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

DUDE, how can that not be annoying the shit out of you?

he's got popcorn stuck in his ears.

lolz

Haven't had to post here in a while, still love the new dept, but...

Last week, long after I've rolled off this project and we'd transitioned to the ongoing te., I get questions from two of the managers asking about missing info from two of their tools.

I point out that anything 'missing' wasn't in the requirements I worked from, and that we found multiple occasions of this prior to me rolling off. Nothing I can do about it, told them what dept they should look to for filling in the gaps, since it's their responsibility now.

So nonetheless, they go to my boss's boss and try to get me tapped to fix their tools...even though three of their people and our client signed off on it prior to my rolloff and I am no longer aligned to them.

My boss's boss thinks they're childish and pushed back...

But then yesterday, I return to the office after a sick day Friday to find a frantic message asking me for files to use in training.

Files that I permanently saved and gave them links to on TEN or more occasions, and that I have permamently deleted from my own drive.

Got sick of it and gave them the links yet again and told them sternly that I am no longer responsible for these, and that they need to save these bookmarks and quit asking us.

Tired of grown adults who can't manage their own affairs!

the interns here drive me crazy...useless. I get back at them by taking my morning shit in their bathroom.

upper-deck?

Goddammit. Nothing ruins a nice cup of coffee more than the rancid smell of burnt cheap-ass, "lo-cal" popcorn. I'm just going to start microwaving rancid week-old McDonald's cheeseburgers and throwing them in the trash under her desk.

they have a rule at my place that you're not allowed to pop popcorn on any floors other than the one the cafeteria is on. POSs break it all the time and burnt popcorn smell permeates and I want to poison the entire building when that happens.

we have a no microwaving fish rule!

the interns here drive me crazy...useless. I get back at them by taking my morning shit in their bathroom.

― Crooked Lust (thebingo), Tuesday, May 17, 2011 11:55 AM (6 days ago) Bookmark Suggest Ban Permalink

upper-deck?

― got electrolytes (The Cursed Return of the Dastardly Thermo Thinwall), Tuesday, May 17, 2011 12:28 PM (6 days ago) Bookmark Suggest Ban Permalink

Goddammit. Nothing ruins a nice cup of coffee more than the rancid smell of burnt cheap-ass.

― 'what are you, the Hymen Protection League of America?' (jon /via/ chi 2.0), Monday, May 23, 2011 10:56 AM (52 minutes ago) Bookmark Suggest Ban Permalink

thanks Evan for the much needed LOL right now

:D

&%^^%$%#$@$#@#$#@^%$&%*^%*^%&^%

Get told to sort something out involving ordering phone lines for new office. No one in the staff seems to have any direct idea how this would be done, which beggars belief because SOMEONE here must have ordered the damn things last time we mmved. It's dumped in my lap.

I keep hitting walls when I ask the people I'm told to ask, who all say "go ask these people". I'm getting nowhere. My boss doesnt answer the email where I ask for assistance and then this morning isnt in, so I quickly go ask the billing manager for a copy of the invoice the lines are on so I can work out more clearly who to order new lines from.

AND I GET TOLD OFF FOR ASKING SOMEONE ELSE FOR HELP AND NOT MY BOSS WHO WASNT IN.

Ok SURE, NEXT time I'll just sit here and let it slide and when we move office in 2 weeks and have no phone lines you figure out why. OK THEN.

He has this BIZARRE chip about me going to/involving other people when I'm trying to do my job, instead of him. Hes a director. I dont want to involve him with every nitpicky little pissant thing, he has better things to do. Its like hes paranoid he wont know whats going on if I dont keep him involved, which is so strange to me.

he should reply to an email then if he's so worried!

Indeed. Ah well, its sorted out now.

no phones for anyone.

tin-cup-and-string for all.

\o/

honestly any manager who would get upset that you tried to do something without them is fucking retarded.

independence and not disturbing your boss all the time are two skills you're supposed to learn. mine have always been annoyed if I just immediately ran to them for everything.

I hate when co-workers gossip to you about people at work you like and respect. Like this one part-timer, a woman, whom I don't like very much. She told some people that my boss was once disciplined for sexual harassment at his old job. I know for a fact this is pure bullshit. This kind of talk is toxic and I consider it a form of sexual harassment.

It is toxic and completely awful, but I don't think it is exactly "sexual" harassment.

