In most professions, you have to deal with people, and even if you're working for yourself, you won’t avoid it. And because you are constrained to work with some random people, there will be unexpected situations, misunderstandings or you will simply not understand them at all.
People who have to work with these kinds of coworkers like to vent about it on the internet and for us, it is entertaining to read because maybe we relate or because the stories are so wild they leave us incredulous.
Bored Panda went on the internet to find some of the pictures people took that prove what terrible or just annoying coworkers they have to work with. Do you have similar experiences? Upvote the photos that resonate with you the most and tell us your stories in the comments!
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My Coworker Has A Tendency To Spill His Cereal Walking Out Of The Kitchen In The Morning And Just Leave It There. I Made It Modern Art
In an ideal world, everyone would have a job they really like, but even if that was the case, the work environment and the people you work with are important too. Most of the time, having contact with the people you work with is inevitable as you share the same space or equipment and some jobs require teamwork.
Coworker Brought His Dog To The Office. Dog Did This, Coworker Says "I'm Real Busy So Can Some Else Get It"
My Passive Aggressive Coworker Saw Me Shut A Slightly Open Drawer On My Way To The Bathroom...Came Back Out To This
I Work With An Office Full Of Sadists
But as proven by this list, it is not always smooth sailing. Some people have habits that you can’t stand or they are not as tidy as you would wish they were, while some are plain rude and annoying.
So people like to go to the internet to express their frustrations about fellow coworkers they find bothersome or because the stories are too good to not be told. Of course, there are far worse coworkers that can seriously affect others, but in this list, you will find behaviors that are more annoying than damaging.
We Have A Serial Pooper At Work
Feed Me, Seymour! In My Office, A Coworker Has Been Growing This Vine For Years. The Office Manager Wants It Gone. I Like It
Coworkers Don't Know How Coolers Work
Inspired By The Other Cigarette Butt Post. I Give You My Coworkers...
However, even if some things that coworkers do aren’t that serious and sometimes they can just be brushed off, that doesn’t mean people should always let them get away with it. Business News Daily pinpointed some tips on how to deal with annoying people at work.
First thing they recommend is to figure out what exactly is annoying you. Maybe it is caused by a miscommunication that is easily fixed and then all the problems would be solved. Another thing to have in mind is to not to react rashly or overreact. It is best to approach the situation calmly and going to HR might also help. It could also be useful to find a common interest or something that you both agree on that would make that person more likeable to you.
Coworkers Brought Binoculars To Work To Perv On Young Beach Goers Today
My Coworker's Desktop
My Coworker Yawned While Using My Computer And Left This For Me
If all else fails, the best policy is always to be diplomatic but direct and speak your mind. Most often, it is possible to find a solution because maybe the person you’re annoyed with doesn’t even know it. If someone is bothering you and is preventing you from doing your job, this is a perfect situation where being upfront pays off. Try to be polite and ask them to let you do your job and to go to you only if they have work-related questions.
The last point Business Daily News discusses is just to stay positive. It’s important to have your boundaries and let others know when their behavior is making you uncomfortable, but there is no use in dwelling on negativity.
The Way My Coworkers Park
My Coworkers Typhoid Mug
Is there a way to mention in front of them how well your mug cleans up with a scrub using baking soda?
I always left the tannin stains in my mug (I drink my tea black and without sugar). The mug would be clean, just stained with a pigment, basically. Do you know why - because no other b.u.g.g.e.r. would then use my mug.
Back when my husband and I had first gotten together, I gave his tea travel mug that he uses for work, daily ,a good scrub. There "chunks" in the threads where you screw it shut: [His response] Awww, you washed all the flavoring away...." was his reaction when he saw it..... : } He usually just gives it a vigorous rinsing, twice, when he gets home....
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Once we had dessert in my ofice, flan, that kindda looks like a creme brulee. My coworker left it in his drawer for days, then decided he didn't want it anymore and left the cup, unemptied, by the sink. Fast forward a week and noone has touched it. Mold started to grow, so I decided is now a living being and put a sticky note that said "Hola, soy FLANcisco" (Hi, Im Francis). He had a nice life with us until a manteinence guy threw him to the trash. You were good, Flancisco.
So he just puts hot water in it and he basicaly has a "fresh" coffee?
These disgusting people say it "seasons their coffee". Yeah...seasoned with botulism.
you guys really need to sort that out at secret santa! (not economic to try and clean situation perhaps)
My boss used to do this. We even gifted him a clean one. He still didn't use it. Thankfully (?) he switched to styrofoam...
