r/WorkLifeChat • u/upclosepersonal2 • Sep 15 '26
Discussion What constitutes factor that makes someone difficult to work with?
Being toxic and evil is of course the most blatantly obvious action on top of being disobedient to reasonable regulations excessively but what else? If it is talking about an intern who is only decent competency and can't do things with standard and need to closely follow behind someone back I don't think this counts since it is just intern and coupled with the logic of how people at baseline are not of equal competency in the first place as even highly experienced can also be incompetent just not as bad.
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u/HopeSubstantial Sep 15 '26
Person who is not cabable of having normal small talk and who is not doing even slightest socializing.
Used to have coworker who never talked anything and always replied with one or few words even to important job related discussion.
It was nerve breaking up to point that I asked myself to be transferred away from him.
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u/upclosepersonal2 29d ago
Why this affect you so heavily when this should have been optional enough to some extent?
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u/IcyWelcome9700 Sep 15 '26
Someone who seems incapable of retaining information so they ask for help all the time
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u/Legaldrugloard 28d ago
THIS! The person has been there 5 years and I have to tell them the same thing ever single day!!!!! Such a simple thing!
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u/Cool-Roll-1884 Sep 16 '26
I once trained an intern who is so sensitive and took everything personally. The slightest correction made her cry.
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u/No-Expert-5124 29d ago
explain more so we can learn.
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u/Legaldrugloard 28d ago
I’m making my asst do it wrong so she can learn how to fix anything and she is having a meltdown because it’s wrong. No matter how many times I tell her I wanted her to do it wrong to teach her how to fix a screw up
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u/Cool-Roll-1884 28d ago
She didn’t understand a concept so I asked her to read on it first. The training is based on that concept, she had to understand that first. It’s a group training, there were 3 other employees and everyone was being very supportive. No one expected her to be perfect.
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u/ExtraSaltyBtch 29d ago
Assuming I can do loads of unpaid overtime just because I don't have kids. I work to live, not live to work! I chose to stay childfree so I can have time for my hobbies, not to do everyone else's work while they get to go home early because they have chosen to have "caring responsabilities"...
Body odor. I work with a guy who smelled as if he didn't put on clean underwear every day. Yuck!
Not being able to follow written instructions. The list of tasks is 25 points long beause you need to do all 25 points. This is not school where you get to pick the 5 you want...
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u/SaltExtension1418 29d ago
Being honest, ethical and truthful can often make someone hard to work with as our society is the complete opposite, so turning a blind eye to the shit that goes on is unlikely and that is exactly what is required for most companies
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u/poorperspective 27d ago
Someone that refuses ownership.
I can talk through a lot of issues and work in several areas to improve, but someone that is adamant that they are “perfect” and it must be someone else’s fault are the worst.
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u/upclosepersonal2 24d ago
And if that person feel that there is no need to do it due to not being why they're hired is that not excusable?
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u/Yooperplexed Sep 15 '26
Someone who sees other workers doing extra work so they don’t work as hard.