I have a newish male co-worker who is extremely irritating. I described him to my husband today as being like a combination of Scrappy Doo – Scooby-Doo’s nephew – and Skippy Squirrel – Slappy Squirrel’s overly upbeat nephew on “Animaniacs.”

Sigh…his energy levels are at about a 12, when an 8 would be more than sufficient. He paces around at employee meetings and in the break room. He has to give a loud and very detailed play by play of his job to anyone who’ll listen.

Gee – does he want to hear a play by play of MY job? “Yeah, the pallet I was breaking down decided to give in to gravity and nearly collapsed on me. Then a cardboard bale escaped its restraining wires and two of us had to restack every piece of the cardboard and put it ALL back in the baler. Before we did all of that, I said to the guy who worked with me ‘How are we going to fuck this pig?’ Of course I apologized for my profanity!”

Yeah, he doesn’t want to hear the gory details of my job  – any more than I want to hear the gory details of his job! Sure customers are assholes, but YOU try working in a 80-plus degrees non climate controlled room!

I have no problem with people who have a decent work ethic and work hard. But…could you pretend that everyone around you has a hangover – and KEEP YOUR DAMN VOICE DOWN? Jesus he is SO loud!

Who knows, maybe someone working around you will actually have a hangover – and might be grateful for you lowering your voice! 🤐

He’s snuck up behind me more than once – and I warned him that he was going to give me a heart attack. I hope I’ve given off enough of a “bitch” vibe so that he’ll leave me alone. 😂 Hey – a gal’s gotta do what it takes sometimes!

And…stop – stop pacing around! One of these days I’m going to stick my foot out in a strategic spot and oops – down he’ll go! JK – I don’t want to hurt him (though maybe I really, really do).

If I told him that he reminded me of  Scrappy-Doo and Skippy Squirrel, he’d probably have to use his phone to find out who they were. But would he… understand? 🤔

Maybe I’ll have to just  say he’s like Groot in Guardians of the Galaxy!