Wednesday, September 23, 2020

People's Stories Of Their Nightmare Coworkers


Someone on AskReddit got a glorious, cringe-packed thread going about people's worst coworkers. Anyone who has ever suffered alongside an unbearable, obnoxious, and inconsiderate coworker will connect on a deep and painful level with these tales. 

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Text - Throwitaway9009y • 3y 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. We found out that she had been posting shit about employees and the business on facebook. Where she was friends with half of the staff at aforementioned business. Pretty sure she was stealing too. 2.4k ...

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Text - DasCthulhu • 3y 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. 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... ive been in IT for 8 years now and in a hell of a lot more industries than he has. 1.9k

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Text - 84th_legislature • 3y Currently working with a person who has had a sinus infection since November 2016. That's right: wet, chunky coughs, 9 hours a day, 5 days a week, for going on 10 months. No she does not leave the team area for coughing attacks, she just retches up whatever it is and gulps it back down. 10 months of that in a quiet office. 3.3k ...

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Text - neverbelieveagain • 3y 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. 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 8:30pm apparently she has to take a twenty minute poop in the bathroom. She claims to be allergic to m

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Text - She has said on more than one occasion she likes to find out people's weaknesses and pick at them. One of my coworker's lives with her in-laws as both of them have student debt they are very close to paying off. A 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,

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Text - [deleted] • 3y TL;DR - martyrs, manipulation, physical aggression, and favoritism at your friendly local Starbucks I worked at a Starbucks. After 1.5 years of solid barista work, I got promoted to shift supervisor, so I had to move to a different store. I arrived on my first day there (just orientation to introduce me to everyone and take a couple online trainings), I reached out my hand to meet Maggie. The manager informed me that Maggie was their best barista and "owned the morning rush

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Text - I asked a coworker what Maggie's deal was. I learned the back story that the manager thinks of her as a daughter, has strong favoritism towards Maggie, assumes Maggie is the only person who can handle any task, but had refused to promote her to shift supervisor. She had been gunning for the vacant position, then I got it, so she resented me.

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Text - I had some empathy for Maggie at this point. A year of working with her, the empathy vanished. Sure, Maggie got a lot thrown at her, but she refused to perform her tasks well. She didn't show up for shifts if the weather was bad. Oh, also this "owning the morning shift" thing - she constantly screamed at customers or was very curt with them, then would insist that they "like being talked to that way. They know I'm kidding." On more than one occasion, a customer would come over to me and s

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Text - This all came to a head one day. As her supervisor, I was explaining that I really value good communication and needed her to vocally confirm drink orders. I have the exact same expectations for all other staff and for myself. She had about 5 inches and 30 pounds on me. She lunged herself at me, red-faced, screaming that she was going to hurt me if I don't stop "getting in her face." When i told the boss, she said that Maggie was the best barista in the store, she "owns the morning shift"

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Text - So I did that. I explained to my boss that I have journals explaining everything that happened. She said "Ok, we obviously need to discuss this. Come in tomorrow at X time and we will hear you out." I show up and Maggie walks out, looking very smug. I go in and start sharing my part with the store and district managers. They stop me and say that they aren't interested in hearing it. They've heard enough and trust Maggie's side of the story. I went home and applied to grad school programs.

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Text - Blinsin • 3y His name is Tyler. I use to work at a convenience store that use to solely be open between the hours 7am and 11pm. At this point in my life I had been there for about 6 years. Well they hired Tyler because he is the son of one of the regular customers. They place him on my shift and it was easily the worst shift Iever had. Normally I work 7am to 3pm, but that day I had to stay till 5pm because I was so behind on the things I needed to do. On this day our order was larger than

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Text - Here is a list of the reasons I was behind on my work: Every other customer I had to stop the transaction and fix the mistakes he was making (scanning items 3-4 times without noticing). Each time I walked him through how to delete an item off the list so he could do it himself if he missed up. I would walk away to start putting order items on the shelves and look up 2 minutes later to see a line of 6 people at the register Took 45 minutes to change 6 trashcans, all of which were in a 10ft

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Text - Constantly had to cancel orders because he forgot to place the total they payed him and didn't understand how to give people change without seeing the change total on the screen. His way to fix this was re- ring ALL the items again and put the change in the second time. I explained each time how to count change without it and explain that you can't just re- ring items because it throws off totals in the system. had to talk to several of those customers because Tyler ended up cursing in fr

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Text - All of which put me two hours behind on my work. My boss ended up having to drop what he was doing and help me when Tyler left at 3 and our 2 replacements came in. edit: He was there another week. He told the boss last minute he was going on a 3 week long vacation and our boss just told him to not come back to the store. 1.1k ...

