Top 10 Worst Fictional Co-Workers

I have been thinking about how terrible it would be to have bad co-workers! Having to come to work everyday and sit beside, or work with, someone you can’t stand! I have compiled a list of who I think are the top 10 worst fictional co-workers – who would be the most annoying, needy, frustrating, non-productive, least qualified, meanest people to work with.

10. Joey Tribbiani, Friends

Joey is a dim-witted, skirt-chasing actor, mostly desperately unemployed except for two periods as Dr. Drake Ramore in the soap Days of Our Lives, who is yet likeable due to his disarmingly naive personality and an almost infallible womanizer, to his mates’s envious admiration. Joey was also  briefly employed at Central Perk as a waiter. He did not like the work but, true to his nature, soon found a way to use his position to meet and ingratiate himself to attractive women by giving them free food. He  also spent one episode working with Chandler as an entry-level processor. He treated the job like another acting role where he was “Joseph the Processing Guy” and created a complex back-story for the character. Chandler began to dislike the Joseph character when he started showing up Chandler while working.

9. Todd Packer, The Office

Todd is a boorish Outside Sales Representative. He tells obscene, disrespectful jokes which offend everyone. Packer treats Michael more like an audience for (and occasional target of) his jokes rather than a friend. However, Packer has said they are friends. Michael still idolizes him despite the fact that he’s one of the most obnoxious douchebags to ever grace the Scranton, Pennsylvania area. In my opinion, what would not make me happy with him as a co-workers is if he broke into my office and took a giant dump in the middle of the floor.

8. Les Nessman, WKRP

Knowing next to nothing about sports, he makes several glaring errors, for example mispronouncing golfer Chi Chi Rodriguez’s name as “Chy Chy Rod-ri-gweeze” and calling a swimming event “breast stroking.” Les works in the WKRP bullpen, a big room with desks for several of the employees. Les believes that as the news director, he should have his own private office, so he puts masking tape on the floor around his desk indicating where walls would be if he had his own office. He insists that anyone who approaches his desk must knock at an imaginary door and wait for permission to come in.

7. George Louis Costanza, Seinfeld

He is unable to remain in any job for any great length of time before making an embarrassing blunder and getting fired. Very often, the blunder is lying and trying to cover it up, only to have it all fall apart. Over the course of the series, he works for a real estate–transaction services firm , a rest stop–supply company, Elaine’s company, the New York Yankees (his longest running job), a playground-equipment company, an industrial smoothing company, and other places. He is fired from his job at Pendant Publishing for having sex with the cleaning woman on his desk in “The Red Dot” (he professes he has always been attracted to cleaning women).

6. Mimi Bobeck Carey, The Drew Carey Show

Sitting beside a woman with extreme makeup on coupled with a clownish wardrobe, like Mimi wears everyday, would be a challenge for anybody. Drew has an even harder time with her due to their foul mutual dislike for eachother.

5. Dwight Kurt Schrute, The Office

Dwight’s ability as a salesman, though, has rarely commanded the respect of his peers or led to higher levels of professionalsuccess. Dwight formally held the title of “Assistant to the Regional Manager” but constantly refers to himself as “Assistant Regional Manager,” attempting to elevate himself to second-in-command to Michael Scott. Though Dwight acts like a know-it-all, he is actually quite gullible and naïve. For this reason, he is easily tricked and pranked by his desk-mate and fellow salesman Jim Halpert. Dwight speaks in a halting, intense manner, even in casual conversations.

4. Ron Burgundy, Anchorman

Always confident and well-dressed, he is nevertheless ignorant, egotistical, misogynistic, and narcissistic, stating that he believes “diversity” to be some type of “old, old wooden ship used in the Civil War era.” It eventually is revealed that he knows almost nothing of the news or what makes it work, and is a success because he “reads the news quite very well,” which ends up getting him at the end.

3. Emily Charlton, The Devil Wears Prada

Miranda’s haughty senior assistant, who tolerates her boss’s rudeness and insults so that she may accompany her to Paris for Fall Fashion Week. Emily is the classic portrayal of the unfriendly co-worker who is just there to get ahead in life. When Andy comes into the role as the junior assistant, Emily does nothing to help her acclimatize in the new high-stress environment with Miranda Priestley. Emily constantly makes snarky comments to Andy about her clothes, shoes, hair and what she eats. She would make this job miserable for anyone!

2. Obadiah Stane, Iron Man

Stane, Howard Stark’s old partner, has the job of taking care of the day-to-day duties for Stark Industries. Later we find out that Stane has been supplying terrorists with Stark weaponry and hired the Ten Rings to kill Stark, but the group reneged on the deal upon discovering who the target was. He then reverse engineers his own suit from Stark’s first; however, his scientists cannot duplicate Stark’s arc reactor. Undeterred, Stane ambushes Stark in his house, uses a sonic device to paralyze him, removes the arc reactor from Stark’s chest and leaves him to die.

… Not a very nice c0-worker.

1. Homer Simpson, The Simpsons

Safety Inspector at the Springfield Power Company. Homer has had many jobs in his lifetime – boxer, astronaut, imitation Krusty, truck driver, plow driver, food critic, grease salesman, carny, mayor, body guard for the mayor, country western manager, garbage commissioner, farmer, inventor, celebrity assistant, fortune cookie writer, beer baron, Kwik-E-Mart clerk, and missionary.

His main day job is safety inspector at the Springfield Power Plant Company. On the job you can find Homer eating donuts at his station, spilling coffee, taking a nap, clipping his toenails, shoving pencils up his nose and ignoring the alarm sounds. How could anyone work with him????

I’m sure there are people like these characters in the real world. No wonder 82% of people aren’t passionate about their work. What do you think – could you work with these people? Who would be your biggest nightmare to have to work with?? Let me know!