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Have you ever worked with someone who can't stand you?

  • 14-04-2011 01:53PM
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    Closed Accounts Posts: 6 uncleinim


    I do. Ordinarily I wouldn't be arsed about it, but the thing is, I like this co-employee! It doesn't seem to matter what I do, whether I'm nice and engaging, or if I try and stay out of their way, the outcome is the same. It makes for an awkward work environment....


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  • Banned (with Prison Access) Posts: 6,315 ✭✭✭Jazzy


    no, just like Biff Loman, Im well liked


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 3,332 ✭✭✭Guill


    Mod Edit.

    Out of date meme removed.











    (i know, i know)


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 12,449 ✭✭✭✭El Guapo!


    Fúck them. Give them a reason to hate you. Be a bollox. They already hate you so you might aswell have some fun with it. :pac:


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 5,165 ✭✭✭enda1


    You stink. Sorry to break it to you.


  • Posts: 81,308 CMod ✭✭✭✭ Otto Defeated Buttermilk


    I'm pretty sure one of my colleagues isn't that fond of me, though he's nothing but polite and professional.
    Well, work is work, so try to get on with it


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  • Closed Accounts Posts: 2,420 ✭✭✭Magic Eight Ball


    Bill Lumbergh!! Always has me working Saturdays! :mad:


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 9,932 ✭✭✭take everything


    Bill Lumbergh!! Always has me working Saturdays! :mad:

    Just make sure those coverslips are on the TPS reports.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 58,456 ✭✭✭✭ibarelycare


    Guill wrote: »
    Blast them with piss?











    (i know, i know)

    Yet you still posted it?


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 21,448 ✭✭✭✭Cupcake_Crisis


    Make them suffer. What have you got to lose?


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 25,775 ✭✭✭✭kfallon


    Pretty sure there has been a few!

    I've hated a lot of people I worked with but it's work, you stay civil, do your work, fook off home at 5 and don't give them another second's thought before 9am the following morn!


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  • Closed Accounts Posts: 14,762 ✭✭✭✭stupidusername


    I think starting this job i pissed off our developer, but now we get on like a house on fire :D think that was cause of the bitching session we had about the boss. plus i kinda don't work with him - he's in a different country.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 13,295 ✭✭✭✭Duggy747


    If they hates you mention this to them:

    "This button-down, Oxford-cloth psycho might just snap, and then stalk from office to office with an Armalite AR-10 carbine gas-powered semi-automatic weapon, pumping round after round into colleagues and co-workers. This might be someone you've known for years. Someone very, very close to you... ....."


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 22,559 ✭✭✭✭AnonoBoy


    I work alone.


    So yes is the answer.


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 521 ✭✭✭alexa5x5


    I’m sure I’m a nightmare to work with, I can only really work on my own. When I’m made work as part of a group I can’t function, I’m sure this pi$$es people off. You can’t please everyone OP, personally if everyone liked me and I got on with everyone life wouldn’t be any fun.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,381 ✭✭✭fakearms123


    When speaking to this individual finish all your sentences with "I am the Master of my own destiny!" and say it in a very soulful, Martin Freeman-esque voice, get louder as you reach "destiny" and put most emphasis on this word, the person will then have no reason not to like you.


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 34,418 ✭✭✭✭hondasam


    I'm sure I have but they never told me because I would not care.


  • Moderators, Business & Finance Moderators, Society & Culture Moderators Posts: 9,760 Mod ✭✭✭✭ToxicPaddy


    I worked in a bar years ago and 2 girls who worked there told me on night at a staff night out we were having that they thought I was and I quote "a stuck up ignorant boll*x" when they first met me..

    Twas a bit of a shock to me to say the least as I tended to be fairly quite and just did my work and kinda kept to myself and only really chatted to a few people I knew before starting there.

    Then they said, once they got to know me, they thought I was one of the soundest people working there, so needless to say I asked why they had such a bad initial impression of me..

    Their answer, "because you didn't try to get into our knickers and we thought that you thought you were better than us..." :eek:

    Needless to say I was a bit stumped by all this as they knew I was in a long term relationship at the time as my gf of the time was always in the pub with her mates and I made no secret of the fact I was seeing her..

    All a bit strange really..


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 10,808 ✭✭✭✭chin_grin


    I was in a very small team (maybe about six of us) in Tech Support. I hated every single one of them. There were a few redeemable features, but on the whole (heh) they were eejits.

