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

that is pathetic, je55e. I hate him on your behalf

Yeh, he's a dumbass. His beef is due to thinking "Ms. A" poached me when the firms split. So in revenge, he has his firm send out shitty looking letters.

The good part is that I billed his firm for the time it took to figure out the letterhead problem.

Dear SAC-W,
Yes, I know that the targets system for our job is often unfair and unrealistic but (a) if you want to try and game the system then at least come up with a method that makes sense and will work, & (b) please stop trying to drag me into your above-mentioned poorly-thought-out plan. Thank you.

A boss in the other department has gripes about people smoking, women wearing too much make-up, and use of social networking or bulletin boards, even if it is on break or work time. Too bad for him he is not my immediate supervisor. I just worry about the bitchy attitude he brings to work every day - is it going to be toxic.

I mean, I work really hard for low pay, even telecommuting and stay at home a lot working extra hours cleaning up old records and databases whether I get compensated or not. This guy is brand new and knows nothing about what we do.

We access a certain telco carrier's web portal by having web browser certificates installed that allow said access. I just 2 weeks ago went over them with the support team lead to show her how to add permissions to various people's certs, which she did, using the head certificate which she had on her PC. She's always been the one who adds new people when staff start, etc

Today she's asking me, where are the certs stored, and can I see who we have listed with one, and how do we add people? I'm like... seriously woman? We just went over this not long ago and you've always done it and you're asking me? Did you have a stroke or something!? :/

We had a staff member tragically die like four years ago and to this day some people don't give a crap. I mean, I don't know how much longer I can take the repressive white Protestant culture here. No funeral leave or anything.

Also some of our newer staff are so incompetent that what should take an hour or two hours takes them eight, nine, ten hours.

Lady With Kathy Griffin Voice just said "Twinkies are supposed to last through the Holocaust because of all the preservatives."

Believe me, they don't. I had some cereal that lasted two weeks and was nasty. Why do dogs love old bread?

I've really tried to be more patient with stupid, annoying coworkers recently, but these girls are testing my patience right now. We have four girls, all in their late 20s, that went to college together and have known each other for awhile. Which is fine, but recently they've turned into a group of 14 year-olds, huddled around one desk whispering and giggling. It's fucking unprofessional and disturbing to see grown-ups acting like little kids.

I feel your pain. I am astounded by how much of this I have to put up with every single day.

Unprofessional and astounding - surprising to me, sadly no. Like I said elsewhere, it is rude and callous of people to expect perks and freebies when they haven't made an effort to establish trust. Like, just being from a certain town or going to a certain high school isn't going to cut it.

Anyway, that's capitalism and nice people don't always make the rules. A lot of people's ideas about "job qualifications" are stuff like, "who has the hottest ass" or "who screwed the quarterback" when they were in high school.

I try to seek jobs where I don't have to deal with that type, but when I come home I get lectures about how I'm "too sensitive" and that I have to adjust to the "real world".

Person in office managed somehow to hole punch angrily this morning. Sounded like she threw the machine on the ground 15 times in a row. CRASH! BOOM!

Someone should make a hole punch with a greetings card type chip in it that says "OW!" every time it's used.

I would love that!

, but when I come home I get lectures about how I'm "too sensitive" and that I have to adjust to the "real world".

From who?

parents, i assume?

heh

Dear men,

I understand that you have to have a five foot wide umbrella with a 6" eye-gouging spike on the end, otherwise people might say, "That guy has an umbrella. How effeminate! You wouldn't see Genghis Khan with an umbrella, unless it was a massive golf umbrella with a spike on the end, of course." But is there no better place for your umbrella than sat fully expanded on the floor half-blocking the doorway and the entrance to my desk all day?

(There are TWO of these littering the floor in this office and there are only 5 people in today! I think I'm going to turn into one of those people who bleats about it being BAD LUCK to have an umbrella open indoors, just to have an apparently socially acceptable way to register my displeasure.)

The most socially acceptable way to handle this is to accidentally step on both umbrellas, preferably at the same time.

Not really bitching here but for almost two months I've been using a drawer full of pens that this office's previous occupant had chewed on like a teething puppy bc I still have job PTSD and at my old job, you had to hoard your office supplies if you could manage to find any at all.

Anyway, I just threw out all the chewed on pens and got a handful of new ones from the (unlocked, readily accessible, unmonitored) supply closet and I feel much better about my life.

I am a pen-chewer but I would never foist my teething pens on others.

