by Glenn Magas

Created on: December 24, 2009   Last Updated: February 10, 2010

You know what an annoying coworker is don't you? It's the who talks non-stop about what they did yesterday, the weekend, or what they will be doing tomorrow and the next weekend! The annoying co-workers sometimes just can't help it. They do not even know that they are  annoying! All they know is that they have an ear to talk to unless you tell them to shut up. Again, they don’t intend to annoy you – but they do! Be honest - it could be you!

To get under a co-worker’s skin, you can do the same thing – purposeful though. But there are other brilliant ways to annoy co-workers.  Feel free to use these valued techniques any time during the day in order to drive a co-worker nuts!

1. Keep the staff meeting going!
2. Eat soup at your desk
3. Sigh
4. Blow the endings to movies and tv shows.
5. Brown nose

Yes, these are only 5, but 5 powerful ways to annoy co-workers. They come in handy when you want to get back at a co-worker for taking credit for something you did, or when a co-worker does things to annoy you and you want to return the favor.

1. Keep the staff meeting going!

This is the best way to annoy a whole group of co-workers. Ask questions that seem pertinent to your boss, but have nothing to do with anyone else. Keep clarifying tasks, goals, and continue to make comments on things that make your boss think, “this employee is really interested and through.” Yes, you could do without the Q&A, and yes, your colleagues may not need to know the answers, but keep asking and turn the half hour staff meeting going for a whole hour or more!

2. Eat soup at your desk

Yes – warm it up and make sure everyone knows what you have for lunch by slurping away on long noodles and delicious broth. Okay, it doesn’t have to be delicious – but it has to be loud. Yes it is rude to eat this way, and that’s the point. Once a coworker points out your ‘rudeness’ say, you don’t know how to eat soup any other way.

3. Sigh

Several loud ‘sighs’ that indicate you hate being at work can really get on other people’s nerves. Try it in a packed elevator and take note of how people will start getting uneasy around you. Do it every time someone walks by your office door or desk. Make it known to everyone that your sigh means a lot – that you hate being at work. It will rub off on them! And it will bring the happy people down! And an annoyed happy person is a really annoyed coworker!

4. Blow the

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