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Most annoying person you worked with

  • 03-04-2016 08:17PM
    #1
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 27,565 ✭✭✭✭


    I had to be a d1ck here but I felt like venting. There's a lab tech where we work who does sweet feck all work. He's a lab tech in title but really only washes the equipment and brings down lab supplies. At least that's what he's supposed to do. In reality he spends most of his day drinking tea and distracting people by talking to them. He doesn't get social cues at all so when you're talking with your supervisor he interrupts to talk about super hero movies.

    More annoying is the managerial attitudes to him. When he goes on holiday a girl comes in to do his job and does it order of magnitudes better than him.

    Anyway I just can't stand freeloaders. What's the worst/laziest/most anti-social person you wroked with?


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  • Closed Accounts Posts: 1,915 ✭✭✭The flying mouse


    Yer man in the que beside me while i waiting for me dole, he keeps going on talking about work.. tosser.


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 24,609 ✭✭✭✭arybvtcw0eolkf


    We've a few of these bastards ~ NOISY EATER'S.. Good God how I don't throat punch or choke one to death one of these days I don't know.

    But there's one in particular, the bastarding bollox also SLURPS his God damned tea too.

    ^^^ Those, they're the most annoying people I work with.


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 14,241 ✭✭✭✭Kovu


    Was manager designate in an office before and the women in the office were all nice but very slow at their jobs. It was a sort of everyone chips in at everything sort of job but one of these women was sooooooooooo slooow. On busy days I'd manage to sneak in some of the others work along with my own, meaning they could take a two min break for tea or check their phones, whatever. And the auld bítches went and complained to the manager that I was stealing all their work and they felt redundant at times in the office since I started.

    Cows. Auld cows, the lot of them!!!


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 16,768 ✭✭✭✭tomwaterford


    Kovu wrote: »
    Was manager designate in an office before and the women in the office were all nice but very slow at their jobs. It was a sort of everyone chips in at everything sort of job but one of these women was sooooooooooo slooow. On busy days I'd manage to sneak in some of the others work along with my own, meaning they could take a two min break for tea or check their phones, whatever. And the auld bítches went and complained to the manager that I was stealing all their work and they felt redundant at times in the office since I started.

    Cows. Auld cows, the lot of them!!!

    Someone complained that you were doing work in work....WTF


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


    Probably meself :o


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  • Closed Accounts Posts: 14,241 ✭✭✭✭Kovu


    Someone complained that you were doing work in work....WTF

    I know, I actually thought I was being led on when I was called into the office about it. My face must have been the picture of disbelief.

    The only thing I can think is that they didn't like me above them- I was 23 and they were in their 40s/50s.


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 3,175 ✭✭✭intheclouds


    Used to work with a real freak who set up a voice activated dictaphone in his desk drawer to try and record what we'd be saying when he left the room. He did a number of other weird and creepy things. One day he brought a chainsaw in and everyone thought he was gonna go full on Texas Chainsaw Massacre.


  • Registered Users, Subscribers, Registered Users 2 Posts: 47,368 ✭✭✭✭Zaph


    We used to have this one in our office who ate an inordinate amount of tuna. It was literally the only thing I ever saw her eat in the time she was there. She'd have a can of it spread on brown bread for breakfast, another can with something for lunch and usually another can mid-morning or mid-afternoon as a snack. What made it worse is despite being asked not to on a number of occasions and many, many unsubtle hints being dropped on a regular basis, she always insisted on eating it at her desk, which was unfortunately very close to mine. There are few things in this world I hate more than the smell of tuna. Nobody was particularly sorry to see her leave.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 6,743 ✭✭✭Wanderer2010


    Without a doubt the woman who sits opposite me three days a week. She isn't good at any technology and was used to doing paper training records in the office but it all went electronic and she needs to be spoon fed everything from logging on to printing she's s complete technophobe but the problem is she narrates every single thing she does and I hear it all as I'm the closest.
    Typical day: she sits down "ok ctrl alt delete enter password ok done loading settings ok updates required will I hit accept (at which point she consults her hand written notes) ok load up Word hit start programs Word loading part 3 of 9 part 4 of 9". She continues this for the WHOLE FCUKING SHIFT!
    I asked my manager could I move but it wasn't possible so I'm wearing earphones as I work because I just could not deal with that. One day she asked me for help printing a report and she was chewing her nails like we were deactivating a bomb or something. She hit print and a big box came up on screen asking her to adjust settings. Oh she recoiled from her seat as if a bomb went off...I really wanted to bash her head off the photocopying machine.
    It might sound funny but working close to someone like that would put your blood pressure through the roof. Thank God she only works Tuesday to Thursday


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 4,789 ✭✭✭Alf Stewart.


