Have you ever hated a coworker?
By katsmeow1213
@katsmeow1213 (28716)
United States
February 23, 2017 7:08pm CST
Have you ever hated a coworker so much that you couldn't even stand the sound of their voice?
Have you ever wished a coworker's car would have trouble, or some other such thing so they wouldn't be able to make it to work?
Or maybe just wished that coworker would finally get fired?
Or have you ever considered finding a different job yourself just to get away from the person?
Does anyone have any really bad coworker stories? Maybe hearing someone else's horror stories will make me feel better!
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@katsmeow1213 (28716)
• United States
24 Feb 17
I'm unable to feel pity for those that I dislike. I've tried to change my viewpoint from anger/frustration to pity or some other emotion.. just can't do it!
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@ScribbledAdNauseum (104615)
• United States
24 Feb 17
He no longer works there, but I have one.
I had a co-worker once who moved so slowly. I mean, if you literally took a few minutes to watch him? You would see how he cut the boxes very slowly and very precisely. He'd put the items on the shelf almost at a snails pace as well. He wasn't much help to us because we almost always had to go back behind him and put his back stock away properly.
He was a nice guy, but we think he might have had some sort of mental incapabilities. He seemed intelligent though. On one hand we'd ask him to go quickly and he'd say "okay" and almost go slower. We don't think it was intentional, but we also learned not to ask him to pick up his pace.
I felt bad for getting so irritated at him because we truly didn't know whether he might have actually had some sort of something that made him work slower. Like I said, he seemed very intelligent, though we did have to tell him several times how to do something.
Many years ago I had a key carrier (below management but still with managerial responsibilities) who stole from my till. I was the one that was blamed for it but the manager of the store had me stay over one night and she counted the till in front of me. She soon realized that it wasn't me stealing because I actually had about ten cents too much in the till.
Hmm...
I used to work at a hotel group as a banquet server. We had to work with temp workers sometimes and they were the worst. They thought they knew everything and we always ended up having to stay over to fix what they messed up.
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@katsmeow1213 (28716)
• United States
24 Feb 17
The one that frustrates me is like that.. some sort of mental incapability. I think that's why he gets away with his behavior and attitude. He's rude and condescending to customers and coworkers, but most people bend over backwards for him. I guess it bothers me more because I'm the one affected by it. I hear all the mutterings under his breath when he gets angry at someone or something, I'm the one who has to make up all the work he's not doing.. yet he probably gets paid better than me and he definitely gets more hours. It takes him all day to do 1 task, and I'm left doing everything else because he just won't do it..
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@katsmeow1213 (28716)
• United States
24 Feb 17
@ScribbledAdNauseum I am noticed and appreciated... I could be noticed a bit more often of course.. they blow smoke up his @$$ occasionally. He gets praised for doing the most minor things, where as I'm constantly multi tasking and handling the majority of the work load and all I get is a yearly review (which has come with a sizable raise both times!), and occasionally someone will tell me I'm doing a good job.. but not often. They just expect it from me now.
But yeah, I'm resentful. I shouldn't have to do all the work.. and instead of taking him aside and telling him to do some of it, they announce to all of us that these tasks need to be done.. which just ends up falling on me..
Oh, and I'm still training the new guy. He's not allowed to do any of the tasks yet as they want him practicing transactions as much as possible..
@ScribbledAdNauseum (104615)
• United States
24 Feb 17
@katsmeow1213 That is where the fine line is. How do I word this? I don't think that America has "equal opportunity employment" right yet. I can completely understand and appreciate everyone's right to work no matter their circumstance, but then there are situations where one person is "coddled" and it makes it unfair for everyone else.
Special privileges or treatment are almost a given in many of these situations, but it leaves the others to pick up the slack and become resentful because they aren't noticed or appreciated as well as they could be.
Am I right?

