When someone asks, “Working hard or hardly working?” what’s your response? If you don’t have a good reply, we have some suggestions on this list of The Top Ways to Respond to Annoying People Who Say, “Working Hard or Hardly Working?”
- Like your mom and your sister, I’ve been doing both.
- You’re the reason I pee in the break room coffee pot.
- Working very hard, actually . . . on ignoring you.
- Yeah, I don’t really have anything worthwhile to say to you, either.
- The only thing I’m working on is how to make your death look like an accident.
- Not sure I understand. Give me a moment to look that up in my cliché-to-English dictionary.
- I’m hardly working. And I still make twice your salary. There, glad you asked???
- Comments like this are why you sit in a cubicle covered in action figures.
- Shut up, everybody hates you, and if they see me talking to you, they’ll hate me too.
- Can I get back to you in a minute with my answer? I need time to put on gloves before I strangle you.