Oh, once I was waiting on line and the woman behind me removed either a piece of hair or a thread off me because "seeing those on people is a pet peeve on mine." You know what's a pet peeve of mine? People touching me.
This was also the person who was trying to talk with me when I was listening to my iPod and knitting which I thought were fairly obvious signs that I wasn't interested in talking with anyone.
― tokyo rosemary, Monday, 18 June 2012 10:19 (eleven years ago) link
Strangers telling me my shoelace is untied makes me IA.
― tokyo rosemary, Monday, 18 June 2012 10:21 (eleven years ago) link
Oh, I guess I am getting the stupid co-workers thread and irrationally angry threads confused.
― tokyo rosemary, Monday, 18 June 2012 10:23 (eleven years ago) link
I've told you all before about the customer (when I was working at That Hardware Store) who yanked a grey hair off of my head because he thought I was too young to have grey hair.
― Christine Green Leafy Dragon Indigo, Monday, 18 June 2012 12:07 (eleven years ago) link
(Not a stupid coworkers story, but related.)
― Christine Green Leafy Dragon Indigo, Monday, 18 June 2012 12:08 (eleven years ago) link
if i hear "moving forward" one more time, i'm going to move my fist forward into someone's face
i could probably do better with that but i'm so, so very tired
― Mad God 40/40 (Z S), Monday, 18 June 2012 16:55 (eleven years ago) link
Holy shit, Christine. That person was way the fuck out of line.
― Je55e, Monday, 18 June 2012 19:03 (eleven years ago) link
1. We have a new asst. general counsel and the general counsel is taking her around. He brought her into our office, asked if our boss was here, the AA said no, and he said, "Oh, well I'm just introducing the new asst. general counsel to all the lawyers in the legal department," and walked out. Meanwhile, me and the other lawyer in the office are just sitting here, totally disregarded, like, "I just reported all my MCLE credits so I'm pretty sure I'm still a lawyer..."
2. General counsel introduces the asst. general counsel to the boss from another office (with the same spiel about introducing her to the lawyers in the legal department, meanwhile I walk by unremarked). The Other Boss says to the new asst. general counsel, "Oh, you're replacing Fred? Well you're much prettier. Much, much prettier." To the assistant general counsel who is, among other things, responsible for defending the agency against sexual harassment lawsuits.
― carl agatha, Monday, 18 June 2012 19:24 (eleven years ago) link
(For info, our department consists of suites that contain an office for the AA, an office for the boss, and the rest of the suite is two (relatively private) cubes for use non-lawyer lawyers. So while we are shielded from the horrors of an open floor plan, we don't have a door to close against noise and the two lawyers in each office are basically up in each other's business all day. But the GC was looking right at the wall of my cube with my little name plate that says "Carl Agatha, Staff Attorney" when he decided he was only introduced this woman to lawyers.)
― carl agatha, Monday, 18 June 2012 19:28 (eleven years ago) link
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― Je55e, Monday, 18 June 2012 20:33 (eleven years ago) link
^^^ Jesse IRL
― carl agatha, Monday, 18 June 2012 20:37 (eleven years ago) link
It reminds me of a time I was waiting at the lifts and a lady - complete stranger from another floor/company, no idea who she was - reached over to me (standing behind me) and tucked in my fukcing shirt tag. Said "I cant stand tagdags! I had to fix it!". I was gobsmacked.
This has happened to me multiple times! The worst! You should have responded "You want to know what I can't stand? The cold hands of a stranger on the back of my fucking neck. That's what I can't stand."
― cwkiii, Monday, 18 June 2012 20:57 (eleven years ago) link
the other day at work, i all of a sudden sneezed, hiccuped, and did some weird snort/squawk thing, and it was very embarrassing. i just started laughing and apologized, but in my head, i was imagining my new workers coming to this thread to post about how it was SO GROSS.
― how did we get here how? (ytth), Tuesday, 19 June 2012 03:37 (eleven years ago) link
In spite of all the abuse I have taken at work, I interviewed for a promotion in another department. It looks like I will get it, and I will then have the power to fire people!
― โตเกียวเหมียวเหมียว aka Steroids are Super Kewl! (Mount Cleaners), Wednesday, 20 June 2012 17:07 (eleven years ago) link
From the insane co-worker files:
Today in the elevator I mentioned that I'd gone to a tattoo place near where she lived once.
her: You have a tatoo?!!!me: Yeah, well I have four.her: OMG you have four tattoos?me: Yep.her: OK tramp. Hahahahahaha just kidding! I'm sort of against them though. No ink will go on this temple.
