Relationships with colleagues can be tricky. In a way, it’s similar to school: a bunch of people thrown in together with little to no things in common, spending most of the day in each other’s company. It’s certainly not an obligation to like your colleagues, and many people don’t. In fact, a 2024 Forbes report found that 85% of Americans deal with annoying coworkers.
Few things are probably worse than having an idiot for a colleague. In the best-case scenario, they’re going to be a constant nuisance. In the worst case, they might endanger you, themselves, and everyone around them.
There are all kinds of idiots in workplaces everywhere, as this recent online thread makes clear. “What is the dumbest thing you’ve ever seen a coworker do?” one netizen asked, and after reading the replies, you might think that some of these adults should go back to school and learn the basics.
#61
Painter here:
We had a guy come work with us. He would always work IN the sun, like follow it around the house. His task was scraping and sanding and he always did it with his mouth open, like so far open. By noon he would be beet red with paint chips stuck to his sweaty face hair and skin. The sweat would break it down and he had white streaks on his face and lips.
We called him the sun child. He was a solid 10 years older than me 😅
Visual: overweight alcoholic guy driving a rusty 90s Buick. I would describe his aesthetic as a pack of winston cigarettes.
We had a guy come work with us. He would always work IN the sun, like follow it around the house. His task was scraping and sanding and he always did it with his mouth open, like so far open. By noon he would be beet red with paint chips stuck to his sweaty face hair and skin. The sweat would break it down and he had white streaks on his face and lips.
We called him the sun child. He was a solid 10 years older than me 😅
Visual: overweight alcoholic guy driving a rusty 90s Buick. I would describe his aesthetic as a pack of winston cigarettes.
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9points
#62
Told me he was swing trading his entire 401k. He timed it wrong. Stopped talking to me about investing after that lol (I told him I'd never do that).
8points
#63
Worked at a sporting goods store that also did team clothing and my coworker ended up stamping the majority of the logos on the hoodies and T-shirts either crooked or upside down in some cases.
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8points
#64
Accidentally sent a company-wide email complaining about the boss instead of just to a friend. Total chaos for a day.
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7points
#65
I saw a coworker (may he rest gently) accidentally weld a wrench to a motorcycle’s heat shield after forgetting to disconnect the battery and accidentally touching the starter with the wrench while working on the exhaust. Lol.
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7points
#66
Had a coworker at a studio who accidentally bounced a client's entire session into a single mono track and then saved over the original. like, years of stems and takes just compressed into one file. the artist was sitting right there watching. longest silence i've ever experienced in a room with other humans in it.
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7points
#67
She would routinely steal pens from other coworkers, one day she had stolen an cheap mechanical pencil and had made an customer sign their credit receipt with it.
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-2points