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

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

Your Incident #10201 has been closed. If you believe this is in error, please contact ACC Support immediately. Details are as follows:

Assigned To: LXXXXX CXXXX in the IT_SUPPORT group
Category: Hardware - Desktop/Laptop - Monitor
Description: computer does not appear to be turning on
Resolution: monitor was shut off

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

:D

Hahaha oops! :)

was LXXXXX CXXXX mad?

Yes ha ha ha coworkers, I had my headphones on so I cant hear the joke you're pretending to make in my direction and laughing at me, making me feel like an idiot.

Thanks for ACTUALLY thus making me look bad when I rip off my headphones, hear you laughing, so I snap "I fucking HATE it when people do that to me" which makes me look like the asshole.

Thanks guys. Thanks a lot.

(I'm not in the best mood lately because I'm suffering from nasty hearing loss :/ )

ok, we finally have gorgeous, lovely weather and you are running the freaking spaceheater?!

"I used to live near a Muslim school and, I'm not joking here, I used to see the kids in the playground run around and pretend to be planes. They'd even run into each other. It was pretty disturbing!"

^ quality lol

This morning my cubicle-neighbour arrived and after preliminary greetings, she asks [in a loudish voice, in an otherwise very quiet but definitely populated workspace], "Uh, do you ever shave...down there?"

Could not work out why I was reluctant to answer. Then proceeds (for no reason, just to make conversation) to describe her ingrown hair issue 'down there'. Same volume, but she'd just drop her voice to a whisper any time there she used a 'personal' word. This tactic of course allows any human being with functioning intelligence to figure out what words she was whispering. She then called her mother and her friend and spent about 1/2 hour each relaying the same story about the ingrown hair.

She does the normal-voice-interspersed-with-whispered-keywords thing when talking inappropriately about other subjects, too.

Good god, either she's one of those people who loves to call attention to themselves all the time (I've actually known two females in my life of this variety and they seem to revel in being as obnoxious as possible), or I mean, god, what a freaking dimwit. You have my sympathies.

Haha, nah to be fair she's actually someone I quite like in small doses. But as a coworker, she is incredibly annoying in so many ridiculous ways.

ok lying to me about shit was unacceptable, but also, can you stop making EVERY sentence some highly dramatic thing? when i ask you what an invoice is for, i don't need a 10-minute step-by-step explanation of what was in it, i just need to allocate the charges. i am not an idiot. i understand what we do here.

I so need a job, I miss contributing to this thread

the fucking pair of you, stop laughing hysterically at your own gags

coworker v obviously trying to disguise the fact that she's wearing the same clothes as yesterday...

as long as undies are changed, that's fine isn't it?
she may have got lucky?

well it's not as exciting bc she has a steady boyfriend.

that makes it MORE exciting... poor boyfriend :(

oh no what have i said :)

awesome!

*coughs*
"I think it's just allergies, not Swine Flu."
office lol

dude from office down the hall (who is normally v awesome), stressed about a project, decides to sit in our office for a while being irate and swearing angrily at his laptop. so i'm like.. hey, things were so positive until you came in here. i don't think that went over well

*shrugs*

ha ha that sounds like something i would do--the saying hey things were postive not the cursing

i swear up a storm, i admit it. try to stop sometimes because i guess it's kind of low class, but it doesn't take. i don't get mad at work much, though.

it's a weird situation because i know they're under a lot of pressure right now, and yet.. i'm pretty sure i manage to handle high pressure situations without being pissy to my coworkers. unless the job is one prolonged high pressure situation in which case everyone is fair game

Every friday the guys on either side of me throw a nerf football back and forth over my head, so of course I've been clocked in the head a few times.

Last week I (jokingly, I thoughgt) said "if that ball hits me again heads will roll and there will be BLOOODDD". When I looked up I noticed they were all looking nervously at me, lol.

Songs sung today by the guy in the next office:

'Lo-lo-lo-la-Lola!'

'Rudolph the blue-ringed octopus...'

'Catch the fish and light the fire...'

'Sing songs, sing songs!'

'People... people who need people...'

'I coulda danced all night!'

Every friday the guys on either side of me throw a nerf football back and forth over my head, so of course I've been clocked in the head a few times

Fuck me, really? If I worked with these "guys", that would have gone so far up someone's arsehole by now they'd have an interestingly shaped new head.

At least it wasn't a cricket ball. Two guys at a place where I used to work would often throw a cricket ball back and forth. Ever seen one smash into a laptop screen? Makes a real mess...

Hah yes, that reminds me of one of my first jobs at the foreign office. I worked in the mailroom in the basement, which was a big warehouse space with loads of ... well, space, so occasionally the guys'd play cricket. With a tennis ball, but when you hit a tennisball upward at a fair whack and it hits an overhead light, that light's gonna smash and shower everyone in plastic.

Ah, fun times. We used to listen to Blue Oyster Cult and Dead Can Dance and the Clash, and the supervisor'd sneak into the loading bay and smoke weed.

Same coworker as upthread has spent approx. 3 hours on the phone today shouting at her insurance company.

"i knew what I wanted to study in college. that's why i know about all the world's religions." <-- designs flyers

&^%^%$%^$ Fuck! Why is it SO HARD to control a customer's expectations, explain to him what the problem is and that we're fixing it? Why does it take you half an hour of blathering, to leave the customer thinking we aren't fixing the problem/completely misunderstanding whats wrong?

I take over and talk to the guy for like, 2 minutes and he understands and goes away happy, its not fskcing rocket surgery.

Man I could never be a manager, I would be far too witheringly horrible and bitchy to my staff, I think :|