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

thank god he's not eating sun chips in those friggin compostable bags.

So today in the bathroom, someone was pooping and moaning loudly, like they were giving birth in there. The the security guard came in and started singing Christmas songs (The First Noel).

Awesome.

o shitenbaum

That poop was immaculately conceived.

coworker says "oh you're not working tomorrow?"
me "nope"
coworker "you have the best schedule of all of us"

the reason i have the "best schedule" is that, while everyone else is full time and is salaried and has benefits and an office, I am part time and paid by the hour and don't get benefits or an office. but if you are jealous of my schedule, I'm sure you could talk the school into making you part-time instead of full-time and taking away your salary and benefits and office

People, if you work in an office, being an evening-shower person is not acceptable. You smell weird and stale all day.

Uh.

eww trayce

Seriously now, who gives a fuck what time of day you bathe? I'm more offended by people who load themselves up with cologne/deodorant - fuck that shit off, you dont need to smell like toilet scent.

My "uh" was offence at the idea you'd dictate to anyone that they must shower in the morning (or the odd US notion of showering more than once a day what a fucking waste of water)

If you can tell what time of day I take my shower, you're standing too close.

Also anyone who smells "stale" is more likley to do so because they haven't washed their clothes, and/or they smoke, than any shower timing, for serious - I have known people who showered meticulously who ponged - and it turned out it was because they never wore fresh clothes.

I'm just trapped in a small office with a boss who showers in the evenings, and she smells like people do when they get out of bed--it's a bit much over an 8-hr day

Paranoid now.

At least once a week, one of my co-workers tries to get me to leave early to go to happy hour. When I say I can't, I get the same ribbing over and over again about how I "work too hard." What they fail to comprehend is that I can't even take a lunch break, much less leave work at 3:30 to get drunk, because for the last seven months I've been doing the work of two people. Unlike my co-workers, I'm the only person in my department. In fact, I was recently told that I'm not allowed to take sick days because there's no one else who can do my job. So instead of wasting time at happy hours, I will spend every spare minute I can scrounge up looking for a new job. I know you mean well, co-workers, but seriously, I just want out of this hellhole.

When I say I can't, I get the same ribbing over and over again about how I "work too hard."

Ugh. Thats where I'd be all "yes. Yes. YES *get up from seat* I DO WORK TOO HARD. I WORK HARDER THAN EVERYONE ELSE AND IM GOING TO KILL SOMEONE"

...and then quietly sit back down again.

^ YES

or just go drinking and stop giving a crap if you get behind in your work.

Hahah actually yeah do that. Let the work just fall away. When anyone asks, shrug and say "y'all said I work too hard and insisted I come drinking so I did".

""y'aal shaid I work too hard and inshited I come drinking sho I diiiid". while shoving your finger in your coworker and/or boss's face.

LOL I would so do this.

Guys why do people think unapologetic racism is still OK in 2010?

Like co-worker, why are you proudly telling me abt how much you hate Mexicans and shit because they're all mean and inconveniencing you when A) they're not and B) they're not.

I totally get that you don't want to hold the phone up to your ear while you wait forever on hold, but could you please at least turn down the volume on your speakerphone so the rest of us don't have to hear the annoying, repetitive pre-recorded message for over 40 minutes?

Guy who thinks it's funny to say web addresses wrong "look it up on dubbayoo dubbayoo dot com dot google dot dot dot" - you are wrong.

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.

― kkvgz, Friday, October 8, 2010 9:05 AM (2 months ago) Bookmark Suggest Ban Permalink

Also always departs for lunch with "I shall return." (italics his)

Christmas going pretty well here, how is it for you?

People playing christmas songs in my place of work: 0
People wearing comedy santa hats: 1
Stupid, annoying snowmen/santa jpegs on our work webpages: 1
Pointless christmas cards received from people I don't even: 1

People playing christmas songs in my place of work: 0
People wearing comedy santa hats: 0
Stupid, annoying snowmen/santa jpegs on our work webpages: 0
Pointless christmas cards received from people I don't even: 0

It may as well not be xmas at all round here.

You are in charge of c0rp0r4t3 fundr4ising at our sci3ntific organization and you mispronounce G3N3NT3CH?

what's so hard about saying gthreenthreentthreech

yeah, so I over-googleproofed...

boss calls me last thursday to tell me his cat is constipated and he wont be coming in. I reply "thats the worse excuse i've heard since the dog ate my homework". He hangs up. Yesterday he calls me into his office to tell me he was mad because its not a joke when his cat is sick. I asked him if he tried miralax on his cat. He sighed and went home early. Thank god i didn't ask him if he tried an enema on the cat.

People playing christmas songs in my place of work: 0
People wearing comedy santa hats: 0
Stupid, annoying snowmen/santa jpegs on our work webpages: 0
Pointless christmas cards received from people I don't even: 0

Suits the hell out of me.

my department, which was experimental and new 4 years ago, but became an organized yet somewhat flawed unit is being split apart and moved, despite evidence of massive cost savings. But that is a separate gripe, by now I've resigned myself to the fact that the people who make these decisions are never the right people to do so because they have no idea how anything works or what impacts what and they don't realize until they break something that they shouldn't have touched it.

