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

The legacy system, however... problem is it's had too many people working on it, not commenting their code, and it's not just people making data entry errors, but the system itself creating duplicates and dirty data becuase no one knows exactly what bits of it do what. Also, oh yeah, a huge chunk of it (the bit that ran automatic scripts) just... disappeared when we changed systems.

And then people come to me with annoying little complaints going "this isn't like it used to be..." and I want to shout at them THAT'S BECAUSE THE WAY IT USED TO BE WAS TOTALLY AND COMPLETELY FUX0RED!!!!

Bleeding in front of your coworkers: C/D?

this makes me realise that i should count my blessings.

Gifts Secret Santa has given me in the past few years include:
- a key ring with a wee torch on it
- the novel adapted from the screenplay of Spiderman The Movie
- the cheapest most useless socket set in the world
- a Jenga set with tiny slidy plastic blocks
- a Celtic FC calendar which I wasn't allowed to hang up in the office

I should adopt my old boss's strategy.

Other 'thoughtful' gifts include: A forest of Magic Trees, a Glade plug in and a cake of carbolic soap.

Last year, I got a 3 little jars of Arran Aromatics lip balm, a box of Dairy Milk and a box of liqeur chocolates that were so undoubtedly an unwanted present from last year I almost cringed visibly. 3 lip balms, 2 boxes of chocs. I mean!

This is where you all tell me I'm an ungrateful bitch.

The point of the wish list is to take away all need for thought, innit. I was probably quite stupid by being less specific than they wanted me to be with "something that smells nice; something that tastes nice; something small, simple and silver". Other people wrote down everything except the Argos catalogue number.

Thanks,

v1c

Bloody hell, what sort of insane hellhole do you work in?

Last year a colleague of mine received STRAW SLIPPERS and a LOOFAH.

Somebody else got a stuffed camel with 'Greetings from Lanazarote' on it.

I was a miserable bitch and didn't even participate.

2. Boss just gave me a "warning" for upping my resolution from 800x600 to 1024x768 on a 17" CRT

3. Boss "lost his Outlook" and expects me to fix it

...and I'm a contractor handling hurricane relief fund distribution

1. Boss doesn't seem to understand that the whole point of having a database is to make information easily and quickly accessible, so I spend 3-4x as much time making an endlessly redundant paper trail (including multiple stickers, a staple remover and lots of red ink) than I do actually doing real work.

2. Boss has issued edict that no set of papers shall ever have two staples in them. EVER. Need to attach a sheet to the back? Remove the staple and put a new one in. It kind of slows things down when you have 2000 things to staple courtesy of above papertrail policy, and you have to pick each one before stapling one more sheet to the back.

3. We have to PAY for coffee.

My employer shall remain nameless but I will tell you that I work for perhaps the largest labor union in the United States.

American version: don't you pay attention when you go to Wal-Mart?

not as funny when you have to re-edit :(

aaaargh, someone is now sneezing repeatedly in a really ineffective and wussy way. GAAAAAAAH!

hmm. the problem really is me, not them, isn't it? gah.