HateMyCoworker

I work with a martyr

Saturday, 14 February 2009 07:44 RG

I work with a Martyr. Since the day she started, she has stayed late every single night. When she first started, she didn't have enough work to keep her busy for two hours, but yet stayed until everyone else had gone home, just to make an impression.

This has literally gone on for 10+ years -- she has never gone home at 5:00 (her supposed clock-out time) and always makes sure to send us emails at 8:00 p.m. or later..just to let everyone know she was there, working late.

She also enjoys turning back assignment late -- this furthers the impression that she's so busy she can't possibly meet deadlines. In addiition to a deadpan exterior, avoidance of all office social events, and a standoffish demeanor, she doesn't even look up from her computer when you ask a question.

Just someone you don't want to be around at all but, unfortunately, has live on the other side of my cubicle for the past 10+ years.

Working with a lazy whiner

Friday, 30 January 2009 13:16 Aaarggh!

I have a coworker who is constantly sick, and very often merely "sick." As a person who hasn't taken a sick day in over a year, I don't have a lot of sympathy for someone who doesn't take care of themselves, which she doesn't. I could live with just that, though, but she is also a lazy whiner. If I ask her to do something - something that is her JOB - the response is usually a heavy sigh and rolling eyeballs and tales of all the other stuff she has to do.

We are all swamped here lately, and personally I'm thankful for it in this economy. She doesn't really want the job though, which brings me to the other problem. It's a family-owned company, and she is a friend of the family who initially needed the job, but now just stays on as a favor to my parents. Her attitude sucks, she does as little as she can and leaves early constantly and I have a complete lack of respect for her. She is a waste of space who contributes nothing useful to the world, including her whiny, spoiled daughter (married with 3 kids) and a live-at-home 36 year old son who doesn't pay rent.

I stay out of loyalty, and because I enjoy my job, but I'm not gonna make it much longer with her. Lack of respect makes it nearly impossible for me to be civil to her (I have my own temper problems that I acknowledge and am working on). She is overweight and has recently had bariatric surgery, which she is convinced that this will solve all of her problems, and she comes back soon. I have to be able to work with her and not tell her what I really think and not respond to her irksome behavior, and I'm very concerned that I won't be able to do this.

Any serious advice is welcome.

Signed,
Aaarggh!

"If you can't be a good example, then you'll just have to be a horrible warning." Catherine Aird

PETA and the human carnivor

Thursday, 29 January 2009 20:32 HMC Staff

If you have incisors then you are a meat eater. Enough of all this. If all of those vegans would knock down their McMansons and allow more free range animals the space for me to hunt like Ted Nugent you wouldn't have a pulpit.Stop wasting my ozone with your wasteful propaganda and move on to more important things like getting food for the hungry and shelter for the homeless.

Last Updated on Thursday, 29 January 2009 21:21

Collecting a check

Friday, 30 January 2009 13:13 Stephanie

My new coworker likes to clock in and immediately go outside to smoke and talk on her cell phone. She will continue to talk loudly on her cell phone throughout the day, and we are SUPPOSED to be in a quiet environment. She loves to randomly walk around our workplace to gossip with others or discuss which ones she's sleeping with at the time. She uses the most repulsive curse words about EVERY client, yet puts on little miss perfect act, to the client's face (thank goodness).

We have tried to complain about her actions to our supervisor, but when apprehended, she comes up with a story about how she's sick, somebody in her family is sick, she owes money here and there...served of course with a river of tears. And now, six months after her reign of hell began, she is scheduled to work more hours than the rest of us.
Obviously she's sleeping with the right person.

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