Downer colleagues

Anyone else remember Marvin the Paranoid Android from the Hitchhikers Guide to the Galaxy series?  If not, here is a typical quote:

“My capacity for happiness,’ he added, ‘you could fit into a matchbox without taking out the matches first.”

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I have been reminded of Marvin by this miserable old git, N, I have had the displeasure of working beside for the past six weeks or so.  Not only do I have to sit near this guy and listen to him moaning and bitching all day but he is responsible for one part of the project I am managing.  You can imagine how well he responds to any "constructive feedback" I have to give him on his work (which I am going to have to sign off on eventually).  I have had such a gutful of this guy.  Not only is he a misery-guts but he is also nasty and verbally aggressive at times (which Marvin was not).  He gets away with all this because "it's just the way N is".  Wish we could just take his batteries out and let him run down.  I'm sick of him spreading his negativity like its a contagious disease. 

Robot