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Weirdest/Most Annoying Person in Your Office?

Here's mine. I call him Snail, and I used to sit by him. He would spend the day grunting, burping, farting, heavy sighing, and snoring. Yep, every day he takes an afternoon nap at his desk. And let me tell you-- those farts were EPIC. After the big loud fart, he would grunt. Every. Time. 

He strolls in late, makes several phone calls to friends, his kids, his wife, the lawn guy, whoever. He's really mean to his wife. Tells her to shut up, snaps at her, treats her like an idiot, says all kinds of unbelievably mean things to her. Thing that, if my FI said them to me, he'd have a black eye and I'd be out the door. Snail has no indoor voice. While he's on the phone, which is usually for hours at a time since he makes his rounds of phone calls every day, he practically yells. I don't sit near him anymore and I still hear every word of it. 

He takes a 2-3 hour lunch. Leaves at 5 on the dot, if not sooner. 

I won't even get started on his work ethic. Or total lack thereof. Been waiting for him to email me back about the simplest thing since last Friday and I refuse to go ask him in person because I can't even stand to talk to him. I think the only reason he hasn't been fired is because he's been working here for 25 years. Stupid reason to keep someone so worthless. 

We recently reorganized our entire floor and my boss -- who is also Snail's boss-- told me that she had an extremely difficult time figuring out where to put him because NO ONE will sit by him. Hm... wonder why? The smells, the noises, or the rudeness? My boss is the nicest person in the world, never has a negative thing to say, and even she seems to detest Snail. 

Who else has one of these guys, or someone else horrendous? And.... go! 
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Re: Weirdest/Most Annoying Person in Your Office?

  • The worst: A guy who is eerily like Sheldon Cooper. Only this guy has far worse social skills.
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  • OP, that coworker just sounds RANK. I'm so sorry you have to experience a human like that. How is he married... *shakes head*

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  • UGGGH everybody in my office?!

    OK I'll focus on one: let's call her Mary Sue.  On my first day of work, my supervisor was leading me around, introducing me to folks.  We got to Mary Sue.  I held out my hand and started, "Hi, I'm slothie, excited to work with--"

    "I don't like noise."

    Erm OK.  I stood there awkwardly, hand still outstretched, and she continues:

    "I work in my cone of silence.  No noise."  And then she walked off, without ever giving me her name.  (Turns out, the "cone of silence" is a Chinese screen that blocks off part of the room.  And in case there was any confusion, she has a poster on the screen that declares it the cone of silence and that it can only be breached for: "Meetings with [our CEO], calls from [big client names] or happy news!".  

    Lucky me, I ended up in her office.  We have an understanding (aka, I put in my headphones as soon as I get to work and only acknowledge her when it's absolutely necessary).  She tends to make weird random noises and pound her desk with her fists.  At first I was concerned.  Now I just ignore.

    She also tries to talk about her dog's bowel movements.  A lot.
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  • How Snail has remained employed with your company for 25 years is beyond me.

     

    I actually love all of my coworkers. I used to work with some awful people, though. So many stories...

     

    One of the most memorable was at my last job which was managing a massage clinic. One of the assistant managers (let's call her Betty) used to show up hungover ALL the time. One day Betty showed up drunk, threw up in the front desk area, and passed out IN MY OFFICE!!! I came into work and saw a pile of vomit, drool, and a passed out Betty on my desk.I shit-canned her that day and had to close the clinic for the rest of the afternoon because it was so unsanitary.

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  • How Snail has remained employed with your company for 25 years is beyond me.

     

    I actually love all of my coworkers. I used to work with some awful people, though. So many stories...

     

    One of the most memorable was at my last job which was managing a massage clinic. One of the assistant managers (let's call her Betty) used to show up hungover ALL the time. One day Betty showed up drunk, threw up in the front desk area, and passed out IN MY OFFICE!!! I came into work and saw a pile of vomit, drool, and a passed out Betty on my desk.I shit-canned her that day and had to close the clinic for the rest of the afternoon because it was so unsanitary.

    Holy shitballs. My mom was a secretary way back in the day, and she said her boss was always drunk. He apparently drove into work drunk one morning, hit the guard tower, knocked it over, then stumbled inside and passed out on his desk. At least it was his own desk I guess lol 
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  • Inkdancer said:

    The great thing about being at home: my worst coworker is me, and she's only bad because she keeps forgetting to put on socks and my feet get cold.

    Same here! I'm pretty hard to work with though, so sometimes I knot instead :P
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  • Permission to vent?!?! I hope no one from work is lurking here because this will out me.

    We call him Marshmallow, lovingly bestowed by the "funny girl" in our office. When he was hired he was fresh out of college, having no relevant work experience, but he thought he was the big man in the office. Before he officially started he came to our annual department meeting, during which he raised his hand to make stupid remarks that showed he knew absolutely nothing about our company/client/industry.

    He made a complete ass of himself at our client conference - chugging soda straight out of the can in a swanky hotel setting, walking up and talking at random clients he doesn't know, and telling our director that the marketing strategy she's built is wrong. So much facepalm. One day he brought his girlfriend to the office and had her hang out here all day. I know that's okay in some offices, but not ours. He dresses like he's in high school and wore t-shirts (expressly forbidden per the dress code) for weeks until the supervisor finally said something.

    He also bragged about his PPD all the time to anyone who would listen. Including the CEO.

