Along those same lines, he always assumes that we're going to eat lunch together. Bro, its not elementary school. Sometimes, I just want to eat in silence and stare at the wall.
Oh this. It really bugs me when people get all offended when you tell them you just want to eat alone sometimes.
― you gone float up with it (jon /via/ chi 2.0), Friday, 5 March 2010 23:29 (fourteen years ago) link
officemate talks constantly on the phone, mostly making plans with family and friends or talking to the fucking CONCIERGE service in her building. I know she's busy and she just moved and all, but fuck. Often I turn around thinking of asking her nicely to go outside and realize she's on the office phone.
― surfer blood for oil (Hurting 2), Thursday, 15 July 2010 15:59 (thirteen years ago) link
Most of these calls have the running theme of "Oh god, I can't be there at that time, I have to work. I work in a law office" etc. YOU COME IN AT 11AM EVERY FUCKING MORNING. YOU CAN WAKE UP EARLY AND LET THE SUPER IN BEFORE YOU LEAVE.
― surfer blood for oil (Hurting 2), Thursday, 15 July 2010 16:09 (thirteen years ago) link
Okay, I don't know if this is a "habit", but this really nice guy moved to the desk behind me and I have discovered that he makes this loud sharp throat-clearing noise every few minutes. It's worst than fingernails on a chalk board. He doesn't smoke or anything. Nervous tic maybe? Hopefully he is getting over illness or something. </vent>
― get off my lawn (rockapads), Friday, 1 October 2010 16:43 (thirteen years ago) link
I got headphones in and my coworker always bothers me. Appears behind me randomly. Talks about every call he gets. I've had to tell him to essentially fuck off.
― Ross, Sunday, 9 October 2016 19:42 (seven years ago) link
clipping their nails and letting them fly everywhere in this office space
― F♯ A♯ (∞), Tuesday, 11 October 2016 18:10 (seven years ago) link
^ this
― PappaWheelie V, Tuesday, 11 October 2016 18:13 (seven years ago) link
Co-worker is always late (sometimes massively late).
― Ross, Sunday, 16 October 2016 20:37 (seven years ago) link
Well. Couldn't find the other thread but wanted to say the bullying has stopped after I approached her weeks back. She's not nice per se but better. Anyways my manager told me today there's been a culture of toxicity for years and they're trying to fix it. Good news
― kolakube (Ross), Friday, 9 February 2018 20:23 (six years ago) link
get rid of the toxic people? what's so confusing
― clouds, Sunday, 11 February 2018 16:18 (six years ago) link
usually the issue isn't recognizing it as much as realizing there's just *so many* toxic people that if you sacked them all at once, the company would have to close for a month
― Hi diddley dee, hen fapper's life for me (Neanderthal), Sunday, 11 February 2018 16:22 (six years ago) link
the one thing I always found about toxic people is they rarely expect people to parry, and the few times I have they actually recoiled in shock.
no prouder moment than when I fuckin' faced down one of the top execs in our company after he was being a prick and he just let me.
― Hi diddley dee, hen fapper's life for me (Neanderthal), Sunday, 11 February 2018 16:23 (six years ago) link
(not that I recommend that approach, I was v much in dngaf mode)
coworker two months ago: "no man, I swear, you don't need to refrigerate milk because it's pasteurized!"coworker this week: "Ohhhh my god why do I have such horrible stomach pains?"
― No organ. (crüt), Tuesday, 24 July 2018 19:37 (five years ago) link
Ah ha ha.
This is the thread I need at least as often as the 'stupid, annoying coworkers' thread.
Hey dude who always loudly scats at the urinal: don't do that. You don't need to do that.
― Hi My father very Rusted Root with me what can I do? (Old Lunch), Tuesday, 24 July 2018 19:40 (five years ago) link
i assume you mean scat in the scatman john sense of the word rather than the umm... other sense?
― a Stupendous Leg of Granite (bizarro gazzara), Tuesday, 24 July 2018 19:56 (five years ago) link
The former, but I would never discount what else a disgusting savage of this ilk might be capable of.
― Hi My father very Rusted Root with me what can I do? (Old Lunch), Tuesday, 24 July 2018 22:19 (five years ago) link
is there a single link I can give to people who put "S" in the middle of every time zone abbreviation, even during daylight saving time?
― formerly abanana (dat), Wednesday, 3 August 2022 04:53 (one year ago) link