I don't think this was foisted so much as left behind. I have no idea how long this office was vacant before I came along so these could be ancient artifacts of oral fixation.

yeah but still, pen chewers should have enough shame to discard the evidence of their oral fixations

imo

can't take electro-swing and dubstep anymore.

Someone please record an album called ancient artifacts of oral fixation.

Has anyone else noticed that jock types chew on shit like pen caps and straws? Or am I just imagining that? I definitely recall jocks in high school and college with whole straws or pen caps in their mouths. Repulsive, yet charming/hot b/c they're like dumb puppies.

most chewers i know are girls.

I'll have you know that I am a LADY goddammit

So much more not my jobitis going around.. I could've run a few of my 'old job' reports in the time it's taken this week to discuss how to do the bare minimum of the reports because there isn't enough time 0_o I offered to take them home and do them on my downtime if they'd cut me a cheque ;)

I hate it when condescension and rudeness are juuuuust low-level enough that I can't respond.

ARGH ARGH ARGH ARGH ARGH ARGH argh

do you mind? i'm trying to work here.

I've been here barely half an hour and Kathy Griffin Voice has already burst into laughter followed by a sighing "ohhhhh that's funny" at least twenty times.

Extra annoying because it's in response to whatever she's listening to on her headphones.

I used to chew pens. Disgusting, I know, but as I am not a repressed WASP Protestant type I didn't find it "shameful". Probably nerves or something. I worked in a very stressful place.

I got some education and class and grew out of it. So glad I work in a less annoying environment and basically edit high class stuff like English literature.

She just said "There ya' goHAHAHAHA...thatttt's funny"

captain awesome in response to eating a cookie someone gave him: "wow, this is so awesome! like the best I've ever had! so good, oh my god. yum yum! thank you so much!!! it was so delicious!" it sounded very fake, like if she had given him a cookie soaked in vinegar he'd have said the same thing. seems like an alright dude, but that shit irritates me. i do not get why people like that stuff -- are they dumb or something?

He's lonely! Plus what pplains said about the crying and the gun-holding. I don't know, people like that are very annoying but also kinda sad.

fair enough if that's the case, i guess it'd be like if gil from the simpsons found a place where he could sell his shit. whenever he lets all that hot air out it's like a toxic gas cloud gathering around my soul. nicotine withdrawal prob isn't helping.

ah this dude isn't so bad, he's good to goof around with. i told him i was going to call him "awesome (name)" and it ended up in a tim and eric reference that he caught.

How many times will my boss get frustrated b/c she doesn't get that a PDF, though it contains words and looks just like a Word document, does not work like a Word document, and making an exact facsimile of it in Word is not accomplished with a single keystroke? We've been through this - OCR is quick, but formatting and correcting misreads takes time.

She wants to redline a 12 page contract that is full of fussy formatted lists, which contract we received only in hard copy, so she asked me to make it a Word document. There is no reason we would not ask the opposing attorney for a copy of the contract in Word, but my boss said, "Why go through the trouble of asking her for it in Word and waiting for it when you can just use Adobe [sigh] to turn it into Word?"

Every time it's the same: I tell her what makes the process time-consuming (and tedious) and she complains about "Adobe" turning out a pretty piddly product if it can't even make a simple document edit-able.

horrible job, I've been in a situation of having to strip formatting from a PDF to turn it into a "plain" Word doc, it takes bloody ages.

get away from that thermostat

get away from it

get awaaaaaay

get

*gives up talking, bounds from chair and chases this sleeveless moron around the place on all fours*

imma start leaving fuckin MOUSETRAPS scattered round the fuckin thing

27 degrees celsius you fuckin animal, do you not get how this works, this 'dressing like an adult, going to work in an office with adults' gig, until you sign a note confirming you understand the difference between 'beach in barbados in july' and 'dublin 7 in november' you don't get to do shit about the temperature in the office

you fuckin clownish clown

darragh plz chase him on all fours

and i am sitting here wearing my winter coat at my desk.

Our gas bills are astronomical so buying a couple of space heaters is mandatory.

I gave up on central heating a million years ago.

Reading out your emails to the open plan office at high volume in a sarcastic tone of voice is not a good way to start the week.

Why does my boss not do things/ask me not to do things that cost nothing, take no time, could only be good, and would hurt nothing and no one?? E.g.: She receives an email w/ bunch a of documents that may or may not be relevant to a certain case. If I ask her if she's saved them, she says, No, I don't know if we'll need them. It's not like we're short on disk space! Just save them in the special folder called Unsorted Documents! Why would you NOT DO THAT?

If she were anyone else, I'd say she was asserting her authority by shooting down my suggestions, but that's absolutely not her way, so idk.