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

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.

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

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

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.

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.

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

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

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

not just by 'a few seconds'

what are we talking, 45 minutes?

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.

they're tired from the workout, geez 😏

xxp yeah, could be

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.

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

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...."

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.

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

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.

lol

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'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.

Rational indignation is my perpetual weapon of choice.

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".

In the meantime the guy I car share with has been telling everyone I'm not going to work for another company but I'm going into Big Brother next year and they can't tell anyone because it's embargoed.

Would vote.

That is excellent

dude insists on addressing issues directly to me even after I told him I'd transitioned ownership to someone else and gave him the name three times, and even when I was on PTO with an out of office message hitting him every time he sent it.

I didn't respond to a single one of them (the other person on the email did them all as I'd previously said) so I think he finally got the message.

i like my coworkers generally but lately i find the basic competency on the slide. like i keep getting messages about a problem which is fixed by almost no action whatsoever, or like just a basic competency. this morning a colleague im'ed me to say "this page we are about to publish is meant to link to page xyz but i can't find page xyz, it doesn't seem to be live" - i went to the website we work on and typed the title of page xyz in and it appeared as the first result. i feel like this kind of thing slowly kills you.

I've got a severe outbreak of co-workers who have self-elected to "ensure a co-ordinated approach/make sure we're on the front foot/look for opportunities to join up across teams/help you to make your ideas land", most of whom add no value, and are actually a drain on the organisation.

Particularly annoying are the "stakeholder engagment" people who email (copy to all staff of course) to say "I've spoken to a,b, c and x,y, and z' - and they're all really keen to come to talk to you." I'm busy enough thanks - perhaps you could handle it.

It seems that for every person producing "original content" in government, there's are about 10 people who have a nebulous self-publising ineffectual hangers-on role.

Whilst I'm on a grumbling roll, here's my top 2 irrtiations of the moment:

"Can you attend this meeting in the next 5 minutes to tell everyone what you're working on"

[Subtext: we had no idea how to fiull this meeting so we thought we'd drag you in]

"Can you urgently forward me a description of your project"

[Subtext: I'll forward this, using my finely-honed cut and paste skills, as if I've weritten it.

We're now at the point where Outlook crashes daily. DAILY. Often for an extended period of time, sometimes as much as half the day. I cannot do any work without access to my email. I'm currently at, like, forty minutes and counting of getting paid to browse the internet today. But this is just treated by management like...whaddayagonnado! Imma go work for IT and enjoy that sweet, sweet job security with apparently zero expectations wrt performance.

we merged with a separate department that views governance as a dirty word, and today I took a closer look at some of their documents that are used daily on phone calls by reps. In just 30 minutes, found five errors, all involving incorrect documentation of federal regulations, and the time stamp on each page seemed to indicate none of these pages has been quality reviewed since 2008!

but go on and brag about how you don't need oversight for these things!

OUtlook isnt crashing due to a plug-in, is it? that used to do it for me, one particular plug-in that was taxing it (xpost)

No, this is company-wide. Yes, that's right: probably thousands of people affected daily (and, y'know, thousands of dollars pissed down the drain every time your entire workforce is prevented from doing their jobs) and they just shrug their shoulders.

Yeah we use ShoreTel voip at work and the plugin for that would ruin my outlook if I went into the calendar.

it's real fun when someone sends me an email saying they gave "major suggested revisions" to several of the docs I authored, to where I'm panicked wondering if they hacked them to pieces and I'm basically having to go back to formula...

and then I look further and none of the suggestions are major, and most of them are based on the reader's misunderstanding due to not reading the docs in fucking sequence like they were supposed to.

on the plus side, now I'm at least relieved that my week isn't ruined with re-work.