    I've worked with loads of annoying bastards in me time, from a guy who literally shat every other bloody hour, to a young un who who constantly talked whilst eating, often resulting in me being covered in her bloody cucumber and hummus sambos every lunch time.

    However, the most annoying, irritable and downright hateful bastards I've ever worked with has gotta be brown noses.

    You know the type, up the bosses ass, and keeps dobbing guys in to try and climb the career ladder.

    Years ago I worked with one complete and utter lick arse, this clown had daily rituals he would perform in an attempt at impressing the then bossx, the stupid bastard used to head into work half an early each morning to ensure the bosses office has air con turned on, warm in winter, cold in summer. Used to make cups of coffee for him every other hour, and I even witnessed the dopey bastard run across a golf course with his golf buggy battery, which he has recharged for him.

    I work for a right arshole these days though.

    (I'm self employed)


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  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 4,394 ✭✭✭mojesius


    The entitled moaner. His first job out of university and he gives out constantly about how **** the job and conditions are. You'd swear is was a gulag the way he goes on about the place and it's really a nice place to work. I have no time for people who constantly moan about how stressful and **** a job is when they spend half their time talking **** beside the coffee machine or going for a smoke every hour. This is why you end up staying up staying til 730pm every day, not because of the workload.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 16,785 ✭✭✭✭osarusan


    Worked with an Australian woman in Japan. A very sour woman with no people skills whatsoever. She was older than the rest of us and obviously saw herself as a kind of mentor to us all, except she couldn't get along with anybody.

    She was one of those people that sucked the life out of the room when she entered, and people were much happier when it was her day off and there was no chance of bumping into her in the corridor.

    My God, I was glad when she left.


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 7,631 ✭✭✭Dirty Dingus McGee


    I've worked with loads of annoying bastards in me time, from a guy who literally shat every other bloody hour, to a young un who who constantly talked whilst eating, often resulting in me being covered in her bloody cucumber and hummus sambos every lunch time.

    Unless he was ****ting at his desk I can't understand how that could be so annoying.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 4,640 ✭✭✭andekwarhola


    from a guy who literally shat every other bloody hour

    Did you follow him to the toilet and listen?


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 4,789 ✭✭✭Alf Stewart.


    Unless he was ****ting at his desk I can't understand how that could be so annoying.

    No desk involved.

    We were undertakers.



    Ever try lifting a casket into a hearse solo?


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 312 ✭✭Boater123


    Unless he was ****ting at his desk I can't understand how that could be so annoying.

    I'd one like that once, constantly using the cubicle next to one I was sleeping in. Kept banging the door shut and waking me with a fright. Soooooooo annoying.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 5,614 ✭✭✭ArtSmart


    steddyeddy wrote: »
    I had to be a d1ck here but I felt like venting. There's a lab tech where we work who does sweet feck all work. He's a lab tech in title but really only washes the equipment and brings down lab supplies. At least that's what he's supposed to do. In reality he spends most of his day drinking tea and distracting people by talking to them. He doesn't get social cues at all so when you're talking with your supervisor he interrupts to talk about super hero movies.

    More annoying is the managerial attitudes to him. When he goes on holiday a girl comes in to do his job and does it order of magnitudes better than him.

    Anyway I just can't stand freeloaders. What's the worst/laziest/most anti-social person you wroked with?
    I worked with this workaholic freak once. Anytime I brought down the lab tech equipment and tried to be friendly, he snubbed me and started talking (brown-nosing) to the supervisor.

    Still, such is life.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 5,614 ✭✭✭ArtSmart





    Ever try lifting a casket into a hearse solo?

