If your patience is being tested by a desperately annoying colleague you are not alone, well, so a study published today shows. Yup, it seems two in five workers say their colleagues get on their nerves.  So, working on those stats, in my office of five here at realbuzz.com HQ, two of us are gritting our teeth and bearing the others?

So what's the problem? Complaints included colleuges that ... talked too much, moaned, stole items of stationery (I love this one, but can't really see why it's so infuriating to see a co-worker shuffling out of the office with a Rolodex up their jumper. Could even coin a new event in office Olympics - how many items of stationery can you hide about your person. I might have to suggest that one when the same old, same old afternoon rounds of office paperball start). There were also complaints of those that are too nosy, eat noisily, suck up to bosses, leave their desks in a mess.

And then there were the 'types'; the smelly one, the toy collector, the loud talker, the toucher or the wussy bint talking about her boyfriend...

Timing is odd really as it takes a lot to piss me off, but had to tell Danthis morning the smell of him makes me feel sick. But we are not talking poor body odour, just his chosen brand of aftershave this morning; Joop, (or 'Puke' as I like to call it) makes me want to do just that. He graciously agreed not to wear it to the office, but he may have indeed spat in my tea later on.

I suffered the moaning talker in my previous job, which I reckon to be the worst type of co-worker going. And I believe if I were to walk into my old office now she's still be there with a face like a chewed toffee complaining about the boss, water cooler, lack of holidays, the colour of the Post-it notes, the height of the desks, pile of the carpet ...you kinda get the message? So, in retrospect a grumpy, if a little fragrant, Dan isn't so bad.

So here's your chance to vent your anger, tell me do about your annoying co-workers even if they are 2ft away.

*Please note; re: office paperball, that was actually a complete fabrication, we are always extremely busy here at realbuzz towers, honest. I can fully back that up with a plug to the new My buzz and Walls of Shame and Pain – have you checked out yours yet?