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

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Good idea.

― Archel (Archel), Tuesday, 28 February 2006 13:41 (twenty years ago)

What about a vaguer comment to a manager/tech person about how there seems to be a problem with the phone system?

― Markelby (Mark C), Tuesday, 28 February 2006 13:44 (twenty years ago)

Open a formal problem report with the administrator of the phone system. "For some reason, all of the training calls are coming to me..? There must be something wrong with the system." Wasting the administrator's time looking into a problem that is caused by someone not doing her job will go a lot farther than you complaining that you have extra calls to answer.

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― Dave will do (dave225.3), Tuesday, 28 February 2006 13:49 (twenty years ago)

haha, comments that "there's a problem with the phone system" was how she got found out in the first place!

archel: it's definitely her job. "pointless" - I get the feeling that I would be ignored whereas a manager wouldn't be.

― armalite roffle (haitch), Tuesday, 28 February 2006 13:53 (twenty years ago)

Tell her conspiratorially that you don't want her to get into trouble so she'd better fix it before Top Brass come round?

― beanz (beanz), Tuesday, 28 February 2006 14:00 (twenty years ago)

i have a co-worker with an unbearable laugh which pops up after he tells vaguely sexist jokes. he looks like tv's frank.

― mookieproof (mookieproof), Tuesday, 28 February 2006 15:12 (twenty years ago)

My co-worker is not Catholic, but she is doing (doing?) Lent. She is not Jewish, but she insisted that my place of business put up a Menorah in the lobby with the XMAS trees. She also had one on her desk. She also has a Buddha statue on her desk. She wears a red ribbon on her wrist to ward off evil eye (It doesn't work, I'd know!).

She really irritates me.

― ai lien (kold_krush), Tuesday, 28 February 2006 22:58 (twenty years ago)

Draw an evil eye on your hand and keep waving to her.

― Onimo (GerryNemo), Tuesday, 28 February 2006 23:04 (twenty years ago)

http://www.gm.tv/media/images/david_blane_main.jpg

― Onimo (GerryNemo), Tuesday, 28 February 2006 23:05 (twenty years ago)

hmmm...ye-e-esssss...

― ai lien (kold_krush), Tuesday, 28 February 2006 23:06 (twenty years ago)

ai lien - maybe she's hedging her bets for the afterlife! ;D

― Trayce (trayce), Tuesday, 28 February 2006 23:40 (twenty years ago)

And haitch: if its any comfort at all, a guy on my old helpdesk at Conn3ct used to pull a similar trick: we were all logged into the helpdesk call pool, but when a call hit his phone, he'd immediately xfer it back to the wait queue. It thus looked like he was still taking calls, so no one twigged for some time, until the stats showed all his calls were 1-2 seconds in length.

He was frogmarched out of the building and fired not long after that.

― Trayce (trayce), Tuesday, 28 February 2006 23:41 (twenty years ago)

three things i DON'T want to know about:

yr baby's sportswear
yr baby's poo
yr baby's penis

― The Man Without Shadow (Enrique), Wednesday, 1 March 2006 12:37 (twenty years ago)

Oh God, the endless debate over the rights and wrongs of having a toaster upstairs when downstrairs toaster was removed after upstairs person made toast downstairs and set all the fire alarms off. Followed by the debate over who from upstairs is to blame for thos e downstairs knowing we still have a toaster. Jesus, three months ago everyone was all about giving up wheat.

― Anna (Anna), Wednesday, 1 March 2006 13:37 (twenty years ago)

oof, i just got ZINGED.

i work with a dire, racist new zealander; it was pointed out that when our cuntwit colleague ****** leaves i will be the only male in the department. and she cam back 'more like the only girl', presumably because of my slender build and dynamic cheekbones and non-kiwi ways.

― The Man Without Shadow (Enrique), Thursday, 2 March 2006 15:35 (twenty years ago)

not from me, but from a friend of mine:

So part of my job is posting finished real estate transactions on a dry-erase board for everyone to see. I do it after I have reviewed the contracts and approved the sale, but some people CAN'T FUCKING WAIT for me to approve the sales, so they write it on the board themselves, which they're not supposed to do.

So this morning, I saw this one sale on the board written in red ink. I promptly erased it, expecting the lady to come in and complain, at which point I would explain to her that I write the names on the board, not her.

Five minutes ago, in she comes.

Her: "Did you erase 999 Fuckmyass Rd. from the board?!"

Me: "Yes, I did. My boss told me that we don't write sales on the board until he and I approve them."

