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

going out for lunch in a huge group of coworkers can really be the worst.

yesterday like 12 of us went out to celebrate a milestone in the product we're building. one colleague, who booked it, tried to insist we should begin the set menu we'd ordered despite three colleagues not being there yet. the same colleague doesn't eat lamb, in a setup where there are like many, many sharing plates that don't contain lamb, decided to change a lamb plate for something else, rather than just the obv choice of everyone sharing a bit more of the other dishes her way or whatever. this is a situation with loads of other foods left over.

then there's the payment obviously and the fact that it's always below and nobody includes a tip. it's amazing how many filters of politeness, general decency and good humour people pass through before becoming actual friends, and how few of these filters those we're forced to work with would pass through.

in a setup where there are like many, many sharing plates that don't contain lamb, decided to change a lamb plate for something else

this is rude imo but then I like lamb. but I bet there were vegetarians present and nobody said "let's switch out all the meat dishes because there are 3 vegetarians"

although I should be careful what I wish for, that did happen at one of our work lunches, and the result was that lunch was cheese and pickle sandwiches with no choice, and I don't like pickle

(everyone will now post to say that I am wrong. perhaps I should have pretended to be lactose intolerant; that is more socially acceptable than not liking pickle)

I'm with you on the pickle front, aps - disgusting muck. Lettuce, or a little onion, in a cheese sarnie is acceptable tho.

fp'd u both, sorry

the one vegetarian got a large platter to himself! tho it was a mix of vegetarian stuff anyway so it wasn't as if others couldn't help out. indian food so the vegetables were not an afterthought.

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Our office/company has a LOT of hindus and muslims who dont eat any meat, beef in particular.

So the company xmas party 2 years in a row was at a Brazilian BBQ restaurant that basically serves nothing but various meats on skewers.

I dated someone who had an anecdote about how she and her friend, in younger years, were really drunk and went into one of those places to eat when they were both practicing vegetarians

I think they demanded the baked potatoes and salads and ended up paying a stupid amount of money because it was a one-price-for-all place. I should have seen this as a red flag and not an amusing story of youth, because every week of the relationship had some incident of about this level of demanding idiocy

Huuuuuhhhh, I think I know why the marketing manager flipped shit at my marketing campaign. I figured out that he's more likely than not stealing money from the owner of the company.

He's been running all these bogus ad campaigns for huge amounts of money, that have not only failed, but damaged the company, and he keeps trying to convince the owner to go further along it. "No, this guy's a genius!" Fuck that, he created ads using Comic Sans that made fun of the audience for the product, and pissed off thousands of people! For over 50 grand! He convinced the owner to buy this horrible product for a million dollars, and keeps calling it a "race car", and he knows damn well it's not.

Dude's using it to steal money from the guy, who's getting older and is a little senile.

The other freelancer noticed some of the bullshit, too. Marketing manager keeps giving the owner this godawful advice that always fails and costs tons of money to do. My ideas came from my background working on actual marketing campaigns for major international brands. I only ended up at this place because my life took a shit-dick turn from my own set of bad advisers...

So now I'm in the cross-hairs of this guy robbing the boss. Yippee. I'm going to work my ass off to find new jobs ASAP.

You know, I wonder if he hired me because I put my corruption investigation experience on my resume ... he said to me "who is stealing my money!" What a weird fucking world, man.

Lad

darragh otm

*coughk3rrycough*

what the hell is an "on-boarding proposal walkthrough" (in relation to me getting out of bed)

My guess is a submitted routine for new employees to follow in their first weeks on the job to be tested and/or inspected in a live meeting, step by step.

*sips coffee*

Yeah I dont know where the phrase "on-boarding" sprang from suddenly but it seems to be all over like a rash now. We use it to mean "new resellers who we have to guide thru using our ordering systems". Stupid phrase. Whats wrong with "introduction training" ffs.

Lad

― passé aggresif (darraghmac), Saturday, September 16, 2017 3:19 AM (two days ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

Yeah, yeah. These people are scumbags and I'm getting the fuck out of there. I've just been in a down point in my life. Fuck all that, life's too short for this crap. Call it a much-needed kick in the ass.

sent an email with a series of questions to our tech folks today asking how something would work (as I have no idea).

one of them replies with what he can answer, another adds more info, and then a third jumps in and says "Please ignore everything Neanderthal said as it is 100% correct and if you think it will work this way, you are in BIG trouble", apparently conflating me with the guy who gave the (allegedly) wrong answers.

fun thread.

INcorrect?!

ahh yes good catch lol

project manager at work talked to the guy who is replacing my team's customer service leader temporarily due to her unexpected indefinite absence. He apparently groused about the "optics" with our client, that they might think we're "disorganized" since this puts us on our second customer service leader change on this project.

