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

Nick, that sounds like a situation that merits doing some about it.

But then, all jobs where I had very many coworkers were restaurants where confrontation is easier, and I have never worked in a normal office.

Still, what are your reasons for not talking to her about it and dealing with it further if necessary?

My coworker is always touching me to remove hairs and threads off my clothes. I'm getting a little creeped out.

Unless your co-worker is a marmoset and you are a mastodon, then I'd suggest leaning away slightly, holding your palm up and saying 'Please', with a slight frown, is perfectly in order.

GAH! WHY DONT PEOPLE UNDERSTAND MY EMAILS I DO NOT SPEAK URDU.

Me: "this is what happened, see attached emails and quote from the sales guy and the customer"
My boss: "How were you told to change them from X to Y?
Is there a ticket or email trail – a quote that mentions the upgrade?"

...you mean other than the one I JUST SENT YOU!? *flails*

Srsly this is why I DONT involve him in day to day shit because any time I do, he misreads/misunderstands things, but if I dont, he tells me off for not keeping him in the loop.

my coworker is supposed to come take my place in the library so i can go to lunch. this is supposed to happen at 1:30, which is already later than i would prefer to go to lunch. she typically doesn't come to replace me until 1:45 or 2:00. she also apparently doesn't answer the phone while she's sitting here so there are always voicemail messages when i get back. these are such tiny petty things that i don't want to take them to my boss or even confront her about them but it's annoying. she also wears a bluetooth headphone all day and takes personal calls on it at work. there have been times where i've been talking to her and she says something contextually weird and then later realize she was talking to someone on her headset.

― congratulations (n/a), Tuesday, November 1, 2011 3:31 PM (2 weeks ago) Bookmark

this person got fired btw

congratulations, n/a! ;D

Ha!!!! Justice.

Are you hiring librarians? The Good Emily is looking.

My boss is generally cool and easygoing, but yesterday she used me as a human shield between her and a cranky passive-aggressive advertiser. I laid 1000 words of ultrapoliteness on the advertiser and then reminded her of my boss's cell # and direct email address. Hopefully they're wrapping up their three-month-long pas de deux today.

There was just a screaming fight down the hall from our office.

laid 1000 words of ultrapoliteness on the advertiser and then reminded her of my boss's cell # and direct email address.

I tip my bonnnet to you, that is excellently played!

I also Bcc'd the email to my boss! Sometimes I miss being in an office environment -- I think I'm pretty good at the social/political machinations.

Oh even better! Mr Burns will hire you yet :)

I don't like to celebrate firings, but I feel very strongly not-bad about n/a's coworker being canned.

ARGH.

I dunno if the fact I'm halfway through working my notice period has amplified how much this company annoys the shit out of me or if it really does have a policy of employing total cretins. Just wasted an hour manually deleting a bunch of clients from the website because apparently the automated system wasn't working (which isn't even my responsibility but the person who does look after it is fucking useless so management asked me to do it because I am actually capable of doing it) only to find out half of the clients are still live on the CRM system so it's not the automated system that doesn't work, it's the brain of the person who raised the issue in the first place.

I am about *this* close to just going "oh btw I don't feel very well I'm going home see ya have a nice weekend and go fuck yourself"

Suggestions for impossible to dispute mysterious illnesses that last a month and a half? Need a doctor's note though

Chronic insomnia? Sudden drastic appetite loss? Worked for me. You would need to be hospitalized for part of the time to get away with it.

Also, co-workers who never take vacation, who just sit at home during vacation and who think the only real vacation is sitting on some tropical beach are getting to be a real bummer.

New policy suggest that we give notice of where we are going when we take vacation of more than two days (how far, if we can be reached). I am going on vacation, I know I have to submit my notice...am I obligated to tell everyone where I am going?

I opted for just saying "Oh I don't feel very well, I'm going home, see you later" and walking out. Better than punching someone I guess.

Have seriously toyed with the idea of getting myself sacked but even though I have a concrete job offer, that could be withdrawn if the company I'm going to found out, for the obvious reason that I could pull the same shit when I eventually leave there.

Fuck a 3 month notice period basically.

Wait wait Mount Cleaners wait.

Your work makes you disclose where you are going when you take time off? Also, what's wrong with taking time off and not taking a trip?

If the policy just "suggests," then I think you don't have to disclose where you are going. That's just weird.

Nothing wrong with wanting to spend time with family or not having money to leave town but...I wonder what people are doing working in the arts without EVER wanting to leave town.

People working in the arts can afford to leave town?

^This is my thought.

"apologies for any confusion caused" - non-apology from someone I work with in response to having mistakes pointed out. can't stand that passive-aggressive shit.

our office is over two floors, with a small wc on my level (upper) and bathrooms down below.when i moved up to this floor a few months back one of the ladies took me aside and explained rather genteely that 'we only use this floor for wee-wees and make-up' and 'we all know how boys are, hmm?' so, would i, bearing this in mind, take pains to respect this practice which, fair enough and a little o_Oily at the request, i have done.

but this morning somebody clearly broke rule number one about number ones, because she started dropping wrinklenosed hints around me about the 'disgusting smell' as she was putting her face on while the rest of us were busy housing the great and good of rural ireland. i was having a bit of a nightmarish morning as it was, numerous mishaps and administrative pratfalls by superiors with me as the arsecushion, so after the sixth or seventh scatalogical slander slung in my general direction across the heads of two other colleagues i'm afraid i put my third crying tenant of the day on hold and hissed at her-

"look, i didn't shit in your precious toilet"

the rest of the day passed in glorious silence, i'm hoping next week follows suit

a) awesome
b) what exactly is the difference between a wc and a bathroom

i dunno this is just a one-loo cubbyhole with a shelf and a mirror, possibly i picked wc cos it's the size of a closet

That is pretty great.

at any rate you should be dropping deuces HARDCORE. DAMMMNNN.

