― MarkH (MarkH), Wednesday, 15 January 2003 13:58 (twenty-one years ago) link
― dave q, Wednesday, 15 January 2003 14:21 (twenty-one years ago) link
― g-kit (g-kit), Wednesday, 15 January 2003 14:45 (twenty-one years ago) link
Other things he did: worked at his cube standing up (making everyone around him very tense), unbuttoned his shirts halfway down his chest, commented on every phone conversation I had (work related or not), talked to himself, and played horrible CD-Rs of cabaret tunes he wrote and produced. I think the whole experience inoculated me against ever being annoyed by co-workers again.
― mike a (mike a), Wednesday, 15 January 2003 16:14 (twenty-one years ago) link
Unfortunately something this stupid is uttered in my office at least once a day...
― Nicole (Nicole), Thursday, 16 January 2003 03:26 (twenty-one years ago) link
― Ned Raggett (Ned), Thursday, 16 January 2003 03:54 (twenty-one years ago) link
― Nicole (Nicole), Thursday, 16 January 2003 03:56 (twenty-one years ago) link
― Ned Raggett (Ned), Thursday, 16 January 2003 03:57 (twenty-one years ago) link
― isadora (isadora), Thursday, 16 January 2003 04:15 (twenty-one years ago) link
― Ally (mlescaut), Thursday, 16 January 2003 04:54 (twenty-one years ago) link
― j.lu (j.lu), Thursday, 16 January 2003 23:19 (twenty-one years ago) link
― luna (luna.c), Wednesday, 2 April 2003 16:09 (twenty-one years ago) link
― Chris V. (Chris V), Wednesday, 2 April 2003 16:16 (twenty-one years ago) link
An old japanese woman wearing a baby dress and pigtails jumping and down in front of me at the desk. I just came in. Please, let me wake up a bit first. Or am I still dreaming?
― Erik, Wednesday, 2 April 2003 16:30 (twenty-one years ago) link
― Horace Mann (Horace Mann), Wednesday, 2 April 2003 16:37 (twenty-one years ago) link
― Sarah McLUsky (coco), Wednesday, 2 April 2003 18:16 (twenty-one years ago) link
― Sarah MCLUsky (coco), Wednesday, 2 April 2003 18:16 (twenty-one years ago) link
i feel like i'm missing out
― jess (dubplatestyle), Wednesday, 2 April 2003 18:21 (twenty-one years ago) link
There's nothing like a five minute meeting with your boss in which he tells you that you've basically got like two months to turn things around with a mouth full of Mike n' Ikes.
― hstencil, Wednesday, 2 April 2003 18:23 (twenty-one years ago) link
― cybele (cybele), Wednesday, 2 April 2003 19:14 (twenty-one years ago) link
big flat mole on the left side of his face with 9 really long and scraggly hairs growing out of it. He was always playing with them... twisting and pulling on them (but not pulling them out.) Very distracting....
― order some disorder, Wednesday, 2 April 2003 23:19 (twenty-one years ago) link
"Please tell me if you understand what I am saying, at the moment in the exqualifier there are only a 4 digit code, you append another 3 in front of them I don't know where, but doesn't matter anyway to sort out the letter in the front for the new code."
I assure you it makes only 1% more sense to me than it does to you.
― Martin Skidmore (Martin Skidmore), Thursday, 3 April 2003 10:19 (twenty-one years ago) link
― Andrew (enneff), Thursday, 3 April 2003 10:54 (twenty-one years ago) link
― Nick A. (Nick A.), Thursday, 3 April 2003 11:23 (twenty-one years ago) link
― toraneko (toraneko), Thursday, 3 April 2003 14:18 (twenty-one years ago) link
THis goes on at least ONCE A WEEK in my office.
― Ally (mlescaut), Thursday, 3 April 2003 14:35 (twenty-one years ago) link
― Ned Raggett (Ned), Thursday, 3 April 2003 14:40 (twenty-one years ago) link
Also, I don't think the owner's secretary knows how to use the phone properly, because she's always complaining that "the phones are down", but it's only her phone, apparently. And when someone comes in to test it, it works.
― Ally (mlescaut), Thursday, 3 April 2003 14:45 (twenty-one years ago) link
I think you just identified the perv dream of far too many people in the world. But you'd have to give them guns too.
― Ned Raggett (Ned), Thursday, 3 April 2003 14:47 (twenty-one years ago) link
― Ally (mlescaut), Thursday, 3 April 2003 14:49 (twenty-one years ago) link
― Sarah McLUsky (coco), Thursday, 3 April 2003 14:57 (twenty-one years ago) link
― Nick A. (Nick A.), Thursday, 3 April 2003 15:58 (twenty-one years ago) link
― g-kit (g-kit), Friday, 4 April 2003 07:12 (twenty-one years ago) link
― smee (smee), Friday, 4 April 2003 07:14 (twenty-one years ago) link
― Madeleine (Madeleine), Friday, 4 April 2003 07:29 (twenty-one years ago) link
The only really annoying thing my current co-workers do is send me ridiculous spam forwards about poisoned shampoo samples (normally originating from higher up in the Council!), then look sceptical when I explain that it's a dumb scaremongering thing to do. Also I have to tell them how to spell things all the live long day.
