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

goddamn it, this fool has been fucking up my friday.

- advertisers who attempt their own layouts in Word
- advertisers who attempt their own layouts
- advertisers

well, if he copies half the office and you respond all, pointing out not much has changed in the 30 minutes since you spoke and you are currently on time to meet the deadline (i'm assuming you are); should be much of a problem.

*shouldn't

That was my initial impulse, but I cooled myself down and responded politely and privately.

You are a better person than I. I would have totally gone the petty route and done what TT said. I hate that shit so much it just brings out the worse in me.

I probably should have. I might be too polite for my own good.

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i don't think it's that petty. he added all those people for some reason, and you don't need to be snarky or anything in the response. personally, i'd rather everyone in the email chain knew I had things under control if I was concerned he was making it seem like things had fallen behind.

some reason,

She has a longstanding habit of copying people who would be negligibly interested in the topic of discussion. I've been included before on dozens of such emails where I really couldn't determine why I was being copied.

I'm also pissed at her because she's been bugging me all day about a problem she's having with some work my supervisor did for her. He's out on personal leave today, and I did my best to help her but ultimately had to tell her "when [supervisor] gets back, we can meet to talk about it because I don't know how he did what he did". Still getting emails about it.

She also works from home on Fridays and isn't big on picking up the phone on that day either, so the whole onslaught has been a bit of a shock on what I had expected to be a quiet day putting the nose to the grindstone on something completely different.

I hate days like that. "Oh, I don't have any major deadlines and three people are out so I can do XYZ" but nooooooooooo that's always when ten people want me to take care of one thing real quick before I go home for the day.

Fridays just as you're thinking of going, right? They *know*.

my boss just called me. she's literally 5 feet away, but she sits in an enclosed office while i'm out here in the cuberhood just outside.

boss: "I'm writing up a description of the MOUs. Can I say that these MOUs will serve as guidance for how the partnerships will be implemented?"

me: "Hmmm...I would say that the MOUs establish the expectations, roles and responsibilities of both parties in the partnership."

boss: "Hmmm, ok, so I can say that these MOUs will serve as guidance for how the partnerships will be implemented?"

me: "...yes. That sounds good."

every day is like this. every interaction is like this. why am i here

elevator comedian coworker i discussed upthread is a combination of "golly gee aw shucks" fake-friendly goofball and simmering psychopath. the guy who always follows people to their cars asking career advice (as described upthread as well.) i think he's todd from breaking bad.

also, about an hour ago i came back from the restroom and my mouse was missing. i assumed that it was one of my friends playing a prank on me, but the usual suspects had left for the day. about 20 minutes later a sheepish tech dude came by with my mouse, saying that he needed one and thought i was gone for the day.

not a big deal, just kinda weird

I have a coworker who does the same thing - will just keep repeating herself bc I won't give get the answer she wants, so now I just hang up on her

WTF who steals someone else's mouse!?

I always assume that IT has a drawer full of stuff like that.

WTF who steals someone else's mouse!?

I've twice come in to work to find the cable connecting my monitor to my PC missing

Someone swapped my a and v keys round once but im p sure that was actually a prank

A friend of mine once cracked a PC case to swap in a video card and found a stale muffin perched atop the harddrive inside, but yeah that was some kind of prank also.

Chocolate microchip

Blackberry

lost a muffin in her box

WTF who steals someone else's mouse!?

I've done this.

i have as well. i was then blamed for the fucking asshole's computer dying as a result.

I always assume that IT has a drawer full of stuff like that.

― carl agatha, Tuesday, August 27, 2013 4:20 PM (5 hours ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

Z S is a fed so I assume the scene there right now is like the episode of 30 Rock where Matthew Broderick's office has no money for pens and he has to scratch notes with a toothpick.

I am unfamiliar with that scene but I worked for state government for five years so I am very familiar with the dynamic.

I've twice come in to work to find the cable connecting my monitor to my PC missing

― ornamental cabbage (James Morrison), Tuesday, August 27, 2013 11:30 PM (Yesterday) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

lmao

there was a nice moment of not-stupid-annoying yesterday where my whole team let the stiff upper lips drop and just for a second agreed that we're all losing our shit and overwhelmed with our respective workloads

nonprofits!

