Tuesday, March 24, 2015

Annoying Coworkers and how you deal



         



          Everyone hates when you have that one person that you absolutely can’t stand working with. The issue is how do you deal with this person on a day to day basis? And how do you make it bearable to come to work? In the following paragraphs I will be discussing with you the article How to Deal With Annoying Co-Workers and some basic answers to questions posed by my instructor.

            I found this article to be a very interesting read. I always knew that there were annoying co-workers; I just never realized that they truly could be categorized. I just assumed that they were all one in the same. It helped a lot to realize why someone could be annoying and broke it down what type of personality they have. This article was really helpful in describing what you could do to help yourself make it bearable to work with this person and when to address their annoyingness. This article also helps to make you aware so you don’t become one of the personalities on the list. I realized there were a couple of traits that I did and that I need to stop. I would hate to be categorized as the annoying co-worker to my fellow employees.

            The first question that I will be talking about is to share a time when I encountered one of the six types of people that were described in the article. Right now at my current job I work in an apartment leasing office. I have a co-worker that is considered “the slacker”. The article describes this personality as, “you’re working away and she’s playing on Facebook, or planning her wedding.”(Green, 2011) One of my fellow employees is constantly on her phone texting or on Facebook. If she is on her computer she would rather look up clothes or shoes to buy then do her job. The reason why this indirectly affects me is because when she slacks on her work then people come to me to fix it. She will have people move in when she is not working so that someone else has to do all of the paperwork, clean the apartment, and deal with her residents. This makes it harder for me to concentrate on my own people and helping them.

            This leads to the second question of describing the situation and how I dealt with them. It happened a couple of weeks ago. She had two people move in on a day she was off. She never prepared any of the paperwork and never went before hand to make sure the apartment was clean and ready for everyone to move in. So therefore, I knew her type of personality and that day went into work early. I got all of the paperwork ready and also went to the apartments to clean and also prepare for the move in. This way when they came in everything was a smooth process and I could also handle all of the residents that I was dealing with myself. The next day when she came in I did not address the situation. I figured it would not make a difference anyways.

            The last question was using the advice given by the author of the article, what can you do the next time you encounter a person of this type? The advice that was given in the article was to try and ignore it and hope that your superior see’s that they are not contributing. I guess in the situation that I described I did just that and ignored it. The problem with doing this is that if it is continues to be ignored and no one notices you will continually be doing more work then you should. I do hope that my superiors catch wind of the issue and that it will soon be resolved. The only thing that I can think of is that if I encounter someone else like this that I bring to their attention that I am picking up their slack so to speak.

            In conclusion, even though everyone has co-workers that are annoying there are tips and tricks to better deal with them. The advice that this article gives you is very sound and can be very helpful. It all depends on the situation and what you can do to help yourself make your work experience more enjoyable.





REFERENCES:

Green, A. (2011). How to deal with annoying co-workers. U.S. News & World Report. Retrieved from http://money.usnews.com/money/blogs/outside-voices-careers/

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