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

idk tbph

the same person im referencing has had two appearances on the irish version of the various shows and at least one iirc on british version

all of these are lost to youtube so im guessing they had them taken down

but anyway eh if i'd to guess i suppose it was easier, when filming australian idol, to do it in the emigration lounge of a major london airport so that you could get all of the irish in one place before they fly over and tek er jebs

God, so sorry to hear this, sunny. Sounds awful. Hope things get better soon.

sorry for this, sunnysucc.

You can fire someone with no paperwork and no explanation?? How is that even legal? Or is that because you're in an at-will state (or because I've only worked for legit huge media companies who protect themselves with 100 layers of administration)?

UGH what a collective noun of profanities.

It's really fishy. Yeah, it's an at-work state and the ball is completely in the employer's hand... But, there's always paperwork.

That write up for lateness was totally a feeble attempt to create a paper trail to justify the termination. I'm pretty sure they're going to fight you on unemployment benefits, too, sunny.

I mean it's blatantly obvious that they wanted to vacate or eliminate the position so these ding dongs decided to engage in some petty Game of Thrones shit to try to avoid paying unemployment.

I don't know if any of this is illegal though. Shitty on a human and a business decision level but that may be it.

(Not legal advice. Consult a local lawyer. Don't listen to me. I'm an idiot.)

My bosses, employment attorneys, say that at the end of the day ALL states are at-will. Some have implied contract laws and other partial protections, but they're weakly enforced and seriously limited by courts' interpretations. Basically in the U.S., unless you have a contract, you can be fired for no reason at all. Paperwork helps the company protect itself from charges of actual illegal firing (e.g., discriminating against people w/ ADA-covered emotional disorders) but it's not required. (Half-baked paralegal conclusions and second-hand lawyer opinions. Don't listen to me. I'm an idiot.)

Anyway I'm sorry, sunny. That's shit. I hope you quickly get a better situation so you can enjoy being free of those people.

hope you stole some office supplies on the way out

Maybe you do want to consult an attorney? Especially if they fight your unemployment benefits. nela.org is a good place to start. (I'll butt out now.)

"do you have emotional problems" reminds me of a lawsuit I helped with where a boss said to an absent-minded employee (who had majorly fucked up), "What do you have Alzheimers?" She did not, but she quit, saying she was forced out, and she sued for disability discrimination.

hey hoos do you know of this company cat a list but with no spaces?

seems to me that most cats belong on the A list

fucking hell sunny :(

Hope there's no way they can prejudice other firms from hiring you. This does sound shit.
i.e. Hope this can only extend to what sounds like a majorly unfair dismissal without leaving other stains on your work record. Or is that dismissal enough of a stain in itself?

that is such utter horseshit – i'm furious on your behalf, SS.

Wow, no explanation. I'm sorry to hear that. That is really unprofessional. I take it they didn't make you sign a gag order like I had to when I got fired?

That sucks. You're not alone. At least it was a stupid firing so you don't have to feel bad.

THIS MAKES ME SO MAAAAAD!!! I wonder if you can passive-aggressively e-mail that peed shit to some co-workers and make a thing blow up?

Also yeah they prob are going to fight unemployment but there is like NO WAY they can win, right IANALs?

Each state runs it's own unemployment show. They wouldn't win in Illinois but I really can't say about Arkansas.

jesus christ, these morons

OMG, just heard from a former co-worker that my old office mates are not allowed to use iTunes anymore. It seems someone had a bunch of irreverent stuff like punk, heavy metal, Marilyn Manson, and the South Park soundtrack. They have a new Director, I guess she is very conservative and feels personally mocked and offended by the irreverence. Never mind that the animation department uses stuff like metal music or South Park.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Q8xz8xKEFvU

Boss: Ugh. Don't these idiots in Russia and Boobekistan need to be working their fucking jobs instead of playing games like this? Maybe their countries wouldn't be such a mess if they spent more time working.
(Same kind of thing she says about telemarketers and spammers.)

Also: Ugh. Why would I care if the NSA is listening to me tell my friend Barbara what I'm fixing for dinner?
Other boss: B/c privacy is a fundamental right, whether you're doing wrong or not?
Her: I know, I know -- remember who's the aging anti-establishment hippie around here [her]. Anyway, what do they think? They're gonna catch the next Unabomber listening to my cell phone? Come on.

Literally (like actual literally not figurative literally) just spit out a drop of tea @ "Boobekistan"

Me: You registered the firm's website using your personal email address, so that's where they're sending this IMPORTANT PASSWORD RESET LINK.