    Okay, I'm done venting now.
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  • One of my coworkers has a habit of talking loudly on his cell phone and pacing in front of my desk.  Seriously dude?  There's like three empty offices and you need to do that right in front of my desk?  


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  • UGGGH everybody in my office?!

    OK I'll focus on one: let's call her Mary Sue.  On my first day of work, my supervisor was leading me around, introducing me to folks.  We got to Mary Sue.  I held out my hand and started, "Hi, I'm slothie, excited to work with--"

    "I don't like noise."

    Erm OK.  I stood there awkwardly, hand still outstretched, and she continues:

    "I work in my cone of silence.  No noise."  And then she walked off, without ever giving me her name.  (Turns out, the "cone of silence" is a Chinese screen that blocks off part of the room.  And in case there was any confusion, she has a poster on the screen that declares it the cone of silence and that it can only be breached for: "Meetings with [our CEO], calls from [big client names] or happy news!".  

    Lucky me, I ended up in her office.  We have an understanding (aka, I put in my headphones as soon as I get to work and only acknowledge her when it's absolutely necessary).  She tends to make weird random noises and pound her desk with her fists.  At first I was concerned.  Now I just ignore.

    She also tries to talk about her dog's bowel movements.  A lot.
    I LOVE this woman. I remember you posted about her last week. What a weirdo.
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  • The worst person at my office consistently doesn't answer the phone even though she knows that the only reasons I would not answer my cell is because my phone is fucked up, I have no signal, I'm in the shower, or I'm already on the phone. 

    The same person CALLS MY PHONE and keeps fucking calling repeatedly while I'm on it, and she knows the beep at the end of the ring while she's calling me means I'm on the phone because she worked at the fucking phone company when they implemented that. It is frustrating because I then hear BEEP, BEEP over the customer I am speaking to.

    She also will not write anything down, or check her text messages.

    This lady is my mom. I love her, but she drives me MENTAL sometimes.
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  • The worst person in my office spends way too much time on the internet, snorts when she laughs at whatever she reads, puts off work to answer messages, and often says, oh, don't make my ass ache, when she reads annoying things.

    I'm so glad I'm the only one here.
    You ARE annoying :p

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  • So this is not the worst person in my work unit but it just happened today so it's fresh. 

    I clean buildings and this guy works in the building I work out of sporadically. He's the type that when you say hello and ask how he is, rather than getting the standard "I'm good, you?" response he launches into his life story.
     He stopped me today as I was cleaning to tell me that the last time he saw me in the building he was struck by how "stunning" I looked. He went on to comment that he noticed before that I'd been getting a bit of a stomach (thanks buddy) but when he saw me in the lunch room he couldn't get over how stunning I was.
     Proceeded to tell me about a fight with his wife and how he's been married for 28 years but celibate for 20, and how when he loses the 37 lbs he needs before getting lapband surgery he's going to leave her and start looking elsewhere. Then told me that if FI ever dumps me, his door is always open.  
    He's got about 30 years on me and I think I missed half the conversation because I was trying not to stare at his snaggle tooth or inhale his stench. 

    That was the 3rd time I was hit on at work today...
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    I have a coworker who alternates between acting like he is my superior and is all snooty (I'm actually his but I don't act like it) and hitting on me in rather uncomfortable ways.
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  • Inkdancer said:
    The great thing about being at home: my worst coworker is me, and she's only bad because she keeps forgetting to put on socks and my feet get cold.
    I work from home too.  The worse coworker is the guy in my siggy.   Between 10-11 every single day he brings me a large rope to pull tug-of-war with.  EVERY.SINGLE.DAY.   He will growl and bark until I play with him. If I try to ignore him he jumps up on my with the rope in his mouth.  After 20 mins of play he is down until late afternoon.


    Non-local co-workers hands down is the boss' son.  He never answers his phone, text, email nothing.  He will respond to emails 6 months later. They always start off on how busy he is and how he has 500 emails to respond.  Umm yeah, see if you looked at them on a daily basis you might not have 500 emails.   He is too stupid to get that concept.

    He is famous for changing passwords on programs or just changing programs without telling you or any thought if others need them or are effected by the change.  

     About a 19 months ago his dad sent him to FL for  QB seminar.    Cool.   The day/night he came home he decided we were not longer going to use the online version.  Didn't tell anyone, not even his dad.   Now I work from home (14 hours away).  QB online had all my notes in the customer files.  I log in the next day to an email stating that QB online is no longer, everything is on the dedicated desktop in NOLA.   Since it's Jazz Fest is starting the next day we will talk about the changes AFTER Jazz Fest is finished.   JAZZ FEST LASTS 2 WEEKS!!!!

    Umm, did I  mentioned that he doesn't answers the phone or emails.  He actually thought I would just accept his email.   He is so stupid it never occurred to him that others use QB.  We check to see if the customers are current, we take payments over the phone on QB, modify customer contact information.   

    Son or not boss man get an earful from me.   Dad told son to put it back or he is fired. Also told his son that if I quit he is fired.    It took a few days, but I got my QB online back.

    Now I'm good with change.  But change means you involve everyone in the process.  You just do not flip a switch and expect everything is all good.  You need to ask those who use the system how the change will effect them.  


    That is just the tip of the iceberg.   It's a wonder I stay with the company he is that bad.  






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