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

goole, losing composure

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lol

this is not directed at anyone in particular but if i don't work with you on a daily basis and i get your meeting invite and the body of said invite is completely blank then you are a rude asshole who is likely to waste my time

how many times do i have to explain that the contents of secret meetings are. a. secret.

smdh

This is such a minor complaint, but it never fails to drive me batty. A coworker that I otherwise very much like brings a salad in a plastic container every day for lunch, into which he pours his salad dressing. He then proceeds to sit at his desk and shake the shit out of the container for well over a minute. Drives me crazy.

shake it, shake, shake it
shake it like a 7/11 salad

first aggravating day in two months, so y'know, no big deal, but....

Hey colleague, if you know from my prior comments that I am clearly not the person that can make this last crucial system update, and you see that I actually have been attempting to get them to do this for weeks, maybe leave me out of your passive-aggressive "guys, what's the holdup" message, unless you want to get one back in return. you wanna know so badly, ask him directly!

It is really frustrating going from college library to working with recovering alcoholics and drug addicts - even people who have done time in prison.

The people ALL complain to me about "needing job skills" and "needing living skills", while some of the other employees are depressingly computer illiterate! It's not their job to teach computer literacy but it would help me a lot in terms of "moral support" if these people weren't LCD and actually cared about ANY sort of literacy, especially on the Internet.

With this new position, I'm getting a scary view of a world far removed from the extremely bright people who work in a big city. It's depressing!!! I haven't gotten depressed because of work in about twenty-five years!! Every afternoon I retreat to my room in tears because of the depressing condition of people's lives!

wow, this last project I worked on keeps chasing me. first aggravating week in a while.

A client questioned something in an email one of our colleagues wrote, about one of our procedures (whether we require paperwork for certain types of transactions). It got forwarded to me. I explained why we don't, also noting it wasn't in our contract to do so.

The colleagues that forwarded me the email had a private pow-wow afterwards, and explicably, one of the idiots incorrectly told old our client we DID require paperwork. So I had to call this guy out in a meeting, make him send a 'corrected' email to them, and then have an impromptu meeting to discuss how to fix his mess. All for a project I'M NOT A PART OF ANYMORE.

Overall, just a minor blip in a fairly good week, but sometimes I think if I were to ask these guys what time it was, they'd reply "85 degrees".

*inexplicably

I'm being repeatedly and stubbornly told that I was given a whole lot of info at a meeting that I can prove I did not attend; these people just refuse to accept it and give me the info again

I'm leaving on Tuesday (temporary two month contract), but some over-zealous security bod has already cancelled my electronic door pass. So I can't actually, you know, go anywhere on site. Guess I'm going to be twiddling my thumbs for the last two days then!

we had an emergency come up and I suggested we merely have a chat w/ our legal contact to see what the risk was if we adopted a certain policy so we had some talking points.

dude in meeting (who I normally like) shits on it by saying "I dunno that that is the route we wanna go just yet".

Yeah, can't see any benefit to me writing an email that gives us helpful information.

*sends anyway*

I mean ffs it's not like we're jumping right away to DOING anything - I am merely asking simple questions about our practices, and I do this frequently with Legal (and they encourage such discussion).

As a legal person, I want to commend you for asking first.

also: here's your bill.

people make no effort not to be annoying

right thread

right, conrad

Oh good, another morning tea where we all have to bring something. 'Please make something, don't just buy it.'

Fuck this, I have a baby and no time and can't cook and don't want to socialise.

"i made you a chart of all the fucks i give" (holds up blank sheet of paper)

Dear boss, please stop talking like Yogi Bear ("Hey, hey, hey!").

Are you sure he's not talking like Fat Albert?

Oh good, another morning tea where we all have to bring something. 'Please make something, don't just buy it.'

Fuck this, I have a baby and no time and can't cook and don't want to socialise.

Oh man I am super irritated on your behalf. That's so presumptuous and smug.

Are you sure he's not talking like Fat Albert?

