annoying habits of your coworkers

ugh

My usually okay co-worker has turned into a raging ass over the past couple of weeks. Everytime you tell him the phone is for him he slams whatever happens to be in his hand at the time (pencil, pen, mouse, whatever) and starts cursing. This is when he's not just randomly throwing things around his desk in frustration.

We get it dude, we're all fucking busy. Deal.

my (female) co-worker stares at my chest indiscreetly when she's talking to me. totally weirds me out.

and annoys me. obv.

ppl exist and i just wanna exist by myself 2day.

aggressive self-importance in the workplace is the worst. well, either that or staring at someone's chest? geez!

This same co-worked also constantly bitches about how he has "too much work to do", yet leaves at 5:00 on the button every single day. Which, whatever, but its annoying when everyone else in the office is routinely pulling 10-12 hour days.

He also shuts down all his programs at 4:50 and sits there with the Windows log off dialog box up on his screen for ten minutes, waiting for 5:00 so he can click 'Log Off'.

"co-worker"

staring at someone's chest? geez!

I often catch our intern looking at my cleavage. But when he sees I notice he quickly looks away. He's 20. I feel bad for his lack of impulse control.

um he needs a punch in the face? the co-worker, not the intern. the intern just needs a girlfriend.

my co-worker is female, straight and has bigger boobs than me, so i don't know what she finds so fascinating.

The fact that yours are smaller? Perhaps she's considering a reduction.

hahahahahaaaaaaaaa

you're 100% about the first and second details about her?

xpost

i can't be 100% sure (well i could be about the first if i demanded she *prove* it) but i'm 99.9% sure. and she doesn't stare at them in a "i'd like to get my hands/lips on those" kinda way. she just stares. i'm less irritated and more comfortable with the gropings i get from my italian co-workers at the restaurant.

One of my coworkers has an annoying habit of being a biotch.

OK sometimes Coworker: My neice isn't even 2 years old and she knows her alphabet and numbers... and the woman at the daycare center was saying she's exceptionally smart for her age...
Killjoy biotch coworker: You know, that's not always a good thing though.
OK s coworker: What?
Killjoy biotch coworker: A kid being that smart... It can be sign of severe social disorders.

Then today when a coworker was talking about how well-behaved her kid is, Killjoy biotch coworker says, "You know, you really don't want a kid who always does what you ask them to do. No one does. No, seriously. Those are the kids that no one likes."

Pretty offensive, don't you think?

Grow up.

-- Dr.C, Wednesday, October 17, 2007 11:55 AM (Yesterday) Bookmark Link

I'm kinda on the side of killjoy biotch here. Talking about yr kids is super-ultra-annoying. She's just schooling 'em on that fact.

Killjoy biotch sounds like Dwight from the office or something.

There are a few people who sit right by me that seem to go out of their way to not acknowledge me and that really burns me up.

Clipping your nails in your cubicle is simply unacceptable

I used to date a girl who yelled at me whenever I clipped my nails in public. Then, 10 minutes later, she'd ask for the clipper.

Talking about yr kids is super-ultra-annoying.
My coworkers all have their own unique ways of being annoying.

GUY NEXT TO ME: STOP FARTING IN YR SEAT
YOU SMELL LIKE SHIT. GO TO TH EBATHROOM

Well maybe if you left the office occasionally you could get some fresh air.

har har

ok he's like consciously doing it, leaning and everything
hate this dude

does he lean the same way

each time

yes

That is kind of awesome, but I don't have a sense of smell so I am biased.

what colour is his chair? what you need to do (if it's black) is rub brown marker all over the middle of the seat while he's on lunch.
i'm sure you see where this is going.

I had a coworker who would suggest income-inappropriate "enrichment" activities for our clients' children, such as Broadway shows or art classes for children whose families struggled to put food on the table. I'd suggest something like "go to storytime at the library (free,)" and she'd be like "riding lessons are great!" It'd make the clients so uncomfortable.

There is this girl who runs the (short) length of our office hallway. Why?

In my last job one of the accounting girls did that! She was a short bouncy asian lass - very nice and friendly, but very touchy feely and a bit TOO chirpy, and she always fecking ran/bounced everywhere, which made this loud THUMP THUMP noise (nb she was not fat or anything).

i have one of those too. she's a model but thunders like the mighty rhinoceros when she runs!

It's the worst when she wears flip-flops: THUMP-thwack-THUMP-thwack! Makes me wanna string some fishing line between the cubicles...

A friend of mine that I work with will listen to music at her cubicle as she works, which is fine...but she sings along with it, and she has this squealy whiny voice.

What's worse is that she does it with the song on loop for about a half an hour and sings the same passage over and over.

OMG that is kind of awesome, but having grown up in a family of seven, I can tune out and/or appreciate the silliness of such repetitive noise.

well, wait until tomorrow when I bring my King Diamond cds in.....

talks with her mouth full
chews loudly
screams at husband on the phone
brings baby in sometimes
(used to) breastpump at desk everyday

UGH!

oh god, my graphic designer is set to bring in baby

oh yeah she also screams at her nanny on the phone a lot in her terrible highschool spanish

god i loath babies in the office.

We have a separate playroom for the childrens! Some days, I want to go in there, lay on the bean bags, and play NES.

My biggest pet peeve is the co-worker who asks random questions to the office at large? "What's the date today? .... ..... Anyone know?"

"Anyone see 'Lost' last night?"

look i understand when your nanny is sick at the last minute but you should never ever ever change a diaper in your cubicle ughhhhhh

Woman near me plays music on the computer at incredibly low volume = okay, whatever, who cares

Music would seem to come from some kind of 90s alt-rock internet radio channel = okay, whatever, who cares

But now it's been several months during which I have heard, each day that I am in the office, the following songs, sometimes multiple times per day: "Wonderwall," "Buddy Holly," "Been Caught Stealing," "The Distance" ...

Is this it, forever? The same 50 songs, every day, until one of us changes jobs? Will there never be a day where she comes in and feels like listening to jazz, or something? It's kind of weird.

The guy I had to share an office with 2 jobs ago kept the same Kansas CD on constant repeat all day long every day for 4 months straight.

same here but it's Jethro Tull all day every day

I'm the annoying coworker today. Can't get rid of hiccups.

"Roxanne" for 4th time today

get rid of the toxic people? what's so confusing

usually the issue isn't recognizing it as much as realizing there's just *so many* toxic people that if you sacked them all at once, the company would have to close for a month

the one thing I always found about toxic people is they rarely expect people to parry, and the few times I have they actually recoiled in shock.

no prouder moment than when I fuckin' faced down one of the top execs in our company after he was being a prick and he just let me.

(not that I recommend that approach, I was v much in dngaf mode)

coworker two months ago: "no man, I swear, you don't need to refrigerate milk because it's pasteurized!"
coworker this week: "Ohhhh my god why do I have such horrible stomach pains?"

Ah ha ha.

This is the thread I need at least as often as the 'stupid, annoying coworkers' thread.

Hey dude who always loudly scats at the urinal: don't do that. You don't need to do that.

i assume you mean scat in the scatman john sense of the word rather than the umm... other sense?

The former, but I would never discount what else a disgusting savage of this ilk might be capable of.

is there a single link I can give to people who put "S" in the middle of every time zone abbreviation, even during daylight saving time?