Worst people you've ever worked with

[Witterquick]

Hey guys, I'm feeling so down about my coworkers who are such assholes. I think knowing that a few of you work with worse would really cheer me up. Help?

I hate to admit this but I'm the subject of workplace bullies. I have good friends in my company and department but not in my team. Somehow I ended up with the worst people. They're like a fraternity. I think our leader is really the only bad one. You have to agree with him on everything or he'll pick on you. Sadly, I'm the only one who would even dare disagree with him on anything. The others seem happy to be part of his "in" group. I think it's human nature so although I don't respect them much, I don't blame them either.

So everything I do is under such close scrutiny. I have to be perfect at everything and any mistake I make, no matter how trivial, is going to be reported to our supervisor. Everyone in our group has made lots of mistakes, especially this team leader, who really isn't very good at his job. Instead of going to the boss, I would always let them know directly whenever they did something wrong so they could correct it themselves. It just saddens me that my actions are not reciprocated. I'm sad today because I only just found out about how much shit they've been telling my supervisor, and most of them aren't even true, and the others are trivial stuff that happened once. I'm an introvert and don't speak to or hang around the boss that much, so I guess it's natural he believes my charming coworkers more than me. What really irks me is that this boss never talked to me about the stuff he's been hearing about me for over a year. So everything they said is fact to him and I didn't even get a chance to defend myself. I feel stupid that I'm so trusting.

And I'm also so tired of being one against so many. They would criticize everything I do and agree with each other whether the criticisms are valid or not. It doesn't seem to me that they realize how hypocritical they're and how badly they're behaving. Do they want to be "cool" so much? They're adults for crying out loud.

I don't understand even why they like hanging out with the leader so much (who by the way, is only one grade above me). He's such a creepy guy. He would randomly call female coworkers bitches, and say stuff like all queers should die. Most importantly, he does not treat his "followers" with any respect at all. He would disregard their opinions, and ignore them when they're talking to him, stuff like that. Then he would talk crap about whoever is not in the room at the time. He would never admit to any of his mistakes and lie about them. And he is lazy. He's always asking other people to do his stuff. Shit, this guy is horrendous!

Ok, I'm tired even just writing about these people. Thought venting might make me feel better but it's not really working. Well maybe a little. Now I'm just going to relax and not think about them anymore.

 

[Myasishchev]

Talk shit about him behind his back. It's easy. But be subtle.

The worst people I've ever worked with was in a law school student project. I had an agreement with a chick in one class that I would do all oral presentations (she was an introvert too I guess), and she would do all written work. I'm partly to blame for this because oral presentations are easier, as long as you can think extemporaneously a little, and so I took the offer, and neglected to manage the project more closely even though trusting other people to do anything they were supposed to has always burned me in the past. But "I KNOW THIS IS DUE IN FOUR HOURS, BUT I'M [hung over] CAN YOU DO IT?" No, I can't, honey, not really.

Also, she had terrible, terrible breath.

I should've cut her throat and had my professor sever our grades, if possible, but I don't have the mentality for that, which is why I never should have gone to law school in the first place.

Well, it's either that or the waitress I worked a table with who fucked up a party's bill so badly I paid them $20 out of pocket just to fix it and get rid of them.

 

[Spot's Meow]

I worked in one office in particular where there were many bad co-workers. By bad I mean that they were extremely lazy, careless, and treated other people rudely. One woman in particular was very loud, obnoxious, and totally oblivious to how rude she is. I didn't think people that clueless could really exist. She would say the most inappropriate and hurtful remarks and somehow think that she was giving a compliment. She was also very lazy and I had to fix all of her mistakes, being a level below her. I don't think there was one piece of paper that left her cubicle that wasn't improperly written or formatted. It was irritating as hell. She also liked to gossip, and would complain about others being lazy when she did practically no work herself. Everything was someone else's fault. Nobody in that building could stand her, and people literally have countdowns on their calendars until the day that she retires (only two more years!).

There were a couple of other people in that office who were rude in other ways. They had a know-it-all arrogance about them. My cubicle was across from one of these people. When people would come up to him and talk, he would always be making fun of them without them realizing it, giving sarcastic comments that they took seriously. He would then laugh about them after they walked away. The work to him was a joke. He apparently held himself to no personal standard and would just stick any crap together and call it a finished project. There was another woman in the office just like him who very rarely even showed up for work. When she was there she would be reading her Kindle or talking on the phone to friends about her children. Both of these people very much had the opinion that doing work was somehow beneath them.

