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

omg omg omg omg omg omg omg popcorn girl just called and cancelled her dinner reservations for tonight because they "don't have any reviews on Yelp" and gave that as her reason and told them "how can you run a business without Yelp reviews?" omg does she not know how the world works?

There's a very sad unread Zagat guide in her house somewhere. Also if you don't read a review first how do you know the foods not poison?

probably mentioned this before, but it continues apace

i work in a cubicle-filled room. the 'boss' (with whom i have never spoken) has his own office on one side. he keeps the door open and insists on taking all his calls -- despite being the only person in his office -- on speakerphone. at incredible volume.

a) does he really think his callers would be happy knowing 15 unknown people were listening in?
b) the conversations are so mundane that it leads one to question what it is he actually does
c) what a dick

You wish to claim a day's leave as time off in lieu for one day's travel even though the travel was on a work day, because the travel took 14 hours and not 8 hours. Despite the fact that you spent it watching movies on the plane and did not do one stroke of work; took plenty of time to do personal stuff during working hours while away; and you have 30 days' leave entitlement per year. Yes, it kind of says you can do this in our organisation's policies, but actually doing it, at your grade, under those circumstances, is kind of shameful. You are leaving soon and I cannot be arsed to have a huge argument with you about it.

it kind of says you can do this in our organisation's policies

that's key though. like that david mitchell article about tax loopholes and the moral outrage about people who take advantage of them. if they're there, they're gonna be used.

Yeah, I know. Most people don't use them, though. I'm just disappointed.

Dunno about the rest of this person's faults, but watching movies on plane doesn't negate the fact that their time was spent on something they wouldn't have done if not on work travel. It might be idle time but it still wasn't his or her own to do other stuff with.

Otherwise complaints otm.

Oh wait, travel was on work day during normal working hours?? Never mind!

travel took 14 hours and not 8 hours

that's six hours of sitting on a plane/fucking around at an airport at work's behest. Stupid annoying co-worker otm.

My stupid annoying co-workers are alternating between usual Monday morning golf post-mortems and some shit about immigrants that I am doing my best to ignore.

xpost yeah, I understand why, in theory, they can claim for 6 hours. But if that's the attitude we're taken, I should be saying 'ok, claim for it - remember to knock off the 3.5 hours you spent getting your hair dyed during working hours, though'.

Boss: "hey just letting you know that [customer I work with a lot, IT for big storage company chain] is visiting this morning so he'll come by and say hi".
Me: "oh cool that'll be nice!"
...5 mins later
Co-worker: "hey... B told you [aforementioned customer] is visiting right, so yuo have to clean up your desk?"
Me: *looks in bafflement at my perfectly clean desk* "uhh... it *is* clean, and she didn't mention anything about that to me, just that he's popping in and will come by and say hello?"
Co-worker: "oh uh... ok..."

I'm now wondering if boss told HIM to clean his desk, and he's assumed its everyone elses duty too... sigh.

Said boss, other boss and sales have now taken said customer to the bloody tennis.

Alright for some!

would much rather be at work than tennis

Good point that.

ripped the Diet Pepsi note off the fridge today. was fucking tired of looking at it.

San te you need to change yr 'career ' stat.
Seriously

the amount of laziness by the people here is astonishing how hard is it to empty the shredder rather than leave the bag completely full? Or wipe up the table in the lunch room.

@sunny - nah, I love my company, just hate the current job I have. And my manager, who is a good guy, but always interrupts you.

I tried unsuccessfully on 10 (no exaggeration) occasions to post for a new position, but no luck.

Fortunately, on feb 1, I start a new position with a much better manager and it looks to be the invigorating change ill need after four years in the other dept.

Oh god, I hate politics in the workplace, when I agree with someone's politics it's even worse...number one because I don't believe in politics in the workplace, number two because people who agree the majority of the time are expected to get along.

Otm. I don't come to work to talk about that stuff and it can only turn ot bad. There is a jackass who posts his neocon paranoia on the bulletin board each month, and everyone hates him. He mocks peoples ideas for going green like they are fringe lunatics.

There is one coworker I discuss politics with but we keep it to instant messaging so other people aren't forced to hear it.

Growing wary of people who:

A. Send a meeting request to you for the next day +
B. Do so without having discussed it with you in advance +
C. Write the body of the invite so you still have no clue what the purpose of the meeting is +
D. Don't take time zones/shifts into consideration and request it for a time late afternoon when I'm already gone for the day.

