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<\/a><\/p>\nBarbeque chicken? No. Paneer tikka? Maybe. Wasting thyme (see what I did there)? Positively.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n Since when do you need a checklist to evaluate pizza toppings? This guy will even send one of those horrid little calendar requests that\u2019ll beep incessantly on your screen like a traffic light gone wild and give you psychedelic nightmares in your sleep.<\/p>\n There are at least six types of human beings in every office. If it were up to me, I\u2019d get them all to wear hats, so that I\u2019d know which type of human I\u2019m dealing with. But the HR department has rules, and I can\u2019t have my way with them. Oh well. So away with […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[36,110],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-5586","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-work-careers","category-workplace-conflicts"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/yourdost.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5586","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/yourdost.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/yourdost.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/yourdost.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/yourdost.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5586"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/yourdost.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5586\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/yourdost.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5586"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/yourdost.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5586"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/yourdost.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5586"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
\n1. The Meeting Madcap:\u00a0<\/strong>This is the fellow that calls for a team meeting to decide which pizza to order for team lunch and then drags it to a point where you feel like pulling your hair out. Or his.<\/p>\n\n
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\n2. The Confused Communicator<\/strong>: This swell gentleman will email you, message you, call you, stalk you and scare you, all in five minutes. Because just an email is so old school.<\/p>\n
\n3. The Champion Chatterbox:<\/strong> She\u2019s the girl who thinks your face is God\u2019s answer to a real chat room. She\u2019ll corner you in the corridor, trap you in the canteen and rant to you in the washroom. She\u2019s the bearer of new gossip and the sharer of fresh woes. You mentally reward yourself with a chocolate bar every time you clock a face-time of more than five minutes with her. But seriously, any excuse for another chocolate bar is reason enough, so hey.<\/p>\n
\n4. The Workaholic Whackjob:<\/strong> This character is in office when you arrive in the morning and when you leave in the evening. You can swear you\u2019ve seen him opening the shutter once or twice too. His fingers tap away at his laptop keyboard like mini tap dancers performing in unison. And he is always busy. He is always late for lunch, doesn\u2019t have time for conversation and walks around with a perpetual stress-face. Watching him brings back flashes from the \u2018Walking Dead\u2019.<\/p>\n<\/a>
\n5. The Dabba Demolisher:<\/strong> You know that person who eyes your food shiftily and makes suggestive (and disturbing) statements like \u201cHmm, your food smells nice today\u201d as he inches progressively closer towards your food? With him, I\u2019d say watch your precious cupcake like a hawk. I\u2019d even say label it with a post-it note. It\u2019s ALWAYS worth it for that extra bite of cake. In the long run, you\u2019ll realize that people eventually flake off from your life. But cake? The cake will ALWAYS be there for you.<\/p>\n
\n6. The Terrific Time-Keeper:<\/strong> This marvelous soul swipes in at 9, swipes out at 5, refuses to pick up after-hours calls, but charms her bosses like a boss. And just when you decide that it\u2019s a great practice to follow and try to sneak out at 5:30, ten pairs of eyes follow you all the way to the door where the security guard pipes up with a \u201cHalf Day ah, Medum?\u201d So much for trying!<\/p>\n<\/a>For tips on how to deal with office stress-related issues, or if you just want to say Hi, reach out to experts on YourDOST.com<\/a><\/strong><\/em><\/h3>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"