People have been sharing the tales of their most hideously annoying colleagues – 22 impeccable arguments for working at home

13.

‘Coworker had a keychain laser pointer and thought it made him a tech bro. He would point it at people’s faces for a laugh. Hit me in the eye a couple times, so I told him to stop. Next time I turned around he hit the back of my head with the dot, but it reflected off my glasses and into my eye.

‘I grabbed it from his hand and threw it a hundred feet into a warehouse stacked wall to wall with closely spaced, two-ton rolls of paper. Good luck finding that.’
–Dude_Dillligence

14.

‘It’s the farting and the belching I can’t deal with.’
–ClimbsNFlysThings

15.

‘Used to sit next to my boss who brought a pack of 6 apples in every day and finished the lot. He also would eat right into the core, taking more and more little bites until it actually snapped in the middle and left him with two tiny nubs. Taking probably 10 minutes an apple.

‘Six times a day.’
–escoces

16.

‘Years ago someone from another department insisted we all started using pronouns in our emails in the business. People would say ‘but we all know who each other are anyway?’ And wouldn’t do it.

She is straight so it felt very performative. Everyone has forgotten it happened now and she no longer does it.’
–YchYFi

17.

‘Woman opposite me used to nose breath insanely loudly.’
–Original_Bad_3416

18.

‘Talks really loudly and laughs raucously down the phone whenever I make a phone call so I can’t hear who I’m talking to.’
–Sleepyllama23

19.

‘Secretary in her 70s. Spends all day swearing and complaining about the systems and the computers. Often does thing wrong, including ripping up signed contracts by mistake and other basic tasks. Won’t retire.’
–OkAvocado2259

20.

‘Always chews with his mouth open, no matter what he’s eating. Also microwaved fish twice (so far).’
–pm_me_cat_loaf

21.

‘A woman in my office has what I like to call an external monologue. It’s like other people’s internal monologue, but she says it out loud. So she is almost constantly narrating whatever she is doing.’
–hunty_29

22.

‘Thankfully she didn’t last long, but we had a hugger. I almost accidentally instictively punched her, because she snuck in, came at me from behind, and bear hugged me.

‘She also came in with a poetry book, asked me to read a poem – which I started to do in my head. She then said ‘no, out loud’, and proceeded to sit at my feet to listen. She was just so fucking weird.’
–hocfutuis

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