That One Person at Work/School

[IndomitableSam]

So, who's that one person at work or school that you absolutely cannot stand? That you cringe every time you hear their voice, or get naseous every time you see their face? That makes you physically recoil when they get near you? It could be because they don't like you, because they're a general asshole, the popular one, what have you. Just that person you dread seeing every day.

Mine is one of my team members at work. There are 4 of us, but we work interspersed with other people in the office. (There are about 15 here total.) She tecnically is in a higher position than me, but she is not nor will ever be my boss. She's always loud and opinionated and always has to have a finger in every goddamn pie in the office and is insulted when she's not included in things. She's pissed off a lot of people but this is a government office so she'd literally have to kill someone to get fired now.

Anyway, our boss is away this week and as we have a summer student here, we're short on desks. So this person is working from the boss' desk for the week, and, shit has it gone to her head. I went over to the projects board yesterday to put some notes up on work I'm doing and she takes out her earphones, turns around in my boss' chair and says "Sit down for a minute". She then proceeds to sit at my boss' desk and tell me what needs to be done with our team and how to make it better for 20 minutes.

Holy motherfucking hell did I want to slap her. She knew I was rolling my eyes at her and just kept talking. And talking. Wouldn't let me say a thing or even leave the room. After she wound down, she looked at me and reminded me I was here to put something on the board and then turned and went back to work.

... Also, she has a horse-face. No discernable chin connected directly to a turkey neck, tiny little mouth full of long, gnarly teeth and such. Because I dislike her so much, I find her revolting to look at.

I needed that rant.

So, who's your most hated work or schoolmate?

 

[Zhukov]

There is this one guy at work, but, well... I don't have any specific against him. He can be irritatingly condescending at time, but that's about it.

However, you ever meet someone and instantly distrust them? Y'know, you take one look and some little corner of your brain lights up and says, "Okay, see that guy? You make damn sure you know exactly where that person is at all times." Well, this one guy triggers that response every time I look at him. Suffice to say, if I had children I would not want them in the same room as him.

Weird and irrational, I know, but there ya go.

 

[Crises^]

If i was to chose it would be this person http://facebook.com/profile.php?=73322363

 

[krazykidd]

There is this one lady at my workplace . She is vile and disgusting . She sometimes works without her teeth , other times she put's them in or take them out WHILE working ( we work with food !) . She is always sweaty because she spends the day runing around in circles , she like a headless chicken , running around and not getting anything done . She gets stressed for nothing , and when scolded she never takes responsibility . She thinks she knoss everything and can do everything , when she can't get the simplest of tasks done . The only reason she doesn't get fired is because she's a) in the union and b) her sister is on the union board . Nobody in our entire workplace likes her , yet we can't get rid of her . And the worst part is she's 56 , with saggy EVERYTHING, and dresses like she is a 20 woman , with miniskirts and tanktops that show off your belly . Her husband has the same name as me ( how she managed to find a man is beyond me ) and she calls me LULU all day , because that's what she calls her husband . She leaves a mess in everything in her wake , so much that we nicknamed her "hurricane" . She's extremely clumsy and cut's herself all the time with everything . A real waste of sir and space .The woman is a disaster , and i do wonder how she managed to survive 56 years on this earth without winning a darwin award .

 

[SckizoBoy]

A colleague at work, dear lord she can piss me off at times. Once I settle down to work (sorry, "work") she'll throw an endless stream of questions at me, and it's just as well I no longer sit opposite her because she would literally bother me every freakin' minute with a dumb question or ten, even if I was clearly buried in paperwork. Always preceded 'it'll just take a second'. It never takes 'a fucking second'... *sigh*

 

[bl4ckh4wk64]

If i was to chose it would be this person http://facebook.com/profile.php?=73322363

Clever, if a little bit overused. I presume it leads to the profile of whoever clicks on it, right?

For me there was this guy during high school who was better than me in his knowledge of memorizing historical facts and wouldn't stop rubbing that in my face because I wanted to be a history major and he didn't. He also gave me crap for wanting to join Naval Intelligence. I still haven't really understood his extreme repulsion to me and what I wanted to do. I suppose it was my fault for letting that slip in one of our class discussions, though.

 

[The Artificially Prolonged]

So, who's that one person at work or school that you absolutely cannot stand? That you cringe every time you hear their voice, or get naseous every time you see their face? That makes you physically recoil when they get near you? It could be because they don't like you, because they're a general asshole, the popular one, what have you. Just that person you dread seeing every day.