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Text - gt35r • 3y Currently still a nightmare, CC's the entire office including multiple owners of the company when she corrects something I've done. My office is about 10ft from hers. Every time she does it I just think why cant you walk 10ft and come tell me or address the issue with me. Usually 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. 299 •..

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Text - youdownwithopp • 3y A little off topic but I noticed with these threads it is always office workers that write in them. I have worked mostly in mining and the oil industry my whole life so I am not familiar with office work. Is it just easier to tell people off and speak your mind in industry work? 282 ...

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Text - maccathesaint • 3y Work in an office. Have a colleague who is literally the world's worst diabetic. I'm fairly certain she has munchausens. 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 kil

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Text - Ilunibi • 3y When I was the AGM of a really rinky-dink hotel, the owners had a disagreement about who would be the GM after the previous one rage-quit. One owner hired an veteran with previous hospitality experience, an impressive resume, and really good business sense who was an absolute joy to be around. The other hired Mary-Lou. They were both set loose in the hotel and basically told to fight over the position. Whoever proved the most capable wins. Veteran candidate thinks this is dum

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Text - She was a small woman whose only experience was getting fired from a Christian bookstore and owning a florist shop for eleven years. She came in waving her credit card and professed that she was going to buy everything the hotel needed on her dime and the owners were going to reimburse her. She'd be gone for hours and come back with things like cat litter and scarecrows and a mother fucking picnic table, and when we tried to explain that that was really stupid, she'd just start shrieking

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Text - "Why are you in the office doing the expenses when you should be the third person at a desk for a sixty- room hotel on a day where the occupancy is projected below 10%? Why isn't the front desk doing laundry now that I sent the laundry person home for no discernible reason? Why aren't you doing housekeeping's work? I'm the GM! I AM THE ONLY MANAGER! / WILL DO THE REPORTS." And she would wreck the reports and I would wait until she was gone and work overtime trying to fix them, because the

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Text - In the end, she wound up fired because she spent thousands of dollars on the hotel that was out of our budget, put the rest on her card, then sent a package of receipts to one owner demanding reimbursement. Also, we all threatened to walk out. When fired, she nearly ripped out her bangs, ripped a wreath off the wall, and told me and one of my employees that we'd "get what was coming" to us. She then harassed me via text with job listings because she wanted me to be prepared for when I got

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Text - urgehal666 • 3y 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 fuck 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 l've discovered on numerous occasions that I'm either gay, a

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Text - gargoyle_eva • 3y working in fast food, training a new guy. He got caught stealing drinks from the fridge, decided to defend himself by saying he saw me stealing cola and thought it was a job perk. (it was well known in the store i hate cola). Also he used to skip certain procedures which could result in food poisening, when i confronted him about it, he shoved me into a wall and threatened to punch me. 302

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Text - izwald88 • 3y My bosses, which 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. In this case, 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.

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Text - whateverismyusername • 3y 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 realises that she can't handle the job; keeps losing vital paperwork, telling clients wrong information, 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 produc

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Text - [deleted] • 3y New guy I was training to cook at KFC, slower than a sloth and whenever I would show him the way we do things he would just do it his slow ass way and say it's easier, you haven't even tried the way we are SUPPOSED to do it. 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 smashed, it hadn't so I put it back in

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Text - Kelslaw • 3y 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 where he would be yelling and shouting across the department. It was scary a few times since he would be yelling and cussing at me. 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

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Text - [deleted] • 3y I have posted stories of Karen before, like the time the meeting didn't go her way so she smashed a keyboard across her desk and went home. Or how she would sit behind me disparaging me for being a "pathetic male". Or how she fucking stank of wet dog all the time. Or how she derailed a safety-critical update because nobody was allowed to criticise her code. Or how she demanded that I should be fired when I called her out for falsifying reports. 1.2k ...

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