So which one are you? Are you a Shirker, a Screamer, a Gossiper or even a Megaphone?
A recent survey by Ceridian, has collated the top 10 most irritating types of workers, according to their colleagues. It is the Shirkers - colleagues who seem to find excuses to avoid work - who come out on top as most hated by 21% of their UK colleagues!
Below are the The 10 most irritating types of workers from Shirkers to Sneezers:
- Shirkers
- Colleagues who always seem to find excuses to avoid work stress out over a fifth of UK workers.
- Screamers
- Tantrums and arguments in open spaces, whether in an open plan office, the corridor or the staff restaurant, set 11 per cent of people’s teeth on edge.
- Gossipers
- There’s nothing worse than being talked about behind one’s back or feeling excluded from private conversations. At nine per cent, gossipers are the third most stressful type of co-worker.
- Whiners
- Their glass is always half empty, they never see the positives in any situation and have a negative influence in the office. Colleagues’ complaining about work upset eight per cent of their colleagues.
- Megaphones
- When they’re trying to concentrate, nothing is more guaranteed to stress out seven per cent of UK workers than fellow colleagues talking loudly on the phone or banging their keyboards as they type.
- Hijackers
- Meetings are the bane of every employee’s life so people who hijack meetings by raising irrelevant topics wind-up seven per cent of their colleagues.
- Wanderers
- Long coffee, tea, toilet and smoking breaks annoy six per cent of colleagues, leaving them feeling short-changed.
- Slurpers
- Noisy drinkers, eaters and gum chewers irritate five per cent of work colleagues. Included in this category are people who can’t stop clicking their pens!
- Swearers
- Workers swearing loudly upset five per cent of their colleagues.
- Sneezers
- About the last person workers like to see is someone with a streaming nose or spluttering cough. Sick colleagues coming into work annoy four per cent of their healthy co-workers.
“Irritating habits may be funny when portrayed in sitcoms like ‘The Office,’ but in real life they’re no joke!
