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

No, it's a mostly low stress IT related school job. After a month of insinuations and then veiled threats I had to do it but I basically have the same haircut just shorter and a bit more stylish.

LOOK LADY IF I WANTED TO LOOK LIKE A COP I WOULD HAVE JOINED THE MILITARY STOP BUGGING ME OK

maybe you work for Ron Swanson? "three acceptable styles: high and tight, crew cut, buzz cut"

Well, the administration is some sort of protestant church and when they interviewed me I was sporting a buzz cut just for the kicks after almost a year of really long and messy hair.

I definitely gave them the wrong impression of what I usually look like.

haha.

Omfg I totally mistook this girl in my office for Jaleel White.

my wife met him on marthas vineyard years ago.

Can I ask y'all something? If you were to tell somebody that a service would be available for a "0ne t1me fee", what would that mean? how often should they expect to pay for that service?

haha.

I'm almost second-guessing myself here. It's not synonymous with "annual fee", is it?

whats it for?

we are putting together a case statement to subscribe to a service that costs $1000 per year. my co-worker sent out an email describing it as a "one time fee of $1000". i got into a debate with him about the meaning and clarity of the phrase, to which he suggested the compromise of calling it a "one time annual fee".

your colleague has a future in politics

call it a "small one-time annual fee" and you get full marks

"One-time" fee means just that - one time. A reader would likely and validly assume that they only have to pay it once, ever.

All you really have to say is "annual fee". Unlike "one-time", there can be no semantic debate as to what it means - annual means occurring once per year.

Your friend must enjoy lawsuits

yeah one time is one time.

I get probably 4-5 meeting invites with no explanation a day.

I work at this crazy company that ADORES meetings. I will have, on average, 7-8 meetings a day. They get moved, cancelled, blah blah at an alarming rate. I swear half of my job is going to meetings and setting up meetings.

My pet peeve: be on time to the damn meetings, people.

The number of meetings set up during lunch and after 5 really irk me, too

Also, the 2.5 hour meeting I had from 4-6:30 last night wherein people just stared at projected images and really ~thought hard~ about them was a bit much for me, too

Dimbulb associate sends request to review a call, but leaves an entire digit out of the phone extension.

I write back asking for it - she emails back, and I open it up to see she didn't write anything, just copied what I wrote but didn't add anything new.

I write back again, saying I see she sent an email with no text, had she meant to attach something. She says no, no attachment, "just to listen to the call".

People like this should get grenades instead of paychecks.

Oh, she left the time off too. In the spot for time she wrote someones name. Smh

You're not gonna do it, are you?

do what, send a grenade?

Either stop sucking your fucking teeth and making stupid clicky noises, or visit the fucking dentist, for fuck's fucking sake.

― James Mitchell, Monday, 11 October 2010 09:11 (3 months ago) Bookmark Suggest Ban Permalink

Oh my fucking god if I have to hear popcorn girl tell one more person that her "sister's boyfriend's cousin's old roommate dated a girl that's on American Idol" while she giggles and claps her hands like a fucking four year-old I'm going to fly into an uncontrollable rage and explode.

"Bee Tee Dubs...I'll be calling in sick on Superbowl Monday"

I was so excited when he said this.

1.)using internet abbreviations in actual life!
2.)telling me that you're going to call out from work the very week that our boss told me to let him know when you were slacking off from work!
3.)you reminded me of Matos' mother's incredibly stupid ex-husband!

getting more and more excited as I get closer to 2/1. the more I hear about my new dept, the more I think I won't have to post here as much!

that said, I'll wrap up with leftovers. So stupid girl from the other day, despite 5-7 emails, has not given me the time of the call. emailed her manager with the feedback, asked to escalate the issue so it could be done. no reply. asked the other people who were listed as contacts to look it up for me. no reply. asked one of the people who were responsible for the request for it. no reply.

and I get return receipt on these things so I know they're getting the messages. tempted to just cancel it and go 'ya know apparently you don't need this work done, so hey, submit this again when you're ready to stop being retarded'

If the three of you don't shut the hell up about how "awesome" and "amazing" the Black Eyed Peas were last night I'm going to throw the printer at you. Also, popcorn girl, interjecting with random facts about the band that you just saw on wikipedia is making it approximately fourteen times worse. "Did you guys know one of the guys in the band is legally blind?", "Did you guys know Fergie is married?". Argh argh argh, Monday murderous rage.

haha.

forgive me for making a bag of microwave popcorn today and all...but someone just walked by my desk as i was eating it and said "it smells like popcorn in here!" NO FUCKING SHIT.

