[–] GreatTragedy 0 points 1 point 1 point (+1|-0) ago
The guy clips his fingernails at his desk. Often. Like he doesn't have 90 seconds to ever do it at home.
[–] tolstoshev 0 points 1 point 1 point (+1|-0) ago
Chewing with his mouth open. Loudly. If I snap, please bail me out of jail.
[–] RainieRola 0 points 1 point 1 point (+1|-0) ago
This older guy (50s) is wayyyy too talkative. Luckily, he mostly talks to another coworker who his age. But if he wants to "school" me (he's incredibly patronizing), he dives into an hourlong one-sided discussion about whatever it is he thinks I need to know. I could say something casually and he would launch into a talk about why I was wrong or shouldn't think like that, even at the most innocuous thing. I started speaking up about his behavior and he took offense to it, despite saying that he had thick skin.
[–] l23r 0 points 1 point 1 point (+1|-0) ago
Don't talk to him, at all, unless absolutely necessary. In those cases, always have an out - you need to get back to work, you're about to go on your break, your shift is finished, etc. If you sit next to him, just say "I need to cut this conversation short because I need to concentrate on my work"
If he continues, consider bringing it up with your boss, saying something like "so-and-so is trying to be helpful, but he spends 60 minutes explaining something and continues to talk to me even when I am trying to work. I think so-and-so should be more concise, or contact the supervisor if he feels something needs to be fixed or changed." Pretty much the Sandwich Technique (something good, something bad, something good or at least neutral to sum it all up) You don't seem like an ass, but you still make it known that this douche is stopping you from being able to do your job, which is the main thing your boss will be concerned about. They will hopefully do something to stop him from bothering you.
[–] RainieRola ago
I try not to talk to him. Unfortunately, he's kinda-sorta a supervisor (although not my supervisor but he has some authority over me). Luckily, people in my office in my back though. I've started putting my headphones in and avoiding eye contact LOL. He's one of those people if he says hi to you, you MUST say hi back.
[–] MaxDeadlift 0 points 1 point 1 point (+1|-0) ago
Told this story before, but repeating it because everyone must know my hate:
We hired this girl a couple years ago. When she first started, she seemed fine, but something about the way her buggy eyes coupled with the way she vacantly smiles set me off. It started with little annoying things: I noticed she was overly eager, constantly being the first to volunteer to accomplish some work task despite having no experience in our daily working environment. She would thrust herself into the middle of a two-person conversation. Every time she used her calculator she'd verbally say the numbers she was punching in. She spoke at an unreasonably high volume. She types in ALL CAPS for every single one of her e-mails.
But then... I started to notice something else. I work in a pretty open office. Everyone can pretty much see and hear everyone else, including when they're on the phone. Every time she was on the phone with a client, I would hear her conversation go like this: "perfect... perfect... yup, perfect... okay, perfect!" I looked up to see if anyone else had noticed that this lady literally used the word "perfect" about ten times in a 45 second phone call. Nope, didn't seem to affect anyone else but me. I thought maybe I was imagining things or it was just that one phone call, but it happened every call, every day. I would grind my teeth for weeks every time she picked up the phone. It was haunting me: "Perfect!" "Perfect!" "Okay, PERFECT!" It wasn't so much the amount of times she said it as much as the way she said it: "pur-FECT!" with an unnecessary emphasis on the "fect."
Soon, her phone calls became nothing but fillers: "Perfect... exactly... great... sounds good... PERFECT..." She started to fill silence with loud sighs as if the weight of the world was bearing down on her. There were so many things that annoyed me about her that I actually made a check-off list. I once counted her saying "perfect" 45 times in one day and I wasn't even actively listening.
And then there's the small talk. Oh god, the small talk. "How was traffic coming in?" "The weather has been gorgeous lately, hasn't it?" "Do you find the internet slow?" This bitch never actually says anything. Her entire conversations are based off small talk which I absolutely abhor.
Anyway, there's so much more to this woman that just makes my blood boil. But I think I've already taken too much time to answer the question. I also probably come off as crazy myself when I write about how much energy I put into hating this one person.
tl;dr: PERFECT
And if you think I'm exaggerating about the phone calls, I did in fact record a snippet of one: http://vocaroo.com/i/s1LoEV6p1sGs. If you lost count, that's 11 PERFECTs in the span of 43 seconds.
[–] notaseriesoftubes ago
i feel like i've read this before...
[–] Pope_Roman 0 points 1 point 1 point (+1|-0) ago
I wash dishes, and the other dishwashers are SO FUCKING SLOW HOLY SHIT
[–] amp138 0 points 2 points 2 points (+2|-0) ago
Most of my co workers annoy me, but I am also a total miserable fuck, so maybe it's just me. Examples:
Guy in front of me likes to interrupt my work when I have my earbuds in to talk about nothing in particular. I feel like if my headphones are in, that means don't talk to me unless you have work related problems. This happens a few times a day.
One dude likes to come up with completely outlandish facts and stories that have no basis in reality and are mainly off of hearsay. These have included the following - "Ronda Rousey just opened a kickboxing gym in Johnston, RI" , "M&M shells are made from pulverized beetles", and "Sierra Nevada brews their beer in America, but sends it to Europe to bottle/can it." He also recently made a blunder by advising a coworker that he would be getting a confederate flag tattoo "but not in a racist way."
An older lady in the front of my room likes to point out the obvious. Like if I'm changing into my gym clothes for when I leave work "OH SOMEBODYS HITTIN THE GYM" or if I get a haircut "SOMEBODY GOT A HAIRCUT, SOMEBODY GOT A HAIRCUT". She's Ok though because I like to eat her candy. But if the candy was nonexistent, she would be beyond awful.
Our mail clerk is a royal dummy, can't do anything right, and has occasionally in the past forced me to listen to music. Musical genres I have never even professed to like, such as jazz fusion, reggae, and lounge music. Forces me at times to also listen to her stories about how she runs. And runs. And runs some more. HATE.
Finally, my favorite is my team lead, who loves to hum. LOUDLY. SO LOUD.
tl;dr want to kill myself
[–] Idunsums 2 points 0 points 2 points (+2|-2) ago
If any of you answer no then it's you!