Does anyone else work with someone they truly dislike?

I have in the past and it really is soul sucking.

I have in the past and does it ever make for a long day!

Dislike would not be a strong enough adjective for the feeling I have toward this guy. Quotes from him (paraphrased) He bought a Chinese wife because American women are too independent and Chinese women know their place. It is not possible to rape your wife, she is your property. His wife was supposedly a doctor in China but didn't know how to use or flush a toilet, he had to show her. It goes on and on and on. I quit speaking to him years ago but I still have to hear his disgusting voice when he talks to other people in the area.

He skeeves me out and I have actually been to HR about him twice. The first time he rammed into the golf cart I was driving with the cherry picker he was driving because I wasn't moving fast enough for him. That completely pissed me off because I don't play at work, it is too easy to get hurt. Off to HR. The last time I went it was because he threw my tools and phone on the floor at work. I was using the golf cart to tote 36" fans to be cleaned and he wanted the buggy so when I stepped off it for a second, he took the opportunity to throw all of my things to the floor. Nope, not playing that crap mister. Off to HR again.

Yes! Our EC (exceptional children) teacher. She's lazy, doesn't communicate IEP needs, pulls kids out when she wants to, doesn't let us know when she's not pulling, doesn't socialize (during workdays she went out for lunch every day and never stayed and ate with us), walks by and never says hi or smiles, pretends she doesn't know how to fill out certain paperwork so her supervisor ends up doing it, complains she doesn't have enough planning time - she has an hour and a half and all she does is canned programs so there's no planning involved, doesn't have a duty like the rest of us because again she complained she didn't have enough planning time. Hoping she'll leave.

There are several someones I truly dislike I n my office. Thankfully, I don't have to work closely e with the majority of them.

Oh yes, for the last 6 years and getting worse by the day. A lying, obnoxious know-it-all who has no social skills, talks and acts like she is the smartest person on earth and talks about how she has worked in every aspect of our field-no way unless she started her career while in her mother's uterus and we investigated it was all lies.  She talks nonstop about her photographic memory and how lucky her husband is "to have married such an intelligent woman". Of course in reality I would feel sorry for her if she wasn't so annoying and obnoxious as she has little life experience, common sense and adaptability, just major signs of over compensation. She is is not very good at her job but has turned down every opportunity to improve stating she already knows what is being offered.

We are a department of two so I am somewhat stuck, but thank goodness I have my own office and not in the cube farm with her as that would do me in. Another saving grace is I am in a general management role so I can safely ignore her and ask her to cease and desist but it is just she does such damage to our department and institution. HR has been working on sending her on her way which will be such a relief for me and all her cube farm mates. HR is being very diligent with the documentation prior to termination which takes time.

YES! And it was dreadful. Soul-sucking is a good description.
I have to admit, I felt completely validated when I recently found it she was fired.

I had a teammate who would get the other people on his team to do his work and then laugh at them. He would actually say, "Watch how I can get X to do this for me." He also believed that minority children and children from lower class families were the reason his test scores weren't where the district thought they should be. He taught from his chair by telling history stories that he loved instead of actual standards. The only committee he would be on was the one that teachers used if they had an issue with the district. Everyone else was on multiple committees and actually worked with kids. He believed 911 was an American action and that the moon landing never happened and that there were aliens in our ceilings at work. He had a heart condition the last few years and continually asked who was current on their CPR card. When I asked him if he was current, he said he didn't need to be we did. It didn't seem to matter that he had a wife and two sons that might need CPR in an emergency. At his previous school, the ladies did all of the grunt work for him, so when he transferred to our school he did not know how to do a print order or run his own copies. He also fell asleep at his desk frequently (even before he was sick), and sat at his desk and read the paper or a history book while the kids took the state standardized tests. I do not know how he kept his job for 17 years.

My supervisor is, unfortunately, someone I truly dislike. And I was thrilled when we first hired her. She sits on a national professional board for our field and I truly thought she'd be someone we all could learn and grow with. She seemed so nice at first. So warm. So...professional.

A few months in, we began to have doubts. We'd catch her in lies, often about inconsequential things. She would come unprepared to meetings she held and eventually made our team meetings less frequent. She cancelled the training sessions we'd told her we valued greatly and felt were vital. We realized she would talk about each of us behind our backs. Often to each other. And it soon became apparent that she MUST be the first person to know something and ALWAYS knows more about something than anyone in the room. She has lied about meeting our goals to upper leadership. Or made it sound like the goals were different than they were. And she gets beyond flustered when provided even the most well-worded feedback.

Flash forward 2.5 years and she has driven out my favorite, highly skilled coworker who had the audacity to start calling her on things and questioning her. She was gaslighting this coworker so badly (I could go on and on about that). And she's hired two new people who LOVE her. And completely ignores me and another colleague. I could continue but I'm so disheartened just recounting this much. Thanks for providing a place to vent!

So, yes.

We listen to pandora all day at work. One of my coworkers insists on singing falsetto along with every song. He doesn't have a falsetto voice. Later I have been asking if we can cut the music for a few hours a day so I don't have to listen to him sing.

Yes - the office manager of a law firm where I worked.

I am not exaggerating that there are days that I am very, VERY lucky that she didn't walk out in the street at the same time I was behind the wheel because I could have gladly run her down and left her flattened in the street.

Oh yes! She has to be the center of attention. She thinks she is perfect and she is jealous over those who can do their job better, or who are well liked. She befriends people who everyone likes then talks about them behind their back and lies about them to get them written up. She is really good friends with one of the managers and uses that to get advantage. Of course, the manager is just like her. They do everything behind your back and when you confront them,they bat their eyes and play innocent.

So being the bitch I am, I went along with everything when she came pandering to me. She came to completely trust me and tell me everything. And when she started lying about people, spreading rumors, and deliberately setting people up, I told them what was going on. I did it in a way that she wouldn't know it was me. I kept a lot of people out of trouble and got her written up instead. And all I did was tell the truth. Now everyone knows how she is so they don't fall for her bs. I guess you'd say I was a double agent lol.

Yeah, it was high school bs, but at my workplace, sometimes you have to play the games to keep from getting stabbed in the back.

Good for you!  Document all that stupid crap and hopefully he gets shown the door soon.

I don't currently, but I have in the past. Working with someone that you can't stand really sucks the fun out of going to work. As soon as my person was gone from the company (they finally got fired) work was all of a sudden awesome again.

Melissa