by Eric Bailey

Created on: March 30, 2009

Top 10 Office Personnel

Whether you work in an enormous corporate facility or an independent start-up with three workers, you may be familiar with a certain few personality types around the water cooler. It hardly matters whether you are crammed within a claustrophobic cubicle or seated behind a rich mahogany desk, every day you go to work expecting to interact with some unique people.

Given a sizable organization, encountering these denizens of the office environment is inevitable. The following are the top ten office worker clich personalities.

1. The Omnipotent I.T. Guy

He is the only person who knows how to fix the network when it is down, so he is practically worshipped by the rest of staff. Despite questionable hygiene habits and workplace attitude, he has invaluable status on staff and is completely indispensable. One can only hope he never realizes this before he truly begins to tyrannically take advantage of his true potential power.

2. The Overzealous Team Player

Every entity in existences wants its members to believe that it is the best in the world and is genuinely serving an important mission. Even vast "big box" corporations come up with mission statements that make their business sound eligible for sainthood. While the vast majority of cubicle-dwellers never buy into the idea that the company they work for is for the greater good of the world, a select few do, and are abundantly loud about it. Sincerely operating under the belief that they are in the prime position to alter the state of society and affect our culture as a whole, they are far too eager to instigate initiatives that feel more like school spirit than enhanced bottom lines. But since such intangibly soft skills are so adamantly admired by upper management, their unadulterated, if not ill-founded, enthusiasm becomes an unfortunate consequence that everyone around them must simply continue to deal with.

3. The Mysterious Executive

Supposedly, he or she is a brilliant visionary with ideas ahead of their time and concepts that will instantly reverse the company's fortunes. Yet, as the workweek progresses, this revolutionary is nowhere to be found. Seeming to always be off-site, the blur between business and pleasure is sometimes rather hazy: After all, what business could possibly be had in Bali that does not involve the beach? Their assistant, though, will continue to insist that they are terribly busy and will not return to their desk until after their annual meditative sabbatical in the Himalayas.

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