[threadbear]

What personality type do you find most annoying, particularly in the work place?

[TITAN]

ASSKISSERS... Kill them all!!!

[NEOPO]

my type, because there can be only one!!!!
uhm yeah asskissers too die die die!!!

[PrairieMule]

Those few individuals determined to share their emotional baggage with their co-workers because they crave any form of attention.

Not you guys of course.

Does anyone else here know of a co-worker when you say hello they share some misrable news they just recieved? Like every day?

[threadbear]

I think that outside of sociopaths, I probably like passive aggressives least, but attract them like flies. Weird dynamic, that.

[Lokutus]

The worst are the know-it-all types. I call them "Cliff Clavens".

[PenultimateManStanding]

malignant narcissist: Dr. Sam Vaknin has a book about it titled Malignant Self-Love which he sells on the internet but is interestingly to be found online at the Gutenberg Project.

$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('', ' ')The Diagnostic and Statistical Manual (DSM) IV-TR uses this language to describe the malignant narcissist:

"An all-pervasive pattern of grandiosity (in fantasy or behavior), need for admiration or adulation and lack of empathy, usually beginning by early adulthood and present in various contexts."

So, what matters is that these characteristics, often found in healthy people, appear jointly and not separately or intermittently and that they are all-pervasive (invade, penetrate, and mould every aspect, nook, and cranny of the personality):

1.

That grandiose fantasies are abundantly discernible;
2.

That grandiose (often ridiculous) behaviors are present;
3.

That there is an over-riding need for admiration and adulation or attention ("narcissistic supply");
4.

That the person lacks empathy (regards other people as two dimensional cartoon figures and abstractions, unable to "stand in their shoes");
5.

That these traits and behaviors begin, at the latest, in early adolescence;
6.

That the narcissistic behaviors pervade all the social and emotional interactions of the narcissist.

[Falconoffury]

I am annoyed by the perfectionists and butt kissers. Also kinda annoyed by the non-thinker extroverted personality types.

[seldom_seen]

Preppy white guys in loafers that talk like they're a gangsta from the hood. "keep it real dog"

Also, anyone that calls me "chief" or "big guy." No I wasn't in your f'king frat house.

Furthermore, people that say "proactive" "multitasking" or "think outside the box."

[NEOPO]

god fearin way beyond patriotic nationlistic red necks who seem to have a brain in their skull but really its just a big booger

[basil_hayden]

$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('seldom_seen', 'P')reppy white guys in loafers that talk like they're a gangsta from the hood. "keep it real dog"

Also, anyone that calls me "chief" or "big guy." No I wasn't in your f'king frat house.

Furthermore, people that say "proactive" "multitasking" or "think outside the box."

[threadbear]

$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('basil_hayden', '')$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('seldom_seen', 'P')reppy white guys in loafers that talk like they're a gangsta from the hood. "keep it real dog"

Also, anyone that calls me "chief" or "big guy." No I wasn't in your f'king frat house.

Furthermore, people that say "proactive" "multitasking" or "think outside the box."

[threadbear]

PMS--I met nearly all the criteria for borderline personality when I was a teen, I discovered when researching the illness. Felt kind of bad about it, but after doing more thinking about it, realized that most adolescants actually qualify. Whew!

The narcissism description is interesting, particularly the no empathy part. I've found that I have to be careful not to lose all empathy for someone once they become clearly identified in my mind as "the enemy" I think I'm a bit of a hypochondriac when it comes to psyche diagnoses. At least I hope I am, or I'm one sick puppy. Why, look at that, I've used the "I" word enough to qualify for the narcissist of the year award. Ooooooh Noooooo!

[Schneider]

Yeah PMS..malignant narcissist are a bitch to deal with,especially when it's you boss..and worst,the manager is a damn sociopath (i think this is why the boss hired him..to do what he don't have the balls himself) !

Plan for 2007 : get da fuck out of there..

Small note : Could someone tell me where this "Big Guy" phenomenon come from !?? I hate it !!!! To me,being called "Big Guy" ,it feel like the person in front of me don't even bother to ask himself what is my fucking name ..

I find it very disrespectfull because of that !

Schneider
French-Canadian

[MD]

$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('threadbear', 'I') think that outside of sociopaths, I probably like passive aggressives least, but attract them like flies. Weird dynamic, that.

[mmasters]

Authoritarians, control freaks, bureaucrats and dirty politicians.

[lateralus]

Anyone in a suit and tie.

[Ludi]

The Know It All.

I hate being lectured and "told what," so these folks make my blood boil instantly.

I generally avoid most kinds of nuts and loons, even though I am one, I just find them very hard to deal with.

[threadbear]

$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('Ludi', 'T')he Know It All.

I hate being lectured and "told what," so these folks make my blood boil instantly.

I generally avoid most kinds of nuts and loons, even though I am one, I just find them very hard to deal with.