love whispering, it adds atmosphere
― thoughts you made second posts about (darraghmac), Tuesday, 5 May 2015 18:45 (nine years ago) link
One of the customer service people at my bank had a very sibilant way of talking, which I know wasn't her fault, but it made everything she said sound like psss psss psst whispering and it made me want to scream at her. That branch closed down and now thank god she's out of my life.
xp >:(
― Je55e, Tuesday, 5 May 2015 18:47 (nine years ago) link
My boss' work spouse has a volume level of 12. She is down the hall now.
― in an awkward manor (doo dah), Tuesday, 5 May 2015 19:56 (nine years ago) link
Not co-workers, but work-people nonetheless: this week I have dealt with two (2) multi-page Official Legal Documents (a power of attorney and a financial disclosure statement) that were handwritten on legal/notebook paper, written out by lawyers. The disclosure I had sent to the lawyer in fillable PDF, and he copied the whole thing onto notebook paper.
― Je55e, Tuesday, 5 May 2015 20:17 (nine years ago) link
when you take the day off and your colleagues try to facebook stalk you to see what you were 'really up to'
pretty pathetic
― F♯ A♯ (∞), Tuesday, 5 May 2015 20:18 (nine years ago) link
that is insane
― bureau belfast model (LocalGarda), Tuesday, 5 May 2015 20:19 (nine years ago) link
The disclosure I had sent to the lawyer in fillable PDF, and he copied the whole thing onto notebook paper.
― Je55e, Tuesday, May 5, 2015 8:17 PM (15 minutes ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink
What. WHAT??? What?!?
― from batman to balloon dog (carl agatha), Tuesday, 5 May 2015 20:34 (nine years ago) link
― F♯ A♯ (∞), Tuesday, May 5, 2015 1:18 PM
Strict rule: no co-worker facebook friends. Everyone here is friendly enough, but none are people I'd want to hang out with outside of work. I might break my rule if someone I really liked started working here.
― nickn, Tuesday, 5 May 2015 21:04 (nine years ago) link
I am surprised you're so surprised. What makes it more surprising is that this lawyer is barely in his 50s. xp
― Je55e, Tuesday, 5 May 2015 21:05 (nine years ago) link
Why did he do that, though? If he wanted a copy, why didn't he print it out? Why did he hand copy it into a notebook?
― from batman to balloon dog (carl agatha), Tuesday, 5 May 2015 21:07 (nine years ago) link
Yeah, I've told my boss, "you do not want to see what I gripe about on Facebook, and our advertisers would call for my head on a stick if they saw my posts through you." xxp
― WilliamC, Tuesday, 5 May 2015 21:08 (nine years ago) link
you have to limit coworkers' fb access
― Sufjan Grafton, Tuesday, 5 May 2015 21:16 (nine years ago) link
if you want to party freely
― Sufjan Grafton, Tuesday, 5 May 2015 21:17 (nine years ago) link
And hope for no fb hiccups.
― nickn, Tuesday, 5 May 2015 21:26 (nine years ago) link
yeah, i don't know if i'm overreacting but these types of things make me hate this place. i shouldn't complain and should just look for something else but i'll be done in 1.5 years then i can leave
― F♯ A♯ (∞), Tuesday, 5 May 2015 21:31 (nine years ago) link
I think your reaction is very reasonable, but you should also change your fb settings if they're creepin on u
― Sufjan Grafton, Tuesday, 5 May 2015 21:36 (nine years ago) link
feeling like coworkers are monitoring your behavior all of the time is one of the most infuriating things about working in an office. I get annoyed if someone even looks at my screen when they walk by my cubicle. to have that feeling outside of the office would surely be hell.
― Sufjan Grafton, Tuesday, 5 May 2015 21:38 (nine years ago) link
my least favorite is when a co-worker monitors my IM status to know the exact moment I'm online so that they can start bombarding me with questions. Dude, I just logged in, give me a few minutes to get my bearings.
― Free Me's Electric Trumpet (Moodles), Tuesday, 5 May 2015 21:57 (nine years ago) link
also, your projects are not so important that you need to schedule multiple status meetings every week that you invite me to along with several other managers and force us to sit through your excruciatingly lengthy and repetitive status updates. Just send it to me in a brief email and we should all be good, k? thx.
