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Getting along with coworkers is great, be it because you always have company for coffee breaks and lunch outings, or because there’s someone who knows exactly how frustrating certain situations at work can get.

But unfortunately, not all people are lucky enough to have colleagues they like; or can stand, even. Some have to endure individuals they hate with a burning passion, which, needless to say, doesn’t make the workday any easier.

Members of the ‘Ask Reddit’ community recently opened up about the worst people they ever had to work with, covering everyone from micromanagers to walking epitomes of entitlement, and more. If you know exactly what dealing with them feels like, take comfort in the fact that you’re not alone, and if you don’t – you might find yourself gaining a newfound appreciation for your fellow coworkers after going through today’s list; scroll down to find it below.

Below you will also find Bored Panda’s interview with the MSU Foundation Professor of Management in the Eli Broad College of Business at Michigan State University, Dr. Russell Johnson, who was kind enough to answer a few of our questions on how significant employee relationships really are.

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30 People Reveal The Worst Person They’ve Ever Worked With I was once hired as an "unpaid" marketing intern in exchange for college credits. The role required me to work 20 hours a week, spread over 4 hours a day. During my first week, the woman who hired me assigned a task that would clearly take 6-8 hours to complete, all within the same day. I politely informed her that while I would do my best, it was unlikely I could finish it within the day's deadline and asked if that would be acceptable.

Her response? A cold, "Excuse me?"

I reiterated my concern, and she abruptly ended the call. Minutes later, I received a WhatsApp message from her stating that I no longer needed to work there. Within the hour, she contacted my professor to inform them they had "let me go." I ended up in tears on a Zoom call with my professor, who was supportive. As a result of the incident, my college blacklisted the company for future internships as they were clearly unprofessional.

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2 months ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

Unpaid internships should be illegal, as they are in many countries.

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30 People Reveal The Worst Person They’ve Ever Worked With That would have to be George. He was at least twice my age. He leaned over my desk and said “if I jumped your bones and raped you, would you tell Jay (owner) and have me fired?” He did this in front of my manager, who said nothing.

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30 People Reveal The Worst Person They’ve Ever Worked With F*****g Bob from sales. No one can stand him, but we will never, ever see the end of him because he makes us so much money. I'm talking top salesman in the US ten years running in a highly competitive industry. SO MUCH MONEY, but such a jackass.

-Bob is misogynistic, transphobic, homophobic, hates democrats, hates all non-christians, hates black people, hates mexicans, hates asians.

-Bob thinks Obama is a muslim terrorist planning to blow up the white house.

-Bob thinks all the girls in the office need to report their dating/sex lives to him. Bob also thinks that girls who date are whores, and girls who don't date are frigid.

-Bob has two adult sons. When his sons start dating an 'undesirable' woman (feminist, asian, jewish, whatever), he bribes the woman to dump them. Bob takes great pleasure in telling us how much money it takes each woman to be convinced.

-Bob wants to set me up with one of his sons. This would be hell.

-Bob chooses to make long, loud sales calls in my office, despite having his own that he rarely uses. He then quizzes me on what sales techniques he used during the call. F**k off, I'm not in sales and I have my own work to do.

-Bob recently tried to shame the new receptionist for not having a good relationship with her son. It's easy to be a parent, easy to make your children love you, etc etc. He wasn't pleased when I pointed out that one of his sons is currently no-contact, and the other is just using him to bankroll his new company.

-Bob thinks he has the defining knowledge on everything, but especially nutrition. He likes to criticize what people weigh, what they bring for lunch, etc. Bob is diabetic and about 75 pounds overweight.

-Bob thinks divorce is a sin. Bob is on his third marriage.

-On the business side, Bob likes to make promises that are impossible to uphold just to sell the product. Then he vanishes and makes the rest of the company deal with these customers with unreasonable expectations.

F*****g Bob. Glad I switched departments and don't have to talk to him as much anymore.

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It’s no surprise that with people spending so much time at work, their colleagues play a rather significant role in their well-being. Talking about such a role, the MSU Foundation Professor of Management in the Eli Broad College of Business at Michigan State University, Dr. Russell Johnson, pointed out that “Quality interactions and relationships are incredibly important at work, especially given the increase in team-based and interdependent work (for instance, completion of core work tasks requiring coordination and inputs from multiple employees).

“Oftentimes, an employee’s supervisor and coworkers are the ‘face’ of the organization for them, and the quality of their interactions and relationships with coworkers ‘spills over’ to color their attitudes toward the job and organization more generally.

“For example, higher quality relationships with one’s coworkers are associated with higher job satisfaction, stronger commitment to the organization, better job performance, more citizenship and cooperative behaviors, less deviant behaviors (for example, taking longer-than-necessary breaks, stealing office supplies, verbal abuse), and lower turnover.”
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30 People Reveal The Worst Person They’ve Ever Worked With Jim in plumbing when I worked at Lowes.

