Everyone has their own unique personalities, making them more or less easy to get along with. People with challenging personalities are those individuals who are difficult to get along with. There are many different kinds of challenging personalities.
If you know that you have a challenging personality, you should try to take steps to make improvements. You could ask someone you trust to give their honest opinion about your personality. You could also read a self-help book or website to get ideas.
Challenging personalities are unavoidable in both the professional and personal realms of live. Learning how to deal with these kinds of people, or how to improve yourself if you are one of these people, can greatly improve interpersonal relationships. Some examples of challenging personalities include confrontational individuals, pessimists, drama queens, and narcissists.
This RichardStep Marketing survey was designed to get a better understanding of what really gets under the skin of those folks out there dealing with challenging personalities. Read over the awesome answers below and see how you can tailor your business to address the frustrations of the people most relevant to your business niche market. Want more? Read the 125 other topics in the ‘Frustrations’ survey category by clicking here.
The following list are uncut and raw responses of the things this group found most frustrating in their daily lives.
Challenging Personalities
- At home it fine, wish I could be alittle more active and organized. At work, ha its a joke, the people are ok but not the greatest, the manager really does not know how to run a business. I personally do not like having to pick up dog crap for a living at 10 bucks an hour.
- At work: 1. frustrating not able to meet dateline as per program timeline 2. frustrating not able to meet supervisor expectation 3. frustrating not able to deal with difficult people in order to complete task at hand 4. frustrating not able to spent more time with family member because of work load in hand
- AT work: what I was hired to do for my job is not congruent with the pay I receive; new tasks are given to me almost daily with no additional pay or advancement in view. I am bombarded at work with telephone calls, people at the counter, mail deliveries, invoicing (inbound and outbound), favors from other employees/ managers, and more. I do not feel that I am adequately compensated for what I do.
- Being a dancer I had the challenge of having my choreography performed that became very stressfull because of the cast chosen.My choreography required diligents and hardworking and a whole lot of sweat.Having an really excellent cast that doesnt take there talents seriously.Lazy people that gave a front that they hardworking and do the total opposites frustrates me.In general,do not waste my time,disadvantage of talent and lazy people.
- Cleaning up other people’s mess. frustrating because I am not the cause of the problem, but I either have to suffer the consequences for a mistake that was not my own, or take responsibility for the repair job. not my fault, but my responsibility to clean up if I want to live free of the consequences.
- Copious amounts of incompetent people, has been the major stressor in the past week. This frustrates me because I am routinely ready get things done, whether it be work or mundane tasks, while others simply do not understand how to move forward and frequently decided that they cannot get over the barrier and move on not because they can’t, but because they lack the thought and effort to.
- Do a list of technical tasks a peer generated for me. I am his equal at work but still the acting manager allows this because he requested these tasks to be done. This is after he complained about a few different people at work, including me, at higher management but now he needs assistance and no body whats to work with him. I got the lucky draw.
- Doing homework and waiting for people (hanging out). I’m sick of wasting time and would rather be doing and learning what I want rather than what I am told. I think I would do better that way but I am unsure of my abilities and am not sure whether or not to succumb to the norm or do it my way.
- Doing homework is frustrating because people live in an illusion that “homework” is actually a method of studying and learning, it’s simply a repition of the classwork. I’d rather not have any commitments or deadlines and just sit on my desk, with a book and read and learn independently of what others believe is the way to learn because frankly, I barely learn anything from doing homework.
- Everything in my life at this point can get a little frustrating. I have bills to pay as I am doing my externship not getting paid, I have a dog to take care of by myself while working eight hours everyday during the week. One good thing is knowing that I love going to my extern site, I would love to stay there and I love the people. That is the only thing keeping me going.
- Frustrating things in my life recently: Not knowing what the next step is. I need to get a better job, but I don’t know which direction I should go or how to get there. People who don’t get me. There are some people that think I’m a certain way, or that I should be a certain way, and I’m not. Team sports–watching them and playing them. Watching them seems like a waste of time, and playing them is frustrating because I feel like either the other players are condescending or pushy.