    Once, for an audition for the movie Phantasm.


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 1,469 ✭✭✭Olishi4


    Worked in a large office with those cubicles. A team lead was transferred onto my team. He was above me but he was always making excuses to not do the work. He was in the team for two years and was still using the "I'm new" card for everything.

    Whenever I was leaving work, his head would slowly emerge from the cubicle and he would ask me to do something else before leaving but he knew i was trying to catch a bus. My friend and i used to say it was like that scene with Marlon Brando coming out of the water in Apocalypse Now.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 5,455 ✭✭✭maudgonner


    I worked with a slightly completely mental religious fanatic for a while. Constantly lecturing us about miracles and apparitions and the like.

    Another co-worker's brother went missing, and flyers were circulated with the details and his picture. Stupid cow went around commenting that 'he had sad eyes' and she could sense how troubled he had been and was sure it wouldn't end well.

    Poor guy's body was found a week later, likely the result of an accident on a night out. Couldn't matter less what the circumstances were really though. I'd still like to build a time machine and go back 10 years to throttle the bítch.


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  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 17,300 ✭✭✭✭razorblunt


    Without a doubt the woman who sits opposite me three days a week. She isn't good at any technology and was used to doing paper training records in the office but it all went electronic and she needs to be spoon fed everything from logging on to printing she's s complete technophobe but the problem is she narrates every single thing she does and I hear it all as I'm the closest.
    Typical day: she sits down "ok ctrl alt delete enter password ok done loading settings ok updates required will I hit accept (at which point she consults her hand written notes) ok load up Word hit start programs Word loading part 3 of 9 part 4 of 9". She continues this for the WHOLE FCUKING SHIFT!
    I asked my manager could I move but it wasn't possible so I'm wearing earphones as I work because I just could not deal with that. One day she asked me for help printing a report and she was chewing her nails like we were deactivating a bomb or something. She hit print and a big box came up on screen asking her to adjust settings. Oh she recoiled from her seat as if a bomb went off...I really wanted to bash her head off the photocopying machine.
    It might sound funny but working close to someone like that would put your blood pressure through the roof. Thank God she only works Tuesday to Thursday

    I agree on this. Worked with a woman, that would do this for everything, including personal text message. It would go along the lines of:

    beep beep
    beep beep
    <and over >
    That's your phone beeping.
    - My phone? My phone is beeping? It's beeping, must have got a message. I wonder who it's from. I'll read that now.
    <pick up phone>
    - Oh its a message alright, who's it from? Oh it's Laura, it must be about lunch next week, I met her for lunch on Friday and we said we'd make it a weekly thing, it's probably about that.
    <reads message out loud>
    - I'll reply now. That's great now, I like her, she had good chat.
    <talks out loud while typing her response>

    We have a no earphone policy in work and I kept having chats from my manager about why I was doing it. I told her I don't have any music playing they're noise cancelling because of the numpty next to me. My manager sat on the floor one day and couldn't believe it. The manager of the person responsible refused to speak to her about it as she didn't see an issue with her.

    Don't get me wrong, I can put up with someone doing it about work stuff but not narrating every single life detail.
    Thankfully she left and I was eventually apologised to about the whole debacle.


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 1,660 ✭✭✭armaghlad


    When I turned 18 I got a job in an off license. The annoying person I actually happened to be friends with, and only for that I'd have probably kicked him in the teeth at some stage.

    He had an annoying habit of hiding on customers he didn't particularly like. So I'd be stocking shelves or out the back or whatever, I'd catch him suddenly nipping out to the toilet before seeing a familiar face walk into the shop. He'd stay in there a good 5 minutes having a smoke or whatever while I was left to stop what I was doing and go man the till.

    Another annoying habit was food. I'd usually work a long shift on a Saturday so if I'd planned on getting food from the shop or Chinese I'd ask did he want anything. Always answered no, yet the second I came back he'd be round me like a vulture looking to try my food and eating it on the sly when I was out front serving customers.

    The other annoying thing he did was drink on the job... well from about 10.30 to close (11pm). The odd time we would have brought a change of clothes and headed into town after work and had a few beers on the way up. He used drink in the back and not let on to me.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 7,374 ✭✭✭HalloweenJack


    Worked with an enormous tool.

