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

dude I share an office with will not stop doing this

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man, i have a lot of mixed emotions and fear about being out of work but there are a few people that i am SO looking forward to not have to post about in here anymore

yeaaahh!! i quit my job too

our section just got a mail about 'biodiversity awareness' training and lady next to me has started bitching about 'them' learning 'our ways' when they come to our country etc.

i haven't the heart, tbh.

my job occasionally entails sending out mailings about biodiversity awareness training, so I'm glad that I am possibly facilitating incidents such as that one.

maybe, in fairness, i'm underestimating her and she is talking about foreign plants coming in and stealing our jobs.

what sort of jobs require biodiversity awareness training? just curious.

generally planners, architects and so on for me, with the training usually being along the lines of "this is the law re biodiversity, don't break it. It'd be nice if you'd do more to help too, but we don't hold high hopes."

that and the more obvious and more specialised stuff for rangers, parks officers etc.

i see, thanks.

generally planners, architects and so on

yeah, i work for a local authority so it would have been aimed at the above types.

Oh hi, when you are asked to write a script to process some files that are already being generated it is nice if your script actually processes the current file format, instead telling me I have to rewrite all the existing code just to have the columns in a different completely arbitrary order of your own devising, including some clumsily concatenated shit which will probably cause some exciting new bugs in the future

</geek rage>

also it is slightly annoying to me that you are in at 9:40, out at 4:30 and disappear for extended meal breaks at 12 and 3 every day, but the boss never looks in here to notice, and since you get stuff done and i'm on ilx all day i guess i don't have a leg to stand on and in fact i am the stupid annoying co-worker, but also a grumpy one

if you are going to leave your cell phone unattended at your desk, PUT IT ON FUCKING SILENT.

i don't even know who is responsible for this. every goddamn day, though.

Just start answering it as a brothel madam/pimp.

My ex-coworker used to abandon their phone every lunch hour and every day for 40 minutes an extremely distorted Disney movie song ringtone would blare out. If I ever accidentally see whatever film it was I'm going to have a nervous twitch for days.

crepey lady please leave me alone

do what they did on The Office and throw those phones into the suspended ceiling above their desks.

(or just put it in a drawer)

christ on a cross please stop talking about your cats. and their stools. please.

^^^ guilty of this, but i work from home, so the only person i annoy is the cat in question

oh man working from home sounds like a dream from which i'd never want to wake

def. has its advantages tho it has its own 7-year itch. "so bored...having stupid co-workers wasn't so bad, was it?" "oh wait, yes it was"

i've had two primary "real job" experiences since college. the first was a small company where I typically worked with about 4-6 other nerds who enjoyed mocking christians and talking about music/ pop-cult minutiae for hours at a time. it was pretty great. the downside: the boss was a privileged, tragically W-esque moron who seemed hell-bent on letting his ADD and wholly undeserved self-satisfaction run the company into the ground.

the second is an infinitely better-run environment (recently listed on Forbes top 100 best places to work, even), but the day-to-day dealings with boring office gossip/ dramas and Talkypants with her cats and her World of Warcraft and her indgiestion and her mucus is just soul-crushing.

despite the obvious drawbacks (boredom, staying focused, driven etc.), i feel self-employment, or at least self-directed employment from a location of my choosing, would rule pretty hard. but hey, i grass is always greener, etc.

tbh right now would swap freedom of working from home for freedom from clients not paying/trying to steal my copyrights and irregularity of paycheque. but mostly it rools.

There's one coworker of ours that just seems to be trying to undo all the good things I (or others) said about him last year. He's in the role above ours, but is not our manager, but is the type that seems to like doing things for the sake of doing them.

If he's writing a Standard Operating Procedure, he overwrites them to the point where every miniscule step is detailed (even though he's been told he's supposed to write them from the perspective that we know how to do the basic functions), making the things several pages long. He nitpicks when auditing peoples' work, yet his SOPs have numerous spelling and grammatical mistakes, and often contain incorrect or broken references (ie, you'll be in Step F and at the end it will tell you to go to Step F).

He also doesn't see the big picture when he makes decisions, and often eschews others' feedback and just does what he wants, even though he's not authorized to do so. On two-three occasions he's made formal announcements of new procedures only to get so many complaints that his manager has forced him to recant them within minutes.

He's a perfectly nice guy, but he just is so detached from those below him and seems to not care about it one iota.

I work in a shoe shop and people ask me seriously to seperate their toes for them so they can try on sandals with toe-posts, the worst part is when they say shit like "I'm probably not going to buy them, I don't really like them, I just want to see how they look when they're on"

Yep, I pretty much wouldn't last a day at that job. Kudos to you!

I work in a shoe shop and people ask me seriously to seperate their toes for them so they can try on sandals with toe-posts, the worst part is when they say shit like "I'm probably not going to buy them, I don't really like them, I just want to see how they look when they're on"

this might stop if you start carrying pruning shears around with you

ugh, dude, you get my pick as next host of "Dirty Jobs," agh GROSS

I am trying to imagine the level of shamelessness and self-regard necessary for me to even contemplate asking someone else to unstick my toes for me. Like, if I'm asking the question and I'm not a quadriplegic, there is something desperately wrong with me

Yeah Im confused by this, how hard is it to part one's own first 2 toes? Can some people not independently move their own feet or something?