A friend of mine once cracked a PC case to swap in a video card and found a stale muffin perched atop the harddrive inside, but yeah that was some kind of prank also.

― It is like ganging up on Enya (Trayce), Tuesday, August 27, 2013 7:37 PM (Yesterday) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

This is why that office uniquely does not have a shortage of mice. Take notes people.

Everybody who deals with the printing/publishing biz and uses their goddamn phone as their computer needs to die in a fire.

1. not giving full info because they cant be bothered to type out detailed messages on a phone keyboard
2. "reduce file size for easier emailing" (this applies to people who do that from actual computers as well)
3. probably a bunch of other reason I can't think of right now

DIE IN A FIRE, RIGHT FUCKING NOW.

"no thats not what i want
sent from my iPhone"

THEN TELL ME WHAT YOU DO FUCKING WANT, OR GO DIE IN A FIRE

"will call you when i get out of this meeting
sent from my iPhone"

IT'S TWO DAYS LATER, THAT MUST BE SOME MEETING, AND OH YEAH -- GO DIE IN A FUCKING FIRE

I would make every smartphone spontaneously combust right now if I could.

co-sign x 1000

can't attach hi-res image file on my phone, would you settle for an embedded lowres version instead? no? oh well I'll send it anyway RAAAAGGGH

Not a bitch, but it's work: We have a custody case in which the mother ran away with the kids and I live for reading recent court papers b/c most contain the wonderful verb used in this sentence "Ample evidence exists that Respondent fled and secreted the children."

ouch and/or eeww

Mother is a surinam toad, fyi.

There was ample body-temperature goo as evidence

I do love it when legalese trips over proper grammar and causes a train crash.

My immediate boss sits to my right and our IT guy, who is her son (and who lives with her), sits opposite her. Lots of fun when they bring their domestic arguments into work, and bicker all day.

WTF who steals someone else's mouse!?

my employer provided me with an ancient laptop guided by a pointing stick. i had to buy my own mouse just to make work even feasible

what the shit

what the shit is that

a pointing stick? pretty standard imo

although we used to call em a "clit mouse"

what the shit

exactly

http://www.richardsrainbow.co.uk/siteimages/dowsing1.jpg

a couple years ago there was a dude who quit in a huff but then came back in to retrieve his mouse

which was totally reasonable yet kind of lol but mostly sad for those of us remaining

last week, there was a problem with an entire group's access (naturally they waited a week to tell us, to where over 100 documents had been backlogged). Simple solution - security owner follows up with lead of entire group, troubleshoots problem, it's fixed, I have to do nothing (I have no ownership of it, but it impacts my group).

Instead here's what happens:

1) Lead of group emails problem to appropriate manager
2) Manager sits on it, comes to me instead, I refer her to security owner
3) security owner sits on it, doing nothing for hours, not talking to Group Lead
4) I have to talk to Group Lead, find out is the problem on their end. Answer I get is "no".
5) Security owner still sitting on it.
6) I have to message security owner to say HEY THEY SAY IT'S NOT ON THEIR END, CAN YOU FIX IT
7) He fixes it, gives me little info
8) I tell group lead "hey it's fixed". they say it still doesn't work and I lose my temper at everybody.
9) Other Security owner pipes in and says "oh it probably needs to refresh overnight"
10) Issue is fixed.

The diff between what should have happened and what did is in the latter scenario I LOST FIVE HOURS OF MY DAY.

lead, manager, owner, etc... your workplace sounds like the job title olympics.

overuse of jargon/focus on processes is ruining the flow of this thread imo, let's keep it snappy ppl

― Dr Peter Who? (darraghmac)

I considered putting this on the 'tell someone they're a cockfarmer thread', but at the moment this is more incompetence than cockfarmery.
Co-worker #3: this morning you got up in front of a roomful of already pissed off angry people, and proceeded to deliver the most piss-poor presentation I've seen in a while. During which you said "I don't like my job". Which means that you're not any good at your job. A stick I will beat you with should the opportunity come up at our meeting tomorrow.