Let's bitch about our stupid, annoying co-workers

I'm soooooo ready for my new job with a CHEF in house and a deck on the roof and bike storage

braggin ^

we have multiple "chefs" in house at our staff caf and guess what they all suck

hmm CFA designation? seems to require no school and may be meaningless?

we have multiple "chefs" in house at our staff caf and guess what they all suck

-- bell_labs, Wednesday, April 2, 2008 4:22 PM (7 minutes ago) Bookmark Link

free lunch, not a caf

the office is basically laid on like a bunch of big desk islands around a kitchen / dining / meeting area

googling CFA leads me to this much more adorable career path http://www.cfainc.org/

O.K., I've got a fresh gripe.

I've been helping our court reporter, transcribing for $1/page. I've done about 8 hours work on this one particular hearing so far. She just discovered that she's already transcribed it, so "Nevermind, maybe I can pay you less?" NO.

free lunch, not a caf

the office is basically laid on like a bunch of big desk islands around a kitchen / dining / meeting area

lol boiler room

"Oh, look. My house was already painted. Can we just call the whole thing off?"

(And my dad's the one going to the Doubletree. It was just weird hearing you talk about going to a wedding this weekend mere seconds after I had just got off the phone with him.)

http://www.wickfordgourmet.com/images/catering_seafood.jpg

I kind of miss my office mate from like 3 years ago. She had an affectation where she talked like she was in a Jane Austen novel and refused to live in the modern world, all because of her strict catholic convictions. She'd never heard of ordinary things like Guns 'N Roses or Lost, and often wept over the loss of old fashioned 'courtship' in our culture. She once regaled me with a long story about how her and her husband chastely flirted back in their courtin' days. Her favorite thing to do for him was to make cookies, then lick the spoon in front of him. Yep, that was how they did their flirting. SICK.

the office is basically laid on like a bunch of big desk islands around a kitchen / dining / meeting area

lol boiler room

-- El Tomboto, Wednesday, April 2, 2008 4:48 PM (14 minutes ago) Bookmark Link

The company's parent company also owns a hedge fund on the floor above us. People were ROLLERBLADING on the SMOKED GLASS floor wtf 1990s

well, that sounds horrible.

does anyone know anything about cfa vs. msf designations?

Why do you hate rollerblading?

Funny when geeks at work think that the height of coolness is sighing loudly every 30 seconds, rubbish sarcasm, moaning about the IT system and generally being really exasperated by the slightest thing.

LOL, 45 year old guy who still lives with his mum acting like Kevin The Teenager if he walked around all day holding a clipboard.

i just want a quiet office where i can lock myself away from my annoying coworkers.

the woman i hate is complaining to my boss vaguely about me. uhm i can hear you. luckily my boss is not having it.

man, this thread makes me...not happy, so much as feeling like every day I dodge a hail of bullets.

Her favorite thing to do for him was to make cookies, then lick the spoon in front of him.

HOTTT

Jon, that sounds like a great place.

http://www.sptimes.com/2003/10/27/images/xlarge/FLO_1_td27star1_172032_1027.jpg

how do you deal with someone who acts like they are your boss, when they actually aren't? can i just ignore her? or be snotty all the time?

i mean i don't know if this woman just has terrible people skills and can't ask for help with things without demanding it, or if she actually thinks she is my boss? should i talk to me real boss about this or is that a dick move?

Can you tell her that you'd like to help but that she'll have to put in the request via your real boss?

^^^^^ best way to go (tho informing your boss that this is coming might also be prudent).

I would bitch more about the co-worker that's told me twice I'll get slanted eyes if I eat too much Chinese food, but instead I'd like to give a heads-up to all of y'all in my company (about 20%, it seems) that would like me to resend tab-delimited text files as Excel spreadsheets: you can open those fuckers up in Excel. Go ahead. Give it a try.

haha

ARGHHHHHHHHHHHH
baby boomers and computers DON'T MIX

and they yell at me when computers don't perform magical and outlandish tasks

i am going to have to stay two hours late on a friday AGAIN arrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrh

this is like the 4th friday in a row

you sound poor

classy.

If you don't stop the constant harrassment of Lindsay I will call the police, your parents, and your employer.

^ classy

It's not that often you actually get to watch someone slit their throat to spite their stomach. It might be some kind of record.

I would bitch more about the co-worker that's told me twice I'll get slanted eyes if I eat too much Chinese food

uh worse: the box office people at my job who say they are eating 'terrorist food' when they get halal

Yeah, that's a winner.

