Don't like someone at work

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• rikstan87 Posts: 2,359

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  13/03/14 - 18:27 #2

  Piss in her tea?

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• Jumbobones Posts: 1,814

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  13/03/14 - 18:28 #3

  I think someone might notice if I did that. I might save it for if she really annoys me.

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• rikstan87 Posts: 2,359

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  13/03/14 - 18:31 #4

  Mess around with her computer if you can get access to it while she's away from it,

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• Uffa Posts: 1,910

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  13/03/14 - 18:49 #5

  Give her time to settle in properly. She may calm down a bit and you might even find that you really like her after all.

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• Wolfsheadish Posts: 10,400

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  13/03/14 - 18:52 #6

  Jumbobones wrote: »

  A new person has started and she seems a bit smug and won't listen properly. What can I do to subtly annoy her in a way that she won't know it's me doing it?

  
  Wow! What a bizarre response!

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• cris182 Posts: 9,595

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  13/03/14 - 18:55 #7

  Jumbobones wrote: »

  A new person has started and she seems a bit smug and won't listen properly. What can I do to subtly annoy her in a way that she won't know it's me doing it?

  
  Act like an adult, Kids hate that. Or are you not 9 years old?

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• shmisk Posts: 7,963

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  13/03/14 - 18:58 #8

  I actively dislike someone at work and there's someone else I'm avoiding cause they are pregnant (yes I'm jealous been trying like forever)
  
  I actively swap shifts and sites to avoid them
  
  But in the end you just have to deal with it
  
  You chose friends but not work mates

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• RandomSally Posts: 7,071

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  13/03/14 - 18:59 #9

  Jumbobones wrote: »

  A new person has started and she seems a bit smug and won't listen properly. What can I do to subtly annoy her in a way that she won't know it's me doing it?

  
  Grow up and just get on with your work.

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• academia Posts: 18,225

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  13/03/14 - 19:06 #10

  Jumbobones wrote: »

  A new person has started and she seems a bit smug and won't listen properly. What can I do to subtly annoy her in a way that she won't know it's me doing it?

  Have you considered therapy?

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• fi~ Posts: 5,481

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  13/03/14 - 19:17 #11

  erm grow up maybe

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• NoseyLouie Posts: 5,651

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  13/03/14 - 19:36 #12

  RandomSally wrote: »

  Grow up and just get on with your work.

  
  Exactly, or you can quit and I will have it

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• Frankie_Little Posts: 9,271

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  13/03/14 - 19:47 #13

  Give the girl a chance, she's new. Don't make things difficult for her, that's mean.

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• [Deleted User] Posts: 2,606

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  13/03/14 - 22:12 #14

  Take her pen whenever she leaves her desk, so she constantly has to get new ones
  
  Adjust the height of her chair
  
  Constantly get her name slightly wrong, e.g. if her name is Sarah call her Sara, even when corrected
  
  Read her emails over her shoulder and comment loudly on them so other colleagues can hear
  
  Make jokey remarks about how loud she is in the telephone to make her self conscious
  
  ...I write this assuming the OP is tongue in cheek, which I very much hope it is

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• pugamo Posts: 18,039

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  13/03/14 - 22:38 #15

  Leave your handbag and other crap sitting on her desk in the morning then when she comes in, don't move it.
  
  Someone does that to me and its slowly driving me insane

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• dorydaryl Posts: 15,927

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  14/03/14 - 00:56 #16

  Crikey, give her time. Just because you don't like her it doesn't mean she's necessarily the one with the problem. It might be that you just don't hit it off with her personality 'type'. Or, she might just be acting 'bullish' because she's insecure inside. If she continues to pee you off, tell her to her face, rather than trying childish pranks to get to her. You're not at school any more. You can choose to deal with this like an adult or risk making yourself look like the one who's a PITA. If she's as arrogant as you suggest, she'll show herself up, in time, without your intervention.

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• [Deleted User] Posts: 2,486

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  14/03/14 - 17:43 #17

  I rather suspect many of your colleagues feel the same way about you!

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• Wolfsheadish Posts: 10,400

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  14/03/14 - 20:08 #18

  pugamo wrote: »

  Leave your handbag and other crap sitting on her desk in the morning then when she comes in, don't move it.
  
  Someone does that to me and its slowly driving me insane

  
  So when you come in, just sweep all her stuff onto the floor. Simples.

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• [Deleted User] Posts: 927

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  14/03/14 - 20:15 #19

  In my life, why do I smile at people who I'd much rather kick in the eye?
  
  Cause they pay me not to.

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• DanniLaMone Posts: 2,274

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  15/03/14 - 06:12 #20

  Jumbobones wrote: »

  A new person has started and she seems a bit smug and won't listen properly. What can I do to subtly annoy her in a way that she won't know it's me doing it?

  
  You sound nice to work with.

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• Maria_Robinson Posts: 3,004

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  15/03/14 - 12:00 #21

  What an unbelievably childish post! The people you work with may not be your choice but you dont have to go on holiday with them, just get on with them during working hours. What a way to welcome a new and unsettled in member of staff. I hope you get caught playing stupid pranks and get reported to HR.

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• Hildas Hairnet Posts: 643

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  15/03/14 - 12:15 #22

  If this is a serious post and I really hope it isnt, by following some of the 'advice' given would see you on a harrassment charge for bullying.
  
  She's new, she'll be trying to fit in and learn new processess. You being arsey towards her is just horrible and childish

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• Joey Boswell Posts: 25,141

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  15/03/14 - 12:20 #23

  She is new you should give her a chance, if you cant then just ignore her.

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• pugamo Posts: 18,039

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  15/03/14 - 12:20 #24

  Wolfsheadish wrote: »

  So when you come in, just sweep all her stuff onto the floor. Simples.

  
  She's a bit of a psycho and I don't want to awake the beast. She tells lies about people, hides important files etc...I'm hopefully not going to be in that branch too much longer thank God

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• bri160356 Posts: 5,147

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  15/03/14 - 12:39 #25

  Jumbobones wrote: »

  A new person has started and she seems a bit smug and won't listen properly. What can I do to subtly annoy her in a way that she won't know it's me doing it?

  
  
  A few suggestions that will definitely work:-
  
  Super-glue her office phone so she can’t pick it up.
  
  Put her office stapler inside a large ‘jelly mould’.
  
  Enlist the help of an office colleague to quiz her about her previous job, but do it subtly by utilizing ‘outrageous sexual innuendo’; she’s obviously so thick she’ll never twig it.
  
  Good luck! ;-)

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• Frankie_Little Posts: 9,271

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  15/03/14 - 12:45 #26

  pugamo wrote: »

  She's a bit of a psycho and I don't want to awake the beast. She tells lies about people, hides important files etc...I'm hopefully not going to be in that branch too much longer thank God

  :o:o
  
  I'd be inclined to leave her stuff where it is, in that case.

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