On the other hand, if your coworker truly isn't the sharpest tool in the shed, sometimes it's best to just laugh off their stupidity. As long as it's not costing the company millions, of course.
"If you didn't have to work with them, you'd probably find a lot of their actions funny," Lifehacker's team guesses. "Making a concerted effort to laugh about the dumb things they do rather than conjure up more anger will help you let go of a lot of the frustration."
As Cauchon writes, "It’s not always the workplace clown causing all the issues. We also have our fair share of shortcomings from time to time." And it's important to be kind. Talking about being kind, we had to laugh at his advice (inspired by Dale Carnegie) on what to do when a coworker is not doing what they're being paid to do:
"If someone else isn't doing their job, do it for them and do a really terrible job of it, then send it to them with the likes of 'I noticed you’ve been tied-up with other tasks, so I went ahead and took the lead on this, does it look alright?' Nobody wants their name on bad work, so they'll drop everything and fix it immediately."
