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  • November 14, 2016 at 4:26 am #120340
    Mr. Ritz
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    Well, on top of my usual work issues, I thought I’d share my daily struggle with the most annoying co worker I’d ever had the displeasure to work with.

    He’s 45 yrs old, never married, had a couple relationships which he’s sabotaged, but that’s his business. I’m just giving you an outline.
    He’s also been through many jobs (no surprise).

    This guy appears friendly, always asking how your weekend or evening went, but it’s not sincere. He’s immature, obnoxious, childish, and cannot take a suggestion or criticism without becoming angry.

    He make many random sounds thought the day which usually startle me. Slapping his thighs rapidly, spouting certain phrases repeatedly, banging his keyboard when his computer isn’t cooperating, etc… Incredibly disrupting.

    He also won’t get problems fixed. He couldn’t print for 3 weeks and complained about it every time. I’d ask if he called IT yet, and he’s always tell me not yet. Same thing when his computer kept crashing. 4 months it went on before he did something about it, but bitched and slammed his keyboard every time it crashed.

    He also parrots you. If you talk to yourself as we all sometimes do, or if you make a mistake and let out a “darn it” or “shit” he’ll parrot that too.

    And the stories…… Long pointless stories. I have work to do dammit.

    He’s a degreed engineer so allegedly he should know more than me and they are also should be paid much more than me, a lowly drafter/designer.
    However, he’s constantly asking me how to do things which he should know how to do. I’ve seen his work, it’s terrible. Since we design products, we must work together, but if you ask him to explain something, he goes off on these long, hard to understand tangents that leave you more confused than before. If you say you don’t understand, he treats you like you’er stupid and talks to you like you are a child.

    Most people tell me just use headphones.
    2 problems with that. I’m a 1 track mind person and if there is music playing I tend to focus on that rather than my work.
    Other problem is my back is to the door. I already hate people coming up behind me. With headphones in, I’ll never hear them coming and I’m easily started.

    Not sure if there are any solutions to this.

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    November 14, 2016 at 5:47 am #120346
    Alien incident47
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    Well you should document his behavior either write it down or even record it using your cell phone, you can Evan just use the voice recorder on there most phones have them. Speak with your supervisor, tell them that you have fear of the guy and you don’t want to be slammed by the keyboard on his next ranting episode. Explain to your supervisor how also your progress is lacking due to his behavior and that is not the employee you want to be. Next find ways to focus on the work you do and not let him be a distraction, you have to tune him out. I had to do this a few times with coworkers in the past , otherwise I focused in on the negative of the behavior that it was preventing me to do my work. When you focus on the badside of people that’s all you will see in them .

    November 14, 2016 at 6:31 am #120348
    Adam P
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    Hey there Mr. Ritz,
    I like to let you know that you’re not alone. I myself had this obstacle at a job I use to work at. He was my trainer and let me tell you my patience was put to the test. 8 hrs of trying to get my work done while playing 21 questions with him, listening to him whistle and sing until finally one day I ask him politely to stop singing 99 bottles of beer on the wall. Apparently I offended him because anytime I asked him a question or to review my work he would do it with a cold shoulder and little words. It was during that time I asked my supervisor to change my seat and my work improved greatly. What I learned and hopefully you have as well is that there are people out there literally walking around as hurt little children. There is nothing you can do to fix them, only improve yourself. Now before I left that job for a better opportunity, I made sure to acknowledge him and continued to thank him for his effort and I could tell from his voice he was sad to see me leave. My advice would be to relocate away from him, but make contact only when necessary and always end your conversation on a positive note; Thank you, I appreciate your work/effort, etc.
    You can’t have a testimony without a test. I passed my test and tell of my testimony. I know you will as well.
    Thank you and take care
    AP85

    November 14, 2016 at 9:51 am #120374
    Mr. Ritz
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    Thanks for the replies.
    FYI, I’m not in fear of this guy, he’s just disruptive.
    Changing seats is not possible as its a very small room we are in.
    I actually have captured some of his nonsense noise on my phone.
    The topic did come up today when speaking with the boss, but he seems to think it’s all pretty amusing. The boss is a young guy who i like, but he’s not real professional and has no filter at all, so i hesitate to tell him much for fear he could repeat it.

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