Co-workers and their irritating habits

[peekaygee73]

Family and work colleagues, God love 'em. You can't pick either and, in the case of co-workers, you end up spending a lot of time with them which means having to live with their irritating habits. I like to think I'm pretty rational and easy-going but there are things some of my co-workers do which irritate me.

There are two people I work with who sit in meetings picking at the skin around their fingernails, which I find really distracting. I spend a lot of time around them both (one is my Manager) and at times it really winds me up - which I realise is completely irrational! One in particular can't rest his hands for more than 5 seconds without doing one of these:

• Picking the skin around his nails till it's sore;
• Picking/trimming his nails (which he then happily drops on the floor in meeting rooms);
• Picking his nose; and (believe it or not)
• Sticking his hand down the front of his trousers - I think he's rearranging himself. :shock:

Then there are the people who don't wash their hands after going to the toilet, piss all over the toilet seat, etc...

So, anyone else have colleagues with irritating habits which really wind you up? Or do I just need to lay off the coffee and seek anger management counselling?! :lol:

 

[Mr-shifter]

We had one guy who used to come into our office from time to time. He used to work off his laptop despite the fact that there were docking stations with monitors, mice and keyboards everywhere.

He then used to type away on his keyboard. He had a rate of about one letter every 1.5 seconds and it sounded like he was hitting his keyboard with a hammer every time he typed a letter. How he didn't break his fingers or the laptop I don't know. It was so bad the desk would shake.

Couldn't concentrate with that racket.

The person who sits next to me, although lovely and helpful, has the heater on flat out above her desk in the winter. I think at one point she had it set to 27. I turned it off once after she left and then the next morning I got told not to touch it, she gets in earlier than everyone else and can't get warm all day if the heatings off. She then hid the remote control. The only person to be allowed to turn it down was the other woman who works in our office.

It's been hot in there recently. Fine I thought, as this heater is also the air conditioner. But we aren't allowed it on cool because she doesn't like the breeze on her neck! We had to use the other air conditioner on the other side of the room which then leaked down the wall and ****ed the carpet. Now we have no air con!

I am currently getting the unit moved to the other side of the office so she can't **** about with it any more.

 

[Robstyley]

I don't know if you'd call it an irritating habit but I work with a bloke who just moans like **** constantly about anything and everything but mostly about the company. From the minute you see him in the morning, bleating about what they've done to him now. Thankfully I don't have to spend much time with him, we're lorry drivers, but I have had to go out on the road all day with him a couple of times and he has done my swede in. To the point where after a few hours of his whinging I had to pretend to be asleep to get him to shut up! :lol: 8)

 

[tiefighterboy]

Constant throat clearing...can be heard from 8 offices away. Really needs something in her throat to stop that.

 

[Russ J]

I'm pretty lucky at work I get on with all my work mates (I'm a Joiner and my 'office' is a workshop :lol: )...if I wanna shut myself away I just listen to my iPod and then I can't here any one :lol: ...only person that gets on my tits is my boss....he's a **** 8)

 

[x-pack]

Great thread! If this had been on 12 months ago I might have exploded all over it about the total cocks I used to work with in the cops. A contributing factor to my leaving for good was that I could not stand a lot of the people I was forced to work most closely with, or for.

This is just one example. A 21 year old girl I was partnered up with for 18 months who flirted her way into the job. In my leaving interview with my sergeant my description of her was "a vapid drone, worshipping at the alter of vanity". She would wear so much makeup the inside of her bowler hat was the same colour as her face. While dealing with extremely sensitive incidents I had to tell her to get off her mobile phone. On one particularly memorable day she was texting her boyfriend while this poor man poured out his heart about the suicide rate in his family. Walking round constantly texting while on patrol. Pretending to do paperwork so as not to go out. Constantly turning every conversation round so its about her and her interests, which were going to the gym and herself. Oh and the bitching about colleagues! That is something I cannot tolerate as it spreads like a disease. Bad news.

The cops was rife for ****ing irritating personalities.

 

[x-pack]

Constant throat clearing...can be heard from 8 offices away. Really needs something in her throat to stop that.

Used to work with someone who did that. I read somewhere it was possibly a sign that something sinister was wrong. For some people constant throat clearing is probably just habit.

 

[tiefighterboy]

Constant throat clearing...can be heard from 8 offices away. Really needs something in her throat to stop that.

Used to work with someone who did that. I read somewhere it was possibly a sign that something sinister was wrong. For some people constant throat clearing is probably just habit.

With this one..it is either a nervous twitch or attention seeking.

 

[theforceuk]

Constant throat clearing...can be heard from 8 offices away. Really needs something in her throat to stop that.

Used to work with someone who did that. I read somewhere it was possibly a sign that something sinister was wrong. For some people constant throat clearing is probably just habit.

With this one..it is either a nervous twitch or attention seeking.

Seriously you should go to China, they do this all the time it's the same as someone in England politely coughing with their hand over the mouth.

 

[Joe]

Not really a habit but I used to work with a guy that thought it was funny to do a voice a bit like the Anorak character from CBBC whenever a woman he fancied came through our part of the building.