    Completely up his own arse, thought he was God's gift to the company. He had zero social skills whatsoever. We'd be in the staff room chatting away, he'd come in and destroy the buzz with exagerrated tales that had nothing to do with the topic of conversation.

    Some of the tales I can remember:
    - his hip bone disappeared when he was a kid, it dissolved into his bloodstream and he had to use a zimmerframe when for a while. I asked had he had his hip replaced then, he said no and he doesn't know how he walks.
    - told us that he's a vegan (which is true for the most part) and that he never eats anything, he has a blender and blends all his food into vegetable shakes. This was proven false when he was seen on his own eating a spinach burger. When someone asked him about it, he said he had never said the stuff about veggie shakes.
    - told us that he learnt how to search for "aurras" at school.
    - his school was barred from having a debs in the surrounding 50 kilometres because of how rough it was. So I asked him where did they have the debs instead, he said it was in their village and they just told the (only) hotel it was a charity night instead.

    Straightaway became a brown-nose and we quickly curtailed our conversations in his presence, which led to a quiet, uneasy tension anytime he was around. Of course, he'd then try to force us into talking about his own conversation topics (of which there were very few). Never talked about himself substantially, which is fair enough, but it just made him harder to figure out. He has a very flat accent with a slight American twinge and uses lots of Americanisms (like mom, zucchini, etc.) and insists that everyone in his village talks this way. He would also insist to non-Irish workers that most Irish people actually talked like him and that the rest of us were just putting on our accents.

    He got one of the other members fired by ratting her out and then played completely dumb about it afterwards. However, it was such a specific situation that she got fired for and he was one of a small group of people who would have known about it. He also has to shroud everything in mystery and never gives straight answers to anything. He also went on as if he knew the place we were inside out and wanted everyone to come to him so he could tell them where to go and what to do even though he hadn't a clue a lot of the time (he'd just moved there from his village). If you corrected him on his misinformation, he'd go "oh yeah, that's what I meant to say". It got to the point where me and a mate use to make up names of trendy new bars (the guy is a massive drinker and very hipstery, he loves to be seen in cool places even though he's usually bored out of his face there) and say we'd been there and tell him about it, to which he'd reply "Oh yeah, I've heard of that place, it's supposed to be really good".

    Left that job last year and still occassionally see him out and about. I have some friends who still work there and he spends a lot of time bitching to the other staff and my ex boss about me and is very dismissive of the job I did. Whenever I have the misfortune to see him out, he comes up to me and acts like he's my best mate and goes on about how great his job is and how important he is in the company now. He's doing the exact same job I did previously, I know exactly how (un)important it is.


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    Probably me


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,794 ✭✭✭Aongus Von Bismarck


    When I first moved to Germany I worked in a small investment bank. My manager was a dreadfully annoying man called Berthold. He was spectacularly incompetent, a very heavy drinker, and presumed that his seniority gave him an air of gravitas. It didn’t. He also had this disgusting habit of using his baby finger to poke around in his ear, before examining the nail for a fresh deposit of ear wax. He made my skin crawl.



    Thankfully I moved up rapidly through the organisation and was part of a ‘ninja squad’ who were tasked with streamlining many of the bank’s activities during the financial crisis.



    Berthold and his bunch of lairy old soaks were deemed surplus to requirements and were fired. I’m not a vindictive man, but the sight of Berthold gulping and wiping the sweat from his brow as he realised that his 35 year career as a banker was coming to an end came with a certain amount of personal satisfaction. And with it his flagrant abuse of company funds to pay for expensive dinners, golf course outings and Scotch.


  • Posts: 26,052 ✭✭✭✭ [Deleted User]


    When I first moved to Germany I worked in a small investment bank. My manager was a dreadfully annoying man called Berthold. He was spectacularly incompetent, a very heavy drinker, and presumed that his seniority gave him an air of gravitas. It didn’t. He also had this disgusting habit of using his baby finger to poke around in his ear, before examining the nail for a fresh deposit of ear wax. He made my skin crawl.



