Annoying Co-Workers: A Field Guide

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  Snukrd

  11/24/09 | Report as spam

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  How about the Know it All...
  
  Characteristic: Puts down everyone's ideas and promotes
  their own
  
  Quote: "Now thats not the way to do it... let me show you
  how it is done"
  
  Plumage: Stripped Suit
  
  Cultural Archetype: Tim the Toolman Taylor
  
  Warning: Will take your good idea, butcher it, and use it to
  override someone else's
  
  Care and Feeding: Make it seem as if it was their idea all
  along
  
  I hope that I have done this justice... Please feel free to add
  comment if not...

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  Geoffrey James, Sales Machine

  11/24/09 | Report as spam

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  Re Note 1:
  Added! Thanks!

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  JoshReeve

  11/30/09 | Report as spam

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  The Dedicated Parent
  
  

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  Geoffrey James, Sales Machine

  11/30/09 | Report as spam

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  Re Note 3:
  Hah! Good One!

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  divyasangam

  12/01/09 | Report as spam

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  Hey Geoffrey...
  
  I nearly burst my seams laughing at this one.
  
  But just one teeny comment... your depiction of the "Drama Queen" is a bit sexist!
  
  Especially this part, "Care and Feeding: Find excuses to send HER on business trips and useless meetings. If possible, get HER on interdepartmental committees for projects that you want to fail."
  
  Not all "Drama Queens" are women. There are men in the species as well, and they are just as bad, or worse.
  
  ~Div

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  Geoffrey James, Sales Machine

  12/02/09 | Report as spam

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  Re Note 5:
  Uh... Are you saying that the species identified in the post as male are purely male? That there are no female "droners," for instance?
  

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  skatem

  12/03/09 | Report as spam

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  Did anyone take note of the traits that applied to themselves? It's a good lesson in office behaviour.
  
  The (maybe not so) funny thing about all of these co-worker types is that our co-workers have probably pegged each of us too.

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  Geoffrey James, Sales Machine

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  Re Note 7:
  Yeah, I was a "know-it-all" Big surprise, eh?

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  divyasangam

  12/03/09 | Report as spam

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  Hi Geoffrey.
  
  The "Drama Queens" was an example of what I percieved as 'gender bias'.
  
  The same applies to the 'male' categorizations.
  
  ~Div
  
  PS: And Skatem, I have drama queenish tendencies. But if it gets things done...

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  Geoffrey James, Sales Machine

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  Re Note 9:
  Well, I could have written up all the annoying co-workers who are hermaphrodites but, frankly, I don't know any.
  
  I split the genders pretty evenly. If you take offense, it's not because of what I wrote, but because of how you think.

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  skatem

  12/04/09 | Report as spam

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  Re Div's comment. I hear you on the drama queen tendencies. Maybe there should be an 11th category - the snoozer - My experience is there are a number of people who don't understand urgency - sometimes things are urgent
  
  kate

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  Geoffrey James, Sales Machine

  12/04/09 | Report as spam

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  Re Note 11:
  Added... with my own twist!!

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  skatem

  12/07/09 | Report as spam

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  Mr. James - I've seen category 11 many times - thanks adding them

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  ahorn66

  12/10/09 | Report as spam

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  I loved this sentence from you, Geoffrey:
  "If you take offense, it's not because of what I wrote, but because of how you think."
  
  I intend to use this as my own personal Weltanschauung and consider it carte blanche to do whatever I want, and no one can blame me for being offended! (And it seems that would include using German and French in the same sentence...)

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  Geoffrey James, Sales Machine

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  Re Note 14:
  Actually, I'm differentiating between justified offense and unjustified offense. The accusation that I was being sexist is ridiculous; the error is in the commenter's thinking, which is clearly predicated on having a major chip on her shoulder when it comes to gender issues. Consider: if I had made the "drama queen" a man, it would have had a completely different meaning.