Annoying work colleagues habits

Bigbagofcans wrote: »

Gregor Samsa, thanks for the laughs

Sounds like yer man shouldn't be let out in public and should just work from home. Alone. Sitting in his own stench.

He actually has a somewhat public profile. Not famous, but involved in some endeavours that would mean that a fair few people around the country would know him. Which is why I don’t want to say too much. How these people put up with him is a mystery to us.

And he has taken to working from home a bit lately, much to everyone’s delight.

One time two new girls started in the office the same day. Shy and nervous on their first day, he cornered them in the canteen. His first question to women is usually “are you married?”. If they say yes, he doesn’t talk to them any more ever. If they say no, then he starts with his patented brand of man-magic. Which in this case, consisted of asking the first girl “do you want children?”. When she recoiled in horror, he moved to the other girl “How about you? I’d like to have children, and am looking for someone to have them with.” They went straight to their boss about it, and he was hauled in to explain himself, but no action was taken. Like I say, I don’t know why he hadn’t been fired. There’s been plenty of rounds of redundancy in the company - they could have got rid of him at any time.

I wish I could describe his physical appearance, because it adds a whole extra dimension to these stories. But again, it’s quite distinctive, so there’s a chance he’d be recognised. He’s not Irish, and hasn’t managed to reproduce yet despite his best efforts, so I think our gene pool is safe from him.

Bigbagofcans wrote: »

Gregor Samsa, thanks for the laughs

Sounds like yer man shouldn't be let out in public and should just work from home. Alone. Sitting in his own stench.

Feel sorry for him sure, but I’d feel more sorry for his colleagues. Places like that you’d probably have a manager firing off emails to you for turning up 5 minutes late for work. But literally they are happy in enabling a human bacteria to be wandering around the workplace sticking their manky hands in tea that others have to consume and whatever else. If you can’t wash your fûckin self, stay at home.

ArnoldJRimmer wrote: »

This is one things that makes me irrationally angry. I get it that sometimes people don't have a tissue handy, or can't excuse themselves to do it as they're on a call (I don't mind if they blow their nose in front of me if its stops the sniffing, but some see this as bad manners). Which brings me to yesterday morning when I was taking a peaceful dump. There are 6 stalls in total, and I had the room to myself. Then some lad decides to go into the cubicle next to me, (why when there are 4 others further away?) and sniff and snort when there are 3 full bog rolls sitting right beside him.

Might have been his attempt at a mating call.

Lad I used to work for used to ring in sick at least once a week because:

a) He was sick
b) His wife was sick
c) Some tiles fell of his roof
d) His Dad's car needed to be brought to the garage
e) The Luas knocked him off his bike
f) He got a bang of a Luas

Very unfortunate chap

Tells me "Family crisis" and fecks off home for a few hours, or all day. Repeat every week.
If you ask "what crisis" you are told it is a personal matter.
The middle-east had less "crisis" that that slacker.
The amount of work he did when in work was minimal.

People sorting out their (grown, working) children's car insurance details out at work.
In another civil service job I had one colleague used to get phone calls from their partner and all three children (2 adults). The calls used to come in on their desk phone & more often than not this colleague was on break/ yapping to someone in the toilets. Our phones had a pick up loop too so if the HEO was around I had to pick it up (in case it was a member of the public), if not I'd let it ring out. It's ok a couple of times a week but five times a day was a bit much.

Gregor Samsa wrote: »

He actually has a somewhat public profile. Not famous, but involved in some endeavours that would mean that a fair few people around the country would know him. Which is why I don’t want to say too much. How these people put up with him is a mystery to us.

And he has taken to working from home a bit lately, much to everyone’s delight.

One time two new girls started in the office the same day. Shy and nervous on their first day, he cornered them in the canteen. His first question to women is usually “are you married?”. If they say yes, he doesn’t talk to them any more ever. If they say no, then he starts with his patented brand of man-magic. Which in this case, consisted of asking the first girl “do you want children?”. When she recoiled in horror, he moved to the other girl “How about you? I’d like to have children, and am looking for someone to have them with.” They went straight to their boss about it, and he was hauled in to explain himself, but no action was taken. Like I say, I don’t know why he hadn’t been fired. There’s been plenty of rounds of redundancy in the company - they could have got rid of him at any time.

I wish I could describe his physical appearance, because it adds a whole extra dimension to these stories. But again, it’s quite distinctive, so there’s a chance he’d be recognised. He’s not Irish, and hasn’t managed to reproduce yet despite his best efforts, so I think our gene pool is safe from him.

Sounds like he may be autistic or has some mental health problems. Because of this he may not understand inappropriateness and personal hygiene requirements even if you told him 'till you were blue in the face.

Chewing pens, or more accurately chomping on pens. Then leaving a trail of the poor unfortunate pen to wherever they have wandered in the building... It's like hansel and gretel.. Needs a trail to find way back to their desk!

Which actually going by length of tea breaks they probably do!

Princess Calla wrote: »

Using their foot to bring down and avoid touching???

I do this (but carefully, without a bang). I also press the flush with my foot. I reckon this exercise is why I can touch my nose with my right foot, but can barely get my left foot past my knee.

Vita nova wrote: »

I worked with a guy who was an extremely louder typer. He always seemed to bang the keys and you always knew when he finished a sentence or a paragraph because he would hit the space bar or return key extra hard.
Fortunately, I only had to work with him for a few months, any longer and I would have gone insane.

Hi ex co-worker!

Ive actually received complaints for smashing keyboards before, so this could well be me

SirChenjin wrote: »

Worked for a while near someone like that, different teams but sat near one another.
Crash, bang, thud, wallop - that was just her arriving at her desk in the morning. Her job entailed a lot of time on phone calls, smash, thud, crash - that was just the receiver being replaced. And repeat.
She was actually a very nice person, but the noise used to drive me mad. I couldn't understand how she was completely oblivious to it, tbh.

A new girl started in our office recently and she’s the same - makes some racket when she comes in in the morning, it’s highly irritating, I wonder what she’s doing to be honest - moving stuff around the desk, rustling paper, opening and closing her filing cabinets really noisily grrrrrr

Hangdogroad wrote: »

The manageress was a nice enough woman but she would insist on having the radio on the whole time .

I was having builders on site some years ago and they played laud fancy builders radio (Makita?) all the time. I asked why and they said they need it for better focus on work. Next day I walked from work or shop passing some other small constructions in the area and they were all quiet but my guys played their radio as usual so I was wondering are they real builders? I even was thinking about confronting them with other "quiet" builders but some more important issues arose and finally I never solved the mystery.

howyanow wrote: »

I actually find these people hilarious,the desperation for attention and they actually think people hang on their every word!

"I had syphilis once"

"Oh yeah?! Well I had it EIGHT times.......!!!!! Oh hang on ............... er.......... nope."