There were other very annoying types, like those who always come up to your cubicle and want to have a drawn out and useless conversation about nothing, just as you are about to start eating your lunch or working on a tough project. And those who just didn't care about the work at all.

On the other hand, there were also people who really did care, and really did put in the effort to be kind to others. They were meticulous, careful, friendly, and tried to be aware of those around them. They would only come to talk if you weren't busy, they would compliment you on good work, and provide constructive criticism when they thought they could help. Their work was always flawless and they were great team players. Those are the people that make dealing with the other 90% of coworkers possible.

If there is no one like that in your office that you can turn to, my advice would be to become that person yourself. Be the one that everyone can say something good about and that always does things well and on time. The one that is friendly and doesn't gossip. Your coworkers may be jackasses that don't appreciate it on the outside, but on the inside they will respect you and be jealous of your ability to enjoy your work.

 

[ManOnTheWave]

I used to work with a teenager who was frequently high on cocaine. His only visitors were not clients, or family, but always the sleaziest looking drug dealers. He never did any work. He hid it in other people's desks. He screwed up anything he did. He spent most of his day writing shitty rap lyrics in which every line contained the 'n word.' (He was Vietnamese.)

I'd love to say he ODed, or was killed by a dealer, or even that he was fired, but I don't think the little fucker will ever see a consequence to any if his actions.

 

[Myasishchev]

He screwed up anything he did. He spent most of his day writing shitty rap lyrics in which every line contained the 'n word.' (He was Vietnamese.

'Nger'?

 

[ManOnTheWave]

No, the one with two g's and an i.



He never modified his behavior. He performed his lyrics in front of visiting clients.

I left out the part where he'd call me at home.

 

[ed629]

When I worked for a company as the Facility Manager, there was this one shit fuck by the name of Jackie, he was an asshole in every sense of the word. This company had several labs, a clean room, the labs had fume hoods, it was an R&D company. If something broke down or we needed to have some special utilities installed for projects it was my responsibility to get it taken care of. So this shit stain, if something broke down, he would email me, c.c. the CEO/Owner and every department head in the company. Then leave 2-3 voicemails, one stating the problem, then 5 minutes later asking why I haven't responded, then another one asking why it wasn't done yet (within 20-30 minutes of the first one). This fuck would hound me, even after I had the workorder submitted, approved and then had the installer(s) scheduled to come out. One time a fan for a fume hood failed, soon as I got his email I went to check out the fume hood to make sure it wasn't a switch or circuit that shut it off. Ran a diagnostic on it, in the mean time he had arleady emailed the CEO saying I wasn't doing anything about it, and he needed it done right away. Mind you, this was within 30 minutes of me getting the email. So I called the contractor we used for the fume hoods, the wouldn't be able to come until the next day. So jackie called and emailed me and the CEo at least a dozen times bitching that he needed it fixed, the fucktard could not understand that the contractor couldn't just come out. They came out, chekced it, it needed a new control panel (it would take two weeks to get a new control panel). So of course he bitched eery single day, told the CEO I wasn't doing my job, etc... but the the whole time there were 2-3 other fume hoods he could use. But this shit muncher wouldn't use them, because 2 were in another building less than a minute's walk away and the another one was in the same building, but he didn't like to use that one because the room was on the other side of the building.

It was constant shit with Jackie like this, all the fucking time.... the fuck didn't realize that I could do a lot of shit to get him back. I was the one that needed to approve anything he needed to do in the labs. Never used that to my advantage, but I sure made sure to get his car towed 1/2 a dozen times when he would park in a spot that wasn't his assigned spot. And he always wondered why his office was so hot in the summer and freezing cold in the winter, and why his key card never worked right. I could program it to work at certain times, certain days, certain doors, etc. The only door it worked from on the outside was the door that was on the other side of the building where he parked. I had it set up to work only at certain times during the day too. For example, from 8:57AM to 9:01AM, 9:33AM to 9:52AM, 11:02AM to 11:03AM... you get the picture. And whenever he complained about that, and tried to show other people that his card didn't work, I would temporarily give the card access to every door for time being, so it looked like he was full of shit about that. He did the same to the IT guy, he got fired when we found out (IT guy and myself) he was making calls to China with his desk phone, he charged thousands of dollars to the company doing that.... and he also downloaded a lot of porn (the kiddie type)... so he got arrested for that part. He fucked with the wrong people.

