I want to kill my collegue ... Coping strategy needed

[UsedtobeFeckless]

Due to a work reshuffle I'm landed with the lazy, whingy, passive aggressive nightmare that every other department has sucked and spat out ... Throttling her would be frowned on and I don't want to leave. Help?

I think you've got something there ... She's definitely taking up too much of my head space. I just pootled around getting on with things today and she chatted and faffed and chatted some more, but I'm un-bugged by it all. She's an adult and she's not my problem unless I choose to make her my problem ... And keep repeating that to myself ad nauseam!
( Zen emoticon )

As Bill started us on projecting ... I'll run with it too..

I worry about people in the workplace who lack a certain social awareness and misconstrue things as personal attacks, slights, etc. In my experience, these types' job performance is mediocre at best because they fail to accept any criticism - and worse - construe constructive criticism about their performance as personal character attacks. And cry bully!

Commence operation pooping in the handbag.

I find that mking sympathetic noises (mmm, ah, really? I see) without agreeing or offering any solution works well. Like in how to talk so children will listen.