a selfish work-mate....never know what is give and take..

Just ignore them they'll be gone long before you know it.

If you're in a corporate world, then you should understand this attitude of your workmate. Being kind doesn't fare well if you're career motivated. If you want to succeed, you should be ready to step on people's toes. Maybe he is just ambitious and wants to make sure that he succeeds in everything. Now if he's not career-oriented, then he's just plain selfish!

Work place is perhaps the most accurate representation of the whole world in a capsule. You will find people of very different perceptions and behaviors there. I am not surprised that you found a selfish one. It all depends on whether you want to change him or not. Normally I would keep my distance from him, because I would think he is incurable. In case the effort is to change him, it is better to indulge him with conditions to make him realize that favors are a two way issue. This choice is to made.

If I meet that kind of person he will finished into pieces.(^^) I am a straight-forward person so if I found someone like him I will just say the true or there is no way for me to help him anymore-except if I want to do some good deeds without seeking a reward. I will ignore people like him. He will know sooner that no one like his attitude and at the end if everyone refused to help him he will change or he will resign and bring the same attitude to other place.Don't bother and waste your time for people like him. Unless you are a good person then you can help him so that at least you have made some good deeds.(^^)

Well, everywhere we go, we will eventually encounter a selfish person who no one really likes or maybe they'll pretty popular and everyone loves them but you're the only one who sees the selfishness and unattractive personality they have. I'm still in school so I'm going to talk about this within a school context. I have a group of friends and we're pretty close, where ever we go, it's our motto to go as a group and always stick together. However, that hasn't been happening lately as a few new people joined our friendship group and kind of disrupted it. The thing with some o my friends, one would like another and they would cling to each other and where one goes the other goes too. They're pretty selfish as they only care about themselves and no one else in our friendship group. We always wait on each other but these two particular "friends" would just have each other and walk off. They only wait on each other and no one else. Just today, they left me and my other friend because they wanted to go shopping in a "hurry" and my friend who was with me got pretty angry. But you just ccan't help it, it's them who need to change, maybe you should have an intervention with your whole workplace.

Lol, very simple, you demand a service charge for your 'service' in responding to his favour, I got a colleaque who always Ask Me to buy him stuff in the canteen and vending machine, I out of kind goodwill, helped him but he never reciporated, so whenever he tried to exploit me, I would say, Oh, how much are you paying me for the service charge. I named a price and he Agreed! LOL.

Welcome to the world of office politic. I don't like people like that either, they make work harder than it already is so the best thing to do is don't do them any favors ever again. They have burned that bridge and they know that they can get something for nothing. I would let them know as well, if they think about what they did and apologize then you can have a conditional work relationship with them, if they don't even care that they took advantage of you then I wouldn't bother them for anything ever again.