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

Remember how I kvetched that my coworkers get me confused with another coworker with the same first name despite us looking/acting/sounding nothing alike?

I put in my notice, but it seems everybody thinks the Other Jennifer is leaving this job and not me. I was standing in our admin's office talking to her and another admin, and our admin told the other admin, "You know Jennifer is leaving, right?" (referring to me, who is standing right there participating in the conversation) and the other admin said, and I quote, "People keep telling me that. What the fuck do I care if she's leaving? We never talk anyway." People had been telling her that the other Jennifer was leaving.

Sigh.

HR once brought the other Jennifer into a confidential meeting about my compensation package. The other Jennifer figured it out when they gave her papers to sign and my name was printed on the bottom.

Jesus Christ that is unbelievable!

It makes me feel like I'm in a David Lynch movie sometimes. Or I'll have little existential crises, like... am I really here? Do I really exist?

You should start referring to the other Jennifer as White Jennifer.

That would be hilarious but would not clear up the confusion.

I'll be Regular Jennifer and she can be Bizarro Jennifer.

And call yourself Mexican Jennifer.

Ah what the hell, just go with Black Jennifer.

BIZARRO BIZARRO I LOVE YOU BIZARRO

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L to R: my boss, Bizarro Jennifer, the Hymn Singing Security Guard*, the coworker who wouldn't go to lunch. Not pictured because I don't exist: me

*I was doing my thing in the stall and in comes the Hymn Singing Security Guard, singing a hymn, and she pushed open the door of the stall next to mine, stopped singing and shouted, "GOOD LORD!" I peeked in there on my way out and the less said about what someone did to that toilet the better, but it was enough to make her take the Lord's name in vain so you know it was bad.

omg carl, I'm glad you got a new job, but also SO sad because these people you work with now!!! David Lynch world + Being John Malkovich + holy crap crazy!

dying @ other jennifer stories, i would abuse that situation very badly i think

ultimate goal of course is to get paid but otherwise have nobody know you exist

oh i manage that most days

If I were craftier, I could leverage this into some kind of ghost payrollee scheme. And I wouldn't even have to be related to an elected official!

eh

so i was mini-promoted (acting basis kinda thing, in a department not likely to exist in another few weeks, but still) on wednesday. but complications arising from the fact that i'm on a permanent contract as opposed to temp (95% staff here are agency) means that the boss called me in on thursday to rescind the title and the bucks after HR raised hell.

i'm better off in that the work is supervisory and generally better (experience, cv boost, off the phones and away from braying mouths) but jeez i kinda wish he'd checked his facts before he told me i was getting a raise.

anyway.

oh god! What an immense tool. :( sorry darragh.

Wow, yeah. Fact check! That really sucks.

shit dmac, I'm in a very similar boat. I'd like to relay the details, but I'm headed out the door at the moment and I feel like I'd have to actually draw several office org charts to fully convey what's happened. Similar results though. No title. No raise*. About 3x as many responsibilities. No staff to delegate the work to. It's been a year. I discussed the whole thing with my new director and I believe her when she says she's trying hard to make something happen.

*When he was leaving, I asked my former director how large my pay increase would have been and he said that the last guy to hold that position was earning $10-$15K more than me.

well hold on like- i'm better of than i was heading into work on wed morning, in every way but official title and salary. it was just a bummer to get lifted and dropped like

your sitch sounds *much* worse tbh, sympathies

and xp the boss emailed HR, told them he was bumping me up, asked would there be any issues, was told no! he's pushing to get something arranged, and was v apologetic, i'm p easygoing about this stuff tbrr.

Overheard a bunch of coworkers in the break room discussing ("discussing") Serena Williams, e.g. "she looks like a monster."

Grrrrrrr

I telecommute and my co-workers are also my neighbors. Sometimes. I work for my dad's old company but he is dead.

I mean, I gladly do most of the heavy lifting. Don't get paid much but it's "expected" that me and my family make the biggest contribution and pull the most weight.

Meanwhile it seems everyone else who doesn't have the "family connections" get a bigger salary and, um, no thanks.

None of them came to my father's funeral even though it made them rich and bought them second houses and vacations and all.

i don't even know who to blame for this but whoever decided to turn off autocomplete in the to: and cc: sections of our email, FUCK YOU

some lazy grad student sent two 50+ page docs to the printer, and either never followed up or saw the "change toner" sign and decided to let someone else do it. so i did it, and now i have to wait for all that shit to come out for mine to come out.

can't you cancel the job? i have no qualms about doing that in those situations.

it occurred to me to do that right after i posted. so i did.

she came out of her cube when she heard the printer going (but after i had hit cancel), which to me that says she knew it was stuck and just waited for someone else to do it.

justified!

Not exactly coworker here, but a consultant is driving me batshit. He requested an AutoCAD background file from us, so I sent it over right away. Got a call that this didn't work, he's running an older version of AutoCAD and needs it to be saved as Release 11. Now, I'm not sure how exactly to explain this to those unfamiliar with AutoCAD but Release 11 came out in 1990. As in 22 years ago. We're running AutoCAD 2011 at my office, and saving it back that far isn't even an option. I'm working on it, but no luck with something he can open yet.