I don't mean that the behavior is sexual harassment literally, I mean, it has a similar effect, when someone intimates to you that your boss is a creep and an enemy of women when you find him professional and not lecherous or inappropriate at all.

gotcha

I mean, it's like saying you disrespect women by respecting or associating with some creep.

Ugh. She's burnt two bags of popcorn in the last two hours. I have never known hate like this.

Have you ever told her this is a problem? I mean, you might actually make it stop happening.

I myself haven't, but several other people in the office have. She got really defensive and spouted off something about her having "limited snack options" due to "dietary concerns" and that it isn't fair to limit what she can cook in the "public" microwave.

Like, fine, but your "dietary concerns" don't mean you have to burn it every time.

haha.

charcoal diet?

tell her to eat shit and see if she is a literalist

I'm six weeks into a new job and i haven't anyone to complain about yet. Maybe they're all being polite because i'm new.
One of the partners PA's asked me if i'd like a liquorice allsort, she talks like the Queen, it was bizarre.

That just makes me picture the Queen bowing over you, proferring a bag of sweets and saying "wood yew like an allsort, young man?" and maybe I've had too much coffee because that gives me insane giggles.

As much as I think a "no microwaving popcorn rule" makes terrific sense from a public health standpoint, one place I worked forbade us from eating "ethnic" foods in the office as, it was reasoned, it might put off prospective clients.

OK yeah thats just...

I have never understood people's violent reactions to the smells of foods. How sheltered are some people? "oh that curry SMELLS". Yes. It does. It smells like CURRY you mentalists.

in our office it's the Great Fish Casserole of 2010 that someone brought in for a potluck...it simmered aaaaaallll day in a crockpot (fish chunks, scallops, mussells, the works) and by 3pm the whole floor smelled like a laundrybasket

Though v tasty at first, the smell soon overtook anyone's desire to eat :(

Today my cube neighbor clipped he nails, hacked up a lung all morning, played muzak out of her desktop's speaker and talked to herself for ~20% of the day (which doesn't include the "I'm just talking to myself" response to people in her department).

I talk to myself at work all the time :/

xxxp In my experience curry and garlic are delicious smells when you walk past a restaurant or are eating/cooking your own but a bit tiresome to sit in a cloud of in an unventilated office all afternoon, especially when it is some white guy's reheated ass-smelling jar curry that he eats twice a day every day, and leaves sitting open on the desk for ages while he's not even in the office, and then I guess it is pretty spicy as he sniffs and clears his throat every 10 seconds for an hour afterwards and gaahh I would tear my ears off</rant>

(and we do have a common room here for people to eat in instead of at their desks, btw)

i mainly like food smells in work...mainly. when i was leaving my last job i was at that awkward "just been there long enough" stage where they had to get me a card, and i only knew some people in the office. one guy wrote "best of luck, your lunch always looks extremely good," i was pleased.

That just makes me picture the Queen bowing over you, proferring a bag of sweets and saying "wood yew like an allsort, young man?" and maybe I've had too much coffee because that gives me insane giggles.

― The man who mistook his life for a FAP (Trayce), Wednesday, 25 May 2011 01:22 (8 hours ago) Bookmark

Exactly like that.

I find I'm using my interview/phone voice all day long here, and it's tiring.

sure just complain all day rather than trying to fix problems

i mainly like food smells in work...mainly. when i was leaving my last job i was at that awkward "just been there long enough" stage where they had to get me a card, and i only knew some people in the office. one guy wrote "best of luck, your lunch always looks extremely good," i was pleased.

Wow. That is perfect! On the basis of that sentiment, he sounds like a swell guy.

I don't mind food smells at all. Usually take-out has a stronger smell than microwaved food. But I like to see what take-out is available near my workplace.

I guess food smells are distracting and can make you feel like you are working in a restaurant not an office. Then again, an office memo telling everyone to limit their dining to the cafeteria or kitchen might have a toxic effect.

If it's bothering some people that much, the most diplomatic way of handling it is to cheerily point out at the next office meeting that "someone complained" (client, customer etc.) about food smells.

"can't see lincoln park in concert, Bummin' man." SHUT UP

Actually, 'someone complained' is a pretty wussy way to get out of a conflict, because everyone instinctively knows the someone is not a real person.

^^^

I usually don't have a problem with food smells but, c'mon, burnt popcorn is not a "good" food smell in any way, its foul and lasts forever.