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One I had was:
>Lazy, would call out constantly, take off before work was done leaving others to scramble
>Extremely rude, constantly criticizing people burping and farting all the time

I think he finally got fired after being caught fudging his time sheets.

65+ year old woman. Probably don't even need to elaborate

One who relentlessly picked at me because of my inability to talk.

One time, a cart of canned foods leaned over on him due to his inability to stack shit on it properly and pinned him to a wall. I was the only one around in the moment who could have helped him out of that tight spot. He asked, I walked away.

Worst co-worker was this lady that was weirdly hostile with our supervisor. She would frequently email the big boss, with some stupid complaint she had about our direct supervisor. And for whatever reason, she always cc'd the rest of our unit into the email chain.

And it was so awkward because it was clearly not a conversation that we should have been included in. She said it was because the rest of us "deserved to know" what was going on. But she was just trying to start shit with our supervisor. She eventually was let go.

i work in Hong Kong, too many to count

It was definitely this stupid bitch who got me fired because she lied to management that I hit her (when I never did)

she was given favorable treatment because she was the wife of a boss whos company contracted with ours.

He was annoying, lazy, stupid, asked employees to lend him money, and got fired for making sexual advances to a coworker who everyone *except him apparently* knew she was a minor.

I remember the day he came in for his interview the store manager said to the assistant manager who was hiring him "You're really gonna interview this guy? I saw his resume, I want nothing to do with him."

Sociopathic bosses that would abuse employees for sport

This tech that would not do her job but yet complain about all the stuff she would need to do that night. She also talked a lot.
She would also be off the floor for extended amount of time and barely even answer call bells even if she was on the floor anyway. Would leave the floor sometimes to hookup with another tech from another floor either in a closed office or their car.

Glad she left or got fired.

Giblet_Enjoyer posted...

65+ year old woman. Probably don't even need to elaborate

This is ageist as fuck

All of themMy job is so fucking unbelievable. I'll try to sum it up by first telling you about the folks I work with:

First, there is this supermodel wanna-be chick. Yeah, okay, she is pretty hot, but damn is she completely useless. The girl is constantly fixing her hair or putting on makeup. She is extremely self-centered and has never once considered the needs or wants of anyone but herself. She is as dumb as a box of rocks, and I still find it surprising that she has enough brain power to continue to breathe.

The next chick is completely the opposite. She might even be one of the smartest people on the planet. Her career opportunities are endless, and yet she is here with us. She is a zero on a scale of 1 to 10. I'm not sure she even showers, much less shaves her "womanly" parts. I think she might be a lesbian, because every time we drive by the hardware store, she moans like a cat in heat.

But the jewel of the crowd has got to be the fucking stoner. And this guy is more than just your average pothead. In fact, he is baked before he comes to work, during work, and I'm sure after work. He probably hasn't been sober anytime in the last ten years, and he's only 22. He dresses like a beatnik throwback from the 1960's, and to make things worse, he brings his big fucking dog to work. Every fucking day I have to look at this huge Great Dane walk around half-stoned from the second-hand smoke. Hell, sometimes I even think it's trying to talk with its constant bellowing. Also, both of them are constantly hungry, requiring multiple stops to McDonalds and Burger King, every single fucking day.

Anyway, I drive these fuckers around in my van and we solve mysteries and shit.

Seaman_Prime posted...

All of themMy job is so fucking unbelievable. I'll try to sum it up by first telling you about the folks I work with:

First, there is this supermodel wanna-be chick. Yeah, okay, she is pretty hot, but damn is she completely useless. The girl is constantly fixing her hair or putting on makeup. She is extremely self-centered and has never once considered the needs or wants of anyone but herself. She is as dumb as a box of rocks, and I still find it surprising that she has enough brain power to continue to breathe.

The next chick is completely the opposite. She might even be one of the smartest people on the planet. Her career opportunities are endless, and yet she is here with us. She is a zero on a scale of 1 to 10. I'm not sure she even showers, much less shaves her "womanly" parts. I think she might be a lesbian, because every time we drive by the hardware store, she moans like a cat in heat.

