The HR Specialist

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You have to handle plenty of serious employee gripes about benefits and harassment. But as shown by a new CareerBuilder survey of 2,600 HR pros and hiring managers, you also have had to deal with some truly offbeat complaints. Some highlights include employees’ gripes that a co-worker: 

• Has big hair
• Eats all the good cookies
• Is so polite, it’s infuriating
• Is trying to poison me
• Has a ‘magnetic body’ and keeps de-activating his magnetic access card
• Only wears slippers or socks at work
• Has an ‘aura that’s all wrong’
• Breathes too loudly
• Wants to check a co-worker for ticks
• Wore bells on her shoes and it’s not the holidays
• Reminded him too much of Bambi
• Spent too much time caring for stray cats around the building
• (Male co-worker) keeps using the ladies’ room because the men’s room is not as tidy.