― Trayce, Tuesday, 15 May 2007 05:08 (seventeen years ago) link
― onimo, Tuesday, 15 May 2007 07:06 (seventeen years ago) link
― onimo, Tuesday, 15 May 2007 07:08 (seventeen years ago) link
― onimo, Tuesday, 15 May 2007 07:11 (seventeen years ago) link
― onimo, Tuesday, 15 May 2007 07:13 (seventeen years ago) link
― ailsa, Tuesday, 15 May 2007 07:19 (seventeen years ago) link
― aldo, Friday, 18 May 2007 15:09 (seventeen years ago) link
― 696, Friday, 18 May 2007 15:19 (seventeen years ago) link
delivery of chairs this morning, sat there outside the office. so i pick one up and carry it in. it's bulky and there are two half-flights of stairs but hey... 30 minutes later and 5 people, all seemingly able-bodied, have since arrived and yet the other 3 chairs are all still sat outside.
― koogs, Wednesday, 23 May 2007 07:57 (seventeen years ago) link
"Can we all get together to discuss tomorrow's meeting?"
No, that would make it today's meeting!
― onimo, Wednesday, 23 May 2007 08:04 (seventeen years ago) link
I often wonder why people gossip so much. Don't they realize that if you talk everyone's back, people get easily bored by it?
― nathalie, Wednesday, 23 May 2007 08:10 (seventeen years ago) link
Memo to receptionist at magazine: when scheduling lunch cover, please feel free to staff the phones with someone who is not patently terrified of answering them or routing calls.
― suzy, Wednesday, 23 May 2007 08:51 (seventeen years ago) link
Stupid, annoying manager of support team just brought down part of our website running a ridiculous SQL query on our live production table, not using NOLOCK and doing a LIKE on a fucking TEXT field. When oh when will DBA just revoke her access FFS.
― Colonel Poo, Thursday, 24 May 2007 15:18 (seventeen years ago) link
Lately I've been working in an open-plan office room in which there are no cubical walls and only chairs and tables. The programmer one table over has a Star Wars Imperial March ringtone and its loud enough to piece through whatever I'm listening to on my iPod.
― Elvis Telecom, Thursday, 24 May 2007 23:14 (seventeen years ago) link
You have non-leaking headphones, I hope?
― Mark C, Friday, 25 May 2007 00:13 (seventeen years ago) link
Hey, everybody loves Spaceman 3!
― nickn, Friday, 25 May 2007 00:18 (seventeen years ago) link
coworker says revelant rather than relevant..
― Drooone, Friday, 25 May 2007 01:45 (seventeen years ago) link
Coworker says "Elementary my dear Jackson". Dick. Head.
― Hard like armour, Friday, 25 May 2007 01:47 (seventeen years ago) link
I got sent a "Ho ho those illegal immigrants" poem a PFW today. The person in question is not the brightest, so she probably does not mean to offend. I reckon that the world would be happier if I smile politely rather than if I go all special voice on her.
― The Real Dirty Vicar, Friday, 25 May 2007 12:24 (seventeen years ago) link
iPod's playing "Summertime" by Herbie Hancock
CO-WORKER: "That's not you, is it?"
― Pleasant Plains, Friday, 8 June 2007 15:45 (sixteen years ago) link
Bitch taking a day off even though she was told not to (this week).
― stevienixed, Friday, 8 June 2007 16:09 (sixteen years ago) link
(Not stupid, but EXTREMELY annoying and rude.)
― stevienixed, Friday, 8 June 2007 16:10 (sixteen years ago) link
I messed up a program at work and may have caused several hours of repair to database. Today, I am the stupid, annoying co-worker.
― Will M., Friday, 8 June 2007 16:18 (sixteen years ago) link
That's just a mistake.
Annoying is when they slam the microwave door or put their up on shared furniture.
― Ms Misery, Friday, 8 June 2007 16:32 (sixteen years ago) link
Well, it's a gray area. I should have been checking more thoroughly, so I should have caught it before it was a mess, but it also should have been coded properly. Either way, somebody fuxed up and it sucks now. :(
― Will M., Friday, 8 June 2007 16:43 (sixteen years ago) link
Annoying WCG* dude now has the fucking "pook.. pook.. PWWEEEEWWWT" walk signal noise as his cellphone txt notifier noise. It is holy crap loud, and goes of CONSTANTLY. Jesus fuck this guy is irritating.
(*windows calendar guy, see previous)
― Trayce, Tuesday, 12 June 2007 03:46 (sixteen years ago) link
you are easily annoyed, trayce.
― The Cursed Return of the Dastardly Thermo Thinwall, Tuesday, 12 June 2007 18:48 (sixteen years ago) link
Dear my boss
I do not want or need to be friends with people I work with. I have the internet a life outside the office for that. I go in, I am civil and professional and polite for 8 hours, I go home. Stop making me try to discuss stuff I don't want to discuss with people I don't want to discuss it with, and then telling me I'm not a team player because I don't want to be bestest mates and drinking buddies with the people I just happened to end up in an office with.
Just let me do what you pay me for. I'm pretty good at that really. Msybe you might stop worrying about my ability to gibber on at length about Johnny Depp's attractivness or what happened on River City last night long enough to notice that.
love
A
P.S. if you ask me how to spell "supersede" and I tell you, if three other people tell you that it's spelled "supercede", that doesn't make them right. Get one dictionary.
