Working with those you can’t stand in Covid times

Can’t stand your co-worker or manager? Working from home may temporarily banish them from your immediate vicinity but it doesn’t mean shutting down interaction completely. — AFP

You can’t choose your family and, unless you’re fresh to the world of work, you probably already know that you can’t choose your colleagues either. And when it comes to working together to get the job done, loathing your co-worker or your manager can prove problematic.

In 2017, the Viking Blog surveyed French people about the work colleagues they hate, and three types of co-worker stood out: the phoney nice-guy (that colleague who’s all smiles, then bitches about you behind your back), the phoney hard-worker (who always tells you how busy they are before heading out for another coffee break), and the bootlicker (who annoys everyone by sucking up to managers).