Tell me about an annoying person in your life right now

[Anonymous]

I'm another person annoying myself. I've called in sick to work three days in a row. But really I'm just depressed. And I got my period. And there's a heatwave. And I couldn't see being able to get through the work day without crying.

I almost went in today. But then I just couldn't do it. I am annoyed by myself.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:My coworker who was hired here nearly 2 years ago and still can't do the basics of her job. She was put on a PIP, boss told her to ask her colleagues for more help, and told all of us to help her out because she was so out of her depth. So now her entire way of working is to ask other people to do things for her. When you take the teach-a-(wo)man-to-fish approach like pointing out the folders where the information is stored, she will just continually bombard you with questions: "Which file?" "Is this the right one?" "What would you say the answer is?" "Can you review this email before I send it out?" It's exhausting. And my boss had the nerve to say yesterday that this person is really improving. Ugh. /vent

For people like this, I delay in responding to them. "I'll get it for you as soon as I can." and then wait for an hour or so. Then email it. When she asks the question again, I find the old email, reply and include her and cc the supervisor and say, "here it is" so that it is obvious that she's asked the same exact question again. The delay is prioritizing my job over her job. I'll be glad to help, but I'm not dropping everything for her and if she starts doing things slower because she has to wait for someone to show her again, then so be it.

[Anonymous]

My coworker who was hired here nearly 2 years ago and still can't do the basics of her job. She was put on a PIP, boss told her to ask her colleagues for more help, and told all of us to help her out because she was so out of her depth. So now her entire way of working is to ask other people to do things for her. When you take the teach-a-(wo)man-to-fish approach like pointing out the folders where the information is stored, she will just continually bombard you with questions: "Which file?" "Is this the right one?" "What would you say the answer is?" "Can you review this email before I send it out?" It's exhausting. And my boss had the nerve to say yesterday that this person is really improving. Ugh. /vent


Start answering all her questions via email and CC your boss. And if you want to be evil--start verbally telling her the wrong way of doing things...

I wish I could do all of this over email. I'm not above a passive aggressive bcc. Unfortunately, we have an IM culture. I'm not evil enough (or stupid enough to screw things up for our clients) to give her bad info.

[Anonymous]

A friend who has become a "know-it-all" every since she got a promotion. She seems to forget that everyone in DC is "important" and constantly talks about her boring job. My DH and I both noticed at the same time that she'd turned really boring. (I hadn't said anything to DH until he brought it up) because I wasn't sure if it was just a "female perspective". Turns out DH was more bored than I was .