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

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.

Thats bizarre!

"the price of gas now!"
"iiii KNOW!"

I had to remove the games from everyone's computers the other day, and change them to opendns so their sites are gonna be seriously filtered. I bet they were bitching about me :( (no one has sold out ilxor in the forums category of opendns yet btw)

I managed to give myself admin privileges as part of getting the new computer. Huzzah!

Wow, journalists freaking out about reading makes me want to scream.

what's an opendn?

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

-- James Morrison, Friday, 13 June 2008 10:43 (2 days ago) Bookmark Link

n3ws c0rp amirite

Haha I forgot JM was a mongrel and I bet you are right. :)

Alas, no - it was the bloody ABC!

OK waht.

Sad, yes. The only person who actually seemed to read was the newsreader (no pun intended) Dominique Schwartz (who was actually pretty lovely).

co-worker just pulled off the annoying trifecta: 1) smoking in non-designated area (ie 5 ft from me trying to enjoy the beautiful day on my break) 2) had her ginormous SUV idling away whilst doing said smoking 3) took up 2 parking spots with said ginormous SUV. hats off to ya!

Fuck! Kill the bitch.

how does my co-worker manage to chew so loudly?
she makes horribly smacking noises and talks on the phone with her mouth full seemingly ALL DAY. usually bitching at her husband about something.

how do i not blow up and scream?

i admit i have a weird issue with chewing noises but arbghaghotiglfm,x,g;sdas

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

haha lol - i witnessed undergrad convocation last week and srsly the people graduating with journalism degrees were of two kinds and yes i am mean but i tell the truth: "on-air talent" and "media nerds" with the former outweighing the latter

agh chewing noises noooo

i think she is eating carrot sticks or something. and has been doing so for the last 45 minutes. i am about to explode.

Don't you have headphones?

ew chewing noises are the worst, and sadly headphones aren't allowed in this office anymore. people eating with their mouths wide open SHOOT TO KILL!

Who the hell outlaws headphones?

sadly headphones aren't allowed in this office anymore.

yeah one guy kinda ruined it for everyone while he sat there oblivious to his telephone ringing, and also trying to get peoples attention when they were in a world of their own was slightly frustrating sometimes.

i stand by the ban.

ahhhhhhh she's snacking again

yeah one guy kinda ruined it for everyone while he sat there oblivious to his telephone ringing, and also trying to get peoples attention when they were in a world of their own was slightly frustrating sometimes.

i stand by the ban.

-- Ste, Thursday, June 26, 2008 3:58 AM (Thursday, June 26, 2008 3:58 AM) Bookmark Link

It's called "Trillian".

i bitch at co-workers who do this. if dumb-fuck next do me manages to make it so i can't listen to my music there will be no end to the world of suffering i will inflict upon him.

she is slurping her YOGURT

It must take extra effort to eat yogurt at any volume other than "whisper quiet".

srsly I'd quit if they did that here!

-- Colonel Poo, Thursday, June 26, 2008 3:53 AM (Thursday, June 26, 2008 3:53 AM) Bookmark Link

they're pretty much mandatory around here. almost all conversations are done via im. you might here a phone ring in here every 3 days or so.

yeah headphones and music are frowned upon here :(

this woman is going to disneyworld with her 1 year old child. what the hell do you do with a 1 year old at disneyworld?!

if i didn't listen to wfmu or the oblivians all day i'd probably die of boredom.

xpost- abandon it?

i will abandon it in like a year when i finish school and can get a better job!