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

"How do you pronounce this company? It's spelt: W-Y-E-D-E-A-N."

Are you frickin' kidding me?

why-eh-dee-en?

Arrrrrh this office is like an OVEN (plus I just walked back from the town centre and am pretty damn unfit) you cannot really be cold please turn the fan heater off please please oh god

/sizzle

(it is a grey but pleasant spring day out there, the windows are all shut, and there is never any air circulation in this room anyway)

Also it might be slightly more acceptable for you to put your jacket on than me to take my shirt off, especially since as hinted in previous post I currently resemble a fat red sweaty warthog

I thought the people of ILX would appreciate that mental image, especially at lunchtime

our scouse friend,

"actually i'm offended by the stereotyping of scousers"

later, talking about multiplayer video games

"i'll cheat whenever i can me, i'm always cheating i love it"

I'm gonna vent:

I already woke up in a slightly off mood, but now I'm full blown. My boss yelled at me (and everyone else, I wasn't singled out) for I don't even know what -- maybe because his computer is broke? Maybe because his insurance doesn't cover certain meds anymore? I don't know. He has apologized, but, you know, way to start off the day, Captain.

My co-worker, who is FINALLY getting married this Saturday (I have to go, too.) is really annoying me! For the past year, she's been taking work time to plan this fucker. An hour here, a morning there, half-days, whole days -- every week, all of the time! Apparently, this has got to be as important to us as it is her. At first, I was happy for her. I did the calligraphy on her invites, even. Now, I have to fake the happiness. Too, she comes into work, not really knowing what's going on, behind on her work and she's, get this, GRUMPY AT US. And why?

I'm tired of these people bringin' me down, man!
Amen -- I'm done, venting over!

Next up, you'll probably have to hear about her pregnancy and coo over ultrasound pictures!

i finally got to move to a cube that isn't next to ANYONE, with a WINDOW, where it is quiet and I can sleep during 45 minutes of my lunch break. thank god.

Me: "I'm sure that admin snafu on the meeting notification was just a simple mistake."
Paranoid Conspiracy Obsessed Guy: "Ah! But that's what they want you to think!"
Me: "???"

My co-worker, who is FINALLY getting married this Saturday (I have to go, too.)

It's not at the Doubletree, is it?

It seems like an unusual office atmosphere where you can't just send polite "regrets" to a colleague's wedding invite...?

PLEASE TAKE YOUR PHONE OFF OF CONFERENCE LADY ON OTHER SIDE OF CUBE WALL

So how do you pronounce Wyedean?

No, P.P., it's not at the Doubletree -- are you going to one there? I guess the part of the wedding I am looking forward to is the band that she hired to play the reception. They are call 1-900 and they're from Memphis. Apparently they do "funk, soul, and R&B jams". Maybe I can embarrass her with my "awesome" dance moves?

I work for a judge, there's only five of us in this office, so, you know, it's intimate and you actually get to know people. And I like my co-worker, but for the past year, yikes! The judge is officiating, so at least I'll know someone there.

ok this woman won't let me schedule a meeting from either 4:30-5:30 pm (she has an evening thing) thurs OR 9-10 am (because, the last time she rushed to a meeting at 9, she broke her arm). AND she has a "private appointment" on her calendar 1-3. AND she got hired instead of me for her position. AND she is super condescending to me all the time and i dislike her muchly.