― Liz :x (Liz :x), Friday, 4 April 2003 07:41 (twenty-one years ago) link
― suzy (suzy), Friday, 4 April 2003 08:04 (twenty-one years ago) link
― Archel (Archel), Friday, 4 April 2003 09:16 (twenty-one years ago) link
― Archel (Archel), Friday, 4 April 2003 09:18 (twenty-one years ago) link
― Sarah McLusky (coco), Friday, 4 April 2003 12:27 (twenty-one years ago) link
― Tracer Hand (tracerhand), Friday, 4 April 2003 15:29 (twenty-one years ago) link
― Liz :x (Liz :x), Thursday, 10 April 2003 10:42 (twenty-one years ago) link
― Chris V. (Chris V), Thursday, 10 April 2003 10:52 (twenty-one years ago) link
― Nick A. (Nick A.), Thursday, 10 April 2003 11:04 (twenty-one years ago) link
― Chris V. (Chris V), Thursday, 10 April 2003 11:06 (twenty-one years ago) link
I have found that replying to annoying forwarders with a link to Urban Legends stops them dead in their tracks.
― Madchen (Madchen), Thursday, 10 April 2003 11:27 (twenty-one years ago) link
― Madchen (Madchen), Thursday, 10 April 2003 11:28 (twenty-one years ago) link
― Nick A. (Nick A.), Thursday, 10 April 2003 11:28 (twenty-one years ago) link
One of our senior partners asked me to scan some pictures for his daughter this morning, first thing - they were from medical books, examples of colostomys, I still feel ill.....
― smee (smee), Thursday, 10 April 2003 11:31 (twenty-one years ago) link
― Aaron W (Aaron W), Thursday, 10 April 2003 11:36 (twenty-one years ago) link
Yes way to go justin3!!
― she started dancing to that (Finefinemusic), Friday, 3 May 2024 01:33 (one month ago) link
just1n3 even!! xo
worse than scheduling a meeting for 8:30 am, requiring me to log in earlier than usual - rescheduling it one minute before it was supposed to start.
― RICH BRIAN (Neanderthal), Friday, 3 May 2024 12:34 (one month ago) link
with one of my bosses, "can you do a quick peer review" means "can you write the entire last portion of this document for me, I did the rest but I got tired and didn't want to finish"
― RICH BRIAN (Neanderthal), Wednesday, 8 May 2024 21:27 (three weeks ago) link
boss has assigned me a new class to supervise and he keeps repeatedly communicating the wrong dates to our partners. which if not caught soon enough would lead other people to plan around these wrong dates.
yesterday he sends the group that is supplying the trainers the wrong dates and I questioned them because they didn't match our tracking spreadsheet and he initially doubles down, then says "oh shit wait you're right sorry" and corrects it.
today he creates the ticket to coordinate class operations and writes down a second incorrect set of dates. his excuse is always 'i'm doing too many things' but idk maybe focus on one thing at a time so people don't have to keep cleaning up yr mess. lol
― Iacocca Cola (Neanderthal), Wednesday, 22 May 2024 13:52 (one week ago) link
same boss tells us this morning "hey we updated this curriculum, if you're prepping instructors to teach this, please highlight the changes for your instructors", without indicating in Version Control what changes were made, or even sending us a summary of what was changed.
I haven't supervised a class since January and even then didn't have the courses memorized - the fuck am I supposed to know what changed? also, there was a pretty major deletion of a course that I had to figure out by process of elimination. so I called him out on it in front of the team lol....
― Iacocca Cola (Neanderthal), Thursday, 23 May 2024 14:46 (one week ago) link
Well, I think today I was given the brightest, most glaring sign that I need to GTFO of my current work situation as fast as humanly possible.
(tl;dr background - our manager says we have a shortage of offices and workstations, but we don't. We have plenty of open spaces, but it would require those in management to do their jobs and enforce remote policies and have hard conversations with recalcitrant employees who should be moved to other floors and buildings but don't want to go.)
Anyway, we had two new interns start in our department today. We've known that we were coming and came up with 3 different solutions as to where they could sit, all were rejected by our manager. So we ended up being told to cram them in with two of us in our existing workstations. Since mine is one of those that are marginally larger than others, I was directed to have one of them move into my cubicle. Fine, annoying, but whatever. Now today I learn that it's "important" that the two interns sit next to each other so they can "collaborate better". Which... isn't wrong. And is in fact why we suggested some of our other seating options. Anyway, now it turns out that BOTH of them are squeezed into my work station.
Apparently the easiest solution for my manager is to triple people up with me rather than, y'know, be a manager and make the hard decisions.
― Maxmillion D. Boosted (jon /via/ chi 2.0), Tuesday, 28 May 2024 20:11 (six days ago) link
i got a snide remark from someone today in regards to a polite request I made, so I spent all this time restructuring my follow-up sentence to make sure I kept it as neutral as possible, and in doing so, removed a key word accidentally, the word "because".
the resopnse was supposed to say "I said what I said because", and instead said "I said what I said", making it sound like I was some snotty person on Twitter. I never say "I said what I said", i hate that phrase, ugh.
― Iacocca Cola (Neanderthal), Thursday, 30 May 2024 18:43 (four days ago) link