Co-Worker Inspires Hostility

Maybe some of you know one, a co-worker who is nothing but an aggravating circumstance that makes work a little less tolerable. I certainly do. And here I have listed her many qualities in capital letters, so just for fun, you can combine the ones you recognize to describe the toxic personality in your very own office!

Scoring system: Lots of capital letters = BAD.

The girl I work with is LOUD. I moved as far as possible from her but a BULLHORN QUALITY TO HER VOICE keeps it right in my ear. Sometimes her VOICE IS MISTAKEN FOR THAT OF THE OPPOSITE SEX. This pisses her off so she SLAMS HER PHONE DOWN.

Perhaps she is hard of hearing since she must THINK OUT LOUD, even counting! She is CONSTANTLY COMPLAINING and/or TALKING ABOUT THE PETTY DETAILS OF HER LIFE. The worst being the fact that she is ALWAYS BROKE. I made the mistake of trying to be her friend when we first met, and I was rewarded with WAY TOO MUCH INFORMATION. Looking at her you could probably guess she is an EX-STRIPPER. But I can’t tell everyone she is probably broke because she and her “boyfriend-geek monster-former pimp” both like COCAINE AND BINGE DRINKING a lot.

It didn’t take me long to figure out that this girl is TOTALLY SELF-ABSORBED. She isn’t interested in anyone else’s problems unless they affect her in some way. I have to bite my lip when she USES GOOD-HEARTED PEOPLE to buy her lunch, give her rides, work on her truck (my poor husband!), buy her clothes. She is good at being needy. Such is the case when a girl learns to “get by on the kindness of strangers”… or in another word, MANIPULATION. She even dresses for it. Where men are concerned, CLEAVAGE is a big part of that. Women are harder to play, I guess. You have to PRETEND TO BE A FRIEND. Thanks, but no thanks.

I guess it is a good thing that management announced the closing of our office, or I may have eventually killed her. I hope I can make it until March!!