Comments on: 15 Highly Annoying Coworker Behaviors

By: Mel

Mel — Thu, 12 Jan 2012 21:55:47 +0000

All of these people work in my office!!! The worst is the guy from NY (we’re in the South) who always wants to give me the ‘benefit of his 22 years with the company’. He’s obnoxious, always disrespects women and thinks everything he says is funny. When he asks me a question about something, he will go back to his desk and ‘research’ the subject just to prove me wrong. I almost hate coming to work every day just because the sound of his voice makes my teeth hurt.

By: justme

justme — Fri, 30 Sep 2011 15:15:36 +0000

Do we work at the same place? When I read your story I literally laughed aloud. I am glad that I am not the only one who wears headphones at work in a feeble attempt to drown out the annoying sound of someone who smells like vomit,talks to himself, reads everything aloud, tells me the same run on stories about his neighbors choice of car and all kinds of things that I don’t give a rats you-know-what about, he asks me questions about how to do his job then cuts me off an begins telling me a 20 minute story about what his wife packed him for lunch or some other boring and pointless ramble. He eats loudly and I can hear him moving the food around his mouth which is completely disgusting and absolutely turns my stomach. He will tap me on my shoulder(because I am attempting to ignore his conversation by wearing headphones) while I am typing to tell me that his wife just texted him to tell him to walk the dogs when he gets home….I tell him OK why are you telling me this? and he will be like well, I figured I’d tell you. Seriously???? I share an office with this dumb melon head who needs help with everything and is obnoxious. I can barely stand him and I almost hope that he is reading over my shoulder(something he often does) He also makes racist jokes which I have even said don’t you think thats kind of racist and then he defends it with yet another rant.He gets in my business and follows me around,He doesn’t follow through on anything I suggest that he does, he also asks for my advice …I give it then, he talks to me for like 20 minutes about why he is going to do it his own way….I have started just telling him to ask the Boss or I don’t know or just sounds fine…I have also caught him going through my desk to get goal information to use for his caseload to copy I confronted him and he just stuttered. I told my boss about some of these issues but I don’t want to seem like I am targeting him because there is just so much to complain about(as you can see from my gigantic run-on sentence) But, I guess things could be worse…I feel better now

By: Tammy

Tammy — Sun, 12 Jun 2011 16:55:50 +0000

I, guess life is not easy people can be very crull. People spread awlful things that hurt. I,just discided to smile at the them and stay away from them. It is like the girl is trying to get me fired. Iam very hard worker try do my best.

By: Herb

Herb — Wed, 11 May 2011 12:08:31 +0000

I have a co-worker next to my cube who chews crushed ice constantly starting at 7:30am thru to 4:30pm. Two 20oz. cups three times a day. Then she mixes in Heath taffy brickle. Then she takes calls on her cell which loudly announces who the caller is and plays music while waiting for her to answer. Then the high pitched voice you can hear 30ft. away while she talks to her son, daughter, “boyfriend”, aunt, cousin, friends or whatever sales person from the store catalog she ordering her personal items from. Then comes the nail polish remover. then comes the distraught, overworked rant. Take me away please.