Anyway, my IA kicks in when this consultant sends out an email to the client, copying me, that says "the architect isn't being cooperative and getting me the files I need, our work may be delayed". His first request for a file came in at 7:50 this morning. It is now 9:45 and I've sent him five different files in an attempt to get him one that works. Its not my fault you're running 22 year-old software, so don't bitch to the client to make it look like we aren't being helpful when I'm busy bending myself over backwards to help your Luddite ass.

I'm doing an Autocad course through a government scheme at the moment, the teacher last week said that if we went to autodesk we should be able to download the programme.
Might be an option,if that is possible outside Ireland. I haven't looked into it myself.
Though having a computer that wants to run a '90 version presumably means he wants a much newer computer anyway. Is the guy a Luddite?

Sounded like teacher meant for free there too. Might have more to do with us being students that wouldn't cross over into business but still might be an option once he gets with the programme and gets a functional computer.

newstart in my dept. is driving me crazy with his crappy work ethic, constant sighing and inane questions/statements. a sample from today:

- "Is Hallowe'en the 25th?"
- "The year should end on 21/12, the winter solstice. I feel quite strongly about this."
- "What kind of 4s do you do?"
- "Blacking up is sometimes acceptable... if done 'sensitively'." (!)
- "Is there still time for a coffee?" (asked at 16:45)
- "I fucking hate Carrot Top." (apropos of nothing)

- "I hate affirmative action. It's just another kind of racism." (!)

Jom - i would have been furious. scathing email from an enraged Thermo would have been the result!

methinks we may need a new thread

I sure love being asked to support software I have never even seen

Why new thread? This one is not even at 5,000, which seems like nothing these days. Though really a new thread is fine w/ me as long as the first post contains a link to this thread (as should be done for all rolling threads!)

The associate attorney I've posted about quite a lot here actually did something good today: He saw my 60-some-year-old boss for the first time since she got her hair cut and dyed, and he said to her, "Oh nice, you got your hair did. It looks good." She looked at him funny and teased him about his grammar. Meanwhile, I held back from laughing my ass off b/c he's the epitome of whitebread from Iowa, and it was obvious that he wasn't saying "got your hair did" humorously or to try to sound cool, but because for some reason that was the phrase that happened to come out of his mouth.

- was on holidays friday/monday
- as is my wont, I did not once check my email, because ON LEAVE (and besides i was 2 hours away on a seaside cliff with a friend)
- got in this morning FIVE MINUTES late; while PC was still booting up I grabed some water (no point wasting time rite?)
- boss corralled me in kitchen demanding i send him some info he was after "in the next 5 -10 mins please"
- he then followed this up with a terse all staff email reminding people not to be late for work
- boss had sent me this request the day before. When I was on leave. Which he knew. Did he expect me to check me mail? Eff that
- turns out the things he wanted? I'd already sent him, before. TWICE. But you cannot, CANNOT argue with this man and say "you already have this", that answer is NEVER CORRECT.
- bolded the bits he neeeded from overal (one fscking page) document, re sent to him

FUUUUCK

scuse typos, i have a bandaged finger lol

Annoying Woman #1: I wonder how that girl in Argentina died.
Annoying Woman #2 (AKA Kathy Griffin Voice): Where did you hear about that?
AW #1: It was in the newspaper this morning.
AW #2: Oh, that could have been ANYTHING down there. She could have been eaten by alligator, crocodile...

Its not my fault you're running 22 year-old software, so don't bitch to the client to make it look like we aren't being helpful when I'm busy bending myself over backwards to help your Luddite ass.

My late dad worked in engineering and a lot of the older guys had really old computers and versions of AutoCAD, this made me laugh. He got a new computer two years before he died, but his previous computer was from 1998! As was his AutoCAD. But jeez does 1990 AutoCAD even work? Might make a nice children's game.

Yeah I can't even imagine the PC that its running on. Apparently one of the files I sent him that day finally did work, but I'm honestly baffled as to how.

I was given one of those summertime "housekeeping" tasks, with the understanding that I'd get two temps to help me. Senior staff can be gone for four weeks at a time in summer!

I have to work extra hours and I'm afraid to log those hours and ask for a raise. I mean, I was in denial about it, July came and I thought, "surely we'll have a temp assistant coming in soon." Now it's the end of the summer and I have to finish this stuff by October. I'll get it done but not without putting in extra hours.

Manager posted on FB (we were friends before my hire) about how I was promoted "instead" of her into a marketing role, completely ignoring my 15 years of (hobbyist, but still solid) design experience and making it sound like people just like me better and she should've got it :P C'mon, that's just petty.

Wow, some people really should not post to Facebook. That is so unprofessional! I think it's okay to bitch on a bulletin board, but I wouldn't complain about jobs on Facebook unless I didn't have a serious commitment. Offending the wrong person could screw up your career for YEARS.

yeah, it's kind of shitty. We both do sales reporting now, I do the grunt work and she builds the more interesting reports.. I mentioned in my review that I'd like to move into marketing should the opportunity arise and she said that probably wouldn't happen. Then a VP went past her completely and offered me a role! That was ~6 weeks ago and no official announcement has happened yet and she's been very distant and weird since. I DIDN'T DO ANYTHING. I even gave her a heads up immediately when I realized they hadn't spoken to her - she didn't "officially" find out until two weeks ago. I feel like that deserves a little more than casual resentment. Ah well.