― Free Me's Electric Trumpet (Moodles), Tuesday, 5 May 2015 22:02 (nine years ago) link
yes my project IS that important, moodles, and there have ben some fundamental shifts in our direction over the last week that i just need to bring you up to speed on so if you can go ahead and accept this invite for tomorrow from 1-3 i think that should be enough time to cover it, thanks
― Karl Malone, Tuesday, 5 May 2015 22:16 (nine years ago) link
haha, karl
yeah, sufjan, that's the first thing i did. this one in particular was sending me fb messages so she can see when i read it and when i was last active and some some cryptic/nonsense message. incidentally, she is also the one looking at my monitor at work and eavesdrop on just about everyone. she can hear whispers from across the room. everyone goes to her for gossip, which is disgusting. the funny thing is with just a little bit of information she feels she knows exactly what's going on and makes assumptions, then goes on to tell others or whoever asks. when she's proved wrong, she says, well so-and-so said this so "I ASSUMED" blah blah blah...my goodness...
― F♯ A♯ (∞), Tuesday, 5 May 2015 22:30 (nine years ago) link
xpost
ha, it's less "here's a shift in our direction" and more "tell us how to do our jobs", over and over again
― Free Me's Electric Trumpet (Moodles), Tuesday, 5 May 2015 22:55 (nine years ago) link
karl, i thought i of you yesterday, as i was reading a piece about john beale and the epa - it reminded me of all the insane bureaucracy stories you used to tell
― just1n3, Tuesday, 5 May 2015 23:30 (nine years ago) link
the other day i was browsing for cool c-span footage (my life has turned downhill) and i stumbled on one of the john beale committee hearings. brutal. what a fucking nightmare.
― Karl Malone, Wednesday, 6 May 2015 03:10 (nine years ago) link
My department's number is the first one that comes up on Google UK for the company we are part of so we get all sorts of strange calls. Today someone phoned up in a complete panic saying that their husband is on secondment to the parent company doing IT work, that he'd been sent to Africa on Saturday and he hadn't been in contact with her since he left the UK. He wasn't answering his mobile, replying to e-mails or on Skype. She didn't know which hotel he was staying in so didn't even know if he'd made it from the airport to the city (a notoriously dangerous journey).
I managed to track down one of his colleagues who's also there and the MIA guy is not MIA at all. His response was apparently "oh, i've been busy, can someone phone her for me?".
― Petite Lamela (ShariVari), Friday, 22 May 2015 16:50 (nine years ago) link
Husband of the year!
― from batman to balloon dog (carl agatha), Friday, 22 May 2015 17:01 (nine years ago) link
lol, what a dick
― bureau belfast model (LocalGarda), Friday, 22 May 2015 17:17 (nine years ago) link
the more i work the more i'm bemused by the range of people you'll get in any team whose contribution is a net minus. ie all they actually do is sow confusion by misinterpreting emails or other communications, have personal issues with being corrected or even helped that mean they demand more attention, break any process no matter how well it works, and basically just fuck things up.
it's not even always determined laziness or malice (though it can be) just like a mismatch of whatever skills they have - like a situation where it would honestly be better if there was nobody there.
― bureau belfast model (LocalGarda), Friday, 22 May 2015 17:25 (nine years ago) link
Ahaha that is so true
― kinder, Friday, 22 May 2015 17:35 (nine years ago) link
Stupid co-worker #459: Asking the security guard who works on the front desk out on a date with the line "My girlfriend split up with me because I'm a sex addict" is a) very probably sexual harassment and b) carried the risk of a can of pepper spray in the dave.
― passive-aggressive rageaholic (snoball), Saturday, 30 May 2015 14:19 (eight years ago) link
dave = face
i like dave better
― difficult-difficult lemon-difficult (VegemiteGrrl), Saturday, 30 May 2015 14:34 (eight years ago) link
Davebook
― passive-aggressive rageaholic (snoball), Saturday, 30 May 2015 14:35 (eight years ago) link
daaaaave
― Mr. Murphy in the wine bar. (Sufjan Grafton), Saturday, 30 May 2015 23:53 (eight years ago) link
Dave's not here!
― nickn, Sunday, 31 May 2015 04:35 (eight years ago) link
waterdave
― thoughts you made second posts about (darraghmac), Sunday, 31 May 2015 05:13 (eight years ago) link
I'm sorry Dave, I'm afraid I can't do that.