Her, on the phone to the new webhosting company: That email address is dead and I can't log onto it. I don't understand why you can't just send the information to my work email like I've been asking you to? What is my favorite board game? I don't know..... Scrabble? Pictionary? I don't remember! Why all this cloak and dagger stuff with secret words? Uh-huh... OK.... yes... Ugh OK...... is it Scrabble?

Pretty convinced that the vast majority of bosses I've known have had, like, one very specific portion of their brain that works well enough to have gotten them into their position and that's otherwise surrounded by a mass of thoroughly necrotized tissue.

I would like to visit Boobekistan.

When I see her next I'm just going to look in her eyes and say "I wish we were both dead."

Yesterday she was saying how she *doesn't get* why demographic profiling at airports is a bad thing when it's obvious that a little old lady with a poodle isn't Mohammed Atta or whatever. But the thing is.... she honestly DIDN'T GET IT. When I told her about an Indian friend being unfairly profiled for being brown and having an accent, she said, "Oh! OK, see I can see why racial profiling upsets people then!"

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i'm not making anything up! this is truth!

I'm the president of Boobekistan.

When I see her next I'm just going to look in her eyes and say "I wish we were both dead."

― Je55e, Thursday, November 13, 2014 8:01 PM (20 minutes ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

Imagining this made me IRL LOL

saying with a smile, or through gritted teeth?

Wow, never seen such a clearer example of "it doesnt happen to ME, ergo it doesnt happen!" before. Jesse you are a more patient person than I.

moving day tomorrow

my very disorganized whirling dervish coworker has not packed his cubicle at all & said 'oh i'm going staying til the last possible moment bcz blah blah boring work reasons'

dude theyre shutting shit down at *9am*. guarantee you won't be doing anything but whine about how much packing you have to do

lolol @ "why can't you just send sensitive password info to this other address that has never been affiliated with the account and you have absolutely no way of verifying?"

This woman is a LAWYER???

Being a lawyer does not exempt one from being a total idiot. Would that it were so...

yeah but I mean LEGALITY and PRIVACY!!!!

would that it were so...

Lawyers can get tunnel vision in their specialty - like many other professionals, I am guessing. And that is bad b/c a lot of cases cross over into various areas of the law, which deserve at least a quick exploration or some curiosity.

This boss definitely gives me agita sometimes and I need to get a new job for that and other reasons, but the biggest problem is that this is such a small office that we get WAY too much exposure to each other. If I worked for or with her at a bigger firm with more staff, I think she would drive me less crazy (though honestly I'm often more entertained than upset by her weirdness).

When I see her next I'm just going to look in her eyes and say "I wish we were both dead."

saying with a smile, or through gritted teeth?

Neither. Just deadpan. Which I bet carl pictured when she LOLed.

"you don't know who Jenna Marbles is?? wow!"

really now

Presumably the sister of that guy who threw a custard pie at Rupert Murdoch?

She only goes to web addresses via
a) Her "bookmarks," which are the addresses in the drop-down list of frequently-visited sites (she was frantic when the IT contractor repaired her computer and "deleted all [her] bookmarks!")

b) Google search, e.g., for "fedex.com" rather than typing "fedex.com" into the URL hole. So when she found "mysbcglobal.com" she didn't realize it was a fake and was clicking around trying to log into her sbc email (which is now AT&T/Yahoo anyway).

she sounds like most of the ppl I deal w/ on a daily basis

I know I've mentioned the bank manager who I saw type the word "google" into his default MSN Search window.

He looked exactly like Chief Justice John Roberts.

I have searched Yahoo for "Google" and vice-versa, but I had a really good reason which I can't recall at this time.

I was trying to wire money to a bank in Australia called St. George. He wanted to know what the address was.

I said, probably something like StGeorge.com.au, and he said no, the physical address.

This would be like someone asking you what the street address for MasterCard is.

we're finally at year-end crunch time here, and my boss went to HR to request overtime for us. answer: "no. we think your team has had too much turbulence this year to redline them now."

so our reward for surviving the tumult of the year is that now we have to do the same work without the necessary time made available for us.

Boss' optometrist office calls and I put them on hold tell her. Boss buzzes back to my desk, "They're probably calling to confirm my appointment."

"....Okay, so you want me to talk to them?"

"Yes, I'm sure they're just calling to confirm my appointment this week -- which reminds me, can you drive me there on Friday?"

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