1. The Status Conscious, Double-Faced Mother In Law
Made my son kneel down and scolded him for misplacing his homework papers.
Accused me of being a bad daughter-in-law for not having any pictures of her or her husband in my house.
2. The Psycho Sister In Law
Lied through her teeth.
Took stuff from me and never returned.
Made my husband pay her for living with their mom and "being a driver".
Took my kids gift money from grandma, $26,000.
Made my husband pay for the pearl necklace, a gift from my MIL for the marriage. $10,000.
3. The "Keeping Up with the Jones" Sister
Never appreciative of whatever help she got from us family. Money, housing, cooking, car, etc.
4. The Negative Complainer
Always have a truckload of negativity to dump on others. Always talk to get information from others but never share any useful information.
5. The Snake-like Manager
One of the worst manager in my previous workplace. No decency or courtesy to his female coworkers whatsoever. Just slave drive everyone and step on them to move up. Expertise in taking credits from the team as his own. Also very stingy as a manager and biased and unfair. Really make going to work a nightmare! He did well for himself but everyone else moved on - far away from him or chose to retire.
6. The Putin-like Manager
Classic chauvinistic male manager who would ask the females to make a coffee for him, go ahead order team lunch or plan a team outing. And always asks the female to take meeting minutes, send it out to the team and update the Team Wiki. Females are stuck with doing all the clerical work! Again minimal reward for these extra efforts on top of the already tight work schedules. I think half of his team left him after the project and he also moved on to some other group.
7. The Busy, Know-it-all (yeah right.)
Young guy who always shows he knows everything and pretend to be so busy carrying the majority of the team's workload when in fact that's far from the truth. He just want all the visibility he could get. Not an open, honest person. Definitely someone to avoid at all costs.
8. Laziest Teammate you will ever encountered
Always politely play dumb and need your help or guidance. Acts the same way even after going through the same thing 3-4 times. His standard saying is "I am not sure. You know best." to try to avoid doing anything or leading. Just hide behind others and do minimal, simple tasks. Come in to work just to social and have lunch with his buddies. Of course, another type to avoid at all cost. Don't trust or have this kind of team mate. It's just a waste of headcount. The thing is they try to act and talk super nice and polite but when you hear the content of their words, you will be furious and be in shock on what you just heard from them. No lie is too outrageous to tell for them as long as they say it humbly.
9. Lazy Young Female Engineers)
Again do minimal, just serve the manager, talk nice, organize party and order goodies for the team to gain like. Did minimal and crappy engineering work and move up to Manager after getting married and have a baby! Now as manager, they, too, are slave drivers. Scary bunch.
10. Overweight, Obsolete Manager.
He is in all meetings but just sit there and listen. Not much contribution to the discussion but will just listen to issues and see if any thing falls into his plate to be assigned. His job is just to be in project and management meetings, nothing ever trickles down, information or bonus, never. No one more stingy than this guy. When an important engineer left, only those who is currently working with him can be in the farewell lunch. Everyone else who had worked with him or in the same team as him or know him can not come to the farewell party. People like him in the company is really good for nothing. Not making an impact and not building people up.
11. The Fake Leader
The one who rolled up other people's statuses and present it in the program/project/team meeting. Don't do actual work nor have any leadership guidance in the team. Have been in the company for a long time and know which team to join to continue the cruising and in auto retirement mode.
12. The Stress Transferor
Never smile, focus only about the program issues, schedules and milestones. Forgot about the human side of the team. You get very stressed working under him and actually very unhappy, too. You forgot why you need to work so hard and ended up burnout and want to quit.
13. Useless Behind-Kissing Director.
Make suggestions from time to time but for the most part just handle or the social activities in the business unit. Serve the VP's ESG agendas and carry out the holiday celebration/decoration/planning, video recording, team building type of activities. Try to show off as to have good taste in food selection or decorations for the festive events, all on the company expenses of course.
14. Young ambitious bixxx
Non stopping pinging you with questions, copy confluence pages and slides you have created and make it like she created it. Quick to put other down saying their work is a bit wonky and always tried to remind others she has been in the company longest compare to the most of the folks. But she forgot she's not a developer or doing development work, just support projects. Avoid such person at all cost.
There are many more, but these are the key players that can make work life and life outside work miserable. The best thing would be to stay away and cut ties with them.
