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

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how's life, Friday, 4 November 2016 13:52 (seven years ago) link

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

how's life, Friday, 18 November 2016 12:51 (seven years ago) link

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

how's life, Friday, 18 November 2016 13:17 (seven years ago) link

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 need microsoft installed on my desktop, can you help (Old Lunch), Friday, 18 November 2016 13:32 (seven years ago) link

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

http://65.media.tumblr.com/avatar_1d6330389db6_128.png

how's life, Friday, 18 November 2016 13:52 (seven years ago) link

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

how's life, Friday, 18 November 2016 14:04 (seven years ago) link

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

how's life, Friday, 18 November 2016 14:22 (seven years ago) link

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

Mad Piratical (The Cursed Return of the Dastardly Thermo Thinwall), Friday, 18 November 2016 14:31 (seven years ago) link

Okay, hard lol @ that.

i need microsoft installed on my desktop, can you help (Old Lunch), Friday, 18 November 2016 14:32 (seven years ago) link

lol

how's life, Friday, 18 November 2016 14:34 (seven years ago) link

do it!!! lol

andrew m., Friday, 18 November 2016 15:14 (seven years ago) link

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.

how's life, Friday, 18 November 2016 15:33 (seven years ago) link

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.

how's life, Friday, 18 November 2016 15:35 (seven years ago) link

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.

i need microsoft installed on my desktop, can you help (Old Lunch), Friday, 18 November 2016 15:54 (seven years ago) link

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?

how's life, Friday, 18 November 2016 15:59 (seven years ago) link

Maybe it was already occupied by another changer?

nickn, Friday, 18 November 2016 20:25 (seven years ago) link

Maybe some people fucked on your desk.

sad, hombres (sic), Saturday, 19 November 2016 02:25 (seven years ago) link

^^^

mookieproof, Saturday, 19 November 2016 03:14 (seven years ago) link

this possibility should be considered.

Mad Piratical (The Cursed Return of the Dastardly Thermo Thinwall), Saturday, 19 November 2016 07:06 (seven years ago) link

Oh shit!

how's life, Saturday, 19 November 2016 12:06 (seven years ago) link

thought of famed donkey boy of this thread renown only yesterday

the kids are alt right (darraghmac), Saturday, 19 November 2016 13:30 (seven years ago) link

The cursed return of the dastardly thermo thinwall otm

diary of a mod how's life (wins), Saturday, 19 November 2016 13:32 (seven years ago) link

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

slathered in cream and covered with stickers (silby), Saturday, 19 November 2016 15:57 (seven years ago) link

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

heaven parker (anagram), Sunday, 20 November 2016 08:07 (seven years ago) link

because i lack an acl, ya fuckin git

mookieproof, Sunday, 20 November 2016 08:16 (seven years ago) link

No, there's nothing wrong with their legs.

heaven parker (anagram), Sunday, 20 November 2016 09:37 (seven years ago) link

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.

Bein' Sean Bean (LocalGarda), Sunday, 20 November 2016 11:04 (seven years ago) link

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

brex yourself before you wrex yourself (Noodle Vague), Sunday, 20 November 2016 11:09 (seven years ago) link

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.

Bein' Sean Bean (LocalGarda), Sunday, 20 November 2016 11:15 (seven years ago) link

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

diary of a mod how's life (wins), Sunday, 20 November 2016 11:20 (seven years ago) link

Don't know why this would annoy anyone tbh

The Doug Walters of Crime (Tom D.), Sunday, 20 November 2016 11:23 (seven years ago) link

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

brex yourself before you wrex yourself (Noodle Vague), Sunday, 20 November 2016 11:32 (seven years ago) link

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

heaven parker (anagram), Sunday, 20 November 2016 11:43 (seven years ago) link

why not assume they're impatient bastards, then?

diary of a mod how's life (wins), Sunday, 20 November 2016 11:44 (seven years ago) link

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

heaven parker (anagram), Sunday, 20 November 2016 11:48 (seven years ago) link

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

diary of a mod how's life (wins), Sunday, 20 November 2016 11:57 (seven years ago) link

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.

diary of a mod how's life (wins), Sunday, 20 November 2016 11:59 (seven years ago) link

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

it is actually the time. dunno how your building is but p much everywhere i've ever worked the lifts have been a nightmare. cumulatively the amount of wasted time is a low-level irritant.

when you've waited ages for the lift in the first place it does grate a bit.

any excuse to post this btw: http://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2008/04/21/up-and-then-down

Bein' Sean Bean (LocalGarda), Sunday, 20 November 2016 12:05 (seven years ago) link

I work in a one-storey farm building & live in a ground-floor flat, v rarely go anywhere with enough floors not to just use the stairs

diary of a mod how's life (wins), Sunday, 20 November 2016 12:13 (seven years ago) link

I used to work on 13th floor and would seethe at lift being taken up by people going 1-2 floors. Could make me late for work, not just by 'a few seconds'
Not to mention shops with tiny lifts but loads of people with buggies/wheelchairs needing to use them.

kinder, Sunday, 20 November 2016 12:27 (seven years ago) link

i dunno if it's a trick of the light or just more thoughtless cunts, but in my lift at work, if you're standing in either corner at the back, a lot of people seem to massively overestimate how much room there is between their back and your face. i've never known this to be a thing in other places i worked.

Bein' Sean Bean (LocalGarda), Sunday, 20 November 2016 12:31 (seven years ago) link

this is what interests me though - it seemed before that everyone was in agreement that lift use became justifiable at two floors+, are we changing it to 3+ now

diary of a mod how's life (wins), Sunday, 20 November 2016 12:34 (seven years ago) link

I bet you could walk up 3 floors in the same amount of time it takes to wait for & ride these slow, slow lifts

diary of a mod how's life (wins), Sunday, 20 November 2016 12:35 (seven years ago) link

My floor is secure, so I have to take the elevator.

(somber synthesizer music) (doo dah), Sunday, 20 November 2016 12:40 (seven years ago) link

not just by 'a few seconds'

what are we talking, 45 minutes?

diary of a mod how's life (wins), Sunday, 20 November 2016 12:56 (seven years ago) link

at work we'd get people coming back *from the gym* taking the lift one floor.

worst lifts i've seen recently are in the new tate modern tower. i ended up walking up 6 floors. waited 3 or 4 minutes at each floor but there was never any space.

koogs, Sunday, 20 November 2016 13:08 (seven years ago) link

they're tired from the workout, geez 😏

diary of a mod how's life (wins), Sunday, 20 November 2016 13:17 (seven years ago) link

xxp yeah, could be

kinder, Sunday, 20 November 2016 13:37 (seven years ago) link

In buildings I've worked in, stairs are for emergency use only, so they're locked from the outside at the ground floor (and locked from the inside at all other floors) so the only way to get to any floor is by elevator.

Je55e, Sunday, 20 November 2016 19:26 (seven years ago) link

This is the norm, except in buildings with open staircases as opposed to stairwells.

Je55e, Sunday, 20 November 2016 19:27 (seven years ago) link


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