Let's off her.

it is so stupid how far you can get with an mba and no actual skills with doing your job/interacting with humans

what do they even teach you in mba school

xp Try borderline illiteracy, a complete inability to correctly capitalize or punctuate emails, and no evidence that your question has actually been read or understood.

mba's=aliens. for real.

a complete inability to correctly capitalize or punctuate emails

:x

wait nevermind, i guess my work emails are actually flawless 99% of the time
other emails not so much

i am so certain i do not want an mba. i need to figure out another easily obtained fancy sounding professional designation because i was specifically told i look "terrible on paper". ;_;

what do they even teach you in mba school

-- bell_labs, Wednesday, 2 April 2008 20:06 (2 minutes ago) Link

How to dress for SUCCESS

I'm soooooo ready for my new job with a CHEF in house and a deck on the roof and bike storage

braggin ^

we have multiple "chefs" in house at our staff caf and guess what they all suck

hmm CFA designation? seems to require no school and may be meaningless?

we have multiple "chefs" in house at our staff caf and guess what they all suck

-- bell_labs, Wednesday, April 2, 2008 4:22 PM (7 minutes ago) Bookmark Link

free lunch, not a caf

the office is basically laid on like a bunch of big desk islands around a kitchen / dining / meeting area

googling CFA leads me to this much more adorable career path http://www.cfainc.org/

O.K., I've got a fresh gripe.

I've been helping our court reporter, transcribing for $1/page. I've done about 8 hours work on this one particular hearing so far. She just discovered that she's already transcribed it, so "Nevermind, maybe I can pay you less?" NO.

free lunch, not a caf

the office is basically laid on like a bunch of big desk islands around a kitchen / dining / meeting area

lol boiler room

"Oh, look. My house was already painted. Can we just call the whole thing off?"

(And my dad's the one going to the Doubletree. It was just weird hearing you talk about going to a wedding this weekend mere seconds after I had just got off the phone with him.)

http://www.wickfordgourmet.com/images/catering_seafood.jpg

I kind of miss my office mate from like 3 years ago. She had an affectation where she talked like she was in a Jane Austen novel and refused to live in the modern world, all because of her strict catholic convictions. She'd never heard of ordinary things like Guns 'N Roses or Lost, and often wept over the loss of old fashioned 'courtship' in our culture. She once regaled me with a long story about how her and her husband chastely flirted back in their courtin' days. Her favorite thing to do for him was to make cookies, then lick the spoon in front of him. Yep, that was how they did their flirting. SICK.

the office is basically laid on like a bunch of big desk islands around a kitchen / dining / meeting area

lol boiler room

-- El Tomboto, Wednesday, April 2, 2008 4:48 PM (14 minutes ago) Bookmark Link

The company's parent company also owns a hedge fund on the floor above us. People were ROLLERBLADING on the SMOKED GLASS floor wtf 1990s

well, that sounds horrible.

does anyone know anything about cfa vs. msf designations?

Why do you hate rollerblading?

Funny when geeks at work think that the height of coolness is sighing loudly every 30 seconds, rubbish sarcasm, moaning about the IT system and generally being really exasperated by the slightest thing.

LOL, 45 year old guy who still lives with his mum acting like Kevin The Teenager if he walked around all day holding a clipboard.

i just want a quiet office where i can lock myself away from my annoying coworkers.

the woman i hate is complaining to my boss vaguely about me. uhm i can hear you. luckily my boss is not having it.

man, this thread makes me...not happy, so much as feeling like every day I dodge a hail of bullets.

Her favorite thing to do for him was to make cookies, then lick the spoon in front of him.

HOTTT

Jon, that sounds like a great place.

http://www.sptimes.com/2003/10/27/images/xlarge/FLO_1_td27star1_172032_1027.jpg

how do you deal with someone who acts like they are your boss, when they actually aren't? can i just ignore her? or be snotty all the time?

i mean i don't know if this woman just has terrible people skills and can't ask for help with things without demanding it, or if she actually thinks she is my boss? should i talk to me real boss about this or is that a dick move?

Can you tell her that you'd like to help but that she'll have to put in the request via your real boss?

^^^^^ best way to go (tho informing your boss that this is coming might also be prudent).

I would bitch more about the co-worker that's told me twice I'll get slanted eyes if I eat too much Chinese food, but instead I'd like to give a heads-up to all of y'all in my company (about 20%, it seems) that would like me to resend tab-delimited text files as Excel spreadsheets: you can open those fuckers up in Excel. Go ahead. Give it a try.