The "Bitching About Co-workers" Thread
Posted: Mon Feb 14, 2011 7:47 am
Everyone out there has worked with someone they hate. Before I open the floor to your submissions, let me give you mine.
I'll call him Gollum, because...well, that should be obvious. He looks like god damn Smeagol. Now I work in the dairy department of a big box retail store that may or may not end in "-Mart," but I've never wanted to hit a co-worker before. Maybe yell a little, but never punch them. This guy is like 25, he's addicted to World of Warcraft and takes every opportunity to bring it up in conversation, wrongly assuming I care. On the job, he's like a 15 year old kid, always fucking around. I'm not of the unslackerish persuasion, friends, but even I can't dodge work like this guy.
There are, however, two things that really irk me about working with him:
1) He's got to scream when he yells. I don't mean he talks a little loud (which he does, because he's half fucking deaf) I mean he's screaming, at the top of his lungs most of the time. And it's not like a normal scream, it's like he's trying to talk like a cartoon character. I'd go into more detail, but the sound of his voice annoys me so bad that thinking about it pisses me off, and I have a hard time describing it.
2) He's got this god damn annoying habit of throwing shit at me constantly. The first day of my transfer into this store, he explained to me that he "likes to throw things a lot." By a lot, he means constantly. He goes so far as to stockpile little flat pieces of cardboard that he can fling across the cooler, usually at me, while I'm trying to get shit done. It makes me go from wanting to scream at him to wanting to hit him.
Apologies if this sounds like unwarranted bitching, friends. But thinking about it made me wonder if anyone else has a co-worker they'd love to see get hit in the face with a bowling ball, because misery loves company, right?
I'll call him Gollum, because...well, that should be obvious. He looks like god damn Smeagol. Now I work in the dairy department of a big box retail store that may or may not end in "-Mart," but I've never wanted to hit a co-worker before. Maybe yell a little, but never punch them. This guy is like 25, he's addicted to World of Warcraft and takes every opportunity to bring it up in conversation, wrongly assuming I care. On the job, he's like a 15 year old kid, always fucking around. I'm not of the unslackerish persuasion, friends, but even I can't dodge work like this guy.
There are, however, two things that really irk me about working with him:
1) He's got to scream when he yells. I don't mean he talks a little loud (which he does, because he's half fucking deaf) I mean he's screaming, at the top of his lungs most of the time. And it's not like a normal scream, it's like he's trying to talk like a cartoon character. I'd go into more detail, but the sound of his voice annoys me so bad that thinking about it pisses me off, and I have a hard time describing it.
2) He's got this god damn annoying habit of throwing shit at me constantly. The first day of my transfer into this store, he explained to me that he "likes to throw things a lot." By a lot, he means constantly. He goes so far as to stockpile little flat pieces of cardboard that he can fling across the cooler, usually at me, while I'm trying to get shit done. It makes me go from wanting to scream at him to wanting to hit him.
Apologies if this sounds like unwarranted bitching, friends. But thinking about it made me wonder if anyone else has a co-worker they'd love to see get hit in the face with a bowling ball, because misery loves company, right?
so ya brother I feel ya. 