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

I am not EVEN fucking kidding here.

Technician came in earlier, left a pile of CDs on my desk and said 'can you phone S4ndie [tutor] and tell her her CDs are ready?' I phone S4ndie; she's left for the day. An hour or so later, I get a call from S4ndra [another tutor] saying 'where are the CDs I asked for?' 'Oh haha' I go, 'the technician said S4ndie'. S4ndra doesn't sound very happy, comes to collect CDs. Picks them up and reads post-it attached to the pile. 'But these SAY S4ndra on!!!!' she says accusingly and does her 'I'm the most important person ever, how dare you make me wait for things' stare at me. At which point I want to say, so fucking what if they do, all I was doing was exactly what the technician told me to do and why he couldn't make his own phone calls in the first place I don't know, nor is it my job to decipher his post-it notes.

Technician = surely he can operate a phone?

Trashy coworker #2: (shortly afterward) I'm worried about my son, he's such a bully. I mean, maybe he's just aggressive, but he beats all the other kids up all the time.

Trashy coworker #1: OHHH don't worry about that, that's how my boys were.

haha, I got this dude sacked, sort of!

Archel this sux :(

don't be afraid to just say "no, I'm sorry" tho

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Just yesterday, I was coding with headphones on when something made me turn around and there were like 14 middle aged teachers their asking if I knew when OFFICEDUDE would be back in. They were laughing nervously quite a bit so I imagine they had been talking to my back for a bit of time.

Things she has claimed to have:
Mumps
Allergy to tomatoes (despite eating them all the time - basically every time she gets sick off Bloody Marys she is suddenly allergic)
Crohn's Disease
Strep throat at least 4 times THIS SUMMER

ugh this is all I can think of but she is allegedly sick all the time, hospitals now refuse to give her medicine, she has completely fucked her immune system by taking WAY too many antibiotics, AND IF SHE TALKS ABOUT BEING SICK ONE MORE TIME I WILL SNAP.

Coworker: So what did you go to college for? Art something?
Me: Art history.
Coworker: What is that? Can you get a job with that?
Me: Well… (thinking: HOW CAN I EXPLAIN THIS SO SHE CAN UNDERSTAND), for instance, if I had a master’s degree I could be a curator.
Coworker: What’s a curator?

there. an official apology. now i'm going to go before i start ranting about other ppl.

The only thing I have to complain about regarding my day at work today was that someone who must have stayed in late last night decided to play around with the office's printer settings, to where this morning none of the office computers were able to print to our shared printer. We had to get in our IT people to fix things around to where our computers could recognize the printers again. This ate up a good hour of our work time, and none of us were even allowed to go anywhere. But it's ok. They'll be able to figure out who did it by the end of this weekend. And our office has glorious air conditioning, so I'm not as bad off as some of the rest of you.

but really, lots odder when YOU STOPPED WORKING HERE THREE MONTHS AGO!!!

Ugh. Co-worker who is also good friend is so stressed and in a state he's turned into a bitter complaining machine that frankly, I don't like being around anymore which considering hes my best friend is really quite upsetting.

Last week I had to ask whoever on our NOC was on call over the weekend that an installation was going to be done they needed to be aware of. Now it is normally policy never to do weekend installations, due to there only being an on call engineer. But this was an extreme exception and I made it really REALLY clear I would never normally ask, but this time I had ZERO choice. If it'd been any of the other engineers, they'd have said "sure, thanks for letting me know" and just done the job.

But no not this guy. He bitches at me for 10 mins on the Friday, how dare I ask him to do this, it will waste his weekend waiting around for the guy to call etc etc. I'm like "um dude, you're ON CALL - you're SUPPOSED TO GET CALLS IT IS YOUR JOB". FFS. When I did his job, I did plenty of out of hours installs even though I wasnt supposed to.

Whine whine ok I'll do it but I'm NOT HAPPY martyr martyr. I assure him that at least Im sure the guy wont call til well after lunch, probably after 2pm so all is ok.

On the Saturday at about 3pm he phones me at home to bitch even more viciously at me because the installer hasn't called him yet. "I've wasted my WHOLE SATURDAY waiting for this guy". he whined.

SO I said "um, I told you he wasnt gonna call till after lunch and he has to page you anyway so its not like you have to drop everything - its not my fault you chose to sit around waiting. What do you want me to do about this?".

I had amassive headache and I Didnt Give a Shit.

Oh and the icing on the cake? The install ended up going ahead fine. Not that he bothered to update me to let me know all went well after all his pissing and moaning.

It is not a nice feeling, being fed up and pissed off at a good friend :(

Anyway, there’s a lad on my team who insists on have the overhead fan on all the time. This in its self isn’t a problem; it’s the fact that he smells like trench foot and the fan wafts his stench about is. I have mentioned it to my team leader and she said it’s been noticed and the rest of the team are aware of his odour as well and that we should just see if his personal hygiene improves. I told her I wasn’t happy with this, as I am unable to eat or snack at my desk because of the smell. I was told I would have to put up with it until something could be done.

Am I being unfair on this person by complaining?

Smelly Colleagues
Stinkers

/ rant

whew thanks.

Wow, GROSS.

The review began something like this.

Tom Cruise sliding down a rope, stopping inches away from a nasty landing... Check

Enough masks, disguises and costumes to stock a fancy dress shop... Check

The famous line: "This message will self-destruct in five seconds"... Check

Close-ups of Cruise looking hot... Check

Double crosses and triple crosses... Check

So I prepare this copy for the reviews page and send it to press, ready to be printed over the weekend for the Monday edition of the paper. On Sunday evening I find a voicemail on my mobile phone from the overnight editor asking me to call him urgently. Later I find three messages of increasing anxiety on my answerphone at home as well. I ring in.

Ed: "There's something wrong with your reviews page. It's not been finished."
Me: "Really? I thought everything had been done, the page was proofed and actually we ran that copy in the week in our other editions."
Ed: "No, there's all this work that's been left undone on it."
Me: "Like what?"
Ed: "It says 'check' everywhere, you've got all these facts you need to check in the copy."
Me: "Ah..."

Where have you hidden his body?