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Well, I decided to go out and get a full time job this summer to replace the part timer I had been working while I was out of school. My Mom works for the school system as a school food service superviser/something or another superviser, and came home one day telling me they were redoing the floors to all of the schools in the county (all 4 of them, one high school, one middle school, and two elementary schools), and they were looking for people, so, I decided to apply to it. It turned out I was working with some old friends of mine, so, things havent been so bad. All but one. One guy is the son of one of the maintenance guys at the school, and is only like 14 or 15, but is still working there, even though he is 2-5 years younger than everyone else. He is, uhm, strange, to say the least. He has this odd habit of asking questions that are oddly intrusive and, frankly, none of his business. For instance, he has asked "Are you popular?", to which I replied "Popular enough." He has also asked how much I make at my other part time job, and I just said, "I make enough, now go finish your work." The other day, he started asking what kind of religion I was. I said, "Well, I am Christian...", and he replied by saying, "Well, what kind of church do you go to?" I simply said, "I attend a Cumberland Presbyterian church, now, don't you have something you need to be doing?" He kept pressing with the subject, so I ended up just giving someone else the wax mop I was using and going off to do something else (bwahahah). He also has this odd habit of never working. He sits around doing jack and getting paid for it. He acts as though he is working when being watched, but, if you look, he is just sitting there scraping at something or remopping the same place over and over. There is also the fact that he always tries to turn off our music, because it is 'bad'. I had a vacuum cleaner going one day, listening to some music, and I turned it off, so I asked him to turn it down a bit, seeing as though he was standing next to it. He tried to turn it off (and ended up doing it, accidentally, because he didn't know how to use the CD player). Heck, some of the stuff isn't the most, shall we say, 'family oriented' in the world, but it isn't outright evil (Green Day, Weezer, Foo Fighters, and the like). He has to constantly be prodded to do any semblance of productive work, and he isn't pulling his weight, and is pissing everyone else off greatly in the process. He has managed to get everyone on the crew (plus the superviser) to the point where we want him out of there.

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Anyone else have this problem with a co-worker?

It's been my experience that every workplace has a better than even chance of having such an annoying and unproductive worker. The kind that just gets on your nerves and compels to take out your darkest fantasies of pain & death on him. Look on the bright side, at least the person in question is your co-worker and not your boss, because then things get really ugly.

Ugh, people like that suck to work with. The kid is probably just working because his parents want him to. I would suggest that you or your supervisor talk to this kid in private and make it clear that he's not pulling his weight, and that he needs to pronto. Also, it would be a good time then to mention that his questions are *not* welcome.

You will encounter fluff at almost every job you have for the rest of your life. The most infuriating thing is when you start making good wages and you see some manager who is pulling down 100,000 / year and does not do anything.
Whats more insulting is they never seem to have trouble finding a new job.