Coworker loves extensive code reviews flagging every slight deviation from her preferred patterns but literally cries if pressed on why the change is necessary.

Constantly criticizing and nitpicking but can’t actually point to a firm technical reason. “I just don’t feel comfortable…”

Just posturing to present an appearance of technical authority. Tries to badmouth and backstab challengers, doing more harm to herself than anyone else in the process.

Probably projecting, but I’ve heard enough about her family and upbringing to believe it’s internalized abuse. At the time she was moving back in with her parents , which I think was her falling back into the clutches of her abuser, exacerbating her feelings of vulnerability.

Just trying to be assertive snd protect her autonomy. I did my best to get along and shielded her from consequences.

But I don’t nearly have the energy to deal with it every day. Switched teams. Life is better. Hope she’s found her footing.

We were on opposite shifts, both supervisors. During shift turnover the very first he thing he would do is go thru workload and nitpick “why didn’t you do this?” and then continually question my response “well you could have just cloned yourself into two people?” basically he was never happy with our work unless-really he was unhappy and blamed me directly if there was any work at all for him to do during day shift. Then, he would complain to the bigger boss all day long about we were lazy. Meanwhile when I cam in to turnover I basically never did this and would just what the workload was and so my other things before letting them go.

If I did try to argue “why didnt you do x” it almost inevitably ended with the bigger boss telling me to fuck off and that they “worked so hard”, they didn’t.

And it just went on and on like this. He loved to take credit for other people’s work, wouldn’t take responsibility for his own mistakes, would avoid direct confrontation if a bigger boss wasn’t around to back him up, basically I strongly disliked him and his lack of good faith teamwork.

I worked as a CAD guy for a cabinetry shop when I met ‘Stewie’ (still am, different place). Stewie was an old dog who started drafting when AutoCAD was in DOS, apparently wrote a lot of LISP routines and made lots of parametric blocks (blocks are a graphic you can copy paste that stretch or change based on options you pick).

Dude sure as hell wasn’t able to demonstrate any of that capability, nor did he listen when we told him not to use it. Dude would write a routine that didn’t work, then be shocked when after running it it broke the AutoCAD plug-in we use that has it’s own database cuz it doesn’t communicate it’s changes to that database.

So we’d get broken drawings from this dude we have no idea how to correct, using something he took two hours to write to do something that the system already could do in 10 minutes, which necessitated redoing all of his work from scratch cuz parts wouldn’t come out right. He’d then talk to you for TWO HOURS about his thought process writing it, what it should’ve done, how our plug-in was stupid, how it reminds him of his glory days, how he used to watch hockey in 1982, how he misses hockey, how did you know I saw the clearest ice ever at a hotel bar like two months ago?? How do they make the ice?? The government is putting flouride in the water, which is bad for you, just like lectins in tomatoes - they break holes in your gut lining and cause diabetes

The most miserable, self-absorbed, unempathetic, conspiracy-minded son of a bitch. I thank God I will never see stewie again

Any of the landscaper who were forced to work in the greenhouse. They wouldn’t listen to us because they had created a new gender binary so that all the greenhouse workers were “women” even the cis men.

I kept having to pull their fucking trash out of the compost because they just threw everything in there. They wouldn’t organize the pots and often would just throw them back there if they got in the right spots at all. They wouldn’t do the hard work that involved actually getting in the dirt and would be the only ones allowed to use the machinery. So we would often have to wait for their asses to stop smoking and use the tiller so we could get the work done. I could go on.

I had a nurse manager once who loudly shushed us, multiple times, every single day she was on site. At the nurses station, which was small, but like even if all of us are whispering it’s going to be audible. Her shushing loudly only contributed to both the noise level, and me quitting that job. She was even shushing doctors when they were conferring with one another and us nurses, like girl go back to your office. Kim, you were the worst.

Im fixing this guys printer or whatevrr on the far side of the workshop and notice that the only decoration he has at his desk is a pair of ‘8’ magnets pushed together on his filing cabinet. Thats the whole story because i fixed that printer and got out of there fast, lol

I get on well with a big cross-section of people, part of my job is to smooth over the gaps between clashing personalities (IRL, online I’m an argumentative bitch)

Anywho, there was one guy who I just couldn’t work with - he blamed anyone but himself for his mistakes, and he kept on repeating them. He was also intensely lazy, and called off during covid for a total of about 6 weeks. Then, every time someone tried to help him improve, he’d file a complaint of harassment against them - at separate times against me, my boss, and every single other person he worked with.

He raised a complaint with our union (which I’m still a member of, since I’m just a supervisor) saying there was systemic harassment. It took over a year to fire him.

The moment he went, productivity went up, and has stayed up :-)

Kathy. She used to work front desk at our computer/phone/tablet repair shop.

Sometimes our customers would buy a new phone and wanted their SIM card transferred over. Sometimes the new phone took a smaller size SIM card than their old one. No big deal, we had special cutout punch tools just for that. Should be simple enough right?

You just put the SIM card into either one or the other tool, depending on what size the card originally is and what size it needs to be cut to, press down on the handle, and out of the bottom pops out the cut card. The card only fits properly one way into the preformed tray divet for it, super simple to use, so what could possibly go wrong?

Well that dumb bitch couldn’t even comprehend the simplest concept of matching up the shapes, on many occasions she’d some fucking how end up cutting the card upside down or backwards, or both, thereby ruining the customer’s SIM card ☹️

And even when she managed to get it right, well unfortunately those punchout tools tended to leave light burrs on the edges, which could and indeed would damage the contacts inside the SIM slot and basically ruin the phone. Kathy was as dumb as a box of rocks and when she wasn’t playing on her own phone, she’d be filing her fingernails. Kathy, if you can hear me telepathically, USE YOUR FUCKING NAIL FILE TO KNOCK THE BURRS OFF THE EDGES!!!

Thank you for your time and attention to this matter.

Late in my first year of grad school, I was tasked with showing a possible applicant around the college. One of my friends at school heard he was applying. She knew him from undergrad and told me he was a nightmare but didn’t go into specifics. Since I worked directly with the head of my department, she pleaded with me to tell them to reject this guy from the school. Even before she told me about him, I could tell from my brief interaction with him that he was prick, but I didn’t feel comfortable going along with that. His application got approved.

Cut to a year later, me and her are having to file detailed harassment complaints against this guy because he was indeed a nightmare. The school put him on probation. He kept causing all sorts of problems for me, her, and other students. I really wish I had listened to her.

Honestly? My current boss. He’s exemplary of everything wrong with the industry, and I’m concerned because he’s in good with the current C-Suite, and I’m definitely more loyal to the old guard.

Looooong ago we did interviews for an open position we had. With one applicant, at first sight i thought “no, not him. never ever him”. Later learned the others felt exactly the same at the very same moment. Never found out why but it was strong and clear feeling.

Little Donnie Trump

nerds. i was a web developer for a decade and worked with a lot of real nerds. and not the cute loveable nerds. im talking about the shitty attitude, condescending, arrogant kind. id die before going back into that office.

actual fascists and jewish zionists.

fundies are a drag but tolerable if they aren’t actively trying to convert you.

Anyone in Silicon Valley, but especially Sam Altman, Larry Page, Mark Zuckerberg, Bill Gates and anyone who has anything to do with Apple.