But the jewel of the crowd has got to be the fucking stoner. And this guy is more than just your average pothead. In fact, he is baked before he comes to work, during work, and I'm sure after work. He probably hasn't been sober anytime in the last ten years, and he's only 22. He dresses like a beatnik throwback from the 1960's, and to make things worse, he brings his big fucking dog to work. Every fucking day I have to look at this huge Great Dane walk around half-stoned from the second-hand smoke. Hell, sometimes I even think it's trying to talk with its constant bellowing. Also, both of them are constantly hungry, requiring multiple stops to McDonalds and Burger King, every single fucking day.

Anyway, I drive these fuckers around in my van and we solve mysteries and shit.

I've seen this before and it STILL got me lol

I had a former coworker who was probably one of the most irritating people I've ever met, had serious boundary issues and was basically incapable of reading social cues. When she interviewed for the job we all wondered why someone with a master's degree would want to work here. It's because she can't hold a job. At one point she even got moved up to the head office because they needed another person and they sent her back less than a month later because no one could stand her.

i worked at a grocery store for like a month or two. dunno if it was unionized but if you passed your probation period, you couldn't get fired unless you got written up for the same issue 3 times in a week. a guy past his probation period barely did work and left it for the morning crew to clean up. he would do just enough to not get written up 3x a week though. everyone hated him.

It was a pair of them, husband and wife. Both supremely entitled and selfish. Both are morbidly obese, and are still gluttons for food. Which drives their poor health, which they then use to call out from work. Here's some examples.

-We were very short staffed. The rest of us worked extra to give them 2 days off together for their anniversary. The day after that, when they were scheduled to return to work I get a call from them asking me to cover both their shifts. I say no, because I'd already pulled a double that day. Then they hit me with "Well, you have to. We decided to go on a trip for our anniversary, so we left this morning and we're halfway to Florida." Since I can't leave till my replacement arrives, and it was them, and it was 11pm at night no one else was answering their phones. I ended up having to cover and run 2 separate hotels myself for a 3rd shift in a row.

-One day she arrived at work. Walked in, looked at the arrivals list, shouted "Fuck this shit, I'm not doing this." Then she walked out. So when I arrived, I was told that I again had to run both because of her. Later that night, after I've been slammed by a massive amount of guests checking in, she shows up in the lobby. Then explains that she put a room out of order and had been upstairs watching TV and sleeping all night, she only came down to get her food delivery. I asked her if she could finish the shift and she laughed in my face.

-She saw someone's left overs in the refrigerator and went off. Started slamming things around and screaming. She couldn't believe that someone bought lunch from the Chinese place across the street and didn't bring her any.

-They both always cussed and insulted the guests, but thought they were the best employees.

-If someone leaves a tip, they take it. Doesn't matter who it's for, it what. If it's a tip, they claim it.

-They both secretly lived at the hotel for months. They'd just choose a room, mark it out of order and go stay in it. But then they caught another employee doing the same thing and had a fit.

There's so much more too.

Anyone that's ever come over from a buyout

He said "git r done" all the time

I get a headache thinking about it. I don't normally block numbers but after working with this 19 year old kid fresh from India for a year in a half I had to quit I couldn't take it anymore.

We had a manager, me and this kid for our department but he was lazy and openly mocked the job. Management couldn't get rid of him and I eventually left. Later found out he was caught looking at porn and prostitutes on the work computer and they still couldn't get rid of him. Of all the years I've worked he was by far the worst worker I've ever experienced working with.

He's gone now but I just avoid working with kids at this point.

was in a leadership position but he had no idea what he was doing, what he was supposed to do, what he was in charge of, or why he had to do it.

he was in charge of a critical live moment and was nowhere to be seen. apparently he went to burning man and never told anyone. he returned three days later and was fired within 5 minutes of coming back.

My ex

Heartomaton posted...

One who relentlessly picked at me because of my inability to talk.

One time, a cart of canned foods leaned over on him due to his inability to stack shit on it properly and pinned him to a wall. I was the only one around in the moment who could have helped him out of that tight spot. He asked, I walked away.

Did he die?

It was at my old job. 99% sure this guy was on meth or something >_> He was missing most of his teeth and would scream and punch objects whenever he got angry over the most innocuous stuff, like them not having his favorite cigarettes at the store, or he had to redo a small part of paperwork. He was cool with me but would still have this outbursts that were really unpleasant to be around.

He eventually ended up quitting. People think he unironically s***ed d*** for drug money at some point lol

MICHALECOLE posted...

Did he die?

Nah, someone else came by and helped him after a few minutes.

