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

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

is she the type that takes smoke breaks every two hours, but then consistently says all day that she "doesn't have time" to do stuff like the above because she's "too busy"?

LOL @ darraghmac

No, she doesn't smoke. She just spends all day shopping online and the freaks out every single day at 4:00 because she was "OMG SO MUCH TO DO TODAY I'LL NEVER FINISH OMG".

i love when my coworkers do that and I go "hmm, I see that I have more work than you and I finished an hour ago"!

i am one of those workers <3 public sector

Wow my typing is shit today. Need more coffee.

we just lost a v important client - at least 1/3 of us service these guys. you have not seen gallows humour until you've seen advertising layoffs! everyone is taking it well, mind you, alot have found new jobs already (even tho client is using us for another few months). alot of jagermiester lunches and after-work fairwell romps.

anyways - i like my job and will miss all these guys when they're gone.
sry i'm not bitching about stupid coworkers.

So I stopped by the office this afternoon and sure enough the original girl I was working with came out. Apparently the guy I was hoping to meet with got called out to a jobsite. She comes out and hands me the study material and says, "I figured you'd want to come up the office". Uh, nope. Why on earth would I want to walk back into the office where I was laid off?

WTF? what an idiot

Of course, I shouldn't expect anything else, she is really, truly clueless. And a big reason why I am still bitter about losing my job. As all of my former coworkers said many times, she has no clue how to do her job. But because she kissed my former boss' ass every chance she got and because she made significantly less than I did, she was allowed to stay. I mean, lets put it this way. We are both taking the seven part architect's exam. I've taken and passed five of them so far. She's taken four and failed three. GREAT CHOICE ex-boss.

A few years ago when I still worked in a call center, a customer died meaning they had retirement benefits that were paid out to their children. Instead of just one child, they split it evenly amongst several (4 or 5). Not all of them were aware they were getting this benefit. After the benefits were transferred, all of them were called so that they could call back in and be informed of their benefits and what they could do with them.

Most of them understood, but one of them was very confused as to who we were and why we were calling. One of our elder employees got the call, and she was, shall I say, less than brilliant, and somewhat senile. She basically couldn't handle any call that wasn't linear and predictable, ie, 2% of the calls that came in. So the two of them went back and forth, not getting anywhere.

Eventually, the caller said "I just want to know why I'm supposed to call you!". Our employee then uttered "Well, according to our records, your mom's dead. You might want to check with your father".

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REPOSTED FROM OTHER COWORKERS THREAD:

I have avoided posting on this thread, but can't stand it anymore.

Dude in my office is a trainwreck of a coworker.

We are attorneys. Ergo, our job includes some petty annoyances which you really just need to get over. These can include demolition of your social plans on a semi-regular basis, lack of regard for your social life by coworkers or superiors, long hours, lack of predictability of schedule.

In other words, you need to be flexible and willing to work to make things work.

All I hear is constant bitching about "I was planning on doing this, and this motherfucker gave me an assignment to do that! Fuck him!" or "Damnit, I had to work this weekend." or "Man, I work too hard."

And its always someone else's fault that these things have happened to him. Its never his fault at all.

All this in an office of 10 total people. Dude. People will hear you, whether they want to or not.

SHUT UP!!!!

Now, if this was his only annoying habit, it would be easier to deal with. Some people deal with things by complaining about them. But it isn't. The other stuff:

- He's an only child, and acts like it around the office by assuming that you want to hear every minute detail about whatever he has done or will be doing. In the course of discussing things at the office, I have heard about the following: his girlfriend's repeated urinary tract infections, his dog's incontinence, his mom's overuse of medical marijuana, and several other strains of conversation which are not worth going into.

- Along those same lines, he always assumes that we're going to eat lunch together. Bro, its not elementary school. Sometimes, I just want to eat in silence and stare at the wall. And not have to hear about any of the above-mentioned items.

- He constantly...CONSTANTLY...fiddles with his crotch. Dude.

- His bad breath is overwhelming. Like, by the end of the day, the hallway outside of his office smells like his halitosis.

- In general, he has this overblown sense of entitlement which I just don't get. He is rude to people, short-tempered, and treats subordinates like shit, which they hold against him. All of this seems to stem from the fact that he's an attorney.

Oh, and he overquotes movies incorrectly. All the time.

^^^^^^douche times 17.63

the coworker, not you!

Right on.

Whining loudly does give an aire of incompetence too, mostly since 85% of the office (at least mine) doesn't.

Out of all of the loudmouth whiners I've known, I haven't met a single one that was actually good at their job. I fell into the category for a little while after my promotion because of the stress but you realize pretty quick nobody wants to hear your bitching and moaning out loud.

as far as entitlement, grrrr......know too many people like that

his girlfriend's repeated urinary tract infections

never eat while reading ILX :(

Why, yes, when you send me your logo for inclusion in a document, please embed it ineptly at low-resolution in a Word document. That would be lovely!

Professionalism is dead in my office. Five years ago, when I started, people paid some attention to the dress code, didn't talk like they were at a frat party in the lunchroom, and showed basic manners. Now people walk around with shirts hanging out, or wearing disallowed shirts with logos on them or no collar, and have wildly inappropriate conversations...and don't even show basic respect.

One thing that set me off the other day, and it was really a minor detail, but it still came across as quite rude...the general accepted unwritten law is that if multiple people enter the elevator, the person closest to the buttons asks "What floor?" to incoming people and presses the button for them, to prevent 17 people leaning over each other to do it.

So I ask her for my floor, and notice the lady (20 years my senior at least) seems to not have heard me, then shrugs at me. No problem, I repeat my floor...only she does it again, and this time points at her ear. I notice she's wearing an IPod. Rather than take out the headphones, and ask me politely what floor I asked for, she left it in there, and didn't press my floor.

Why the hell would you need to be listening to music on the 2-minute commute from the elevator to your desk? And be that rude that you can't be bothered to take it off to do something as menial as press the floor button for me?

i tend to shut up more at work, which is... a sign of maturity, I guess :\ the asshole punk in me doesn't appreciate my silence much, but my pocketbook does

The advice I got when I started this job was "keep your mouth shut for 4 months, just sit and observe, don't tell people too much about yourself". Best advice I ever got.

When it comes to opinions in the workplace, if it is work related, I'm relatively loose and open about what I think, but you even venture near topics like religion or politics and the mouth goes closed because no good ever comes of that in an office environment :/

"keep your mouth shut for 4 months, just sit and observe, don't tell people too much about yourself"
qft for any office gig

wearing disallowed shirts with logos on them or no collar

HORREUR

dress code in non-public facing offices can shove it.

Darn tootin'.

I'm going to politely disagree on this one. I'm hardly a snazzy dresser and often could be mistaken for a bum outside of work. But if you accept a job which makes it clear upon hire that there is a dress code, which is business casual (which means you can wear khakis and even blue jeans on occasion), you are expected to follow it.

These are hardly uniforms in that they give you a lot of freedom in what you can wear within the confines of the code. But you shouldn't be wearing a tee shirt when everybody else is wearing a dress shirt. When clients visit, it reflects badly on us.

At one of my previous workplaces they had to send out an edict imploring people to *wear shoes*, because, well a couple of guys just didnt.

LOL internet nerds etc.