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

When you use the last of the water in the jug on the dispenser, replace it. It really is very fucking simple.

those things look heavy

theyre pretty heavy

one time the new guy at work dropped one when putting it in the dispenser

he kept saying "oh shit...oh shit...oh shit" while water got everywhere

long story short dude was me

Was the new guy actually a woman named Abbott?

hahaha xpost

long story short dude was me

Been there. It's astonishing a) just how easily they break; b) just how much water they hold; c) just how many times people -- including at least one ILX0r -- can point and laugh and call you a dick while NOT DOING ANYTHING TO HELP during the time it takes for all the water to glug out all over the office floor.

ha what ilxor lold @ u

I've got it narrowed down to, er, one :-)

(thought of a second, decided he was too nice)

I'm working on a project with someone from another office. This person has no project management skills and yet is supposed to be leading it. I had to fight tooth and nail to get deadlines, never got the proper blueprints that we were supposed to (supposed to have them three months ago, been promised them four times)...and had instructions changed last minute, where I can prove via saved emails that she gave us contradictory instruction.

In one case, we called her on it, and she went back and changed the content of the original email, which we of course caught. And this person is well respected by leadership.

Jesus fucking CHRIST!!1!!!!!

A Poundland (ie everything one pound sterling) shop has just tipped up on our main shopping street, conversation about which prompted my boss this afternoon to describe it as "disgusting". This would be slightly easier to take if we didn't earn a salary that puts us in the exact demographic for such a shop

dear stupid annoying lady, please answer your phone so we can have a conversation instead of sending me vague emails like 'ok...' after i confirmed a detail which lead me to believe you are still checking into things and then not confirming with me when i follow up about whether you were saying 'ok...' to my answer to your question or okaying my initial request. when you finally answer your phone, don't give me the, 'when i say ok that means it is confirmed' treatment because ellipses lead people to believe there is more coming later, etc.

soda bomb?

i like my coworkers. i share an office with a couple people & it's pretty ridiculous and great actually. i suppose someone will leave one of these days & thus put at risk the v excellent work environment we have, but really i'm hoping nothing changes anytime soon.

My bf's patronising cow boss has apparently completely changed tack and is now being nice to everyone and constructive and coming up with structures and things. Praise be. Someone had to have noticed the effect she'd had on morale, I suspect. That or ppl complained.

Latest project now seems to have at least five people who think they're managing it, inc. one faction who thinks that nothing should go ahead until they've looked at every last line of a 2000-row spreadsheet which they won't have time to do until next week, and one woman who turns up every 3 minutes asking me why I haven't gone ahead yet because she wanted it done two weeks ago.

Unfortunately both factions think that as soon as they say go the actual technical work will only be a matter of pressing a button and no, like, days of painstaking irritating work which will have to be checked manually and which I was waiting for the first faction for because they're probably going to change everything.

Well, OK, I was also waiting because I cannot get this fucking thing working, it's driving me crazy. When I dropped out of university because I'd lie awake at night thinking how I'd rather hack my limbs off than have to go in the next day and admit that I hadn't done the work, somehow I'd managed to fool myself the real world would be different...

oh hay sales guys. you know that joke about how i eat all the fruit because I sit next to the fucking fruit basket? the one you make every fucking time you walk past my desk? the one you occasionally mix up by going, "oh there's still fruit left"?

yeah, the funny's never ever ever going to fade from that one.

oh, and "you need to get out more!" will also always be a fantastic zing.

sales guys bring the lolz

I cannot wait for my female coworker to get married next week. 8 hours a day listening to her talk about the fucking wedding is killing me.

Shut up shut up shut up shut up. None of us care which aunt can't make it. Really, we don't. Nor do we care whats in the seventeenth Crate & Barrel box that's showed up in our office this week.

I've never had dramatic coworkers. I think I'm missing out.

She's normally very nice, but since we hit the three week countdown to her wedding she is simply incapable of talking about anything but. Which is fine at lunch or when we are engaging in some small talk, but it grates when she comes over to my desk when I'm in the middle of something and wants to tell me that her aunt called last night because she can't come to the wedding.

i would just ask a thousand million banal questions until they got weirded out and left me alone.

the week after i say i wish nothing changed anytime soon.. find out that a couple of us will prob get laid off! ;_; powers-that-be obv saw we liked our work environment too much.

also, not annoying so much as absurd: guy on twitter who makes pervy comments & sometimes complains about his crazy coworkers, wondering why they don't like him - uh maybe it is because they all know about & read it??? a possibly v cool job might be open, working for him & i am tempted to investigate b/c i actually don't have a problem with the guy. though i guess everyone else would think i'm completely messed up for walking into that situation, and i have a feeling he & my current boss (who is a great guy) despise each other. though maybe i'm misreading it & it's just normal behavior of two tech guys in a dick waving contest

srsly the idea of working for this person is so creepy/bizarre/awful that it seems like it'd be a hilarious adventure, but it probably wouldn't be, would it. although the fact that i see it this way probably means it might work out? i mean, i don't have an ego thing where i'd constantly have to one-up people on tech knowledge, i find it amusing when ppl do that.

dear stupid annoying lady, please answer your phone so we can have a conversation instead of sending me vague emails like 'ok...' after i confirmed a detail which lead me to believe you are still checking into things and then not confirming with me when i follow up about whether you were saying 'ok...' to my answer to your question or okaying my initial request. when you finally answer your phone, don't give me the, 'when i say ok that means it is confirmed' treatment because ellipses lead people to believe there is more coming later, etc.

