No workplace is perfect, there are times that the environment is healthy and sometimes not. But can you imagine yourself stuck working with an IRRITATING colleague? Sometimes you just want to snap back right? These stories are proof of the existence of the WORST coworkers ever! The day she got fired, she texted the manager that she needed to come in late. And leave early.
And she wanted her old shift back (she'd been switched to a later time because she was constantly calling off or coming in late.) Also, she needed a raise. What we found out, later on, made everyone’s blood boil. We found out that she had been posting crap about employees and the business on Facebook. Where she was friends with half of the staff at the aforementioned business. Pretty sure she was stealing too. Throwitaway9009y
I have a co-worker who insists on talking to me like I have 0 knowledge in my field despite me actually having more experience and a higher job title than him. He also lectures people like he is their manager even if they have been there longer than him. And this next part was the worst thing he had done so far. I even listened to him "reprimand" his own supervisor!
He just gave me a lecture the other day on how to install a network printer. I've been in IT for 8 years now and in many more industries than he has. DasCthulhu
I work in a dog grooming salon. My coworker "A" is a self-professed "cat person." She doesn't like our customers, she doesn't like most dogs. She complains if she's booked dogs, she complains if she isn't booked dogs. Like, why did you work here in the first place if you are a cat person? She somehow never managed to commission, and complains about that too. She never helps clean, and when I close with her she will disappear because at 8:30 pm apparently, she has to take a twenty-minute poop in the bathroom. She claims to be allergic to most foods but still eats Mcdonald's and Burger King. There's more, she allegedly has Celiac disease but has never been tested. She also is allergic to cats, flowers, latex, and almost anything.
Despite claiming to be an avid Gardner the one time a coworker got flowers she insisted they be removed from our work area because she was allergic. Same when another coworker received balloons. She has said on more than one occasion she likes to find out people's weaknesses and pick at them. One of my coworkers lives with her in-laws as both of them have student debt they are very close to paying off. She will constantly add small digs at her like "Not that you would know, it's not like you have to pay rent or a mortgage like real adults." Everyone complains about her but our one manager has worked with her since the beginning and clearly doesn't feel comfortable talking to her, and our other manager is BFF with her husband. She is good at her job and even deals with difficult dogs well. She just has such a crap personality and is so negative about everything. neverbelieveagain
She is still a nightmare, she CC's the entire office including multiple company owners when she corrects something I've done (what a nice woman right?). My office is about 10ft from hers. Every time she does it I just think why can’t you walk 10ft and come tell me or address the issue with me.
I get it if it’s an ultimate mistake but that’s not the case, it's something small or extremely irrelevant. But now I just correct her or show her that it's not wrong at all and press "reply all" so they can see it. gt35r
I work in an office and have a colleague who is literally the world's worst diabetic. I'm fairly certain she has Munchausen. Her eyes are going and she has problems with her feet. She makes a huge deal about making sure everyone sees her take her insulin and then eats a whole giant bag of Haribo, 5 bags of crisps, and half a cake (I really wish I was exaggerating). It's ridiculous, we keep having to ring ambulances for her because she's eaten too much sugar.
She's nearly killed herself at least twice as a result. Oh and she's recently decided she's a super right-wing Christian, that our gay colleague is going to hell and shouldn't be living with his boyfriend, and that she is saving herself until her current partner and she gets married, which they plan to do next year, even though they met in March (worth noting, she has banged her way around one of the other departments and is divorced). She's a total freaking nut bar. maccathesaint
This lady in a different department has been here for 30 years and thinks the department I work in shouldn't exist. Thus, she makes it her life's mission to mess up our work at every twist and turn. She has contact with many of our clients and will deliberately sabotage events we have planned for them. She refuses to do stuff that is part of her job description and forces us to do it. She gossips all the time and I've discovered on numerous occasions that I'm either gay, a fascist, a liar, a womanizer, or just plain incompetent.
For the record, I'm none of these things. The only reason she's still around is she's best friends with the boss, and so not only is her job protected but crossing her means a call into the boss's office. She's a nightmare and everyone but the boss wants her gone. urgehal666
My bosses, who are all related to one another, being a family-owned business, have no clue about technology. The VP is the worst. They are all decent people, but he gets angry when technology does not work for him. One time, he just snapped because of a small and crazy thing. He got upset that his tiny netbook with 4GB of memory was slow.
Upon inspection, he had 5+ tabs open, along with various Office apps and a music player. I found it very hard to explain that the little device just wasn't built for that kind of load. izwald88
I had a coworker who was employed in the role above me in the management chain. We both started the job on the same day and it was a short-term contract, about 3 months. After a week, she realizes that she can't handle the job; keeps losing vital paperwork, telling clients the wrong information, and paying staff the wrong amounts. She's too proud to quit, but she has a trump card: her coeliac disease (i.e. a dangerous inability to digest gluten, meaning that wheat products make her incredibly sick.) So guess what she crazily did? She eats an entire loaf of bread on her lunch break, ends up in the hospital, and quits the job because of her ill health.
