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

One photographer I deal with called her business "Photo's by _______". I pointed out the error and she was pretty pissed off. "I'm not changing it -- I already have my business cards printed."

ha ahha hahaaa.

Will, that is fucking great!

Maybe she'll only take one photo for each client.

Every photo she sends out has the digital watermark "© Photo's by ______" (aka "© I'm A Stubborn Dumbass") on it.

Plus she's not a very good photographer.

xp hahaha

People will think she's selling just one photo, which is by __________.

Xp dammit

ZS, that is my biggest peeve! esp the 'ok....' face you mention!

My coworker got married during his lunch break today. Not that I'm bitching. Just saying.

2 workmates are going "hwwaoooorrrrrrrrrrr!" in awe/horror at that vid of the bullied kid who poleaxed the other kid into the concrete. Im like "wtf how have you not seen this before now!?"

Also do some work you barstools! If you dont sell stuff I have no work to do dammit!

weirdly threatening
http://i.imgur.com/Hu0nY.jpg

Me: Good morning, Hank.
Hank: I'M FINE. HOW ARE YOU?
Me: …

Just sent mean email to dude in outsourced development team because he repeatedly asks me when his data is going to be available even though every time he asks me I tell him I am only responsible for loading the data when it arrives, not sourcing it, and have no idea when that will happen. I think he might get the message this time... kinda feel like I'm being a dick about it but enough is enough and anyway I'm leaving in 2 weeks so fuck 'em.

well how did you word it? "I WOULDN'T UPLOAD YOU IF YOU WERE THE LAST DATA ON EARTH!"

Data Cleansing is so passé

xpost Heh it was pretty obnoxious, it started with I don't know how many times I have to tell you this and ended with Please stop asking me ... I do not know. I didn’t know last time you asked me, I won’t know next time either.

Stupid thing is I've told him plenty of times to ask the project manager, who was also cc'd on the email he sent me.

I've had lunch now so I'm in a good mood again. Also a different person asked me who would be responsible for doing this kind of thing after I've left, and I had to say I have no idea because I haven't handed over to anyone, which made me slightly happier imagining them having to try and figure all this shit out after I've gone when they've had 3 months to find someone for me to handover to.

okay I have no idea what the context for this is and I genuinely like this particular coworker, but I just heard his voice steadily rising in volume and irritation from across the office and thought it was kind of funny out of nowhere:

"Dan... Dan. Dan... Dan.... DAN.... DAN... Dan Dan Dan. DAN. You asked me a question, I'm trying to answer it. Dan. DAN. She's a straight A student."

inception music imo

i'd bitch about my coworkers, but they're generally ok. Problem is that for the past week and for this week all three have been absent due to jobshare, annual leave and illness. We're (I'm?) also covering for another unit whose members are out due to jobshare, maternity leave (x 3) and, in the longer term, retirement (not to be replaced, x 2) and, in the longest term, death (not to be replaced).

I'm leaving in three weeks, so tbh I've enough to be doing what with winding downs and wrapping ups, but there's nobody to complain to- the immediate boss just got promoted (not to be replaced).

btw i'm not to be replaced, as far ad i know, but really that's not my problem

okay I have no idea what the context for this is and I genuinely like this particular coworker, but I just heard his voice steadily rising in volume and irritation from across the office and thought it was kind of funny out of nowhere:

"Dan... Dan. Dan... Dan.... DAN.... DAN... Dan Dan Dan. DAN. You asked me a question, I'm trying to answer it. Dan. DAN. She's a straight A student."

Related to this, maybe?

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=l2D3-FkoXNU

ha, a couple weeks ago i walked in on one of my co-workers screaming at another co-worker (also her BFF) STOP LOOKING AT ME!!!!!!!!! and this was in one of our stores. it was pretty awkward, but both of these girls are totally crazy and weird and flaky, and constantly suffering from one crisis or another.

Uurrrnnnngghhh every morning, a bowl of cereal, at her desk right behind me. The incessant clink clink of the spoon on the plate and the shlrupycrunchrunch drives me INSANE.

Darragh you work in the public service right?

lol why d'you ask -_-

tbh, if current trends continue by april 24th i will actually be the irish public service, tho hr refuse to speculate on the likely effect this has on my outstanding annual leave requests

'can you do this for me, i'm not good on computers?'

Look, mrs, you've been collecting a higher wage than me for twice as long as me in your current position. As far as the work you're using it for goes, Excel hasn't moved on light-years in that time. You've had entire paid weeks off to learn how to use microsoft office, for fuck's sake. This is a basic function of your job. I'd humbly suggest that you 'get' good at computers, fuck off, and leave me alone to do the work of people that aren't actually here. Dig?

Opportunities like that are pure office gold though.

