i was on my lunchbreak it doesnt count
― Flamenco Drop (VegemiteGrrl), Thursday, 17 September 2015 22:35 (eight years ago) link
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!!
― just1n3, Sunday, 20 September 2015 17:38 (eight years ago) link
lol i know right? LEAVE ME ALONE YOU INSANE JUNIOR WEATHER REPORTERS
― Flamenco Drop (VegemiteGrrl), Sunday, 20 September 2015 21:05 (eight years ago) link
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
― cardamon, Monday, 21 September 2015 22:05 (eight years ago) link
yeah I fuckin know alright, that's me
― deejerk reactions (darraghmac), Monday, 21 September 2015 22:09 (eight years ago) link
lol. targets are the blanket that covers the gaping hole of meaninglessness.
― doing my Objectives, handling some intense stuff (LocalGarda), Monday, 21 September 2015 22:13 (eight years ago) link
that one dude answerable for the random meaningless target
― deejerk reactions (darraghmac), Monday, 21 September 2015 22:15 (eight years ago) link
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?
― facon wrapped seitan butty (qiqing), Tuesday, 22 September 2015 06:12 (eight years ago) link
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.
― carl agatha, Tuesday, 22 September 2015 12:08 (eight years ago) link
I'm reading too much into yr post tbph
― deejerk reactions (darraghmac), Tuesday, 22 September 2015 12:52 (eight years ago) link
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
― all my friends are vampires (art), Tuesday, 22 September 2015 12:53 (eight years ago) link
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.
― 1996 ball boy (Karl Malone), Tuesday, 22 September 2015 12:57 (eight years ago) link
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
― I might like you better if we Yelped together (Phil D.), Tuesday, 22 September 2015 13:01 (eight years ago) link
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.
― doing my Objectives, handling some intense stuff (LocalGarda), Tuesday, 22 September 2015 13:28 (eight years ago) link
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.
― koogs, Tuesday, 22 September 2015 16:36 (eight years ago) link
pretty sure my constantly-whispering-to-self coworker is maybe a month away from writing a manifesto
― Flamenco Drop (VegemiteGrrl), Tuesday, 22 September 2015 18:19 (eight years ago) link
what does she whisper?
― 1996 ball boy (Karl Malone), Tuesday, 22 September 2015 18:24 (eight years ago) link
http://i.ytimg.com/vi/YxcwkJbC558/hqdefault.jpg
― I might like you better if we Yelped together (Phil D.), Tuesday, 22 September 2015 18:25 (eight years ago) link
it's a he and he whispers quiet rants to customers as he's typing friendly emails to them, or quietly ranting to his wife after he gets off a phone call with her
he is nice to me but all i picture is what he says to himself about me when i leave
dude is majorly unbalanced & perma-angry. even a friendly greeting is loud & intense
― Flamenco Drop (VegemiteGrrl), Tuesday, 22 September 2015 18:29 (eight years ago) link
"is it really possible that we don't as yet have a thread about DAVID LYNCH'S DUNE?"
― Heel of Fortune (WilliamC), Tuesday, 22 September 2015 18:29 (eight years ago) link
, he said, in an angry whisper
― 1996 ball boy (Karl Malone), Tuesday, 22 September 2015 18:30 (eight years ago) link
and can i just
this guy badmouths his wife to anyone who will listen (me not included, i have made it clear that he can keep that shit to himself). i have never met her but i feel a weird protective kinship because FUCK this guy for real
― Flamenco Drop (VegemiteGrrl), Tuesday, 22 September 2015 18:41 (eight years ago) link
yeah, the guy i sit next to starts every other story with "if you ever get married, here's what's gonna happen..."
"what's gonna happen" is inevitably a series of terrible things
― 1996 ball boy (Karl Malone), Tuesday, 22 September 2015 19:17 (eight years ago) link
he had a long rant yesterday about the *way* she asks him for help
._.
― Flamenco Drop (VegemiteGrrl), Tuesday, 22 September 2015 19:20 (eight years ago) link
That sort of reminds me of the security guard we had who would complain about his child support payments ALL THE TIME. I am not feeling any sympathy for you, dude.
― tokyo rosemary, Tuesday, 22 September 2015 23:53 (eight years ago) link
LOL I knew what PhilDs simpsons gif was gonna be before i clicked on it :D
― I checked Snoops , and it is for real (Trayce), Wednesday, 23 September 2015 01:08 (eight years ago) link
i hope i never get as dug in inside my own head-bunker as this guy, like he is literally coming to work in a mental foxhole
― Flamenco Drop (VegemiteGrrl), Wednesday, 23 September 2015 01:11 (eight years ago) link
Someone I have to run a draft of a PRINTED MAGAZINE, ON PAPER, which they know it is, as they have been doing this for years, sent back the "correction" that the hyperlinks weren't clickable
I don't even I mean how do I begin to what the fuck is this?
― as verbose and purple as a Peter Ustinov made of plums (James Morrison), Wednesday, 23 September 2015 02:19 (eight years ago) link
Maybe they're like Salieri in Amadeus, they can just pick up a sheet and see the links get clicked in their head.
― pplains, Wednesday, 23 September 2015 02:43 (eight years ago) link
had no MEETINGS in my life two years ago.
since the 'joint venture,' meetings WHICH HAVE NOTHING FOR ME up the ass.