I worked at a hotel/resort and a girl that worked there one day didn't show up for like 3 hours, and then called out, and an hour later, the manager found her hanging out drinking at the hotel pool, that employees aren't allowed at during normal hours, and no alcohol ever. After she just called out sick.

You can't fix stupid.

The worst coworker I have now is an older dude who spends a lot of time going to the bathroom, takes 15 minutes to take out the trash, and consistently leaves early, even when its busy.

The worst coworker I ever had was actually a dude I trained, back in my old department. I would always not only show and tell new people what to do, but have them do it with me. I showed him the proper procedure to fill the stores San-E bottles every morning, and he got it down and did it right. About a week later I was informed that we were now required to have store leadership test our San-E, and I found its because he was observed doing it completely wrong.
He also consistently antagonized and made aggressive comments to one of my coworkers, who honestly did a much better job than I ever did (she would work insane hours. I scolded her for it, reminding her that I had told her not to kill herself for that job. She still does). He later put in his notice for a management job at Target, and went around trashing the job and essentially saying he was too good for it.

TL;DR - Lazy, sociopathic narcissist who consistently fucked up a fairly simple job.

I worked with someone on my teams QA department that would bitch and moan about every little thing and demand something done asap, and would get so defensive at any objection. after several months of this I requested to work on a different team.

AlCalavicci posted...

This is ageist as fuck

Come on, that's not fair. It's sexist as well.

KogaSteelfang posted...

-They both secretly lived at the hotel for months. They'd just choose a room, mark it out of order and go stay in it. But then they caught another employee doing the same thing and had a fit.

That's genius.

When I used to work for a remodeling company, I ran a crew of 4. All great workers who kept up with my rhythm, and never took breaks.

My employer was pleased at my ability to maintain constant production without hiccups, so he thought his son could learn a few things.

Naw.

- Always took smoke, shit, piss, snack breaks every 20 minutes
- Always late (I had to pick him up due to his suspended license, and on probation)
- You tell him to do something and he gives you this look like he's above it as well as some lip.
- Once he decides to do it he drags balls and moves like a sloth. After he finishes a medial task, he doesn't have the initiative to ask me or the other guys 'What next?'
- He stands there looking at you work either with his hands in his pockets, on his phone, or on his little stupid-ass Pokemon game (He was 27 at the time, and I 20...)
- You'd think he'd be at least competent enough to be a 'gopher', but he doesn't know a flathead screwdriver from a hammer.
- He literally hurt himself climbing up a four-ft ladder. Fucking how?

He only lasted 4 days with me before I had to let him go. He was a danger to everyone and to himself. He could've jeopardized my work with his incompetence.

My employer pleaded that I train him because he couldn't. But there's no remolding a twisted, crooked trunk. I'm not there to babysit nor to be a father to someone older than I... So I left that company. I still keep in contact with my old worker buddies, and apparently he relapsed and incarcerated.

a woman in her 50s that literally never stopped talking. it got quiet once and she said "wow it got quiet"

Giblet_Enjoyer posted...

That's genius.

Trust me, they are experts at getting what they want. I'm 100% if they got caught they'd have had some story cooked up as to why. But management knew it, and we were so short staffed they let it slide to keep them there. But they thought they had everyone fooled, when literally everyone knew.

Had this guy, real weirdo. He wasn't good at his job, he was once told not to vacuum anymore because he sucked at it and took it as a compliment. He wasn't really good at anything else either but since our company was pretty much no cut all you had to do was show up to keep your job.

What was really bad was he would demand people give him a ride home. Not ask, just go right up to someone and tell them they are taking him home. The guy lived in a motel that was a 5 minute walk from where we worked, it was our casino, another building, then his motel, and he was too lazy to walk it. And that one building in between is the sheriff's station. One time when he had to walk he asked if I would ride along next to him on my bike. Even if I didn't live in the opposite direction I would've said no. I told him I would for $100, he offered $5, I said have a nice walk.

Giblet_Enjoyer posted...

65+ year old woman. Probably don't even need to elaborate

Did she move in slow motion?

Heartomaton posted...

One who relentlessly picked at me because of my inability to talk.

One time, a cart of canned foods leaned over on him due to his inability to stack shit on it properly and pinned him to a wall. I was the only one around in the moment who could have helped him out of that tight spot. He asked, I walked away.

