One of the best ways to make life easy at work is to understand the different characters and personalities of your workmates, then learn how to deal with them.
Some of the characters you are bound to come across;
The overly ambitious employee
He seems great at first, but then he starts to irritate people with his ideas that never seem to run out. He has plans for the company, at some point, you suspect he has shares. He then starts noticing just how lazy everyone else is and this is something that would anger even the nicest of people.
After a while, he claims he can’t work under such slow conditions and threatens to resign. But after months, he is still there, singing the same song.
The adorable one
It’s not even just that she’s cute— which she is — it’s that everything about her is cute. She wears the sweetest perfume and little cute dresses. She is like a doll. Everyone likes her. She has cute notebooks, a cute phone case, cute laptop bag, even her voice is cute.
And the worst part is, she actually really is nice! You can’t even dislike her, because she’s just that sweet.
The office beggar
Whether it is a flash disk, note book, pen, phone cable or even ear phones, this person wants to borrow it all. They never have anything of their own. It isn’t that they don’t have money; it is just that they prefer to wait on other people to do everything for them.
The worst part is that they are careless with other people’s things and have a high chance of losing what is lent to them.
The lazy one
There is a reason they say 8am – 5pm. There is always that one person who didn’t get the memo. 9:30am is the earliest they will come to office and sneak into their seat like it is the first time it has happened. As soon as the boss or supervisor gets a phone call around 4pm they are out. They are always seeking for sick leaves and “killing” their relatives just to get two days of fake burial leave. Ever since they started work, they have lost more loved ones than the whole office combined.
On return from this leave, their eyes are red, but not from mourning of course, from the hangover threatening to end their life.
The chimney
I smell cigarette smoke, who is smoking? Definitely John. The one who is always walking out for a quick smoke. The outside is decorated with burnt-out cigarette sticks. About 20 employees have all quit smoking at some point, but not this guy. It is amazing how he gets any work done because every time you look up, he is out smoking.
The loud one
This one is by far the most annoying. When he picks a call, you are forced to assume that he is trying to communicate with people in Bangladesh. When he is at another’s desk, anyone within a five mile radius can hear him. When he laughs, you hold onto something because the ground actually shakes a little. He is that loud.
The Casanova
The intern, the newly married assistant, the tea lady and receptionist, have all fallen victim to this one’s “moves”. He has a job to do but his eyes are stationed on the long legged assistant at her desk. He notices that she changed her hair style or wore a new necklace. He is probably married or engaged but a little “eye candy” never hurt anyone – at least that is what he tells himself.
He will flirt with anyone with a cleavage and pulse. New arrivals barely survive a week before he hits on them.
~The New Times
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