I've been in IT Industry since 1999 and been working with many people, however there was always that one co-worker that just rub me the wrong way..
For me it was always one of those co-workers "Know it All" or "Let me try to put you down upfront of 20 people and act like I know sh**"
So what's your most disliked attitude in workplace?
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I'm currently sitting annoyed and bored at work, so this is more venting about my day than my coworkers ^^;
It's 2019, and the entirety of your job takes place on a computer. You're just making excuses for your laziness, and I will not give you a pass.
Trying to make fun of you by insulting or cracking a low grade joke. Another one is calling some funny names which are kind of Cheap behavior. I respond in a funny way at times, but you can't always be smiling to it, at times people can be in different mood, they might be going through something which they won't reveal and they do this to you, it can hurt and the reply could be harsh.
The CEO of my company has a background in economics, where to draw conclusions there's usually first a set of "assumptions", such as, "Assuming a perfect market, insert generalization about market economy".
I had a coworker that no matter how complicated the project proposal, he nods and says "no problem, everything looks good". Then when we would actually begin development, I ended up in endless meetings where he takes issue with every detail of the user flow, the UX plan, the component layout, all of it.
Seems to me he was "assuming he's smarter than everyone else" and a perfect dev, and whenever he encounters an obstacle, he's content to blame it on everyone upstream instead of working out a new solution. It was to the point where we had to take his objection meetings into account when giving development estimates.
"Well, Developer X will probably cry about a lot of this later, so instead of 20 hours we better say 30..."
Obv no one knows everything, and saying "I don't know" is not a crime
I'm a pretty easygoing guy and so I don't find too much trouble with a lot of people. But I've noticed that one of the main ones is I have a co-worker who is easily angered. I don't like being angry, or being around angry people. But half of the time I'm around this co-worker he'll get angry very easily over fairly minute things. Sometimes he'll slam stuff, or just start yelling or cussing vulgarly. Not a big fan. I am unaware of how common this is, but I presume that it is not so uncommon in the world of IT since people have to constantly deal with computers, and it can certainly be frustrating!
No its not common at all and it is hostile environment.
Individual 1 probably has some anger issues and needs to solve that before it escalates. Either at work or home..
There is frankly little that bothers me about interaction with other devs as long as dialogue is maintained on a respectful level.
But there is one thing that annoys me to no end,
It's an almost infantile, but also very authoritarian i-think-i-know-it-all, there-is-only-one-way-to-do-it attitude that can be subsumed as the arrogance and hubris of acrobats prone to heroically jumping without a net.
Ten times out of ten, turns out that the acrobat didn't really know, and the team is left to clean up the splattered mess left below the spotlights of the trapeze artist's bars and ropes.
If you combine that with a strict adherence to matters of form over function, you have a perfect nightmare in your hands.
The Ostrich.
They know they have a problem. They know they're going to be late. But they hide it. They don't own it.
I understand why a lot of people can be like that though. Many companies will chew you up for admitting you don't know. I'm prepared to give Ostriches the benefit of the doubt and I've developed a few techniques to help them speak out. As a boss, I want people who own their mistakes early and reach out. If they don't feel safe to do that, it's on me. But if they can't even admit to themselves they're wrong or they need support, there's nothing I can do.
I've seen that. There's also a related behavioural pattern that makes the Ostrich pale by comparison, and it's sometimes seen in Dilbertian bosses from hell who instigate ostrich-like behaviour when they refuse to accept that planning errors, unrealistic deadlines, and performance prediction mistakes can sometimes happen.
Force too many people to behave like ostriches in any organisation and you end up with the most dysfunctional bureaucracy you have ever seen.
I've worked with plenty of organisations like that, which is why I try not to blame the Ostrich at first. In a situation like that, it's a valid defence mechanism. Any organisation that blames individuals instead of process will wrap itself up in red tape and stop achieving anything.
I am totally over and repulsed by passive aggression.
-Some will have issues with work direction and flow while others think it's perfectly fine.
-Some will adopt an attitude of needing to "tell it like it is" and complain about "people getting their feelings hurt" which really is just them justifying being mean.
-People begin to split into counter-productive cells of communication.
YES. these days people are quick to proudly announce they "tell it like it is" or they "don't care if the truth hurts people's feelings", but honestly, that's just a cop-out to take no responsibility for being really mean to people who disagree with you
It drives me crazy when coworkers completely disregard email notifications from GitHub and I have to write them a special invitation on Slack for every single PR, and every single comment in a PR that I need a reply for.
Then switch to Slack only, to be honest our culture is just like that.
Email usually notifies us that PR has been merged but its much faster to know that PR is out there to be approved/changed.
The "I SHARE MY SCREEN WITHOUT YOUR CONSENT" coworker hahaha
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I'm going to be honest, I'm the complainer type coworker :c I complain because I care way too much but, normally I try to have a solution to my complaint, it just sucks that there's no feedback. So I don't complain much anymore, just to people I trust X)
But it's a thing I'm trying to change since forever and it's hard since I've been this way all my life! lol.