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Are you obnoxious?
According to Kate Lorenz of CareerBuilder there will always be obnoxious workers or people around us. It could be from talking loudly in an open area to smacking gum or gossiping, there are countless ways to be irked by obnoxious people. Here are 10 put-upon obnoxious ways by people in the workplace that may be reminiscent of your own office colleagues. Annoying they may seem to be but it is the reality of it all that bites us always. These may sound all too familiar, take a good look in the mirror, they could be talking about you!
Her Highness the Queen
There is this type who while impeccably groomed and professional appearing, is also extremely forgetful, chronically late and utterly clueless. She is the type that when suggested to cover the phones because you have to attend to a very important meeting, she would blurt out or snap something like this, "Do you think I just rolled out of bed looking like this?"
Do You Have to Ask? Duh!
Have you encountered someone as obnoxious as this one? That when you ask a question, this person will answer you with a question and your conversation will be something to this effect... "Have you seen the budget?' 'Have I seen the budget?' 'Yes I gave it to you last week to review.' 'You gave it to me last week?' 'Yes, did you lose it?' 'What do you mean did I lose it?' Each conversation was a circle with no resolution." Get my drift?
Joke Joke Joke
How about this one... A practical joker who thinks he is funny and who didn't know when to quit that his usual prank would be paging fictitious people over the intercom and send e-mail messages announcing free pizza or donuts in the coffee room and then snigger as people drifted back to work complaining that there was none left. Of course, he would have to go eventually but not because he is obnoxious but because he doesn't get the job done. It would be nice to give him a "whoopee" cushion and a good riddance cheer as a parting gift! The joke is on him this time, harharharhar!
Spam and Junk Alert
This obnoxious person have a knack for forever clipping articles and highlighting irrelevant information in research papers and cc-ing them to the entire management team. Whatever for? My guess is as good as yours!
Don't Hate Me Because I'm Beautiful
How about the "feeling beautiful and I'm the only beautiful thing" in the office? Oh pleeeaaassseee... A woman who has convinced herself that all men had designs on her. She would be the complaining type complaining that her colleagues are 'undressing her with their eyes' and woe be to anyone who had to be in close proximity of her. An example of this is this... "Once an elderly man accidentally brushed against her on his way out of a crowded elevator; she glared at him and muttered something about sexual harassment in the workplace." Sexual harassment my foot! Guess what and the funny thing about it is... this type of woman is usually quite plain, very plain.
Resident Freeloader
This type is the constant borrower of things but never returns them. Be it money, lip balm, a necktie, a pen or whatever, he never seemed to have what he needed and always sponged off of everyone else. Pathetic!
Drama Queen
Okay this one is a familiar one, isn't it? This type is an extremely high-strung person, tries to pull everyone else into her/his drama. Whenever you spoke to her/him, she/he would be in crisis. Her/His e-mails and voice messages are all marked 'urgent.' And she/he would type her/his memo in all CAPS with every sentence ending in an exclamation point!
Mr. Suck-Up
Brown-nosing is this person's expertise! He brown-noses and he is extremely superficial -- always hanging around the bosses' office and laughing a little too hard at the higher-ups' jokes. Every day at 5 p.m. he'd buy a can of soda, open it and leave it out on his desk with the lights on and a jacket on the back of the chair so that people would think he was still there. Perhaps the most annoying thing about it is that he's faking work! Sad thing about it, he is consistently rewarded and promoted. His sucking up works anytime, SUCKERS!
Love Line
This girl spends most of her day on personal calls. If she isn't talking to her boyfriend, she is talking to her friends about him. If you seat beside her, it couldn't get any worse than to listen to her coo and profess her love for him. Let's just say he broke up with her, worst, over the phone. Expect her to cry to her sisters, mother and anyone else who would listen. And you know what is the worse that can happen...I bet you, she can put one of her conversations on speakerphone, because she might just need two hands to find a tissue and blow her nose... how's that for a love struck, obnoxious officemate?
Privacy Please
This one is for the books and this beats any obnoxious person in the workplace. No one is more obnoxious than this person. A middle-aged woman, sweet but overly solicitous, watches every one's move and even to the most private room (restroom) ever. And once you open the restroom door, she stands there looking at you and in a loud voice would announce something like this, "I heard noises in there, are you alright?"
What could be more obnoxious than all of the above? It spells LOSER too! Oh well, you may have your own opinion of obnoxious co-workers or simply losers in the midst. However, like what's been said, take a good look in the mirror, it may be you! Don't let the joke be on you... "bato-bato sa langit, tamaan 'wag magalit"
"Don't bother just to be better than your contemporaries or predecessors. Try to be better than yourself."