He tried to sexually assault my gf in the break room in front of me.

Took 4 coworkers and 3 customers to keep me from ending his existence.

The company took his side and I got a very small severance to quit.

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2 months ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

Your coworkers and the customers were far too nice with him. So the company is promoting sexual harassment? I would love to know their name.

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30 People Reveal The Worst Person They’ve Ever Worked With Had this one old lady who was obsessed with working hard. I got zero idea why a woman would be so loyal to a corporation that paid her minimum wage.

You'd have a little rest like drink from a bottle of water or just have a brief chat with a colleague and she'd flip out saying you're lazy and get a lecture about how important it is to work hard.

Turns out she ended up getting fired and lost out on all the bonus's the corp gave because they hated her.

She taught me a valuable lesson. Corps never give a c**p about how hard you work. Work hard enough so no one has to pick up your slack but otherwise just work for your money and that's it.

Don't give it your all, just do your job and that's it. Never do extra unless they are willing to pay you more.

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2 months ago (edited) DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

I met one of those unfortunately. I had a head nurse that couldn't see us relaxing during the rare quiet shifts we had. She demanded we always found something to do, saying things like "if patients and/or their visiting relatives see you doing nothing, what are they gonna think?" I am exhausted most of the time, i honestly don't care what people who probably don't know anything about my job may think if they see me sitting down for 5 minutes. I am so glad i don't have to work with her anymore (she's retired).

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The expert continued to note that people’s need for relatedness, as well as the need for a sense of belongingness and connection to others, are key psychological needs, which—when met—can make individuals more intrinsically motivated, productive, and innovative.

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“When people have a close and genuine connection to one or more coworkers, it satisfies their need for relatedness. This can be a replenishing experience for people, which ‘fills up’ their mental and emotional energies at work, which gives them more resources to allocate to their work tasks,” he explained in a recent interview with Bored Panda.

“Also, as mentioned above, our immediate social environment at work is essentially a proxy for how people view the broader organization. So, when you like your coworkers and have positive experiences, it ‘spills over’ to more positive attitudes and behaviors directed at the organization. For example, people don’t typically quit to escape organizations; rather, they quit to escape uncivil and prickly coworkers and bosses.”
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30 People Reveal The Worst Person They’ve Ever Worked With My manager at a mall gift shop once invited me to a party at his place. "Who's going to be there?", I asked. "Some friends, maybe 5-10 people, no big thing" he replied. "Sure," I said.

Arrive at his place. No cars out front, it's quiet. Lights are on though. I ring the doorbell and Manager answers and lets me in. "Where is everyone?" I ask as I enter, as I notice there's hardly anyone else there. Except for one couple, both dressed to the 9's.

At this point you might be thinking it was some sex thing, but no, it was worse.

They pitched me Amway.

I got a job at Wal-Mart a week later.

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2 months ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

When I worked for the IRS, I had to audit several Amway people. Completely delusional. When one threatened to appeal my decision, I thought to myself "Go ahead. Those people in Appeals need a good laugh too."

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30 People Reveal The Worst Person They’ve Ever Worked With Had a coworker who thought "collaboration" meant telling everyone else what to do and then disappearing when actual work started. He was like a magic trick: always vanishing right when you needed him. It was amazing... but not in a good way.

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2 months ago (edited) DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

Business I worked for hired a programmer because "he had all of the Microsoft certifications!" Me - did you look at his code and actual programming products?" "Certifications!" Turned out all he could do was write memos, including memos demanding to know why nobody read his memos. He was gone in three months.

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30 People Reveal The Worst Person They’ve Ever Worked With I worked for a very wealthy attorney whose son was convicted of being a serial r***st. The whole family treated people terribly, everyone around them was there to be used and discarded.

The fact that the son was actually convicted and publicly shamed happened only because the severity of his crimes was so egregious that the courts couldn't ignore it and the family couldn't overcome the victims' statements the way they ran over everyone else. The son's defense in court was a window into the way this family treated everyone - the victims were at fault, because they were trying to get something from him. My boss viewed everything that way, he saw his employees as money sucking expenses and instantly discounted any work they did as unimportant, unskilled, worthless. Worst boss ever.

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The same way good relationships with co-workers can have a positive influence on an employee, bad ones can have one, too; but a far less positive one. Many people know that few things are more aggravating than having to deal with a co-worker you despise on a daily basis, be it because of their annoying habits, their jokes you find borderline sexist, or something else, for that matter.

Discussing the way working with someone you are not that fond of can affect a person, Dr. Johnson suggested that dealing with an aggravating coworker places a heavy tax on people’s ability to control and regulate their behavior.