I fucking hate this! How hard is it to be specific in emails. This one bitch sent me one the other day with so many typos and nonsensical sentences I thought a monkey wrote it.

xpost - daria-g - how closely would you have to work with him - like just for approving the stuff you do now and again, or work WITH him every day?

This one bitch sent me one the other day with so many typos and nonsensical sentences I thought a monkey wrote it

Someone I occasionally have dealings with -- not a colleague -- does this all the time: she is perfectly eloquent and to-the-point in person or in other writing, but seems to see e-mail as "my thought processes on a screen". I ended up asking her never to e-mail me again, which was a bit brutal but has saved a lot of grief.

Wow, nice and blunt! What was her reaction?

xpost - he would be my boss and explaining how to do everything! i'd be working closely with this person on a daily basis. intuitively i make a distinction between this guy having kind of an overblown id vs a guy who used to work there and was just skeevy and gross. still - some feminist i am! at my last job, the one dude i liked a lot & would've happily worked for, eventually got fired for sexual harassment (of both men and women, hahaha).. though i'm not convinced he didn't get railroaded b/c one of the accusers was, himself, captain inappropriate. and anyway, far as that job went, i'm less angry about that guy saying some stuff (which was the extent of it) than about my super nice boss there, who was ok with paying women less money for equal work. i mean, whatever, the "nice guys" that i work with now totally discuss amongst themselves the women at the office, which are hot & which are hot but kind of crazy and which one is a scary bitch because she is, ohno, tough and isn't afraid to argue. that's how it goes.

anyway. ultimately.. i'm thinking about the direction of my current organization itself & whether i'd prefer to go someplace else - currently looking at other nonprofits involved with human rights/social justice type work.

I guess if you might be laid off anyway, and you're looking around anyway for other reasons too (direction of the organization), and you recognize that there are more Mr Inappropriates out there than it's possible to count, all in subtly different ways.... sod it, why not? There are enough people out there to actively dislike, and you don't dislike this guy, and you can always leave (or if you moved positions would you have to stick around for a couple of years for it to look ok?)

What was her reaction?

Absolutely nothing! I sent the e-mail; she didn't reply. And it's never been mentioned since :)

(Nor have I had any e-mails from her. She has sent me a couple of messages on Facebook but -- bizarrely -- those make perfect sense.)

Yeah, thanks. I appreciate every single one of you for bailing out right at 5 while the boss and I were on that conference call, knowing full well we were to all pitch in to assemble these sets we needed to submit. I deeply appreciate being stuck here by myself for 4 full hours to do a job that would have taken all of us 30 minutes tops to get done. Fuck you all very much. When I laugh at you the next time you ask me to stay late to help you dig out from under a deadline you blew off, you'll know why.

hah this is like the time when we were all sitting around waiting for something to be approved so we could put something together for an important event the next morning and my boss just decided she could go home and leave us there for another 3 hours.

Needed to vent. These are the nights when I start to think, "would retail really be THAT bad?".

At least you were there with the boss, so you'll come out smellin' of roses?

True, but this is the type of boss that rarely acknowledges things like that.

Ugh I hate it when that happens. They notice every minor screwup, but do something awesome/come in early/stay back late and do they notice? noooo.

Ok, once upon a time the schmuck was me. So...the job I have now is a morphed version of a job I started back in 2006. I'm pretty high performing in the job now, but at the time in 06, it was a promotion and I was a barrel of nerves. So at times I tended to react sharply, as I wasn't much of a leader yet.

Well, among other things, is I made jokes I shouldn't have about other people on the project to relieve my frustration. One time, a particular co-worker sent me an email which contained typos - she was new to the team with little preparation and was under a lot of duress. A friend who I forwarded the email asked me what something in the email meant - I figured it out, and remarked that the lady "typed like garbage".

I wound up having to go back to her later for an answer to a question, and forwarded the email thread - without realizing that email was still in there. She wrote me a strange email telling me she had little preparation and was under a lot of duress, and I made the connection. I felt like a humongous asshole and called her and apologized - my behavior got much better after that.

Then there was the time where one of our customer service associates yet again let a call escalate above her because she had no call handling skills. It was 6 pm (closing), I was tired, stressed out from a long week, and just wanted to go home...after bickering for 2 minutes, I yelled at her to just "transfer me the fucking call".

Glad I survived those years...I was insufferable to people for a short while.

Arrrrgh... I tire of hearing one of the helpdesk girls constantly grilling customer with "are you SURE....?"

"are you SURE you dont run your own mail server?"
"are you SURE thats what it says on the screen?"

I mean I know somem customers are thick as planks when it comes to IT, but accusing them of lying is poor form.

hmm, i dunno that i 100% agree

Well re-querying them is fine (ppl do make shit up all the time - "no I dont have a Control Panel!" etc etc), but its the way she says it, I think. Rather accusatory and disbelieving.

"no I dont have a Control Panel!"

looooooool

"no I don't have a My Computer icon!" then it turns out that they've renamed it "Tiddles" after their cat

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Ummm yeah OK this was me this a.m. Sorry dude, I know I was stupid and annoying and do sincerely apologize ;__;