The two most annoying people were fired in the past month.

One of my bosses can irritate the crap out of me but since I'm working with her today and have to play nice I'm not saying anything else. Though interestingly enough, her sister made me shake on a bet that she'll be nicer and easier to work with now that she kicked her husband out of the house yesterday.

weird.

No, although I'm sure she would, as she's a 50-some-year-old Dutch lesbian.

My biggest problem out of the box was that she lied like fucking crazy on her resume; put tons of programming languages and applications she was 'expert' in, and I came to discover (within a day or two) that she could barely write an email. I've never seen such blatant lying on a resume.

But that would be acceptable to me, if she wasn't the most annoying and underqualified person on earth; one that's so painfully aware of that fact that she uses every underhanded competitive scheme in the book to stay afloat.

The annoying aspects:
Prefaced every question with "Question:" This sounds amusing at first, but once you hear that 30 times a day or so, you become painfully aware that you don't need your sentences qualified. "Declaration: stop saying that."

As a dutch native, cannot pronounce the 'th' sound. It's always "d." Again, funny enough in small doses, but to me at least, da 'th' sound is not dat difficult to learn. But dat's just me.

Talks about how much she works on weekends and at 3 and 4 in the morning in front of the bosses. They don't care, and it should be quite obvious at this point, but yet she always makes a point of saying this every chance she gets. "I got a phone call at 3 a.m. last night and worked until 5!," or "I was working on dat on Saturday. Dat's right, everybody. Saturday!" Along those lines, comments on the fact that I show up between 9 and 9:30 every day. She gets here at 7, despite the fact that nobody we work with starts before 9 a.m., and the office is not technically open.

Interrupts everyone, even our bosses. This is the kind of shit that gets you fired real fast. No one can get a point out without being interrupted. Major pet peeve, and I know I'm not alone.

Man, that's just the start ...

here is a recent true conversation:

her : "scotty, how are these folders filed?"

me: "they are filed chronologically according to the date they closed"

her: "so they are filed alphabetically then?"

yeah, true story

So you're saying they are filed alphabetically?

Since I am technically the only one who "works" for this campaign (i.e. drwaws a paltry paycheck) I am my most annyoing co-worker. That said, I have to deal with "Finance Committe Members" that have lived and raised money in this communityt for 15-20 years, and still want contributors lists, a boss who nitpicks me to death 9and makes ME get our firm's fee from the candidate's scretary), a candidate who's operating style is "just smile and nod and hope I don't have to repeat anything," and I have to figureout how to raise money through other institutions, because I work for a black man in a racist, chicken shit city.

I think the reason I am unmotivated is because subconsciously I WANT to get fired.

Join the club.

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No, although I'm sure she would, as she's a 50-some-year-old Dutch lesbian.

My biggest problem out of the box was that she lied like fucking [i]crazy on her resume; put tons of programming languages and applications she was 'expert' in, and I came to discover (within a day or two) that she could barely write an email. I've never seen such blatant lying on a resume.

But that would be acceptable to me, if she wasn't the most annoying and underqualified person on earth; one that's so painfully aware of that fact that she uses every underhanded competitive scheme in the book to stay afloat.

The annoying aspects:
Prefaced every question with "Question:" This sounds amusing at first, but once you hear that 30 times a day or so, you become painfully aware that you don't need your sentences qualified. "Declaration: stop saying that."

As a dutch native, cannot pronounce the 'th' sound. It's always "d." Again, funny enough in small doses, but to me at least, da 'th' sound is not dat difficult to learn. But dat's just me.

Talks about how much she works on weekends and at 3 and 4 in the morning in front of the bosses. They don't care, and it should be quite obvious at this point, but yet she always makes a point of saying this every chance she gets. "I got a phone call at 3 a.m. last night and worked until 5!," or "I was working on dat on Saturday. Dat's right, everybody. Saturday!" Along those lines, comments on the fact that I show up between 9 and 9:30 every day. She gets here at 7, despite the fact that nobody we work with starts before 9 a.m., and the office is not technically open.

Interrupts everyone, even our bosses. This is the kind of shit that gets you fired real fast. No one can get a point out without being interrupted. Major pet peeve, and I know I'm not alone.

Man, that's just the start ...[/quote][/i]

Change Dutch to from Panama, lesbian to married, add that she hits on every guy that walks into office and has seduced co-workers and the friends of my brother, going as far as to bribe one mexican laborer by telling him that he'd get fired if he doesn't sleep with her, and wham! You'd have the bookkeeper at my family's company, someone I worked with for 5 years.

I once gave her the middle finger and verbally told her to fuck off and my brother threatened to fire me if I did it again. The rest of the company applauded me for it though.

She's fucking nuts. My old super and I found evidence that she's not really doing the work, that she's copying the account info and taking it home to her husband at night for him to do. My dad hates her as does the whole company but for some reason my brother still won't fire her. He thinks she's doing a good job.

Your dad is in on it.

Get out of the house.

My biggest nemesis at my job recently quit so that was a relief. Also, I have the ability to just ignore everybody.

From my last review:
Steve comes across as not being very approachable-seems frustrated or not interested in the people/person that he is talking to.

Isn't chronologically just alphabetical for dates?

at my last job I sat next to this guy, nice and all, but fucking annoying as all get out. His primary weapon was that he was a low volume talker. He rarely turned to talk to me; he just kept his head down. So I could never tell if he was actually saying something intended for me to hear or not. But I was always cordial and responded to whatever he was saying, just to be nice. which was always a mistake on my part.

