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

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

Would it be reading too much into it to think that it's a total dick move for a coworker to spell my name in lowercase in a short message to my supervisor where I've been copied in, and several other pronouns have been capitalised correctly, and I've only been copied in because he's asking my supervisor to approve changes to a document, and wants me to make those changes? This guy is an ignorant, weird noise making, lazy talking, sexist, conservative, racist, angry swearing, lame joke making, forced laughing, whinging manbaby so I'm thinking dick move.

I mean is disrespectful pass-agg lowercase naming a thing or am I just paranoid?

For my own sanity, I generally assume these things are honest mistakes.

Also assuming your boss is reasonably intelligent they noticed and know it was at the least careless and at the worst a total dick move that reflects poorly on the sender, by you, either way.

I'm reading too much into yr post tbph

was working with an IT guy on a project that was meant to be completed yesterday. 3/4 of the way through the left for the day without any warning leaving me unable to proceed. he did similarly last week when be sent an email suggesting that something i had delivered required additional attention (turned out not to be the case which he later stated) then immediately left for the weekend without notice again abandoning a task halfway to completion.

i don't know whether to be pissed or to admire his advanced indifference

the main guy i work with does the exact same thing. it's friday at 11am. he emails me something, and within 30 seconds i email him back with an extremely simple question (like what is so-and-so's contact info or whatevever). monday afternoon, he emails me back with the answer.

Working with a small team to get an inquiry form places on relevant website pages to separate their inquiries from sales lead-generation stuff.

ME: OK, here's the form draft on the test tier, please test and make sure it's OK.
PERSON 1: I don't see the notifications in the test mailbox.
ME: They aren't going there, they should be in [team mailbox].
PERSON 1: Oh, OK. Meanwhile, why does the form on this page [on test tier] look different from these three [on live tier].
IT PERSON: Those last three are live. Only your first link shows what the news pages will look like. The new form will not have the dropdown that that form does.
PERSON 1: Oh, OK, I see.
PERSON 1'S SUPERVISOR: Hey can we change the dropdown on these three [live] pages to say X,Y and Z instead of what's there?
ME: JESUS CHRIST I'M GOING TO MURDER YOU ALL

wrote a blog post about editorial judgement when working at pace - the main thrust was "after the style guide and user research, have a reason for why you did something which you could explain if someone questioned it". colleague who is now "blog editor" probably because he can't actually do the non-blog work we are paid to do, mails it back with loads of suggested edits and added in text, like the worst type of editing possible from a person who's never edited anything in their life, changed words for no reason etc.

so glad i am leaving this department, i accept that people have diff skills but the last few months in my current role has just been this awful streamlining of everyone's tasks that completely ignores strengths and weaknesses. i mean it goes as far as being unable to get more work in a week's "sprint" because the system is set-up for people to plod through the average amount or less. prob the most affable boss i've ever had but ultimately a frustrating environment as a result.

you're leaving in 2.5 weeks. now is not the time to start rewriting code that i will have to support when you're gone.

especially don't 'optimise' the code that i told you was delicate and not specced anywhere (the designers and original coders have all left) in a way that breaks the acceptance tests and wastes an afternoon.

just leave it. spend that last couple of weeks documenting your stuff.

pretty sure my constantly-whispering-to-self coworker is maybe a month away from writing a manifesto

what does she whisper?

http://i.ytimg.com/vi/YxcwkJbC558/hqdefault.jpg