"You want me to...do your work for you? Because you're not good at it?"

i'm am too nice for that, and tbf so is the other person in question, but i'm ..... under pressure atm and hey this thread exists y'know

suggest gently that the person is shitting in your bathroom

suggest ... bran?

ZING!!!

I'd be going to my boss (or hers) and saying "why is this lady asking me to do/help her with her work, idgi, she seems v confsed?" all innocent like.

everyone else in ireland is on leave or something iirc

Theyre all over here working tbh!

are they taking our jerbs trayce

ya it's just me and her and the president holding the fort iirc, everyone else is in canada or aus tekkin their jebs

I hate when I promise to have something to the leader of my project (and our client) by a certain day by the end of business. And one day before that deadline, I remind the project lead that as promised, it will be delivered, but I am sure to clarify that it will be closer to late afternoon (because it's a lot of work). And despite this, I still get pings and "where is it" emails and messages at like mid-day, which seriously slow me down for an hour or so. And I deliver as promised in the end, but I feel like everyone's acting like I turned it in late when I turned it in when I said I was going to!

Not technically about a co-worker, but close enough.

In December the building where I work had its elevator replaced, which left us without an elevator for 2.5 weeks.

The tenant in the suite next door to us is a creepy, low-rent ambulance chasing attorney with mobility problems that would prevent him from walking up 6 floors to his office. His landlord, a friend of my boss', went above and beyond in making accommodations by renting him a first-floor office, paying to have his phones re-routed to that office, and even waiving rent for the entire month of December.

Today my boss told me that the landlord also offered to buy the chaser and his whole staff lunch from various local cafes during the 2.5 week elevator outage because they would have to lug files up and down the stairs.

She said that his response was, quote: "No, fuck them, just pay me whatever you were planning on spending for lunch."

. . . and the landlord said?

My boss didn't get his exact response (?!) buy he took the lunch offer off the table.

my God. I go in this morning ready to attend a web-based training session about a program that I'm going to be using in training next week. We've talked about this for weeks. I couldn't be on site (as it is out of state), and I was told I could choose from Wed, Thurs, or Fri, and I picked today.

I show up, wait 30 minutes on hold, and it is clear that nobody is going to start the conference call. I ask one of the people in the on-site training room, who explains that the training has already begun, and there is no virtual training today, and that she is looking to have the leader schedule virtual training the next day.

I go to the project lead (same one I bitched about yesterday) and I ask her what is up, and instead of her following up, she asks me to go settle it with the other lady. Who comes back and says the dude can't do virtual training tomorrow after all, but can I read through his powerpoint and learn that way.

It's clear this project lead did not communicate with the other manager AT ALL, and just assumed there would be web-based training set up today. It's her job to be on top of all these things and she never is. it kills me as this is a tough project, and pretty much everybody is pulling their weight, but because she isn't doing her job and leading the project, things are slipping through the cracks. Her mentor has had to pull her aside and give her emergency coaching twice already.

Tomorrow I am going to have to draft a "What I need from you" message and basically tell her I need her to step up, or I can't do my job. Her mentor has encouraged me to do it anyway.

I love my job at the moment. It's just this one person who's making it all wonky. And she's not mean or nasty or anything. I just don't think she's cut out for the role.

Hey, guys, when you set me up to interview a woman about her husband's health problems for your internal newsletter, thanks for not warning me beforehand that her husband was actually now dead of said health problems. That wasn't embarrassing at all.

Know what was fun this week? Working with a bunch of Boomer ladies who grew up with pictures of Davy Jones taped on their bedroom walls.

Ok that's twice this week someone has mentioned Davy Jones, so I Googled him and he means nothing to me except that I have heard of The Monkees.

BJOD and JM, I feel for you.

lol jesse he DIED this week!!

Basically totes crazy co-worker is on extended FMLA, thank god. her baseline behavior was to plant herself (legs apart, arms folded) in front of whoever she wanted to speak to and explain whatever was on her mind in great detail, taking care to repeat anything that was said back to her. We work with mentally ill clients and she's pretty much been more trouble than all but a few of the clients.

unfortunately her being on leave means that her shifts often get filled by an on-call employee who will monologue endlessly about a) coach bags, b) her various expensive gadgets that she can't actually afford, or c) her fucked-up childhood and family (which sounds awful but she shares deeply personal details within hours of meeting co-workers).

So I have a legitimate reason to bitch about my stupid, annoying ex-coworker. He quit about a month ago to go to another firm and we discovered today that he severely fucked up the construction drawings for a project currently being built. Enough so that the project had to be put on hold while we fix it. Eight of us now have to work all weekend and evenings until we fix his fuck-ups.

is the project a giant microwave popcorn bag?

smh