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
― 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
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
But when people at my last workplace griped about someone taking the elevator only 1 or 2 floors, I told just them "Oh, well s/he has bone cancer, so...."
― Je55e, Sunday, 20 November 2016 19:32 (seven years ago) link
This is not my co-workers' fault, but a series of events have led to us needing to produce a brochure on safer alternatives to injecting drugs, which has required me to spend the morning looking through image libraries for photos of people shoving pills and powders up their arses. This has not been my funnest day at work.
― I hear from this arsehole again, he's going in the river (James Morrison), Wednesday, 23 November 2016 04:58 (seven years ago) link
listened to my least favorite coworker inquire why a thing happened (answer: she fucked up) and spent what felt like an hour not accepting any explanation that suggested that her fuckup was in any way the cause
i hate her
― Flamenco Drop (VegemiteGrrl), Wednesday, 23 November 2016 05:37 (seven years ago) link
Shove some MDMA wrapped in a cigarette paper up her bum, then take a photo and send it to me. It can't be worse than anything I've seen today.
― I hear from this arsehole again, he's going in the river (James Morrison), Wednesday, 23 November 2016 06:11 (seven years ago) link
― Flamenco Drop (VegemiteGrrl), Wednesday, 23 November 2016 17:45 (seven years ago) link
For literally years, I have butted heads with the manager of another department about the way we need her department to do a particular thing that directly affects us. I've written up very detailed guidelines about the correct way this process should be handled, and her department complies for a little while before inevitably backsliding into halfassery. For about the eight hundredth time, she has stubbornly asserted that her department will continue to fulfill requests in the demonstrably incorrect and incomplete way they're sent by requestors who don't fully understand this process rather than simply following our guidelines, a decision which inevitably leads to multiple follow-up correction requests (and, it should be noted, unnecessary duplicative work for her department) and pointless delays and frustration on the part of everyone affected and almost certainly lost business. So because I'm so completely tired of this intransigent moron, I've decided to turn the rhetorical fire up to 'white hot' and burn her to a cinder in an email to everyone in the company that is even tangentially superior to her. Which will almost certainly result in nothing more tangible than a momentary self-righteous endorphin rush, but you takes what you can gets.
― i need microsoft installed on my desktop, can you help (Old Lunch), Wednesday, 23 November 2016 18:18 (seven years ago) link
I'd target it more specifically and tone down the white hot to rationally indignant. But that's unsought advice, so take it however you will.
― a little too mature to be cute (Aimless), Wednesday, 23 November 2016 18:45 (seven years ago) link
Rational indignation is my perpetual weapon of choice.
― i need microsoft installed on my desktop, can you help (Old Lunch), Wednesday, 23 November 2016 18:52 (seven years ago) link
Handed my notice in a couple of weeks ago. Spent yesterday trying to make sense of the handover from someone else who left a week ago to the two new starts on his site as a favfour to that site's general manager (and because technically it's still my job for a month), by lunchtime nmfp had hit and I spend the afternoon just going "no, that's a fucking disaster, sucks to be you".
― Horizontal Superman is invulnerable (aldo), Thursday, 24 November 2016 11:03 (seven years ago) link