“Each of us has a pool of cognitive/attentional resources, which are needed to process information cognitively and execute actions behaviorally. When we are able to rest or experience respites, this pool of resources replenishes (much like filling up a gas tank). However, when we engage in challenging cognitive and behavioral activities (for example, suppressing thoughts, regulating emotions, fine motor control requiring high vigilance), it drains these resources and, if it continues unabated, we can soon find ourselves depleted and unable to take further action (until the pool replenishes).”
#9

30 People Reveal The Worst Person They’ve Ever Worked With I had a boss who tried to overrule my bonus structure within the first month of her employment. She stole a presentation I created and presented it as her own. She asked me to finish my degree and the company would pay for it from our scholarship fund… which turned into her lying to our president and me screaming at both of them (I was a single mom with thousands of debt because of them). She once told me that she could make me chauffeur her children around if she wanted to, because she was above me. She asked the president to fire me after I transferred out of her department.

Now, reader, you might assume she was evil (she was) and malicious (indeed)… but she was also as dumb as a box of rocks. This woman couldn’t tell accounting from hieroglyphics if her life depended on it.

When I finally quit that job, she requested an exit interview to which I ever so politely declined and wished her ill.

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30 People Reveal The Worst Person They’ve Ever Worked With An egotistical manager who drowned himself in far too much aftershave. Lied about everything, claimed to forget conversations, what was said during conversations or make something up entirely. Flipped between the worst micromanager (that didn't have a clue what was going on the majority of the time) or disappearing for the majority of shift, which was preferable tbh.

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2 months ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

Is it just me or does the person in the picture look like Trixie Mattel out of drag? I don't think it is him, but it's his doppelganger.

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30 People Reveal The Worst Person They’ve Ever Worked With Ugh, there was this one dude who was a total micromanager. like, he’d hover over your shoulder, question every tiny thing, and then take credit for the work when it was done. worst part? he never did anything himself, just barked orders. working with him was a nightmare and made every day feel like a year.

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I had one of those. We kept having "status" meetings. Until one day, when I flipped and told him we might get some work done if we didn't keep having status meetings all the time.

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“An aggravating coworker, unfortunately, elicits several demanding activities that deplete people’s resources, including emotional control/suppression (for instance, suppressing feelings of anger, frustration, and anxiety from being treated in a rude or threatening manner), cognitive rumination (victims worrying about whether they are somehow responsible for the aggravating treatment), and problem-solving (thinking of strategies to somehow stop or avoid the mistreatment),” Prof. Johnson continued.

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“Note that these activities are in addition to the ‘typical’ cognitive and behavioral activities that an employee is required to engage in to complete his/her core work tasks. Thus, having an aggravating coworker can quickly leave employees feeling emotionally, mentally, and physically depleted.”
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A douchebag named Brandon. We were life guards and we have a local swim team use our outdoor pool for practice every week night. 12 is masters and by 8pm you have the 5th graders.

We have a 50 meter pool which requires 5 tarps to cover it overnight. We have a deal with the coaches that their students will help swim the tarps across and help us clean up outside before we close down for the night.

One night, the last tarp was stuck on the pool cover reel. One of the 5th graders was trying his damnest to get it unstuck. Brandon allegedly kept telling the kid to let go so he could use his scissors to cut the stuck portion. The 5th graders wasn't listening or maybe didn't hear. Next thing I hear from the other side of the 50 meter pool is Brandon shouting at this 5th grader and calling him the n word with a HARD r. A fight broke out because his parents went over and immediately started to whip his a*s.

After pulling them a part, I sent Brandon to my office (I was the aquatics director at the time), and sat with the parents, the child, and the coaches and it boiled down to "fire the racist or lose our business". I told them I'd resolve the issue and they'd hear back from me before the masters session began the next day at 12.

I go to security to watch the footage and have it saved for later use, I go into my office to talk to Brandon and he is eating my stash of pretzels and has his feet on my desk, leaning back in my chair. I tell him to give me back my chair and sit in the seats provided, and he looks at me and says "so are you gonna fire me? The n****r and his s****y parents obviously have it out for me..." And then some other racist and aggressive s**t that I'm not recalling exactly. He was always going to be fired, but after he said that, I went up front to grab security and have him forcefully escorted off the property.

He was fired, within the hour I called the team back and told them he had been fired effective immediately and that word has been passed to all other facilities to not hire him with documented proof as to why. Skip to a few months later and I'm about to enlist in the Navy and my boss gives me the go ahead to hire my replacement before I leave and to find someone new to replace Brandon. I had my new hires, trained them up myself, and left the place in good standing.

I come back a year later and everything went to s**t. Apparently everyone I hired was immediately let go, and they rehired Brandon and some college kid with a financial degree to run the aquatics department. The facility I was at decided to let Brandon work before the masters team showed up so no one would be aware he was still active. He got caught and that swim team pulled out and our facility lost the majority of it's income. There's more that happened with Brandon, but he is by far the biggest a*****e I have ever worked with.

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30 People Reveal The Worst Person They’ve Ever Worked With F*****g. Andy.

