Most of us have had at least that one coworker who’s made our lives a little harder.
You know the type — the one who talks too loudly, takes up too much space on the desk, borrows your charger and returns it broken, or someone who seems to make everything about themselves rather than the team.
These aren’t just small annoyances… they decide how much we enjoy going to work and how well the whole office functions.
So you know you’re not alone in these experiences, Bored Panda has rounded up a list of the most terrible and selfish coworkers out there.
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#41 VP From Corporate Had An Ice Cream Cake Delivered To Me On My Day Off… Coworkers Put It In The Fridge
My company HQ is out of state, and my direct boss, the VP, is traveling for work and didn’t check my PTO for my birthday. He ordered an ice cream cake delivered to my office. After finding out I was off, he called me and said he told my coworkers to save it for Monday.
All day long, this elderly lady pestered me with paranoia, saying, “well the packaging said Ice Cream, but it’s in plastic. You can’t freeze plastic packaging”. At that point, I already knew it was doomed and didn’t even want to go check.
Multiple times throughout the day, she herself went to check, told me it was melted, and put it in the freezer. She assured me, “oh once it freezes, you can still get a good taste of it”…
It was in the warehouse, as they have a freezer/fridge unit. At the end of my workday, I had to clear it out for them. A few teased and laughed at me. “Why didn’t you stop by to grab it on Friday?” “Why would you keep it here if it’s ice cream?”
I didn’t ask for any of this, and I feel bad that my boss’s efforts got wasted by idiotic coworkers.
All day long, this elderly lady pestered me with paranoia, saying, “well the packaging said Ice Cream, but it’s in plastic. You can’t freeze plastic packaging”. At that point, I already knew it was doomed and didn’t even want to go check.
Multiple times throughout the day, she herself went to check, told me it was melted, and put it in the freezer. She assured me, “oh once it freezes, you can still get a good taste of it”…
It was in the warehouse, as they have a freezer/fridge unit. At the end of my workday, I had to clear it out for them. A few teased and laughed at me. “Why didn’t you stop by to grab it on Friday?” “Why would you keep it here if it’s ice cream?”
I didn’t ask for any of this, and I feel bad that my boss’s efforts got wasted by idiotic coworkers.
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#42 How My Coworker Does Tally Marks
I work at a cafe with limited capacity and we have to keep a tally of who comes and goes. She does these marks without doing the slash on the 5th count and uses white sharpie to mark that someone has left. Harder to tell at a glance how many people we have.
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#44 Coworker Wants Me To Take Her Shift After Completely Ignoring Me When I Asked
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#45 Coworker Has A Nasty Habit Of Holding The Donut, Cutting It In Half, Then Take The Other Half They Didn't Touch To Eat. No One Wants The Half You Mauled
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#46 Coworker Leaves Chair Like This Everyday
And every morning (I'm usually the first one in) I have to push it in. I've mentioned it several times, and this has gone on for about 3 years now.
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