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

It appears lessons have been learned from the coffee debacle, and 6 industrial size vats of Gold Blend turned up yesterday. Still no nice coffee, but I guess they are sticking to the monthly allowance for that.

One theory being discussed in the kitchen this morning was that the new team of people who arrived in the office a couple of weeks ago (company bought out another smaller company, although our company is itself quite small, I think including this new team there's about 80 people) are rampant caffeine addicts.

i love the only semi-humorous vilification of the other that goes on with teams separate from your own in an office

i'm in the public sector too - we do get free coffee but i choose to buy and aeropress my own in the office because i'm an insufferable prick xxp

haha - i don't have any caffeine, and i only drink tea at home, more of a water guy in the day, but apparently in my office nothing whatsoever is provided, no milk, no tea, nothing apart from water.

In our office, there is a terrible, gag-inducing coffee machine on a different floor, as well as a hot chocolate machine. I myself go for the slightly less incompetent coffee available in our cafeteria for a dollar and change.

There is a "water club" among my office-mates, where a group of people have chipped in to secure a bubbler and water delivery. I was a member for many years, but costs varied a bunch as people joined and left the club. At peak usage, it only cost something like $7/person for a three month supply, but last I checked it was closer to $30. I just go for tap water these days, which is supposedly filtered, but who knows how often they change it.

When I worked for the state they didn't provide anything, either. There wasn't even a kitchen area so people had to wash their dishes in the bathroom sinks. We had a similar water club that I joined after catching someone washing his pants in the water fountain by the bathrooms.

I'm public sector and we get milk, but for DRINKS ONLY NO CEREAL!!! so I bring my own for cereal
We also have zip taps (hot and filtered cold water) which are brilliant

I'm just imagining the passive aggression that would occur after someone who was not part of water club, honestly or otherwise, started using the water cooler paid for by water club.

The first rule of Water Club is that you do not talk about Water Club...

omg yes. We kept the water cooler in our suite of offices (each "office" consisted of an admin's office, a boss's office, and a cubicle area where they stuck us attorneys) but people would sometimes come to "borrow" water (I do not want it back when you're done, thanks). The other attorney who I shared the cube space with was a bulldog about it, so I would just let her handle it, especially because I didn't really care that much. But she would jump up from her desk and demand fifty cents from people who wanted water.

For a while, our water orders were not matching our consumption. We'd run out of water a few weeks before our next delivery was scheduled. People voiced their suspicions that non-water club members (most likely security guards) were availing themselves of the cooler after hours. No one has actually did anything about it though.

My current job in the legal private sector has a kitchenette with microwave, fridge, sink, ice maker, paper plates, plastic forks, napkins and paper towels, and free Starbucks coffee, Tazo tea, Flavia coffee maker thing, filtered water, hot chocolate packets, half and half, non-dairy creamer, sugar, honey, lemon packets, salt, and pepper.

It's glorious.

We have a fridge, microwave, and one of those bottle-less watercoolers that's permanently plumbed into the mains water supply and also dispenses water hot enough for tea/coffee.

snoball do we work in the same office

We don't get free coffee and I don't see an insufferable prick aeropressing their own. So I guess not. Although you could be in the other office.

(in which case please tell the guy there with the chronic BO problem to wash and use a deodorant)

"hey can you combine these three elements of this graphic into one line?"

*combine 3 elements into one line* "how's this look"

"great but can you separate those 3 elements so theye're not all on one line like that"

the woooooooorst

fuckin dyin over heah

"can you print these"

prints these

"oh can you add my contact info to them"

murders u

nothing to bitch about.

it is kind of funny that the higher ups request for peace and quiet so people can get work done, yet spend most of the day speaking very loudly to each other.

and headphones on!

Speaking of water and coffee and whatnot we're about to get a tap that not only supplies chilled and boiling filtered water, but a third tap produces CARBONATED WATER.

What a time to be alive. (we also get free tea/coffee/biscuits/fruit, beer on fridays and they have energy drinks in the vending machine).

the nightmare project I left in February is still apparently in such bad shape that it's almost on the CEO's desk.

I got copied on an email about one particular assignment, asking me if I could add some background on the development of that particular task. I tried very politely to point out that not only did I have nothing to do with it, but that the person who did was actually...him. Which he apparently forgot.

no really, tell us more about the cartoonist who took the far side mentality and added a christian point of view

shout out to all the 50+yo str8 white dudes who smugly and loudly backpat each other abt their uninformed conservative politix in the break room during lunch

My new colleague was explaining how the media coverage of the PEGIDA rally he attended was unfair because it only showed people waving German flags and cut out all the guys waving Swedish and Danish ones in order to make them look like bigoted nationalists. Seems like a really nice guy otherwise but...uh.

PEGIDA?

Patriotic Europeans Against the Islamisation of the Occident - German far-right anti-Muslim group.

whaaoaoooohhh

He went out of curiosity apparently but still...

lol. right.

no really, tell us more about the cartoonist who took the far side mentality and added a christian point of view

I'm somewhat interested? Although not for puritanical reasons.

http://i.imgur.com/Pq1wMND.jpg

Funny how in football you can take a knee in the final seconds or throw a Hail Mary, but not both at the same time.

everyone please talk about the airconditioning & how cold/hot it is in the office every 10 minutes

i swear to christ it makes me raaaaage

Lol I can take it if it's just awkward small talk but once it becomes excessive bitching it's like PUT A JACKET ON, STRIP NAKED, OR STFU.

exactly.

I'm not kidding, everyone that sits near me is like "Man it's cold" "Wow it is really cold" "Are you cold?" aaaaalll fuckin day like they just started work here yesterday

i guess it could be worse, but i'm changing jobs in a few weeks, i finish here friday 25th - and i have fucking nothing to do. i just went for a two-hour walk at lunch. it's actually alienating me from my colleagues cos i'm so bored.

i love it when they do some like positive/negative judo to complain abt it. like you're outside and they're like "its so nice out." and you're like well this is pleasant "yeah super nice!" and then they are all "not like inside where it's too cold"

since this one guy does fuck all, he feels the need to share the stupidest things he finds on the web with whoever wants to listen; memes, minor car accidents, daily mail news, 'funny' videos, stupid (facebook) comments. the web is an undiscovered goldmine for him and he wants to share these little nuggets with us every hour

i've never met someone who needed such levels of overstimulation.

and when he's not doing that, he's nodding off

the woman who sits across from me is like a helpless stupid robot of endless complaining

there is no information that can be dispensed to her, no conversation to be had, no meeting that she's part of that won't lead to her telling you a long story of how it's an inconvience to her or her customers in some way, and may include irritating combos if sighing, passive agressive laughter and drumming her nails on the table.

if she has a problem and asks for help and you help her, she will not thank you but bring up 3 more problems that you cant help her with because she's so special at being useless

she is the worst, most inept & ungrateful human being i have ever met and i think i genuinely despise her

oi those people are so destructive wherever they go - make productive people less productive by whittling them down with their whinging

speaking of

i was on my lunchbreak it doesnt count

VG, i just about died laughing at that comment of your work friend about your office being like an icebox ^_^

you can't escape it! even on fb!!

lol i know right? LEAVE ME ALONE YOU INSANE JUNIOR WEATHER REPORTERS

You know when there are some targets in place, but they're kind of vestigial, kind of just there, aren't something you'd need to concern yourself with, but you have the one manager in the building who cares, and they really, really, really care

yeah I fuckin know alright, that's me

lol. targets are the blanket that covers the gaping hole of meaninglessness.

that one dude answerable for the random meaningless target