@shaggin (74987)
• United States
4 Mar 17
Sounds like you have a rotten co-worker you have to deal with. I did go through this yes. The woman was so miserable to everyone and always tried getting people in trouble and acted like she was the boss. She was just awful and no one liked her. I would up pretty much having a nervous breakdown and quitting. A few years later after enough people quit because of her she got taken off the floor and had to work in a different part of the hospital.

@shaggin (74987)
• United States
4 Mar 17
@katsmeow1213 companies worry about firing people for fear of being sued so sometimes. It is sad when everyone around them has to suffer.
@katsmeow1213 (28716)
• United States
4 Mar 17
My husband recently worked for someone like that.. where everyone was quitting because they were sick of the guy.. it took them like 5 years before they finally fired him.
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@much2say (57760)
• Los Angeles, California
24 Feb 17
I can only think of one that I truly despised. Actually we were actually good friends for a long while as we were the same age and going to the same college at the time. She happened to be the boss' younger sister
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She had some really warped ideas about people - won't get into that - and so full of herself. And she was into pranks (so were we and the boss, but she did some nasty things to people that were not called for). She liked to crank call people - call and hang up. Eventually I got tired of her and her ways . . . she threw away a fax that my boyfriend had sent me before I even saw it . . . and that was the last straw . . . I blew up at her. Then she reprimanded me - saying I shouldn't have such a tone with her . . . and that I should remember that she was my boss (which she was not even though it was the family business). I caught her putting tons of salt in another coworkers water he was going to drink . . . this was all getting stupid.
I finally had a talk with my boss. He really liked me, and he knew his sister was completely wrong . . . but in the end he said this was a family business and he couldn't do anything about his sister - he couldn't just fire her. It was then I knew there was nothing even my boss could do . . . so I put in my 2 weeks notice. Good bye.
But I think she eventually found out where I worked next. As I often picked up the phone at my new workplace, it was very odd that at times I would have a cluster of hang up calls. I swear it was her - that's what she used to do when she was bored. That eventually stopped and I could finally get rid of her.
Sorry if you're having to deal with some poopy coworkers!
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She had some really warped ideas about people - won't get into that - and so full of herself. And she was into pranks (so were we and the boss, but she did some nasty things to people that were not called for). She liked to crank call people - call and hang up. Eventually I got tired of her and her ways . . . she threw away a fax that my boyfriend had sent me before I even saw it . . . and that was the last straw . . . I blew up at her. Then she reprimanded me - saying I shouldn't have such a tone with her . . . and that I should remember that she was my boss (which she was not even though it was the family business). I caught her putting tons of salt in another coworkers water he was going to drink . . . this was all getting stupid.
I finally had a talk with my boss. He really liked me, and he knew his sister was completely wrong . . . but in the end he said this was a family business and he couldn't do anything about his sister - he couldn't just fire her. It was then I knew there was nothing even my boss could do . . . so I put in my 2 weeks notice. Good bye.
But I think she eventually found out where I worked next. As I often picked up the phone at my new workplace, it was very odd that at times I would have a cluster of hang up calls. I swear it was her - that's what she used to do when she was bored. That eventually stopped and I could finally get rid of her.
Sorry if you're having to deal with some poopy coworkers!
@katsmeow1213 (28716)
• United States
24 Feb 17
@much2say probably best thing you could have done
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@katsmeow1213 (28716)
• United States
24 Feb 17
Ugh, it's even worse when they're related to the boss. Of course he could have at least scolded her!
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@much2say (57760)
• Los Angeles, California
24 Feb 17
@katsmeow1213 He couldn't scold baby sister for some reason. There was a big age gap between them and the parents were on the way older side (they were partial owners of the company) . . . their daughter could do no wrong
. She was the type of person who wouldn't let anyone boss her around - I don't how anyone would stand her if she worked for anyone else. But then of course I made it not my problem anymore.
. She was the type of person who wouldn't let anyone boss her around - I don't how anyone would stand her if she worked for anyone else. But then of course I made it not my problem anymore.
