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

I think i saw the sleeve of a collection of 60s work by them(Golden Earring)crop up when I was looking for something else or running through Amazon recommendations recently.

During that conversation, CW2 sent me a YouTube video from Golden Earring's catalogue where the lead singer pretty much rapes a nun on the subway.

I've learned a lot about Golden Earring in the past week. Might stick with Bettie Serveert for the long run.

I think it was this that I saw somewhere, so maybe on a site about psychedelic clothing I was looking at.
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"did the process for <xxx> change?"

'no, it's the same process as it always was. that thing we used to do for you and we said you were welcome to request at any time actually should never have been allowed so we stopped allowing it overnight and opted not to ever tell you cos LOL'.

"so...yes?"

Trying to eavesdrop on an interesting conversation which tangentially overlaps with my work in the office next door, but sadly in the other office next door the coworker with the loud droning nasal voice is droning loudly and nasally about something very boring and drowning out the interesting conversation

Later today there will be a team meeting which will be 90% this guy immediately answering everything the boss says and similarly droning on at length

Do bosses ever wonder "what would meetings be like if that one guy didn't talk for 90% of the time?", do they just think "that one guy is really helpful and informative and everyone else is just too lazy or clueless to speak!", do they not even notice that one person is talking all the time as long as they like that one person?

(tempted to add "and it's a man" w/thoughts of that study where women were thought of as noisy, bossy and conversation-dominating when they spoke for way less time than the men, but hey, Not All Men)

I was basically told by a manager this morning that it's unfair of me to expect her people to understand the correct way to do a thing (that I've explicitly reminded her and them how to do, many times, over several years) and that me taking time out to send them correction requests on a daily basis is apparently an acceptable substitute for their mindfulness.

(I should note, too, that this isn't about making mistakes, which is forgivable, but rather ignorance wrt a basic daily function of one's job, which I tend to be a little less forgiving about for some reason. Probably because I am a meanie.)

My company has started trying to enforce the following rules in relatively quick succession:

1) You must take a half hour unpaid lunch (state law only requires twenty minutes, but whatevs).
2) You must start your work day no later than 7:00 AM (we've had a flex schedule forever which allowed us to come in earlier and get out earlier but still no huge deal).
3) You must take your lunch no more than 5 hours after your start time (again, dumb, but nothing ott).
4) You cannot eat lunch at your desk (wait...what?).

At a half hour (anything OVER half an hour must be approved by a manager), leaving the building to eat is a PITA, particularly during the winter. So you basically engineer things in a way that encourages people to bring their lunch to work but then tell them they can't eat at their desks, which means they have to eat in one of two small kitchen areas. And because you've over-engineered people's start times and restricted when they can take their lunches, that means that basically several hundred people are going to be vying for that kitchen space at the same time every day.

I'm continuing to eat at my desk, FYI, and, on the offchance that someone above me decides to actually call me out for doing so, I relish utilizing the opportunity to discuss any number of actually impactful work matters that have gone largely unresolved in favor of an increased focus on treating professional adults like unruly twelve-year-olds who have to be corralled through the lunchroom.

Is that for real? Honestly? What kind of a workplace is that? That's insane, do they think you're toddlers?
I only take half an hour for lunch but can take longer if I want. You can't get out to get food and come back and eat it in that time. You can just about queue for one of the two microwaves in that time, I suppose.

Are you in the US, Old Lunch? The "lunch at desk " sounds like they are getting ready for the new FLSA regs for December 1 - in case you might answer a work email or three while eating lunch, bing - could be overtime!

Yeah, I'm in the US. And this is coming straight from HR, so that doesn't surprise me at all. I just need to relay to any and all concerned parties that the idea of doing one iota of work for this company while off the clock is laughable in the extreme.

Yes, we had a big meeting about all that a couple of weeks ago, in particular with exempt staff who will move to non-exempt, so they might have *possibly* answered a work email or two while at lunch and next thing you know, overtime. We're grant-funded, so that could be a problem...

there's a systems guy who on multiple occasions has made config mistakes which caused things not to work. things that are p crucial that we have working. and I might be forgiving cos we're all human, except the ensuing convo always looks like this when we're testing...