Assuming thats not your third bag of the day and its not 8:05 AM, then you're all good.

so far enjoying my new department a lot, it seems much more organized. complaint today isn't even about a co-worker, it's about a client, and for work I completed months ago.

building training materials for an implementation, and had the client review them for accuracy. this is normal because sometimes we might misinterpet one of their plan provisions or something. it's normal to expect minor corrections to come back.

One of the ladies reviewing is an absolute shithead, and seems angry that there were any issues at all. She corrected a lot of the grammar that wasn't wrong to begin with into clumsy sentences (none of which I will be using), and when there was a provisional mistake, she pointed it out in mocking language. In one place she wrote a sarcastic "Really?" Um, it's in the requirements you signed off on months ago, so if that's wrong, you have problems!

The worst was though there was a minor mistake in a sample calculation for pension payments that is meant only as a guide for customer service reps. It was just a simple numerical typo in a scenario that was an easy two second fix, and she types angrily in all caps her correction to it.

Yea, all of this is really helpful, idiot. Fortunately everybody at my company agrees with my assessment of her and says she's being ridiculous.

There's a guy in the office here that is always extremely nice, I don't harbor any ill will towards him, but he is one of those people that almost constantly offers commentary on mundane things.

"Hey there young lady, I see you've got your boots on. Ready for the snow?"
"Hello sir, you've got your tea, huh?"
"Why hello, looks like you've got yourself a box there."
"You've got a coat on, don't you?"

I kind of feel like he needs to address everyone and picks out the most obvious thing to comment on.

"Why hello, looks like you've got yourself a box there."

irl lol at this

That one and the first one were verbatim from earlier today, the others were 95% accurate approximations of other things he has said.

I had a big rant brewin' yesterday about a workmate but now, after sleep, it has disappated and I dont care anymore.

Solution: every time someone pisses me off at work, just fall asleep at my desk.

Perhaps it will help me to spell properly, also.

There is a guy I work with who is a heroin addict. I am an electrician and have worked with him now for about three years. I like the guy but he really annoys me with his self deluded rambling after his 'dinner'.

Every day wherever we happen to be working he has to go off on his own for half an hour or more for his 'dinner'. Sometimes he returns with a flaky manurfactured story about his struggle to find a sandwich shop or just generally some dull blatantly untrue anecdote that is supposed to distract me from his dilated pupils and gouched out demeanour.

I have joked with him before about his addiction and he pleaded with me never to talk about it as he would lose his job if he was exposed. I just hate the way since then he keeps up this charade that I am one of the people who doesn't know his secret.

I just wish he would be honest and say "I am rattling right now and I need to do some gear. I am just nipping down to the Tesco Express toilets with my tinfoil and lighter".

STOP SENDING ME STUPID QUESTIONS VIA MSN EVERY 15 MINUTES AND INTERRUPTING MY TRAIN OF THOUGHT/WORKFLOW ARGH. THE ANSWERS U SEEK ARE RIGHT THERE IN THE NOTES IN FRONT OF YOU IN THE DAMN DATABASE.

*flails*

THE ANSWERS U SEEK

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fuck that fucking puppet and all it stands for

it has no legs 4d4m

i could fill this entire thread with stories relating to the thing that fucking puppet represents

anyway

Fuck that puppet and all it socks for

Man we're shitting up a lot of threads today aint we

looooooool

meanwhile the mongrel thread sits dormant

i like it when you guys come out of your ghetto!

Hey I'm out here all the time, not my fault if you dont NOTICE *sulks*

it hurts me when u lie like that. :(

Awwww U know I <3 u man.

This one girl. This ONE girl. Ugh. First of all, she has this whiny voice that cuts through every single thought in my head. Not a thought in her head goes by without her flapping her gums about first.
Every time, every single fucking time they upgrade our computers or she buys a new laptop or she buys a new phone, she is constantly saying "My (blah) is doing this! Why is it doing this! I have tried and tried and I can't get it to work" and calling help desks and asking every single person who walks by, asking the same questions over and over because whenever someone gives her the answer, she does nothing. Fuck, when they upgraded her computer to the latest Office suite she paged our IT guy 5 times a day for a week about shit like how come her email inbox looks different, and where did this email go, and how come there's all these symbols all over my Word document, and where did my formatting bar go... and it honestly takes every ounce of patience I have in me just to sit next to her every day.