But anyway, my job's fine, but after the announcement a bunch of us were upset and concerned that we might be let go. Even though we were assured that most likely there'd be a place for us, we were naturally nervous, but you know, we're professionals and we went about our business.

A bunch of us in the dept were assisting with a project that is headed by a person in another department, an insufferable lady who I've had multiple issues with. Of course, once she finds out about our dept splitting, she sends us an email saying she understands we're all concerned, but wants reassurance that we're not going to let the 'distraction' impact the project and that we'll still make sure to give the project the same attention.

Look, lady, talking to us like children in elementary school is NAGL. Yea, I might be concerned, but I'm professional, I'm not going to shirk my responsibilities. I dont' need to proactively tell you "Yes, ma'am, I'm still going to do my job!"

And then I found out after teh split, I'm moving to this lady's department. Goddammit.

In fact, I was recently told that I'm not allowed to take sick days because there's no one else who can do my job.

Holy fuck, that is bullshit of the highest degree. not to mention a stupid business strategy. What would they do if (god forbid) you died or got hospitalized tomorrow, or to a less dramatic degree, quit on the spot tomorrow? Who would do the work then?

And telling people they can't take sick days is the stupidest thing ever. Not only do you piss off/burn out employees who come in when they shouldn't, you get others in the office infected that way which leads to lost productivity when THEY call out.

Hope you get a new job soon.

Our business strategy is to employ lots of line managers, system architects and project managers and no-one to actually do any of the work.

This is not going well.

I worked in a lovely tolerant place where new management changed the rules on us. Suddenly I was told when I could take vacation or not and how I was expected to be at work on certain days. The problem was that I could only take vacation at certain times of the year. Also I needed to be available a certain time of the year to accompany my mother on vacation...was also told that was inconvenient.

Thank god I am out of there.

Idg how some employers fail to realize that fucking with someone's time away from work is a good way to push away quality employees.

The awesome vacation policy my company has is a large reason I've remained loyal for six years

just realised the other day that i may not be able to take our planned vacation in may bc there is no one to do my job :/

well if no one else realizes....

Oh man. A couple of years ago I joined a company that told me on day one 'oh btw everyone's being forced to take two weeks of leave this month and you won't be paid'. Three months later they forced everyone to take four days off (I had six AL days at that point). Then a load of laptops were stolen from the building, and the official company line was that we would be docked the cost of our laptop if it were stolen. Then my boss went all single white female (possibly the lowest human being I have ever come across) and I left. Everyone needs to walk away from places like that.

We have a new service for a client going live tomorrow and I worked my ass off to get everything ready and squared in advance. This morning, the following BS:

--We have web chat, and I set it up to start for the new service tomorrow. Idiot in charge processed it early and customers are asking questions that nobody is answering. Checked my emails and idiot was told three times the date was 1/5.

--I am asked yet again about why form letters aren't available on the shared hard drive, and explain for the fifth time that they WONT BE AVAILABLE UNTIL 1/5!

--I find out that back in April,before I joined, the idiots on this team added a form letter to the drive but never set it up with the processing unit.

--I am asked to test changes in our Production system by someone who claims they went through 1/1, when they aren't going through until tonight.

WHAT THE FUCK

used to work in a place where you couldn't take a vacation if another co-worker was out. Asinine. This was also the place where I worked for 11 years and when i hit my 10th yr was supposed to get a fourth week of vacation which was the rule...only to be told that i wasn't grandfathered in under the old policy because i wasn't a VP. FUCK YOU COMPANY. best thing that ever happened to me was getting laid off from that hell hole.

When I started my job, I wasn't given a set number of vacation days. They just said, "Take time off when you need it." Of course, taking time off is so difficult--what with having to do all your work in advance and then pay someone from your tiny budget to fill in for you anyway--that no one ever does it. I only took five days off last year, never more than two days at a time.

Client went live today, rough as usual but pretty good, not unusually bad.

But two of the employees they gave us are extremely stupid, can't write professionally, and ask questions that are common sense for the job.

And we've decided to entrust these paperweights to process transactions involving people's finances. Can't wait for the blowback.

Then a load of laptops were stolen from the building, and the official company line was that we would be docked the cost of our laptop if it were stolen. Then my boss went all single white female (possibly the lowest human being I have ever come across) and I left.

You werent working for a psychotic blonde woman named S4m were you? (cos that sounds like N's mentalist old boss)

Nah, description fits but different name.

urgh, woman from one of our other offices comes in once a week, consistently smells of piss and her fingernails are shit brown. and she was just talking to me with a mouth full of food. fucking disgusting.

and now she is sitting by me chomping and smelling like piss. move it lady.