When you just HATE someone you work with

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When you just HATE someone you work with

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and you know HATIN' IS BAD. And you know you are being irrational.

But each interaction is painful. And you "think you know more than they do".

For the last 3 months, I have a new "contact" with a client. She is far less intelligent than she thinks she is. But I am sure we all are. But it would TAKE SO LITTLE to make this interaction pleasant. And she is more interested in pissing on trees. I don't care about territory or status. I just want to get along. Make money. help the client be successful.

I am so close to giving up easy, regular money because I just think she "minuses" that money with her attitude and communication style.

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rant approved.

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2 years, it was brutal, then he was let go. Clipped his nails everyday, said things like "also too," and always introduced someone as "my friend X."

"How's my friend JoD doing? Also too, did you get that thing I sent you?"

Wasn't a bad person, just drove me insane.

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I have a coworker who is the most boring, vanilla, whipped person I've ever met. I don't think he's ever done a single thing spontaneously in his life. His entire weekend is planned in advance by his wife. So he lives vicariously through everyone else. Monday through Wednesday he asks "how was your weekend" and Thursday and Friday are "what are your plans for the weekend". Even if you've already discussed it the day before he asks again. He's also a really active listener that says "yeah yeah yeah" every time in place of "yes" and always seems to be anticipating what you are going to say and reacting to it before you even say it. I change course all the time mid sentence to [expletive] with him. I call him the eager beaver.

My hatred for him is probably a little irrational but he started it. He's one of those [expletive] that eats junk food all day every day and still weighs 150. We were having our lunch provided one day by our boss out of her own pocket. We were told it would be ready at 11. It was ready at 11:30. He started crying and also lied and said he was diabetic. It was all downhill from there. He also listens to Glenn Beck all day and soaks it up like a sponge.

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He also brushes his teeth twice a day at his desk and keeps a giant bottle to spit the toothpaste into for weeks at a time rather than using the bathroom like a sane person.

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I work with a couple guys I get along with really well. So, that's good. But, there's one guy who is a lot like 82's guy above. Except he stinks and he's on the liberal extreme instead of the conservative extreme. So, if anything, like anything at all comes up in conversation, he'll get up, waddle 20 feet over to my desk and give his 2 cents to piss most people off then linger around - stinking the place up with that BO-moldy smell.

My #1 pet peeve is people saying they will feed us at work and then not doing so. Drives me nuts! That's not really the same as being late though. That's understandable and was a nice gesture in the first place, so there should have been a ton of leeway given. Though, I can understand some people need to stay on schedule and could have been messed up by missing lunch for 30-40 minutes.

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cardsfansince82 wrote:He started crying and also lied and said he was diabetic.
Get the [expletive] out of here.

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cardsfansince82 wrote:He also brushes his teeth twice a day at his desk and keeps a giant bottle to spit the toothpaste into for weeks at a time rather than using the bathroom like a sane person.
Good lord.

Outside of annoying co-workers, I've worked with a few people that I just don't get along with. Most of the time it extends from them trying to "pull rank" when they don't really have much of a rank to pull. Don't [expletive] puff your chest out, buddy.

I also struggle with managers who are more focused on metrics and slogans than actually getting [expletive] done.

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JL21 wrote:
cardsfansince82 wrote:He started crying and also lied and said he was diabetic.
Get the [expletive] out of here.
Tears streaming down his face. The best part is the lady that sits next to him actually is diabetic and everyone knows it because she doesn't participate in any of our food days. A real diabetic knows better than to depend on other people for food.

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Plenty that frustrate, quite a few I love to work with and a couple over the years that I hated.

Worst of all was my direct supervisor for over 4 years. So lazy, so incompetent, so self centered, so dumb. One of those guys that would go out of his was to avoid work that he wasn't even going to do. Very messy- remember, we live together 24 hours at a time and we are the cleaning staff, sunflower seeds everywhere.

I hated going to work when he was there.

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