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

well.. maybe i can ebay him

spraying some kind of - odor-be-gone - she must be one foul demon to need so much odor-gone.
I think worldwide office productivity would soar if everyone got their own office

you spelled "sour" wrong.

everyone work from home - with no clothes on except boots

Had a video meeting today, and the person who scheduled it emailed a wrong number and passcode, which didn't get corrected until 5 minutes in, and no correction email was sent...it was only provided in the virtual meeting room.

If that's not annoying enough, because of the poor communication, about 7 people send emails asking about it, of course replying to all.

The lady who scheduled the meeting only needed to send one email to Reply All to give them the correct info, right?

Nope...she replies to EVERY SINGLE email she got with Reply All, to where 20 emails hit my box in a 20 minute timespan.

Once it was clear she wasn't getting it, I had to email her to beg her to just reply to the sender or just reply ONCE to all...Christ.

hah - but its far better when someone replies to all something like "yeah I'll be at the meeting, I hope that bitch from marketing isnt there!"

observation. people with email signatures about creativity and inspiration and such are NEVER helpful when you need anything, least of all a creative idea

email signatures are the worst, especially when they carry teabag sentiments

Observation. People using email sigs of any kind beyond their name and contact details are disgusting savages.

My firm's email signature is 166 words (1080 characters) not including our names, titles, addresses, or phone numbers. It's all language about confidentiality and a mandatory U.S. Dept. of Treasury warning saying that any tax advice the firm provides may not be used to avoid tax penalties, etc.

Still better than any inspirational quote of any length.

I have Hunter S Thompson's "What? No. We can't stop here. This is bat country" as my email sig at work and I am NOT a disgusting savage. I'll cop to that on almost anything, but not this. I put it there the day he died, and there it shall stay.

(and my contact info, not just the quote)

If I use a quote it's "Life is like a banana. It's yellow and it slides?"

The only sig files I'm fed up with are half-a-page long ones full of HTML and JPGs of various company logos, orgs/associations theyre members of etc. My real estate agent sent me a 3-line email yeszterday and it had about 20 lines of Agent banners, REIV institue logos and etc splattered everywhere in very untidy manner.

Our work sigfiles are similarly hideous, our awful magenta-pink and blue company logo in a big JPG across the bottom. Except because its an embedded HTML half the time it doesnt work, either because many people use gmail/Yahoo etc webmail, or they straight up have email security (rightly) turned on which disables stuff like embedded html. Ive tried pointing this out to the boss before but nooo.

People using email sigs of any kind beyond their name and contact details are disgusting savages.

In the UK, if your business is a private limited company (Ltd) or public limited company (PLC) or a Limited Liability Partnership (LLP), the Companies Act 1985 requires that your letterhead, order forms and all business emails include the following details in legible characters:

Your company name
Your company registration number
Your place of registration (e.g. Scotland or England & Wales)
Your registered office address – This may be different to the office that you trade from

Those *are* contact details, fussbudget.

i can't stand it when people put environmental reminders after their email signatures - things like, "consider the environment before printing this email - every 3,000 pages saves us a tree!"

Yeah like, who prints emails anyway!?

:'( most people at my work print every single email "for the file."

If they're away, they fwd it from their BlackBerries and ask me to print it.

what kind of idiot walks around an office barefoot. this kid has got balls.

Re: the email about not printing emails, someone in my company emailed a client of ours with that signature once...

The client being a paper company, who was very upset by it.

printers upset me

I hate when co-workers and members of the same organization can't handle basic communication. I've been handed two deadlines for Monday, only one of which can realistically be completed in that amount of time. Now both of them are refusing to budge because they both have "important weekend plans". Meaning, I have to give up my own weekend plans to be here to get both deadlines done. Ridiculous.

make some plans

popcorn festival?

swallow a bag of pop corn and then go get i n the hot tub and feel it pop

playing around with your phone instead of working while everyone else pulls their weight. Its kind of obvious how littel you do at a workplace when your screensaver is always on

one of my directors treats me like a complete pee-on...im about two seconds away from letting her have it. this woman makes assumptions constantly about my job performance and things that she doesn't think i did, when in turn i've actually done them.

Did you look up peon in the dictionary?

I know what's like to be a urinal.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=u6f9TyXNs6w

do you think i give a shit how to spell it.

I sincerely apologise for my cruel and weak zing attempt.

its ok, im pissed and grumpy.

INSANE!

Yeah like, who prints emails anyway!?

a) we totally print heaps of emails (but a tiny fraction overall) with details of contract variations and suchlike for people to be able to reference, even if they weren't on the email / don't work here until 2013

b) there are totally managers in approx 1 zillion orgs worldwide who still don't handle email but have their assistants print them out twice a day

I am trying to really not use paper at all if I can help it.
its hard though becuase I like to diddle and write notes

by diddle you mean doodle, right?

spell it how you like

ok - after googleing I guess I do not diddle.
sorry for the gender-ambiguousness there
Still, with stem cells these days you never know - I hear their growing cocks on all kinds of people

This is more of a general bitch about "stupid, annoying" societal issues, but a bitch must be pitched anyway. I suppose I should look on this a bit differently considering I'm soon to become a parent myself, but I'm continually baffled by the blatant hypocrisy afforded parents. Today we were having a meeting about an interview our firm is taking part in Monday and divvying up the workload for this afternoon. One of the firm's partners flat-out said, "well since (X)and (Y) have kids, we'll just make (Z) come in over the weekend to make up the difference". No joking, not irony, nothing - completley serious. I know this is fairly standard out there, but the idea that just because someone has procreated their home lives and commitments have more value than anyone else is such bullshit.

I know this will probably never change and I should look forward to being able to use that excuse myself, but its still such a ridiculous attitude.

and people who go on "extended potty breaks"

i think at my place of work if you have kids, you are afforded less luxury.

I always think if you have kids you should get more sick days cause you have to stay home when they get sick but I can imagine if I mentioned this ever the people with no kids would throw things at me and yell

although having a kid makes a great excuse for bagging in to work...."oh my kid has the shits, I wont be in today." works, everytime.

Well I certainly think there should be the flexibility to deal with those kind of sick kid issues. There definitely is a difference in that regards. My issue is more when there is extra work to be done and it is always delegated to the employees without kids because its imagined that their personal lives can't possibly be important.

why dont you just offer to watch their kids while they work

yeah thats kind of shit.

this is part of why I sing tbh