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

would have to be pretty unlucky and unobservant to be in danger of hitting someone

^from the man who doesn't look behind him when changing lanes iirc

― meta the devil you know (onimo), Thursday, September 23, 2010 10:50 AM (10 hours ago) Bookmark Suggest Ban Permalink

saw ledge's post and also thought of that changing lanes thread straight away. scary stuff ledge.

God I'm trying not to begin the day on a cranky note but it's next to impossible when a certain someone keeps asking me questions about notes LEFT BY PEOPLE IN HER OWN DEPARTMENT. And this is not the first, second, third, or even fourth time I've told her, no, this is not my note, it is your project lead's, please see HIM if you have questions about how this works.

Not to mention that it's sad that you don't know how your own department's process works...but even worse that you go to someone outside of it to ask!!!

we got some paranoid people in the bathrooms here. i keep finding these toilet paper "flags" in the stalls in two places: one to fill the small gap between the door and the wall panel, and one to fill the gap in the back of the stall wall.

These things look like they take 5 minutes to take each. Why? To tackle the obvious clear and present danger of the person in the next stall craning his head back to watch you take a dump? It's ridiculous and a waste of toilet paper!

Wd sooner have my eyes pinned open for 72 sleepless hours of the worst of rotten.com than see any of my coworkers take a dump

yea but in order to do it in this stall, you'd have to crane your next back almost in a sleeping position, or if you were at a urinal, would have to look to the right and duck. I mean these guys are protecting themselves against an evil that doesn't exist!

"You're coming to lunch at 12.30 right?"
"um... first Ive heard of it. I actually had plans.."
*whining* "noooo I'm not taking no for an answer, COME TO LUNCH"
"Uh dude I was going to be shopping on my lunchbreak..."
"you can go shopping after lunch!"

Dude, are you even listening to yourself!? Gah. I hate pushy people. I said no, I don't have to justify why or be talked out of it. Fuck off.

he just likes your company, trayce!

If he was asking me to lunch on his own I'd be even more worried, he's a married man with a kid o_0 Nah its the sales team wanting to "thank" me for helping them hit the quarterly targets (heres a tip guys: LET ME GET BONUSES LIKE YOU DO), but he's already buying me a cider after work (I conceded to that to shut him up heh).

This makes it sound like I am rly anti social at work hhaha. I'm not, I just hate things being last-moment sprung on me. And I *loathe* people who wont take no for an answer :(

And I *loathe* people who wont take no for an answer

me 2

Is it a particularly aussie thing? "gwwannn just have ONE beer, what areya a poof?" and that sort of shit. I hate it. I worked at a place that hassled a MUSLIM guy for politely declining a friday beer. FFS guys - our client base is in BAGHDAD, get a clue.

often times if I get invited for an after work beer I politely decline simply because I'VE BEEN AT WORK ALL DAY, I'd like to, y'know, go home and stuff and relax. It isn't personal if I decline. Besides, you're also asking me to needlessly spend my own money, so I should have the final say on whether I do that, no?

got this one co-worker who doesn't understand how any processes work and this one thing we worked on has had numerous problems, a few of which were my department's fault, but most of which were not. Everytime something goes wrong there's no objective "can you tell me what the root cause is", it's basically insinuating we messed up and can we take a look at it and fix it.

I mean do you not realize that leading off with an implication of my dept's guilt without even knowing half the details is probably going to make me less likely to want to help you than if you just ask if I can take a look to see what happened?

Whenever the office spaz would try to coerce me yet again to eat the desserts someone brought in or go out for drinks, i would always tell her how she would be the best drug dealer ever. She seriously could not drop it until I had said no 7 times. I sometimes had to throw away food because she would still put shit on my desk after I said no.

8:15 in the morning and she is already on her first bag of popcorn. This has continued for the entire month I've been here, 2-4 bags of popcorn per day. I don't get it, I would get sick of anything if I ate it that often.

I am so sick and tired of people who refuse to follow procedure. Obviously we can't be so inflexible as to never allow exceptions, but today is another example of yet another co-worker who I had to say "no" to because what they wanted was outside of proper procedure, and yet again, is fighting me on it. The main things that angered me:

1. I took the time to proactively provide alternative options, and this person apparently didn't read them. He responded in snarky fashion that if I couldn't do it his way, could I at least give him alternatives? I GAVE YOU FOUR OF THEM!!!!

2. Email was very condescending, presuming that I obviously don't know what I'm talking about. A. I've been working here nearly six years, and this guy maybe 1-2, B. I used to have his job so I know what it entails, and C. BECAUSE of that experience, I am explaining to him why this approach is THE WRONG ONE.

3. I will likely, as usual, get painted as the bad guy simply because I don't kotow to those who simply ignore the regulations of their job in favor of doing things "how they want to do it".

sorry for the vent, got unusually ticked off about this.

san te: by the books 4 lyf

Misread that as "Emeril was very condescending"

It must be a diet thing, shes on her fourth bag of popcorn since 8:30 this morning. It is now 3:20.

Maybe it's some sort of "dredging the canal" master cleanse.

there's a canal I'd rather not travel

Been half listening & trying to ignore fucking golf conversations for FIVE HOURS. Guys who have played golf for decades quibbling over rules.