    Thankfully I moved up rapidly through the organisation and was part of a ‘ninja squad’ who were tasked with streamlining many of the bank’s activities during the financial crisis.



    Berthold and his bunch of lairy old soaks were deemed surplus to requirements and were fired. I’m not a vindictive man, but the sight of Berthold gulping and wiping the sweat from his brow as he realised that his 35 year career as a banker was coming to an end came with a certain amount of personal satisfaction. And with it his flagrant abuse of company funds to pay for expensive dinners, golf course outings and Scotch.

    Wonderful post, as always, Gus. I'm glad the incompetent bon viveur got his comeuppance at your hand.

    You're using too much spacing between paragraphs though, which disappoints me.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 26,610 ✭✭✭✭Strumms


    We have a few.

    One in particular is an older guy. Mid 50's but he is like Mr Bean on acid. A complete technophobe also and has struggled big time since the job gradually changed from using paper to computers, tablets and so on. But the big problem instead of acknowledging that he isn't good at it he hides from any work that involves the technology side of things and also from anything that he has to sign for or take responsibility for.

    He is a reasonably intelligent guy but a coward. The thing is he is a YES man. Silent in all meetings and never a peep out of him and comes in on time and goes home on time so not a problem guy in that regard which is why he gets an easy ride from the bosses and supervisor. We complain because he isn't held to the same standard as the rest of us, because we have to often do our own work and are expected to fix his mistakes. He constantly tries to hand over work which is (acceptable at times but not every ****in day) to myself and other team members after spending the morning on the go slow. Now I refer him to his manager who I say will delegate his work as I won't do it. A complete piss taker who only knows 1st gear, who gets paid more then anyone due to his longevity in the company and gets away with murder while the rest of us end up doing more and getting stressed because of the extra workload but also because management will do SFA about it... annoying prick.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,352 ✭✭✭SAMTALK


    I've worked with loads of annoying bastards in me time, from a guy who literally shat every other bloody hour, to a young un who who constantly talked whilst eating, often resulting in me being covered in her bloody cucumber and hummus sambos every lunch time.

    You work with kfallon???


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 9,622 ✭✭✭Ruu


    Don't know what it is about having an Irish boss when you are abroad, they treat you worse than anyone ever would (not that you should expect to be treated better than a fellow country person..but still pig ignorant!) When I was living in London, had an absolute tool of a boss. He had absolutely no tact whatsoever. No social skills, had a lick arse secretary do all people management. Someone in work was off for a while with mental issues and when she came back, he asked her in front of everyone if she was on any medication. Everyone was shocked and more or less hid behind their computers to get on with work. :/


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  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 5,942 ✭✭✭topper75


    No desk involved.

    We were undertakers.



    Ever try lifting a casket into a hearse solo?

    Come on man.

    The handcart has been invented.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 6,547 ✭✭✭Agricola


    Call center job I had years ago, someone doing the induction with me was by far, and still, ten years on, THE most annoying person I've ever worked with. Best way I could describe her is a younger, Irish version of Hyacinth Bucket. When we finished the induction I thought I'd see a lot less of her.... nope... happened to be put on the same team doing the same shifts.

    You'd fall in at 8am, ready to hang yourself at the thought of 8 soul destroying hours ahead of you, and this one would be carrying on like she's about to head off on an all expenses paid trip to Vegas. Laughing at her own woeful stories and jokes, singing, there was a good bit of singing. Talking at you incessantly about the most moronic nonsense. Having an irate person ripping your head off on a phone and then having this sitting 2 feet away from you for 40 hours a week..... it's a special kind of hell I hope I never revisit.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 3,143 ✭✭✭pavb2


    I used to work with a guy who did a very good impression of an old seventies Trim phone ring tone . . . unfortunately it just went on & on & on all day long.

    http://youtu.be/Yx03gDhV6-8


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 26,610 ✭✭✭✭Strumms


    Ruu wrote: »
    Don't know what it is about having an Irish boss when you are abroad, they treat you worse than anyone ever would (not that you should expect to be treated better than a fellow country person..but still pig ignorant!) When I was living in London, had an absolute tool of a boss. He had absolutely no tact whatsoever. No social skills, had a lick arse secretary do all people management. Someone in work was off for a while with mental issues and when she came back, he asked her in front of everyone if she was on any medication. Everyone was shocked and more or less hid behind their computers to get on with work. :/


