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

how do i not blow up and scream?

i admit i have a weird issue with chewing noises but arbghaghotiglfm,x,g;sdas

These workmates were all journalists. If the sight of somebody READING blew their minds, no wonder the media's as fucked as it is.

haha lol - i witnessed undergrad convocation last week and srsly the people graduating with journalism degrees were of two kinds and yes i am mean but i tell the truth: "on-air talent" and "media nerds" with the former outweighing the latter

agh chewing noises noooo

i think she is eating carrot sticks or something. and has been doing so for the last 45 minutes. i am about to explode.

Don't you have headphones?

ew chewing noises are the worst, and sadly headphones aren't allowed in this office anymore. people eating with their mouths wide open SHOOT TO KILL!

Who the hell outlaws headphones?

sadly headphones aren't allowed in this office anymore.

yeah one guy kinda ruined it for everyone while he sat there oblivious to his telephone ringing, and also trying to get peoples attention when they were in a world of their own was slightly frustrating sometimes.

i stand by the ban.

ahhhhhhh she's snacking again

yeah one guy kinda ruined it for everyone while he sat there oblivious to his telephone ringing, and also trying to get peoples attention when they were in a world of their own was slightly frustrating sometimes.

i stand by the ban.

-- Ste, Thursday, June 26, 2008 3:58 AM (Thursday, June 26, 2008 3:58 AM) Bookmark Link

It's called "Trillian".

i bitch at co-workers who do this. if dumb-fuck next do me manages to make it so i can't listen to my music there will be no end to the world of suffering i will inflict upon him.

she is slurping her YOGURT

It must take extra effort to eat yogurt at any volume other than "whisper quiet".

srsly I'd quit if they did that here!

-- Colonel Poo, Thursday, June 26, 2008 3:53 AM (Thursday, June 26, 2008 3:53 AM) Bookmark Link

they're pretty much mandatory around here. almost all conversations are done via im. you might here a phone ring in here every 3 days or so.

yeah headphones and music are frowned upon here :(

this woman is going to disneyworld with her 1 year old child. what the hell do you do with a 1 year old at disneyworld?!

if i didn't listen to wfmu or the oblivians all day i'd probably die of boredom.

xpost- abandon it?

i will abandon it in like a year when i finish school and can get a better job!

yeah, abandon that too.

quitting a job you absolutely HATE feels so fucking good.

wait abandon what now?

i just want my own office. actually, i don't even care if about that. i want them to give HER her own office.

she is slurping her YOGURT
this woman is going to disneyworld

wtf -- bell_labs, if this woman talks non-stop about women's basketball or her weight-related health issues, let me know, because I think I have her long-lost twin not 15 feet from me.

Childless is indignantly shouting to me about some reality show called "Baby Borrowers" as we speak. She has been going on for about eight minutes in spite of the fact that I'm obviously not listening.

Childless woman, sorry.

Ok, she's switched to complaining about the temperature.

she is slurping her YOGURT

just reading this made me feel like barfing

i don't know, the thing is that this is maddening shit that can fill all frequencies but at the same time in the great scheme of things it is totally minor shit that you can over-ride with your very own mind/being. yeah i know i say it a lot but: this is why i do yoga/meditation stuff. if i didn't i wld explode and kill a yogurt-slurpin' ho

i've been slacking on yoga this week so maybe that's my problem (i just typed oysters instead of yoga while i was writing that, for a better idea of what is really on my mind)

haha

oysters are good

you should eat them at her desk

SSSLLLLURRRRRRRRP

SSSSSSCHLUUUUUUUUUURRRRRRRP

weirdly, i have a can of smoked tuna sitting on the other side of my desk
it isn't opened tho
there is a tomato sitting on top of it
xpost
GROSSSS

Work-slurping is like an irregular dripping faucet -- just when you think the storm's passed, and you're ready to stop bracing yourself for the next one, SCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCHURLP comes out of the silence to just make you weep.

haha i am totally going to bring in a bucket of oysters one day and shuck and slurp them at my desk.

it will be awesome.

God-damned son-of-a-bitch. Co-worker of mine is totally trying to face me. Here I am trying to carefully develop a webapp w/Oracle and Struts that's extensible, etc., and he w/o telling me or anyone else cooks up a super-quick no-security stripped-down version of it using PHP and MySQL in 2 weeks while I have nothing to show for my efforts except a schema. Now I have to convince my boss and my boss's boss who just congratulated him that my vaporware is really superior to his existing product.

trying, perhaps

I was *highly* recommended to watch Seed, a horror movie, by my work friend last week. His words "it's so scary I dare you to watch it on your own"

what a div, worst film ever.

OK, they're very nice people, but why do the three people in the next office have to talk LOUDLY and CONSTANTLY about their children (all are single parents) all day long? And why have 2 of the 3 of them been bringing in their kids to work EVERY DAY for the last 1 1/2 weeks now that it's school holidays? Is this normal, people with kids? Aren't you supposed to leave them at home, preferably with someone else looking after them?

Children of coworkers at work are the worst.

My bosses, abuncha dickhead MDs, throw a holiday party for the staff every year. We're not allowed to bring our partners, but the doctor's kids are running around everywhere. We even have to buy our own drinks.

It's not even 10am on Monday morning and I've already loudly asked a 'colleague' to stop insinuating that I'm "fucking stupid", then had my former manager whispering gossip with said colleague whilst I'm not even three metres away. I love Mondays!

OK, I am pretty sure this was the course of events @ my work. At a staff happy hour not long after I started, I spoke briefly with this guy in another department, who introduced himself as.. let's say "James." Next day we were on the elevator & I said hi, how are you.. James, is it? and he's like "no" and all pissy. And is one of those few people here who don't even acknowledge your existence if you say "good morning" to them. I just checked the internal staff page and his name actually IS "James." WTF

Maybe he prefers "Jimmy"

or "Jimbo"

or maybe it was his twin?

Jimbaroony?

"Ji"

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=J0w2xTexfAg

I used to have this co-worker who was the least self-sufficient employee, used to always complain "nobody showed her" how to do things that she had been shown four or five times, and would deny she made mistakes that were proven in black and white.

Despite her imperfections, felt it necessary to rat other people out all the time, and was a complete drama queen.

Thank God she was fired in the end.

i'm not really sure how to deal with the guy who clips his nails at least twice a day. he has eyeballs of rage.

fired in the end

This sounds familiar. Why is it that the one skill that blatantly incompetent people seem to have is an ability to not get fired for ages? I remember one salesman who hung on for months before he was "let go" (example mistake: he sent myself and the company's MD to a new client's offices, only for us to find a demolition site there because the salesman had given us the old address). I asked my then boss (who was not the salesman's boss) when he'd be fired, and the boss just answered "our pain will continue".