Most Annoying Work Colleague Contender? (credit, company, business, contractor)

[Westie1984]

Hi,

Can anyone better this? We have a contractor who works in our team and in my opinion, easily the most irritating work colleague I have ever had the misfortune to work with. He sits next to me. His characteristics are:

- he talks all day - loudly and is always griping and whining about something. He has more axes to grind than a rampaging hoarde of angry Vikings. I am being constantly interrupted
- he is very opinionated and racist. He has an opinion about almost everything and is always right in his opinion
- he is always belittling people behind their backs
- he is a workaholic - he is always there early in the morning, seldom leaves his desk and works late
- he is holding the company to ransom by withholding information relating to our business processes and IT practices. On the plus side, he'll tell you things but providing you ask the right question. A couple of us here believe he wants to up his contracting rate by guarding the intellectual knowledge and becoming indispensible
- when he does explain processes, he will do so in a very rushed manner. If you ask him to repeat anything, he'll get all condescending as though you are stupid
- he openly discredits others in front of management and takes credit for other people's work

I have reported his bad behaviour to senior management, but they are not acting on it. I have also called him up on some of these beahviours - he tends to apologise, but then within a short period of time, reverts back.

He is a very intelligent guy and has an outstanding knowledge of how things work in the company, the processes etc. He told me he never forgets anything either which is why he never makes notes (although suspect this also means he is giving up his knowledge).

Personally I have issues with the company and do not intend to hang around (long story). But can anyone do better than this guy? I had a private chat with another guy in our team yesterday and he said he came close to punching him the other day .