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Yellow posted...

In my work experience only the lazy annoying people get "bullied", but that's just my workplace.

Kinda the same for my workplace. The coworker who's on the receiving end of our conversations isn't lazy per se but his habits and overall behavior is simply annoying at times. He frequently makes up excuses that certain errors with his projects is due to our in-house program and not him. I use the same program as him and though said program can act funny at times, we are able to check the finalized PDF printout before turning in said project. If said errors are popping up, he's probably not checking the finalized printout.

He also frequently place blame with our clients when they enter information incorrectly. Some clients are difficult to work with and they frequently make changes to their projects but some clients are simply clueless about the standards for some of the stuff we do and it is up to us to correct that and ensure said client uses what is standard. Instead he just goes with whatever the clients entered and if we later find out said information is incorrect and need to change it, he place the blame on the clients.

We all occasionally have casual non-work related conversations when working but we keep it to just coworkers in the immediate vicinity and we try and keep it short. He will walk several cubicles over to have a conversations for 20+ minutes and after he's done, he'll sometime walk over to another cubicle and repeat that conversation. After all this, he'll later make up excuses that he's getting interrupted with phone calls and changes from clients about why some of his projects are delayed.

At this point I'm just ranting but like I said, he's not entirely lazy and he is good with the work our company do. But many of times we gotta deal with him acting like a man-child, placing blame on the in-house program or our clients instead of manning up and accepting he made the mistake, expecting clients to catch his mistakes and using the excuse that our clients approved a project when it comes back later to be fixed, etc. etc.
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