Mine is one of my team members at work. There are 4 of us, but we work interspersed with other people in the office. (There are about 15 here total.) She tecnically is in a higher position than me, but she is not nor will ever be my boss. She's always loud and opinionated and always has to have a finger in every goddamn pie in the office and is insulted when she's not included in things. She's pissed off a lot of people but this is a government office so she'd literally have to kill someone to get fired now.

Anyway, our boss is away this week and as we have a summer student here, we're short on desks. So this person is working from the boss' desk for the week, and, shit has it gone to her head. I went over to the projects board yesterday to put some notes up on work I'm doing and she takes out her earphones, turns around in my boss' chair and says "Sit down for a minute". She then proceeds to sit at my boss' desk and tell me what needs to be done with our team and how to make it better for 20 minutes.

Holy motherfucking hell did I want to slap her. She knew I was rolling my eyes at her and just kept talking. And talking. Wouldn't let me say a thing or even leave the room. After she wound down, she looked at me and reminded me I was here to put something on the board and then turned and went back to work.

... Also, she has a horse-face. No discernable chin connected directly to a turkey neck, tiny little mouth full of long, gnarly teeth and such. Because I dislike her so much, I find her revolting to look at.

I needed that rant.

So, who's your most hated work or schoolmate?

Interesting my office had someone like that leave for a new job a couple of months ago. Coincidence? Yes. Office jobs jobs seem ro attract these types.

Lately one woman in my office has been getting on my nerves. She has the most shrill, annoying voice I have ever heard. The worst though is that I can wear an earphone to listen to music as I work so I shouldn't be able to hear her. But no, I can't hear my co-workers sitting right next to me but I can still hear her harping on clear as day half the office away.

 

[In Search of Username]

If i was to chose it would be this person http://facebook.com/profile.php?=73322363

Clever, if a little bit overused. I presume it leads to the profile of whoever clicks on it, right?

For me there was this guy during high school who was better than me in his knowledge of memorizing historical facts and wouldn't stop rubbing that in my face because I wanted to be a history major and he didn't. He also gave me crap for wanting to join Naval Intelligence. I still haven't really understood his extreme repulsion to me and what I wanted to do. I suppose it was my fault for letting that slip in one of our class discussions, though.

No, that guy just really hates you. Like, a lot.

 

[Goofguy]

Sure, there's one guy at work who pisses me off. He's surrounded by more experienced and smarter coworkers and yet acts as if he is superior to everyone. And when he gets proven wrong as he does many times, he brushes it off as if it was nothing.

I could go on and on about this guy but really, who wants to hear me rant about a soup sandwich.

 

[Blarkuntvhite]

If i was to chose it would be this person http://facebook.com/profile.php?=73322363

That one person looks like a REALLY AWESOME DUDE D:<

 

[kortin]

If i was to chose it would be this person http://facebook.com/profile.php?=73322363

Clever, if a little bit overused. I presume it leads to the profile of whoever clicks on it, right?

For me there was this guy during high school who was better than me in his knowledge of memorizing historical facts and wouldn't stop rubbing that in my face because I wanted to be a history major and he didn't. He also gave me crap for wanting to join Naval Intelligence. I still haven't really understood his extreme repulsion to me and what I wanted to do. I suppose it was my fault for letting that slip in one of our class discussions, though.

No, that guy just really hates you. Like, a lot.

Yeah, don't know what you did to him, man, but he really doesn't like you.

OT: There was this one kid who was the embodiment of all that is douchebag. And he was dating this girl I had a crush on. Doesn't help. Not one bit.

 

[mrblakemiller]

Alright, you made it impossible to resist. Mine's a guy at church, not at work.

Couple years ago, I move to Texas to start a Master's of Divinity (figuring out what the Bible really says, preparing to preach, among other things). Last year, I joined a couple of undergrad-aged small groups at my church. In one of them, I meet this Russian guy we'll call Ivan. Ivan is a really nice guy. I've never heard him say anything mean or thoughtless to anyone. That's what makes it so hard. Ivan has a constant twitchy energy about him, like a squirrel on crack. He's moving all the time, fidgeting back and forth, and he NEVER. SHUTS. UP.

The usual protocol for this small group was to start by going around the room and answering some silly question as an icebreaker before we start singing. Whenever we got to Ivan, he would get flustered, laugh, try his best to answer the question he was actually asked, and end up saying something that didn't answer the question. Like I said, he's Russian, so he has a thick accent. He also is very fidgety and never shuts up, so he's actually capable of talking over himself, running his words together and pretending that he enunciated clearly enough to be understood. Have you ever been forced to have a conversation with a guy who not only couldn't shut up, you could barely understand a word he was saying? It'd even be easier if he were speaking in Russian, because I wouldn't have to try to understand, but I'm always trying, hoping this time I can pick apart these random syllables and assemble them into coherent words.

