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

10-page reports = blech. thankfully this is just an email thingamabobber.

this is why I'm glad I move from projct to project, like a theatre director. very rarely have to deal with that, except for the aforementioned report, which is only a 5-day thing.

She failed to do it again, so even though I wasn't in today, I had to do it (I thought of leaving it alone but knew it wasn't right to spite our leaders due to her own failure). Despite two additional reminders today (overall, I probably delivered 15 reminders over 5 days, and was promised it would be completed on two days where she went home without doing it).

Not an apology once either, or an explanation, so it frustrates me now that I will have to give feedback to this rep's manager over something this silly and avoidable. 4 other colleagues transitioned this report to the ongoing parties without any issues like this, and I had to waste my own time chasing her down over this. Mostly ruined today out of the office cuz I had to keep checking to see if it was done.

Thankfully, it's the last day teh report goes out.

The office manager and I had spent ages and a lot of hair tearing end last year creating a new spreadsheet to report on all our due/owed/overdue charges for our suppliers, cos the CEO insisted on it in a certain format.

It turned out that all along. he'd been emailed that info, directly from the carriers themselves, in the format he needed. Being direct from them it would be far more accurate than our copypastas from invoices. CEO never once mentioned that he got these already (prob ignored his damn emails)

Now that he's left the company, we find this out. Office manager was ropeable. We wasted so much fucking time on that thing!

sneezing co-worker next to me is also apparently incapable of registering humor from anyone around him, answering joking rejoinders w/o humor in return. also while others are concentrating on tasks likes to interrupt to show them something or look at them and start talking even while they're sitting there w/headphones on, concentrating on work, watching footage, etc.

also rocks an "intentionally schlubby" vibe for some reason.

can't quite describe him right, but it's in the ballpark.

What is "intentionally schlubby?" (I'm wondering if I might fall into this category.)

I'm not going to Glasgow as the weather where I live is pretty bad, so the manager that I cancelled with is pretty pissed off at me over the phone. She then sends me a picture of Glasgow with the comment "no snow here" I felt like sending her a picture back of my middle finger, with the message 'no fucks given here"

Stroppy rude women. Ahhhhhhhhh!

i've been 'working with' the guy in the next cubicle over for several years.

he works weekdays only while the rest of us have to work nights and/or weekends -- although when i used to work nights he would sometimes be at his desk (not working) until 10 or 11 at night. no one knew why.

he's a mild-mannered guy in his mid-50s maybe; he's gone to the trouble of having his emails sent in comic sans. i have no idea what he does -- he doesn't write anything, he doesn't call anyone.

once a day or so, however, he will loudly mutter deeply profane things at his computer. it's kind of weird.

Just curious, what do u do?

i write/edit for a website

he proofs, mookie-style :)

Everyone shut the hell up, stop talking over each other, and stop pretending to have very important thoughts about tedious minutiae. You're all just talking to sound clever instead of solving any problems and it is doing my head in. Also Captain Drummyhooves behind me I am going to saw your feet off

(deep breaths)

To the incompetent loudmouth guy: don't tell other people how to do their jobs when a) you're not their fucking manager (or anybody's fucking manager for that matter), b) you have a voice like a garden gate in need of oil, and c) you can't do your own job properly, even with step by step instructions.

To the gobshite who has to give an out-loud running commentary about everything they're doing, thereby disturbing everyone else: SHUT. THE. FUCK. UP.

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The person in front of me has her phone ringer turned up really loud, and lets it ring a few times before answering. Ringing phones give me anxiety--ANSWER THAT FUCKING THING

mookiproof is this your coworker

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did not realize that was so big sorry

lol Captain Drummyhooves.

my co-workers aren't even annoying. I mean there's a couple, but they just strate dicks.

Jesus christ stop contradicting and/or questioning every single fucking thing I tell you - just do it! You don't know better than me! I've been doing this job 4 years and you've been doing it 4 months!

Expressed relief a printout included decimal points because the previous one had rounded values.. my trainer misunderstood me then screamed over my explanations of what I had been saying. Ran into my boss' office and slammed the door. Fuck off. It's been three months now of this crazy bullshit. She's a contract while they find a permanent account manager for me to work with. Feel like I am being initiated or tested or something.. After ten minutes of her yelling at me (!) I told her I didn't have time to argue and put headphones on. Ugh. This will all be worth it some day..

FFM, as far as I can tell you have been a paragon of restraint for not flooding this thread with details of this 'trainer'.

I really need to collect the more amusing anecdotes somewhere! Unfortunately most of it is just annoying bullshit. She started this morning in tears because of a rush job she needed to perform.. which I helped her with, quickly and independently! Then two hours later, I'm the worst person in the world.. I just try to keep my cool and dream of a day when she doesn't sit across from me/manage me.