Rejected.

Hate you HR women telling me to cut my hair

so i handle the day to day operations of managing the office as well as my other responsibilites...so today i met with the pest control guy about our mice problem. People complain to me daily about the mice issue but yet refuse to do anything about it, like clean up crumbs (or a half a loaf of bread opened) on their desks..etc. LAZY.

^do you work for the Marine Corp?

No, it's a mostly low stress IT related school job. After a month of insinuations and then veiled threats I had to do it but I basically have the same haircut just shorter and a bit more stylish.

LOOK LADY IF I WANTED TO LOOK LIKE A COP I WOULD HAVE JOINED THE MILITARY STOP BUGGING ME OK

maybe you work for Ron Swanson? "three acceptable styles: high and tight, crew cut, buzz cut"

Well, the administration is some sort of protestant church and when they interviewed me I was sporting a buzz cut just for the kicks after almost a year of really long and messy hair.

I definitely gave them the wrong impression of what I usually look like.

haha.

Omfg I totally mistook this girl in my office for Jaleel White.

my wife met him on marthas vineyard years ago.

Can I ask y'all something? If you were to tell somebody that a service would be available for a "0ne t1me fee", what would that mean? how often should they expect to pay for that service?

haha.

I'm almost second-guessing myself here. It's not synonymous with "annual fee", is it?

whats it for?

we are putting together a case statement to subscribe to a service that costs $1000 per year. my co-worker sent out an email describing it as a "one time fee of $1000". i got into a debate with him about the meaning and clarity of the phrase, to which he suggested the compromise of calling it a "one time annual fee".

your colleague has a future in politics

call it a "small one-time annual fee" and you get full marks

"One-time" fee means just that - one time. A reader would likely and validly assume that they only have to pay it once, ever.

All you really have to say is "annual fee". Unlike "one-time", there can be no semantic debate as to what it means - annual means occurring once per year.

Your friend must enjoy lawsuits

yeah one time is one time.

I get probably 4-5 meeting invites with no explanation a day.

I work at this crazy company that ADORES meetings. I will have, on average, 7-8 meetings a day. They get moved, cancelled, blah blah at an alarming rate. I swear half of my job is going to meetings and setting up meetings.

My pet peeve: be on time to the damn meetings, people.

The number of meetings set up during lunch and after 5 really irk me, too

Also, the 2.5 hour meeting I had from 4-6:30 last night wherein people just stared at projected images and really ~thought hard~ about them was a bit much for me, too

Dimbulb associate sends request to review a call, but leaves an entire digit out of the phone extension.

I write back asking for it - she emails back, and I open it up to see she didn't write anything, just copied what I wrote but didn't add anything new.

I write back again, saying I see she sent an email with no text, had she meant to attach something. She says no, no attachment, "just to listen to the call".

People like this should get grenades instead of paychecks.

Oh, she left the time off too. In the spot for time she wrote someones name. Smh

You're not gonna do it, are you?

do what, send a grenade?

Either stop sucking your fucking teeth and making stupid clicky noises, or visit the fucking dentist, for fuck's fucking sake.

― James Mitchell, Monday, 11 October 2010 09:11 (3 months ago) Bookmark Suggest Ban Permalink

Oh my fucking god if I have to hear popcorn girl tell one more person that her "sister's boyfriend's cousin's old roommate dated a girl that's on American Idol" while she giggles and claps her hands like a fucking four year-old I'm going to fly into an uncontrollable rage and explode.

"Bee Tee Dubs...I'll be calling in sick on Superbowl Monday"

I was so excited when he said this.

1.)using internet abbreviations in actual life!
2.)telling me that you're going to call out from work the very week that our boss told me to let him know when you were slacking off from work!
3.)you reminded me of Matos' mother's incredibly stupid ex-husband!

getting more and more excited as I get closer to 2/1. the more I hear about my new dept, the more I think I won't have to post here as much!

that said, I'll wrap up with leftovers. So stupid girl from the other day, despite 5-7 emails, has not given me the time of the call. emailed her manager with the feedback, asked to escalate the issue so it could be done. no reply. asked the other people who were listed as contacts to look it up for me. no reply. asked one of the people who were responsible for the request for it. no reply.

and I get return receipt on these things so I know they're getting the messages. tempted to just cancel it and go 'ya know apparently you don't need this work done, so hey, submit this again when you're ready to stop being retarded'