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

Thanks,

v1c

Bloody hell, what sort of insane hellhole do you work in?

Last year a colleague of mine received STRAW SLIPPERS and a LOOFAH.

Somebody else got a stuffed camel with 'Greetings from Lanazarote' on it.

I was a miserable bitch and didn't even participate.

2. Boss just gave me a "warning" for upping my resolution from 800x600 to 1024x768 on a 17" CRT

3. Boss "lost his Outlook" and expects me to fix it

...and I'm a contractor handling hurricane relief fund distribution

1. Boss doesn't seem to understand that the whole point of having a database is to make information easily and quickly accessible, so I spend 3-4x as much time making an endlessly redundant paper trail (including multiple stickers, a staple remover and lots of red ink) than I do actually doing real work.

2. Boss has issued edict that no set of papers shall ever have two staples in them. EVER. Need to attach a sheet to the back? Remove the staple and put a new one in. It kind of slows things down when you have 2000 things to staple courtesy of above papertrail policy, and you have to pick each one before stapling one more sheet to the back.

3. We have to PAY for coffee.

My employer shall remain nameless but I will tell you that I work for perhaps the largest labor union in the United States.

American version: don't you pay attention when you go to Wal-Mart?

not as funny when you have to re-edit :(

aaaargh, someone is now sneezing repeatedly in a really ineffective and wussy way. GAAAAAAAH!

hmm. the problem really is me, not them, isn't it? gah.

i think i alternate between the two, depending on which day it is. which makes me stupid and annoying, i guess.

Try pulling the handle DOWN before you push the door open YOU ARE BREAKING IT, CANNOT YOU TELL BY THE LOUD SNAP IT KEEPS MAKING WHEN YOU COME RUSHING IN !?

"The one that you obtained delivery and read receipts for?"

"Um..."

"If you get a message that tells you I received and read the email then it means exactly that. I received and read the email."

"I wasn't trying to chase you up about it or anything."

"Good, because it wouldn't have helped your cause."

"Is 4-ish OK?"

He's currently playing Minesweeper, having just booked his car in for a service. If he wasn't my boss' boss I'd tell him to go fuck himself. (Although there's no way he can come out of this meeting tomorrow without looking like a cunt)

Good job I don't have anything better to do than mong about on here otherwise I'd be pissed off by now.

- Phone Asda to complain
- Throw out all the rest of the fruit you bought at the same time
- Never buy fruit from Asda again

that is excellent advice.

it's getting creepier and creepier to watch this guy's hatred metastize -- he hasn't had to deal with all the other people he's complained about over the past year, so now his anger is focused like a laser on this one dude, and it's ugly, and everyone in the office is just watching in horror.

also he has like 150 (ok that's an exaggeration, it's only 15 or so ... ugh, 'only') t*dd mcf*rl*ne figurines of baseball players on his desk, and he and his roommates -- who he also works with, yet he has a picture of the three of them on his desk, even though when one of them isn't in the office they also turn their complaining rays on each other -- go to the toy store almost twice a week in order to stock up on more.

it's getting to the point where i want to say to him, 'you obviously hate working here since all you do is complain, so why don't you just quit and give your space as a full-timer to someone who actually DOES THEIR JOB CORRECTLY?' (there are a couple of part-timers who are really good at their jobs, but who can't get hired on full-time because of budget considerations ... bah.)

i dunno. somehow, i think that these dudes' crappy diet is at least partially to blame. maybe all that white sugar and white flour and bad cheese (you know, the type the cheapo pizza places use) is like turning into papier-mache in their systems, and their bodies are producing excess bile to compensate.

My boss is not so much annoying me as putting me in awe of her mighty piss-taking skills. She's doing a part-time MA (as am I) which takes her out of the office for a day a week. She can't afford to take time off though so she's making up the hours by staying late and skipping lunches etc. EXCEPT SHE'S NOT. She usually leaves before me, goes 'just for a coffee' with everyone else at lunchtime, and uses work time to go shopping and to galleries and to do assignments. And I thought I was being a bit cheeky using the odd quiet minute to read a journal article...

Oh and when I was on holiday she dumped a load of stuff out of her office and into my stationery cupboard which is overfull already. Her shelves are now filled almost entirely with personal books. Meanwhile I don't even have my own desk. Grr.