the last time you were angry with a co-worker

[97guns]

doesnt have to be an argument but just the last time someone made your BP rise and maybe you called him a SOB behind his back.

my neighbor is 58 and always complains to me about a few people at his work that he doesnt like but in the next breath he tells me how much he loves his job, actually he complains about waking up and going to sleep early too, what the heck? how can he love his job if he hates all these things about it, i think he loves money

[Nutria]

i think he loves money

Please tell me you -- posting on a financial discussion board -- aren't shocked, I tell you, shocked that someone loves money.

[kork13]

HA! How about on a near-daily basis? I'm in the military, and when I'm not flying (at least 80% of the time), my desk job can be (often is) a bureaucratic nightmare. So that's frustrating enough to raise anyone's blood pressure.

As for a specific instance, I'd probably say last Friday. There's a guy (in a position to do something about it) who is insisting that someone else had expired for his flying qualification, but after I demonstrated that he's totally good, he simply insisted "No. I'm right. Deal with it." (more or less) Being a completely reasonable & mature individual (lol), I went to a guy more senior, and basically said "I'm done with this numbskull, you deal with him."

[sv2007]

Just don't go postal on them.
Ok, is that too 1990s?

Work is not worth working with people that make you angry. Internal xfer, external xfer, fire them, get them fired.

[phantom]

Some people just aren't happy unless they have something to complain about, and your neighbor sounds like he might be such a person. I bet he could have the best job in the world and still find room for complaint.

I work with some of the best people I've ever worked with right now. They're talented, hard working, and trust each other. I couldn't ask for a better team. But, if I'd gone looking for a better job every time I ran into a co-worker who drove me up a wall, I would have left twice by now.

Most recently, there was the incompetent quality assurance person who closed tickets without testing whenever he didn't understand what the tickets meant. I spent 2 months trying to help him do his job or convince his manager that he was the problem before he was moved to a different team and eventually fired. The manager wasn't a great fit either, and he eventually realized that and moved on too.

Before that, there was the product owner with the big ego and questionable ethics that I found myself butting heads with weekly for about 6 months. Eventually, his big ego took him elsewhere, and he ceased to be my problem.

I've never had a job where I didn't run into at least one co-worker that I didn't like. No hiring process is perfect, and sometime the wrong people get hired. One thing that separates a good place to work from a bad place to work is what happens after that.