Make them wear the store sock.

Wellllll, if you're not used to salespeople, it is a teeny bit weird to have someone put a shoe on FOR you at the store. I can't imagine a set-up in which a person asks you to UNSTICK THEIR TOES but then the procedure of sitting down and sticking your foot out for someone to do this menial thing that you are perfectly capable of has always struck me as really awkward.

boxed, I have to ask you: how many women's dresses do you routinely see up while you're down there? That's one of the most awkward things about the whole arrangement, to me.

ugh there is no way to make the horrifying joke I want to make without being an ass

We have store stockings for the ladies, which they wear when they try on boots, and when they're done with them, they hold them out in their hands for me to take. Like, cheers for the sweaty bit of material you've just had on your foot, are you sure you wouldn't rather just keep them for yourself, they're free after all.

We don't normally put the shoes on the customers unless they're a bit old and useless, but women crossing their legs in short dresses or skirts with slits can be uncomfortable - as can standing beside someone who chooses to bend over to tie a lace and raises their arse right up in the air so they're essentially pointing it at me.

Customers are the people I work with, so every day is a mystery rollercoaster of grim failings. It's amazing what people can't do without help: I'd say maybe twice a week an adult will ask me to help them decide if a shoe fits them and is comfortable

Justine to thread with more shoe store stories imo

whoa

You're really going to have to explain this unstuck toe thing. I can't think of any scenario (paraplegics aside, per above) where someone couldn't separate their toes just by moving their big toe...

I don't have any real good stories but I would like to ask the young white guy at work to stop talking like an old black woman. To the old black women. Otherwise, u cool. Thanks.

Customers are the people I work with, so every day is a mystery rollercoaster of grim failings. It's amazing what people can't do without help: I'd say maybe twice a week an adult will ask me to help them decide if a shoe fits them and is comfortable

oh man..... welcome to my world. I never had to unstick toes though.

lol trayce!

working in a shoe store was one of the worst jobs i've ever had, in terms of customers. my favourite is when ppl do nothing to help - you have to lift their foot up and FORCE it into the shoe, bc they've gone all limp and fuckin useless.

yea, it's like customers think because you're the employee, they can cease to exist for fifteen minutes.

back when i worked in restaurants, i worked in a place that served fajitas. common sense is that when you put down sizzling fajitas, you put them away from the kiddies. well, this table was 4 people in a 4 top so i put it as far away as I could without like, dropping it on the floor.

the dumb bitch watches her kid sit up, and slowly inch his finger towards the hot sizzling plate. She's closer to it than me, mind you, and has a clear path to stop him. She just lets him do it then she yells at me saying "yo holmes, you can't like put hot plates in front of kids, y'know?".

bit my tongue and walked away.

so i'm using the men's room the other day, doing my business, and outside the stall, I hear three dudes who presumably know each other having a loud conversation while peeing. this one kid decides to talk about how 6 pm is the best time to "drop a deuce" and talks about how he took a crap the other night and as he was leaving the janitor chick came in and she was cute and how he was embarassed that he left a shitty smell behind. this uninteresting and unnecessary story went on for like 3 minutes.

I wonder when the hell my office turned into a fraternity. The concept of modifying your behavior whilst at work is beyond some people I guess.

gallows humour about job cuts while jobs are actually being cut = pen in your fucking eye in a minute you callous prick

no kidding. my cubemate got laid off the other day, first layoffs in my department ever. hits home, and isn't funny....

Being one of those laid-off types, can I bitch about an ex-coworker that is causing me fits? So there were three of us at my old job studying for a professional exam and the study materials are hell of expensive so we split the costs and have been sharing them. Which has gone fine, became a bit more difficult when I was laid off, but still worked out alright. Anyway, I am finished with a bunch of the material so I wanted to give it back to this girl I used to work with. Was supposed to meet her for a quick lunch to exchange the books and notebooks. Well she backed out of that so I was just going to meet her in the parking lot of a building down the street for a quick exchange. No big deal. Then she says she won't have much time, so can I just meet her in the parking lot (keeping in mind this would now be the parking lot of the place I was laid-off from in October). Not ideal, but okay. Then, get an e-mail this morning that she might not even have time for that, so can I just bring it to the office? Um, no. I am not going to walk back into the office where I was laid-off because you can't take two minutes to walk outside. Sorry.

You could throw them thru a window or something

better yet, tie the materials to a bottle rocket and aim it into the window.

^^^ Blue sky thinking, like it

dyao getting closer!!

Anyway, I think I found the solution. I e-mailed the guy that works there that I really liked, he's gonna run outside and grab them from me.

u are spoiling a surprise 'redundancy' party they have thrown for u imo