20 Coworkers Who Make Going Into The Office A Nightmare

Every workplace has an enemy, someone who makes it just that much harder to get up and go to work every day. Be they a prankster with a bit of a mean streak, shockingly bad at their job, or just plain rude, they certainly stand out.

This list is about those people, the coworkers who make going into the office a nightmare.

"So I bring a pecan pie to work. By noon it was missing. Found it a few hours later in my boss's office."

What? The entire pie? This list contains a few instances of people stealing some food, as you'll see, but stealing and eating the entire pie in one go is truly deranged behavior. Is he normally this tyrannical or was this a surprise to you?

"How a coworker took half of the last doughnut at my friend's office."

Talking about instances of people only stealing some food, at this point they might as well have just taken the whole donut. This is somehow more insulting. Hopefully someone was able to enact revenge that matched this level of petty.

"Coworker accidentally breaks 40+ plates."

As someone who is a serial klutz and knocks things over constantly, any job where I'd have something like 40+ plates under my care and watch sounds like a nightmare. Every time a server manages not to drop anything I think it's a miracle.

"My coworker always cuts peoples straws like this."

What? What? What sort of demonic behavior is this? What? Who is this for? What is the purpose? So people poke their tongue on it? How do they do it so fast without others noticing? This person should be locked up.

"Walked to work in a thunderstorm, but my boss forgot to tell me we all have today off."

Forgot to tell you and only you? That would destroy me, I think. I would need to take the next week off to recover from the emotional damages, preferably while laying overtop of an air vent to dry off from the rain.

"My coworkers have left three sharp knives blade up in the cutlery basket under the sink."

Your coworkers are creating subtle challenges across the office, a series of trials to see who in the workplace is the most vigilant among them. The winner will get a promotion, but only if they can take down the regional manager in a battle of wits.

"First day back in the office. Bought a dozen [Krispy] Kreme donuts to take home to family. Went for lunch and someone snapped them off my desk."

Something about donuts in the office really makes people go wild, huh? They start acting irrationally, showing their true, thieving nature and snagging whatever sugar they can.

I'm sorry, uploader of this photo, but I have a feeling you're not getting those donuts back.

"This 'bottle of scotch' at my office's white elephant gift exchange was stolen twice before anyone opened it."

You know the person who brought that one in was trying so, so hard not to laugh the entire time it was being passed around. Thank goodness they don't track these things, otherwise there might have been a demotion in their future.

"[Hope] my meme helps my coworkers see how lazy they are."

Memes do have a way of helping people understand concepts they might not have otherwise. Some people never learned to read independently without the help of pictures, and that's fine, so long as they learn eventually and stop throwing their containers on top of the bags like animals.

"The way my coworker used my tape."

Who...who does this? Really? Who of sound body and mind does this? Do they hate you? Do they want to watch the joy drain from your face when you see what they did to your roll? May you learn to trust again one day.

"When coworker forgets to deal with pizza dough he made."

Phrasing this as 'dealing with' the pizza dough he made is very funny. He just forgot the next step in the pizza-making process, which was turning that dough into pizzas, and forgot for so long that the dough got tired of waiting.

"My mischievous bengal dumps my office garbage out everyday to sleep in it."

The smallest, furriest coworkers can be the most destructive, as they truly know no manners and follow no rules of man. They only believe in anarchy and sleep, which makes them very difficult to work with. Not to mention they can be pretty catty.

"My Coworker just zip tied my pliers while I was gone for a minute. Ugh."

Dang, he was quick with those ties, huh? He must have had this prank in mind for ages now, practicing his speed ties at home, knowing he'd need to nail four in under a minute. Evidently, his training paid off.

"Has to use my coworkers office today who is on vacation to make some phone calls. This is what his phone cord looks like."

Does your coworker know that there's a better life out there for him? He doesn't need to subject himself to pain and annoyance like this every day. He can get a new phone, or at the very least untangle that cable. He's more than earned it.

'Coworkers lost one of my buckyballs."

Unacceptable. Completely and utterly unacceptable. At that point, the coworker who lost the ball might as well just take the whole cube, as it only exists as an annoyance to you now. The easiest way to ruin a simple thing, pure agony.

"A coworker tried to sharpen my good kitchen knifes with an [angle] grinder and ruined their blades."

They did what? I'm going to assume you had no idea they were doing this, because who on earth would sign off to something like this? Better yet, who would think something like this would work? This is not an experiment worth trying.

Taking a bite out of fun.

"Coworker announced that she and her SO are finally pregnant after years of trying, I got her a box of pastries to celebrate and when the party was about to start I open the fridge at work and see this..."

"My coworker has at least 25 years of experience over me in office work."

And in those 25 years they still have not learned how to read even the largest text placed in front of them, which you have to admit is kind of impressive, even if it does come at a detriment to your own work.

"My coworker put straight printer ink in one of my gloves at work. This will take a week or two minimum to come off."

Just raw printer ink can't be that common, right? You'd have to bust open a cartridge, which are expensive to start, then drain it out into a glove? That's a lot of work for such a cruel prank, I'm almost impressed.

Looking back in anger.

"I’m a hairstylist and my coworker cut my hair today. I trust her and I didn’t look at the back until later. Idk what happened, she is usually very good. My boyfriend said I must have pissed her off to deserve this..."

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