― emsk ( emsk), Thursday, 9 February 2006 09:51 (eighteen years ago) link
you may have a point about stinky though. but that is because their waste paper baskets are full of yesterday's thai curry and last week's teabags (they don't seem to believe in binliners of any kind so whilst the contents are removed on a weekly basis, the bins themselves are pretty skanky).
― koogs (koogs), Thursday, 9 February 2006 10:00 (eighteen years ago) link
― emsk ( emsk), Thursday, 9 February 2006 10:29 (eighteen years ago) link
accounts guy: SHUT UP SHUT UP SHUT UP SHUT UP SHUT UP!!!!! fucking endlessly, loudly, droning on about poker or novelty songs or sports (which YOU DON'T UNDERSTAND) or anything just to hear yourself talk, jesus. and you are obese and pungent and if you keep drinking entire 1.5 litre bottles of coke every day you will be dead by 30 or less. you repulse me.
tech support guy: you are the most useless cunt on this earth. I understand you have a disability of some sort, but when it means you IGNORE any request unless you are followed up and sheperded through it and have your hand held, so that it takes a month for a simple swapping of e-mail access from one PC to another... words fucking fail me, except for "you are the most useless cunt on this earth", obviously, that sums up the situation pretty succinctly.
marketing girl: you seem quite a nice person but your propensity for shifting work onto other people, specifically the over-stress head of department downstairs, is wearing very thin very quickly.
head of company: a good bloke, but on here since I found out about the jaw-dropping double-standards he displayed on a certain matter.
― it has been a very long day, shoot me pls. (haitch), Thursday, 9 February 2006 12:32 (eighteen years ago) link
― Thermo Thinwall (Thermo Thinwall), Thursday, 9 February 2006 15:07 (eighteen years ago) link
Previous examples have included complaining that a report I set up to automatically email him a spreadsheet each week was blank, when he was looking at the wrong sheet, TWO WEEKS IN A ROW.
Today he emailed me 3 times and then requested I call him regarding several reports which I told him I have never heard of and have nothing to do with, the first time he emailed me about them.
Now he has asked me to change the email address on another report (which by some chance I do actually produce) to some garbled version of what I assume was the address he's asking me to change it to. I was tempted to change it to sjdhfdhjk.com like he asked so I could say "but that's what you asked it to be" when he complains he hasn't received it, but that would be a little too petty.
Luckily he doesn't work in this office so I don't have to put up with him in person.
― Colonel Poo (Colonel Poo), Thursday, 9 February 2006 15:09 (eighteen years ago) link
― Markelby (Mark C), Thursday, 9 February 2006 15:20 (eighteen years ago) link
― Thermo Thinwall (Thermo Thinwall), Thursday, 9 February 2006 15:35 (eighteen years ago) link
― hstencil (hstencil), Thursday, 9 February 2006 15:40 (eighteen years ago) link
― Archel (Archel), Thursday, 9 February 2006 15:48 (eighteen years ago) link
― kyle (akmonday), Wednesday, 22 February 2006 21:44 (eighteen years ago) link
― Trayce (trayce), Wednesday, 22 February 2006 23:09 (eighteen years ago) link
― RJG (RJG), Wednesday, 22 February 2006 23:11 (eighteen years ago) link
Resident Smart-Arse "No, he isn't dead."Me: "yes, he is. That might be why he isn't playing T in the Park"RS-A: "He's not dead"Me: Yes, he is. He died in a hotel room in Vegas. It involved drugs and hookers."RS-A: "You're thinking of that guy from Big Country"Me: "No, really, I'm not."RS-A: "You're too young to even know who the Who are, you must be getting confused"Me: ***bangs head off desk, googles report of John Entwistle's death, shows it to RS-A, waits for apology, doesn't get one, looks for other job***
― ailsa (ailsa), Thursday, 23 February 2006 00:34 (eighteen years ago) link
RS-A: "They won't be playing, they're rubbish"Me: "Yes, that's why Barcelona signed them"RS-A: "Barcelona are good, they don't need players from Scotland"Me: "Yes, that's why they signed them, because they don't need them. I presume they play them for laughs as well"RS-A: "Yes, but Larsson's missed loads of games for Barcelona"Me: "Aye, he was injured. He's still in the first team squad now though"RS-A: (floundering for arguments) "yes, but ironically they didn't even sign van Bronckhorst from Rangers, they signed him from Arsenal. What does *that* tell you?"Me: "Er, that you don't know the meaning of the word "ironic", perhaps?"RS-A: ***finds something else important to do elsewhere***
― ailsa (ailsa), Thursday, 23 February 2006 00:42 (eighteen years ago) link
― ailsa (ailsa), Thursday, 23 February 2006 00:54 (eighteen years ago) link
― destroye's noobies (haitch), Thursday, 23 February 2006 00:57 (eighteen years ago) link
― ailsa (ailsa), Thursday, 23 February 2006 01:00 (eighteen years ago) link
― ailsa (ailsa), Thursday, 23 February 2006 01:01 (eighteen years ago) link
One time, he said aloud "why's it called the WestGate Bridge anyway? It isnt even in the west".
It is, and he then spent ten minutes arguing with me that it, and the whole inner western suburbs, was actually north. Jesus.
He also used to eat the entire loaf of bread bought by the morning tea club that was meant to be shared among about 10 people. He claimed it was because he was poor and going without meals, even though he was on the same salary as the rest of us and also a single man living in a cheaparse flat.
