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

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.

Maybe some of you do this as well, but I don't get the guy who eats lunch at this desk watching straight-up recordings of Halo missions on YouTube.

I quite like watching videos of people playing stuff. It's gaming the lazy way. Very relaxing.

FFM, that manager is being super unprofessional and also a jealous petty jerk. Also - congratulations!!!

Wow, that is so immature. I don't know if you like your job or not - it sounds like you do. I hate when you love your job and most of your co-workers but then you get some childish behavior. Don't know if that's your situation, but I've been there. Like you're happy and like everyone then some childish snub occurs. I mean, you get comfortable and excited and someone pulls your chair out from under you.

I have a friend who has worked one shit job after another and her attitude is, well, I'll just leave if I get sick of it, "says more about you than me." With my resume, I can't have that carefree attitude. I mean, "college degree, graduate work, design and publishing experience...and you just walk out of a job if you don't like it." Doesn't work well in interviews.

Thanks, Carl! I got to submit my first ad to be printed in a Legit (trade) Magazine, felt so cool.
I like Excel but my current job is hard to *love* - I think the new one will be extremely lovable! I'm the type who prefers to be busy than bored. The kicker is, I'm still not a 'manager' so it wouldn't have been a promotion for her! No good reason for angst. OH WELL. She's not being mean to me directly, just kind of annoying.

FFM! - that's superb. Well done! As for your co-worker, imo it'd be better to be mean to you directly (not that she should do that either) than post somewhere where she surely knows you'll see it. Bizarre.

Maybe some of you do this as well, but I don't get the guy who eats lunch at this desk watching straight-up recordings of Halo missions on YouTube.

Which bit is bugging you, the desklunch or the LetsPlays? I hate it when people eat at their desks but Ive ranted about that so many times on this thread i'm not starting again (boss who sits behind me's on hols in Borneo the last 2 weeks - its been bliss not hearing crunch slurp clink all day long)

at my last job i sat next to this old dude who would bring in an entire cooler with salad ingredients for his lunch

I'm getting a little tired of two co-workers who sit next to me who believe that EVERYTHING IS A CONSPIRACY (TO MAKE THEM DO MORE WORK).

help me

new guy positioned adjacent to me jiggling head back and forth incessantly constantly hands all over his face regularly picking or entering orifices subsequently examining fingertips plus really battering keyboard inbetween help me

Coworker stopped me in hall to congratulate on still unannounced promotion.. other coworker overheard and congratulated me on my pregnancy

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damnit

Ha ha what?

All she heard was congratulations and my chunky frame apparently led her to believe I was concealing a pregnancy! Not awkward, promise. (A little awkward. Luckily it's someone I can threaten to 'duel in the parking lot after work.')

That has happened to me - chirpy congratulation on bun in the oven in a packed and silent room full of co-workers...

God, people are so fucking weird

^^^^

It is weird! I would never! Ljub, if you want to split childcare costs let me know :P