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

lady next to me has flu atm and every time she coughs it sounds like there is something living scrabbling about in her throat tryin to get out

btw vg my internet diagnosis book sez yr boss is probably racist and stamps on puppies too, but it is an older edition so idk

noted
thx deems

coworker has the flu, coughing fits give me the heeb

oops heebie jeebies

super-positive Mr Nice Guy manager has all these behaviours he learned from business self-help books - the worst of which is TOUCHING MY FUCKING ARM WHENEVER HE TALKS TO ME.

I went to a local event a few years ago, and the town supervisor did this to me. UGH.

it's the worst, right?

It is the worst, but I did just say 'Can you stop touching my arm please' to a manager who used to do this and he didn't do it again, possibly to anyone.

Possibly depends on who's doing it though. I liked it when the cute canteen cashier girl did it to me. But probably goes without saying.

I just know I'm gonna be txted a jillion times during my 3 weeks off that just started because the guy doing my work while I'm away went "yep... uh huh ... ok" to all my overview/training/catchup shit.

That, or I'll get back in 3 weeks to the equivalent of leela stuffing papers into potplants shrieking "paperwork... so much paper" and I'll have to do 3 weeks of catchup ;_;

Me:
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That guy:
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Our resident Alpha Male With A Sensitive Side got a puppy over the weekend. As a result, this week's shouted conversations about How Great Guns Are and How Amazing My Girlfriend Is and How Heavenly This Leftover White Chicken Chili is have dissipated in favor of How Awesome My Puppy Is Look At This Shitty Cellphone Video and Here Is How To Assert Yourself As The Leader Of The Pack A Book Told Me So.

The secretary, who complains a lot about the privileges we all have, was working at my desk. She went through my drawers, looked at my graduate work, etc, did her nails at the desk. And it was all like, "gee I sure hope I can do graduate work some day. I love real estate!" Like, I'm not going into real estate for grad school. Listens to my mp3s. Fine, I'm a generous person....

I'm expected to put up with her and then clean up after her. Of course I was raised not to make people feel bad and to grouse.

I guess I'll just chide myself for not being a better person. I mean, it's the holidays. I won't have much of one, but I think she needs another happy family holiday and I don't have much of one to look forward to anyway. M

for christ's sakes everyone is basically off next week but determined to be a complete pain in the ass on their way out.

process that has been run weekly for over a year suddenly cannot be run. dollar amounts that have been disclosed for the past three years suddenly cannot be disclosed. FUCK YOU.

It's possibly a gross overreduction/simplification on my part but this thread has, for real, not joking, done a huge deal to make me not ever want to work an office/cubicle type job.

Has anyone had much success w/ PCSX2?

as a method of dealing with my office job? nope ;)

OOPS WRONG THREAD LOL

It's possibly a gross overreduction/simplification on my part but this thread an office/cubicle type job has, for real, not joking, done a huge deal to make me not ever want to work an office/cubicle type job.

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It's possibly a gross overreduction/simplification on my part but this thread has, for real, not joking, done a huge deal to make me not ever want to work an office/cubicle type job.

I've worked in grocery stores, at retail store, in the woods for the US Forest Service, in a flower shop (delivery, sales, design), delivering pizzas, waiting tables and tending bar in several restaurants (including serving on a yacht), and in a couple of offices, and in my view, offices are no worse than any of the other settings. For me, office work is preferable, particularly b/c I don't have to deal with the public as much.

I love dealing w/ the public though :(

Oh. Carry on, then.

I'm very good at customer service, but I don't like doing it.

i am awesome at computer-nerdy stuff like edi and spreadsheets and finding out things, even hand-keying huge orders I'm clam-happy. just pleeease don't make me call anyone or be called by anyone ;_;

I don't know if I actually like working with the public or not, but I'm very good at it, so it feels as though I like it.

i can do it, i'm just terrible at thinking on my feet & get v anxious if things go awry

I don't enjoy it, but I was pretty good at it -- and unlike my current job, it was something I could walk away from at the end of the workday and not have to think about.

I loath the public. Disgusting savages, the lot of em.

Only thing worse than talking to some of my co-workers would be having to talk to them within a customer-retailer relationship.

I don't mind the public, it's refreshing to deal with people who aren't crazy. Because I work on the phone a lot and some sales people are NUTS. Like the one who screamed at my boss and sent me threatening e-mails. Anonymity encourages abusive behavior. But dealing with people face to face is physically taxing but people certainly behave better.

The worst - being interrupted at work BY BILL COLLECTORS when you have an important job to do. It's the insinuation that you are working at some shit job and can't pay your bills.

What I miss about waiting tables is talking to lots of people and getting to entertain them a little (if that's what they wanted).

What I really miss is the money. 5 years into my job as a paralegal, I am finally making almost as much as I made at my last waitering job (at a kinda-fine-dining seafood restaurant).

one co-worker said she was looking for a "vegan spiderman watch", and a dude bro said "vegan!?? tell your friend to man up and eat a steak!" with no hint of irony. now he's talking about bacon. i didn't think these people really existed.

wait she was looking for a vegan spiderman watch

How Heavenly This Leftover White Chicken Chili is

My family loves this shit.

Ugh. Yeh, they do. I used to work with a "foodie" type who I told I wanted to go to a certain fine-dining vegetarian restaurant that had an amazing reputation. Her response: "Meh. I like meat."

If you can't conceive of amazing non-meat food, and see the omission of meat as a culinary challenge, then fuck off with your foodie-ism.

xp - yeh, wait - vegan watch?

xxp yeah, i don't really know what that is... maybe part of the spiderman alternate lifestyle collection. hopefully this thread's googleproofed because i can't imagine there are too many pages out there selling those

"Vegan watch" would imply a non-leather band.

Cf. vegan shoes

i'm trying not to be that guy but lol vegan watch i know i know i'll stop

Presumably "vegan Spiderman watch" means a watch that does not have a leather band? Which happen to be the vast majority of search results for "Spiderman watch," because how many children's watches come with leather bands?

Not that your "eat a steak dur dur dur" coworker is something other than an asshole, mind you. Just that I can't quite get past somebody needing to search for a "vegan Spiderman watch" like it's something that needs to even be labeled as such or is somehow tough to find.

Just miles and miles of vegan Spiderman watches right here

And yes, there are adult Spiderman watches with leather bands but I am not going to apologize to anyone offended by my suggestion that Spiderman watches are properly for children.

well now i am outraged

Maybe you can get Spiderman to come to your next birthday party to soothe your fury.

only if he wears leather

it got creepy, didn't it?

Would invite Italian spider man to my birthday party

Spidergimp