― Markelby (Mark C), Friday, 17 June 2005 14:50 (eighteen years ago) link
― giboyeux (skowly), Friday, 17 June 2005 14:54 (eighteen years ago) link
― Vicky (Vicky), Friday, 17 June 2005 14:57 (eighteen years ago) link
― Markelby (Mark C), Friday, 17 June 2005 14:58 (eighteen years ago) link
― Vicky (Vicky), Friday, 17 June 2005 15:06 (eighteen years ago) link
these same people will put milkbottles back in the fridge with two molecules of milk left in them in order to save themselves having to rinse them out and put them on the side.
― koogs (koogs), Thursday, 14 July 2005 09:50 (eighteen years ago) link
the same person, ugh, ok, i've been working on a dictionary and i've been storing everything on floppy. she took a magnet and rubbed on the floppy and asked, "does it really mess up these things to rub a magnet on them?" all of my hard work, destroyed.
i. can't. see. clearly. when i'm near her.
― ai lien (kold_krush), Thursday, 14 July 2005 13:22 (eighteen years ago) link
― n/a (Nick A.), Thursday, 14 July 2005 13:31 (eighteen years ago) link
― ai lien (kold_krush), Thursday, 14 July 2005 13:44 (eighteen years ago) link
― Homosexual II (Homosexual II), Thursday, 14 July 2005 13:51 (eighteen years ago) link
― tissp! (the impossible shortest specia), Thursday, 14 July 2005 14:19 (eighteen years ago) link
Kill her. Eat her heart.
― The Ghost of Dan Perry (Dan Perry), Thursday, 14 July 2005 14:26 (eighteen years ago) link
― koogs (koogs), Thursday, 14 July 2005 14:58 (eighteen years ago) link
ok, right? and here i am, trying to learn patience and she gets sent my way. i would love to punch her in the throat, i would.
― ai lien (kold_krush), Thursday, 14 July 2005 15:02 (eighteen years ago) link
― ai lien (kold_krush), Thursday, 14 July 2005 15:08 (eighteen years ago) link
― carbon (carbon), Thursday, 14 July 2005 15:11 (eighteen years ago) link
and one more thing, and i'm done. she practically eats pens. she leaves these chewed pens on my desk! all of the time. i have to use a tissue to pick it up and return it to her. the scary thing is is that these pens have been chewed down, meaning that they are a lot smaller than original size. i'm done. i promise.
― ai lien (kold_krush), Thursday, 14 July 2005 15:14 (eighteen years ago) link
jesus wept.
― grimly fiendish (grimlord), Thursday, 14 July 2005 15:15 (eighteen years ago) link
yikes. part of me thinks that someone who trusts the only copy of their work to a *floppy* almost deserves to lose it. email copies to yourself regularly at the very least.
― koogs (koogs), Thursday, 14 July 2005 16:12 (eighteen years ago) link
― ai lien (kold_krush), Thursday, 14 July 2005 17:24 (eighteen years ago) link
― tokyo nursery school: afternoon session (rosemary), Thursday, 14 July 2005 18:06 (eighteen years ago) link
Working with anyone on diet pills is the worst thing ever. I had one of those at my first office job right out of college, and I thought I might kill myself. She was always shaking and snippy and frazzled.
― Sarah McLusky (coco), Thursday, 14 July 2005 18:13 (eighteen years ago) link
― pullapartgirl (pullapartgirl), Thursday, 14 July 2005 18:16 (eighteen years ago) link
but i want to hear more about the new air conditioning saga! as a texan i find british tales of air conditioning endearing.
― fortunate hazel (f. hazel), Thursday, 14 July 2005 18:22 (eighteen years ago) link
stories are legion from female coworkers who, not realizing she was using the toilet stall (her feet don't touch the ground, see) walked in on her doing her business. she's also infamous as an office informant (someone once wrote 'narc' on her computer monitor in orange highlighter) and is absolutely impossible to communicate with.
argh
― feverdream, Thursday, 14 July 2005 19:34 (eighteen years ago) link
This sounds like a good story!
― Thermo Thinwall (Thermo Thinwall), Thursday, 14 July 2005 19:55 (eighteen years ago) link
the perp was terrified that he'd be discovered and actually ended up quitting out of fear. thank f*ck i was out of the office that day, or i would've surely been fingered for it.
she's also an avid juggler!
― feverdream, Thursday, 14 July 2005 20:10 (eighteen years ago) link
― scout (scout), Friday, 15 July 2005 06:31 (eighteen years ago) link
― gem (trisk), Friday, 15 July 2005 06:36 (eighteen years ago) link
> but i want to hear more about the new air conditioning saga!
got in this morning and we seem to have reverted to using the windows as windows and the ac isn't even plugged in. (mind boggles at waste of money but is happy that we aren't wasting more).
― koogs (koogs), Friday, 15 July 2005 07:59 (eighteen years ago) link
Doesnt she lock the stall door?!?
― Trayce (trayce), Friday, 15 July 2005 08:45 (eighteen years ago) link
― Lupton Pitman (Chris V), Friday, 15 July 2005 13:09 (eighteen years ago) link
he sounds very polite.