This guy's head was acoustically tuned to maximize volume. He would eat frosted mini wheats out of the box allllll day. **CRUNCH** **CRUNCH** **CRUNCHCRUNCHcrunchcrunch**

He had the literal worst takes I have ever heard. Not like, political stuff. Just objectively wrong things. Provably wrong. It was infuriating because our cubicles pointed directly at each other, so I had unfettered access to the flow of stupid.

I eventually popped and quit after two years, and didn't have a job lined up or anything because he actively made my life terrible for 8 hours a day.

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2 months ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

I get this. I would have quit over the mini wheat crunching alone.

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30 People Reveal The Worst Person They’ve Ever Worked With The backstabber whose job is mostly to talk about other colleagues' mistakes except for her own.

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I have a make coworker like that. He is 74. Took this job in his mid 50s because he was bored. Been here since and thinks he owns the place. He will not train anyone else on certain programs saying he has his own special way of doing things. Will not write down instructions. He is super nice to everyone and the management and residents love him. I found out far to late that he talks trash about all his coworkers behind their backs. He runs to management and complains and anything personal you tell him is repeated. But to your face he is your buddy. Management thinks he is gods gift to the place. He is also the type to be buddy buddy with you but as soon as anyone in a management position shows up he acts very uppity and like he doesn't not like you. We work alone during our shifts thank goodness. I wish this guy would just retire.

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According to Dr. Johnson, some research suggests that experiences in the social domain at work (for instance, the quality of interpersonal interactions and relationships) are more important than experiences in the task domain at work (for instance, task autonomy and skill variety) for employee well-being and productivity.

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“Relationships matter, especially at work, and employees are better able to overcome—or at least tolerate—challenges and hindrances at work when they feel socially valued and supported by others. When this social support is removed, or nullified by an interpersonally challenging coworker, the subsequent stress and mental depletion can quickly overcome them,” the expert said.
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A manager who told me (a gay guy) that I should enjoy being touched up by one of the women after reporting inappropriate behaviour. This went on until a different female member of staff said they didn't like seeing it.
The manager apologised to the woman inappropriately touching me about having to "do this and have this conversation". It stopped but nothing came of it at that point.

The woman in question also spent most of the time telling other members of staff that she'd be able to turn me and that was also dismissed in my complaint.

A few months down the line, this manager failed my probation. A few months after that the manager was sacked and the woman touching me up left aburuptly. HR offered me my job back.

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30 People Reveal The Worst Person They’ve Ever Worked With Coworker who trauma dumped to gain sympathy and pity. Everyday was a new excruciating story about her horrible abusive childhood, beatings from her boyfriends, house fires, family member dying from d***s/gun violence. A lot of her life was tragic but a lot of it was her making herself responsible for some terrible people.

After every tragedy, there would always happen to be a Gofund me or an office collection to help pay for funeral/repair/god knows costs. I don't think she was actually grifting on purpose but she probably realized early on in her life if she talked about tragedy in grisely detail, she'd get some type of handout. I think she only managed this for so long because we worked at a non-profit with a very high turnover rate. She had the perfect sympathetic audience that wasnt around long enough to call her on her s**t.

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My cousin.

I worked at Pizza Hut and she was hired after I was. I hadn't seen her often and didn't know her well (not real close with most of my family, much as I love them) so I didn't know enough to warn my boss.

She is the most petty, narcissistic, angry, confrontational, evil little b***h I have ever met in my life. Nothing is ever her fault, she's always the victim. Will straight up lie to your face ABOUT THINGS YOU WERE THERE FOR.

She'd throw fits in front of customers, throw things, scream, curse, etc.

...she didn't last very long, and her boyfriend was trespassed from the property for getting in the manager's face and threatening him.

I'd like to note that manager was one of the kindest ,most badass men I've ever met and he could definitely have wiped the floor with the asshat if he had just a bit less patience.

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2 months ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

Never work with family, the better you know them the worse it'll get at work.

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We called her Pizza Thumbs. She was morbidly obese, and didn't like showering, so she didn't. The smell that came from her and her cubicle was disturbing, sour milk mixed with old body odor, it turns my stomach thinking about it. Coworkers would purposefully take wide detours away from her desk to avoid the smell. She was mean and kind of an a*****e, but wanted attention, so she would sneeze, as loud as she possibly could, about 4 or 5 times in a row. It was disturbing and we were pretty sure sneezes 2-5 were fake, for the attention. One day in a meeting, she was picking the scabs on her arms...and eating them. I thought my coworker was going to vomit on the conference table. We would get food often at work for the whole office, and the unwritten rule was, if you weren't in line before her, you weren't eating. Not because she would take it all, which she would also do, but because she would lick her fingers and then continue to touch the food, hence the name Pizza Thumbs. Tear apart slices, lick thumbs, continue to touch more slices with said licked thumbs, and leave those contaminated slices for everyone else. I'm pretty sure we threw a party when she got transferred to another location.