- I find it frustrating when people don’t listen to what you are saying because they are already have an opinion about a situation or person. Example at work I had to explain to a woman why I had to ask her daughter to leave the pool because there was no adult supervising them and the lady had already decided that I had an agenda with her and was not listening to the fact that I was trying to do my job and think about the safety of her child. There is nothing more frustrating then a parents who thinks that their child could never do no wrong.
- I find it very frustrating being around people who have, seemingly, everything going for them but make excuses why they cant succeed but keep on asking me to help them achieve their goals. One guy I work with has trouble reading and knows he has dyslexia, which I also have, in particular Irlens syndrome a refraction and reflection issue which stresses out the processing centres in the brain and is largely corrected with tinted glasses. He has been tested to see if the glasses could help him and they do but then he doesn’t wear them and still complains about his dyslexia! So annoying to be around.
- I was trying to arrange my working visa in another country which require me to find a person to provide a countersign on my document. It was pretty hard as I don’t have many closed friends and at the same time I worried that I couldn’t get everything done on time. But what frustrate me most was the lack of trust from people who I haven’t met for long time. sometimes our relationship could be very fragile.
- I work with a person that has been with the company I work with much longer than I have. She gets paid more than I do, but she avoids doing work and I have to pick up the slack for her. She also doesn’t know her job. This causes me to fail to meet deadlines. She tries to cover-up by being overly nice and calling people “honey” etc. So I get called on the carpet for errors and she skates.
- My uncle died a few weeks ago and ive never had a member of family die before, I felt obliged to say thankyou to him but I didnt get chance and now I find myself saying no to opportunities because I feel I can’t do a good enough job because so many people have turned me away. I keep smiling though but I fear the hurt has risen up to the surface and I’m showing my breaking point
- The most frustrating thing about my current job (student) is the fact that some of my teachers do not love what they do. I also have to complete a lot of busywork that does not necessarily lead to what I want to do in life. In addition, change happens very slowly and many people are unwilling to explore new ways of doing things.
- The most frustrating thing I have had to deal with in the past few days is having to help all the other departments at work BIN their freight and I don’t receive any help from the people I helped. This makes me feel like I can’t get my stuff done one time like I would like to.
- The most frustrating thing I have had to do at work is pick up other peoples slack. I came in early for a lady and she was not thankful and did not finish everything so I had to finish what she was to do and she had put down she already did it.
- The most frustrating thing I have had to do in the past week was put on a face to get through a work day when I have a lot of serious issues going on in my personal life. It is hard to have to be completely different people in your life, yet still feel the same way at the core. Many times I wish that my personal and work life could be one with people that love and support me regardless of my frustrations and struggles.
- The most frustrating thing is just going to work… I don’t like my work, Im stuck, its boring, not challenging, mediocre, not creative, not inspiring, just a lame 8-6 job, so just being here 10 hours in a room with no windows, with boring uninspiring people, doing lame work that I don’t even care about, so as you can imagine im feeling very stuck! plus im strugling in finding my passion, my purpose so it makes it hard to focus and decide what to do to get out of this hole, because I don’t want to quit here and end up in the same situation in a different place
- The most frustrating thing I’ve had to do in the last few months is come to terms with the hard reality that there aren’t many good job opportunities out there for newly graduates, or women or people in general, and having to adjust my life expectations to a much darker future. I don’t understand why people keep telling me that it’s ok to be poor in your twenties. The way I see things, I will still be poor far into my thirties, and I feel something must be deeply wrong with the world when most people say it is ok to be poor.
- The most frustrating thing that has happened to me in the past few days was a group of people I stayed at work late to meet with were half an hour late. It was frustrating because I felt like I was being disrespected and they acted like my time wasn’t as valuable as theirs.
- Unrealistic expectations from supervisor. Having a million and one things to be responsible for but not getting the time to do it, especially when I was promised a set time to do it, but the promise fell through. Now all these things get carried into next week, and my work load doubles. Especially because its been like this since Christmas! I want things to get done and get done properly. And I feel that the repercussions of not getting this time to get this stuff done is having negative effects on the people I’m in charge of.
- Well, nothing is ever frustrating for me. I just act like I am frustrated so that people think that I am frustrated and don’t disturb me with silly things and waste my time until and unless something is really important. though one thing irritates me a lot – my unmatchable degree of procastination . I don’t like to waste my time upon silly things with others but that’s what I do when I am alone trying to do some really important work.