@1creekgirl (44560)
• United States
24 Feb 17
There were a few that I didn't get along with (well, actually one was the bane of my existence.) But one woman refused to get along with me. Thank God she finally got another job, but I saw her in the grocery store one day and confronted her.
I asked her why she never speaks to me. She said, "Vicki, I never really did like you."
Well. I replied that civil people speak to others, so I guessed she was not very civilized. Years later for some unknown reason, she started being friendly!
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@katsmeow1213 (28716)
• United States
24 Feb 17
Strange!
I can be that way too.. sometimes I just know off the bat that I don't like someone, and sadly I'm not the type who can pretend to like you if I really don't.
This particular coworker annoys almost everyone, but most everyone else is really good at being polite to him.. and that also drives me nuts! LOL
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@GardenGerty (169530)
• United States
24 Feb 17
There was this one teacher when i worked at HeadStart who drove most of us crazy and she believed she was entitled and her selected hours and location were guaranteed. Eventually she caused so much stress and discord that the administrators in the building wanted her gone. They made her contract for a further drive away in a different building, and the opposite hours than she wanted. Gasp, horrors, she was going to have to get a baby sitter. I told her that every teacher or staff who was a mom had had to get a babysitter to keep their job. She quickly got busy and found another job. She always thought I liked her. I am a good actress.
@katsmeow1213 (28716)
• United States
24 Feb 17
I need to learn those acting skills apparently! I cannot hide my frustration and I fear that it's soon going to get me in trouble!
Right now I just do my best to avoid speaking to him unless I have to.. but he's one of those that butts his nose into everyone else's conversation.. As soon as he does I stop talking and busy myself with something else, but it's just another little thing that frustrates me.
@Hatley (163772)
• Garden Grove, California
24 Feb 17
she was new to the job of page on the library but she wanted to be a clerk so she messed around filed several books left the rest to me to be shelved so I was doing my work then at lunch time I took time ouit o shelve hers til my manager asked me wh y I was not taking my lunch break I told her that the new girl had only shelved= a few books so I was doing the rest I detested the girl' but I could not lie to the manager and she fired the girl.
@allknowing (153529)
• India
24 Feb 17
Why only at work, even here I have someone who gets on my nerves. She hates me for reasons unknown 

@lokisdad (4226)
• United States
24 Feb 17
Yes every job has one and they suck it seems that no matter what happens it never happens to them. They work only if they see the boss is coming take credit for work they didn't do and get it ez.
The people who are always late first to leave. Yeah they make you nuts wish they came went ot lunch got food poisoning so bad that they had to go home only to find that they have a flat tire and have to walk home while having the runs hahaha i know sorry its mean.
If you can't tell I too have met my fair share of them. Honestly even when it has caught up with them and they get fired it doesn't even really bring you joy because you almost feel cheated like that isn't enough punishment for them. Half the time that is about the best you get knowing you won't have to work with them.
@katsmeow1213 (28716)
• United States
24 Feb 17
So far my job has had a fair few that I didn't like.. most got fired except this last one that seems impossible to get rid of. I do often hope his car breaks down lol
@jillybean1222 (6406)
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1 Mar 17
can't think if i ever hated anyone, but i'm sure there have been people who aren't my favorite. :-)
@katsmeow1213 (28716)
• United States
1 Mar 17
I only hate him while I'm at work.. I really just wish I didn't even to put up with him anymore.
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@PainsOnSlate (21845)
• Canada
24 Feb 17
When I was younger I worked for a food service in a univerisity. The woman who was working by me was old and used it as an excuse, if she was told to do anything she asked us young people to do it for her, She did NOTHING...I told my boss and quit the same day, she was driving all of us crazy...
@katsmeow1213 (28716)
• United States
24 Feb 17
I think we've all worked with someone who was just plain lazy. The one I work with is sort of like that.. he's older and can't learn new things, so uses that as an excuse not to do anything. But sadly he's not really that old, he just acts like he is.
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