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When I started at my last job on a helpdesk, it was populated with goths and stinky roleplayer nerdboys, and I am not exaggerating. Some of the guys had no social skills. And hey, thats cool - but not only did they pong but some FARTED all day long.

More than once, our team leader sent out an email saying "guys (and I mean GUYS) - wash and use deoderant or I'll start NAMING NAMES".

― Trayce (trayce), Wednesday, 21 September 2005 10:51 (twenty years ago)

It's true though, I am a dick, I should never have discussed him with her. I know we all talk about our colleagues, especially the odd ones, like the guy with the lightsaber etc, but yeah, I'm a dick for mentioning it to someone who doesn't realise how important my job is to me.

Shoot me, hang me, whatever.

― Rumpie, Wednesday, 21 September 2005 10:51 (twenty years ago)

Eh Rumpie I wouldnt worry. To be honest I did like your friends STOP READING HER MAIL STINKY email :D

― Trayce (trayce), Wednesday, 21 September 2005 10:56 (twenty years ago)

Come on, who of us wouldnt want to know if we ponged?

― Trayce (trayce), Wednesday, 21 September 2005 10:56 (twenty years ago)

it's not the ponger knowing, that's the embarrassment, but the pongee

― RJG (RJG), Wednesday, 21 September 2005 11:09 (twenty years ago)

I find it hard to believe that smelly people really don't know that they smell

I think that I think that they must just assume that no-one else will notice

― RJG (RJG), Wednesday, 21 September 2005 11:12 (twenty years ago)

you're not a dick, rump; heaven knows, I have said much worse, than this, (I'm pretty sure you probably have, too) but, usually, only when the person seems to be actively asking for it, rather than unactively washing themselves

you're mistake, though, was letting him find out (1. he smells & 2. people talk about his smell), in a dicky way

― RJG (RJG), Wednesday, 21 September 2005 11:17 (twenty years ago)

it was your mistake, of course

― RJG (RJG), Wednesday, 21 September 2005 11:18 (twenty years ago)

Oh RGJ, yr pedantry ist clevar ;P

― Trayce (trayce), Wednesday, 21 September 2005 11:39 (twenty years ago)

good luck trayce!

― teeny (teeny), Wednesday, 21 September 2005 11:45 (twenty years ago)

Oh cripes. Poor guy. He's coming to train with me again this afternoon. Should I try to come up with some silly cover story for yesterday or should I bore him with inane small talk and not leave a gap for him to jump in?

― Rumpie, Wednesday, 21 September 2005 11:46 (twenty years ago)

OH FUCKING FUCK NOB FUCK SUCK WHY CAN'Y YOU EVER ADMIT WHEN YOU ARE WRONG ???!! IT DOES HAPPEN SOMETIMES YER KNOW!!!

― Ste (Fuzzy), Wednesday, 21 September 2005 12:09 (twenty years ago)

Why not just apologise and suggest (assuming he still smells) that deodroant should sort his problem?

Um, what just happened to mild-mannered Ste?

― Markelby (Mark C), Wednesday, 21 September 2005 12:45 (twenty years ago)

there's a guy here who, and for a start joins in on everybody elses conversations even tho it's nothing to do with him, adds his two-penny worth but when he gets told he's probly incorrect just cannot handle it and becomes all "oh i don't know I think you may find that's not the case blah blah i might have to check that with the official jiggery pokery company terms and conditions documents"
GOD man just accept that you can be WRONG sometimes.

― Ste (Fuzzy), Wednesday, 21 September 2005 12:50 (twenty years ago)

cuz i know y'all are just dying to know...

swiss health ball woman update!
so yesterday, i overheard the husband of the swiss health ball woman talking to another coworker (and btw, the number of married or soon to be married couples around here is absolutely pathetic--journos only associate with each other! i can count 15 couples here without thinking about it too hard) about his wife. he spoke of some sore back issues she was having. hearing this i thought, "hmm. will it mean, could it mean...?!" YES! the next day her ball was set aside for a normal office chair! she hasn't taken the ball home, but this should give me a few days of relief at least. i mean, i hope she gets her back soreness taken care of and all, but this makes me happy.