Which might be a reasonable gripe if our second leader wasn't out because her domestic partner is in the hospital with an enlarged heart, serious enough that he's also been added to the transplant list.

he chased this Trump-esque moment by passive-aggressively scheduling a meeting Monday afternoon to talk through her transition and requesting her be there even though she's technically supposed to be on leave.

boy it was a nice 2-3 months without drama, welcome back, missed ye

Fuck, what a dick. Do you have any power to call him on it or report him to HR?

There's a rumour in our office about the CEO getting drunk and harassing women at events. The rumour has him being "over-flirty" but let's not bullshit. Really hoping someone is inspired by the week's events to report him. I'm leaving soon, so I'm preparing for full bridge-burning mode, and trying to work out the best strategy for challenging him before I go.

leaving do, 12 of us. "let's just get one of each of the starters, share everything and split the bill"...

(plenty of vegetarian options so it turned out ok but... there were also people drinking and people not drinking. and then people were trying to pay with old pound coins (not legal tender since last friday))

finally found another position that opened up that I could feasibly do in this job. Posted for it today. if nothing else it shows my boss I'm srs, and pulls me out from being client-facing. which is 80% of my pain.

yesterday I walked out of a conference call w/ client due to having a panic attack due to her bully-like behavior.

oof that doesn't sound good, hope you're ok

two guys who work near me, one is a dead ringer for john kasich and the other for michel foucault, and i do a triple take whenever i pass either one of them EVERY TIME

i'm the stupid annoying coworker here lbc

typical text message exchange for me, usually once a week or so:

text from CEO: Hey can you email me that sales data?
me: the one I send you every week on Mondays?
CEO: Yes
me: I sent it to you at 7am today. Did you get it?
CEO: Yes
me: And you need it again?
CEO: Yes
me: ??
CEO: I don't have time to search for it in my email today
me: And if I send it to you now, you will be able to find it?
CEO: Yes. And all these texts between us is taking me more time than it would have taken me to actually search for it.
me: Uh, ok.
CEO: thx

That sounds very familiar except it's "I accidentally deleted it as soon as I got it" instead of "don't have time to look"

u_u

i got a “project” email that entailed sorting an excel spreadsheet. and that is all.

had another day today where I shut down. no idea how I can get through another day. waiting for recruiter to hopefully pass me to the pre-interview round.

our main client contact, let's just put it this way....

my colleague in the office today told me he was on a conference call during the evening before Irma, and he lives in Orlando too. they were demanding something on the weekend it was to hit and he mentioned something about having to get ready for the storm with his family.

and she remarked something like "he seems more interested in the weather than helping us"

i got a “project” email that entailed sorting an excel spreadsheet. and that is all.

lol

So having went back to work part-time after the upthread drama, I was offered a job at a smoothie stand in the mall by the manager who I'm quite pally with as a regular customer. Just a minimum wage job blending fruit and wiping surfaces to tide me over until I get myself sorted to go to uni or something.

It has been a disaster.

The team are all very lazy and last week they put a video of themselves on Whatsapp juggling the fruit we use. On my first shift the new area manager came and paid off the manager who offered me the job, apparently her retailing standards weren't good enough. Today she sacked the supervisor - no warnings or disciplinaries prior. I'm expected at the end of the day to lock up the stand by myself after one shift training how to do it, and locking up involves cashing up and carrying a few hundred quid to the bank by myself. This is a terrible job, isn't it?

Sounds like you are on the fast track to running the whole show there.

there's always money in the smoothie stand

it is creepy, is it not, that a guy i'm supposed to meet about collaborating on some work for the next few weeks checked me linkedin profile the day i was put in touch with him?

coupled with the fact he is blase about meeting to begin this work we've both been asked to collaborate on, i'm feeling negative about him.

checked my* - wasn't intentionally channelling the leprechaun

I get asked to come in on my day off and then later get given out to for asking if there was coffee around when I needed something to wake me up . & apparently wasn't the only person to feel like that.

Hi everyone, this year the HR department will distribute a list containing the names and home addresses of all full-time employees to be used for personal Holiday mailings. This list will also include spouses’ names. If you would NOT like to be included on this list, please email your request to _____.

is this weird? i'm sure they mean well but this seems like a bizarre/potentially bad thing to do

I know that heating up fish in the microwave makes the entire office smell like ass and pisses everyone off...but what if this is the time that doesn't happen?

Xp that is fucking weird - it should be an opt-in thing, not an opt-out

Mookie yes that’s weird
It should be opt in, not opt out

Sounds like a well meaning but inexperienced HR dept there

what are "personal Holiday mailings"?

hella weird

like horrifying

Yeah thats not good. What if someone's in a DV situation?

lol it came directly from the vp of hr, who has held that position since the company was founded 17 years ago. also such a list involves at least 1000 people

idk i mean if you want to give someone a christmas card you can like, hand it to them or something