Her: "Well, don't ever do that again. I write my sales in Red on the board, because it symbolizes the blood of our Lord and Saviour Jesus Christ. Without Him, none of us would be able to sell real estate."

Me: *stunned*

― wangdangsweetpentangle (teenagequiet), Thursday, 2 March 2006 15:39 (twenty years ago)

She was kidding, right? Right...?

― Archel (Archel), Thursday, 2 March 2006 15:41 (twenty years ago)

"I write sales in black which signifies the devil, who is behind all capitalism. Check."

― Dave will do (dave225.3), Thursday, 2 March 2006 15:44 (twenty years ago)

If I ask you what your arbitrary, made-up column title on your matrix means when you want me to tell you what should go against it, it means I DON'T KNOW. Saying "it's the column that used to be other arbitrary, unhelpful, made-up title" like I'm supposed to know what that was SINCE IT'S YOUR MATRIX AND YOU OBVIOUSLY CAN'T EXPLAIN IT EITHER doesn't make it any clearer.

― aldo_cowpat (aldo_cowpat), Thursday, 2 March 2006 15:48 (twenty years ago)

(.. after long discussion about planning & days)
CW: how does 3 + 3 = 5?
Me: because I'm using logic, not formulas. Starting on May 3 + 3 days of work means it finishes on May 5. It's *inclusive.*
CW: I think you have your methodology mixed up.

methinks: You are on a totally different plane.

― Dave will do (dave225.3), Thursday, 2 March 2006 16:02 (twenty years ago)

one month passes...

Constant foot-tapping Kansas-listening no-eye-contact deadly-party-throwing engineer guy from upthread is now MY OFFICE MATE. Truly, this is the point of no return.

― Jaq (Jaq), Monday, 10 April 2006 23:55 (twenty years ago)

one month passes...

Quote from the director this morning: "The path of the righteous man is beset on all sides by the tyranny of numpties"

― Mädchen (Madchen), Monday, 15 May 2006 10:03 (twenty years ago)

Leave work on my chair instead of in the inbox? Fuck you you fuckin' fuck.

― Dr Morbius (Dr Morbius), Monday, 15 May 2006 12:16 (twenty years ago)

My chair is my inbox :/

― Markelby (Mark C), Monday, 15 May 2006 12:19 (twenty years ago)

please send me no more chain emails of soldiers in iraq holding puppies that say 'break this chain and you will suffer tonight'. you cretins.

― Ste (Fuzzy), Monday, 15 May 2006 14:41 (twenty years ago)

FUCK THAT HSTENCIL GUY

― electro-acoustic lycanthrope (orion), Monday, 15 May 2006 18:08 (twenty years ago)

oh, you're-fired-paws

― hstencil (hstencil), Monday, 15 May 2006 18:09 (twenty years ago)

"have you ever seen a picture of the solar system? don't you think it's weird how the water on earth just doesn't fall out?'

― tokyo nursery school: afternoon session (rosemary), Monday, 15 May 2006 19:08 (twenty years ago)

"i can't help swearing, it's the way I was brought up."

― tokyo nursery school: afternoon session (rosemary), Monday, 15 May 2006 19:10 (twenty years ago)

"Ugh, Indian people. They all smell."

― tokyo nursery school: afternoon session (rosemary), Monday, 15 May 2006 19:11 (twenty years ago)

I don't even understand the 1st one?

― Thermo Thinwall (Thermo Thinwall), Monday, 15 May 2006 20:04 (twenty years ago)

"He won't like that. Change it to something dull"
"Shouldn't we let him not like it first? I think he'll like it"
"No. Something dull."

― stet (stet), Monday, 15 May 2006 20:08 (twenty years ago)

HAHAHAHAHAH o god, no, really? no. i'm so glad i'm not there tonight.

― grimly fiendish (grimlord), Monday, 15 May 2006 20:39 (twenty years ago)

FAMILY GUY QUOTES ALL DAY

― city of gyros (chaki), Monday, 15 May 2006 21:21 (twenty years ago)

SERIOUSLY THIS HSTENCIL GUY CAN"T MAKE UP HIS MIND ABOUT WHAT TO LISTEN TO!!!!