That's disgusting, no matter how you cut it. Someone DRINKS out of that???
UGH-ly as this is, I think my roommate's tea container looks something akin to this.
Give them a bottle of "Dawn Ultra Platinum Advanced Power Dishwashing Liquid" at the next "Secret Santa" Christmas Party. Hopefully, they'll "get the memo."
It's his cup. But, it could accidentally get thrown in the trash AND covered up.
And they actually drink out of that?! What do they drink? A combination of feces, blood and mud?
I once worked with someone who believed that washing a coffee cup ruined the taste of future cups of coffee. And yes, her cup looked like this.
If yo0u have a dish washer tablet, just fill this mug with hot water, drop in the tab and leave, it will be clean in a couple of hours or better still overnight
I'd have to accidently yeet it to the floor, and if it didn't break, accidently hard kick it to smash against the wall.
I dunno, I feel like notifying the CDC on this one, hazmat suits and all.
I used to wash my mug at work every day, but I always had to go looking for it the next day because it was never on my desk. Turns out people on other shifts would find a clean mug, use it, and leave it just anywhere without washing. Didn't have that problem once I stopped keeping it sparling clean.
Oh god no. I feel violently ill just looking at it. A spoonful of bleach would sort that in seconds. Hate to see how the person lives
My brother in law does this when he stays at my house for a few days. He reuses his coffee cup without rinsing or washing it. Drives me nuts! I tell him to rinse it but, he never listens. So nasty.
What mug? All I see is trash, which is where it belongs...just sayin'.
My boss had a similar mug, (didn't look quite so gross, more consistently tan) and his new assistant cleaned it for him and he threw a fit. "It takes forever to get properly seasoned! "
It’s awfully close to the edge of that desk. I might just “accidentally” knock it off
ewww! i worked with a woman who was ex military. her personal cup looked like this. asked her why she never washed it clean, just rinsed it, and she said that in the navy all the cups looked like that - make the coffee taste better.
Fill with water, drop in a few denture cleaning tablets and walk away. It cleans things amazingly, even toilet bowls.
He's single handedly bringing back the bubonic plague, mixed with Ebola, sprinkled with Cholera. Call in the CDC.
I had a co worker like this, I literally cleaned the cup because the sight of her drinking from it made me sick!
Had To Use My Coworkers Office Today Who Is On Vacation To Make Some Phone Calls. This Is What His Phone Cord Looks Like
I Have Evil Coworkers Who Like To Prank Me. Fortunately, I Don't Look When I Type Anyways
Some Asshole In My Office: “Damn, That Was Close. If I Took That Last Ice Cube I Might Have To Refill The Tray”
Coworkers Who Do This To My Dry Erase Markers
The Way My Coworker Used My Tape
My Coworker Takes Off His Smelly Shoes And Sleeps In The Break Room While We Eat Lunch
My Hospital Coworker Rests Her Lollipop On Her Phone Screen
We Have 300+ Employees
The Caveman Like Way My Co Worker Has Opened His Bread
I Bought A Danish For My Coworkers. Someone Cut Out And Ate The Jelly Part, Leaving The Edges
Someone At Work Asked If They Could Have One Of My Sudafed
Lazy Coworker Decided He Was Too Good To Help Ring Up A Line Of 5 People. Left Me High And Dry To Deal With Frustrated Customers
All My Coworkers Do This. Makes Me Want To Quit
My Coworker Returned The Front Desk Stapler Like This. Told Me It Ran Out Of Staples
We Had Donuts At Work, And I Watched A Coworker Take Two Bites Out Of This Donut And Put It Back In The Box
Cutting off a piece - fine. Breaking one off using a napkin - fine. This - childish and not fine.
My Coworker Parked In The Wrong Lot Near The Building
This Guy At My Work Never Drinks The Whole Coca Cola
My Boss Posted This Email (Which We’d All Seen Already) Up On The Company Notice Board In Full View Of Customers
How One Of My Coworkers Leaves His Trash After He Is Done Taking His Break
My Colleague Placed The Server Up There, Alone. They Have The Network Rack There
I Have The Laziest Co-Workers
I am sorry but I have to. Too many years cleaning bathrooms. That empty roll doesn't go into the dispenser. That dispenser is for jumbo rolls. However the person who brought their own paper should throw the tube in the trash
my coworker NEVER STOPS TALKING and she knows everything there is to know about everything but asks for your opinion anyway so she can argue with you and tell you how you're wrong.
