These Are Certainly The Worst Employees In The Office (Is Your Co-Worker Like This?)

Kylene Loucks | February 17, 2025 5:00 pm

Some people are really just out here causing complete and utter chaos in their workplaces and then punching the clock and heading home like nothing happened.

It falls on the rest of their coworkers to deal with their nonsense and sometimes the only acceptable thing to do is snap a picture and shame them on the internet.

A Phone Cord That Looks Like A Finger Trap

Tangled up phone cord
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Photo Credit: marissakalyn / Reddit

There is no good reason for someone to do this to their phone cord, especially in a public office setting.

We can only assume that they are a hostage negotiator who is extremely anxious.

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Reason #53 Not To Lend Out Your Office Supplies To Random People

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Jammed up stapler sitting on desk
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This picture is a lesson in why you should never lend out your office supplies to random people.

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Someone's stapler was returned to them with a serious staple jam and they were told it was "out of staples," which was definitely not the case.

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Celebration Cakes That Someone Else Tried First

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Decorative cakes both with large spoonfuls missing
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A nice coworker went out of their way to buy their friend a box of celebratory pastries after they shared some exciting baby news.

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Unfortunately, a different coworker went out of their way to take two giant spoonfuls out of both of the gourmet pastries.

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The Drink Cooler Is Filled With The Stock Guy's Dandruff

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Dandruff on drink cans
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This workplace needs to replace the guy who stocks the drink coolers because his dandruff is causing a very nasty problem.

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His dandruff is on every single can, ruining it for everyone.

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When Your Coworker Uses And Abuses Your Stationary

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Ultra fine dry erase marker smashed
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There might be nothing worse than people using your things and totally wrecking them in the process.

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This person illustrated how damaged their new fine-tip dry erase marker had become after only two weeks in the office. Who is writing so angrily and why?!

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The Cigarette Butts Collecting Next To The Butt Disposal

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Cigarette butts on ground beside garbage for butts
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This picture could be used as a poster for why pollution is so bad on our planet.

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Even with a designated area to throw away cigarette butts, this group of coworkers just throws them on the ground.

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This Horrifyingly Dirty Coffee Mug

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Toilet bowl coffee mug with stains
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A coffee in the morning is pretty standard, but drinking it out of a nasty stained toilet mug is downright gnarly.

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Whoever owns this mug doesn't clean it very often on purpose and it's obvious. It seems like a hygiene hazard for a few reasons.

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Someone Who Stole The Juice Out Of The Pickle Jar

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Pickles in jar with no juice
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Imagine opening the fridge to get a pickle for lunch only to find that a lunch thief has struck and stolen only the pickle juice.

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This leaves us with so many more questions than answers.

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The Person Who Ate The Jelly Center Out Of This Danish

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Danish with jelly center gone, only crust remaining
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When somebody is nice enough to bring in a team-sized Danish for people to enjoy, it's best to share it evenly.

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Apparently, someone didn't get that memo and carved out the jelly-filled part of the pastry, leaving only the crust. This is kindergarten-level petty.

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People Who Put Their Coolers In The Larger Cooler

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Fridge filled with cooler bags and one hard-sided cooler
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You may be wondering what the point of bringing a cooler for lunch is if you're just going to put the whole thing in an overcrowded fridge.

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The person who snapped this photo was also wondering that, but they have to stare at it every single day at work.

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The Guy Who Soaks His Food Dishes In The Bathroom Sink

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Bathroom sink filled with soapy water and plate soaking
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Dishes rarely need to soak after being used, and they definitely never need to be soaked in a public bathroom sink.

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The amount of bacteria swirling around that sink and tap are bound to cause some contamination issues.

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Whoever Did This To The Paper Towel Roll

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Paper towel roll on holder smashed through the roll instead of the cardboard tube
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Whoever did this to the community paper towel deserves to be sat down and examined because why?!

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Hopefully this is some kind of prank, otherwise there is no good explanation for not using the cardboard tube that was designed for this exact purpose.

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When Passive Aggression Is Taken Too Far

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Kitchen with all drawers and cupboards wide open
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This photo is the result of a passive-aggressive coworker leaning hard into their aggressive role.

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The caption explains how when OP went by the kitchen on the way to the bathroom they "shut a slightly open drawer," which is normal unless you're a crazy coworker and feel the need to do this while they're in the bathroom.

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The Trickster Who Rearranged These Keys

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Keyboard with keys in wrong place
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This might be one of those office pranks that went a little bit too far because it's not a very easy fix.

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Someone switched all the keys around on their coworker's keyboard so that they had no choice but to figure out how to type without looking at the keys.

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Not The Ben Franklin They Needed

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Fake and real U.S. $100 bills side by side
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Working in a business place that accepts cash always runs the risk of being handed fake money.

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Usually, counterfeit money is disguised a lot better than this fake $100 that someone accepted, even though it says right on the bill "FOR MOTION PICTURE USE ONLY." If only life were like the movies.

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The Person Who Is Against Curly Receipts

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Receipt rolls half used
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This person's coworker has something against the end of receipt rolls because they make the paper too curly.

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They also must have something against trees, the planet, paper, and recycling because the original poster had to fish these out of the trash.

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The Coworker Who Tore Into This Box

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Box of latex gloves ripped apart
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These boxes have a convenient opening to dispense the gloves, but whoever opened this box had no time for the premade opening.

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Now all the gloves will fall out each time someone pulls one. What a disaster.

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People Who Park Like Maniacs In An Office Lot

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Two vehicles taking up multiple parking spots
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Obnoxious parking lot people are some of the worst kinds of people and these two seem to be competing to see who is the bigger jerk.

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The original poster says these two always park like this in their work parking lot, taking up at least one more spot than necessary.

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"I Asked Him To Fill The Sink With Water"

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Kitchen sink filled with bottles of water
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In another example of "is this passive aggression or stupidity?" someone asked their coworker to fill the sink with water and this is what they came back to.

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Technically their coworker did what they were asked, but they had to know this wasn't right.

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The Coworker Who Forgot To Replace The Bin

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Trash overflowing out of wooden bin holder, no trash bin
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Photo Credit: FlashGordon07 / Reddit
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Fast-food workers get paid minimum wage to deal with far too much nonsense.

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This picture was uploaded with the caption, "A coworker forgot to put the waste bin back. I found this 6 hours later."