Worst colleague you've ever worked with?

[ThoseArentSpiritFingers]

Some of the stories popping up in the leaving work early thread have got me thinking about this, and thought we could share stories here to give me something to read

Worst person I've worked with was a guy in a bar who thought it was ok to serve underagers half pints because it wasn't a full pint.

Or the person who told me on one of his first shifts that he had a major come down. I was his supervisor at the time.

Or the person who arrived for a shift steaming, dropped and smashed 4 glasses in a row and had to be taken home. (Lived nearby so didn't take too long, but still)

Any stories to share?

I worked closely with a pathological liar, it started off as being funny but in later stages I can to realise he had built his life on a pack of lies and he would protect this smokescreen at all costs.

By the time he was late 20s he had - served 2 tours in Iraq (he was around 25stone and always had been), owned a special effects production company, written a successful book about his time as a club promoter in Ibiza, rescued his dad from a burning house and suffered terrible burns (but only on his fingers on the one hand - cooking injury anybody) and his mum was the founder of one of the worlds most successful modelling agencies and he didn't actually need to work because she bought him a posh apartment but he liked working a desk job and living with his Dad and drove around in a battered Ka to keep a low profile.

Ha.

I don't know. I think I'd find it a bit sad that someone felt their life was so shit that they had to make the whole thing up.

The teacher I worked with who was educated and trained in a different system and then continued to teach like that when he transferred to my school.
The children were all Pakistani/Bengali families, most of them first generation immigrants. So when he hit them with his hands or a ruler and insulted them and made them work through lunch, they accepted it without complaint. He told them he was there to make them work and not be failures. Went on for weeks and none of those 8 year olds questioned it or complained.
saw him knock on off his chair and I went ballistic. Wanted him sacked, but he got' retrained and re-educated' instead.
The parents thought he was great and just what was needed.

I did a 6 week stint at a toy store in the lead up to Christmas years ago. When I arrived to work one evening, the team leader spoke to us in the pre-shift meeting and called us a "bunch of cunts". As the store had been left in a mess the previous evening. I hadn't even been at work. Charming fellow.

The one who refers to our students (in a deprived catchment area) as mongoloids and sent me an email to tell me I didn't deserve basic courtesy. I had the last laugh though - I got a new job somewhere she really wants to work, and now I can blackball her

Every third office I've ever worked in has a lazy, shit stirring, not very competent bad mouther who manages through insincerity or may be a combination of passive aggressiveness or latent bullying to rise above it all because they're so very reasonable.

I was 16 and still at school and got a Saturday job in Greggs. There was a lovely girl who was the assistant manager but she'd requested to go back to her old shop where all her friends were so we were meeting the new assistant manager.

He'd worked in shops before but this was his first managerial position. Every shift with him I felt uncomfortable and told the other girls who were telling the manager what I was worried about.

The manager was about to have a long weekend off and he would be in charge on the Saturday, so I'd be working all day with him. I was completely dreading it as he kept saying "I can't wait for next week, you're so going to get what's coming!"

I managed into work to find a girl there. Had no idea who she was. I asked where he was and she said she didn't know. Another colleague came in and told me he had been suspended due to stealing cakes.

A few months later, I discovered he'd been sacked and it was cash he had been stealing as he felt he didn't get enough money per month as a manager. And also the girls had kept a log of what I had been saying and they were concerned he was going to assault me. The area manager had been lined up to come in that morning too with him as they were all so concerned about what he may do to me.

Don't know what he ended up doing but I know when he came in to empty his locker that he lied about the hearing where he was sacked and said that the HR dept was in tears about him being accused when he hadn't done it.

My first employment with a DV org.

Manager was a bully verbal and physical apparently she had been moved sideways and slightly up about 5 times for the same thing and was well known for it.

She picked on the wrong person when she chose me the tribunal took several days (longer than a gbh trial) but when she was sacked it was great.

I used to share a very small office with a guy who literally would sleep on the floor there, would leave dirty underwear on the floor, and then, one time, he tried to kiss me without any warning, in a totally non romantic situation, while I was married and he had a girlfriend who worked with the same group.
He only cared about his work, left hazardous stuf around the lab (dangerous chemicals on the bench and floor), was on a rota and had almost to be forced to not loose unique repository material.

Let's just say that as soon as new office space turned out he was offered a new desk.

My old boss. Micromanaged everything except she would change and sign off on things then swear blind she hadn't. "worked" at home on fridays. Would send me email instruction that I had to follow to the letter, then would phone me 5 mins before leaving time and scream at me for an hour about how I'd not done what she asked, then when pointed out that I had would scream I misinterpreted it. So if the same thing cropped up again I did it the other way she'd told me to mid screaming session. This prompted a screaming session as she had 'never' told me to do it that way and I'd ignored her instructions. If I questioned which was she wanted me to do things I would be screamed at that I was wasting her time . I genuinely believed I was going insane until we did a course on difficult people where we all had to bring an example. Needless to say that in a room of 10 people only 1 hadn't brought dealing with her as an example, and that's only because the 1 person hadn't dealt with her.

