Originally Posted by GeordieDancer:
“People who have to open their gobs and chip in to a discussion just for the sake of saying something, no matter how banal. I've a colleague who does this constantly and it drives me up the wall. Even if I direct a question to another person, addressing that person by name, this annoying, wittering gobs***e will jump in to answer it. I found her in the staff room talking to the trainee teachers before the end of term and dispensing advice on how to teach...she's not even a trained teacher, and has only been a teaching assistant for a year, a job her boss has complained to several people she does badly. When she'd finished pontificating about how to be the best teacher in the world, she actually said to them, "If you take one piece of advice away from this place, let it be that!" I was desperate to chime in and say "Actually, let the one piece of advice you take away be to never listen to this clown here!"
She constantly makes stuff up as well...saying her boyfriend had paid £650 for tickets to an outdoor theatre show that cost everyone else who went about £20 was unbelievable.
Oh, and she's always banging on about how much she's done at the gym and all the healthy meals she cooks, then wonders why she can't shift the spare four stone around her belly and backside...nothing to do with the two bottles of full-fat Coke she drinks every lunch time and the lashings of mayonnaise she smothers every meal in. Or the two teacakes with butter and biscuits at break time. Eat what you like, hen, just stop cracking on about your so-called diet while I'm trying to ignore you.”
I work with a lady like this but different profession and she really peeves everyone off in work. She actually tries to tell doctors and nurses what's wrong with their relatives or themselves and tries to give medical advice when she's barely even a health care assistant.
She has a comment on everything even when you aren't talking to her and will repeat the last bits of people's sentences to make it seem like she knows what she is talking about. Everything has happened to her and ten times worse than it has to anyone else. A couple of colleagues have died over the years and she has gone from not knowing they existed to being their best friends when they passed away telling everyone about her and how much she knew and liked them. She constantly lies about things and gets caught out. She books herself into work events last minute pretending she only just saw the email or invite and asks people to cover her deposit until she can give them it the next day usually after the cut off and then pulls out and refuses to give the money to the person her subbed her. She picks different people each time who don't appear to know this is her thing and that's how she's managed it so many times.
She's the opposite with the the food though. Claimed to have never heard of subway or McDonald's and had never ate pizza before or tried Coke or any fizzy drink amongst other things which imo are pretty basic foods most people would have tried once whilst drunk or as a kid at a party or something even if it's not part of their normal diet. She looks down her nose at anyone who has had one of those things.
Constantly dishes out parenting advice to everyone regardless of their age compared to hers or the ages of their children and number of their children. Tells people in work she is their mother or grandmother depending on their age despite her not being old enough to be either, who even needs another mother or grandmother anyway.
She starts rumours about people and then denies she has heard anything about it when confronted. There are so many annoying things she does.