So proud of you!!

One of our reps today approached me in the hallway and asked me if I had some documents saved. I asked why, since these are posted in a public database. She explained that someone on the team had just deleted the entire database, and that everything was lost, and there was a ticket out to fix it that had been out there since last Wednesday. So apparently major materials they needed to do their job on a daily basis, they'd been living without for 3 business days.

Of course, this made me wrinkle my eyebrow, because the company is well-aware of the stupid "accidental deleters" we have at this company and took great pains to ensure that it was next to impossible to do so. In fact, deleting such a database is a lengthy process. So of course, I investigate, and nothing of the sort is true -- a solitary document was deleted, which made the home page 'error out' when it loaded, but the documents were fine. In five minutes, I fixed the problem, and in 30, I readded the deleted page back.

Had any of them spoken up to the right people, this would have been a non-issue, but instead they actually did their jobs for three days without their reference materials, which means they could have been giving out all sorts of wrong information. Even important managers on the team didn't know this had happened because the idiots didn't speak up.

The 'work ticket' was never even worked on, and I told them to call them back and tell them "no thanks".

blame kim dotcom

A coworker was just str8 braggin' about how he drinks an entire 8-pack of 20-ounce Cokes during every work day, as he was shoving multiple mini candybars in his mouth.

Not 10 minutes later he made an earnest, unironic comment about not understanding why he keeps gaining weight.

Reminds me of this guy:

"I was telling my sixteen-year-old niece, I said "When you grow up, you can do anything you want. You can eat Gummi Bears and Mountain Dewbfor lunch every day, like I do. It's great!" Guy is 30 years old and has a beachball physique. He was trying to convince me to go try out a frozen yogurt stand for lunch.

― kkvgz, Friday, July 16, 2010 6:56 AM (1 year ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

although as an update, he radically altered his diet and lost like 70 pounds and then I became the fattest guy in the office. : /

dear colleague who is simultaneously a grad student and soon to be PHD holder, please STOP making me the person to listen to your quest for a job, and especially not your stresses about your salary negotiations and naming figures that are perhaps twice as much as i'll ever make? all of it is SO MUCH MONEY so just be happy you're getting interviews and job offers and leave me alone

we are actually friends so perhaps she thinks that talking about shit like that is within bounds but really, kinda tactless i think

Had any of them spoken up to the right people, this would have been a non-issue, but instead they actually did their jobs for three days without their reference material

ITYM "they didnt do a fucking thing for 3 days and no one noticed"

Honestly, I work with a bunch of lizards. If the temperature isn't exactly to their liking, they pull a face like they've just seen a turd and start whinging about how actually, they've got a genetic predisposition to being cold, or they're ill, or it messes with their immune system, or whatthefuckever. YOU DO NOT HAVE THE RIGHT TO CHANGE THE TEMPERATURE TO FIT YOUR WHIMS, ASSHOLE. Come on, put on a jumper ffs.

I work with similar people. I'd rather be too cold than too warm; overly warm and I get sleepy.

I actually wanted to mention that it's way too cold in here. Don't know how you guys can stand it.

i'm pretty sure my coworkers complain on a thread on some other forum about how i always want it to be as cold as possible in the office.

go on, speak in a slightly louder voice than is necessary so everyone across the office can hear you. What you are saying about '80s films/'90s indie/yourself is after all both of general interest and amusing enough for everybody in the office to want to hear.

Let me preface this by saying that I have a sincere fondness for this coworker, mostly because he brings the unintentional LOLs to my workday in a major way. Anyway:

I rode the elevator three times with this coworker (going to work, going for coffee, going back to work after coffee). On the first trip, he told me a story. On the second trip he told a lawyer this story. On the third trip, he told an IT guy the story. Here is the story:

I was over by Yvette and Maude - just chit chatting, you know - and I said to them, "You're boring me. I'm going back to work."

I started the tell our office admin that I rode the elevator with Dingdong three times in an hour and each time he told this dumb story to a different person and she was like, "Oh, yeah, he told me that story yesterday."

So awesome. So many people in the world, all trying to get by in their own little way. This guy chit-chats with Yvette and Maude, tells them they're boring, and that's his story for two days!

ha ha!
and exactly how many people have you told *that* story to?!

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lol

ha ha!
and exactly how many people have you told *that* story to?!

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META ANECDOTE

But two coworkers plus ILX. Heh.

But to be fair, this coworkers' antics are one of my closest coworkers and my favorite topics of conversation so we get pretty excited when he does something new and noteworthy.

Not bitching, but this is weird: Our firm's main calendar has numerous entries like today's "L!nda bloodwork" and later in the week "Sh3rry Mammogram." We're supposed to write on the calendar when we're out of the office, but those details are way too much.

or you can pretend those are their full names