. . .
― (✿◠‿◠) (ENBB), Friday, 22 June 2012 20:22 (eleven years ago) link
Tramp? Really lady?!
But then . . .
ugh, i haaaaaaaaaate that
1) insult2) jk3) no but really, insult
― Mad God 40/40 (Z S), Friday, 22 June 2012 20:23 (eleven years ago) link
I got an email from my manager (with whom I've had issues in the past couple months) telling me that she had noticed I'm doing an excellent job lately and really making an effort. I then noticed that the email was actually a forward of an email that insane co-worker had sent her letting her know that I'd been going above and beyond and really helping her and the other new team members a lot lately and that she's not the only one who noticed this but that she though the supervisor should know because it's been so helpful. It was actually exceptionally sweet.
So, she's still nuts but I think she's a really good person.
― (✿◠‿◠) (ENBB), Friday, 22 June 2012 20:24 (eleven years ago) link
This lady she sent it to isn't really someone I work for but the HR person I'd written about before who had been harassing me about time off and stuff over the spring.
― (✿◠‿◠) (ENBB), Friday, 22 June 2012 20:26 (eleven years ago) link
Anyway I honestly don't think I've ever met anyone who is seemingly normal yet completely clueless socially.
― (✿◠‿◠) (ENBB), Friday, 22 June 2012 20:27 (eleven years ago) link
lady and the tramp
― puff puff post (uh oh I'm having a fantasy), Friday, 22 June 2012 20:27 (eleven years ago) link
Did she actually say "OMG"?
― cwkiii, Friday, 22 June 2012 20:28 (eleven years ago) link
Anyway I honestly don't think I've ever met anyone who is quite so seemingly normal yet completely clueless socially.
― (✿◠‿◠) (ENBB), Friday, June 22, 2012 4:27 PM (57 seconds ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink
― (✿◠‿◠) (ENBB), Friday, 22 June 2012 20:29 (eleven years ago) link
x-post - No, no she did not.
― (✿◠‿◠) (ENBB), Friday, 22 June 2012 20:33 (eleven years ago) link
OK, good. The whole scene is bad either way, but that would have pushed it over the edge. :)
― cwkiii, Friday, 22 June 2012 20:53 (eleven years ago) link
Nice work, E! lol at insult-JK-insult though, what the hell :P
― she started dancing to that (Finefinemusic), Friday, 22 June 2012 21:56 (eleven years ago) link
"Would you put graffiti on the temple?" I heard this SO MANY times growing up re: tattoo that it's a guaranteed rolleye inducer. Anyway now I have John Mayer stuck in my head with the words "your body is a temple-land"
― chupacabra seeds (Abbbottt), Friday, 22 June 2012 22:17 (eleven years ago) link
I'm sorry, but why do you put your ginormous box of cereal in our (often packed) communal fridge? Put that shit on your desk, or put transfer it to an airtight container and leave it in your office! Right now it's laid down flat, because its shape does not FIT in a refrigerator, and so it's taking up an unnecessary amount of surface area. And, by the way, no need to put your initials on it. No one wants to eat your stupid cereal.
― rayuela, Tuesday, 26 June 2012 13:18 (eleven years ago) link
Can you fit it into the crisper? You know - for freshness.
― she started dancing to that (Finefinemusic), Tuesday, 26 June 2012 13:20 (eleven years ago) link
Possibly, but I don't want to rearrange her stuff for her. Doesn't stay fresh if you keep it in an airtight container?
― rayuela, Tuesday, 26 June 2012 13:25 (eleven years ago) link
Oh I was being sarcastic, we keep our cereal in the box in a cupboard! :)
― she started dancing to that (Finefinemusic), Tuesday, 26 June 2012 13:29 (eleven years ago) link
haha. it doesn't help that i already don't like her. i think if she weren't so irritating the rest of the time, the cereal box wouldn't bother me.
― rayuela, Tuesday, 26 June 2012 13:36 (eleven years ago) link
I understand completely; I'm currently bitching to my manager about how this weird girl is going to be at our conference and everything she does drives me nuts & I'm terrified we'll get seated together because we're the only smokers. One of those people who just grates. I think I have already mentioned her on this thread. She's so creepy.
