Comments on: 15 Highly Annoying Coworker Behaviors

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!

By: Mcd

Mcd — Wed, 24 Mar 2010 21:48:40 +0000

Hi Coryan, I’ve been working for 20 years now and the last job I’ve had that I enjoyed had the worst group of women I’ve ever worked with. One’s a brown noser who slept with management to get a head and acted all innocent and could never go wrong alsow was in everybody’s business. The one who set me up to lose my job with lies because she was f**** the boss. The other her gossip driven best friend who does the same she does plus when she gets jealous of you; you are thru! I just wonder how these two treachearous annoying co-workers are still allowed to do pull these stunts and NOBODY is doing anything about it. And this is suppose to be a law enforcement office (At least this is what my other co-woker whom I still talk to tells me) It was a good job to have without those 2. I guess the office allows special priveleges to a certain group of race! This is illegal apparently not here.

Now, I’m sort of dealing with the NEW girl that works in my department who thinks she’s Soooo special, speaks her native language out loud because the callers are too stupid to understand even their own language. I’m bilingual too but I speak English most of the time and don’t make excuses! Then our boss I think plays favorites because they are the same race plus this girl didn’t even compete for this job and she has relatives here doesn’t get in trouble for anything because they have the same race. When I did her job I got in trouble for petty, trivial things. Really has annoyed me to no end. Then she wears the loudest perfume you could smell her so far away and leaves her scent when she uses my computer and she types on the keyboard with her acrylic nail so loud but all she’s doing is gossiping with another co-worker about someone else at work! Also, she’s 3 feet tall and wears 8″ heels that pretends she’s tall because she’s insecure with her height. She’s single and flirts with all the married men in the office! She makes me want to trip her when she walks by. And to top the list, she’s a show-off and makes our boss thinks she can be a boss to us in our dept and she’s the newest one. The type that will take over your a job because you took a day off to take care of your sick child! What do I do to deal with this. I’ve been here longer than her and she’s getting special treatments! I CANNOT TOLERATE this person!

By: Jessika

Jessika — Thu, 07 Jan 2010 10:05:16 +0000

I think I can beat all of those stories. I currently work in a hospital with a woman who has a really bad temper. She has upset everyone that works with her to the point where one guy said he is going to have a nervous breakdown working with her, one has quit, and the other had ignored her for an entire year. The doctors have complained that she tries to tell them what to do, she comes to work late every day and the ones who have to sit over time to wait for her get upset. She turns every little thing into a HUGE drama fest. She never scans any patients, but watches football games instead or acts like she is busy doing nothing. I ahve had to step out 3 times to take a breather and just walk away from her for a few minutes. I have only had this job for a year and a half and I am already thinking of leaving.

By: JW

JW — Tue, 20 Oct 2009 03:27:23 +0000

One more thing, I really think this coworker was Narcissistic, too. she was hihgly extraverted and bossy, which are two traits that are associated with narcissism.

By: JW

JW — Tue, 20 Oct 2009 03:24:33 +0000

I had to come back to visit this blog to see if anyone else had posted a comment. I can truly empathize with Greg. I guess these loud laughing types get on everyone’s nerves since that seems to be a main description in many comments about annoying coworkers. And in the case of Greg’s coworker, I bet that if someone else was doing something that that coworker found annoying, she would be the first one to call that person on it. That’s usually how these types operate. They tend to be loud about everything and overly assertive if they have an issue with someone, but you can never tell the loud one anything,because the loud one usually has an alpha attitude and doesn’t want to be told a darned thing.
With the loud person I worked with, I ended up getting frustrated with her to the point of mocking her laugh, one day. She interrupted a conversation I was having in order to laugh about something I said, and it ticked me off. I lost control of myself and got a real nasty attitude with her because I had already told her before that that she had a loud mouth, but she dismissed what I said. Sooooo Frrrrruuuuuustrrrrraaaaating!

By: Lillian

Lillian — Sat, 17 Oct 2009 00:37:28 +0000

Loved reading these and it is oddly comforting to vent with others about the people we have to put up with. I share an office with two other women. One of them drives me crazy. She talks soooooooo slowly and never can get to the point and repeats the same comments and makes our weekly staff meetings way longer then they need to be. It’s a waste of my time when I have lots of work. And she’s so negative about everything it absolutely depletes me and I basically ignore her and wear my earphones and try to focus on my work which is tough. Oh and did I mention how loudly she talks on the phone to her clients, many of whom are mentally ill and anxious so her pitch and volume escalate as the conversation does. I told my boss it’s like sitting at a bad table at Starbucks next to an annoying person on their cell phone that I can’t get away from. I can’t get up and move to another table. I’m trapped. ugh

By: Coryan

Coryan — Mon, 31 Aug 2009 18:19:08 +0000

Wow, Pat and Greg, I can’t imagine working with either of your coworkers. I have a great coworker sharing an office with me right now, so I’m not experiencing the annoying coworker dilemma. Best of luck in trying to resolve these issues.

By: Greg

Greg — Wed, 26 Aug 2009 17:55:09 +0000

sorry….hit post by mistake. Well she slams the phone, and I mean slams the phone after every conversation. Her hair is always dirty and wirey too. That felt good to vent.

By: Greg

Greg — Wed, 26 Aug 2009 17:54:08 +0000

I think I have the most annoying co-worker known to man. This girl is absolutely grotesque and has no home training whatsover. This girl slams everything she has in her hands when she puts it down. She sits in the cubicle directly in front of me and there is only a glass separating us. Every morning when she comes in she slams her laptop, purse and keys on the desk. She laughs and giggles extremely loud and make a weird slurping sound at the end of each laugh. It is so loud, disgusting and distracting. She also taps her pens and finger, clicks her pens and talks to herself ALL day long!! She reads every email out loud and huffs and puffs when she breathes, it’s like working next to a dragon. She drags her feet when she walks, hits the desk everytime she gets up which causes a loud banging noise and she chews gum all day with her mouth open. I literally can’t believe that someone behaves this way and is completely oblivious to her grossness. On top of that she is a lousy worker, she never takes responsibility or accountibility for her actions or her department. I could literally go on for days about how disgusting, loud and distracting she is. The funny part is that I switched cubes to get away from her and she moved even closer to me, I don’t know why. I almost forgot that she talks on the phone all day long in a low, manly, smokerish, nasally voice. It’s so gross. And she SLAMS