Have you ever worked with someone who

Scubahood

Scubahood

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• Manages to get a brag of some sort into almost every exchange
• Only wants to talk about themself and their experiences 99% of the time and shows no interest whatsoever in you or yours
• Has had the last laugh/upper hand in almost every situation they've ever been in
• Whatever subject the conversation involves, they have a 'mate' or a family member who specialises in it
• Is happy trying to belittle others but god forbid anyone points out their shortcomings
• Is so blissfully lacking in self-awareness that when you're telling them anything about yourself, they immediately shut it down by reeling off their stories instead (see second point)
• Is lazy but thinks they graft harder than anyone else
• Sulks if they have to graft
• Wants to do anything but the job they're employed to do, even when it's clearly a priority
• Has four main topics of conversation - their new baby/their new car/their old jobs/their house
• Thinks their 'banter' is brilliant when it's actually pi$$-poor

What is wrong with these people? 🤷‍♂️🤦‍♂️🙄
 
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Scubahood said:
• Manages to get a brag of some sort into almost every exchange
• Only wants to talk about themself and their experiences 99% of the time and shows no interest whatsoever in you or yours
• Has had the last laugh/upper hand in almost every situation they've ever been in
• Whatever subject the conversation involves, they have a 'mate' or a family member who specialises in it
• Is happy trying to belittle others but god forbid anyone points out their shortcomings
• Is so blissfully lacking in self-awareness that when you're telling them anything about yourself, they immediately shut it down by reeling off their stories instead (see second point)
• Is lazy but thinks they graft harder than anyone else
• Sulks if they have to graft
• Wants to do anything but the job they're employed to do, even when it's clearly a priority
• Has four main topics of conversation - their new baby/their new car/their old jobs/their house

What is it with these people? 🤷‍♂️🤦‍♂️🙄
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Absolutely, in fact your summary suggests to me that it is the same bloke.

Bloke called George, worked with him on the Sydney harbour bridge for about ten years.
Supposedly a huge Arsenal fan. Funny though that he used to ask me when I arrived how the Arsenal got on.

I can normally get along with all types but couldn't stand the guy.
His passion for travelling the world was none other but simply for the fact that he could say that he'd been everywhere.

So had I, and when I questioned him on what he saw and did on his travels hoping to have something in common with him,
his tales were always about getting pis8sed and who he shag*ed.


A total and utter bore who couldn't be bettered in his eyes.
Edit. Also, forgot to mention all the people that he had knocked out during his travels.
 
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Scubahood said:
• Manages to get a brag of some sort into almost every exchange
• Only wants to talk about themself and their experiences 99% of the time and shows no interest whatsoever in you or yours
• Has had the last laugh/upper hand in almost every situation they've ever been in
• Whatever subject the conversation involves, they have a 'mate' or a family member who specialises in it
• Is happy trying to belittle others but god forbid anyone points out their shortcomings
• Is so blissfully lacking in self-awareness that when you're telling them anything about yourself, they immediately shut it down by reeling off their stories instead (see second point)
• Is lazy but thinks they graft harder than anyone else
• Sulks if they have to graft
• Wants to do anything but the job they're employed to do, even when it's clearly a priority
• Has four main topics of conversation - their new baby/their new car/their old jobs/their house

What is it with these people? How do they not realise that they drain the life out of every situation instead of enhancing it like they think they're doing? 🤷‍♂️🤦‍♂️🙄
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It’s called a Narcissistic Personality Disorder. They are completely in love with themselves and just can’t understand why anyone else doesn’t adore them and hang onto their every word, because only their word is of any value.

Mrs. Foggy’s brother is the worst example I have ever come across, which is why nobody apart from his lapdog of a wife, has any dealings with him. Once a very successful sales rep, he quit when he found out his new boss was a woman and has lived more or less in isolation for six years. Very strange bloke.

He and Mrs. Foggy are polar opposites, thank God.
 
redblood said:
Absolutely, in fact your summary suggests to me that it is the same bloke.

Bloke called George, worked with him on the Sydney harbour bridge for about ten years.
Supposedly a huge Arsenal fan. Funny though that he used to ask me when I arrived how the Arsenal got on.

I can normally get along with all types but couldn't stand the guy.
His passion for travelling the world was none other but simply for the fact that he could say that he'd been everywhere.

So had I, and when I questioned him on what he saw and did on his travels hoping to have something in common with him,
his tales were always about getting pis8sed and who he shag*ed.


