The reason why we started to get annoyed with him because the company party was announced after he had emailed in sick, and then he decided to show up. I think

The reason why we started to get annoyed with him because the company party was announced after he had emailed in sick, and then he decided to show up. I think the fact that he could work from home laid bare his douchebag self, and yes that was why he was annoying. I neglected to mention that the company eventually decided to make it a policy to not email the entire company about working from home. This made him much more tolerable. :-)