Gawd, I almost puked posting that.
Posted on 11/02/2007 10:29:11 AM PDT by ShadowDancer
Who Irritates You At Work?
Screamers, Gossipers, Top Most Irritating Co-Worker List
Shirkers, screamers and gossipers are the most irritating co-workers, according to a new survey.
Ceridian, one of the world's largest human resource service providers, identified the top 10 most irritating people at work; the findings arrive ahead of National Stress Awareness Day on Nov. 7.
Shirkers - people who come up with endless excuses to not work - took top honors stressing out the most workers, almost a quarter of the 1,004 surveyed.
Coming in at second place are screamers -- who throw tantrums and arguments in open spaces; The third most irritating co-workers are gossipers who talk behind colleagues' backs and exclude people from conversations.
Also in the top 10 are whiners who never see the positive in any situation; megaphones who talk loudly on the phone; hijackers who hijack meetings by discussing irrelevant topics; wanderers who take long coffee and smoking breaks; slurpers, the noisy beverage drinkers, eaters and gum chewers; sneezers, the people who come to work sick; and swearers.
The survey also found that only eight percent of workers surveyed asked their boss for help with the stress at work, while 58 percent of employees suffered in silence.
Sitcoms such as the "The Office" portray these behaviors as humorous personality quirks, but in a real office situation, it's no laughing matter.
Stressful disruptive behavior can lead to stressed out office workers, which in turn affect morale, productivity and eventually, the bottom line.
People who talk on their cellphones in the bathroom. I always try to be as noisy as possible when this happens.
The people who can’t seem to do anything unless they make it a crisis.
Hi George :)
After serving in the military, government civil service and private corporate, there is not enough time in a day to list them all.
What!?
Bosses who step into a bathroom stall mid-conversation and keep talking, expecting you to stand by and listen.
Unless it's Girl Scout cookies, don't ask me again to buy stupid trinkets for your kid's school.
cool
People who plot to get other people fired. They are usually the pets of psycho bosses.
Ahhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhgggggggggggggg.
lol
It’s not impossible if I don’t have to do it.
You get a budget? ;)
As a Federal employee, some of my favorites were “re-organize”, as if they were organized before, and “co-locate” which sounded like a search for an energy source. By far, the most confusing word in government speak was “budget” which was always used in the context of more.
Gawd, I almost puked posting that.
The guy I car pool with! He flips off other drivers when I am driving!
Only for production implementation.
EVERYTHING for the lab is supposed to be free.
(Like that's going to happen anymore.)
Around here...she signs her e-mails “Miss Peurto Rico”.
She talks LOUDLY, has a forced and fake laugh, speaks only in Spanish whenever possible, is the FIRST to scream discrimination, rattles out her foriegn language like some steriod jacked-up Charo, gossips and back-stabs as though she is starring in a Friday the 13th movie and wears see-through skirts and dresses with no panties to cover her large...ass...there, I said it!
Yes, I’m telling the truth.
And IT
IS
NASTY!!!
I hope the nighmares go away now.
...I’m beginning to feel better now .
I think . . . maybe guys who write articles about who is irritating in the work place. Guy needs to get a life, an enema or aspirin or something. Chocolate seems to help.
GEORGE: Hi, I was just uh... I just had one little question about uh,
My assignment.
WILHELM: Yes, well I trust things are moving smoothly. Mr
Steinbrenner’s counting on you, you know.
GEORGE: Yes, yes. Very smooth, super smooth. No, but I really wanna
attack this thing, you know. Sink my teeth into it. So I was just wondering... what
do you think would be the very best way to get started?
WILHELM: (confusion) Get started? I don’t understand, George.
GEORGE: Well, I was wondering...
WILHELM: You mean you haven’t been to payroll?
GEORGE: Payroll? No, no, I haven’t done that.
WILHELM: Well, what’s the problem? Now come on George. I told the big
man you were moving on this. Now, don’t let him down!
There are no such things as FMLA abusers. HR told me so.
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