Employee's colleagues fail to respond to their emails, Microsoft Teams chats, and other methods of communication, sparking a discussion about non-communicative coworkers in the workplace: ‘I can walk into their offices and scream it at them I guess…’

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Lana DeGaetano • "Show me to me please."
Sep 14, 2025 6:00 PM EDT

I think we can all agree that going to work steals a sliver of our sanity, and the last thing we want to do is hear the Slack notification 100+ times a day. Even still, we must go on. The world will keep spinning, the bills billing, and after all, we're paid to talk to our coworkers. I know—annoying, right? When the employee in this next story is chewed out by coworkers for 'not telling' them important things as they occur, they spark discourse with fellow annoyed employees about coworker incompetence.

Answering our coworkers' messages—really engaging with them—on important company matters is base-level, bare minimum behavior. When a coworker tries to flip the script and cry wolf, claiming that you are in the wrong, not them, it brings a certain corporate demon out from within you. How do you proceed? Well, like this employee states, they can just scream at them in their offices because maybe, just maybe, they'll listen.

But sometimes, even when the answer is right in front of them, they choose to believe they are correct in the situation. This is a character flaw—no skin off your back. Until it comes time for reviews and you have multiple complaints from them about you…

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