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Old Jun 04, 2014, 10:10 AM
Mapper Mapper is offline
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Originally Posted by Travelinglady View Post
Hey, Mapper, and welcome to Psych Central! You co-worker does sound very frustrating. Is she out for attention? Wanting people to care about her?

How does she respond if someone says, "Thanks. But I have already read it"? If need be, then can you say that and walk away for a bit--not try to exactly be rude, but if she is driving you batty.....
It doesn't matter if we've read it...she still feels the need to repeat it out loud to everyone. She just needs to be constantly heard.

She is also the type to complain endlessly about how much work she has and she's never going to finish it (well probably because she's busy looking up stuff like the Jetsons!). She doesn't understand how to do one part of the process and has no desire to learn it and she ends up whining about how she'll NEVER finish it and it and ends up pawning it off on someone else. She is also the type to take the most comfortable chair at a function and not offer it to anyone else while everyone else stands, be the one to say shotgun to be in the front of the car rather than the backseat. She's just THAT kind of person. So self absorbed and making sure everyone knows just how much she knows.

Then yesterday, this was unbelievable! She got in yesterday and as usual she spends about 30 minutes looking up personal stuff, facebooking, writing personal emails, etc. I'll admit, everyone else spends work time doing some personal stuff too, but we sure as hell don't announce to everyone that that is what we are doing! Every time the Google home page has a different Google doodle rather than just the logo she will announce "Oh Google has a different thing going on today" and if it's interactive she'll have to try it and announce step by step what she is doing. If it's just a milestone, like some scientist's birthday, she will click on it and proceed to read us who it is and what they did!We have a document that shows everyone's home addresses and she started reading off people's addresses and Googling them to see where they lived and then announced to us their exact location! We have nearly 100 people at work and she seems to know where everyone lives. Even when she is describing a place she'll say "It's on Pine Street, just down from Tim's house". Does anyone else have a clue or care where Tim's house is?! Does Tim even know who you are?? If he knew you knew where he lived he'd be freaked out!