― electro-acoustic lycanthrope (orion), Monday, 15 May 2006 21:30 (twenty years ago)

hpencil changed songs. (June Is Finally Here - Don Caballero)
hpencil changed songs. (My Home Is The Sea - Matt Sweeny & Bonnie Pr)
hpencil changed songs. (Esoterica of Abyssynia - Sun City Girls)
hpencil changed songs. (Stuck On You - Rose Tattoo)
hpencil changed songs. (Venus In The Morning - Mayo Thompson)
hpencil changed songs. (sleeping is the only love - Silver Jews)
hpencil changed songs. (A Child's Lullaby - Philip Lynott)
hpencil changed songs. (God's Song (That's Why I Love Mankind) - Ran)
hpencil changed songs. (Instant Archaeology - Sun City Girls)
hpencil changed songs. (Think About Me - Fleetwood Mac)
hpencil changed songs. (Goat And Ram - Matt Sweeny & Bonnie Prince
hpencil changed songs. (Emerald - Thin Lizzy)
hpencil changed songs. (emerald - Thin Lizzy)
hpencil changed songs. (Without Epression - Terry Reid)
hpencil changed songs. (Lost Love Blues (unissued alternate take #2))
hpencil changed songs. (I Have Always Been Here Before - Roky Ericks)
hpencil changed songs. (punks in the beerlight - Silver Jews)
hpencil changed songs. (Stevie (For Steven S.) - Royal Trux)

― JW (ex machina), Monday, 15 May 2006 21:34 (twenty years ago)

my co-workers are finding the hypothetical name 'mike hunt' hilarious right now. they've never heard this amazing joke ever before.

― the confusing situation Enrique currently endures (Enrique), Tuesday, 16 May 2006 12:13 (twenty years ago)

have they heard mike omicallyunderdevelopedsenseofhumor?

― teeny (teeny), Tuesday, 16 May 2006 12:37 (twenty years ago)

my new team leader fell asleep in a meeting with a government client!! thank god it wasn't a meeting for one of my projects, he was good enough to stay awake for those.

― lil' merzbow wow (haitch), Tuesday, 16 May 2006 12:43 (twenty years ago)

also the senior programmer basically went on a one-man crusade today to make alterations to the company style guide, which has been in service for several years without complaint, and which he won't ever need to use because he's a programmer.

― lil' merzbow wow (haitch), Tuesday, 16 May 2006 12:46 (twenty years ago)

whereas the six people in the organisation who actually create content will have to go through and manually change every occurence of what he wants changed through company documentation and what-not.

oh and now I remember my story about the admin girl who won't answer her phone. I spoke to my old team leader, who went and spoke to the area manager, who then got in a fight with two other managers for 'leaking information' to me!! when it was another manager entirely who tipped us off to the slackarse's ways in the first place.

― lil' merzbow wow (haitch), Tuesday, 16 May 2006 12:52 (twenty years ago)

YOUR DREAMS BORE ME

― Enrique IX: The Mediator (Enrique), Thursday, 18 May 2006 11:36 (twenty years ago)

Conversation between my boss and me this morning.

Boss “have you seen The Da Vinci code?”
Me “Erm no, i haven't read the book either”
Boss “it’s .......”
Me “like I say, I haven’t seen it”
Boss “oh, sorry.”
Me “right! I’m just going downstairs”

― not-goodwin (not-goodwin), Monday, 22 May 2006 09:38 (twenty years ago)

thankfully, and even in an office as large as mine, there hasn't been one discussion about the da vinci code movie/book yet.

― Ste (Fuzzy), Monday, 22 May 2006 09:47 (twenty years ago)

Bloody hell the co-worker is being annoying right now. He keeps singing fragments of songs, and shouting out nonsense phrases - anyone would think he had Tourettes.

― Forest Pines (ForestPines), Monday, 22 May 2006 10:12 (twenty years ago)

a) singing "Oh, what a breast!" about once a minute
b) humming the main riff from War of the Worlds
c) reading out random phrases from the website he's working on.

― Forest Pines (ForestPines), Monday, 22 May 2006 10:14 (twenty years ago)

d) whistling the theme tune from Steptoe And Son (badly)

― Forest Pines (ForestPines), Monday, 22 May 2006 10:29 (twenty years ago)

One sharp blow to his temple will stop him annoying you forest!

― not-goodwin (not-goodwin), Monday, 22 May 2006 10:46 (twenty years ago)

i'm probably a pretty annoying co-worker. i have larry david-esque levels of interest in other people's lives, and basically spend the day occasionally roffling at ilx.

― Enrique IX: The Mediator (Enrique), Monday, 22 May 2006 10:48 (twenty years ago)

Another annoying thing about Big Dave: his lunch breaks. Everyone here gets an hour for lunch. Everyone either sits at their desk eating (and surfing the web in some cases, including me), or goes out for an hour. Dave, on the other hand, goes out of the building for 75 minutes or so - and *then* comes back and eats his lunch at his desk.

― Forest Pines (ForestPines), Monday, 22 May 2006 12:27 (twenty years ago)

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