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

Meanwhile, I am on top of the office statscock in production. Porn guy is taking his revenge on me by rearranging his work area so that he can see my terminal at all times. He seems baffled, though, that someone would check a BB or news site instead of porn or sports.

I really like my fellow teachers. We keep each other sane. Our principal however is a cockfarmer of the highest order. He cracks us up.

This whole thread makes me like my job again. Its hilarious. Especially MsLara's story about the cow-orker sticking floppies to the filing cabinet with magnets - classick! I used to love reading the tech horror stories at www.rinkworks.com - stuff very much like this.

"I'm telling you, if the terrorists really want to succeed, they'll just send in 20 year old girls with bombs strapped to their asses."

In other words: "Take my thong off and my ass go BOOM"

I wish I had some good coworker stories, but the only problem I have is the one who sings along to the radio all the time and jokes about hanging a big "GO AWAY" sign on the Statue of Liberty.

Not as much as e-mails to the entire company, saying something like "I lost my favorite pen in the 5th floor conference room; if you see it be sure to bring it back to my desk." One thing I'm not going to welcome if I ever get a regular job again.

Oh, this reminds me of when I worked for that obstetricians and gynecologists association. This was before 9/11, but the organization was targeted by a number of anti-abortion groups, so you had to show a badge or be vouched for by a staffer to get in the building.

Unless you're Santa Claus. One day in October a man in a Santa suit got past the guards without showing a badge or being accompanied. Given some of the security types I've met, it's entirely possible they still believed in Santa, and were afraid that he wouldn't bring them anything in December.

I don't like going over people's heads and playing boss unless they're bullying me, which he's not. Furthermore, he seems to have very low self-esteem and doesn't try very hard to boost his job skills - either that or he just doesn't know how - so he would have a difficult time finding another job, I think. He's just one of those people who hasn't adapted well to office culture and doesn't seem to get it. He's hurting himself more than anyone. I did privately speak to a male co-worker who is sort of friendly with this man, intimating that if x would listen to anyone, it would be another man.

I'd just rather have my own cubicle that is more than six feet away from him because I am toooo aware of his problems. I feel a little better about it lately because I have a new boss who seems to be a little more sensitive to my situation.

Secondly, he would never get into trouble for s.h. because it's a verrrry liberal environment and no one does anything like that. The only time someone got fir@d was when this woman, who was a hypochondriac and habitual liar, said that she lost relatives in 9/11 and needed to take some time off to grieve, which was just about the last straw.

Finally, I walked in on the dept. head looking at soft-core porn, so no one is going to point the finger at someone else. Since we partly deal in "erotica", I'm sure he could just say he was doing important research for the collection.

(sorry)

Now somehow it is my responsibility to fix this? I guess since I am the bathroom monitor. BETTER BUST OUT MY PIGGY BANK!

If it was my office, my co-workers would complain "Oh, we don't have the budget for nickels!" People, we work at a bank with a $110 BN market cap. Don't be afraid to spend some money, for chrissakes.

Failing that, I'm going to vomit on her.

I have a co-worker who tut-tuts whenever I pass her cubicle. She's one of these people who absolutely has to wear designer fashions and who thinks I'm below her because I wear Cheap Generica. She also wears the most obnoxious-smelling perfume I have ever had the misfortune of smelling. I would rather smell someone else's perspiration, it's that bad.

Another co-worker of mine is an overgrown boy. He stashes comic books all around his cubicle, plays computer games every chance he gets, and tells pathetic, juvenile jokes we've all heard 1,000 times before but that he seems to find funny. If it weren't for the fact that he always manages to get his work done (he handles the paychecks for oncology, which is this huge department with hundreds of employees), I would be ticked off at him. As for now, I just roll my eyes and consider him pathetic while wondering how he manages to do it all.

Oh! Who around here has to share a printer with several other people? I do, as I'm sure many of you do, and what always ticks me off is when someone just throws around other people's print jobs without thinking, "Gee, maybe someone might actually want to find all of their printed pages. Perhaps I could leave a neat pile after picking up my print job, instead of leaving this messy pile where nothing is in order." I have my suspicions of who the culprit might be, but I've never been able to catch the person and I don't think it's one of the aforementioned people because the woman is a total neat freak and the man doesn't share the same printer with me.

Still, at least it's not that bad. I can manage, and sometimes I feel that all of the above add a bit of color to the work environment. And my bosses are fab. I lucked out there; in my telesales job, I had bitches on wheels for bosses. In fact, everyone there was bitchy, because we had to deal with a lot of bullshit from people. Never again.

it's not that annoying, really, but just sort of huh office space is REAL.

And aaaaaaaaaaiiiiiiiistill goin strong, 5 hrs and cou-in'

oh she just hummed along with a melisma there.