Could you work with… you?!

When I’m in the office, I think I’m pretty easy to work with most of the time – various people in here fart a lot, talk bloody LOUDLY on the phone and can be quite annoying. One we call Darth cos his breathing is so loud

I do swear and talk to myself on occasion, but mostly just working with headphones on… so I wondered what it would be like to be someone else with me here… I think it would be FAB! Colin Hunt without the whacky ties. Maybe.

So what are you like? could you share an office with someone like yourself??

No, we’d clash horribly

I think it would work fine up until the point of proper late night stress, then I would be a nightmare, just pushing folk too hard. If that bit of work can be avoided then probably all ok.

Yes, he can do the work and i’d go out on my bike.

I think I would initially be a bit overwhelmed by my dynamism, flare, breathtaking good looks and incredible levels of knowledge and skills, but once I’d got used to it I’d have a great time working with me.

: oD

Yeah – might get bored though, I’m not known for my sparkling repartee!

Interesting self-reflection though isn’t it? Some people could do with thinking: “Am I annoying?”

**** no I’m intolerable and intolerant. But I’ve always worked pretty much solo so that’s ok.

I’m watching a slightly surreal comedy show on Apple TV at the moment where Paul Rudd clones himself and the show poses a similar sort of question (its pretty entertaining, if anyone has Apple TV and wants to watch a chilled kind of sitcom).

I work in an office with 17 other people and I do really try and be as empathetic and patient as possible to everyone, so I guess on that basis I’m hopefully not the worst person to work with. I do like to get my head down though so sometimes need to be cajoled into talking crap about what’s on TV that night, if you like that sort of thing.

On a slightly different note, it seems fairly common to completely despise your colleagues judging by what people write on the internet . But I don’t really dislike any of mine and am happy to spend time with pretty much all of them occasionally having a pint after work or whatever. Perhaps I am just lucky or maybe it just means that I myself am the office nob-head.

Interesting self-reflection though isn’t it? Some people could do with thinking: “Am I annoying?”

Yup – a really interesting question.  For me in some ways it would be really good to have someone else who thinks in the same slightly odd way I do, in others I think I would annoy myself a bit .  so both yes and no for me

We’d either sit in almost complete silence, quietly resenting how loudly we each type or bore the balls off each other droning on about bicycles. either way we’d have a perfectly functioning coffee making schedule!

Yes, easily, as wed just leave each other alone to get on with our jobs. Probably wouldn’t even register I exist.

If you can’t work out who the Office arsehole is…

Yes, but I doubt it would be mutual.

No, I’m an arsehole.

It would depend what sort of mood either of us were in. I doubt we’d get on

Yes, i would have the perfect fall guy.

I think i am quite a nice teammate, but possibly rather dull. I think I’d get bored of my own company….

no, you can only really have one person just doing random stuff

The me nowadays, who doesn’t really give a flying **** about anything any more? Fine.

The me when I was younger? Not a chance! I was a nightmare!

am happy to spend time with pretty much all of them occasionally having a pint after work or whatever

It’s strange that – my last place we’d all go out as a group, sometimes a few of us, and I still go to gigs with someone I worked with back then. But now, I can’t be arsed with any socialising! I’m not even going to the Christmas do this year. I think it’s just cos I’ve got old(er) 😛

yes, i think so.

i always just got on with work, getting things done as quickly as i could, so i could take it easy guiltfree.

and if i worked for myself i would still be ok with this ethos. get it done then take it easy.

Nobody could work with me, that’s one of the things I pride myself on. I’m totally confident that, if I got paired up with myself, the other guy would quit.

Absolutely not. I have a really low tolerance for people that are idiots and really high expectations for people I work with. I could see that being a huge problem if I were forced to share an office or work with me, whether as a user or a co-worker.

Also, have you seen how he dresses? And you want me to share an office with that?

No.

In people I work with as a manager I like consistency, be that in behaviour or pace of work. I like to know what I’m going to get from people.

I am the opposite. I work in bursts and go from the talkative one to the guy who never says a word. I am all or nothing, and often both in the same day.

I’m a nightmare

No work would be done. I’d just talk bollocks to me and other me would do the same. It would be fun but we’d get sacked relatively quickly. I listen to music on headphones a lot because the alternative is me talking to myself or anyone else.

It’d be great. We’d have a shared hatred of the radio (presenter’s so-called banter and faux urgency of speech, pop music, extremely limited playlist, adverts) and so never put it on so there’s that **** drain & distraction out the window. We could listen to and enthuse about the music we do love – probably on headphones in case someone else came along. Either that or somehow we liked different forms of music and then couldn’t bare the other hearing what we like or bare listening to what the other liked. We could moan endlessly about the bugs in the software we use all day everyday, about how irritating each piece of s/w in a suite does very similar things but in completely different ways in terms of the user interface and keyboard shortcuts. Talk random nonsense and make weird jokes no one else got (probably because they’re not funny).