― carl agatha, Friday, May 16, 2014 7:36 AM (1 hour ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

Yeah, he has already referenced Boo Boo Bear and picnic baskets.
O_o

two dudes were dressed up like red green for some kind of event yesterday, walked past in the cafeteria

one day at work on Halloween I was in the midst of training a girl and we were already running behind and I looked up to see a giant Pacman chasing a giant ghost whiz by my room. No way in Hell I was able to focus on training after that.

You set a work meeting with me a week ahead of time at 2PM at a worksite I did not otherwise have any reason to go to. I arrived there at 2PM on the appointed day, ready to get down to biz, and saw no sign of you. I asked around and no one had seen you, but I was patient and assumed you were just running a bit late. After a few minutes, I texted to see where you were at. Still patiently waiting. About 15 minutes later you text me:

Hi. I sent you an email this morning, seeing if you still wanted to meet..since I didn't hear, I'm in the middle of working on a project now.

Reaaaaally? You emailed my work email a few hours in advance to check if I was still in and took a lack of reply to mean no? I don't even fucking work during the mornings! I work in fucking TEEN PROGRAMMING. Kind of hard for me to work with teens outside of school while they're in school. I work in the afternoon and evening. I haven't been in to work to check my email. My meeting with you was my first work business of the day.

I text back saying that I'm not available to check my work email during the morning and if you need to change plans on short notice, you need to TEXT me. You reply back:

I communicate via email. You must adjust to change.

What the fuck is this? 1997? No, I don't need to adjust to change, YOU need to adjust to change if you're so hidebound to an inefficient means of communication. It ain't like you don't have my number. And MAYBE, just MAYBE, assume that if we've said we're on, that we're still on unless one of us has said otherwise? And really, just go fuck yourself. Don't dick me around like that. I took time out of my schedule to go all the way out to meet you for nothing.

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you will respect mah communications modalitah

since I didn't hear, I'm in the middle of working on a project now.

this is incredible.

bullshit!

I communicate via email. You must adjust to change.

this is also a pretty insane thing to say

yeah wow @ that

This isn't even an old woman. She's like mayyyybe a couple years older than me?

holy shit

!!! Is she a peer or a boss? If a peer at least you can mentally write her off, maybe? If a boss that you have no choice but to deal with, this would drive me insane with rage. Rude and thoughtless bosses make me completely lose it.

Yeah you dont use that tone with people you have a business relationship with, be it colleague, customer, or ESPECIALLY superior. Christ on a broken crutch.

Peer, who I need to work with on a specific project as she's the only one with the expertise and availability to pull it off. It's alright now, we've both apologized to each other.

both!

commend yr control tbh

I did get kind of snippy with her after her initial response.

Email is pervasive. Honestly I feel the expectation nowadays is that if there was an email, and you failed to see it, the outcome is entirely your fault. Just check your email, seriously. Nobody will ever understand your reasons for not having read an email, they just expect that you've read everything.

Eh, I disagree. My work is very email intensive but it is well understood across the company that if something is truly time sensitive or urgent you need to pick a phone and call.

Pick up a phone, that is...

I miss occasional messages until it's pointed out because my filters need work and I get SO MUCH EMAIL at work and I have time-intensive activities that don't involve being an email processing machine.

Phone nothing, we have an internal instant message server

Sure, but someone may not be able to get IMs either.

If someone can't get instant messages or emails, they can't get a phone call. It's the same device! In fact a phone call is less likely to be received anyway since it's a synchronous, exclusive mode of communication. Multiple email and IM conversations can occur at the same time, making it more efficient in some ways (except when you need to explain something complicated).

That's all possible but it means that your phone is set up to ring or vibrate for every email and IM that comes in. If I had my phone set up that way and monitored it 24/7, I'd be a basket case. Expecting people to constantly monitor these things outside of work hours is unreasonable. (I get that plenty of businesses still expect this anyway)

I have to be on a work computer to see my work email. I had not been at work. I realize that I could set up my phone to receive work emails when I'm not at work but I do not want to receive work emails when I'm not at work. I only even check my personal email about once a day, usually.

It's the same device!

lol not during my work day it's not

Email may be pervasive but if you're last minute changing a booked appointment, you call the damn person. They are likely on route for one thing.