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2 months ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

Honestly, HR should be ashamed for hiring her and then keeping her. Her poor hygiene is effecting the entire office, and that is not acceptable. Or shouldn't be, anyway.

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30 People Reveal The Worst Person They’ve Ever Worked With We work for a lot of wealthy customers.

We started working for a client last year who thought they were wealthy.

Hands down the biggest d**k head ive met in my life.

Still owes us nearly 20 grand.

Total prick. Driving round in financed cars, likes to act like money is irrelevant and it doesn't matter if its just wasted. Then doesn't pay bills.

Looking forward to the day he loses his high paid job and his financed world comes crashing down.

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30 People Reveal The Worst Person They’ve Ever Worked With I worked with a guy in a call centre who every 30 minutes at least would fart like a trooper, and I don't just mean like a normal fart, I mean like a tank had just crashed through the wall of the office fart.

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2 months ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

Had a coworker who was like this but with blowing his nose. Loudly. At least 8 times each round. At least once an hour. Nice guy besides that, but I am glad he's not working next to me any longer! I hope he had his sinus condition looked at.

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My current employer.. she’s a very nice lady and caring as well. Problem is she has untreated ADHD and will not take her meds because she’s “fighting it.” She gets really loud when she’s excited. I’ve had to shut her office door. She is very scattered and disorganized. I have sat with her countless times to show her the folders I’ve created on her laptop in order for her to locate clients and remember what they need. I’ll be in the middle of a task and have to drop what I’m doing to start another task of “equal importance.” She spits food out on her keyboard. We have an 80 pound office dog she can’t handle which I take out and work with.. love that dog but just another interruption. Problem is I’m paid very well and she’s very generous with the bonuses. I’m not going anywhere.

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I'm a teacher. The first district I worked in was a mess, and my coworkers and I were pretty miserable in general. Part of the problem was that we had to share classrooms. For instance, I taught one period per day in another teacher's main room, while the other two periods (block schedule) were in my main room.

The teacher whose room I had to use once a day was a control freak and what I would classify as a "high-conflict individual". Everyone who had to share a room with her ended up complaining to administration because she would confront you *during class* and *in front of students*. And it was always over stupid s**t. For instance, she accused one teacher's class of stealing her pens. She once got angry with me because she thought my students were moving her textbooks...? They weren't; she was just paranoid.

I'm so glad I got out of there years ago, but I still feel for whichever poor teacher has to share a room with that woman.

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30 People Reveal The Worst Person They’ve Ever Worked With Someone who's both a compulsive liar and a one-upper. Whenever someone is talking about a positive or negative situation they are in, whether in professional or personal life, he will always try to muster up the most obviously made up story just to show that his life is better or worse depending on the situation.

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I don't know about the quality of her character, but I did work with a girl who ditched me at work to cash her check on the clock with her girlfriend. And I then had to handle a massive dinner rush entirely by myself for more than an hour. I was working at a subway with both a drive thru and a front entrance and I had non-stop customers the entire time she was gone. I ended up having to comp everyone a free drink and ask them to wait while I worked through each person because there were so many. I made good tips that night, but that girl was my enemy until they fired her.

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30 People Reveal The Worst Person They’ve Ever Worked With When I was in my first year at college I took a job at Kinko's (and I always feel like I have to apologize for having worked there so sorry) and I worked with two guys named Tom and Ed. Tom and Ed were thirty and around forty-five respectively and working the kind of job as a career that I was working to have some pocket money (they had both been with the company for years but had never been promoted). Both of them were hellbent on trying to be life coaches to me despite the fact that neither of them had any business life coaching anyone.

Some stories about Ed and Tom:

Ed wasn't too bad but he was way too damn horny and genuinely didn't understand why I, as a nineteen year old, had no interest in trying to bang the kind of middle-aged alcoholic trash that he slept around with when, you know, I could bang hot college girls instead. he regularly accused me of being gay because of this.

Tom was a f*****g nightmare. Tom would disagree with me on anything I ever took a stance on just because he was so convinced that I knew nothing about the world and needed to be corrected on all my beliefs.

Tom used to tell me he was a die-hard liberal until I told him I was against the Iraq war (this was 2003-2004) at which point he started yelling at me about how I was a traitor and needed to be put up against a wall and shot.

I didn't like to drink due to a bad experience with Vodka when I was fourteen. This pissed off Ed, who was convinced I was wasting my youth, but Tom somehow became convinced that my disinterest in alcohol was because I didn't know how to drink, by which I mean he actually thought I didn't understand that drinking alcohol leads to a state of drunkenness. He decided to "teach" me how to drink during the holiday party at a nearby bar by downing four pints of Guinness and getting so wasted he was sent home without pay the next day for showing up hungover.

This took place in Hawaii, where Tom had lived his entire life except for a brief stint in Arizona in his early twenties. I had lived on the mainland my entire life and yet Tom was convinced that he knew more about the mainland than me. He even tried to tell me once that Dallas is in the middle of the desert and tried to tell me I didn't know what I was talking about when I disagreed with him despite the fact that he had never been to Dallas and I had lived there for seven years.

