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

Then I asked him if our IT guy replaced his computer when it crashed last fall. He claimed not to know, then said "Well, it's a new computer. The firm bought it right after you started working here." That was in August, 2007. He followed up with "Well it was new when they got it!"

Let's send several print jobs to the shared printer, all of which require special paper via the bypass tray, but then not actually go and put in the special paper or otherwise deal with the print job, so that when an hour or so later someone else goes to get their print job they find a queue of six different things all banked up in memory, demanding odd paper sizes that you have to guess at and load before you can get your own.

Not really a coworker, but close:

Me: I can't go to (insert patient name)'s tomorrow. The upper respiratory tract infection I had spread to my eyes, and now I have conjunctivitis. I've been ordered to stay home for 24 hours by my doctor.

One of my bosses: Can't you just put a mask on and go in anyway?

Me: That won't protect anyone from my conjunctivitis.

OOMB: *Projects total confusion over the phone*

Me: Conjunctivitis...pinkeye?

OOMB: *more confusion*

Me: (Thinks, "How in the world can you work in the medical field for a while, even in administration, and not have heard of conjunctivitis?")

OOMB: *Finally gets a clue and gives me the time off, but not before threatening to take me off of the case if I call off again*

i'm a purchasing & receiving clerk at a pretty large operation (i've been a cook previously). the chef is really quite inept and misorders stuff ALL THE TIME. today, which will rank legendarily shitty in my book, i noticed a couple things we need that i missed. i think i'm being pretty diligent by noticing when i did (i've basically trained myself at the position more or less and sometimes get helpful input from a coupla people).
so ask the chef a question about a item at the end of the day and i get an exasperated expression and a "it's time for you to figure some things out on your own".
ugh, thanks for my fail assist, dulle teve

so i keep a special medical ice pack for my back in the freezer here at work with my name on it. Yesterday in extreme pain i went to go grab it to put on my back for my drive home. NO FUCKING ICE PACK. I sent out a company wide email explaining this was not to be used for food. I get an email back about ten minutes later from one of the guys here that he had it in his cooler. MOTHER FUCKER.

My supervisor at my new job insists that I ask her any question, anytime. Great. Helpful. So on Monday, I told her I needed help with a spreadsheet that was due today. "Can it wait until tomorrow? I'm real busy." OK, fine. Tuesday: "Can it wait until tomorrow? I'm real busy." Wednesday: "Can it wait until tomorrow? I'm real busy." Thursday: "Can it wait until tomorrow? I'm real busy." Today she finally has time to help me. After I tell her my issue with the spreadsheet she says, "You really should have come to me with this earlier in the week."

Aaaaargh my boss does that all the time. He is so absent minded.

boss:"we arent having that meeting today it's been moved to monday"
me:"...what meeting?"
boss:"I told you about it last week!" (thinks me: "no you bloody didnt").

Tarfumes, what did you say?? That's obnoxious.

Yeah what did you say? I'dve had at them, boss or not.

i'm so fucking sick of my clueless boss. she spends 90% of her interactions w/me, complaining about how bad the business is doing - i suggest some things, like oh hey let's actually update the online store which hasn't been touched in almost 3 years and which we are losing money on bc we have to refund orders for items/colours we no longer make. i spend a good deal of time figuring out how we can do this for the least amount of $$, i.e. i will take charge of it, which means not paying $50 p/hr for a computer person to do it. i figured out our top 25 items, i took various measurements for each size in each garment, i wrote up 'cute' and useful descriptions for each garment, incl. other items to match things w/thereby increasing potential for customers to purchase more than one item. i also took photos that even w/my lack of expertise were 100x better than the ones currently on the site. i set up a demo store on bigcartel and suggested that we point our current url to a blog, which would be easy for me to keep updated, and which we could use to really make the most of the fact that we are a small, local business that manufactures our own products.

i also made suggestions for getting more involved with the community, e.g. actually ~using~ our email list (she never ever sends out newsletters) to tell ppl about sales, about new season colours and styles, maybe do some giveaways, birthday event (store has been operating for about 28 years), really just work the whole local angle, since we live in goddamn hippie capital of the world, where ppl totally drool over that shit.

all this stuff would basically cost her nothing, and use maybe a few hours a week of my time (which tbh doesn't cost her much in the first place) to keep up with. has she followed through on any of this?? NO. has she at least given me free rein to try some of these things?? NO. is she totally negative about everything?? YES.

ALSO: she complains non-fucking-stop about how terrible the salesgirls are at actually selling stuff. then she hires someone bc - and i quote - "i can empathise with her defeated attitude". WTF. and then she turns her nose up at someone who has experience as a nude dancer (her ppl skills are probably amazing!!) bc she thinks anyone who does things like that is 'disgusting'.

AND THEN: she's wringing her hands over not having enough new designs for the SS11 range, esp dresses which sell super well. so i brought her a dress which is so simple in the design that it would take our amazing sewers probably 2.5 mins to sew, is flattering to any figure, and is currently a super hot style, and we could sell it for a pretty big profit and she totally shot me down.

sorry for the extremely long and boring rant but today was just... ugh.

Tarfumes, what did you say?? That's obnoxious.