― andrew m. (andrewmorgan), Friday, 23 September 2005 16:27 (twenty years ago)

Dude... why would you even want to bring up the stinky email issue? I'm willing to bet he wants to discuss the issue even less than you. If he really did realize the email was about him why would he want to add to his embarrassment by bringing it up?

Also - WAY TO GO TRAYCE!

― Thermo Thinwall (Thermo Thinwall), Friday, 23 September 2005 17:35 (twenty years ago)

three weeks pass...

Help, I’m surrounded by people I don’t want to be surrounded by.

To my right I, have a complete headcase who talks her actions. Something like this, “I’ll just open this e-mail, proceeds to read it out, oh I’ve got another one, if I times that by that then I’ll get this ooh that’s not right”, and so on.

Opposite right is my boss who’s done everything you’ve done but better, faster or more terrible.

Opposite me I have brown nose yes man, he asks if I’ve got my stats for the team leader. Like it’s anything to do with him.

Opposite left is ok guy, but doesn’t speak, just stares.

― not-goodwin (not-goodwin), Monday, 17 October 2005 10:41 (twenty years ago)

Help, I’m surrounded by people I don’t want to be surrounded by.

That's work, it's supposed to be like that. Otherwise it wouldn't be work.

Opposite left is ok guy, but doesn’t speak, just stares.

Not speaking colleagues are the best.

― nathalie, a bum like you (stevie nixed), Monday, 17 October 2005 10:49 (twenty years ago)

....

― William Paper Scissors (Rock Hardy), Monday, 17 October 2005 10:54 (twenty years ago)

That's work, it's supposed to be like that. Otherwise it wouldn't be work

i know this but we've moved around and i used to be surrounded by better/real/fun people.

― not-goodwin (not-goodwin), Monday, 17 October 2005 10:55 (twenty years ago)

Yeah, I know, I'm trying to be see the bright side of it. :-)

― nathalie, a bum like you (stevie nixed), Monday, 17 October 2005 11:39 (twenty years ago)

one good thing about it is that i can bore the pants off ilxers with their annoyances.

― not-goodwin (not-goodwin), Monday, 17 October 2005 11:47 (twenty years ago)

i knew you just wanted to get my pants off :(

― g-kit (g-kit), Monday, 17 October 2005 11:48 (twenty years ago)

is that why you wanted to meet me at glasto, so i could actually do it?

― not-goodwin (not-goodwin), Monday, 17 October 2005 11:50 (twenty years ago)

aye, one warm can of stellar and i'm anyone's.

― g-kit (g-kit), Monday, 17 October 2005 11:52 (twenty years ago)

it's quite a big can you know.

― ken c (ken c), Monday, 17 October 2005 11:54 (twenty years ago)

i've just overheard a colleague describe an iBook as "the laptop thing that you get for an iPod so you can download music on it".

― grimly fiendish (grimlord), Monday, 17 October 2005 13:21 (twenty years ago)

*explodes*

― Jonothong Williamsmang (ex machina), Monday, 17 October 2005 13:22 (twenty years ago)

Hahaha. Well, my dad wanted to buy a Mini to hook up to this computer.

― nathalie, a bum like you (stevie nixed), Monday, 17 October 2005 13:23 (twenty years ago)

http://digilander.libero.it/gipp1/auto/mini/mini-cooper-red-nice.jpg

― Jonothong Williamsmang (ex machina), Monday, 17 October 2005 13:24 (twenty years ago)

not annoying but silly

shock: "dude i was watching a british television show and they had bloc party as the background music!!"
awe: "what?"

― Jonothong Williamsmang (ex machina), Monday, 17 October 2005 14:39 (twenty years ago)

Pop the ball, andrew.

― luna (luna.c), Monday, 17 October 2005 15:17 (twenty years ago)

same person as yesterday: "does channel five have a press office?"

jesus WEPT.