Us: Hey, we expected <result> but am getting <other result>. Can you look into this when you have a chance?
Him: That's weird, I have no idea why it wouldn't be working. (end of message, awkward silence)
Us: Can you take a look at it, or do you know a resource who might be able to help? This will cause a major problem if this isn't working properly tomorrow morning.
Him: (no reply to various forms of attempts to communicate, so we give up and root around, struggling to find somebody who might be able to help, and then when they show up, points out dude set it up wrong and has to fix it for him).

oh my god these people will not fucking shut up about the heating/cooling

my kingdom for a kitana

XD

Apparently a coworker has left a brassiere on the bookshelf in my office. I don't know what to do about this at all.

I think the best course of action is to pretend that I haven't seen it.

I feel like I need some more context here.

But I believe that general rules of etiquette dictate that you should leave a rumpled undershirt or perhaps some sock garters in her work area as a show of mutual regard.

I don't know which of my women coworkers it belongs to!

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I left the office to use the restroom and when I came back it was gone. The best possible resolution to this predicament.

Took a while for my phone to upload to photobucket, but here is the bookshelf, during wilder times:

http://i166.photobucket.com/albums/u120/kingkonggodzilla/20161118_081601_zpsh0xytztc.jpg

1: print photo
2: frame
3: place on shelf in it's place

Okay, hard lol @ that.

lol

do it!!! lol

I'm actually gonna delete that from my photobucket because I feel like a bit of a creep posting someone's undergarment up there. But just so you all know I wasn't making this up.

Like whoever the hell left that there just borrowed my office to change after I had gone for the day and probably was mortified that they'd left it.

Your workplace should really look into constructing a restroom, which would additionally serve to curb those desperate instances of people defecating in your trashcan for want of a more appropriate place to do such things.

We have restrooms. And a locker room! And a copy room that people rarely venture into! But I guess some of the people who have cubicles instead of offices do their post-work changes in offices that aren't in use. The thing is, we have an office that is only used by a woman who comes into town once a month, so if you're going to change in someone's actual office, rather than one of the several appropriate places to change, why use mine and not that one?

Maybe it was already occupied by another changer?

Maybe some people fucked on your desk.

^^^

this possibility should be considered.

Oh shit!

thought of famed donkey boy of this thread renown only yesterday

The cursed return of the dastardly thermo thinwall otm

thought of famed donkey boy of this thread renown only yesterday

― the kids are alt right (darraghmac), Saturday, November 19, 2016 5:30 AM (two hours ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

I think of this story all the time, especially the stunning conclusion

People who take the lift up one floor. Lazy fuckers, why can't they use the stairs?

because i lack an acl, ya fuckin git

No, there's nothing wrong with their legs.

my building had a sign in the lifts telling people to stop frowning or commenting on one-floor lift usage.

it does bother me but i don't think i was the reason for the sign.

we've done this before, some people may have hidden disabilities that mean they need to use the lift, obviously some people are lazy, thoughtless fuckers, probably best not to get into it unless you are absolutely certain the person is in the latter category and not the former

see also: disabled parking spaces etc

yeah i think it's fair enough really - it is weird for people to be mean to others without knowing - though plenty of them of course must just be lazy thoughtless cunts.

my feeling was that the lifts should be better and then people wouldn't be so frustrated, and that the building's willingness to clamp down on the frustration was telling in this way.

what's the main objection, is it an environmental thing or is it the seconds you lose getting to your destination or something else

Don't know why this would annoy anyone tbh

one example: it can be annoying in a busy, crowded building if you suspect that people who genuinely need the lift to access other floors are being kept waiting because lazy bastards are filling them up unnecessarily

but like i said, impossible to tell

I prefer to just assume that everyone's a lazy bastard, it doesn't seem an unreasonable assumption to make given what else I know of the ppl in my workplace

and yeah, resent the additional time needed to get to my destination

why not assume they're impatient bastards, then?

that makes no sense, with the time taken to wait for the lift to arrive they could have got there quicker by using the stairs

Like how standing still on an escalator is slower than climbing the stairs? True in most cases but not all.

This lift politics stuff is interesting, I've never had cause to consider it tbh

Like if they're there for accessibility only & not accessibility + convenience that's simple enough - able-bodied people should take the stairs in all cases anyway.