    Had an Irish boss when I worked in Paris. She was an a**hole. For whatever reason she seemed to have an unhidden dislike for myself and a colleague both of whom where Irish.... We called her the Viking as that was what she looked like.. a mad fat auld wan with a shock of weird gray hair without the capability to smile and eyes of coal that tried (but failed) to make you feel small... she just became a figure of fun and we kind of gave it back to her in a passive aggressive way and she never really had much to do with us after that.. we worked hard and did our job... so much insecurity from people in authority in the workplace at times...


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 23,495 ✭✭✭✭Billy86


    Olishi4 wrote: »
    Whenever I was leaving work, his head would slowly emerge from the cubicle and he would ask me to do something else before leaving but he knew i was trying to catch a bus. My friend and i used to say it was like that scene with Marlon Brando coming out of the water in Apocalypse Now.
    You poor soul, you've clearly never seen Office Space!

    Yyyyeeeeaaaaahhhhhhhh, thats be ggrreeeaattt.


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 2,172 ✭✭✭FizzleSticks


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  • Banned (with Prison Access) Posts: 277 ✭✭JackieBauer


    Some arrogant bastard in a wheelchair


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,236 ✭✭✭Sam Quentin


    I never worked with any annoying people, they where all dead on, sound, amazeballs lol(well you get the picture haha lol)anyway yaw they were nice goiys... Although I worked with an 'AWFUL' lot of peeps who always seemed loike annoyed or something, anyway I loiked them alls.....:D


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,159 ✭✭✭stinkle


    This post has been deleted.
    I worked with a similar wan, except she was a really fussy eater and would comment on something "exotic" you might be having for lunch. Once I brought in leftover stir fry and she was mesmerised. It's really irritating having your grub monitored like that!

    She also had some weird fear/hatred of bananas and woe betide you if you ate one near her. I used to do it deliberately towards the end of my time there to piss her off. Oh and she was mad for Lent, and assumed everyone was a catholic and off sweets during Lent, and would then wreck everyone's head for 6 weeks if she saw you eating biscuits. Gob****e of the highest order. You can imagine how much work she got done every day.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,236 ✭✭✭Sam Quentin


    Strumms wrote: »
    Had an Irish boss when I worked in Paris. She was an a**hole. For whatever reason she seemed to have an unhidden dislike for myself and a colleague both of whom where Irish.... We called her the Viking as that was what she looked like.. a mad fat auld wan with a shock of weird gray hair without the capability to smile and eyes of coal that tried (but failed) to make you feel small... she just became a figure of fun and we kind of gave it back to her in a passive aggressive way and she never really had much to do with us after that.. we worked hard and did our job... so much insecurity from people in authority in the workplace at times...

    Ohhhh yes the 'Over Compensating' Irish person, away from home in an amazing City, look at me I'm so down to earth I love it so much here, I've been here forever(a year and a half)... I'll just lick up the hóle of the locals and treat any new peeps from my own Country like shíte lmao... yes bud I've met such arsé-holes in such a far away City as even London lol.. God Love Them :rolleyes:


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 3,458 ✭✭✭topmanamillion


    Worked in a 9-5 job where there was about 2 hours on the road every day meeting people.
    The rest was spent in a tiny office (which was a refurbished old style mental hospital bedroom/cell)
    The door still opened outwards like a jail cell door.
    Anyway my mentor was this auld frustrated bag and apart from the 2 hours out and about I'd be stuck with her in the "cell".
    We had nothing in common and she was such a fruitcake it was impossible to talk to her.
    Anyway one day the silence and the boredom of pretending to read files got too much for me so I got up and headed off to the toilet which was at the end of a long corridor (remember this used to be a mental hospital!)
    When I came back she said;
    Where we're you?
    I went to the toilet
    Oh can you tell me when you're going!


