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

walkable. in fact one of the offices previously housed TWO people and is used about .05% of the time now while two people are crammed in the adjacent office

sounds like that boss is being selfish!

ugh, this person i work with is not a team player.

warning: i might be extra grumpy about work in the future. was denied a promotion and am looking for a new job...

Oh boo. I hope you find something fantastic! And fast! Because leaving the crap job that denied you a promotion for something much better is going to be sweeeeet.

thanks carl!!

can't you over-rule the denial of yoru promotion? my job is so unorganized it almost seems like I could give myself a promotion and there wouldnt be much anyone could do about it

huygens to thread!! "YOU ARE PROMOTION!"

http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/a/a4/Christiaan_Huygens-painting.jpeg

i mean it's kind of a blessing in disguise in the sense that i don't really like what i do, but the salary & benefits make it tolerable, so then i just sit here at this job, stagnating. so the promotion denial was kind of a wake up call.

it's just that there is day-to-day stuff where shit happens and i let my resentment over it bubble up. (like, this other person who got promoted is a really bad team player and has zero management skills or initiative and sometimes it just makes me a bit nutty) But really it should just be a motivating factor for me to find a job to which i am better suited and care a little more about.

Sounds like a lot of things suck, rayuela, I'm sorry! I hope you can find the awesome job.
I was hoping to create myself a marketing job but I put some feelers out and it looks like the new branch of our company won't be big enough to need what I hoped to offer so I have to keep plugging away at my job that I am good at (numbers: I feel like if I could just get into mktg/design I could be great at my job, which I would prefer to be.)

Taught a marketing girl how to do a screenshot today, turned around and she was doing it in the same roundabout way I'd just corrected. SIGH. If I could give myself a promotion I would be the Style Advisor or whatever the equivalent job is. These lazy, poor photoshoppers shouldn't be allowed to send anything out of the office without me looking over it. Company conference powerpoint had the word 'STRAGETY' in big capitals on a card explaining how focused we are on excellence ;_; I think I complained before about how I showed mktg girl how to correct a photoshop error (liquid pouring in front of a bottle instead of into) and she sent it out to national ad campaign without fixing it :(

and why the devil won't chrome play an m4a file from your google drive in the browser windows!

thanks ffm!

those sound like pretty big errors -- you should use them as examples when you make your case for Style Advisor)

:D
lol the 2 coworkers I help the most were just talking about their reviews & how they want to ask for me to do a photoshop training! hell no, I will not train. I just want to do. ;)

everyone around me in my cuberhood is whispering. god i hate this shit. i want to walk around yelling "seeeeeecrets!"

"SEEEEeeecrets!"

i get that every once in a while you need to tell a secret, but this shit is getting out of hand. all i hear is "whs-whiissp-shhh-whissshp-sshwhwhs-E-XACT-LY-whsis--whiiissspper--whisper--whish-whissper-E-CACT-LY"

just make low -key grunting noises that sound like you are a zombie - its fun

everyone around me in my cuberhood is whispering. god i hate this shit. i want to walk around yelling "seeeeeecrets!"

Fuuuuuckk yessssssssss The very noise whispering makes is, in of itself, irritating but yeah the whole ARE YOU TALKING ABOUT OTHER PEOPLE? thing... so rude.

In an old, shitty govt job I had, a large bunch of the office ladies would drop into Greek when they wanted to bitch (and oh boy it was really obvious - everyone whos lived in melb for a few years picks up a little greek eventually). That caused a bit of a shitstorm when others complained. It was like "theyre bitching about us!" vs "you cant discriminate against my cultural background!" and eventually I just resigned bcz fuck that noise.

I'm seriously the cube in the center of this whispering club, but I think they don't mind me hearing the whispers because they're not talking about me and they know i won't rat them out (except, er, on the internet!). but the thing is, of course, when people talk shit all the time about other people, it makes you wonder what they're saying about you when you're not around.

Oh yeah, there are a group of girls in my office who all knew each other from college and they frequently walk around the office whispering and looking around. Its annoying. I just want to stand up and start singing that elementary school rhyme, "secrets secrets are no fun, secrets secrets hurt someone!".

Another attorney used the word "penultimate" in a decision he wrote, which apparently completely flummoxed my boss. He brought the word to my coworker, who had never heard of it, and he keeps talking about "He made me have to go to the dictionary!" and talking about how he's going to bust this other attorney's balls for using such a big word.

I am having that feeling again where I am pretty sure I am living in a different reality than everybody else around me.

Also the crazy hymn-singing security guard was having an animated phone conversation whilst mid-poop in the bathroom telling someone not to park in front of Miss Cookie's house because she'll steal the car and I could use some cheering today so...

http://i.imgur.com/7UPLUl.jpg

Seriously, though, penultimate is not a crazy big rare word, right? It's not like nonplussed where it looks like it would mean the opposite of what it means, or like sesquipedalian in that it's hard as hell to even sound out and seriously nobody uses that word. Right?

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cat to rescue!

I love that cat.

