Types of bore workers

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Metro, Thursday 3 October 2013

Are these types of bore working in your office?

By Nicole Le Marie

 

Unless you have the patience of a saint, you’ve probably come across someone at work whose personality clashes with your own.  There are moments when you wish they would just leave you alone for good.  According to one expert, there are 10 ‘typical types’ of people you are likely to find around the office.

There’s the worker bee whose permanent presence at their desk makes you worry they have been super-glued to it, the skiver who only seems to be in at the most inconvenient time.  The brown-noser who is intent on doing whatever is needed to get the promotion that you deserve.  It’s these people you remember, not the person sitting on the other side of the office that gets on with everyone and is a lot like you.

1. BROWN NOSER

Every office has one – a shameless worker who sucks up for a promotion.

2. MACHIAVELLIAN

With ruthless ambition, this character is cunning and prepares to build people up for a fall.

3. CREDIT HOGGER

Often a manager that passes off ideas as their own.

4. STRESS POT

Always worrying about something, the tiniest setback can mean the end of the world.

5. CHATTERBOX

Describe as ‘buddies’.  They’re probably a chatterbox.

6. WORKER BEE

First to arrive and last to leave, they have so few toilets breaks that people think their bladder’s made of stone.

7. LAZY GIT

Focusing on FB rather than work, they manage to waste time while looking busy.

8. MUG

The person who says ‘yes’ to any task – no matter how mind-numbingly boring.

9. SKIVER

With a desk that’s covered in dust and cobwebs, skivers pull one too many ‘sickies’ for it to be believable.

10. JOKER

Oblivious to which lines not to cross, jokers equate the nervous laughter of colleagues with being liked.