I HATE My Coworkers

Every workplace has them: people that will push your buttons. These individuals come in many forms:

• the manager who walks all over you
• the colleague who slacks off, working half as hard and as many hours as you do
• the teammate who takes all credit for your work
• the bully who you avoid working with at all costs
• the competitive peer who is 'always right'
• the employee who files discrimination charges with ridiculous 'facts' that are illogical and untrue
• the supervisor who micro-manages everything you do

Have you worked with any of these people? Could you even be one of them? These types of personalities are not only detrimental to their own career growth, but to the employees around them and ultimately to the bottom line of the company. They cause good employees to leave, they waste valuable management time, and they are incredibly difficult to 'let go.'
What can you do about it? I'm personally not a conflict resolution expert, a professional d