22 Petty Reasons People Have Disliked a Coworker

‘He looked smug in his profile picture for the online portal’
22 Petty Reasons People Have Disliked a Coworker

You don’t always need a legitimate reason to dislike someone. In fact, it’s more honest when you admit to yourself that you can’t stand your coworker for something innocuous — like the fact that they sniffle a lot or wear their tie in a stupid way. One Redditor said that their version of this was an intense dislike for a guy who had a smug profile picture in their online portal. They’d never met this guy, so it’s unclear whether or not he was actually smug, but the picture was enough. 

Other Redditors have opened up about the petty grievances they have against their coworkers, and all of them are valid — especially the one about the girl who does Columbo cosplay at meetings.

Mysterious-Region640 e 2mo ago Way back when I was quite young. I heard a coworker say something derogatory about Led Zeppelin and that was it for me. 19 Reply ...
Dark-side-ofthemoon . 2mo ago Faked baby voice to sound cute. + 27 Reply ...
moon_shoot 2mo ago We called her Colombo. Every time at team meetings... Meeting is over. Everyone is up. One foot out the door...and... I have ONE more question! Proceed to sit back down for 10 more minutes while a question that could have been an email is dissected. 40 Reply ...
 2mo ago Her voice and tone. She spoke exactly like Alexis Rose from Schitts creek. All the time. I couldn't believe it. She thought she was the better than others too which didn't help. I tried to like her but there was nothing there. I just avoided her. 18 Reply ...
Pinotnoirroseannebar e 2mo ago Не ran indoors. Why are we running in an office? Was always alarming, as if there was an emergency. + 37 Reply ...
shiftertron 2mo ago She would scrape her spoon on the bottom of the little plastic yoghurt pot for literally minutes at a time, trying really hard to get every last modicum of yoghurt out of it. To this day, I cannot hear that sound without wanting to throw a computer monitor. 43 Reply ...
RedWestern 2mo ago Не looked smug in his profile picture for the online portal. No idea if he actually was smug, because we worked in separate departments and I only saw him briefly in passing. But he had this real I'm better than you in every way expression in that photo, that I instinctively thought fuck that guy every time his picture popped up. 50 Reply ...
Logical-Yak . 2mo ago Any drink he drank, he slurped super loudly. Instantly hated him. Не later gave me less petty reasons to hate him. + 59 Reply ...
instant_ramen_chef в 2mo ago Не had the same first name as I. Most folks called him a name short for his name. I hated being called that. But because we had the same name, folks would call me the same. I asked folks not to call me that, but it just stuck. So, I hated that guy for it. + 76 Reply ...
Kamikoozy e 2mo ago They pronounced salmon with the L. + 87 Reply ...
Hold_my_beer11 2mo ago Не (M+60) thinks we still live in the 1950's and thinks I (a younger woman) am there to fetch him coffee and help him figure out how the IT works. Не is not my boss, he is not in my team, we have the same title, and I have been at the company years longer. + 87 Reply ...
EmulsifiedWatermelon . 2mo ago She sniffed. Constantly. Alllllll of the time. + 120 Reply ...
HoustonMike82 2y ago Creepy Mormon guy, wore those pajamas under suit, wanted my job, didn't get it, tried to undercut me until sent overseas, truly bad dude. Not one guy having his back in whole organization. 9 Reply ...
MissPicklechips 2y ago 50 something The one who listened to the local country music station from 9-4 every day at top volume. Their playlist was like 15 songs. I can't hear country music now without nearly hulking out. Not that country music is good to begin with. Mid-90's country gave me PTSD. 18 Reply ...
dellaterra9 2y ago First responder/natural resources here...coworker stopped talking to me for a year because I out- hero'd him in a search and rescue. My boss just told me to apologize for his perceived slight in the incident. I said no. The guy ignored me and did not speak to me for over a year. Huh? Really guys, can you get that stuck on a gal being more hero than you? 7 Reply ...
sleepingbeardune 2y ago 70 something This is petty af, but it bugged me that she'd try to please the men with smiles and side-eyes and hair- tossing. She did okay work when she wasn't under pressure, and could have had exactly the same career without that phony sucking up. We were peers. When the men weren't around she acted normal. 12 Reply ...
MrAlfOnse 2mo ago Не wore his tie with the knot hanging low but with the top button done up Don't know if he was sloppy or if that was a thing. If your tie is loose, undo the top button + 141 Reply ...
abbiapocalypse 2mo ago An older supervisor coughed hard while both hands were free and did nothing to cover it. She just, coughed. It was one of those good throat clearing coughs with her tongue slightly out and everything. I was so repulsed. + 142 Reply ...
e 2mo ago ZestycloseChef8323 She told me to do a task that I do every night even without being prompted. + 201 Reply ...
Raymanuel . 2mo ago Singing on the job out of key. + 220 Reply ...
SureTechnology696 . 2mo ago I had a coworker that cut his hand on bandsaw so he could get off early to see his girlfriend. Не later married her.
yakusokuN8 2mo ago Не always left the keyboard with the Caps Lock on. We had multiple shared workstations in the lab that required a login that was case sensitive. It was really annoying to realize I couldn't login because of him. Also, he sent out e-mails in all caps. 14 Reply ...

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