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

Other things he did: worked at his cube standing up (making everyone around him very tense), unbuttoned his shirts halfway down his chest, commented on every phone conversation I had (work related or not), talked to himself, and played horrible CD-Rs of cabaret tunes he wrote and produced. I think the whole experience inoculated me against ever being annoyed by co-workers again.

Unfortunately something this stupid is uttered in my office at least once a day...

An old japanese woman wearing a baby dress and pigtails jumping and down in front of me at the desk. I just came in. Please, let me wake up a bit first. Or am I still dreaming?

i feel like i'm missing out

There's nothing like a five minute meeting with your boss in which he tells you that you've basically got like two months to turn things around with a mouth full of Mike n' Ikes.

big flat mole on the left side of his face with 9 really long and scraggly hairs growing out of it. He was always playing with them... twisting and pulling on them (but not pulling them out.) Very distracting....

"Please tell me if you understand what I am saying, at the moment in the exqualifier there are only a 4 digit code, you append another 3 in front of them I don't know where, but doesn't matter anyway to sort out the letter in the front for the new code."

I assure you it makes only 1% more sense to me than it does to you.

THis goes on at least ONCE A WEEK in my office.

Also, I don't think the owner's secretary knows how to use the phone properly, because she's always complaining that "the phones are down", but it's only her phone, apparently. And when someone comes in to test it, it works.

I think you just identified the perv dream of far too many people in the world. But you'd have to give them guns too.

The only really annoying thing my current co-workers do is send me ridiculous spam forwards about poisoned shampoo samples (normally originating from higher up in the Council!), then look sceptical when I explain that it's a dumb scaremongering thing to do. Also I have to tell them how to spell things all the live long day.

I have found that replying to annoying forwarders with a link to Urban Legends stops them dead in their tracks.

One of our senior partners asked me to scan some pictures for his daughter this morning, first thing - they were from medical books, examples of colostomys, I still feel ill.....

i am aware that i don't really deal with any hostile coworkers or a hostile boss. that's an entirely different can of worms. mine are all mildly backbiting grumps with no real demonstrated bite.

put in my notice today, gave them a month.

my sweet but young and slow coworker scheduled a mandatory training to happen during his shift, which we were told not to do so we could get paid for it, which meant that i had to pick up two shifts worth of work while he did the training.

also the new guy arranged the bills and coins lowest to highest instead of the standard highest to lowest. honestly felt like i was going insane all day.

that said, one of the schemes for the fall involves teaching writing workshops online again, and the fees from registrations have already outpaced what i would make in two months at this gig, so ¯\_(ツ)_/¯ i know i made the right choice monetarily and for my own sanity.

im working all the time at taking map's approach above

im nowhere near being "the problem" with any of my work but have spent years stressing out over filling every gap and prevailing upon others to do likewise and now im just....doing my job.

and nobody said boo to me when i made the change

during good weather i may decide to take it to extremes, we'll see

Similar here. Last year I phoned it in by my standard, maybe working qt 75% of my usual effort.

They gave me the highest performance rating in the dept anyway. Killing myself truly wasn't necessary all these years.

In our last virtual townhall, people kept spamming the question "how does the company plan to address the burnout and loss of morale due to layoffs and the excess workload that has resulted from it?" in the chat.

Since we're siloed a bit this made clear to me that the entire company is miserable, not just us, and alleviated any and all misguided 'guilt' I had over pulling back. I don't owe my soul to the company store etc etc

(100% of my effort used to involve picking up other people's slack. I just let them fail now)

It’s been 2 1/2 years since I last had a co-worker… idk if I could go back to having co-workers at this point… I feel like I have become feral, out in the wilderness too long. Fwiw sometimes I annoy myself.

The last time I had coworkers was in 2021, and that was because my client had 16-hour a day care.

the silly managers on my team are now tracking the same information in three different documents, instead of one - and all of them contradict each other. the person in charge of it initially told me that information would always be the most recent in one location, and now it appears this is no longer true, that the 2nd location is more up to date.

even more amusing - this person failed to change the "last updated on [mm-dd-yyyy]" indicator in the 2nd location and has been making updates for the last week anyway, so for about a week and a half I ignored it, thinking there were no updates.

I swear, I don't know how some people get to these roles.