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

OK wow. One of my workmates just ambled in to work, at 11.15am (we are meant to start at 8.30-9am). When the support team leader said in exasperation "can you at least tell me when you'll be late and when you will be in so I know" (shes stuck on her own today) he has the gall to say "look I cant adjust my sleeping patterns right now, and the cricket is on so I'm up late, OK?!"

WTF dude. Shit'd get you fired in my last job. Wanker.

did he really say "the cricket"

wow Trayce, that's bad. people like that eventually get their just desserts I'm sure.

"Okay, I've acknowledged your opinion Sean, but I don't think you're being really considerate of my feelings"

The guy my boss recently hired to directly supervise me, arguing with my boss about some shit that's completely set in stone since way before he got here. If you ignore my proofreading comments, yes, expect Sean to ignore your feelings, dick.

did he really say "the cricket"

Yes. Why, is this confusing?

i dont people say im going to watch "the basketball" or "the football" over here

i KNOW people don't say that over here

"I'm going to watch the based balls"

Plenty of people here say "the footy" and "the cricket"!

But you wouldnt say "the basketball".

You would say "the tennis".

I dont effin know why.

But thank you for schooling me on my own version of english, WWG.

people should start calling it cricky

I fear I have done so in the past :/

"The tennis" etc works in the UK too.
"In my free time I watch football" (in general)
"I'm going home to watch the football" (a specific match or tournament, which it is assumed the listener will already be aware of)

So I think the reason "the basketball" doesn't work but "the tennis/football/cricket/rugby" does is because people are expected to be aware of the current major event in those sports, know about the one big match that's on the major TV channels or in every sports pub that day etc. (You might also use it for seeing the big local match in person.) Er, maybe.

What kind of guy does not even make up some kind of transport-related mishap, major family illness or sudden 8am plumbing disaster, is what I want to know?

the dude next to me has done nothing but cough his fucking head off all week. FUCK OFF HOME YOU SICK BASTARD

I am in awe of Trayce's workmate. I long for the kind of job security where I can be that audaciously honest about my extracurricular activities.

http://www.futurama-area.de/LiH/OComics/16.gif

i need to confess something.

No one says "the" ANY sport over here, I'm pretty sure. I don't even really follow any major sports and yet it just seems profoundly un-American somehow. We leave that kind of thing to the poncey poms.

we have speakers hooked up to an old mac in the studio i work in, usually plays music most of the day.

my boss insists on playing all sorts of awful (or mediocre) stuff over and over AND OVER. the two people with similar tastes to me were both let go a few months back - so anything i put on gets killed pretty quickly. sometimes this is followed by an energetic exchange of musical opinions.

yesterday a coworker outside the studio started a bit of a curfufel about the (awful) music. sensing the opportunity i came in last night and hid the speakers. there has now been an all-staff demanding the damned thing be returned! but i am saying nothing and enjoying the silence!

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this is actually really awesome.

xxp And pineapple up-side-down-land, apparently.

(there's been no finger pointing as of yet either)
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I wish we could do that here, with the speaker hiding! Impressive. Our boss insists on a crappy station that no one else in the office can even stand. We try switching it or plugging in an iPod when he's gone, but upon his return it is to be immediately flipped back to his preferred station. No democracy here. I've thought many times about snipping all the wires.

this is awesome. i have her on my msn and i'm having a blast watching what senseless music she's not subjecting me to!

Just cross some wires, jon, so that next time he turns it on, it sparks and shorts out. Has the double advantages of stopping the music AND making him think maybe he did something to it by keeping it on all day, every day. Perhaps will make him more cautious in future. Bonus points for setting off a fire alarm and having to evacuate the office.

IT have just rung a colleague's extension to ask him what extension he's on.

that's allowable- this weekend i texted my phone from the net to discover it was in my pocket.

Well, hes on vacation for a week and half now, so we have a reprieve, but I'll have to look into that for his return, Laurel.

"When he was in his twenties, he was a great character actor. Now he's just a hack. There's no development or sense in what he does."
^ passing judgement on johnny depp once and for all.

Stop replying to my emails with "good girl!".

I AM NOT A PUPPY.

HA AHAHAHHAAH AHAAAA

He's done it TWICE this week. The guy is half my age! :/

Well ok not literally.

"I've really wanted to look up the recipe for semtex on the internet for a while now, but you know. They flag you. I suppose I could go to an internet cafe. Most internet cafes are located in suburban areas with cameras and if you anonymously log in they could catch you on tape. Unless you came in with a disguise..."
^this is verbatim, started typing as soon as he started talking

I have a question! I was working late and was the only person in an area of maybe six cubicles, and some woman came down the hall and was having a long frivolous personal-call cell conversation in the vicinity. I spent a while shifting and coughing and tapping my pencil to let her know someone was around, but she hung around and kept talking for five minutes or so. My question: this is just weird and rude, right, to hang around near someone else's work area yakking on a cell phone? You expect people to have personal conversations at their own desks, okay, but not like gratuitous chit-chat in your area when it's otherwise dead silent.

Could she see you?

She could not, hence the elaborate coughing fit and chair-squeaking (which, if she could hear well enough to use a phone, she definitely heard)

Yeah actually in this case you are the annoying co-worker for being passive-aggressive instead of popping your head around the corner and saying, "Sorry, I don't mean to be rude but I can't concentrate on this because of your conversation; I hate to be 'that guy' but could you, you know, shut the fuck up?"

(modify as appropriate for yr workspace)

just get up and go to the bathroom/water cooler? she would probably be gone by the time you get off, and you have dealt with yr fluids. everybody wins.

oh god

"get back", not "get off"

nope sorry, that correction is not accepted

public masturbation is the obvious solution here--glad someone said it!

just barely stopped myself from changing username to "you have dealt with yr fluids. everybody wins."

kinda odd to jack it at the water cooler even if the office is empty tho

it's a public gathering place of the office, much like a town square

everybody wins

a place to see and be seen

oh, I didn't have any intense need for her to leave, or anything, I probably just posted to ILX until she was done or whatever, I just think it's maybe weird and rude to have a whole personal conversation over by other people's desks when you're aware they're still there