What do you do if you hate a work colleague you sit next to?

[-jose-]

Next time you're alone with him, just grab his nuts and say "never talk to me like that again muthfcuka, or else these will be mine"

Reading this and looking at your sig at the same time kinda scared me a little.........

[T.Horton]

Oh! If you drink a lot of tea or coffee at work, you should stop. It gets your blood pressure up and I find it can make me over react if I am stressed.

[-jose-]

While hilarious, its best to avoid drugging people

laxatives are not drugs...that's what the judge told me once...

[Sparked_26]

Back when I worked in an office environment my stress level was always high enough that I was one ill comment from throwing down. And I was an earner in a company where gross profit meant everything so I got away with nearly everything. Companies have a tendency to protect their earners so I basically felt like I could fly off the handle with impunity.

I wouldn't go back to work in an office for all the money in the world though.

I am digressing but the point is that I have been where you are. Do you work in an office? I only skimmed your post.

Yeah, pure office environment and very formal compared to the jobs I have had in London in an office. Regimented lunch breaks. All sorts.

I might just leave in the end anyway. It's not really for me but there are financial pressures.

[Russian Crushin]

laxatives are not drugs...that's what the judge told me once...

Of course they are, Over the counter drugs. I've gotten in trouble for doing that to a friend but we put wayyyy too much and he had a very bad reaction to it

You can and will be arrested if he finds out you did something like that.

He can also react badly to it

[Russian Crushin]

Reading this and looking at your sig at the same time kinda scared me a little.........

Lol whats my sig? i havent looked at it in a while

[T.Horton]

Yeah, pure office environment and very formal compared to the jobs I have had in London in an office. Regimented lunch breaks. All sorts.

I might just leave in the end anyway. It's not really for me but there are financial pressures.

don`t get me wrong. I lasted ten years, made some good money and great contacts. I am just saying that I wouldn`t go back now. Sometimes you have to do the worst to make your money but it sounds like if you`re able to successfully deal with this one **** you could be fine for a while.

ğDo you have an HR department?

[extracurRICular]

I've been in a new job for a few weeks. A new job and a new city and my girlfriend has been away whom is my only link with the city so it's been a pretty stressful time.

But the bloke next to me is an absolute violence magnet. There is barely an hour goes by that I can't imagine myself punching him.

I'm a really laid back bloke and it is obviously important that I keep my job. I could ask to move but that seems like a soft option and would only create tension amongst everyone else.

But this dude is too much. He asks really personal questions as his idea of 'banter', he also has this thing of pretending not to hear me (because I myself am a little deaf from football (soccer injury) so it is sort of a piss-take thing. And then in general he is mugging me (insulting) off quite a lot because I'm new, pretty laid back and quiet and from London having moved up North. It has sort of came to head when I asked him a question and he said: 'shut the fuck up!'. I was taken aback and just said 'You can't say that to me!' He said: 'I just did.' Now really there is nowhere to go from there. In any other context I could have just punched him as he literally asked for it but I can't. I just said: 'Alright, let's see how awkward this gets.'

Next minute he's brushing it off like it is nothing and trying to make normal conversation with me again.

It is proper schoolboy stuff and a bit embarrassing but I am definitely going to punch him at some stage its inevitable.

first you talk to him and you set CLEAR boundaries with him...if he keeps at it as fuggatty as this sounds you go to your supervisor...or the sups sup...or HR if non of those work.....this is not the streets...its a job...and unless you are made of money you need a to keep a job...

that will solve your problems....now if he then comes out you like that in the outside world then feel free to wreck his sh3t up all types of ways you want....

True story!!!!!!!

[Sparked_26]

first you talk to him and you set CLEAR boundaries with him...if he keeps at it as fuggatty as this sounds you go to your supervisor...or the sups sup...or HR if non of those work.....this is not the streets...its a job...and unless you are made of money you need a to keep a job...

that will solve your problems....now if he then comes out you like that in the outside world then feel free to wreck his sh3t up all types of ways you want....

True story!!!!!!!

Yeah this is the way to go. Need to make it clear and then if it keeps happening I'm just going to have to swallow it and move or go to HR. Bit mad though, never ever had a problem like this at work. The fella's just a complete ****.

[Russian Crushin]

Yeah this is the way to go. Need to make it clear and then if it keeps happening I'm just going to have to swallow it and move or go to HR. Bit mad though, never ever had a problem like this at work. The fella's just a complete ****.

Is he above you in the work ladder? Most guys that i've ran into like that were the boss' son or a young kid that was higher up then me

If he's not, then he has no reason to act like that and should get some manners