But this dude always talked. always. about really nothing. The two worse times in the day that I always wanted to strangle him was the short period of time before I had to start work and lunch. it never failed, both of those times he just talked and talked and talked. about absolutely nothing. Or, to repeat the exact same thing that he told me two days ago, of which he obviously had forgotten about telling me.

and he alternated called me "dog" or "dude" whenever he had the opportunity. For one company function at a bar, he was drunk, and I talked to him at the end of the night. He called me "dog" 8 times within a span of 3 sentences. When I pointed this out to him he said "yeah dude that's my thing!!

You reminded me that the old guy calls everyone "hoss" on the phone. Pisses my shit off.

We had a salesperson that was having problems selling the company’s services. For whatever reason, she was able to get a prospective client interested but was never able to close the deal. She was finally given an ultimatum that she needed to produce business or she was outta here. Well, she sucked at selling, but she came up with the bright idea of working in my department for 30 days. Surely, if I trained her on all the aspects involved with my department, she would be able to apply everything she learned to another position within the company. Stupidly, I agreed.

My first mistake was assuming she was bright. I couldn’t have been more wrong. Here’s an example of what I had to deal with:

AF: “MJ, we’re going to help out the Payroll Dept with some data entry and I’ve volunteered you for the job. Bring your notepad and a pen to take notes while I show you what to do.”

I showed her how to change and input information several times, going over each step. I asked if she had any questions, concerns, if so, ask away. She assured me there were none and heads back to her cubicle. A few minutes later, I hear…

MJ: “Taaaaaaania! The system is not working for me. It won’t let me change the data. I think the system has locked me out or I don’t have access to it.”

AF: “What d’ya mean? Let me see what you’re trying to do.”

MF: “See? It’s stuck, it won’t let me access the employee’s file.”

AF: “Well, MJ, that’s because you need to select an employee first before you can make any changes.”

MJ: “Ohhhhhhhhhh…but….it doesn’t say that in my notes.”

AF: “It doesn’t say that in your notes? Uhm…well, who took those notes?”

That’s where she emitted a maniacal laugh and I walked back to my desk hoping lightning would strike indoors.

There was also a time when I was going to train her on something else and informed her she might wish to take notes. That immediately prompted her to grab a 2” x 2” Post-It notepad sitting on my desk and started taking notes. “Gee, MJ, you might want a bigger piece of paper to take notes on.” Emits another maniacal laugh and runs back to her desk for a notepad.

no goddamnit im saying they are filed chronologically

You just gave OPA a boner.


I don't know where I'd start with my co-workers. Some guy fell down in the snow today and claimed he "broke" his ankle (they took x-rays later and it was only sprained) and they had a fire truck, ambulance, police car and a DHL truck out there for him. One of my co-workers was there and said out loud that he wished he had a camera it was so ridiculous.

This guy Jim started talking to me today while I had my headphones on and couldn't hear anything so I took them off and...

Jim: What going on here? I've never seen you pull down this early! (his attempt at humor)

Me: ...Yeah (put headphones back on)

Jim: (talking again while my headphones are on)

Me: (i take my headphones off) I can't hear you with these on

Jim: (he comes over to me) What's the matter? You don't want to listen to Shirley & Willie? (a couple who work right across from each other and talk loudly back and forth all morning about stupid shit)

Me: i don't really want to listen to you either

Jim: haha (walks away)

i wish people would cut the bullshit. somehow people get the impression into their heads that youre supposed to like the people you work with, which is total crap. my message to the people out there, whoever you are (im not making a statement about anyone on the board, everyone here is much too smart ), is to stop with the lame attempts at friendship, youre not doing anyone any favours. its ok to not get along with your coworkers. quit with the facade. as far as bad coworkers go, i worked in a grocery store for 4 years, which in my town cultivated the cream of the crap. idiots galore, and whats more, the management was even more stupid than the staff. the store was a popular target for stealing and vadalism, but the management was so idiotic and desperate for staff because no one would work there (because most people knew just how stupid they were), they would actually hire people to work there who stole in the past. i never got much shit thrown at me mostly because people knew i was about ten times smarter than anyone else who worked there, and could get about 20 times the amount of work done.

I post here to avoid my coworkers. That's all I want to add to this thread, pretty much.

I'm the boss so I'm probably the most annoying coworker---despite the fact that I consider myself a pretty damn cool person to work for.....

So cool that a man openly died to avoid coming to work.......

Edit, i think i just achieved British Press Hype----thats cool b/c i probably have some copies of a high school demo tape in storage somewhere that I can market as "Yail Bloor: The Early Years"

Janice....all the bitch does is eat, and blather, eat and blather....drinks a soda....repeat from the beginning.

Durring meetings she asks the most elementary questions that every one already knows the anwser to.
I often ask myslef how this person got hired?


Why is it that there is always that ONE person that has to ask the most idiotic fucking questions over and over and over and over....

Fifteen years ago. Video store manager. Wants to be everybody's friend. Smarm for days. Stank of failed actor. He and his wife used to work at Walt Disney World.

Here was his brilliant idea of how to interview clueless teenagers looking for their first part-time job. He wanted to know that they would be able to recommend movies to customers, so he would, as part of the interview, hand them some drama off the shelf, make them go home and watch it, and then come back and sell him on renting that movie.