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

though i always thought he had a lovely voice

Would that I could work from home. Then I could post on here and bitch about myself.

I don't know why this bugs me, but it does: The associate atty. at my office brings in some pretty nice-looking lunches - homemade pasta and rice dishes, leftovers from good restaurants - but he never eats 9 out of 10 of them. Instead he goes to Jimmy John's or the so-so cafe down the street for sandwiches (and he always gets exactly the same things: from JJ, the #2, which is roast beef, and from the cafe, a turkey and emmenthal cheese sandwich; these selections never ever vary, which annoys me too). I think part of what bugs me is that his fiancee is a chef, and I'm guessing she put together some pretty rad dishes, which he eschews for fucking mundane subs. Also, he is pretty narrow-visioned (can't think of a word for it) and I feel like he auto-pilots right past the fridge and to his subs.

His habits in no way harm me, but they're still annoying.

can you eat his lunches for him?

he's narrow-visioned = much easier to pull a mission-impossible style tupperwear identity-swap heist caper type thing

Girl down the hall with a Kill Bill Daryl Hannah whistling ringtone cranked up full blast.

Teeth-noise knuckle-rapping dude has boiled some soy sauce for his lunch in the kitchen area four feet behind my desk. Forty five minutes into a particularly smelly spate of mouth noises and desk tapping.

I need help. There is a disgusting savage / fat ugly guy / ogre blasting music so bad I can't even think. I have developed the patience to suffer in silence for moderate amounts of time in special occasions but this behavior is getting more frequent and arbitrary. I already talked to my nearest coworker about the situation and he said that I should be super polite to him because he gets angry very easily but I'm afraid I won't be able to contain my utmost contempt thus making the situation even worse. It's a bro office, I can't go directly to the boss without looking like a complete homo.

Man thats a shame that your boss might think you like to have sex with other men.

headphones/earplugs.

I try v hard to be polite to people at all times and the annoying co-worker is not a bad person, this is just days and days of frustration talking.

Is the problem the volume or his taste in music? I'm sorry his fatness and ugliness makes it worse for you.

it was sad he suffered in silence for moderate amounts of time in special occasions

It's office politics funny guy N.1 I have to choose my battles carefully. Already did the headphones thing and it didn't work, earplugs = even worse homo. Antonio I love fat ugly people as long as they don't push their ugly taste in my direction. I don't play Pan Sonic at full volume after coffee I shouldn't have to deal with this bullshit.

Maybe he suffers in silence about having to work with a dude who is casually homophobic.

I can't say I've seen a higher proportion of gay people wearing earplugs, but ymmv at your office.

My post was xposted over the "even worse homo" post. I'll just be direct: using "homo" as a derogatory term is offensive, and your repeated use of it despite being subtly called out over it is branding you as an asshole. Also, what WmC said re his being fat and ugly.

I'm using brospeak, I will stop ok? I also said I'm writing like an asshole because of frustration. Earplugs are not fun and since I don't work in a factory, I shouldn't have to use them.

and where do you find earplugs that fit wolf ears anyway???

If it's such a bro office, just say "hey bro, could you turn that shit down." But don't put a rising inflection on the end, let him know you're telling, not asking. Then beat him down till he's on his knees, spitting blood.

calling HIM a homo might not hurt, since it's a bro office and all.

Re: "bro office" I'm picturing a bunch of dudes in suits and backwards baseball caps in their cubicles, listening to DMB bootlegs before breaking for some Sierra Nevada and foosball.

oh god. but probably.

"Hey bro, I just TOTALLY closed that sale bro!"

:: turns Throwing Copper up loud enough to rattle monitor ::

It's sad, he was a brogre. And wolves lacan was a bromo.

You guys just don't get it do you.

It's OK because thanks to your pathetic zings I know what's the problem and what to do.

No, I'm pretty sure we got that you're a casual homophobe.

^^ OTM

Whoa I can see you giving yourself a patch on the back after exposing such a horrible casual homophobe sales guy for the entire world to see, nice work dude!

This patch, iirc:

http://battlefieldmilitary.com/avpane66.jpg

thanks to your pathetic zings I know what's the problem and what to do.

Glad we could help! That's what we're here for.