― grimly fiendish (grimlord), Tuesday, 18 October 2005 12:38 (twenty years ago)

i've just overheard a colleague describe an iBook as "the laptop thing that you get for an iPod so you can download music on it".

haha well to be fair it's not like you can do a lot more with an ibook than that.

― ken c (ken c), Tuesday, 18 October 2005 12:44 (twenty years ago)

grimly, a swift punch to the temple will stop stupid comments like that.

― not-goodwin (not-goodwin), Tuesday, 18 October 2005 12:49 (twenty years ago)

it's a girl.

― grimly fiendish (grimlord), Tuesday, 18 October 2005 13:00 (twenty years ago)

The other day the main manager of my company said "What we really need to focus on now is the fact that we're under-over-communicating. We need to over-communicate more."

― The Milkmaid (of Human Kindness) (The Milkmaid), Tuesday, 18 October 2005 13:04 (twenty years ago)

it's a girl

and?

― not-goodwin (not-goodwin), Tuesday, 18 October 2005 13:07 (twenty years ago)

The other day the main manager of my company said "What we really need to focus on now is the fact that we're under-over-communicating. We need to over-communicate more."

He must be clubbed & skinned before he has a chance to breed.

― Tantrum The Cat (Tantrum The Cat), Tuesday, 18 October 2005 13:51 (twenty years ago)

My coworkers are so lame. They can't agree which one of them should tell me when they run out of paper in the staff room copier, so because they are apparently petty helpless children, I've been told I have to go there (on the other side of the building) once a week to check if they're running low. I mean, how hard is it to pick up a phone?

― Archel (Archel), Tuesday, 18 October 2005 13:56 (twenty years ago)

Today we are discussing how much of our Christmas shopping we have got done.

― Mädchen (Madchen), Wednesday, 19 October 2005 08:12 (twenty years ago)

People have started it already???!?

― Forest Pines (ForestPines), Wednesday, 19 October 2005 08:13 (twenty years ago)

Holy shit.

― Matt (Matt), Wednesday, 19 October 2005 08:14 (twenty years ago)

People have almost finished already.

― Mädchen (Madchen), Wednesday, 19 October 2005 08:19 (twenty years ago)

Ways I prefer not to start a day: with a coworker trying to stare me out because she claims she booked a room which I know she did NOT book. I mean, surely there are more sophisticated negotiation techniques than STARING? Like I was going to suddenly go 'wow, that evil eye trick really works, I see now you were right all along, and this email from another tutor proving his prior claim on the room is just a figment of my imagination.'

Also I'd woken up an hour late and so had had no breakfast or coffee and my email was broken.

Grrr.

― Archel (Archel), Wednesday, 19 October 2005 08:20 (twenty years ago)

People have almost finished already.

"people"

― grimly fiendish (grimlord), Wednesday, 19 October 2005 09:27 (twenty years ago)

nothing like a bit of efficiency.

― ken c (ken c), Wednesday, 19 October 2005 09:30 (twenty years ago)

Wow, someones breath is fucking HONKING.

This is getting really bad so it is. I've got Stinkyman sitting opposite and The Phantom Carrier of Death Breath somewhere in the vicinity. What's going on?

I've been choking back the Wrigleys so I can rule myself out...

― Rumpie, Wednesday, 19 October 2005 09:31 (twenty years ago)

Arrrggg, I think this is the place for this. I have two branch managers who have been hassling me and hassling me to create certain reports. However, now I actually have time to do the things - I go to read their requests and they are so vague I don't have a clue what they want. And they've been ignoring my emails where I ask direct questions about what they want.

Well, next time they ask why I haven't created the reports, I'm just going to reforward the questions I asked and still haven't received an answer on. Grrrrrr.

― Paranoid Spice (kate), Wednesday, 19 October 2005 09:32 (twenty years ago)

do they have a phone extension?

― ken c (ken c), Wednesday, 19 October 2005 09:34 (twenty years ago)

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