Features of awkward colleagues

By Ken Y-N ( February 20, 2012 at 06:26) ? Filed under Polls, Rankings

goo Ranking took a look at a subject close to my heart, what are the characteristics of coworkers who are difficult to work with.

Demographics

Between the 17th and 18th of January 2012 1,048 members of the goo Research online monitor group completed a private internet-based questionnaire. 61.6% of the sample were female, 12.3% in their teens, 15.6% in their twenties, 27.9% in their thirties, 25.8% in their forties, 9.5% in their fifties, and 8.9% in their sixties. blah blah.

I?d say the main problem I see with my colleagues is an unwillingness to challenge the status quo, or even to just suggest different ways of doing things. One recent case that comes to mind was that I was moving on to a new project, and I asked what other people in similar environments were using for source code control, and the answer I got back was ?nothing?. After banging my head on the desk for a few minutes, I decided to go with git, which I taught myself in two minutes.

Naturally, I have none of the characteristics from the list below.

Ranking result

Q: What are the characteristics of colleagues who are difficult to work with? (Sample size=1,048)

Rank	?	Score
1	Violent mood swings	100
2	Doen?t admit their own mistakes	99.4
3	Always criticising	98.9
4	Always changing their viewpoint	89.5
5	Doesn?t inform me when things are not right	82.7
6	Poor time management	75.8
7	Often late for work	70.6
8	Doesn?t do things by deadlines	65.9
9	Pessimistic	57.5
10	Always talks idealistically	50.9
11	Procrastinates	44.7
12	Drones on and on	42.1
13	Has no opinions of their own	38.5
14=	Indecisive	35.5
14=	Poor at schedule management	35.5
16	Poor at explaining things	35.0
17	Rude to those below them	28.4
18	No conculsions in their email	21.2
19	Not proficient with computers	20.1
20	No self-confidence	16.3

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