Annoying Co-worker Thread

**elizabethann** · 06-28-2005, 10:02 AM

If anybody would like to rant about an annoying co-worker, then post it here. Me first!

I have a co-worker that WON'T SHUT UP!!!!!!! But it's not me that she's talking to, it's HERSELF!!!!!!!!!!!!!! It drives me MAD!!!!!!!!!!!! MAD I tell you!!!!!!!!!! I want to go over to her and punch her in the mouth and tell her to SHUT UP!!!!!!! Why are you talking to yourself???????? Just STOP it!!!!!!!! SHUT UP ALREADY!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! !!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Thanks. I feel "somewhat" better. But she's STILL talking!

**Karen** · 06-28-2005, 10:04 AM

Have you spoken to her, and told her she's talking to herself and others find it annoying?

**elizabethann** · 06-28-2005, 10:05 AM

no

**sasvermont** · 06-28-2005, 10:09 AM

I guess I could be that person. I think what is important is that she NOT talk loud enough for everyone to hear. She could be asked to whisper rather than talk aloud. Give it a try. I sing all the time too, and I refuse to stop that. I just try to keep it to myself.....yes, that's the ticket....keep it to yourself......and not clutter other's airspace.

I have learned and so no one is too old to learn to "keep it in their own space"........

Hope this helps.

P. S. A gentle conversation always starts things out on good footing, so I suggest a gentle, private conversation, asking her in a very polite way.

P. S. S. The alternative is for you to get ear plugs.

**finn's mom** · 06-28-2005, 10:10 AM

I worked with a girl that ate with her mouth open, and, would make the most disgusting sounds. I almost threw up one day, and, finally asked to be moved. I thought maybe it was because she wore braces, but, it didn't change when she had them removed. It was so nasty, and, it just made my skin crawl. I had one guy that I worked with, that because I'd refused his advances, made my days at work nearly impossible to cope with. It took him about a year and a half to finally back off. He was just bitter, young, and, mean.

**caseysmom** · 06-28-2005, 10:29 AM

Well I have ranted about this before but the snarfing of 2 co-workers right near me is enough to make be gag!!!

Also, there is a co-worker that makes disparaging comments whenever anybody takes a day off...he takes days off all the time but thats okay...now mind you we all have to use our vacation and sick leave so it is our time...

**kuhio98** · 06-28-2005, 10:30 AM

I work with a lady who puts everything in her mouth. If she's holding a pen and needs both hands, she puts the pen in her mouth. If she's filing papers, she holds the papers in her mouth while she files. Everything in the office is covered with her germs. She is ALWAYS sick and passes her germs around. When she leaves the office, we "hose down" the office and clean every surface we can. I guess we could staple her lips together...

**elizabethann** · 06-28-2005, 10:35 AM

I work with a lady who puts everything in her mouth. If she's holding a pen and needs both hands, she puts the pen in her mouth. If she's filing papers, she holds the papers in her mouth while she files. Everything in the office is covered with her germs. She is ALWAYS sick and passes her germs around. When she leaves the office, we "hose down" the office and clean every surface we can. I guess we could staple her lips together...

GGGRROOOOSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSS!!!

**NoahsMommy** · 06-30-2005, 08:37 PM

I'm sorry, but this is a funny thread!!!

I used to work with a woman who had something seriously wrong with her lungs...she would hack and hack all day. It was soooooooo gross!!!

Snarfing? I think I know what that is...and I agree...EWWW!!!!!

**IRescue452** · 06-30-2005, 09:46 PM

Oh boy my favorite subject! When working on a machine in an assembly line and this one girl needs to hit stop to catch up she doesn't ask if we are ready before she pushes start agian. It drives us all crazy because we aren't ready for our parts to startup because we are trying to fix the ones she messed up on.

**Tonya** · 06-30-2005, 11:47 PM

I have a coworker that habitually cleans his ears out with his keys while he is talking to you. He even pauses and takes the keys out to examine for earwax. Then he'll resume digging. BARF!

**IRescue452** · 07-01-2005, 08:47 AM

Wow I think the ear one takes the cake in the grossest of ways. You think he'll pop and ear drum someday?! Wow I think I'd puke too.

**mruffruff** · 07-01-2005, 01:14 PM

One of my co-workers clips her nails every day. Snip, snip, snip, snip.....

Another whistles the same few notes over and over and over.....
He's the same one who sucks on hard candy--slurping loudly.

I'm sure they don't appreciate my muttered curses when something goes wrong. Or maybe they just consider the source.

**moosmom** · 07-02-2005, 10:00 AM

I really don't have any annoying co-workers yet. I've only been at my job for 6 months and really like everyone I work with.

But, it's early yet. Given time, I'm SURE someone will start to get on my last nerve.

**Pawsitive Thinking** · 07-04-2005, 10:09 AM

At last I can get this off my chest! We have a colleague who is just never here! She is either studying for exams, at college or off sick and when she is here she useless! Why is she still here? Because to boss is too soft/dim/daft to do anything......seriously undermining the whole dynamic of the office