― skateboards are the new combover (Dr Morbius), Wednesday, 23 September 2015 02:46 (eight years ago) link
tbf, any meeting that DID have something for me up the ass is still not one I'd be wanting to attend
― as verbose and purple as a Peter Ustinov made of plums (James Morrison), Wednesday, 23 September 2015 03:01 (eight years ago) link
On a similar kick to VGs muttering workmate, the guy opposite me (who is actually a v close friend outside of work - I got him the job here) has these weird tics I've never noticed in my 15 years of knowing the guy.
He constantly makes water-drop "poik!" noises with his mouth, and blows raspberries, and sighs and sniffs... and today, he has taken to *growling like an angry dog". I'm... more than a little perturbed.
― I checked Snoops , and it is for real (Trayce), Wednesday, 23 September 2015 03:29 (eight years ago) link
like not "grrrr" like you'd do expressing distaste, actually making doglike grrrwwlllll sounds. WTF dude.
― I checked Snoops , and it is for real (Trayce), Wednesday, 23 September 2015 03:30 (eight years ago) link
Said workmate has just put a customer on hold mid-support-call to answer his personal mobile and have achat to his wife about dog surgery. WTF.
― I checked Snoops , and it is for real (Trayce), Wednesday, 23 September 2015 06:18 (eight years ago) link
maybe he's having the growls surgically removed from himself and inserted back into his dog?
― as verbose and purple as a Peter Ustinov made of plums (James Morrison), Wednesday, 23 September 2015 06:28 (eight years ago) link
lol
― I checked Snoops , and it is for real (Trayce), Wednesday, 23 September 2015 06:29 (eight years ago) link
Two people in this office are on a conference call which the rest of us aren't on, so the rest of us are listening to approx 40% of a conversation, in stereo, at extra speaking-down-microphone-obliviously-while-wearing-headphones volume
― a passing spacecadet, Wednesday, 23 September 2015 09:11 (eight years ago) link
xps oh lordy @ Trayce's coworker (yes, I have outed myself as posting to a thread without reading it)
― a passing spacecadet, Wednesday, 23 September 2015 09:12 (eight years ago) link
Trayce's co-worker:
http://i.imgur.com/I2oXi1G.jpg
― pplains, Wednesday, 23 September 2015 13:42 (eight years ago) link
Conversations with my co-worker require so much set-up that I feel like I have to establish that we are employees in a law firm, working on litigation.
One simple question -- Should I make Document X part of Exhibit 8? -- took over 10 fucking minutes to slog through.
― Je55e, Wednesday, 23 September 2015 14:56 (eight years ago) link
I established early on that we were talking about Exhibit 8. I had Exhibit 8 displayed on my monitor. After SO MUCH TALKING I said, again, "What I'm asking is, should Document X be part of the exhibit?"
He said, "What exhibit?"
― Je55e, Wednesday, 23 September 2015 14:59 (eight years ago) link
was just in the bathroom, empty except for me. dude comes in, walks past the two unused urinals, proceeds to piss in a stall, door open, with the seat down. thanks, dirtbag
― goole, Wednesday, 23 September 2015 15:01 (eight years ago) link
"Exhibit 8 - the one we have been talking about. Should this document be part of that exhibit?"
"Uh, well -- I don't understand what you're asking."
I swear to God I'm not exaggerating or making this up.
xp sorry I might stop posting soon
― Je55e, Wednesday, 23 September 2015 15:01 (eight years ago) link
"hey, there's an opportunity to make a men's restroom even nastier. i should act on that."
― 1996 ball boy (Karl Malone), Wednesday, 23 September 2015 15:01 (eight years ago) link
je55e i'm going to make an executive call and just advise that document X should be part of Exhibit 8. if someone complains just say that earlier this morning you heard notice of an executive call saying that it was ok.
― 1996 ball boy (Karl Malone), Wednesday, 23 September 2015 15:02 (eight years ago) link
I feel like I have to establish that we are employees in a law firm, working on litigation.
I recognize this surreal feeling. I'm at school, but our lab has no lab manager and lots of undergrads helping out, so the grad students do a lot of admin and managing people's work. The worst offender is a fellow grad student who has been in a lab an entire year. Next time she says 'I'm confused right now' I might start with 'We are grad students, running a lab'.
― ljubljana, Wednesday, 23 September 2015 15:04 (eight years ago) link
Backing Karl here, good call imo
― ljubljana, Wednesday, 23 September 2015 15:06 (eight years ago) link
the state of toilets in offices really is a damning indictment of human behaviour
― doing my Objectives, handling some intense stuff (LocalGarda), Wednesday, 23 September 2015 15:06 (eight years ago) link
I honestly thought he was fucking with me when he said "Which exhibit?" I thought he was joking. It was hard not to get exasperated and whiny.
Karl, when things got really fucking stupid I said, You know, I think it makes more sense to just make it a separate exhibit, but I still had to finish explaining what we had been talking about THE WHOLE TIME.
― Je55e, Wednesday, 23 September 2015 15:06 (eight years ago) link
FUCK what a way to start the day. Looking forward to the actually complicated discussion we have to have soon.
Thanks, thread, for letting me blow off steam.
― Je55e, Wednesday, 23 September 2015 15:07 (eight years ago) link