I have to take on her job as well as my own, doing 2 jobs for 3 months, because we can't find anyone to replace her. Worst of all, my other coworker has her on Facebook, and we discover that she spent several weeks in Disneyland after she was released from the hospital. I don't think she'll be getting much more work from that company. whateverismyusername
Not really a nightmare co-worker to me as much as a nightmare co-worker for my then boss. When I came into work in the mornings, she would sit at my desk and chat for 15-20 mins without moving from my seat; even if I hinted that I had urgent deadlines. It was a lot my fault for not being more direct but to be honest, I wasn't fond of the job myself so I didn't see the point in making the job I didn't really care about more awkward. Then days passed, and she started to do acts that made me uncomfortable. If she didn't have anything to do, she would come and sit in my office and read Harry Potter with her legs up on the desk and as laid back as good be. She was obsessed with Harry Potter, nothing wrong with that but when you bombard someone who has no interest in it with information about it, then it quickly becomes tedious.
I still remember the conversations she would initiate with me, such as informing me she didn't like beans but she would eat beans with vinegar but not beans with cheese. Jesus Christ. That said, she wasn't a bad person, just maybe unaware of her behavior or how others interpreted that. Rusty_Nuggets
The new guy I was training to cook at KFC, was slower than a sloth, and whenever I would show him the way we do things he would just do it his very slow way and say it's easier. You haven't even tried the way we are supposed to do it. One day, the event that we will refer to as "the nightmare" happened. He put his jersey on top of the cardboard boxes which were on top of the lockers, I grabbed his jersey off to get a box down and his phone fell out of his pocket and hit the ground. I picked it up and checked if it was smashed.
It hadn't so I put it back in his pocket and went on with work. The next day he came up to me angry as hell saying I have to pay for a new phone because I smashed his, he showed me his phone and there was literally a 2mm crack in the bottom right-hand corner. I just told him maybe he shouldn't put his stuff on top of things we needed daily. This was within three days of him starting, he was a smart guy but an absolute 0 in the social department and general tasks. [deleted]
I worked at Best Buy for a couple of years in college. One guy was on a lot of drugs and was nuts. We had a theft problem with iPads. He was being watched, but they couldn't catch him. There were days when he would be yelling and shouting across the department. It was scary a few times since he would be yelling and cussing at me.
The day came when I faced his own consequences. I was put on final warning for the register being $100 off. My GM and managers knew it wasn't me, but they had to do it since I was logged into that register that day. He stopped showing up at some point, fortunately. I was told that he and the Apple rep were the ones stealing the iPads to get money for their drug habits. Kelslaw
I had a co-worker who started back in 2012, about the same time as me. I had been with the company for a while before, but this was a new role for both of us. We got off to a great start. She seemed to know her stuff, was funny, could joke around with the boys, etc. However, over time small things started to pop up. She didn't seem to get what she was supposed to be doing. Her work started to get dumped on the rest of the team, she was still dishing out the jokes, but couldn't really take them anymore. She started talking about her sex life in extreme detail, spreading false rumors about people at work, talking about them behind their backs. Just little things really, but they added up to where I couldn't stand her anymore.
Finally, she reported me to HR for discrimination. I don't actually remember what she said about me, but it was something ridiculous. Thankfully, my manager had known me for a while, and this kind of behavior on my part seemed out of the ordinary. We talked about it, and she realized this lady was full of it. A short while later, she was let go as part of company restructuring. It was a bit of a nightmare to deal with her every day after she started getting on my nerves. octavian_c
The work canteen was far too small for everyone to use, besides it was kind of the territory of the shop floor workers anyway. This meant we office folk ate at our desks.
Unfortunately for one horrible year I needed to bear with, I sat next to this guy that clearly had never been told to keep his mouth shut when chewing. It was like a pig at a trough. It turned my stomach so every time his lunch box came out, I had to retreat down to the car park across the road and sit in my car.
To make matters worse when he wasn't eating, there was a constant waft of B.O. from his direction. Some days it was mingled with Lynx as I actually think he believed in the "shower in a can" nonsense. ExxInferis
I had a male coworker who was openly gay and would call HR regarding every conversation he had with me that he didn't like. Our conversations would include why he didn't do his job or clean a particular area as he should have. And you will never believe what his complaints are. His HR complaints would be along the lines of "DanHalenSRI thinks that because I'm gay I should be the one cleaning like a woman." I was interviewed by HR every week for months and eventually had to contact management anytime I wanted to relay information to him.
Instead of punishing him for making false accusations, they moved him to another department so that he didn't have to go through the mental stress of having real-world conversations. Any time I would apply for a promotion I would get a canned response of "you've had too many investigations against you for us to consider you for this promotion." Worst experience with a coworker ever. DanHalenSRI
I used to work in Finance a few years ago in a company where everyone was an evangelical Christian. They found out I was an atheist through Orkut (an old social network where I was part of atheist online communities). This group of people started bullying me with religious stuff until they somehow decided to get me fired. They tried every infuriating trick in the book just to make me gone but it backfired.
