Employee swaps broken chair with coworker's chair, gets annoyed when coworker fixes it and won't return it: 'You can have yours back now'
He should've made the effort himself.As The Office memorably taught us, it is quite amazing the lengths that some coworkers can go to when it comes to being annoying and generally disrupting the workday with their unnecessary antics. Some people just can't go a day without starting drama, and many of us have had the misfortune of being in the same workplace as them. Keeping your cool can become something that needs to be added to your job description.When job candidates talk about being able to work under pressure and adapt to their environment in their applications, they usually aren't referring to dealing with the idiosyncrasies of their colleagues. Nonetheless, the beauty of transferable skills is that they can be put to the test in situations where we may not expect to use them. The best way to deal with a coworker who is acting up is to find a professionally appropriate way of getting back at them. It might not be the kind of workplace experience that can be proudly displayed on a resume, but it is still a valuable achievement if you can get it right. This is the dumber cousin of those dreaded office politics.