― Trayce (trayce), Thursday, 23 February 2006 01:39 (eighteen years ago) link
DON'T FUCKING TALK WITH YOUR MOUTH FULL. It's disgusting and no one can understand a word you're saying.
Thank you, goodnight.
― The Milkmaid (of human kindness) (The Milkmaid), Thursday, 23 February 2006 03:05 (eighteen years ago) link
― The Milkmaid (of human kindness) (The Milkmaid), Thursday, 23 February 2006 03:12 (eighteen years ago) link
And I wonder how someone can actually reach adulthood without learning that talking with your mouth full is rude and disgusting. I mean, did this woman not have parents?
― Archel (Archel), Thursday, 23 February 2006 09:35 (eighteen years ago) link
thanks
ps. also not everything you say has to be witty, again it's not compulsory. might be worth just going over in your head the things you're about to say too, you know, is it really that funny? will people roll about laughing? here's a simple rule - "if in doubt, leave it out"
― Ste (Fuzzy), Thursday, 23 February 2006 11:22 (eighteen years ago) link
― Markelby (Mark C), Thursday, 23 February 2006 11:31 (eighteen years ago) link
― beanz (beanz), Thursday, 23 February 2006 11:35 (eighteen years ago) link
― Forest Pines (ForestPines), Thursday, 23 February 2006 11:43 (eighteen years ago) link
― Archel (Archel), Thursday, 23 February 2006 11:49 (eighteen years ago) link
― Ste (Fuzzy), Thursday, 23 February 2006 11:52 (eighteen years ago) link
― Ste (Fuzzy), Thursday, 23 February 2006 11:56 (eighteen years ago) link
I know you said you would be 'making up the hours' that you are away at your classes, rather than giving up a day's pay as I have been. I can't help but notice, YOU ARE NOT MAKING UP THE HOURS. I like you but I fear I am not going to be able to quell my resentment that you are NOT MAKING UP THE HOURS.
That is all,
― Archel (Archel), Thursday, 23 February 2006 12:00 (eighteen years ago) link
Such as: an argument with an annoying manager known (but not to his face) as "ginger tosser". He said: when you send a copy of our price list, you should send the PDF version and not the Word version, so that they can't change it at the other end.
I said: Yes, very sensible, although of course it only matters when you email it - if you're faxing it there's no difference.
But this tosser insisted that there was a difference between faxing a Word document and a PDF, and that if you faxed a Word document to someone they would be able to edit it after receipt. Tosser.
― Forest Pines (ForestPines), Thursday, 23 February 2006 12:15 (eighteen years ago) link
I did say: "if you like, I can fax you a Word document and you can *show me* how to edit it afterwards." His reply was just: "I know you can"
(I did, later, bring this up again in front of my boss and his boss, knowing that my boss, at least, would treat him with laughter and derision)
― Forest Pines (ForestPines), Thursday, 23 February 2006 12:21 (eighteen years ago) link
Anyway, J who sits right opposite me, if you want to know if a job is done just ask me instead of emailing me and CCing it to everyone who doesn't give a shit. I've taken to hitting "Reply to all" and signing off with "Gerry, 5 feet from J..."
― Onimo (GerryNemo), Thursday, 23 February 2006 12:30 (eighteen years ago) link
― RJG (RJG), Thursday, 23 February 2006 12:43 (eighteen years ago) link
― Archel (Archel), Thursday, 23 February 2006 13:32 (eighteen years ago) link
Oh yeah, and don't leave sodding fish all over the sodding kitchen - some of us are allergic to that shit.
― Boris and the Johnsons (kate), Thursday, 23 February 2006 13:45 (eighteen years ago) link
― jocelyn (Jocelyn), Thursday, 23 February 2006 13:56 (eighteen years ago) link
*collapses larfing* thats insane FP! Now I see why you thought PlayfulPuppy's menko old boss was your boss too ;)
― Trayce (trayce), Friday, 24 February 2006 01:00 (eighteen years ago) link
― Maria (Maria), Friday, 24 February 2006 03:35 (eighteen years ago) link
― The Man Without Shadow (Enrique), Tuesday, 28 February 2006 12:39 (eighteen years ago) link
― armalite roffle (haitch), Tuesday, 28 February 2006 13:04 (eighteen years ago) link
― armalite roffle (haitch), Tuesday, 28 February 2006 13:21 (eighteen years ago) link
Why is it pointless confronting her yourself? Is she a difficult character?
― Archel (Archel), Tuesday, 28 February 2006 13:35 (eighteen years ago) link
― zaxxon25 (zaxxon25), Tuesday, 28 February 2006 13:39 (eighteen years ago) link
― Archel (Archel), Tuesday, 28 February 2006 13:41 (eighteen years ago) link
― Markelby (Mark C), Tuesday, 28 February 2006 13:44 (eighteen years ago) link
xpost
― Dave will do (dave225.3), Tuesday, 28 February 2006 13:49 (eighteen years ago) link
archel: it's definitely her job. "pointless" - I get the feeling that I would be ignored whereas a manager wouldn't be.
― armalite roffle (haitch), Tuesday, 28 February 2006 13:53 (eighteen years ago) link
― beanz (beanz), Tuesday, 28 February 2006 14:00 (eighteen years ago) link