I had a colleague ages ago who absolutely stunk. Not just a little whiff of B.O, but enough to make you retch when she moved. The problem was, she was dead nice and seemed to be oblivious about her stink, either that or she didn't care.
I had to stop talking to her when I got pregnant as she kept sitting opposite to me in the canteen and would spit all over my food :( the nausea I had was bad enough without that to cope with!
Poor girl.

I thought I was having a miscarriage at work (thankfully not) my manager told me to get over it because I was at work. She gave me a written warning because I didn't say hello one day when I came in for work.
She did not like that I was pregnant at all, she gave me all the hard back breaking jobs as soon as I told her I was pregnant, wouldn't let me have lunch until 3pm (I used to get really dizzy if I didn't eat) and shouted at me when I had morning sickness.
I quit in the end because I was going home crying every day.

the woman who found out she knew my dp after a few weeks of me working there and repeatedly told me I wasn't his girlfriend, he doesn't go out with people like me ( her words not mine) and that I mustn't be because she had seen him with a "chubbier girl out and about" her words not mine. she then went on and on about who this other girl could be and that I must of got it wrong. like id mistake my own dp. she was either batshit crazy or trying to stir up trouble.

An awful man who was senior partner in a law firm. He had a foul temper and most days I got shouted at or snapped at. I resigned after six months.

Two ex colleagues stand out for me - the one who found it hilarious to show a video of a small child being physically abused and the one who pretended to have cancer.

Both vile, both ended up sacked.

woman who referred to another person as a cripple (me I over heard her ) and used to speak to a nigerian woman in a very slow and loud voice, she wasn't around very long she was just terrible and used her age mid 50s as an excuse for not being politically correct and said it like she saw it she was an eejit,

A totally bizarre women who bitched about everyone including her line manager whilst she was sat about 2 seats away from her. She made awful stories up abojt her when she had lost a baby. She quite obviously sent a sickening poison pen letter to one member of staff and then sat in the staff room drinking hot chocolate whilst her year 8's were watching a video unsupervised then wondered why she got told off! She was truly a bitch about everyone apparently she sat in a corner crying at her own brothers wedding because she wasnt getting any attention.

I was bullied by several people at the last company I worked for. It's hard to select who was the worst! conniving, horrid people.

I am a bit 'eccentric' others' words not mine,but I was good at my job and really can't put my finger on what the exact reasons for it were, although I have a few theories.

On my first day as a Project Manager I was given a desk next to 2 guys in another department and told by my boss to listen to their conversation and take notes i.e. spy. I went out for lunch with my team (minus boss) and was told I had only got the job because of my looks. I walked out after 2 weeks.

I once worked in a nursey and was acting as a one to one to a little girl with severe disabilities. It was only a temp thing as she'd soon be moving onto school, but one woman there made feel so unwelcome from pretty much the first day.

I could never work out if it was because she was just a very cliquey person and didn't want someone else working in the nursery room(there was only her and one other woman who she was very good friends with working in there), or she was put out because I have a degree and was better qualified than she was.... I supect a bit of both.

Either way she made no effort with me whatsoever. Barely spoke to me unless it was to criticise the way I did something, she constantly undermined me and was always moaning to the manager about the way I did things. The manager BTW was perfectly happy with me, however it ruined my confidence and put me off ever working in that environment again. I now wish I'd just told her to fuck off, but how can you in a room full of kids?

I used to be an assistant to the chairman of a company. He was a bully and egocentric amongst other things. I had to arrive at work before him to turn his PC, lights etc on and place double expresso on his desk. and I was not allowed to leave until after he had. Some nights I would be twiddling my thumbs at my desk at midnight. He would then drive past me in his limo as I had to make my way past all the drunks and prostitutes in the back streets of King's X. If I went to the loo someone would come and find me. I never got any praise. Every brilliant thing I did (and there were many) was met with the question "Why haven't you done this?" 'Twas character building.

I worked with a man who used to disappear. He'd wander off with a piece of paper in his hand and not be seen for more than an hour - he was spotted asleep in his car . He also ate nothing but Trackers and wind tablets, picked his nose and had painfully twee phone conversations with his ickle wickle wifey using his desk phone.

He finally got the shove a while after I'd left, but he was one of those slackers that never really ballsed up, so it was hard to pin anything on him.

Guess who DH found himself sitting next to when he started a new job in another city...

I currently work with a pathological liar (female). Words/events/situations, where she has blatantly lied. She is never pulled up on it.
She is a manipulative bully with a very odd marriage setup (husband doesn't live at home, but she makes out he does etc). It's the kind of thing you could read about in a magazine and think it was made up.
She is absolutely evil.
On the upside, I have handed in my notice and leave mid November.
I cannot wait.