Cheers A
― ailsa, Tuesday, 12 June 2007 21:14 (sixteen years ago) link
Um. Both spellings are acceptable, Ailsa.
― Venga, Tuesday, 12 June 2007 21:17 (sixteen years ago) link
Not in my world they aren't. Grammar fiends and copy editors to thread!
supersede not supercede
(from http://www.guardian.co.uk/styleguide/page/0,,184832,00.html)
― ailsa, Tuesday, 12 June 2007 21:27 (sixteen years ago) link
Heh, I like how my big post there was all ridden with typos. I can spell "maybe" and "attractiveness", honest. I just can't type on this crappy laptop.
― ailsa, Tuesday, 12 June 2007 21:30 (sixteen years ago) link
ONLY BY HIM GOD DAMMIT RARGH *flails arms* ok maybe youre right.
― Trayce, Tuesday, 12 June 2007 22:04 (sixteen years ago) link
When you hear his phone go off, do you step away from your desk and stride down the hallway?
― Hard like armour, Tuesday, 12 June 2007 22:15 (sixteen years ago) link
i cannot believe how much my coworker complains about the heat. we work outside, in miami! what the fuck do you expect?
― lfam, Tuesday, 12 June 2007 22:55 (sixteen years ago) link
Doesn't everyone have a Trayce's co-worker in their office (those who work in offices with several people in them, at any rate)? One person who does a few annoying things so often that everything about them becomes annoying, even things that aren't so bad really, so you're all "dear God, PLEASE stop clanking the edge of your cup with your teaspoon when you're stirring your one cup of coffee of the day, aargh, DIE DIE DIE" for basically no reason at all? No? Just me then (and Trayce)? I've had one nearly everywhere I've ever been.
― ailsa, Wednesday, 13 June 2007 06:15 (sixteen years ago) link
YES EXACTLY. It isnt him or one extreme thing, it is every little goddamn thing he does - crunching ice cubes, making human beatbox noises, the fscking LOUD techno cellphone ringtone and the fact on top of all that, that he earns 20k a year more than me and gladly says he has bugger all to do.
I know its unfair of me but HE IS MY FOCUS rargh.
― Trayce, Wednesday, 13 June 2007 06:22 (sixteen years ago) link
Ah work placements how I love thee.
Currently we are blessed with a morose French girl who can't - or won't - speak English. She was dumped by her boyfriend via text one week into her placement, and now spends all day alternately instant messaging furiously and smoking.
― Archel, Monday, 25 June 2007 14:23 (sixteen years ago) link
Do you speak French?
― Ms Misery, Monday, 25 June 2007 14:26 (sixteen years ago) link
A little... she understands ok. Mainly I just tell her stuff to do and point hopefully, then an hour later she might actually do it.
― Archel, Monday, 25 June 2007 15:12 (sixteen years ago) link
she sounds like the best co-worker ever!
― hstencil, Monday, 25 June 2007 15:13 (sixteen years ago) link
just tell her "tes sins son tellement grosses" - this will cheer her up and improve her overall performance.
― The Cursed Return of the Dastardly Thermo Thinwall, Monday, 25 June 2007 15:29 (sixteen years ago) link
I was just reminded that "if you don't shit you die."
― Drooone, Wednesday, 8 August 2007 01:08 (sixteen years ago) link
):
― Drooone, Wednesday, 8 August 2007 01:09 (sixteen years ago) link
Oh and that was a youngish woman who reminded me.
― Drooone, Wednesday, 8 August 2007 01:37 (sixteen years ago) link
I remind my 3 yr old son of this constantly, though I use the word "poo". I'm sure he views me as his annoying co-worker also.
― Forgot My Pencil, Wednesday, 8 August 2007 03:08 (sixteen years ago) link
I love the way that this mean spirited thread was started by one of the nicest people I've met thanks to ILX :)
― kv_nol, Wednesday, 8 August 2007 09:04 (sixteen years ago) link
Arrrggghhh, fuck fuck fuck, why does my boss have to be so fucking prolix and long-winded and write 39983837 words where 12 will do and leave me to edit this boring over-stuffed shite so it fits on a page without pushing what everyone else has written into the margins - IF YOU WANT PHOTOGRAPHS 'N NICE GRAPHICS 'N SHIT IN THIS NEWSLETTER THEN TRY NOT REWRITING "WAR AND PEACE" EVERY TIME YOU SIT DOWN AT A COMPUTER! Still, at least she's in Tanzania this week, so I don't have her hovering over my shoulder correcting my grammar and quibbling over semi colons and colons and dashes etc etc.
― Tom D., Wednesday, 8 August 2007 09:31 (sixteen years ago) link
I notice I'm a frequent contributor to this page, anyway...
This isn't really that annoying, but the girl in the desk beside me is constantly drinking out of a water bottle - honestly, she drinks gallons of the stuff - what she does is violently grab the bottle, fling her head way back, and noisily glug it like a cowboy necking a bottle o' liquor in a saloon bar scene in a Western, it's all a bit disconcerting
― Tom D., Friday, 17 August 2007 14:57 (sixteen years ago) link
that's pretty hilarious, considering that working in a desk doesn't have that great a risk of dehydration.
― Maria, Friday, 17 August 2007 15:24 (sixteen years ago) link
I drink a ton of water too as some of my medication makes my mouth impossibly dry. However I don't do it in that fashion. I hate when people make that gurgling noise when they drink.
― Ms Misery, Friday, 17 August 2007 15:26 (sixteen years ago) link