Most annoying person you worked with

Probably meself

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

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.

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.

Wanderer2010 wrote: »

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.

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.

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.

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.

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...

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

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:

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!

Ellison Bumpy Sportscaster wrote: »

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