When your coworker is great at their job but the most annoying person on the planet, you're in for a tough time. You know they won't get fired any time soon… but they're also driving you insane with all of their quirks and habits. Just ask these people, whose coworkers couldn't be more annoying. 

Some workers are just totally lazy, and they won't lift a finger in the workplace unless the boss is looking. This makes everyone else take on a bigger burden, and if you complain to the boss, sometimes you look like a whiner who can't handle their workload. Other people are dealing with nepotism hires, who are really unfirable. If you're the CEO's kid, you can just put your feet up all day and never do a thing. 

But maybe the worst kind of bad coworker is the one who is beloved by management and pretty good at their job… but they spend hours each day gossiping on the phone, or they crunch on loud snacks endlessly, or they insist on talking to you every few minutes, meaning you get no work done. 

After you read about these terrible coworkers, check out the tale of the neighbor who destroyed an HOA from the inside out after being fined $200: "The President had resigned… and put his house up for sale." 

Job interviews are never fun, but panel interviews are a whole different level of psychological warfare. Between memorizing your resume, tailoring your answers for each person in the room, and praying you don't accidentally say something weird, it's amazing more of us don't have a mental breakdown mid-interview.

One candidate recently found themselves in exactly that scenario with five interviewers in one conference room for a first-round interview. Little did he know, the company's CEO was a part of that panel.

Some people want to have their cake and eat it too; those people, apparently, go on to own or manage businesses.

I've had this happen at a retail job where I managed. The store closed and doors locked at 6:00 PM, and our shifts were scheduled to end at that point, but that was never going to be possible. There were cash registers that still had to be cashed up, doors to be locked, and plenty of things to tidy and wrap up. Just the time it took to walk around the large store to do this could take you five minutes.

And that was before you even accounted for the fact that there were almost always customers still in the store when the doors closed. The shop was in a central business district, so it was incredibly common to have people getting off work coming through to grab something.

Someone somewhere up the chain got sick of all the "overtime" that was being reported and decided to put a stop to it (we weren't even paid time and a half, so what did it matter?). A new "policy" was instated. An electronic submission form was made where we had to detail the times we worked "overtime" and all sorts of other details. Filling out the form took at least 5 minutes, and the shoddy interface sometimes caused it to wipe itself clean and force you to start over again. 

When customers think they're entitled to perfect service every time they shop, it leaves retail workers rolling their eyes. There are few times in life where screaming at someone gets you what you want. This works if you are a baby or a toddler. This method performs less well when you're a 45-year-old man hollering at a poor teenage worker who's messed up your food order. 

These small moments when places mess up are certainly annoying, but the way some customers react is just dialed up to 11. One worker described a customer's tantrum as watching an "elderly baby," and that's exactly how a lot of these customers act. It's almost like they've been alive for 6 decades, yet have no idea how to interact with other people. 

Sometimes I wonder if newer generations will change the way that service workers are treated. After all, if you've been a waiter, fast-food worker, retail worker, or phone center worker, you know exactly how a not to talk to one of these people. Since the newer generations seem to work these minimum-wage jobs for a while, maybe there will be a shift in the attitude we sometimes see from cranky customers. I'm sure we'll still have them… but even having fewer customers who can only communicate by throwing a tantrum would be a huge improvement. 

Up next, read about a fast-food worker who got back at a police officer who made them late to work by pulling a petty stunt: "The officer… informs me that I will have to wait."