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person you've had to work with.
Whether it's being forced with a partner in school or your colleague at work, what made them the worst person to work with?
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In school we had this geography coursework and we had to go to the town center and ask people to fill in a questionnaire for us. Anyway we had to ask the questions instead of just giving them the sheet because apparently that defeated the object.
So our teacher thought it would be a good idea to partner people with someone completely different to ourselves. I got partnered with this polish lad that had only been in our school a few weeks and literally spoke about 5 words of english.
I had to walk around with him for like 4 hours asking random people questions and not being able to say anything to him. It was honestly the most painful 4 hours of my whole entire life.
oh and he smelt really bad
literally every group i'm in.... one time all 3 of my group didn't turn up for a presentation after i did all the work lol then a few weeks ago they didn't choose what they want to present until 11pm the night before????? thankfully neither was graded
I worked with a guy once that couldn't accept that he didn't know something already
I tried to teach him how to use a new peice of really niche analytic software and he acted like he knew everything after you'd say it, even though it had only been used in the company for like a week prior and only a few people had been trained with it
like he'd try to finish my sentances to prove he knew it already but if i just stopped talking it'd be obvious he had no idea
i literally just walked upstairs because i really couldnt be arsed
probs an absolute ****** of a chef in my past job but loads of the other chefs were sound
Luckily I've never had anything that bad, and worst type of person I've had to work with was just someone who missed a deadline (which we caught up on day after anyway)
For this group project in university during my first year, I was put in a group with this guy who literally force fed me chocolate, which he'd licked with his salt and vinegar tongue. I've never run so fast in my entire life.
he licked chocolate and gave it to you?Quote:
Originally Posted by Zealoux
wtf
I worked with 2 people in year 7 I think and they literally did no work. Actually, I suppose this was a common theme across the year but it wouldn't be so bad if I wasn't blamed for it... Saying that, there was this one person in year 11 who was so against work and the way we were partnered meant it was like all pairs isolatedish and he wanted to get back to people who would piss around in lessons, but I just wanted to do work. Fortunately, that didn't last long and I was eventually moved into a 3 and he was basically kicked out of the lesson for good :).
Had a couple in my previous job, one of my managers just seemed very power hungry, would confine me very much to the bar and just force me to do pointless things, wouldn't ever listen to anything I ever had to say despite having worked there a lot longer than him and knowing the people.
Then there was a chef who just had the least patience i've ever known, used to give you looks like you're an absolute ****** and talk to you the same way, (even though I know chefs get stressed) he would shout and scream at the most pointless things to put on a show and would generally only like this if they were done his way.
Where I currently work, one of our chefs was a little pervy and made really crude sexual comments. He also had really bad personal hygiene, he would go to the toilet, smoke etc and not wash his hands and then proceed to prepare food. He also revealed that he hadn't brushed his teeth for 8 years (almost the entirety of his time spent working in a kitchen) and he was generally a disgusting person. We had people come in to have their dinner and would enquire who was working in the kitchen and when they were told it was this particular chef they would turn around and walk out again. He eventually left after 18 months as when ever we worked a function the waiting staff would remark about his poor hygiene and that he shouldn't be touching the food etc. He left and removed everyone off of Facebook before any of us got the chance to remove him first, that is my biggest regret about him leaving - not getting to remove him off of Facebook haha.
Sometimes when the regular pharmacist isn't in at work we have to have one of the backup ones and one in particular is just HORRIBLE. She refuses to do anything and won't come and speak to customers, she chats on the phone to her friends and family back in Spain (she's Spanish) because it's free for her at work, and she just WON'T work.
It's awful because the rest of us have to go out the front of the shop and get yelled at by horrible middle-aged women (anyone who has ever worked in customer services knows the sort) who think they know how to do your job better than you when it's not our fault :(
I was admin assistant with this other guy. I'd started like the month before him so I was tasked to teach him the ropes. Managers were fairly busy so weren't really around much to supervise and give out tasks and I know how boring doing nothing can be so I gave him a task to match receipts to the forms (expenses spreadsheet thing we had to do). He said he'd done so I go through it to check and he'd just stapled receipts to random forms. When I confronted him, he just said he couldn't be bothered and that he didn't expect anyone to check for months anyway. I'd arranged it in alphabetical order to make it easier for him and to hide the evidence, he'd messed it all up and put the wrong forms in random places. Didn't bother giving him anything after that. He's the laziest person I've ever met lol