10 Irritating Stereotypes You Meet In Every Office

9. The Train Wreck

Also Known As: The Master of Disaster, The Maharishi of Mishaps, The Human Clusterf***Identifying Traits: She's the girl in your office who seems to be dealing with a different major catastrophe every day of her life. Take the sum total of personal crises you've ever faced, multiply it by 30, and that's a typical week for The Train Wreck. Her car gets repossessed, her husband gets arrested, her kid gets divorced, and she's hospitalised with flesh-eating bacteria. Then it's time for lunch on Tuesday. Native Habitat: Pacing outside the building, sporting a grave facial expression, furiously chain smoking with one hand and clutching her cell phone with the other, tearfully lamenting her latest spate of bad fortune to some friend or family member. If you're on your way to the restroom when she comes back inside, you will be treated to a lengthy recap of whichever series of disastrous events she's grappling with today. The Train Wreck will at no point stop speaking long enough for you to politely excuse yourself, the likely result of which will be a quick trip home to change your soiled trousers. Career Trajectory: The Train Wreck spends so much time dealing with personal issues that she hasn't actually completed any work since May of 2006. When downsizing happens, she'll be the first one out the door.