Also, like I said, church group. He will walk up to you and, out of the blue, say, "Here's my scripture realization for today." What comes next is the most off-the-wall, logic-devoid, egotistical connection between a statement in the Bible and either some truism he's heard or an event he thinks every human being has or will experience. Something like, "The weak luose and the strong win and the Bible says we are strong because we have Jesus but Paul was weak that one time when he prayed for God to heal him and God didn't and so we're always weak and strong and so we're always winning and losing and that's why life is so hard but we have to keep going because one day we'll win." Actually, I didn't do it justice, because what I said makes a modicum of sense.

He's really nice. He's never said anything mean to me. But I'm the last person to appreciate someone coming up to me and telling me what they've figured out, especially when my schoolwork involves trying to decipher the meaning of this old and important text and he's acting like all he needs to do the job is the decoder ring he found in the bottom of his cereal box. Oh, did I mention that I quit going to that group, partially because of him? I actually quit going to that church and started attending a new one. Guess what? He goes to the new church too! And every once in a while, he'll catch someone off-guard, where they can't escape, and perform his dance of endless words. At least most of the people at this church I hang out with are my age and older, so I feel more comfortable sharing knowing glances with them that this guy is like a hurricane of annoyance.

I fantasize about having him come up to me, "offer" me his latest pearls of wisdom, and me just saying, "I don't want to hear it. I don't want to talk to you." But, of course, the one place I'm most conscious of needing to be nice is at church, so I'm trapped there, just like everyone else. I've gotten more bold, though. Nowadays, I'm able to excuse myself to the restroom and attempt not to reconnect when I get back. It works.

That is, when he doesn't decide to follow me.

 

[Phasmal]

My old manager from when I was working in the soft play area of a bowling alley.
She was.... just horrible.
She knew I was only doing that job so I could get a reference (it was a work placement) and maybe a real job. She kept dangling a real job in front of me to get me to do the jobs no one else wanted to do.

She kept saying really stupid and cryptic things to me, too, like `I expect more from you than just turning up on time and doing your job well`, but refused to tell me exactly what else I needed to do. (I should mention the girl I was working alongside who was actually employed there used to turn up late smelling of smoke and wearing massive dangling earings, which is a no-no when you are surrounded by 2 year olds).
Oh yeah, and every day I had to go up in the play area in the ceiling and jump up and down, just making sure it wouldn't snap. I'm pretty sure that's probably illegal.

So.. yeah, I ended up working my ass off for no pay and doing half the work my paid coworker couldn't be arsed to do.
And in the end she decided she didn't want to give me a job, she'd just get another placement in.

 

[DoomyMcDoom]

I had this one boss who seemed to loathe the very Idea of proffessionalism, the guy forgot my name after I was working for him for a week, he never even recorded me officially as an employee(as far as I know he never even had my social insurance number, and I am counted as an illegal worker for the time I was there.) the kitchen he ran was untidy, and I swear he had no idea of what "food safe" meant in any way, as he often told us to leave things to set(things with meat) at room temperature for in excess of an hour... in a kitchen, room temp is higher than normal, so yeah not good, and I called him on it politely, as I didn't want the place I was working to get shut down by the health and safety authority... common sense right?
Also he browbeat two of the other employees to come in even though they had been diagnosed(with a doctors note provided) with H1N1, to come to work anyway, IN A KITCHEN! On top of the fact that he fired me when I came down with the very same sickness that they had and refused to come in while I was throwing up and felt unstable on my feet, even after giving a note from a doctor...
He then defaulted on payment and claimed he "forgot" to pay me, until I phoned him 3 or 4 times.
The last phonecall I told him that not paying me out for my last week of work within 4 days of dismissal was strictly illegal(not that that mattered much due to the circumstances of my employment), and that even though the sum was small, legal aid for people in the position to sue their employers for breaches of labour law would be provided free of charge by the government.
Also I was unemployed it wasn't as if I had anything better to do with my time.
He immediately became appologetic, but even the asshole who fired me under false pretenses 2 years later(since I did fuck something up that time, namedly my leg, I accept partial blame, just for different reasons) at least ran his shit like a pro, and remembered my name, even used direct deposit for payment, and sent me my tax forms promptly at the start of "Tax season".

