What behavior do you find most frustrating about your colleagues? (average, interview)
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Co-workers who are better at office politics than I am.
But seriously - people who schmooze so much that the boss buys into their hype. Or likes the brown-nosing so much they are willing to overlook how lazy the employee actually is. And overlooks the people who actually do the work.
Yes, absolutely.
As soon as someone classifies people as alpha/beta manly/feminine, you know they are extremely focused on how they are seen by others from within those classifications. Must be exhausting always worrying that anything you do might be seen as not *insert manly quality* by others around you.
It less of a classification and more about an invisible energy that can be felt. It's not like all day long I go around when I'm out in public labeling people and worry about what people are labeling me.
Coworkers who enjoy constant chit chatting and being busy bodies. I've never seen people who are so obsessed with the personal lives of their coworkers. We work together. I'm cordial. I don't need to share my whole life story with you to get my job done. I'm also an introvert so the constant chit chatting. potlucks, etc. are draining. I also don't need to have the office busy bodies point out, you're so quiet, you're so this, you're so that. I'm quiet and I'm working. I'm also kind to others and considerate of boundaries. You're jaw jacking and getting nothing done.
The one who talks about herself from the time she walks in the door until i am walking out at closing time. Any time she sees me without my earbuds in for one second, she starts up. All i hear is my husband/my daughter/my shoes/my closet/my timeshare, my my my, me me me, i, i, i, all day long if i don't have my earbuds in. It's annoying AF.
Co-workers who aren't happy unless they are complaining. I mean, the basis of 95% of one particular co-worker's conversations are complaints. Complaining about the boss, about the work, about business partners, about the benefits, about the weather, taxes, politics.....you name it. I have found out that he will often IM/call multiple people simultaneously with the same complaints. It's as if he has some sort of deficiency that can only be filled through complaining and complaining often. I often wonder if someone, somewhere is monitoring his IMs.....because if they were, they'd see that they're essentially paying him (nearly six figures) to complain probably a minimum of 4 to 6 hours a day.
EDIT: Yes, I realize the irony of me complaining about him.
People who don't take notes in a meeting who then demand that I e-mail them the exact same thing that I said 15 minutes ago in a meeting that they also attended.
People who don't let me finish a sentence before they start talking. SHUT UP.
It less of a classification and more about an invisible energy that can be felt. It's not like all day long I go around when I'm out in public labeling people and worry about what people are labeling me.
AN "invisible energy that can be felt"? Sounds sort of fruity and new age to me. Does that invisible feeling go well with your incense and charkra healing stones? Such a "manly" thing feeling "invisible energy".
That was a well thought out response, so I'm going to have to do my best here to return one...
Men should not gossip, and neither should women. However, based off social norms it's more expected for a women to gossip then a man. Like it or not, generalizing, defining people, and "sizing them up" is a reality of our world and social order.
A man who gossips in my eyes is a man who must have a lot of feminism energy and definitely not living his life with drive and purpose. There is a double standard, women just because of their very nature can be cut more slack then a man when it comes to gossiping.
That's not to say a man who does ballet for example is any less of a man who plays football... As long as a man or a women is fulfilling their mission with passion and drive that's all that matters.
Grow up.
Be a person first. How's that for passion and purpose? Because "real men" (and real women for that matter) don't let societal norms dictate how they perceive others or themselves, let alone use that as a way to label entire groups of people.
And seriously, maybe you shouldn't be using terms like a "alpha" and "beta" to describe people when you keep talking about "feeling invisible energy". By the way the phrase would be "feminine energy", because feminism is a movement not an adjective to describe a gender. But hey, we know how confusing science words can be for male brains.
AN "invisible energy that can be felt"? Sounds sort of fruity and new age to me. Does that invisible feeling go well with your incense and charkra healing stones? Such a "manly" thing feeling "invisible energy".
Lol, how about instead of using invisible energy, would intuition suit you better?
Be a person first. How's that for passion and purpose? Because "real men" (and real women for that matter) don't let societal norms dictate how they perceive others or themselves, let alone use that as a way to label entire groups of people.
And seriously, maybe you shouldn't be using terms like a "alpha" and "beta" to describe people when you keep talking about "feeling invisible energy". By the way the phrase would be "feminine energy", because feminism is a movement not an adjective to describe a gender. But hey, we know how confusing science words can be for male brains.
People let social norms dictate how they perceive others and themselves all the time though that's the thing..... It's called religion for example. Very low chance someone born in a Christian family in the bible belt all of a sudden becomes a Muslim later in life.
Social status and social norms are strong forces at place whether you like it or not.. It's called psychology and sociology.
Last edited by JPrzybylski07; 12-20-2017 at 12:00 PM..
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