have you ever experienced being annoyed with a co-worker?

Philippines
July 10, 2010 1:23pm CST
I am aware that there are several personalities in a workplace and believe me, i respect that. there are just inevitable circumstances wherein your ideas and theirs clash. i have a co-worker who is so lax at work thinking that other people will have to save him to finish a work that is supposedly assigned to him. what's worse is, he has the audacity to complain about things! we work as much as we could to get things done right away and he's just there making every possible reason to procrastinate. i've tried talking to my supervisor but seems like no corrective actions were made to that employee!
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• United States
10 Jul 10
Yes, I've been annoyed with another co-worker. I don't like co-workers who slack off and expect others to do their work. Or co-workers that think they know best, when they were just hired. I experienced one person who tried to tell me what to do even though she was just hired. I was there for six months longer. One time, I overrode her command, even though she was left in 'charge' by my boss because I knew she was wrong. I called another store and spoke to the manager there. A customer accidentally only took one shoe home and lived far away. I wanted to ship it to her, but my co-worker did not.I found it very bad customer service. Needless to say, I quit.
• Philippines
10 Jul 10
i also thought of quitting but then again, i also thought that i can't let that person affect me.
• United States
10 Jul 10
Well, I heard they were going to fire me. So, I quit instead. Not because of that incident though. I didn't make my sales goals for a few months. I don't like pushing people to buy, especially if they say no the first time. That definitely was not the job for me. It was only a summer job anyway.
@ip5217 (1655)
• Philippines
10 Jul 10
I have a co-worker who is exactly like this. My supervisor has been venting to me about his attitude. I pity my supervisor because she is so stressed with him already. She tried several coaching approaches to correct his attitude but this guy is so heard-headed. As for me, I really don't have time to deal with people like this. Seldom do I talk to him because all I get is trash. If you want shallow conversation then he's the right person to talk to. My suggestion to you is try to avoid him instead.
• Philippines
10 Jul 10
i think he knows what he did is something that ticked us off but i'm just wondering why he didn't make an effort to change. we don't have to avoid him. he is already avoiding us.. sometimes, i try to understand but most of the time, it annoys me.
@ShepherdSpy (8544)
• Omagh, Northern Ireland
11 Jul 10
That's the workplace for You..there's always someone who's not a team player! I wonder what this person is still doing at your workplace,though,if their attitude is this bad and being so antagonistic..I get the feeling somebody is going to be looking for another job in the not too distant future...
@Metatronik (6199)
• Pasay, Philippines
12 Jul 10
I have been into that because she is so tactless for using her words when she is talking to me. She is over emphasizing my appearance which is not necessary at all. Good thing that was a year ago but I could really imagine if I am still working with her maybe she could already hear an insult from me. I don't like the way she talks it is more on non sense. She is not even a good listener but yeah she keeps on talking and talking and talking too much without thinking.
• United States
11 Jul 10
I can't say that my annoyance with a co-worker was similar to yours, however, I HAVE BEEN VERY ANNOYED WITH A CO-WORKER that I had on my previous job. She was a lead in the "merchandising" of softlines department, so she really had no say-so or input in my work or what I did. But, since she was the hired friend of a manager, she felt like she could call shots and run the show and then sit back on her fat behind and do nothing. She wasn't even making that much more than a regular associate. Over a few months, I became really tight with this guy in the department that I was originally hired for. We would take our smoke breaks, lunch breaks together, etc. and she was liking him (supposedly was married) but liking someone on the job. I didn't really like him like that.. we were just friends and I know not to cross that boundary and mix pleasure with work. So, she became really jealous and envious of me because I look better than her on my worst day. She began coming to work dressed up, wearing heels and things like that... just to be ignored by him STILL lol. I am glad I am not there anymore.. because she made work all the more harder with the tension and drama.