Tom's definition of a good movie was that it had to change your life, by which I mean it had to change his life because when I tried to tell him about the movies that had changed my life he ridiculed me for my answers. In his book this meant there were only eight or nine good movies ever made and was a baffling array from the iconic (Casablanca) to the cult (Richard Linklater's Slacker) to the obscure (Miami Blues starring Alec Baldwin anyone?).

Any time I expressed an opinion on a movie Tom disagreed with it was because I was brainwashed by the critics who liked the movie and didn't know how to think for myself.

For awhile I was reading the Lord of the Rings Trilogy and Tom constantly told me that if I engaged in such nerdy habits that no girl would ever want to date me. Some time later I told Tom that he knew nothing about nerd culture and he got really pissed off and started telling me about all the hours he'd spent playing D&D with his friends.

Tom was convinced that natural blondes had gone extinct and that any time you saw a girl with blonde hair she had dyed it to try to dupe men (Tom was an MRA before MRAs were a thing). The fact that most of my family was blonde got me nowhere with him.

I know I have a lot more Tom and Ed stories but this is all I can recall at the moment. I'll post more if this gets any traction.

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I worked for a miser of man in his restaurant for 2 whole days. He was so stingy he wouldn't even let employees charge their phones. My breaking point was while I was washing my hands (which you should do anytime you touch a dirty plate before going back in the dining room) he **grabbed** my wrist, turned off the water and yelled, "YOU WASH TOO MUCH!" I left about 20 minutes later and never looked back.

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2 months ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

Now, there's an absolute jerk. Imagine not wanting people with good hygiene!

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30 People Reveal The Worst Person They’ve Ever Worked With At the community gym I managed, my boss hired an office assistant for himself (but it was really for me, to do his job).

She was a smoker who wreaked. I don’t have a problem with smokers. I have one problem with that if she works in a gym with students and senior citizens, and she just stinks like an ash tray.

But wait! There’s more!! She contacted HR because one day, after four years of me coming in ten minutes early, I go in at my start time. Worse yet, I had the audacity to text her that my car was parked in by a delivery truck. She knew I would not be ten minutes early.

She made a big stink (aside from the olfactory type), and gym members heads turned to watch her berate me for being late.

It was still two minutes before my shift.

I went to the HR meeting, which was basically “why can’t we just get along?”, and it was fine for a week. She and I not speaking to one another was fine.

Then, the pandemic shut down our business.

I never saw her again.

The end.

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I had two people throw me under the bus for things I clearly didnt do. Luckily management didnt believe them and asked for my side of the story. They wanted my job because it "paid more" but in hindsight i was severly underpaid and overworked. I promptly asked to work out of a different location. The added 10 minute commute did so much for my mental health to not be around those people. I dont work there anymore but i know they still work in the same industry as me.

Anytime we hire someone new at my current office I pray that it's not them.

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30 People Reveal The Worst Person They’ve Ever Worked With I once worked with a woman who smoked. A lot. And she smoked horrible smelling cigarettes. You could smell her in the elevator hours after she had left... blärgh.

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2 months ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

We had a lady like that. She was an admin and we never allowed her to meet with our members. Eventually she got fired due to the fact that she rarely showed up for work. I warned her about it over and over again. Yet she still was shocked when she got fired.

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At 21 I worked for a very weak male project manager who would turn to jelly the moment a women was involved. He was often very distracted and once when he didn't lock his computer I saw most of his work time was spent on a messed up custody battle with his (ex?)wife.

He was also quite the coward so he'd send me as a sacrificial lamb to very contentious situations to see how much I'd get beaten up before he got involved. He is the most pathetic manager I have ever worked for and when we had meeting showdowns when female managers would try and pin their team's non-performance on me - not only did he do nothing he rebuked me when I defended myself expecting me to take it as junior staff and make his life easier.

It all came to a head when after many of these situations I told him I would never ever assume responsibility for something I didn't do which he didn't like. This was after I'd repeatedly protected him with clients when he'd gone AWOL so I pushed for a transfer to get away from him.

I hate weak managers and I will never work for someone that takes the title and the money and doesn't step up and do the job.

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We were on-site doing a presentation for a customer. Going around the room for introductions. He cut me off to correct me *while I was introducing myself*, and then proceeded to monologue without interruption for 90 minutes.

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2 months ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

I'm going to grab a donut, please let me know when you are ready for my presentation.

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Ugh these OBNOXIOUS people in my cubicle room who are LOUD AF AND WON'T SHUT UP. It's not even work related, just ignorant rambling about how foreigners need to "go back to where they came from" (even though the ones talking are minorities themselves??), crazy s**t about witches casting spells and demons possessing people, causing illness, and about how they don't believe mental illness exists (THEY ARE LITERAL THERAPISTS IN A MENTAL INSTITUTION!!!)