I'm using brospeak, I will stop ok?
I'm using brospeak, I will stop ok?
I'm using brospeak, I will stop ok?
I'm using brospeak, I will stop ok?
I'm using brospeak, I will stop ok?
I'm using brospeak, I will stop ok?
I'm using brospeak, I will stop ok?
I'm using brospeak, I will stop ok?
I'm using brospeak, I will stop ok?
I'm using brospeak, I will stop ok?

earplugs = even worse homo. Antonio I love fat ugly people
earplugs = even worse homo. Antonio I love fat ugly people
earplugs = even worse homo. Antonio I love fat ugly people
earplugs = even worse homo. Antonio I love fat ugly people
earplugs = even worse homo. Antonio I love fat ugly people
earplugs = even worse homo. Antonio I love fat ugly people
earplugs = even worse homo. Antonio I love fat ugly people
earplugs = even worse homo. Antonio I love fat ugly people
earplugs = even worse homo. Antonio I love fat ugly people
earplugs = even worse homo. Antonio I love fat ugly people

Homosexuality is the best all-around cover an agent ever had.

(lol at Le Bateau Ivre)

I'm sorry I tend to forget that as a gay man I am supposed to be Harvey Milk 24/7 and turn every single daily insignificant annoyance into the ultimate battle for civil rights, mostly out of sheer exhaustion but more because of fear of a limitless capacity for inflicting cruelty on unsuspecting plebs, but I can see through your commments and I will back off with the metalevels / swiftly deal with the DISGUSTING SAVAGE AND FAT UGLY HOMOPHOBIC GUY in the way he deserves to be treated.

WTF is even going on here.

We just got done exposing a horrible casual homophobe sales guy. Once we're done with the sales department we'll be moving on to accounting and legal.

wolves l - It doesn't bother me when other gay guys the the word homo (and others like it) in a tongue-in-cheek way, but b/c there wasn't any indication that you were using it with irony, I took it at face value. It would have irked me slightly less if I had known that you were gay, but since I didn't recognize your name, and you aren't listed on the national registry, I figured you were a hetero bro.

Girl down the hall with a Kill Bill Daryl Hannah whistling ringtone cranked up full blast.

Oh, so that's where one of my old co-workers went.

and you aren't listed on the national registry

I KNEW IT!!

The associate attorney is pissing me off. His job involves a lot of simple changes to documents - ridiculously simple changes like finding and replacing the word "Lessee" with "Smith," or copy/pasting boilerplate paragraph. This means that he should make it his fucking beeswax to be proficient in Word, but no.

Yesterday the dingbat edited a contract that the client needed first thing today. He emailed it to the client last night, and today the client had to interrupt his meeting with the other party to the contract b/c the signature page was completely unusable, and paragraph numbering was fucked up. Reasons for the problems:

- The signature lines were created using tables and started out looking like this

_________ ____________ _____________ ____________________
Date Gob Bluth President Bluth Enterprises

but he doesn't know how to use tables (I showed him and he said his usual, "Oh, I don't do that, I just use Tab"), so when he copied the correct names from a table in another document, he embedded the whole table within the first table so it was completely nonsensical, especially since he kept the different font and font size from the other document!

- He doesn't use automatic paragraph numbering, so again, when he copied language from another document and pasted it into the one he was working on, it was not indented correctly, it was improperly numbered, and again, it was a different font and font size.

His boss usually approves our work before we send it out, but b/c it was such a basic, idiot-proof task, he figured it would be OK to let him do it all by himself like a big boy.

Before I even took off my coat, my boss called and told me I had to fix the mess in a hurry. Really frustrating shit.

Shut up. I know that the signature lines are fucked up above.

It should be your fucking beeswax to be proficient in ilxor.

This guy also never fills the Brita pitcher.

He's generally a nice guy, but he's kind of a tool.

Tired of having to correct the boss' spelling. I don't hate the guy but seeing some guy misspell at least five words in a two page mission statement makes me think it's time to look for a promotion or go back to working on my book proposal. I should have offered to write the damned thing myself but it is not in my job description. The guy makes twice as much as I do!

my dad had an admin asst who didn't know what tab was and would use the space bar to indent

I was last to get a computer in grade nine and handed in a "double spaced" hand written essay, except I put two spaces between each word :(

Lol! Poor kid.

The teacher was nice about it, but it haunts me to this day. Heh.

don't joke with me that i'm a "suck-up" just because I was gracious to the department head. she gave me an actual great idea and i thanked her for it. i know there's a culture of not liking her and i know that she's sort of earned it, but