I can still hear it in my head, makes me cringe every single time.

 

[poncho]

Shitty motivational cringy speeches

then colleagues chipping in about how we could improve after

oh and



'It is it what it is....

 

[x-pack]

At the end of a training course when they ask 'any questions?' - always some **** starts going on and on

 

[edd_jedi]

The person who sits next to me, although lovely and helpful, has the heater on flat out above her desk in the winter. I think at one point she had it set to 27. I turned it off once after she left and then the next morning I got told not to touch it, she gets in earlier than everyone else and can't get warm all day if the heatings off. She then hid the remote control. The only person to be allowed to turn it down was the other woman who works in our office.

It's been hot in there recently. Fine I thought, as this heater is also the air conditioner. But we aren't allowed it on cool because she doesn't like the breeze on her neck! We had to use the other air conditioner on the other side of the room which then leaked down the wall and ****ed the carpet. Now we have no air con!

I am currently getting the unit moved to the other side of the office so she can't **** about with it any more.

This is the bane of my life too. I sit opposite a Caribbean woman who is cold no matter what the weather outside, I've never seen her not wearing a jumper and she literally wears her coat all day during winter. She'll turn the air conditioning off, close windows, basically whatever suits her. Zero respect for what anybody else wants, she's quite happy for the other 100 people in the office to be dying of heat stroke as long as she's nice and toasty.

 

[Lindo]

At the end of a training course when they ask 'any questions?' - always some **** starts going on and on

Hit the nail on the head there mate, that proper ****s me off specially when you have a ****ing 3 hour drive home after the meeting, wanna run the cock over in the carpark afterwards.

 

[SublevelStudios]

One of the reasons I work for myself now - I'm something of a misanthrope. The thought of having to work in an office with other people all day wold make me suicidle now.

But my last employed job I sat opposite a woman who breathed so heavy through he nose it whistled, ALL THE ****ING TIME. It got to the point it was all I could hear. It just put me in a fould mood all day, every day. Then I broke, I couldn't take it any more and snapped at her in front of about 8 people - 'SHUT YOUR ****ING NOSE UP FOR ****S SAKE!!!' - then stormed out of the office for a fag

About 2 weeks later I handed my notice in

 

[x-pack]

One of the reasons I work for myself now - I'm something of a misanthrope. The thought of having to work in an office with other people all day wold make me suicidle now.

But my last employed job I sat opposite a woman who breathed so heavy through he nose it whistled, ALL THE ****ING TIME. It got to the point it was all I could hear. It just put me in a fould mood all day, every day. Then I broke, I couldn't take it any more and snapped at her in front of about 8 people - 'SHUT YOUR ****ING NOSE UP FOR ****S SAKE!!!' - then stormed out of the office for a fag

About 2 weeks later I handed my notice in

It's **** like that that turns rational people into axe wielding maniacs mate. Some people are just asking to be hit with a computer monitor and garotted with the mouse cable!

 

[yoda]

I know this stupid bitch isn't my co worker but she's someones. I was driving just now and I could see a red VW Beetle coming towards me close to the middle white line and moving closer to it. I would say I was driving around 60mph. As it got closer I couldn't see who or what was driving because all I could see what I now realise was the back of a ****ing ph or pad on top of the steering wheel. It was just the moment when she drove past I could see her face. That was my WTF moment when I questioned myself did that really happen :? I would say she was doing at least 50mph :roll: I actually watched the mirror after she passed as I knew there were cars behind me. Luckily nothing happened. Complete madness what she was at unfortunately she doesn't realise how quickly things can change otherwise the ph would have stayed in her handbag.

 

[x-pack]

I know this stupid bitch isn't my co worker but she's someones. I was driving just now and I could see a red VW Beetle coming towards me close to the middle white line and moving closer to it. I would say I was driving around 60mph. As it got closer I couldn't see who or what was driving because all I could see what I now realise was the back of a ****ing ph or pad on top of the steering wheel. It was just the moment when she drove past I could see her face. That was my WTF moment when I questioned myself did that really happen :? I would say she was doing at least 50mph :roll: I actually watched the mirror after she passed as I knew there were cars behind me. Luckily nothing happened. Complete madness what she was at unfortunately she doesn't realise how quickly things can change otherwise the ph would have stayed in her handbag.

If I were in charge of law and order people like that would be released into the woods and hunted by hungry sharp toothed wild animals. The annoyingness of the offence would determine how much of a head start they got.

 

[StarWarsFan]

The company I use to work for my supervisor was a first class A hole he couldn't get through a day without having a go at me and the manger was about as much use as a chocolate fireguard and a first class a hole as well.

 

[peekaygee73]

I had to post again on this thread...

One of the guys I work with has a cold, but he's battling on and spreading it round the office. I've just been in a meeting with him where he's been sniffing constantly, with the phlegm clearly going into the back of his throat. So after around 45 minutes I got really pissed off with him and offered him a tissue... only to get the response "It's OK thanks I've got a hankie".

"WELL ****ING USE IT THEN!!!"