Can that cat come hang out with me at work?

nah, penultimate is fine.

i remember being at a party once (IN CHICAGO) and i said "lynchian" and this girl got all pissed about it. earlier i had mentioned that i was heading off to graduate school in the fall and so she was like "are you going to study 'lynchian' things at grad school?" and laughed and laughed. it felt terrible

I would understand what you meant by "Lynchian" but it makes sense that someone at a party might not (although she shouldn't have made you feel bad about saying it, dang). It just seems like lawyers and judges should be familiar with words like penultimate. Or at least not act like it is some kind of AMAZING and NEVER BEFORE SEEN word that has never graced the pages of a legal opinion. I mean holy shit, do these people read case law? Even one time ever?

or just read in general!

but yeah, i shouldn't have said lynchian but thought the response was totally disproportionate to the mistake!

Totally disproportionate.

Shortly after The Shins Chutes Too Narrow came out I was talking with one of Jesse's friends at a bar and he mentioned liking the song So Says I and I started drunkenly babbling about Thomas Moore and what it meant in the song and how amazing it was and that dude actually did the thing where he looked around, said, "Ummmm... I need to go over here" and walked away from me to stand by himself at another part of the bar. To be fair, I was being a prat.

BUT come to think of it, this dude was part of a group of people who were really into being super exclusionary about their topics of conversation in an attempt to preserve the illusion of being some kind of small town intelligentsia to which the rest of us can only aspire so fuck that guy.

Uh, I thought you told me that you realized later that that guy was actually just not that bright and you had broken his brain. IIRC, you told me b/c you thought maybe you weren't making sense, but then you realized that you'd lost him and he was running away b/c he thought you were speaking in tounges.

He was a really nice guy, but he wasn't especially smart.

tongues

But one thing is for sure: your boss is really being penultimate.

In my callow youth, I'm sure I attributed his departure to his own stupidity but in hindsight, that feels like a crappy way to look at it. It's safer to assume that I was being a jerk because it will keep me from doing that again.

It's also possible I was speaking in drunken, slurred tongues and he just couldn't understand what the fuck I was talking about.

It was a funny anecdote when you first thought he was walking away out of pity to keep you from embarrassing yourself further with your facile and incorrect thoughts on Moore but then you realized he was just confused. Whatever, let's just settle on you both being too drunk to remember who the other was.

Sorry everyone. We're still waiting on Gr80 to build us our own thread.

crazy, antagonistic division meeting (about 20 people in the room). we were doing the regular thing, going around the room to provide updates. but this time, for whatever reason, people were just sniping at each other, making insults under their breath, admonishing others for whispering while they were speaking (and then proceeding to whisper themselves while others were speaking), rolling their eyes, for an hour straight. the one lady who got really antagonistic during her update started out with a surprising anecdote:

"I'm about to have a hot flash!"

and then got more aggressive from there

amazing!

The hymn singing security guard was just singing in the bathroom again, but not a hymn. Three Blind Mice. She was full on belting out Three Blind Mice, church-style, while in the stall.

HOW DO YOU NOT LOVE THIS WOMAN???

"I'm about to have a hot flash!"

and then got more aggressive from there

Using menopause as a threat, thats a unique one.

i'm supposed to be in the office on my own ffs stop wandering in here to have yr inane conversations and let me play nethack in peace

HOW DO YOU NOT LOVE THIS WOMAN???

I'm still a little bitter about the time I found one of my coworkers collapsed unconscious on the bathroom floor, went to the security guard for help, and she proceeded to run in and out of the bathroom yelling "Oh Jesus! Help me Jesus!" Quit calling Jesus and call 911, you dingbat!

I admit to appreciating her, however, as her weirdness does add to the absurdity of my work situation and sometimes that absurdity is the only thing that gets me through my day.

What had happened to your co-worker, if you don't mind me asking?

I don't know specifically. She's in her mid to late 80s (lol public employees wringing every last penny out of their pension) so it could have been a whole host of things. She's been back at work for a couple of years now and is as crabby and gossip-mongering as ever.

(I eventually told the security guard, "Go get [coworker who sits closest to the bathroom and isn't completely useless in a crisis] and tell her to come here NOW," and then sent that person to call 911. So she's not totally ineffective if you give her very explicit instructions.)

About three months ago, I was talking to a coworker at the water cooler when he suddenly collapsed in pain and had to be called away in an ambulance due to a low back spasm, and then about a year and a half ago, another (now former) coworker waited in ambush behind a cubicle wall for his boss and then jumped out and beat the shit out of her. A year ago somebody from another agency jumped to her death from inside the building. I wasn't witness to the latter two although I was the pugilistic coworker's union steward.

So, you know, the security guard should really be able to step up in a crisis.

o_O

remind me to never visit carl's work.

And after ten years, tips!

http://lifehacker.com/5929218/the-worst-coworkers-and-workplace-annoyances-and-how-to-deal-with-them

No tips for dealing with loud chewing or burned popcorn, no credibility.

Jeez, an 80-year-old working isn't against the law?

My complaints (weird social caste politics, mostly) about work are pretty trivial compared to these Wal-Mart people.