I'm extra sensitive to noise and prefer silence, I get overstimulated easily and it causes raaaage (in case you couldn't tell lmao).

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I once had a manager who insisted that our team was "a family". To her that meant she was way too involved in everyone's personal life to an inappropriate level. It got so bad that when I was going through a divorce that she would regularly text my ex and keep him up to date on what was going on with me. I had to file a complaint to HR just to get her to stop. She ended up having to formally apologize and sign some form saying she would no longer text the partners of any employees that had not given her written permission to do so. Of course she used the fact that I filed a complaint to HR as a reason to bash me to the entire team and every other manager in the company. Unsurprisingly when lay offs started in 2020 I was in the first round to go.

I still keep in touch with some of the people who work there and this woman still bashes me even nearly 6 years after I reported her.

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2 months ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

In situations like that, I always wonder what the (person who SHOULD be fired, but isn’t) has on the people in the upper levels. Because I refuse to believe that people are just that ignorant!

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A former manager, let’s call her Adi, at my first “real” job

Adi only became a manager because she’d been there for like 10+ years and had no idea how to be a manager.

She was rude, self centered, know it all who didn’t know it all, and heavily favored the 3 other women who were her minority as well and constantly got onto the other 3 of her group that weren’t her minority and women over every single thing. I remember once she tried to reem a co-worker and I for taking a 61 minute lunch instead of an hour when SHE STOPPED US IN THE HALLWAY to talk to us about a project we were working on while going back to our desk.

The worst experience I had was a 1 on 1 I had with her in which she was moisturizing herself during our talk, and then kicked off her shoes and started rubbing lotion all over her feet. When we got done talking, she reached over to shake my hand and got extremely offended when I refused to reciprocate.

Thank god I got out of her group, and then onto bigger and better jobs in my field and career.

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My current coworker is absolutely terrible. He was essentially 'kicked out' of his previous job site due to laziness and s****y work ethic. So they sent the guy over to my job site, and rewarded him with his own office. He gets to sit in his office ignoring phone calls and emails while playing video games all damn day. He goes on vacation but never tells his coworkers. I had asked him to take care of something one day, cause I was going to be busy with a bunch of other s**t and his response to me was "Why can't you do it yourself?" Took everything in me to not clock this guy in the mouth after that.


We can see who's calling our lines on both of our phones. It's setup this way so he can cover my line in case I'm out, and vice versa. He must know he's just barely scraping by because every time my boss calls me, my coworker calls me immediately after that call ends asking what it was about, and if they were plan on making a personnel change. Never cares about any other person calling. At this point, I pretend he doesn't even exist. Though he makes it very easy to pretend.


My boss can't stand the guy and has been trying to get rid of him since he started working for our company 5+ years ago. But when I bring these things up the owner, multiple times in the 18 months he's been working at this facility, and I'm always met with a "well to be fair to him..." excuse. None of the other employees care for him either which makes my coworker staying at the company for 10+ years mind blowing.

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In my teens I worked at a library. When Paul Bernardo was caught my supervisor said to me (in front of a customer) ‘well at least we know now you didn’t rape and murder Kristen French’.

I complained. She was in the union. I wasn’t. Nothing happened

Later she told me to start donating sperm to a sperm bank before I go sterile

I complained. She was in union. I wasn’t. I was told I had to apologize to making a complaint or I’d lose my job

Later again she went to a coworker who was 16 and pregnant offering to take the baby because 16 is too young to put up with that

She complained. Guess what was done about. Yep right first time.

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Have to disagree Michael L, lots of companies are afraid of Unions. They have Lawyers and a PR Dept. Minions do not.

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The guy who always took credit for everyone else's work, but mysteriously disappeared when it was time to actually do the work. A true Houdini of the office.

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A project manager who coudn't manage a pissup in a brewery. He'd keep giving you more work, even though he could see you were already running at max capacity. He'd then laugh at you when you complained or tried to put him in his place.

He also added his academic postnominals to his signature. Even when signing delivery notes or creidt card slips e.g. John Smith MBA, BSc, DipIS.

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Worked with a guy who refused to wear deodorant. It was a high maintenance job so he would smell HORRIBLE. He was also super racist and would lose his temper over miniscule things.

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2 months ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

Similar situation in a printing plant that had no AC. The guy stunk to high heaven. You couldn't get within 6 feet of him or your eyes would water. We talk to management and they told him that his "clothes smell bad" and go home and change.

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I work in retail and one man comes to mind. Let's call him Tony.

1st is this really ghetto guy who got hired.he also mumbled so we had a hard time understanding him. My first day working with him he goes up to me, "ey yo gurl, you live alone? " I tell him no I live with 5 other people. Tony asked me this same question later , 3 more times.

