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.
#1
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
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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#3
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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#4
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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#5
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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#6
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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#7
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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#8
The backstabber whose job is mostly to talk about other colleagues’ mistakes except for her own.
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#9
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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#10
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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#11
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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#12
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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