A hiker, a washerwoman or a prima donna. 5 types of coworkers we all have in the office (unfortunately)
Colleague # 1: Madame Laziness
How to recognize it? Repeated delays, frequent illnesses, and when he is there he is always at the coffee machine. He hears a lot in the office: continuous sighs, pretends to be always full of work, continuous coming and going in the office as if he had a thousand things to do, continuous phone calls ... She appears to be 100% involved in her work. Nobody dares to approach her so as not to disturb her in her important and urgent activities. And yet she loiteres all the time and work piles up ...
Hazard index: 6/10 if you work directly with her. She may, with her inactivity, block your own work and make you share a boss's wash of the head with her.
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Colleague # 2: Madame Explicit ambition
How to recognize it? His intentions are clearly understood: he wants to make a career. He has fiercely negotiated his salary and now takes twice as much as you! She is a true climber - she started low like you, but is now two positions higher. He does not hesitate to roll up his sleeves, to intervene frequently in meetings, with the people who matter in the company present. Extremely efficient, she doesn't take breaks with you and the others, it takes half the time to do everything.
Danger index: 5/10. Confident and knowledgeable, this colleague doesn't need to step on you and anyone else to get her way. If anything, it can be an example to imitate!
Colleague # 3: Madame Hidden Ambition
How to recognize it? Definitely discreet and quiet, we hardly hear her arriving at the office in the morning ... Yet she is the colleague with the sharpest nails! She speaks softly, seems shy, and rarely speaks in public or at corporate meetings. But she listens and understands everything ...! Collect all the information, and like a perfect aggressive passive, wait for the right moment to stab you in the back! During a coffee break, he approaches the boss and shares ideas that are actually yours, and makes him a list of your faults and shortcomings. He will have no qualms about giving you the final blow ... with a delicate smile on his face.
Hazard index : 9/10. It is not at all easy to predict his moves ... Be careful! It is the only advice possible with this very poisonous type of colleague.
Colleague # 4: Madame la Diva
How to recognize it? She arrives at 11 in the morning, when everyone else is on break after two hours, but none of the superiors are complaining about her. How does? By adopting a star attitude! Every celebrity knows how to impose her will and presence with her charm: she does the same. Her skills allow for this and more. She knows how to make herself indispensable and irreplaceable, she makes us believe that only she can do certain things in the company. Everyone submits to her whims, bewitched by her Diva soul!
Hazard index: 8/10 but for itself! In reality, her attitude isolates her from colleagues: she is the lonely Diva! On a stage in front of an empty audience, she acts only with herself and for herself. Contrary to what it might seem, she is the loneliest and most unprotected colleague in the whole office. Poor Madame Diva!
Colleague # 5: Madame l "Impostor
How to recognize it? It is not easy to say how he conceals his incompetence. She knows very well that she is not in her place, that she is not at all equal to the role assigned to her. And so she tries frantically to prove the opposite.
But the signs can be grasped.
During the meetings, if asked, she provides very vague answers, she does not express clear and clear ideas: therefore she is well capable of changing the flag from one minute to the other depending on the person and her weight in the company. To please her and to defend herself and her daily performance. And so when the idea of the other has not been successful, it doesn't take her anything to change her mind again and download it! The important thing for her is to follow the right currents and take advantage of them: she couldn't do otherwise, since he has no ideas of his own and would not know how to carry them out.
He says he has a "diary full of influential and important contacts, but if you ask him, coincidentally, he forgot it at home that day.
She talks a lot, too much, as if captured by a whirlwind of brilliant ideas: but none of them turn into action.
Hazard index : 8/10. Being a real inept, she will never take any responsibility, playing at the right moment the part of the one who was resigned and who was not aware of anything. Really a good actress: but a daily performance is really exhausting and sooner or later the mask can fall off ...
And you? Do you know other types of colleagues? Or do you even recognize yourself in any of these?
See also:
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