Wednesday, October 13, 2004

Working with an Annoying Co-worker

Day dreaming about knocking your co-worker out and then locking them in the closet? Thinking about throwing your stapler over at them to shut them up? Don't you wish?

I had to deal with a co-worker who annoyed the crap out of me one day. All I heard was her whinning and her constant huffing and puffing. I would be at my desk working and I would hear her talking to herself and cursing at her emails. All day she would complain to me and I didn't know what to say. I mean, I don't agree with anything that she complains about. Do I tell her this? I start to get irritated as I hear her thumping about. Hands would drop hard on her desk. Huffing and puffing would get heavier and louder. I mean look, if you don't like your job then quit!

Then she starts talking about this person who is annoying her. I find out later that it's my buddy she's complaining about. So every now and then I hear my friend complain about how stupid she is. Whatever.... This chick has some issues. She's always negative. She might be menopausal? Well I got tired of her complaining all day and all week.

This week I'm helping out in this special group. They are a bunch of high maintance bastards. I want to blow up this floor. This old bastard over here is rude. Does not say thank you. The other guy is a snot. Looks like he is prejudice. The others are about the same. Just a bunch of assholes. And all that I do for them and they never say thanks. But there is one guy who is nice. He seems a little snotty at first, but he's such a sweetie. He seems real. But he can also act like an asshole like the others. But with this guy, it's his job. The others are just natural assholes. I don't want to be around them. The girl next to me, annoys me as well. She knows I'm here to help so she stops working. She chats on the phone and blamed me one time for a bill not going out to our client, when she didn't tell me anything about sending it out. She has made some mistakes where she led me in the wrong direction. May I call her a stupid bitch? That stupid bitch..... But my boss knows my style and backed me up when a blame or two went flying in my direction. She said, "I would have done the same, Lani..." So my boss is cool.

On another time, I worked with this one chick. She was strange. She was older than me. Her hair was puffed up high with a ton of hair spray. She had dark eye shadow on her eyes, but they were done funny. It wasn't on her eye lids. It was between her eye lid and under her brow. Weird. Her outfits were old school professional. I had to sit by her one day as I was using the other girl's desk. She was out and the marketing group called me to help out on a project. I'm walking by and I smell coffee. Strong too. But then, later the smell was still there. And I don't think it's coffee. The smell was getting bad. I walked over and her desk was a mess. She had a big cake knife with dried up chocolate on it. Wrappers on her desk. I picked up her phone and there was dried lipstick crap on the phone. How does she not clean up? Then I looked under and she had shoes under her desk that were smelling bad. That was it!! Her shoes were making that awful smell. I could not take it. I ask to be relocated. I told my boss...."I want to gag. I want to pull my eyes out and bleed on her shoes. Maybe then she'll realize the smell is bothering people?" My boss said..."Well, it might be a mess to clean up afterwards. You think you can hold back from doing that?" "Okay sure. I'll just gag."

So she left the company and took her shoes with her. Now I can work with marketing and not smell her shoes. I wonder if she knew they smelled bad....

It's just annoying.

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