 

[FolkLikePanda]

There's this one bloke on the car boot that help out at that keeps giving me a bollocking because I didn't line the cars up right, because I made his coffee wrong, because I mumble and because I'm a tiny bit clumsy, whereas everyone else just laughs about it and moves on to the next thing. Everyone else will strike up a conversation with me but he just completely ignores me.
Bit of a twat to be honest.

 

[DoomyMcDoom]

*snip*

Sounds like you need to tell him that you cannot understand what he is saying, that you've tried, and it's not working, and that you're sorry, but you feel that conversing at this time may not be what is best, and leave it at that.

Last time I checked according to the bible, wishy washy half baked attitude towards life including being someone you aren't for the sake of immage is EXACTLY what you shouldn't be doing, you can be nice, firm, honest, and yourself, without hurting anyone, you just have to know how to word it, and no "FUCK OFF AND LEAVE ME ALONE, YOU CRACK ADDLED RUSKIE WHACKJOB!" isn't polite, or nice. It's all about being honest while being diplomatic, and if anyone calls you out on it, you can feel confident in the fact that their hypocritical ass is gonna get toasty sometime in the future.

I'm an intellectual and a sceptic, but I was raised in a christian churchgoing family, I've done my share of bible study, but I was always shunned by most church communities simply because I wouldn't stand for hypocrisy, or veiled insult, and would call people on it regularily(also, I was young and what does a "kid" know?), but hey, that's how most churches are, just a bunch of assholes trying to cover their asses by going to church, thinking that this strictly once a week(or twice depending on the congregation) where they pretend to be nice to eachother, is going to somehow fool an all knowing god into letting them into heaven when they die.

I personally have a hard time "keeping the faith" but hey, I ain't gonna lie and say otherwise, and I respect the right that everyone has to follow whatever creed, doctrine, or lifestyle they choose, so long as they aren't using it as an excuse to hurt people, or y'know those occasions where cults or "sects" of a religion are all about killing people.

Not saying you're a hypocrytical jerk or anything, I'm merely offering you a way out of this situation, as a fellow escapist, and a fellow human who dislikes being cornered and annoyed.

 

[Ljs1121]

If i was to chose it would be this person http://facebook.com/profile.php?=73322363

First I was like "ZOMGWTFBBQ WHAT IS THIS WITCHCRAFT". Then I was like "Oooooooooohhhhhhh". Then I decided you could use one of these.

Spoiler: Image inbound!

Double the thumbs up, double the fun

On topic, nothing really springs to mind at this point. Most of the people I know are decent enough that I wouldn't have a problem being around them.

There is one dude that I don't really care for, though that's only because he pretty much despises me. Can't think why. I'd like to think I'm a pretty cool person. Right, guys?

[sub]...Guys?[/sub]

 

[Zyst]

God... The one roommate (We also went to the same university, same classroom, same classes) that turned me into a roommate god, why did I become that? Because after him NOTHING could possibly fucking disgust me enough to hate someone.

The guy had the most depressive personality ever, like serious issues, I don't want to tell what he did because to this day it fills my mouth with some puke, however I forced him to move out by ignoring his presence completely, like, if he talked to me I wouldn't answer and I just flat out refused to talk to me, he got incredibly depressed and began hanging out with other people, to the point where he would stay over for two or three days at their apartment, at that point they just asked why he didn't move in. I told the guy 'fair warning, I just want you to know that if I knew this: "rant rant rant". I would have never let him move in with me. He said 'Thanks, we'll see how it goes anyway'

1 Week later he told me 'man... I should have listened' To this day he still lives with them, terrible terrible stuff.

 

[cerealnmuffin]

If i was to chose it would be this person http://facebook.com/profile.php?=73322363

I totally hate that person... wait a minute.....

 

[Ashhearth]

Oooo yay I get to talk about the person I got arrested 2 years ago (and if by that statement you can't tell I hate his guts then I have no words for you)

Basically the guy was a cocky bastard who thought he knew the whole world. He made my tenure on the drumline at my school basically suck. It actually got better the second year but when he tackled my best friend in the school parking lot and attempted to kick the crap out of him that was kinda the last straw. So my friend and I planned to basically call the police when his car would guaranteed be at the school and leave an anonymous tip saying he would have drugs in his car. (He bragged about selling pot so no I didn't lie to try and get him in jail)

What's funny is that because his car was on school property it means police don't need a warrant... to search his.... oh dear I think you get the picture. The police also searched his house and that was that.

Good times