I could xpost this to "innocuous things that make us irrationally angry" but still: one of my office-mates saunters into our three-person office every morning, greeting us with a quietly-spoken "g00d m0rning, gentl3m3n." We've been sharing this office for 5 months and it's the same damn thing every day. I don't understand the need for this affectation.

I sometimes eat caramel corn for breakfast, but never in the office! I once had a co-worker who not only would eat popcorn in the office, but who kept his own popcorn popper in his cubicle. I think even munching popcorn on the train is rude! Unless it is candy corn, in which case you are obligated to share heaping bags of it with your office mates.

I'm tired of the people here who wear their iPODs everywhere in the building, including the elevator/outside. It's really unprofessional, and also especially annoying when I'm asking you to press an elevator button for me and you SHRUG and POINT AT YOUR HEADSET as if to say "I can't hear you and this song is too good for me to pull this out of my ear atm".

I mean I have a co-worker who listens to his iPOD as he pisses.

I just can't imagine what would happen if one of our clients came up and tried to ask one of them a question and got rebuffed like that.

Either stop sucking your fucking teeth and making stupid clicky noises, or visit the fucking dentist, for fuck's fucking sake.

going back to the complaint I had last week, these twits still aren't listening to me. Despite me giving clear, and easy alternatives to do the work they want that will achieve the same results, be better functionally, and take half the time, they are still asking me to misuse technology simply because they don't know how to train their associates. It is weaker functionally, will take double the time, and is technically not even allowable under the guidelines.

I want to bang my head against a wall with these people sometimes.

I'm guilty of wearing my iPod in the elevator, but only in the morning when I'm heading into the office and I always turn it down to make sure I can hear. I always take mine off when I walk away from my desk too though, that is pretty rude.

yea, I can live with that. I posted a friendly reminder on our web bulletin board about it just asking that people respect their co-workers, and got a whiny response from someone in one of the entry level positions saying they have such a tough job and don't get much of a break and oh they should be allowed to wear their iPod at their desk (something I never argued otherwise).

One of those "woe is me, you don't get how it is to be me" messages, to which I politely replied that I'd had their position when I started with the company and yes I do know what it's like but I DIDN'T WEAR IPODS ALL AROUND THE BUILDING AND IGNORE CO-WORKERS TRYING TO ASK QUESTIONS!

I hate to keep contributing to this thread, but it's been that kinda month so far.

so this morning, I get a list of names/SSNs in the office mail from another team in the building with no explanation as to why. I'm not affiliated with them at all, and this team has an uber-rigid security 'agreement' you have to sign with them before you can even do work with them.

So now I have the pleasure of having to alert my manager to cover my butt, lock away the materials, and then try to find out who sent this to me and why because THEY DIDN'T EVEN WRITE THEIR NAME ON THE ENVELOPE.

This girl has single-handedly ruined popcorn for me forever.

lol knew this had to be a popcorn post before opening. you should leave a bag of skittles on her desk with a note that says "Take...the...hint"

you could ruin popcorn for her via the popcorn trick

expect an unpleasant visit from HR afterward though

Hah, I really hate to be so predictable about this, but I'm honestly surprised how much this bothers me. I mean, 100% honest, this has been 2-4 times per day - every day for over a month. And with my desk being within 15 feet of the microwave, its all I smell.

"Sir, as part of our investigation, we need to ask a few questions. Are you aware of the function of the bottom of the popcorn tub and why removing it was a bad thing?"

i for one would be totally down with a PA note in this instance - still a new job for you so maybe don't want to make a direct complaint to her or the boss and maybe look bad, but a sneakily-placed note might do the trick? nothing too harsh, maybe "this popcorn thing is getting weird and the smell, day in day out, is really sickening to a lot of ppl in this office".

i mean, seriously, this behaviour of hers is pretty fucking weird.

Beware the popcorn lung!

i would seriously and anonymously send her this ^^ link

I'd send it not anonymously! I'd lean over her cubicle going OMG HAVE YOU READ THIS OMG THIS IS BAAAAD

Watch her freak out and stop eating popcorn.

Buy her loads more so she dies, problem solved.

^likes

I'm seriously considering these ideas, she is on her SECOND bag of popcorn since she got here 40 minutes ago.

I mean, its 8:30 in the morning ffs. Who eats two bags of popcorn for breakfast???

last night I was at the movie theatre eating popcorn and I thought of this thread and thought of someone consuming that much popcorn in a day and it ruined the popcorn for me. so now i have a vested interest in this.

like you should buy all the popcorn in a 30 mile radius and destroy it

Find a well throw her in it then bury her in popcorn.
Only flaw is she may eat her way out and tell police or HR on you.

this last two weeks is just killing me, it was so peaceful before.

if I review your work (which is one of my responsibilities) and find you made a significant mistake on something that impacts another team, and I tell you that day to fix it immediately, and you let four business days pass without giving me any update, and when I ask you what's up, you say "oh sorry I've been super busy, I'll do it today", and then you don't do it...that's the point I stop talking to you and start talking to your manager.

Unreal.

Jeez, sounds like you need to start throwing furniture. People obv aren't taking you seriously.

this has been a truly abnormal month. I usually don't have this many issues at the same time. This person though would be wise to do the right thing as this gets documented permanently, so there's no chance of anybody 'forgetting'.