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.
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