A total and utter bore who couldn't be bettered in his eyes.
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Nicely slipped in that you worked in Sydney..... ;-)
 
Scubahood said:
• Manages to get a brag of some sort into almost every exchange
• Only wants to talk about themself and their experiences 99% of the time and shows no interest whatsoever in you or yours
• Has had the last laugh/upper hand in almost every situation they've ever been in
• Whatever subject the conversation involves, they have a 'mate' or a family member who specialises in it
• Is happy trying to belittle others but god forbid anyone points out their shortcomings
• Is so blissfully lacking in self-awareness that when you're telling them anything about yourself, they immediately shut it down by reeling off their stories instead (see second point)
• Is lazy but thinks they graft harder than anyone else
• Sulks if they have to graft
• Wants to do anything but the job they're employed to do, even when it's clearly a priority
• Has four main topics of conversation - their new baby/their new car/their old jobs/their house
• Thinks their 'banter' is brilliant when it's actually pi$$-poor

What is it with these people? How do they not realise that they drain the life out of every situation instead of enhancing it like they think they're doing? 🤷‍♂️🤦‍♂️🙄
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You have just described the woman who is taking over my role.
 
The fella that I pay minimum wage to lick the barnacles off my private yacht is exactly like this. Whenever I'm trying to concentrate on getting massaged by three supermodels he keeps banging on about trivial stuff like holiday and sick pay and begging me not to make him work an eighty hour week so that he can see his kids once in a while the selfish sod. Totally full of himself.
 
There seems to be one in every workplace - some are just full of it from the start, others start to inject their achievements and escapades gradually but with increasingly unrealistic premises.

A quick "then you woke up and had your Cornflakes" seems to deflate them.
 
We had one who we called T F A and for years he had no idea why that was his nickname . Eventually he found out it stood for........” That’s F*** All “ .....as that’s all he ever said in response to anything anyone had done .

ps These people are usually about 5‘4“ in height .
 
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redblood said:
Mate, I've lived in Oz for the past fifty years and another three years when a child.
Lived and worked in Sydney most of my working life until retiring where i now live on the gold coast
Queensland.
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Sounds fabulous that . Bet you know that bridge like an air fix model , I’d love to check it out one day it’s on my bucket list 👍
 
Foggysfplandiet3 said:
It’s called a Narcissistic Personality Disorder. They are completely in love with themselves and just can’t understand why anyone else doesn’t adore them and hang onto their every word, because only their word is of any value.

Mrs. Foggy’s brother is the worst example I have ever come across, which is why nobody apart from his lapdog of a wife, has any dealings with him. Once a very successful sales rep, he quit when he found out his new boss was a woman and has lived more or less in isolation for six years. Very strange bloke.

He and Mrs. Foggy are polar opposites, thank God.
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He sounds like a strange one, I’d like to hear more about him, especially the 6 years in isolation period.
 
Scubahood said:
• Manages to get a brag of some sort into almost every exchange
• Only wants to talk about themself and their experiences 99% of the time and shows no interest whatsoever in you or yours
• Has had the last laugh/upper hand in almost every situation they've ever been in
• Whatever subject the conversation involves, they have a 'mate' or a family member who specialises in it
• Is happy trying to belittle others but god forbid anyone points out their shortcomings
• Is so blissfully lacking in self-awareness that when you're telling them anything about yourself, they immediately shut it down by reeling off their stories instead (see second point)
• Is lazy but thinks they graft harder than anyone else
• Sulks if they have to graft
• Wants to do anything but the job they're employed to do, even when it's clearly a priority
• Has four main topics of conversation - their new baby/their new car/their old jobs/their house
• Thinks their 'banter' is brilliant when it's actually pi$$-poor

What is it with these people? How do they not realise that they drain the life out of every situation instead of enhancing it like they think they're doing? 🤷‍♂️🤦‍♂️🙄
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Can you keep this post going with some examples. I think it has the making of a top thread!
 
Borobarmy said:
Sounds fabulous that . Bet you know that bridge like an air fix model , I’d love to check it out one day it’s on my bucket list 👍
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It was fabulous mate.
Some time ago I posted on here how I broke down in tears after the Engineer took us to a reservoir in the eastern suburbs to watch
the lights of the Olympic rings get turned on after we had spent months at night time putting it all together and erecting it.

The bridge has got Dorman Long Middlesbrough, the name of my football team on almost every piece of steel and girder and others
with Skinningove.

To stand there several miles away in the early morning darkness and having turned off all the other lights on the bridge, off ,and watching
the lights inside the rings come on was just a tad too much for me. I was so proud, not only of the job that we had done but proud of
all the other English men and steel that had built this bridge which is an icon to all aussies and my roots came flooding back to me as
well as the tears.

All the other guys were whooping it up and I was stood there trembling and crying my eyes out.
The boys were all putting their arms around me trying to console me and asking what the hell's wrong with me.
It was difficult at that moment of time to even contemplate explaining my thoughts about my father, my football team
all those other men and my roots.
How could they possibly ever understand?
 
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