What do you think are the worse kind of co-workers? IMHO, it’s the slacker. The slacker gets credit for doing nothing because they fly under the radar.
What kind of co-worker do you think is the worse kind?
I think a worse kind of co-worker than a slacker is the office-politicking backstabbing creep who sees somebody more experienced and with more knowledge of his field than he has, perceives that person as a threat, and goes to management to get him or her excommunicated from working with the department.
Worse than that is the management who goes along with it.
The type that CC’s everyone in an email.
The type that forces you to create a papertrail to defend yourself.
The smoker who you have to watch EVERY SINGLE SECOND because they’re always sneaking out to have a smoke. The smoker who has to round up all of his/her smoking buddies, go downstairs, have a smoke, then comes back to their desk claiming they only took 15 mins when they took a half hour. Having to watch them constantly and document all of this garbage.
Another vote for the backstabbing, politicking, gossipping type.
Definitely the slacker. The one who uses coming to work as an excuse to wander around, talking and attention-whoring literally ALL DAY EVERY DAY. You know, the one who stands there while everyone else is running around, busting their ass, having to negotiate around that person because she STANDS right in the middle of everything, talking about themselves constantly like the spoiled, self-centered little bitch that they are.
And then when there are ‘meetings’ to talk about why things aren’t getting done or mistakes are made, you’re told that management is fully aware of how that person is, but nothing will ever be done about it except they might not get raises, and if you don’t want to increase the amount YOU work (which is impossible when you’re already an ass-buster) to cover for them, then you can find a new job.
Yes, I am bitter. :mad:
Sounds like we all work in the same place.
I’ll agree that the worst is the co-worker who, really for their own selfish reasons, decides to start campaigns to undermine everyone but themselves.
I’d add 2 honorable mentions form my own experience though:
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The “time vampire” a co-worker who you need to interact with for information (usually often) and who you cannot, absolutely not ever, get away from inside of 15-20 minutes. Sometimes it will go on for a half hour or more as the work information bits (that you really need) are interspaced with gossipy tidbits, TMI about personal life, and just blather. If you REALLY put the hammer down - it may make work impossible. Often, but not always, a.k.a. “the secretly to everyone but you, VERY disgruntled employee.”
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The “Al Haig” co-worker who decides that management isn’t dealing with a problem or dealing with it fast enough or you are all a bunch of slackers and so, takes charge and starts usurping everyone else’s projects, roles and responsibilities leaving chaos, bruised feelings and a dysfunctional organization in their wake. usually, because this can really only happen in the natural environment of a management vacuum or inattention, it grows to tremendous proportions because management is grateful at first for Al Haig’s “can do” attitude and moxy.
And not only that, but they’re constantly hacking up a lung while they’re at work, yet claiming it’s not because of the cancer sticks.
Wow, do you work for the same company as me? Except that the slacker at my job actually gets her raises. Comes in late and leaves early but fudges her timesheet so it doesn’t look as bad, spends all day on the phone with friends, takes extra long lunch breaks, and never gets disciplined for it, although everyone else in the place has made sure the boss knows about her behavior.
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The person who will ask you to do anything and everything, and expects you to know everything (Who waters the plants?) and then, when you ask them to hand you a pencil, says “That’s not my job.”
I work with one of these.
Been there, done that. It seemed (was) necessary at the time, but didn’t make any difference in the long run. (That company is now out of business.)
My vote is on the Rear Echelon Mothers who generate all these pointless, time-wasting, soul-sucking policies so they can impress other REMF Vice Presidents on the golf course on how progressive their company is. Six Sigma/Ten X/AS9100, meet my unwashed anus!
Also, I don’t need to know that Division Executive Vice President Ima S. Hole just won the Golden Toiletbrush Award for Outstanding Achievement in the Area of Quality Excellence. Nor do I need to know that she was a judge at the Westminster Poodle-Grooming Competition, or that she wants to annouce that the niece of her bastard son is going to take the position of Deputy Assistant to the Division Executive Vice President right after flunking out of Keller Management School, and I certainly don’t need to know that she spent her seven figure bonus on a new Mercedes Maybach and a J-120 yacht. Give me a zarking break with the stupid e-mails, would ya? I’m just trying to finish off my daily Process Scope Task Management sheets, enter them into the Document Records Control Database, complex my 360[sup]o[/sup] Evaluation Records, and make some PowerPoint slides for my bosses Six Sigma DMAIC presentation so I can actually get around to upgrading the CAD server and designing some actual flight hardware.
<mumbly>-<mumble>-<blub> Defense Systems: We don’t make products, we make processes! Defending your airspace for sixty years with smoke and mirrors!
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The heroin addict.
They’re the worst of everything - sometimes a slacker, sometimes a brownnoser, sometimes a politicking, backstabbing syphilitic whore.
The Old Timer.
This is an employee who’s been working there for about 300 years and can obey or disobey any established rule as they see fit. They’ll usually have a friend who’s a supervisor who will cover for them.
The worse kind of cow-orker is the ones who should have typed worst.
Unless you work in a meat plant, which may contain the wurst kind of worker.
…and the nitpeckers…
Anyone who’s Type A and won’t leave me alone.
Weak directors. They will let others walk all over them and create more work for others, just because they won’t put their foot down and say no.
The co-worker who can’t answer a direct question with a “yes” or a “no.” Instead, I get 15 explanation about something semi-related to his task but has nothing to do with my task.
The co-worker who blames their computer for user errors.
The co-worker who openly weeps in front of others at work.
The co-worker who insists on having long dramatic conversations with his partner on his cell phone at his desk that go something like this: "I can’t do that right now Steve; I’m at work. No, I’m at work, I can’t do that. No, Steve. (pause) Steve. (pause) Steve, I can’t do that, I’m at work right now … "
The co-worker who picks his face till it bleeds.
The co-worker who chews with his mouth open and who talks with his mouth full.
The co-worker who interrupts you in the middle of a sentence because he’s thought of a great story to tell that’s all about HIM.
Thanks, I feel much better now.