Posted by Dave Lorenzo - Business Coach

Carnival of Career Intensity – Post Four

Joan Schramm presents Accelerating Momentum; Maybe They Just Don’t Like You! posted at Accelerating Momentum.

Everyone knows people at work who are extreme annoyances. They’re everywhere – drinking all the coffee, interrupting your work, brown-nosing the boss and generally making everyone else’s life miserable. Of course, you’re not one of “those” people. Are you?

Here are the top five reasons people at work just don’t like you.

1. “It wasn’t last November. It was October!” Details, details, details. Sure, you’re the smartest person in the room. But do you have to constantly prove it? No one cares if the sky is plain blue, robin’s egg blue, or cyan. You’re not the next Ken Jennings, so let it go and maybe people will start inviting you to lunch again.

2. Gossip Central. You know every tiny detail about everyone’s personal life, and you have a very good memory. Well, keep it to yourself. If you want to stay on a friendly basis with your co-workers, learn to keep your mouth shut.

3. Clean up your act. No one wants to see your leftover lunch dishes in the sink, or the splatters inside the microwave, or the half-empty cups of coffee on your desk that now look like a science experiment. Your mother doesn’t work here, so clean up after yourself.

4. Yadda, yadda, yadda. Do you spend most of your day wandering around, dropping by other cubicles just to chat up your colleagues? Maybe…just maybe…they have work to do, which is why all you get are grunts and “uh-huh” in response. Go find your cubicle and stay there.

5. Helpless Harry. At the first sign of difficulty, you back off and start to whine. You can’t work the copy machine. You don’t know how to change your phone message. You’re lost if you have to refill your stapler. Please. You’re an adult. If you can drive yourself to work, you can make a two-sided copy.

Take a long look at yourself and see if you recognize any of these types lurking inside. If you do, make a promise to yourself to do a personality overhaul and start enjoying your work life more.

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