How do you deal with annoying coworkers?

[catlanta33]

The weight lifted from my shoulders leaving inside corporate America to independent rep may have added years to my life. My old company was one of the worst work environments I've worked in and would routinely keep dead weight at the expense of paying for new, decent talent.

Of the 9 years I worked in an office there, I certainly encountered numerous annoying coworkers but two in particular took it a step further. Both of them at one point put their hands on me, one because he thought it was funny to smack you in the back of your head and the other pushed me back from walking in an office. I handled both instances like a reactionary hothead would and both of these guys never gave me a problem afterwards.

Needless to say, managing customers as a rep has it's own challenges but I don't miss working directly with dead weight, negative people at all. I can't see myself going back to that environment either if I can help it.

 

[Captain Forehead]

Worked in an office. The new hire was immediately not well liked. We had an office manager who would always answer the phone since we were a satellite office for a larger company. Just 4 - 5 of us in the office.

First day on the job, we got a phone call and he answered it mid first ring. Was like a wild west shootout. Reflex was so fast it was mind boggling. Person who was calling said that it never even rang on their end. The person dialed our number and all of a sudden there was a guy on the other end talking. Got to be a running joke. Manager and another guy tried to race him to answer the phone, unsuccessfully. He couldn't organize a single waking thought without sharing it with everyone else. Talked all the damn time.

He also felt like deserved special treatment. Any minor inconvenience that any of us would just deal with, he would make a huge deal out of. He was just a spoiled whiny *** *****. For instance, the office building we were renting out of was putting in new tile in front of our office. He was pissed that he was temporarily inconvenienced for a couple of days while these guys did their work. Didn't stop any of us from being able to enter our offices and do our jobs. We just had to walk a certain path for a couple of days so to not mess up the new tile. Literally no big deal. Said they should be doing the work on the weekend so not to interfere with his schedule. Which actually didn't interfere with him at all. He couldn't understand the concept that those guys worked through the week and liked having their weekends off too.

 

[mashburned]

I'm 100% in favor of this principle. If you don't know you shouldn't sexually harass women at work, you shouldn't have gotten the job in the first place.

It's incredible that he still works here. He hired a male stripper to perform for our secretaries one year for admin professional day.

He doesn't understand why there was anything wrong with that.[/QUOTE]

lol...well did they like it?

 

[BlueVelvetFog]

Rule of thumb- if the boss is ok having an ******* in the office--the boss is likely an *******.
I worked for a company branch (remote office far from corporate), and this loud, country-fried bi""" had the boss' ear the whole time. An office full of developers and CIS folks and she's yelling across the room like a banshee. The place is at a continual boiling point because of her--but the boss acts like she does no harm. Glad I got out of there. Looking back, I'm pretty certain she had serious dirt on him and he knew it. I can't think of any other reasonable explanation.

As far as how I wanted to handle it

 

[UKGrad93]

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lol...well did they like it?[/QUOTE]

They did like it. The dude was lucky though that none of the other women that work in the office were there that day. Several of the other women would have been offended and outraged.

 

[ScrewDuke1]

actually quite the contrary. It's one of those transexual bathrooms.

[laughing]

 

[8titles_rivals270261]

actually quite the contrary. It's one of those transexual bathrooms.

Kind of like the douche bag that will skip by 6 unmanned ******* stalls to sit right beside you and then proceed to blow the bowl up. Nothing is worse at testing your restraint.

 

[LineSkiCat14]

Undermine the **** out of the coworker and get the whole office to turn on them. That's something a Karen or a Kathy would do.

 

[MychalG]

I usually grab them and throw them over my shoulder, I carry them out to the balcony and hold them by their ankles and watch the fear in their faces as I dangle them over the railing. I only do this when one of the ladies has a skirt on. Then I come back in the office and tell everyone what color panties she has on..this usually gets them back in line. I work with mostly women..

 

[UKserialkiller]

Kind of like the douche bag that will skip by 6 unmanned ******* stalls to sit right beside you and then proceed to blow the bowl up. Nothing is worse at testing your restraint.

Absolutely. The same guy will piss right next to you at the urinal even though there are 30 other open urinals.


My colleague is lucky. I don't care about period blood. Only thing that annoys me is the clients who use that bathroom. If they wash their hands, they will see a woman's bleeding menstrual blood pad. I'm not okay with that

 

[anon_q409idbs5m40a]

I had a guy that would come into my office during my lunch hour and start telling me about how his bowel movements have changed since he started taking some sort of supplement. Got to the point where I just started closing my door during lunch.

 

[vhcat70]

Ever heard of going postal?