― not-goodwin (not-goodwin), Friday, 15 July 2005 13:14 (eighteen years ago) link
― Lupton Pitman (Chris V), Friday, 15 July 2005 13:16 (eighteen years ago) link
― not-goodwin (not-goodwin), Friday, 15 July 2005 13:22 (eighteen years ago) link
― Lupton Pitman (Chris V), Friday, 15 July 2005 13:25 (eighteen years ago) link
I hate it when I have to talk to people.
― accentmonkey (accentmonkey), Friday, 15 July 2005 16:58 (eighteen years ago) link
― luna (luna.c), Friday, 15 July 2005 17:03 (eighteen years ago) link
― Rock Hardy (Rock Hardy), Friday, 15 July 2005 17:07 (eighteen years ago) link
― Sarah McLusky (coco), Friday, 15 July 2005 17:19 (eighteen years ago) link
We once asked him to call a whole slew of actors to get their social security numbers, which he recorded on the spreadsheet from whence he got their phone numbers. This took 4 hours. The spreadsheet was sort of a public document, so we told him to take the social security numbers off there, as they are private, etc. Which he did, with success. Except he DID NOT RECORD THEM ANYWHERE ELSE. And then just left. Successfully undoing his entire days work.
He looks exactly like Buster from Arrested Development.
― now now now, Friday, 15 July 2005 17:38 (eighteen years ago) link
― Tantrum The Cat (Tantrum The Cat), Friday, 15 July 2005 18:11 (eighteen years ago) link
― L@@K !! *RARE*!! (nordicskilla), Friday, 15 July 2005 18:20 (eighteen years ago) link
― Dr. Glen Y. Abreu (dr g), Friday, 15 July 2005 18:22 (eighteen years ago) link
― Rock Hardy (Rock Hardy), Friday, 15 July 2005 19:04 (eighteen years ago) link
Workmate: I think Irish accents are really sexy.Caroline: I know someone from IrelandW: I like Spanish accents too.C: I've got a friend who's SpanishW: And West country accentsC: My grandfather was born in Bristol
Me (to a colleague) My car broke down in ***** (an exclusive area in our town)C (from across the room) Why are you talking about ****?Me (resigned to inevitable brag) My car broke down there.C: My friend lives there.
Workmate: Old John's so switched on, he can speak 4 languages.C: I know someone who can speak 5
Workmate: So I'm off to Las Vegas for my hols. I can't wait!C: I know loads of people who've been there.
Workmate: My mum's tiny, lucky thing. She's only a size 8C: My sister's a size 6.(the week before her sister's height was apparently 5' 11". At size 6, she really needs to see a doctor)
Caroline also catches the spirit of the age. When our manager's brother left the army to join the clergy, Caroline suddenly had a grandfather who is a C of E vicar. When the Pope was dying and everyone chatted about it at work, suddenly Caroline's family became devoutly Catholic, with her describing a fire and brimstone upbringing completely at odds with her earlier portrayals. And Caroline plays on her age. At 23 she's the youngest in our department and mistakenly believes that it makes her beautiful and nubile. If you saw her you'd think otherwise. She makes constant comparisons to my age (29) and seems to imply that I'm over the hill. If an oldish song comes on the radio and you say: "That reminds me of a great holiday in 1997", Caroline will say: "I was only 15 then." and I feel like replying: "So what? Were you a fat wallflower then like you are now?" With the more senior of our colleagues, Caroline will ask what year a certain song came out. When the answer is 1974 or whatever, Caroline will say: "I was minus 8 then." and it's her chance to catch some envy that she mistakenly believes these women have of her.Some colleagues actually manufacture conversations in order to watch Caroline jump through hoops in order to impress. It can be quite funny but more than anything it drives me crackers.
― Beverley Nicks, Sunday, 24 July 2005 17:00 (eighteen years ago) link
― Laura H. (laurah), Sunday, 24 July 2005 17:25 (eighteen years ago) link
― teeny (teeny), Sunday, 24 July 2005 17:34 (eighteen years ago) link
i am off in a few minutes to a baby shower for my very annoying pregnant coworker. this girl is several years younger than i, got herself knocked up by her stupid boyfriend (who already has another child with whom he has no involvement), and they fight every single day. i get to hear about their arguments (or maybe i should just say argument since it's always the same thing over and over and over) all day at work. she's also continued to smoke newports for the duration of her pregnancy, and then complains about how she doesn't feel well and is uncomfortable. occasionally she'll call at 1 am, crying over something ridiculous, and the other night she asked at 12:30 if she could come over to "talk." NO! STAY AWAY FROM MY HOUSE! i feel bad because she really is a nice girl, just stupid and rather naive; however, i really do not feel like going to an annoying baby shower to pretend to be all excited about this kid.
― famous and fabled, left to right (tehresa), Sunday, 24 July 2005 17:41 (eighteen years ago) link
― Trayce (trayce), Monday, 25 July 2005 00:17 (eighteen years ago) link