 

[PKTrekGirl]

Over the years I have had the misfortune of working for/with many horrible people. But the sad thing is that these people nearly always are the very ones who get ahead. At least in my business. And especially here in Georgia, which is an 'at will' employment state where they can not hire you or can fire you for any reason at all - or no reason at all, as long as they pretend it isn't racist.

But I have worked for one guy (a good, sing-in-the-choir-of-a-massive-church Baptist) who was blatantly racist - he frequently used the 'n' word...and on one occasion we had an African American candidate come for a job interview one day and despite the stellar resume, this boss saw him in the lobby and told the receptionist, right in front of me, to tell the young man the job had been filled (it had not been filled). This boss also harassed me when I asked to take a couple of hours off to attend Good Friday services at a nearby Catholic Church (I was going to come back later and work the hours, of course), informing me that "real Christians (translated Baptists) don't believe in Good Friday".

At another job, I had one boss who sent around an email asking everyone to donate money to Dubya's re-election campaign. When I conveniently 'forgot' to respond to his request with a donation, I was harassed and called an anti-American terrorist sympathizer. This boss's 'right hand guy' (who is now a full partner in that firm) routinely reduced staff people to tears by berating them in front of others, and terrorizing them with unrealistic deadlines and time budgets and threat of dismissal if they did not meet them. As a result, the terrorized staff would put large chunks of their time into jobs run by other managers (myself included) because they knew we would not berate them/belittle them in front of others for budget overruns. In this way, this horrible guy got himself a 'two 'fer' - he terrorized the staff into lying on their time sheets and making him look good by always being on time/under budget....and making the rest of us managers at his level look bad by being late/over budget....because the staff would bump his stuff to the head of the line out of fear...and charge time spent on his projects to our projects out of that same fear.

Man...I have a million of them - working in the industry I have, as an auditor and tax accountant, has really made me realize just horrible (and hypocritical) most people are. It is scary how many people would (and do!) walk on the heads of anyone - destroying the lives and careers of others, just to get ahead. And sleep like a baby while doing it.

I think being an auditor and tax accountant ends you in the same place a lot of cops end up - either being very cynical about people...or taking the 'if you can't beat 'em, join 'em approach' and grabbing what you can for yourself, and screw everyone else...and even the morals you entered the business with. You see so many people just lie, lie, lie...and talk one game with their mouths while their accounting records and/or tax returns reveal an entirely different set of values and beliefs. Add that to the cut-throat antics of the partners and partner wanna-be's in a lot of firms themselves...and you really end up thinking a lot less of people as a whole.

For me...the surprise was not that massive frauds like Enron happen - it's that they are not exposed more frequently.

Because greed is a very powerful motivator...and where there is a will, there is a way, no matter how many controls to prevent fraud are set up.

 

[marillion]

I've never worked with bullies, really, but egos have always been an issue... When I worked at KOAT Ch 7 in Albuquerque, we had a few reporters and photographers who thought they were THE shit, and you couldn't tell them what to do.. God help you if you told them they couldn't do something or that you didn't have a plum assignment for them... There are such prima donnas in the media, it's incredible.

I worked with one reporter who was mostly nice as long as things were going her way.. She was very much a feminist, but she insisted in parading around in VERY tight clothes that showed off her very tight physique.. God help you again, if you ever got caught stealing a glance.. Once, after she was (rightly so) passed over for a promotion into the anchor's chair, she went on a screaming rant in the news director's office.. Talk about akward..

Another time, our lead anchor got into a disagreement with the news director. This guy was/is Mr. News in New Mexico and at the end of the arguement, he got down on his knees right behind where I was sitting, and started pleading with the news director to fire him... He got his wish... He's now on another station I choose not to watch...

 

[Admiral Shran]

Probably the worst person I've ever had to work with is my current assistant manager.

One day, about six months ago, one of my co-workers was talking to a female customer. After they were finished, I went up to my co-worker and asked him if he knew her. When he said that they knew each other in passing, I asked if he knew if she was single. At this, the assistant manager (who just happened to overheard us) came over.

She said, right to my face, "Do you really believe that a woman like that will ever go out with you?" I responded with, "What is that supposed to mean?" To which I got the response of "Well, she's young and beautiful. What would she ever see in a guy like you?" I'm not kidding. Apparently this woman has never heard of tact.

I was so close to causing a scene right then and there, but I need my job, so I bit my tongue and just walked away. I already have MASSIVE self-confindence problems when it comes to interacting with women, and that really didn't help.

 

[TedShatner10]

It's a very bad sign when somebody in the work place is needlessly unpleasant and aggressive against colleagues-subordinates-clients, etc, yet very urbane and polite to their superior...