― she started dancing to that (Finefinemusic), Tuesday, 26 June 2012 13:38 (eleven years ago) link
ah yes. i remember when i smoked, i had to seek out a hiding place so as to avoid this one weirdo smoker at my work. somehow we always ended up running into each other in the elevator on the way to or back from smoking.
― rayuela, Tuesday, 26 June 2012 13:50 (eleven years ago) link
jesus enbb you're surging ahead itt
BTW wasn't it pretty poor form for the HR person to include the original mail? Nice that you could see it and all, but would they do the same with a complaint etc?
― I blame the prurience (darraghmac), Tuesday, 26 June 2012 13:51 (eleven years ago) link
I have this thing where I just can't be outright rude to people unless pushed - especially as she's a coworker. So I dodge her, only passively respond to her conversation, pretend I don't see her - still she comes up to me daily 'to chat.' She fills me with IA. Argh!
― she started dancing to that (Finefinemusic), Tuesday, 26 June 2012 13:52 (eleven years ago) link
x-post - I sort of wondered that myself tbh but I don't really know what the protocol is and guess it wasn't really a formal thing. I don't really care as somehow I seem to have managed to work my way back into their good graces which is A-OK by me.
― (✿◠‿◠) (ENBB), Tuesday, 26 June 2012 13:57 (eleven years ago) link
yeah i suppose you'd hope in a negative sitch that they'd have the cop-on not to do it.
Ffm- i'm never rude to anyone either imo, but i've got this 'rep'....i blame my eyebrows, they're v suggestive
― I blame the prurience (darraghmac), Tuesday, 26 June 2012 13:58 (eleven years ago) link
good reason to quit smoking?
xpost to ms finemusic
― Porto for Pyros (The Cursed Return of the Dastardly Thermo Thinwall), Tuesday, 26 June 2012 14:01 (eleven years ago) link
the eyebrows cannot be restrained!
― rayuela, Tuesday, 26 June 2012 14:09 (eleven years ago) link
xp It's in the works and that IS a small part of my many reasons!
― she started dancing to that (Finefinemusic), Tuesday, 26 June 2012 14:09 (eleven years ago) link
I'm sure I have some visual tells but this girl has no radar whatsoever.
― she started dancing to that (Finefinemusic), Tuesday, 26 June 2012 14:10 (eleven years ago) link
Effective method for dealing with annoying co-workers: total silence and The Dan Hedaya Stare:
http://www.tribute.ca/tribute_objects/images/stars/dan_hedaya.jpg
― Biff Wellington (WmC), Tuesday, 26 June 2012 14:28 (eleven years ago) link
Lollll I'm totally doing that the next time the kooky, hymn singing security guard tries to mumble-chat with me about whatever strange thoughts are flitting through her head.
― carl agatha, Tuesday, 26 June 2012 14:33 (eleven years ago) link
Okay so this guy:
― Natalie Portmanteau (Stevie D(eux)), Tuesday, 26 June 2012 14:44 (eleven years ago) link
Yuck. Does management notice how he sucks?
― Je55e, Tuesday, 26 June 2012 16:41 (eleven years ago) link
Do a web search for his email address and you'll probably find a lot of ragingly misogynistic posts on MRA websites and you can show your bosses and be like "Is this the kind of person you want to work here?"
― carl agatha, Tuesday, 26 June 2012 17:27 (eleven years ago) link
calls out CONSTANTLY with no remorse and for reasons that are confirmed bullshit (he'll be "sick" but then come in later that day to buy a sandwich or be at another co-workers house just hanging out talking about how he doesn't want to go to work)
had someone who would do this years ago when i worked at a very busy ice cream shop. remember one time she called in sick and we had to call in someone to cover for her; he really didn't want to, but he took the bullet. an hour later, he's taking her order.
― of family bonds and individual triumph. Narrated by Tim Allen, (zachlyon), Tuesday, 26 June 2012 18:00 (eleven years ago) link
Bloody hell. Sure, take a sickie, but... to actually go in and prove that you're not sick, that just seems... incredibly stupid?
― emil.y, Tuesday, 26 June 2012 18:04 (eleven years ago) link
I worked at one place with a lot of flaky students and one time one of the boss guys played us this really apologetic voicemail message one of them had left, calling in sick with diarrhea but then not hanging up the phone properly and going 'do you think that sounded convincing? diarrhea's always convincing because no-one would say it otherwise, right??'
― kinder, Tuesday, 26 June 2012 18:14 (eleven years ago) link