Periodically throughout the day Tony would radio, "yo in gonna do an sda dog." An sda is basically where you stop what you're doing and go and the store and contact every customer. That's not what he did. Instead he'd go take a s**t, sit in the backroom or disappear.

Tony called our boss dog.

Still on that first day working with him, my manager was going to give me and another guy a ride home. Tony asked if he could have one too. My manager said yeah sure. He said he just wanted to be dropped by his bus stop, sure whatever. We get there and we're tight behind the bus. Tony asks my manager to outrun a bus. My manager is in police academy and was like hell yeah I can. I'm stuck in back with this guy while we take a bunch of weird backroads. "Ey yo gurl, you live alone? " "no I f*****g don't Tony "We did end up getting him to his bus, after ending up really far from anywhere.

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I can nottt top my brother’s. His manager was a felon (HOW?) who had made a run for it after being arrested for elder and child abuse. One day, he wasn’t working when he was scheduled and it turns out the police from some other state finally found and arrested him.
Plato’s Closet hires fugitives on the run lmao.

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I worked for a lady who was absolutely horrible! It was a leasing position at an apartment complex. She was semi-OK until the maintenance man took a liking to me. Apparently she had always had a crush on him, even though she was married. I had a boyfriend and not interested in him. I kept it professional. He would even bring me things like Starbucks. Which I did not ask for. And it never interfered with my work. She could not stand him stopping by my desk for 30 seconds.

At first, she kept praising my work ethic. But after his interest, she was just out to get me. I was also working every Saturday and Sunday, which was not original agreement. But nice extra money. So this gave her every weekend off (She was technically supposed to work two weekends a month as the property manager).

She also made it a point to tell me “negative” things about him. That he was divorced and paying a lot in child support. And she knew this because it was taken out of his check and she with his boss. So unethical. That he moved back w/his mom after divorce. And she even told me his father was Puerto Rican. No idea what that was about. And seemed racist. She said so much more, but I think I blocked it out over the years.
I finally couldn’t take anymore and tried to put my notice in. But she told me No. WTH? So I just dropped the courtesy of giving two weeks notice. And went to her boss. I told him everything.

I would dread going to work and feel sick. It was all just so pointless. I was not interested in him and I don’t date in work. Apparently her boss and HR came and had long meeting with her, right after. And then she started having to work weekends again. She shot herself in the foot. Me being there was meeting all the leasing goals and she was getting every weekend off. Right after, she kept calling and texting me and they verged on being threats. Blocked and sent them to her boss. Tell him I would call police if she didn’t stop. No idea what happened to her that point. She was such an insecure control freak 😡.

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"Tracey".

"Tracey" was fat, ugly, had a screeching voice, a bad attitude, and nasty body odour.

"Tracey" 'accidentally lost' all the passwords for every system other than the main one we used, meaning that if any calls came through to her for any of the other systems she had to pass the work on to the rest of us. Why the supervisors tolerated this, I have no idea.

"Tracey" would claim ignorance on how to perform a process that was everyone's responsibility. When she picked up the phone to someone who needed that task to be done, again - she would fob it off onto one of the rest of us.

Tracey would shout and swear across the entire room. Tracey would trash-talk the supervisor and, when told to just log off and go home, simply refused. Again, why she was not disciplined for any of that, I have no idea.

F**k you, "Tracey".

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I worked with a guy that called himself chuckles, because “you better keep me laughing”

If I had to guess he works at a gas station now or is in prison.

Also i worked with one guy that stabbed himself through his own hand on a cutting board so he could leave service early.

I imagine he is dead from self inflicted knife wounds.

Both guys were really bad at cooking.

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I feel lucky my worst coworker was sweet, just annoying af. She ate lunch at her desk and liked smacking her lips and talking with her mouth so full you could barely understand her. And she never, ever shut up. She also never washed her hands after using the bathroom, so her incessant habit of manhandling any food you brought in and cutting it in half (or quarters if it was already halved, or eighths if it was already quartered, she could never take anything without splitting it) was not only obnoxious but disgusting. She also cleared her throat about twenty times a minute, and I’m barely exaggerating.

I try to give people a lot of benefit of the doubt when it comes to intelligence because intelligence takes so many forms, but she definitely tried me. Her car got broken into while she was at the gym. They got away with her entire purse because, and I quote, “of course I left it in there.” Not “of course” as in “god, of COURSE I just had to do that,” nope! “Of course” as in “well, that’s just what you do at the gym, duh.” She also accused a local “Asian” restaurant of serving magic mushrooms because “they had this weird poster in there about ‘Space: the final frontier.’”.

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These comments made me grateful for my annoying coworkers.

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An overachiever! 🤣 I am serious she came into the office for the first time and introduced herself as an overachiever! I sat there and told myself, oh s**t I am not going to be in this job for long.

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30 People Reveal The Worst Person They’ve Ever Worked With A man who exploited me at work, in addition to eating my lunch.

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If you're going to be this vague, there's very little point in telling the story at all

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