Annoying colleague habits - share them!

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What annoying habits do you have from colleagues at work?

For me;

Talking over when im on the phone

Just thought you could all share any other irritating habits your work colleagues have :p
 
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Not using deodorant so that when they lean over me and put their armpit in my face I get a waft of bacteria ridden sweat.
 
Running in the office. It's dangerous, it's noisy, the whole floor vibrates, all so you can get wherever you're going 0.5 seconds quicker.
 
One of my workmates has a habit of farting and then wandering off, leaving you to chew on his noxious emissions :(

EDIT: I also remember some guy in a previous job who had some skin complaint... he'd come over to your desk, and after he'd gone you'd find flakes of dead skin all over the place... eugh! Poor chap got the nickname "Toxic Crusader".
 
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If this were a competition, I would win. I have the worst work colleague ever. I shall present you with a select few of his traits:

* borderline violent dandruff which, unless you're careful, is liable to be used as a thickening agent for anything you're drinking/eating
* the most potent farts I've ever witnessed, which he leaves as little presents if he's ever near your desk
* white shirts NEVER ironed, and yellowing at the sleeves
* never gets a round in, even though he invites himself to the pub and expects to be involved
* most of the time, he smells like unwashed girl-parts - ironic as I shouldn't imagine he'll ever be near them, dirty or clean

I'm sure I can come up with more, we had this thread a while ago
 
The dude who always comes up with the problem of "My Telly(Computer to all you Computer literate people out there) is broken" and then when you ask him what the problem is he just says "Well it's broken" you ask how He just says "I donno":mad:
 
When I was working for the local Council's MIS dept the guy who occupied the next desk to me had a really disgusting habit of picking his nose and leaving his bogies around his monitor! Then again, he was a dirty, smelly white guy with dreadlocks who was into "saving the planet" and "protecting the animals".

You ever seen the bottom of a ship before they get rid of all the barnacles and such? :eek:
 
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The dude who always comes up with the problem of "My Telly(Computer to all you Computer literate people out there) is broken" and then when you ask him what the problem is he just says "Well it's broken" you ask how He just says "I donno":mad:
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I used to get those all the time.
Her: My computer is broken. You have to fix it because I have a very important thing I need to work on.
Me: Ok, what's wrong? What's it doing?
Her: I don't know. It's broken.
Me: Well, what are the symptoms that indicate that it's broken?
Her: It doesn't work.
Me: I understand, ma'am, but I need to know what you're observing so that I can help. What were you trying to do when you discovered that it wasn't working? What does the screen say?
Her: Listen, I don't have time for your crap! Are you going to fix it or not?
Me: Ma'am, I'm trying to help here. I just don't have enough information yet to tell you what's wrong!
Her: Oh yeah? Then why did you just ask me what was wrong? You people are unbelievable. I'm filing a complaint because none of you ***holes knows what you're doing! *click*

Luckily she got fired last year. :D
 
haha Billy - that reminds me of a guy who went down to IT the other day and was moaning because his (Windows) laptop wasn't very user friendly.
 
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haha Billy - that reminds me of a guy who went down to IT the other day and was moaning because his (Windows) laptop wasn't very user friendly.
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Really anybody who's worked a help desk for more than a week probably has a cupboard full of those sort of stories. Frustrated users, who don't understand even the most elementary principles of the function, use, and maintenance of the machine systems used every day for that user's critical operations, call and seek magic pixie dust that will fix the impenetrable beige box of horrors and mystery before them. These folks do not understand how we do what we do, nor do they care to learn about the machines in any way.

It's one thing to say, for instance, "I'm a lawyer, not a computer specialist. I shouldn't be expected to know everything about the machine." It's completely another to blindly drift through the day, using that computer for all activity, without the slightest idea how to use it beyond text entry and cursor manipulation.

/rant

Let's not turn this into a helpdesk horrors thread. :o
 
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