Colleagues are a critical part of what makes your work experience enjoyable and meaningful. You interact with your colleagues and (in the best of cases) create a neighborhood of peers that you can rely on both to push the work forward and to share the joys and tribulations of the workday.

That’s why annoying colleagues can be a particular thorn. When you have a peer at work that you don’t want to deal with, it disrupts the flow of your day and diminishes your intrinsic enjoyment of work.

So, what can you do to deal with annoying coworkers? A lot of that depends on what is making them annoying. Here are a few possibilities.

Missing social norms

One thing that can make a colleague annoying is that they just don’t understand the social norms of the office. This is particularly likely to b

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