ever spoken to me in that exact tone before. I also don't think I've ever been that close to hitting someone in my life.

AHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH. I HATE HER.

Reading that now it doesn't sound that bad but if you could have heard the way she said or seen her smug fucking face. Oh she's a horrible horrible person.

it did sound bad

Otm. And if the tone is anything like the one I'm imagining in my head then she's awful.

It wasn't just her tone - it was her words, and the order in which she arranged them, too. Fuckin' muppet.

It sounds that bad to me! Kudos to you for saying something back because I would have been speechless.

I'm kind of surprised I did! But she does things like this all the time and I just couldn't take it anymore. When I got back to my desk and she apologized I told her it was completely inappropriate and that she needs to watch herself and think before talking to people like that because it's simply not OK. That's also when I was like oh what's it that you're waiting for from me again? Oh, right nothing. You're just insane. OK, I didn't actually say that last part.

had a similar experience w/ a v difficult coworker yesterday where he gave me a really superior tone and was dismissive & belittling toward me when in actuality he was just uninformed and literally RONG abt what he was talking abt.

i was speechless at the time and i didnt think that it bothered me but it p much stayed on my mind the whole day since then

unrelatedly, i accidentally gave myself prob the worst papercut ever via a manilla folder this morning that fukkin hurt so bad ugh ugh

I walked into her supervisors office and I was angrier than I can maybe ever remember being. I was like, "I'm about to smack M. right across her smug little face or just walk out and quit because she is way out of line and completely inappropriate in how she talks me." Then I calmed down and told her not to worry because since I've never hit anyone in my life I don't actually plan to start today. TBH I'm really glad I said something to both M. and her supervisor.

x-post - OUCH

Aargh I'm riled up just reading your account of what she did!

ya, E, sounds like she was way out of line. i would have gotten very shout-y had that been said to me!

Good thinking going to her supervisor too. Productive!

Good god, E! I'm glad you said something. Teach me your ways!

Today I was talked to (note: not "had a conversation") for 20 minutes because I had not stapled a group of sheets before putting them into a three ring duotang. Then, my trainer decided that she had to resign because I had told her that I "know everything," which I had not implied in the slightest. Un/fortunately for me, she did not resign. Yesterday she came into the bathroom mumbling "I am wasting my time training this stupid bitch" and told me she was allowed to talk, when I told her I was in one of the stalls. I tried to explain I just wanted her to know that she wasn't alone, but she kept mumbling about how she can talk if she wants to. We don't have an HR department & she has worked with the president for 25 years. Sigh.

yeesh

Fucking hell. Is there absolutely nowhere for you to go to lodge a formal complaint?

No path I can really see, because the other woman I report to (another President's friend) hears & ignores it all. So I keep my head & tone level, try not to cry when I am told that I have to "be spoken to like a nine year old," and quietly investigate ways to complete projects without asking my trainer questions (email coworkers, find old examples.) Today I told her "if you resign you are doing that because you want to, not because I asked you to. I would like to continue to be trained on this job because I feel I will be able to do this really well in the future." I know I will never get in trouble because I am doing a great job, it's just taking me twice as long because this asshole sits across from me and repeats herself all day. One question = ten minutes of rambling, repetitive drivel that often contradicts and/or escalates in hostility if any follow up question is asked.

Most of these outbursts happen after the VP (brought in by the Pres a few years ago) dumps a project on my trainer's lap. I could psychoanalyse the shit out of this situation. I should write a book.

Would read, especially if you interspersed the analysis with makeup tips and pictures of your nails.

I hope that didn't come across as though I think that's all you would offer in a book. It would be a good book anyway! I just like your nails.

I'm painting my nails right now, hah! The Devil Wears Nail Art. xp

I've been too exhausted to do anything other than rant about my trainer & paint my nails lately, so no offence taken! ;)

Jesus Christ ffm. That makes me want to go to your office and kick that lady in the face.

Not the nail art thing. The meanness :)

MEMO TO COWORKERS OF ENBB AND FFM: these ladies are fucking rad and know their shit and you better bow the fuck down or I will kick you all in the face.

Sometimes as I listen to her talk I do fantasize about just pushing her face into the wall. I'm almost two feet taller than her though, it wouldn't be right.

that's where you are wrong. It would be incredibly right

Next time I will try to channel my inner ENBB and be more firm about the whole situation, but this woman escalates like a madman.

Idk,, I think I would take her side and say, in a low and creepy tone, with your face right in hers, something super fucking psycho and violent and threatening - no one will believe her, it'll make her look super crazy, AND she'll be shit-scared of you.

Win/win imo!!

You guys, I'm burnt out at my job and I am wanting to think about starting to look for something new, but your stories scare the shit out of me. They're weird around my office, but nothing even remotely like FFM and ENBB's coworkers.

Idk,, I think I would take her side and say, in a low and creepy tone, with your face right in hers, something super fucking psycho and violent and threatening - no one will believe her, it'll make her look super crazy, AND she'll be shit-scared of you.

Win/win imo!!

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this made me LOL harder than anyone has LOLed before.

Christ, FFM and ENBB, my heart beat faster just reading both of those.

Jesus these ppl tho

I'm always gobsmacked by how patently TERRIBLE, horrible human beings somehow end up in the good graces of some idiotic manager/VP somewhere and live to spend 20 years ruining coworkers lives without reprisal.
I know of two such people in my office. Thankfully I haven't crossed paths with either professionally but christ, the stories.

^^^^^^ this!!!

xp to lex: i used to often think of doing this with horrible customers, like, just saying something totally horrendous, bc i knew no one would actually believe them and it would probably drive them crazy

It's a definite dream move! When I was a lonely kid I found letting my bully "catch me" looking at her then looking away and smiling to myself drove her nuts. She came up to me a few times asking "what's so funny?" and seemed thrown off in general. May employ.

I told a coworker last week that grownups dont accost other grownups in corridors, did the trick tbph

One time when we dropped some hints (she & I sit in a quad with two others) she started whining about how we "don't understand her pain"(!) and how if no one wanted to talk, fine, she wouldn't talk in a 30 minute drama fit. I wish I thought your line would work, d!

eyebrows, im tellin you, its in the eyebrows

Her pain??

Oh yes, her pain. IIRC it was because the VP had dropped an assignment on her lap and we stopped listening/responding after about 30 minutes of bitching to us about how busy she was/how she didn't have time for it.

It kind of sounds like she's having a nervous breakdown, tbh. (Not that it would excuse anything if she was, and maybe I'm naive in thinking that people can't be so utterly horrible without some major cause.)

They totally can, unbelievably and depressingly.

I do think that might be the case. I often feel bad for her when she's just being stressed/sad and not overtly dickish.

it's really terrible working a job where you don't have the ability to make formal complaints. at my last place, the HR guy sat across from the CEO, who would demand to find out what employee was complaining so he could call them and ream them out for complaining about other personnel rather than doing their jobs. it was awful.