    Didn't really help that I'm a metaller and they were in to Kings of Sh!te. And would constantly talk about their taste in sh!te music what seemed like ad infinitum. I remember joking that "Ha you know that song is about herpes?" to which the sarcasm went right over this guys head. "Eh, no it isn't". F*cking tossers.

    But then again because I hated them, I'm sure they hated me right the f*ck back. God I'm SO better than everyone! :pac:

    <click click> Mmm-hmm.


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 21,190 ✭✭✭✭Latchy


    Sometimes the job in hand is not difficult at all but it's the idiot putting obstacles in your way ( physically or metaphorically ) that becomes the problem . I've always being pretty good working with just one other person or in a small group .But If sometimes working alone mean I get the job done much better and gives satisfaction then bugger off anybody who doesn't like me for it .You are never going to please everybody anyway regardless of what job or line of work you are in .


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 1,198 ✭✭✭strokemyclover


    Jazzy wrote: »
    no, just like Biff Loman, Im well liked

    Don't whistle in the elavator though


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  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2, Paid Member Posts: 3,093 ✭✭✭optogirl


    When speaking to this individual finish all your sentences with "I am the Master of my own destiny!" and say it in a very soulful, Martin Freeman-esque voice, get louder as you reach "destiny" and put most emphasis on this word, the person will then have no reason not to like you.


    Hee hee - presume you meant Morgan Freeman


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 5,592 ✭✭✭GerM


    When speaking to this individual finish all your sentences with "I am the Master of my own destiny!" and say it in a very soulful, Martin Freeman-esque voice, get louder as you reach "destiny" and put most emphasis on this word, the person will then have no reason not to like you.

    Reckon it would sound kinda whiny and get you laughed at.

    Say it in a Morgan Freeman-esque voice though and it'll work. ;)

    EDIT: Nuts to you Optogirl! :)


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 7,331 ✭✭✭RichieC


    uncleinim wrote: »
    I do. Ordinarily I wouldn't be arsed about it, but the thing is, I like this co-employee! It doesn't seem to matter what I do, whether I'm nice and engaging, or if I try and stay out of their way, the outcome is the same. It makes for an awkward work environment....

    Right so it's not worth bothering with, be a bigger prick back until they get the message.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 301 ✭✭GarH


    bluewolf wrote: »
    I'm pretty sure one of my colleagues isn't that fond of me, though he's nothing but polite and professional.
    Well, work is work, so try to get on with it

    Does he know that you are sleeping with his wife and is secretly planning some revenge? :D:D:D


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 6,101 ✭✭✭MitchKoobski


    I had to sit amongst all the middle aged natty women one day in work. They were talking about how Paranormal Activity 2 was the scariest film ever and a true story, because it said "With thanks to *police department*" at the end and it looked sooooo real. I put up with it for about 10 minutes then had to speak up and put em right.


    They now refuse to speak to me for anything and tell people I'm a buzzkill. Tbh I'd rather be a buzzkill than a ****ing idiot.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 17,745 ✭✭✭✭kylith


    I don't think anyone can't stand me, but maybe I'm just oblivious.

    On the other hand I am often forced to work with people that I can't stand.


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 494 ✭✭eco2live


    Loads of reasons people don't like others.

    Sometimes people don't like other someone because they remind them of somebody else that they don't like. (cant be helped)

    Jealousy is another reason (cant be helped)

    Insecurity about themselves reminded by something about you (cant be helped)

    It could be that they are intimidated by you (depends on the reason)

    As an example, I personally don't like the company of materialistic people. Even when they are nice people in other ways they wreck my head when they focus on money all the time. Who's father has this. What car do they have. Ou is that designer? ****ing yawn! That person would not know why I did not like them but they would pick up on it. I would not bother telling them unless they asked but I am sure that would not help matters.

    I would not worry about them liking you and I would make very little effort to do anything about it. I would not treat them worse because of it as that would only enforce whatever negative traits that they find in you and others could pick up on that too and then your Pat Kenny in the RTE canteen.

    They are probably judging you unfairly or does not understand you then life is too short to worry about why. Now if nobody likes you (I am sure that is not the case) then I would deffo do something about that.


    Most people are wankbags anyway


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 21,190 ✭✭✭✭Latchy


    ^Was just going to say 'lot's of people are just Cnut's anyway '.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 3,351 ✭✭✭Orando Broom


    I would polarise opinion. I can live with that. I hate insipid characters at any rate.


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  • Posts: 81,308 CMod ✭✭✭✭ Otto Defeated Buttermilk


    GarH wrote: »
    Does he know that you are sleeping with his wife and is secretly planning some revenge? :D:D:D

    That would probably be funnier if I were male :)


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