unstable coworkers

[msventoux]

Dec 23, 2014 11:12:23 GMT -5 bean29 said:

I have two co-workers that are difficult to work with, but I don't think either one is emotionally unstable.

One tends to be moody, and will snap your head off or not even respond when you ask for something.  She is extremely competent at her job, and even though I may not get a response when I ask for something, I will get what I asked for.  I decided early on, this was something I could easily live with.  I have told other employees this when they complain about her behavior, and I think we are all pretty much in agreement.

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I'm afraid this is often me with a particular coworker.  She drives me nuts because she asks a question then won't stop talking and listen to the answer.  She also starts bitching the second she walks in the door in the morning and any acknowledgement of her causes more bitching.  She's a drama queen to the max. 

I won't let something incorrect go out to a client, so I will tune into her enough to glean what I have to do, but I don't engage her beyond that.  And when I do have to interact with her I am pretty bitchy, because snapping her head off is the only way to shock her into pausing to take a breath and allows me the chance to communicate to her whatever information she needs to know.

I've noticed I'm not the only one who treats her this way.  But all of my coworkers are much nicer than I am so they don't have this as their default response to her like I do. 

However, I don't think she's unstable, just utterly clueless and self-involved.  The jury's probably still out on my emotional stability. 

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I love reading this thread.

[Sharon]

I didn't know so many of us worked in the same office.

The one sobbing drama queen that worked in another department but shared a cube space with our dept is gone.  She was always sobbing over some life crisis.  She also knew everything about everything and was busy dispensing advice to all the other women in the department on how to run their lives.

[andi9899]

My supervisor at my last job was chemically altered some times and just and idiot the rest of the time. She didn't have the slightest idea what she was doing so did a lot of back peddling and talking in circles. Then she got hurt and broke her leg at the office. A year and a half later, she is still milking it. We thought maybe she would overdo the pain meds because some days she was really slow and didn't seem to process what you said to her. She would ask you things and when you answered her, she would say ok and then go silent or she would ask you the same thing a different way. It was really weird.