People Are Sharing 30 Red Flags That Show That A Coworker Is Useless Or Out Of Their Depth

Not acknowledging incidents/mistakes. If we find out about it in any way other than by your mouth and your incident report, it's grounds for firing. Bonus points if we find out you damaged a client or our property and didn't report it.

if they suck up excessively to people, it means they are bad but are trying to use their social skills to keep their job

I’m always suspicious of other filmmakers who don’t watch movies. Hope that doesn’t sound pretentious, I understand people are busy and don’t always have free time to go to the movie theater for 2 hours and pay 10.99 for a ticket, but being educated about current trends in the industry seems like an obvious part of the job.

As a developer, an entry level person started working for the company. I'm a mid dev, but sit near her so I was helping her get going. First job outside school, I understand that a large codebase is overwhelming.

I place her in the file and even method and we step through the front end to back end code. I give her an idea of where I see the issue is. I ask if she has any questions. Of course no was the answer. A day goes by, and she is still in the same exact function with the same look on her face. Do you have any questions? No.

TL DR: If you're lost, please ask questions. People can't guess what doesn't make sense to you.

The receptionist/mailroom woman NEVER fails to let every last person in the office know how busy she is, claims to have a list of 25+ duties she has on a daily basis, and has the uncanny and enviable ability to turn down any and every new responsibility that comes her way. She's got her supervisor snowed completely. She's such a pain in the ass that no one asks her to do ANYTHING, even her job (MAIL. ANSWERING PHONES).

HOWEVER, at any given time she's actually at her desk and not on a smoke break, she's got solitaire maximized on her giant monitor, or she's asking your opinion on whether or not she should buy the latest funny t-shirt she found online.

In any line of work, I feel like any individual who isn't willing to cooperate with others is a huge red flag to any goal orientated job or company.

We get a lot of updates that affect how we perform our jobs. We can get a new update each week. I can't stand it when as soon as the email hits the inbox, a lazy coworker asks what the email is about--asking for details on the new policy instead of just reading it! I honestly thought that one of my coworkers had reading issues bc this happened a lot. Then, there are a few other coworkers who will ask you questions about a policy and admit that they didn't read the update. Pisses me off.

I'm a massage therapist.

Whenever I meet a loud or pushy therapist I always wonder. I've done couples massages with therapists like this and 9/10 times they talk to their client through the whole massage, which is a big no no.

Usually people want to relax during a massage.

When other teachers only scream at their classes while only giving their students worksheets.

Constantly calling out and never picking up extra jobs, half assing their job, refusing to communicate properly to avoid fault (it doesn't work that way), complaining about clients as soon as they leave or while they're STILL RIGHT THERE.