Do you work with a chronic complainer?

I use to work with someone like this. This person no matter what thought everything was going wrong. Or would find the bad in everything. Or constantly thought bad about everything. She would always complain about everything and no matter what everything was a dire situation with her. In other words she made troubles for herself. Always worried that everything was wrong if not then it soon would be. Crying and going on all the time about things every single day. If things were going good she would always think they were not or something drastic was going to happen and she was the brunt of all bad that could be imagined. This is the way she was. It drove me crazy. I liked her she was a nice person most of the time. Except for her chronic thoughts of doom. She even thought that people were out to kill her. Really paranoid if they were out to kill her they were just out to make her life miserable and to take advantage of her. It's sad really that a person is like this a truly believes what they are thinking. I could not imagine always being like this and never feeling happy or content. It must be a hard way to live. I believe it's hard for them to think any other way and may need a doctors help or meds to help them.

I used to work with a woman who was just like that, nothing was right, everything was wrong, and she would just go on and on and on. So I just tried my darnest to avoid her when ever I could. I was glad when I quit work to have my baby that I would not have to listen to all her complaints again. Those kind of people can drive you nuts.

There are so many here. I just dont give importance. Some are acceptable, some are not. If it is acceptable i gave a look at that if not I just dont mind. Just dont mind them if it annoys you.

Yes,I used to have such a collegue,but now she left our office. We used to ignore her,whenever he tries to complain about somebody or something,otherwise we used to mingle with her..

I worked with one who complained about her pay (every month), about being asked to begin a task if there is only 15minutes of the shift remaining (even if its a ten minute task), about how much work colleagues did (or didnt do), how much people stood around talking (whilst she was standing round talking about them), all manner of pains, strains and sprains. I'm sure we all have a good whinge from time to time but its a bit 'boy who cried wolf' when someone does it all the time.

To work with a chronic complainer is one of the most killing things. You would never hear anything positive from that kind of co-workers. All day long, they are just crazy about complaining-how tired, how busy, and how boring, all those things just make no sense. I do have a colleague of this kind. I have no choice because either he or I yet have never thought of get out of the job. My simply response to him is no response. His endless requesting sometimes makes me mad...

Yes. I have worked with several of those types of people before. It got on my last nerve too. They never had anything good to say. they just wanted to complain all of the time about everything. I always tried to avoid these people also but they would follow me around and stick to me like a magnet, it seemed. It drove me nuts. I had to leave the organization because the people didn't do their job. they were nosey, complainers and loved to spread gossip. I got where I hated to go to work because I got tired of not being able to do my job peacefully. I now work from home.

I had one who doesn't seem to be satisfied with a lot of things at work. The salary, the working conditions, the processes. And yeah, I agree with you, some of them doesn't have basis at all. These are usually selfish rants from her. I do understand though if it's plausible but if she complains out of impulse without thinking first and the complain is starting to be selfish, I try to help her by asking why. I try to explain as clearly as possible. If she responds to it, well and good. If not, it's ok. At least I tried and it's her choice anyway. If she gets overboard and starts complaining and point out personally to other people and starts to act beyond tolerance, we have ways for that.