I work with a woman who makes me nuts. She's defensive, and touchy, and takes everything personally. If it's possible for a person to take something said in the wrong way, she'll do it. I've worked at this place nine years, she's been there four months, but I don't dare give her advice, or even comment on anything she's doing, or she's in the boss's office fifteen minutes later - "agony says I have to...."

Here's a small example of the type of thing that happens ten times a day - I put out trays to the various rooms, with clean plates and cutlery on them, for meals. I always send extra stuff, in case something falls on the floor, or whatever. I ask the staff to not put dirty bowls back on top of the clean ones, as my dishwasher space is limited, and I don't want to have to wash unused bowls just because a dirty bowl has dripped on them. The staff are mostly very good about this, but they have other things to think of, and I have to bring it up maybe once a year or so. It's a very minor thing, not a big deal at all. I was just thinking this afternoon that I should bring this up at the next staff meeting, when she walked into the kitchen. I had, not fifteen seconds before, taken a dirty bowl off a stack of clean ones on the tray from her room, so I said "Oh, Dawn, would you mind not stacking the dirty bowls on top of the clean ones?" "I never do!" she said. "Yeah, right" I thought, but I said "Oh, that's OK then". Five minutes later she came into the kitchen, steaming - "Who says I do that, anyway? Who's spreading lies about me?"

I can't stand her. Do you work with someone you could just murder?

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Do you work with someone you could just murder?

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I did work with someone I could could murder, till yesterday. I advised the boss that it was a case of he goes or I do. Bye bye annoyance, you asked for my best shot and you got it.

I did. When I was temping recently, before my contract expired.

There was a man who liked to throw his weight about. He was not in a managerial position. He is one of those people who works at his own speed, he would see a customer then immediately put up his 'Position closed' sign while he dealt with any resulting paperwork, logging it in the computer etc, the rest of us would get on with the next customer and catch up on paperwork when we have quiet moment. He was the same when on the switchboard, he would take one call then fiddle about doing paperwork letting the calls back up in the system and for the rest of us to take one call after another until our heads were spinning. Then he had the cheek to ask us to do some of his logging, take items to the post etc. Aaaagh, well I won't miss him, he was horrid.

I suspect that he doesn't wear the trousers at home, his wife is the high earner and he had to give up whatever work he had before in order to come to the island when she got a job here. He does the cooking and shopping etc, she pays the mortgage.

Being one of the youngest workers in the office, I get the condescending attitudes. There is one lady I work with that assumes no one but her knows anything. Today there was a question about which insurance was primary. She assumed that I hadn't checked the insurance correctly. Come to find out, the finance department didn't make a copy of the paper from the insurance company and because of it, the nurse in the referral department didn't know it.

Sure, blame the young worker...blame the high school graduate (I'm considered inferior because I don't own a bachelor's degree)...blame the data entry kid. It drives me absolutely crazy. I'm not the only one she does it to, but it doesn't make it any less annoying.