― Jesse, Friday, March 18, 2011 10:32 PM (Yesterday) Bookmark

I actually just let it go. Partly because I realized within my first day or so that she pulls shit like this on everyone (and thus won't single me out for being "incompetent"), and partly because I didn't want to get into a "No you didn't"/"Yes I did" argument that I would lose for no good reason. My supervisor would remember the argument as a mark against me far more than she would remember me "neglecting" to bring an issue to her attention.

My first instinct, though, was to stare her dead in the eyes and sing, Rebecca Black-style, "FUN FUN FUN FUN FUN FUN FUN FUN"

Tabitha of Tabitha's Salon Takeover needs to start an empire of various industry takeovers.

xp - Ha! I heard of Rebecca Black about 3 hours ago and now she is EVERYWHERE.

Ugh Jus I dont know how you have not gone postal on your boss after all this time. Its like she WANTS to fail. She seems like something of a control freak, wont let anyone tell her ideas bcz theyre not hers.

xp - Ha! I heard of Rebecca Black about 3 hours ago and now she is EVERYWHERE.

― Jesse, Saturday, 19 March 2011 05:27 Bookmark Suggest Ban Permalink

this

- random 4

Ugh. When we are discussing a thing, sure, lets all stand around while we talk specifics. Once we've sorted that out, let me get back to my goddamn work. Dont stand there shaking your head and rolling your eyes and going "man, damn thing we really [blah blah stopped listening to you about 10 minutes ago you boring tit]" about nothing in particular because I DONT CARE ANYMORE GO AWAY.

c'mon man, I'm doing your work from yesterday and all of our shared work for today while you are in the next room watching college basketball

surprise surprise, idiot boss, the girl you hired not even 3 months ago, who you 'jokingly' described as so 'defeated-looking' that she would be 'perfect' for our company is now constantly calling in sick/not showing up/asking for time off/turning up late.

oh and NOW you're considering my blog idea bc your clueless 'techy' friend said it sounded good!

At least she spoke about it to someone and didn't claim it for herself :)

hello mark c!

DEAR SLURPY CO-WORKER: people can hear you slurping your tea and coffee and wetly eating biscuits from 1000000 miles away, STOP IT! STOP IT! STOP IT! It is toe-curlingly gross! Argh!

It also makes me paranoid that I could slurp too so I now SIP my coffee when in fact I need it so much I would prefer it intravenously (ok that's a lie, that would also be horrid but... whatever).

You, who left bacon strips poking up out of the sink drain, are unspeakably foul.

ugh that's gross

well my boss stormed out of here in a huff after arguing with our director. part of me hopes he quits so i can take his job.

COUGH COUGH COUGH COUGH COUGH COUGH COUGH COUGH COUGH COUGH COUGH COUGH COUGH COUGH COUGH COUGH COUGH COUGH COUGH COUGH COUGH COUGH COUGH COUGH COUGH COUGH COUGH COUGH COUGH COUGH COUGH COUGH WEIRD GURGLING NOISE COUGH COUGH COUGH COUGH COUGH COUGH COUGH COUGH COUGH COUGH COUGH COUGH COUGH COUGH COUGH COUGH COUGH COUGH COUGH COUGH

i am srsly about to go spare

<3 ur d/n!!

^_^ ta

so some guys at work fire up Quake nearly everyday at lunch. it's generally pretty amusing cuz they're not really the gamer types at all but they know Quake deathmatch backwards and forwards after years of the same routine. the other day one guy (who's 60+) started saying "UNDERDAAAAWG" or "I'M THE WINNER" seemingly after every kill. went from lol to PLZ STFU pretty quickly. lot of annoyed mumbling in surrounding cubicles where the only the thing i could make out was "ajsdhf jsnnf a nf underdog asj sahhs".

So the helpdesk TL comes up and starts off with "so you know how X is going on a month's leave from next week..."

- I'm the one who covers a large chunk of X's job when he's away
- no, I wasnt aware of this months leave because no one tells me anything grr
- TL dude was as annoyed as I was that I didnt know
- I generally like my job but this place has the orginsational skills of a... bag of disorganised rats.

Imagining you working with rat kings.

had a bake morning for charity

One coworker didn't bake anything, so went down and bought a load of cakes at the local shop

Paid for it out of communal tea kitty, which is now empty

Doesn't see a problem

wtf

ha ha ha that's awesome, that takes a special kind of blinkered that needs to be cherished.

until we run out of kitkats, yeah sure

what a scumbag

isn't that theft?

that is assholishness of the highest order at the very least

magnificent shitbaggery

monumental fucktardery

douchebagitude

What everyone else has said.

Okay, nobody particularly stupid or annoying. But 5(!) straight people have just made popcorn in the microwave and it smells AWFUL in here.

Would it be OK if they were gay?

Yes, gay made popcorn smells SO much better.

omg someone fucking shoot me

i am not getting paid nearly enough to deal with my boss' bullshit!!!! i now have to fire someone like one day after they've started.

I'm getting tired of newspeak in my place. Things get used and become more and more popular, right now it is "moving forward" bleugh and "starter for ten" eugh.
Can we not just speak plainly, and jettison the catchphrases! Please folks?

wtf is "starter for ten"?

sounds like a 90's indie band.

sounds like restaurant talk

some shithead in here came up to me and asked if i could mail out a package for her, i told her it needed to go to the post office because it costs too much. she was all "really"? I put it on the scale and it blew the needle off the charts. "DO YOU SEE NOW SHIT HEAD!"

DO U SEE