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  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 329 ✭✭duchalla


    I used to work with a fella who was the most loud, self centred, irritating, obnoxious, me fenier you'd every meet. He also had a huge sense of entitlement. Mid 50's goin on 15. Had his routine and wouldn't deviate from it, Had to be first in in the morning and first out in the evening, Always parked his car in the first car space in the car park, so he be nearest the gate for a fast exit in the evening, used to insist on reversing in to the space to enable his fast getaway, this despite holding others up with his antics. Had numerous run ins with people over his driving, cutting people off, performing dangerous manoeuvres just to get ahead of you. He married into money and was always going on bout what a lucky man he was. Became a running joke around the office, " Ahh shure, aren't you the lucky man?".
    We'd flexi time on the job, so every 2 weeks, each person in the team was rostered to stay late 1 evening. Every evening your man was rostered, there was always an emergency and he had to go early. Happened way too often for it to be true. Anyway, he was rostered to work one Thursday evening, low and behold, at 3:50, he gets a phone call from home saying there's an "emergency" and has to go home early. Supervisor said "fine, I'll work you're late this evening, you can do mine tomorrow week". Off your man goes. spent the following week trying to get someone to swap his late on the Friday with, as he was going up the country for a family function for a long weekend on the Thursday, no one would as everybody knew his form, he even went to HR complaining he was the victim an no one would swap with him. As it turns out, he WAS goin up the country on the Thursday, but had to come down again on the Friday lunchtime to work his late evening. He drove back up that evening. Round trip of over 300 miles! The boy who cried wolf!


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 643 ✭✭✭scdublin


    A know it all who didn't really know much at all. He'd sometimes pick up on some of my suggestions as well and then bring them forward as his own if enough people hadn't heard me when I originally said it. He could never admit fault and always tried to make it look as though what went wrong was someone elses problem for not showing him exactly what needed to be done. Fair enough if you were brand new to the job but he wasn't.

    Also years ago worked in a small newsagents with women only and it was the bitchiest/cliqueiest place I've ever seen. Worse than school and I went to an all girls school! The main manager would comment on another managers daughter behind her back. Stuff like "god she's awful goofy isn't she" and "she's becoming such a brat" etc. I'm sure there were other comments about her appearance but can't remember now. One of my friends who wasn't part of the clique told the manager but wouldn't say who it was that had said it so nothing major came of it. They were all pretty much as bad as each other when it came to **** talking anyway.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 24,698 ✭✭✭✭lawred2


    We've a few of these bastards ~ NOISY EATER'S.. Good God how I don't throat punch or choke one to death one of these days I don't know.

    But there's one in particular, the bastarding bollox also SLURPS his God damned tea too.

    ^^^ Those, they're the most annoying people I work with.

    lad beside me drinks about 3 large cans of pepsi every day

    Before I even get to the reality of a grown man still drinking 'fizzy pop' I have to listen to every slurp..

    I want to kill


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 6,218 ✭✭✭Mister Vain


    There's this gay fella I work with who is always asking personal questions. He makes everything sexual too with constant innuendo. What's more annoying is that everyone else thinks he is a great laugh but I can't stand him.


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 1,660 ✭✭✭armaghlad


    There's this gay fella I work with who is always asking personal questions. He makes everything sexual too with constant innuendo. What's more annoying is that everyone else thinks he is a great laugh but I can't stand him.
    Is his sexuality relevant?


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,692 ✭✭✭A Shaved Duck?


    armaghlad wrote: »
    Is his sexuality relevant?

    is your question?..


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 1,660 ✭✭✭armaghlad


    is your question?..
    Eh yes. I don't see the need to mention someone's sexuality if it is about them being annoying. Hence my question.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,692 ✭✭✭A Shaved Duck?


    armaghlad wrote: »
    Eh yes. I don't see the need to mention someone's sexuality if it is about them being annoying. Hence my question.

    If the annoying trait is constant innuendo then its pretty relevant imo.


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 1,660 ✭✭✭armaghlad


    If the annoying trait is constant innuendo then its pretty relevant imo.
    Fair enough, though plenty of heterosexual men make innuendo.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 6,218 ✭✭✭Mister Vain


    armaghlad wrote: »
    Is his sexuality relevant?

    Yes, with the constant innunedo it most certainly is.


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