I broke a pen under my desk the other day while I was trapped in one of her rant feats. :/

mookiproof is this your coworker

nah, too effective

man how is having emotions at work even a thing

other than shame

true story the other day I inadvertently pasted the "Captain Drummyhooves" post into an internal irc channel and it looked in context like I was having a meltdown; my boss sent me a stern email about it but was relieved to hear that I was not actually prone to inappropriately flipping out at people in an important chat channel.

Boss wants everyone to pitch in more with admin tasks
We often need to download software
Boss has just told me off for requesting an admin password for the computers that we can all (small, trustworthy group) use

man how is having emotions at work even a thing

I have emotions everywhere. How can you not?? I guess it's ideal to turn off at work but I don't know if I can do that and not hate what I've become, ie trapped in a fake self. :(

So sorry for everyone else in thread, partic FFM and ljub. Grossssssss.

orbit otm. If I could hang my emotions in the closet with my coats, believe me I would.

I'm going to try to make a whole clean start soon and be relentlessly POSTIVE!!! THAT'S RIGHT, POSITIVE!!! And oh so helpful. Which might be good, on the whole. Maybe acting it will make me feel it, but I still prefer a salty, cranky self.

Man, I love work in such a rage every day that by the time I pick up my wife I am barely coherent. Not having emotions at work? I would have to either not work here or be dead.

captain awesome has now saddled me with an annoying nickname, and just slapped me on the back. he's a nice guy generally but his campaign of forced intimacy is getting a little irritating. he's the type of person who will change his opinion on a dime to match others, which is pretty gross... not so much accomodating other people, but trying to get everyone to like him. think i need to have a chat with him about this nickname.

"HEY BIG DOG HOWS IT GOING!!??? AWESOME DAY TODAY!!! YOU ROCK!" Huge smile, manic gaze, thumbs up. I mean, seems like everyone in the office likes this crap, but I really have no respect for it.

oh god I really feel like I know this guy

When you call him Captain Awesome I think of the guy from the TV show "Chuck."

I used to work with a dude who did the forced nicknames thing; he was one of my favorite ppl in the entire world because he would never just stick with one, so they just became a stream of meaningless identification placeholders that led to the sneaking suspicion that he couldn't remember anyone's name

as an example: it would not be uncommon for him to greet me with "Hey chief! How's it going, buddy? Can you get that project done by tomorrow, champ? Okay dude, talk to you later man!"

He was also a huge ex-football player who was the biggest office crybaby I've ever seen, basically everything about him was a swirling ball of amusing contradictory awesome

I realize this is the thread for annoying coworkers but I miss that dude and I'm annoyed we don't work together anymore

I'm trying to imagine what that ex-coworker must have been like and all I'm picturing is the Cat from Red Dwarf...

"Oooooowwwwww! Hey buddy! What's happening? <James Brown spin> Better check myself in the mirror... <takes out small hand mirror from inside pocket of jacket> Oooooooooowwww! Looking good! OK buddy, I gotta run, catch you later! <exits room>"

remove the Cat's inherent suaveness and replace it with Rimmer's terrified neuroses (without the anal judgment) and you're getting closer

Currently going through a farcical redundancy process where everyone pretty much loses their jobs and has to apply for new ones. The level of care and attention being paid is evident in the fact that one of the job descriptions includes "reviewing psecialise dictonaroes".

First, I'm sorry that you are going through a redundancy process, which is never pleasant however farcical.

Second, LOL what?

Thanks!

I'm assuming "specialist dictionaries" but who the heck knows at this point.

It's like half pigeon Spanish, half typos. Especialista dictionario

I'd have gone with "specialized dictionaries" but yeah.

I was going to go for Portuguese but I've just been working on a project for a mysterious Portuguese entity whose name ends in -oes (actually ões) so it's kind of on my brain

Also I accidentally apologised to silby on the IA thread instead of here so sorry here too silby

Hey chief! How's it going, buddy? Can you get that project done by tomorrow, champ? Okay dude, talk to you later man!

A friend of mine used to do this at parties - start a conversation with someone and address them as one of these after another until the person became visibly angry, then wander off.

I only encountered this once at work. A big personality guy, who addressed me as champ, buddy, etc. I started replying in kind, cheerfully addressing him as sport and chief until he quit, and then I kind of missed it.

chin up, tiger

it's annoying when people yell something from the other corner of the office. can't you wake up like an educated person come to the other's spot and ask for your stuff in a normal voice? is that too crazy a request... also, so glad this certain lady is on vacations, hadn't realized how much I hated her until I had a chat with someone, it turns out everyone does. she's 100% expert at doing the stabbing you in the eyes while smiling etc thing. I can't avoid talking to her at work and I find it very hard to answer to her condescending (and often poisonous) remarks. a couple of days ago I discovered her laughing when a consultant was helping me with some small mistake I made, could not believe it.