I love the pettiness. Lol not sarcastic I respect that

Turtlemania7 posted...

I love the pettiness. Lol not sarcastic I respect that

Damn right. You don't fuck with someone with a social disability mercilessly and then ask them for help. You won't get it.

That dude didn't work there long. He later quit because they told him he couldn't work with all his piercings in.

Worst coworker was this person with a kid who was an ex junkie. I've worked with my fair share of junkies/ex junkies before and they weren't all bad so it wasn't just that. Sometime was completely off with this person. She tried to micro manage everybody but didn't know what she was talking about with any of the things she was trying to manage

A woman who was probably 60ish that was a total jackass to almost everyone. She was always talking down to people, picked fights with customers at times and barely paid attention to what management told her to the point she almost got fired at one point. I heard my manager (also a 60+ woman) once say she was on the verge of punching this lady. Oddly enough I had no problems with her - for some reason I was the literal only person in the store she was always nice to. Maybe I reminded her of a son or grandson or something.

Some guy who'd do drugs on the job. Normally he was lazy as shit but he'd go to the bathroom come out all geeked up and wanna tear the dorm apart pissing off the inmates. Then he'd eventually crash and go to sleep leaving you to deal with the pissed off inmates

Also he was a rookie and would try to make demands of people with far more expierence like he was their boss.

Like he just dropped the keys in my lap one day and I asked why he said we where gonna swap posts so he could sleep.(couldnt hide fromnthe camera where he was posted)I told him to fuck off maybe I wanted to sleep. I didn't but I'm anal about if the paper work says I'm working a certain spot that's where I'm gonna be cause I'm held liable if anything happens

Pharmacist tech that got arrested and convicted of stealing opioids and selling them on the side. Within a month of working for our hospital.

Golly gee, why are pills suddenly going missing at the exact time this new tech started working in our pharmacy?

Morbidly obese 50 year old virgin who lived in his mom's attic. His BO was so bad my boss had to sit him down multiple times to discuss it. The odor was horrific. Also had fake teeth that he would take out and leave on his fucking desk as he kicked his shoes off, adding extra flavor to his stench.

But the worst part was that he was a fucking creep. One time we walked by a girl who appeared to be maybe 14 years old and he was staring at her ass and said "damn she's hot." Another associate also accused him of following her home one day, said he ducked down in his car when she looked back. Told my boss all of this, but that wasn't even what got him fired.

I had another coworker who ended up going to prison along with a few other scumbags for raping young boys when they worked at a detention center, buy I barely interacted with that lunatic when he worked for us.

KogaSteelfang posted...

Trust me, they are experts at getting what they want. I'm 100% if they got caught they'd have had some story cooked up as to why. But management knew it, and we were so short staffed they let it slide to keep them there. But they thought they had everyone fooled, when literally everyone knew.

Lmao that makes it even funnier. I know they're awful people from how you describe them but that's still pretty based

Turtlemania7 posted...

Did she move in slow motion?

She was quite slow, yes. But mostly just a bitter HAG with a chip on her shoulder

My boss when I was in my early twenties was a 45 old crazy lady who had been working there for decades.

She shared the office with me that also housed ALL of the servers and modems and every afternoon would burn a bag of popcorn.

I cant eat popcorn to this day.

Oh and the worst thing. We both had the same last name so she would constantly tell people (who didnt ask) that we werent married.

*** Because this was around 2003 I wore a black leather duster jacket, so I was clearly out of her league ***

Guy I used to work with... Absolutely garbage. Worked slow as hell, didn't have a clue what was going on, resisted efforts to train him. I remember going off on him one time telling him what he was doing was completely unacceptable. He said I wasn't his boss (true, I wasn't) and he didn't care what I had to say. I told him he was a piece of crap and I was sick of having to pick up his slack.

What happened? They moved him to the office, where he continued to do nothing. Probably still works there, too. He was there for years after he left the dock. I eventually left a couple years ago. I avoided him at all costs, not even saying hello if he said it first.

As a worker bee - this guy Lee. He was some sort of translator in the army and thought he was the hottest shit ever. One of those people that makes everything about them. No one could have a story he couldnt one up. He was just a morale killer.

As a manager - this woman Kim. She had been in the job for like 20 years and had no idea how to do anything. Her group did Jack shit and me and another group had to pick up the slack because of her.