What way is best to respond to / deal with competitive coworkers?

[asblindasabat]

Just the type who constantly brag about all the tasks they’ve completed at work and try to make themselves look better than you.

I work in a team in an office based environment and one person in particular has this type personality. She’s been here for just over a year but she’s got a lot worse over the last while.

Anything I do, she has to do the same thing. She then boasts and Brags about what’s she’s done, it’s as though she’s trying to make it look like she’s the best and works harder than everyone!

today she said something like “I came in early this morning and did X task and (manager) was so pleased with me!”

It’s just so false and I don’t know why she needs to go and tell management everytime she has done something, it’s really quite annoying and I find it too competitive.

I like to get on with my job in peace rather than feeling like I’m in competition with this person all the time, it’s exhausting and it does make you feel like management think you don’t work hard.

Is it better to just continue ignoring this or should I be direct and just outright tell her to please stop?

Get sarcastic!

‘Im sure Johns delighted for you’
’thats amazing, we’ll done you!’

Nod politely. Don’t ask direct questions. Don’t challenge them. Good managers notice hard workers however quiet they are about it. And then listen to happy music on my way home to cleanse them out of my system.

Love this. But I feel she’s that self deluded that even if I were to say something sarcastically, she’d think I was being complimentary

I'd be really supportive and encouraging. In a slightly team leader to junior apprentice way, until they found someone else who seemed more impressed to go and tell.

It’s hard to be supportive of someone who is constantly bragging though

Head tilt to side , tiny claps up by your chin and say "oh yey"