I know a person exactly like that! "I'm not an expert, but I know more about everything than you, and if you're also correct, I'm more correct"
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we had a rogue pooper here at our building. we had to put signs up on how to properly poo.
Despite several emails, my colleagues never clean or fill the espresso machine. I spend the least time in the office and I always have to clean, refill, throw away milk that has been there since Friday, remove green mold etc etc. Same for dishes - nobody ever does them. I am the company owner, pay well, am nice - but on this aspect of being together in an office everybody shits. It really frustrates me. They are just ignorant pigs when it comes to basic kitchen hygiene. And if i remove the coffee maker - I will be the bad guy.
I worked at a place where there was a cleanup schedule, so everyone had at least one day of cleaning duty per month. There was still stuff that got forgotten in the fridge (throwing away expired stuff was part of the chores) but as a whole, the break room was one of the neatest I've known.
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I can't stand people that are to lazy to pick up after theirselves and do their jobs!!! I hate to see how they live, disgusting!!!
When I worked, I never saw any of that stuff. I must have had wonderful coworkers!
No photos, but what about the thieves who help themselves to YOUR stuff in the fridge. I bought an 8-pack---this was back in the 70s, and thank the gods, retired and have an awesome part-time job I wish I had full time then--ALL of them were gone. Not a one left. He hid the bottles to take home later! I did find out the person who stole them. He was let go for other reasons. Just to show that Lady Karma may take a while, but at last she shows up. Going on 40+ years and I am not kidding, and all away across the country, I had to call my medical insurance and get some info. The person who answered sounded REALLY familiar....then my brain kicked in...it was the thief all those years later. I said "Say you sure sound like "so-and-so"--silence. He apparently looked and saw my name and got really quiet. I said " I hope you buy your Coca-Colas now instead of helping yourself." He could not believe I remembered. He had to read the script about a survey. "We'll see!"
you know why I'm glad I work solo? THIS is why I'm glad I work solo...
Coworker who moves keyboard keys and puts random business cards in my box of cards so I give random cards to clients instead of my own.... i have walked back down the hall cursing his name many times
my coworker NEVER STOPS TALKING and she knows everything there is to know about everything but asks for your opinion anyway so she can argue with you and tell you how you're wrong.
I know a person exactly like that! "I'm not an expert, but I know more about everything than you, and if you're also correct, I'm more correct"
Load More Replies... we had a rogue pooper here at our building. we had to put signs up on how to properly poo.
Despite several emails, my colleagues never clean or fill the espresso machine. I spend the least time in the office and I always have to clean, refill, throw away milk that has been there since Friday, remove green mold etc etc. Same for dishes - nobody ever does them. I am the company owner, pay well, am nice - but on this aspect of being together in an office everybody shits. It really frustrates me. They are just ignorant pigs when it comes to basic kitchen hygiene. And if i remove the coffee maker - I will be the bad guy.
I worked at a place where there was a cleanup schedule, so everyone had at least one day of cleaning duty per month. There was still stuff that got forgotten in the fridge (throwing away expired stuff was part of the chores) but as a whole, the break room was one of the neatest I've known.
Load More Replies... I can't stand people that are to lazy to pick up after theirselves and do their jobs!!! I hate to see how they live, disgusting!!!
When I worked, I never saw any of that stuff. I must have had wonderful coworkers!
No photos, but what about the thieves who help themselves to YOUR stuff in the fridge. I bought an 8-pack---this was back in the 70s, and thank the gods, retired and have an awesome part-time job I wish I had full time then--ALL of them were gone. Not a one left. He hid the bottles to take home later! I did find out the person who stole them. He was let go for other reasons. Just to show that Lady Karma may take a while, but at last she shows up. Going on 40+ years and I am not kidding, and all away across the country, I had to call my medical insurance and get some info. The person who answered sounded REALLY familiar....then my brain kicked in...it was the thief all those years later. I said "Say you sure sound like "so-and-so"--silence. He apparently looked and saw my name and got really quiet. I said " I hope you buy your Coca-Colas now instead of helping yourself." He could not believe I remembered. He had to read the script about a survey. "We'll see!"
you know why I'm glad I work solo? THIS is why I'm glad I work solo...
Coworker who moves keyboard keys and puts random business cards in my box of cards so I give random cards to clients instead of my own.... i have walked back down the hall cursing his name many times