They made a new folder in our system with my name on it and put a lot of porn inside to get me fired. The funny part is that the guy that did that actually forgot pictures of himself having sexual intercourse with random people in this folder, and in the end, 3 people were fired because of that. I wasn't. vyktorbarker
I had this colleague. You just know when he gets in because the loud sniffing begins. No idea why he won't just blow his nose. But no, loud sniffing all day. That's actually preferable to the loud belching and burping (after a breakfast of very loudly chomped Corn Nuts). Followed by farting. You could almost feel sorry for him. He not only has medical issues but also talks to himself all day long. Running commentary on what he is doing. Things like… Oh, look at that! Hmmm, what's going on there? Sniff sniff sniff. Woah, how did that happen?
Hmmmmm. Goodness. burp. Well, that's done, next I will work on the TPS reports. fart. Sniff sniff sniff. Did I mention that he only bathes seemingly on weekends, wears dirty wrinkled clothes that have never seen a hanger, and is a complete freaking moron? I really think he may be developmentally disabled, he does not understand anything. But he loves telling everyone what to do (all wrong). I just don't understand how he got hired. But he is so disgusting I am done feeling sorry for him. SpookyTwinkes
There's this lady I work with, her name's Sharon. She's the single most bitter person I've ever had the displeasure of meeting. She worked as a clerical assistant for the best part of 30 years and was recently promoted to a clerical officer which really has no difference other than pay. But not according to Sharon. What you're about to know is my nightmare. She acts like she runs the team (she doesn't), she acts like she can do no wrong despite having to be corrected constantly, and constantly berates younger members or lower graded members of the team (like myself).
She takes it upon herself to haze people who come into the team. She will bully, berate, shout at, talk down to, and downright abuse people who are new in the team. Our apprentice once spoke with our Shop Steward (union rep) who then complained to the boss, the boss reprimanded her but it made no difference. She continues to be downright disgusting to people. Oh, and she likes to mention how she's "on a diet" so no one can eat sweets, rolls, bacon, chocolate, or anything remotely fatty. marxymcsocialism
We used to hire daily contractors from an agency because my boss was a terrible manager and a cheap witch. Sometimes we had regulars who did good work and who we requested to come back. Anyway, we got this new guy one winter day, and I’ve always thought I was good at reading people. This guy gave me just the weirdest vibe when he walked in. I didn’t train or assign him work, but I was just creeped out as he passed me in the hall. It gets to be around lunchtime, and he seems to scurry out quickly- ok, whatever, maybe he missed breakfast. But all of a sudden something happens to our network and the servers have to be reset. We lost all our work from noon the previous day. Our external IT company traces it back to this guy’s computer.
He was trying to access a ton of porn sites. It’s clear now that he ran out because he knew something was wrong. The next thing we all know, there’s an ambulance outside and this guy is claiming to have slipped on ice and hurt himself. He’s trying to claim some liability crap from the company/property owner due to negligence. He doesn’t seem to have external injuries but is claiming he’s hurt. And there’s surprisingly no ice/water/dirt/salt on him anywhere to indicate he was on the ground. I never did hear what happened after, but the guy never showed up again, and I’m pretty sure he didn’t get a settlement. If anything, my cheap boss tried to sue him or the agency he worked for. scratchy_mcballsy
I worked for a company that was contracted to railroads to spray the weeds on the side of the tracks. The weeds dry up and become a fire hazard or something idk. Anyway, we traveled a lot and worked long days. I had to share a hotel room with this guy named Chad. Chad liked to drink. A lot. He still somehow made it to work every morning, but this guy snored like an ogre, which was annoying. Before that, he would always stay up hammered with the lights on keeping me awake.
I never got any sleep. Well, one time in the middle of the night I woke up and saw something terrible. Saw this guy peeing on my duffel bag!!! No joke! He was so drunk that he was sleepwalking and peeing on my stuff. When I asked him what the hell he was doing he said, "Well, I was trying to change the TV channel. But you interrupted me." And then he laughed and walked back to his bed. I quit very soon after that. [deleted]
I worked as a bagger at a couple of retail places, and each one had a coworker with a different type of terrible. At the first one, there was once a customer who asked for her stuff to be bagged lightly, so I obliged. Once the cashier finished checking her out, she went to "help" me bag, went to move one of the bags I'd done, and immediately started chewing me out about how the bag was way too heavy for the customer and I needed to rebag it. I cut her off and said, "There is literally one item in that bag". She stopped, looked into the bag, saw that the only thing in the bag was a gallon of milk, and just started bagging her own bags. Didn't even apologize.
She was just generally terrible to everyone. In the second place, a cashier seemed to target me specifically for reasons beyond my comprehension. She was nice to everyone else. For example, once she ran out of plastic bags at her register, and walked all the way across the front end (it was a big store) to chew me specifically out for not replacing her bags, when I hadn't bagged for her at all that day and to get to me she had to pass like 8 other baggers who were equally if not more responsible for her running out of bags. StylishSuidae