Because I'm an intolerant ass, here are topics of conversation I could do without hearing from co-workers ever again:

- dogs as surrogates for children (cf. cat-ladyesque talk about "my babies")
- UConn women's basketball
- Connecticut Sun basketball
- drama concerning my boss' greyhound society
- anything related to visiting any Disney theme park
- bitching about what a drain kids are on the pocketbook
- lottery tickets
- whatever the hell that old bald guy talks about when he lingers in my group cube talking to the other ladies for 20+ minutes @ a time
- whatever comes out of the mouth of the dottering scatterbrained hyper-apologetic cubemate that takes 30 seconds to finish a thought and includes the name of the person she's talking to at the end of nearly every sentence

That said, this is the most enjoyable job I've had since graduating, and we have each other's back (personal foibles notwithstanding), and if I had to directly work with the other shitwits I deal with from time to time, I would start keying cars.

please to see fyi i am working from hell thread for my list of office woes

Y'know how it is that when someone who doesn't work in yr group or whom you support or work for discovers that you can solve a problem or two of theirs? E.g., you fix the broken Internet on their computer or something, and now you are the go-to guy for every computer problem they have?

Well, those people annoy me.

Yea, esp when people are already PAYING central IT to do desktop support.

So, you know, when a co-worker says heinous things (like the Chinese food comment, or the terrorist food thing), do you say something or do you just let it go, that it's not worth the time to even try?

We've got one of those people who says horrible things ALL OF THE TIME. At first, we were like, "Oh, she's old, she doesn't know better, blah blah." But, sometimes I suspect she knows exactly what she's doing. I plan to write a zine about her one day.

I just came in from lunch, and had to call 911 about a trash can fire in the smoking section. Nice work, nicojunkies!

So, you know, when a co-worker says heinous things (like the Chinese food comment, or the terrorist food thing), do you say something or do you just let it go, that it's not worth the time to even try?

Totally not worth it -- the first time it happened (the Chinese food thing), I tried to play it off in an oh-geez come-on way that probably came off as tsk-tsk chiding, and she was like "I was just kidding, geez," like I'm some sort of square. (NB: I am a square.) Second time, I think I just let it slide.

Granted, most of the folks I work w/ are twenty-plus years older than me (33) or are crotchety enough to be that old, so trying to open up that line of conversation with co-workers I want nothing to do with outside of work is an isle of fun I'd rather not visit ever -- that's what my pops is for.

Then there's today's little nugget involving two different folks: cubemate comes in, notices that this white car took our boss' usual parking spot. Said cubemate says the guy was black, "with braids." Says someone else almost immediately after that's noted: "was it the cleaning guy?" and I swear it was said with some sort of aren't-I-clever smirk.

I feel the same way, David R. I guess sometimes SOMETIMES I wish I said something just so she knows that I do care about comments like that. But in the end, it's just not worth it. Sigh, OLDER FOLKS.

'Is Worcester near Middlesbrough? How about Cambridge? Gloucester?'

GAAAAAAAAAAAH

It's too early in the day for this woman to be driving me this crazy.

"That's the fifth sneeze I've done today!"

holding secret wispering conversations in the office is possibly one of the rudest ill mannered work social faux parrs ever.

God I know.

Irritating-guy-whom-I-thought-had-left-but-somehow-is-back: "Alright then? Are you 'avin' fish and chips for lunch then? Fish and chips? Are you married? Got any kids? This weather eh? Eh? Eh? 'Avin' fish and chips for lunch then? Eh? How's your wife? Are you married then?" (repeat ad fucking nauseum)

This job's pros outweigh the cons, MOST OF THE TIME.

Our bailiff has no interest in doing any of his duties or protecting us. When he's here, he's wandering the building chatting up anyone & everybody. It's usually the law clerk or myself sounding the halls for hearings. If there is someone unruly in the courtroom, we call on other bailiffs from other divisions. You would think my boss, the judge, would fire him, but we don't really understand why he hasn't yet. Really.

The bailiff's idea of helping us out is answering the phone only to put them on hold for us to deal with. It's especially annoying when you reach for the phone to answer, but he's "beaten" you to it. Thanks for the two second delay, man!

When we are not holding court, he uses his troubled teenage son to not be here. There is always something he needs to tend to, but we know he's just sleeping in.

He's late everyday, even when we hold court.

He doesn't know how to do simple computer tasks that we should all know -- he figures that we can do it, there's no need for him to know.

Again, I don't know why he hasn't been fired. Our guess is that the judge doesn't want to be surrounded by females only AND he doesn't want to go through the trouble of searching for a new employee. Bullshit.

OMG, I forgot this one. When we get a little frazzled from having to do pretty much everything, he says things like, "You obviously can't handle this job." This coming from someone who brings nothing to the table. It's infuriating.

In my previous job (where I currently work is great, and they just bought me a shiny new computer which I'm now abusing to visit ILE), I used to find a quiet spot in my lunch breaks to read a book. This reading-a-book business was viewed as wildly freakish behaviour, and led to several people calling me "Professor", and they would seek me out to ask me what I was reading, how I was liking it, what was it about, etc, while I'm being all polite and thinking "Fuck off and let me read!".

These workmates were all journalists. If the sight of somebody READING blew their minds, no wonder the media's as fucked as it is.