― passive-aggressive rageaholic (snoball), Sunday, 31 May 2015 07:56 (eight years ago) link
Today I had to fix a computer in a conference room. The main door has a keypad entry system, and I don't have the code. But 'luckily' the back door to the room had been propped open with a chair, so I was able to get in anyway. Inside, there's a sign on the locked door saying 'DO NOT PROP THIS DOOR OPEN'. But there isn't any such sign on the back door. So someone obviously thought that it'd be OK to prop that open.
― passive-aggressive rageaholic (snoball), Wednesday, 10 June 2015 17:53 (eight years ago) link
i am feeling intense rage toward my shitty co-workers right now.
one thing i'm not good at is sending polite follow-up messages to people who have just fucked you over. i've been trying to draft a 2-sentence email for the last half hour and i can't manage to write it without passive-aggressive tones or straight up "YOU WANNA GO?! YOU WANNA GO!?!?" interjections
― legendary wireless executive (Karl Malone), Wednesday, 10 June 2015 18:20 (eight years ago) link
When I'm in that situation I've trained myself to stop and make myself do the deed in person. Is the stupid annoying coworker actually in your office, or elsewhere?
― mom tossed in kimchee (quincie), Wednesday, 10 June 2015 19:05 (eight years ago) link
who knows where the hell they are. i was holding a kickoff meeting for a interagency presentation we have to do, and several of the key people were no shows, and finding another time where we can all meet in the next 2 weeks is pretty much impossible. so i can meet with the 4 no shows separately and explain the same 1000 things to each of them, or write an epic-length email to everyone, summarizing all the things i already explained earlier today, which they probably won't read
― legendary wireless executive (Karl Malone), Wednesday, 10 June 2015 19:16 (eight years ago) link
i could just quit and go drink margaritas somewhere in the sun, tooi like that option
excerpts from the (white) work chat channel
"Talking of mysterious strangers, who is the (black) guy who keeps pausing by our desks and writing on his clipboard?"
― bureau belfast model (LocalGarda), Thursday, 11 June 2015 13:29 (eight years ago) link
It'd be tacky to mention the guy's race, but it's a legitimate question though, right?
http://www.theonion.com/article/totally-unknown-guy-strolling-around-your-part-of--38335
― pplains, Thursday, 11 June 2015 13:54 (eight years ago) link
haha - i guess i'm in a less corporate environment than that - the majority of the building services staff are black here - this feels like an inane to unpleasant question based on that (and the fact the guy was clearly measuring desks)
it reminds me of working in bbc in tunbridge wells about 8 years ago - there was this loudmouth but fairly well-meaning producer and another researcher had just started and was a bit confused about who was who - and i think she had got say, a victoria, and a vicky mixed up. and the producer was like all matter of fact "oh well don't worry, victoria is the secretary who works in the second room on the left by the editor's office, and vicky is the producer who is black"
*echo*
― bureau belfast model (LocalGarda), Thursday, 11 June 2015 14:01 (eight years ago) link
we send out welcome/introduction e-mails when a new employee is hired. Head of HR just sent out one for this new German dude we hired incl this juicy little tidbit: "His friends in Germany claim he has an American accent; his wife claims he sounds British – stop by his desk, introduce yourself, and feel free to weigh in on the matter!"
ya thx hr person for the great suggestion of "let's accost the foreignner and make him feel weird abt his silly accent!!", wtg
― WE WANT FET WAP (Stevie D(eux)), Thursday, 11 June 2015 17:21 (eight years ago) link
Don't mention the war
― kinder, Thursday, 11 June 2015 17:31 (eight years ago) link
But do mention 'dinner for one'
― kinder, Thursday, 11 June 2015 17:32 (eight years ago) link
Someone sent out a mass email this week about ordering supplies and to see him if we needed anything, the Director wrote back 'We are terribly low on gin' but replied-all, even the Executive Directors.. no bitching, just bragging, I kind of love her.
― she started dancing to that (Finefinemusic), Thursday, 11 June 2015 19:58 (eight years ago) link
^^^rare example of extremely appropriate use of "Reply All"
― mom tossed in kimchee (quincie), Thursday, 11 June 2015 20:29 (eight years ago) link