By: DJC

DJC — Mon, 11 Apr 2011 14:55:25 +0000

I work in a very small office and the 2nd-in-command’s office is closest to my desk (I sit in the open). He burps (loud, chunky and often), farts (not as frequent as the burping) sucks food off his fingers when he is eating, slurps his coffee/tea, giggles (and I mean giggle–not laugh) for no reason in a high-pitched tone, blurts out random comments to himself (and then giggles), sings made-up songs in that same high-pitched tone about how his computer is annoying or his work is so hard, snorts snot, hocks it back up and then spits it out in the small kitchen area we have, and clips his toe nails in his office. He plays his music loudly (I’ve asked him very kindly at least 3 times in the past few weeks to turn it down–I would ask more often but I feel rude–I thought he would get the hint when I asked 2 times in as many days, but no luck). One day he played the same song on repeat for 5 hours straight. I thought I was going to lose it. His cell phone rings a half-dozen to a dozen times a day. I know this because he won’t put it on vibrate–it’s a loud ringtone so I hear it very clearly. He chews with his mouth open so I can hear him eating even though he’s in his office. I don’t know what to say–the boss thinks he can do no wrong, and I can’t afford to lose my job, but it’s impacting my work. If he isn’t a cacophony of bodily noises, he is making personal calls on the company phone or his cell phone.
It’s hard to work listening to those noises. And his office stinks because well, he smells and he has a habit of leaving his workout clothes hanging up in there for weeks.
The others in the office have their cell phones on as well–so if one person’s isn’t ringing another one’s often is(NO ONE has it on vibrate but me–and I usually have my cell phone turned off when I’m at work). There’s only a half-dozen people in this office. Why are they so loud, smelly, rude, etc.? I said to one guy (because I can joke around with him) “Dude, WHAT are you sucking on?” He said–”You can’t hear me sucking on this candy can you?”. I replied–”Why would I ask you that if I couldn’t?”. And yet, he still sits in his office, sucking on candy so loudly that anyone can hear it. I am thankful that he hasn’t joined the other guy in the burping/farting/giggle fest though.
I try to work with headphones on, but unless I turn up the music VERY loud, I can still hear the burping, slurping, sucking, singing, music, and cell phones ringing. And when I have felt myself getting very upset and feeling no other recourse than to turn the music up very loud, then I can’t hear my phone ring or people asking me questions. I can’t take a break without my boss commenting on it–even if it’s just 5 minutes. The others take 1 1/2 to 2 hour lunch breaks and the boss says NOTHING. I am gone for 35 minutes instead of 30 and he asks me where I was for “all that time”.
Wrrraaaaawwwrrrrrrrr!
Sorry, so frustrated. And I really can’t afford to lose my job.

By: Tracey

Tracey — Tue, 22 Mar 2011 20:52:51 +0000

I absolutely hate it when my co-worker in the next office pops her gum all day, with her office door wide open! Seriously? We do not all need (or want) to hear that! and what’s worse is that she KNOWS she is annoying people. She does it on purpose for spite, she seems to think it’s funny! What a witch!

By: looking for a way out

looking for a way out — Fri, 31 Dec 2010 01:44:12 +0000

In my office, there is a co-work who claims she can do all the work, when in reality she is constantly behind in her work. The boss wanted someone to help her and she liked to hide the work. This is upsetting when my boss wanted me to help. The worker comes back at me and says she’s got it covered. When my boss when to her desk, the co worker had a STACK and claimed that she had to look through it for some lame reason. I guess she wants to prove she can do the work but she’s done this before and she thinks she can pull the wool over the eyes of the new bosses.

By: office emplyee

office emplyee — Thu, 04 Nov 2010 19:29:16 +0000

I work in small office with only 3 people. We have this one girl who only talks about herself all the time and does not stop singing, humming or whistling. It drives me bananas, I have told our manager but nothing has changed. I am not sure what I can do to make it stop.

By: jeannie

jeannie — Tue, 27 Jul 2010 15:25:38 +0000

I work with another teacher who comes in late and expects tutors or other teachers to pick up her students. She stays on personal calls texting, talking, or screaming into the phone during class. Meanwhile the kids are doing nothing…
She is very loud, confrontational, and flashy yet everyone LOVES, LOVES, LOVES, LOVES her from administration, tutors, other teachers, and parents. It’s like a social club in her room. They eat her poo all day.
I don’t get it, the kids don’t learn anything and our principal ignores the fact that this teacher does everything but teach. The prinicpal allowed her to scream and jump around and point her finger in my face after a meeting about test scores turned into a personal attack on me because my kids did well. Still don’t get it.
This teacher knows what to say during meetings and professes her love and hard word, HAHAHA! When I talked to the principal later, she said “What should I have done?” UHHH your job!
She has lots of experience teaching and takes the same training classes, but never knows or remembers what to do. When I try to help she’s surfing online, checking her bank account, talking on the phone or putting on lipstick. She even won “Teacher of the Year” award!!! Maybe I’m jealous because she gets a lot of attention, but I wish she would crash and burn. There’s nothing I can do except laugh.

By: Mrs. Morris

Mrs. Morris — Tue, 08 Jun 2010 15:23:52 +0000

We have a receptionist that never forgets to remind us she has over 20 years of experience in another field. If you are so valuable then why were you let go? The funny things is she doesn’t even want to go back into that field. She won’t do anything in her job description. You knew what the job was before you took it. We told you it was not a typical sit there and do nothing job because we are a small office and need all the help we can get. It really annoys me because I did that job for a lot less money. It isn’t really hard. She is too good to do anything and curses in front of clients. And to top it off in the 2 months she has worked here she has never been on time!