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

jon: no worries, I respect your opinion.

call all destroyer: that's what I'm getting at. She obviously had the intent to remind me, but she waited until after most people in the office leave for the day.

yeah--hard to say if it's retardedness or passive aggression.

I guess it's also frustrating as my review is coming up. I'm a top performer and always have been, am looked as a leader in the group, but I had a rough patch where I unfortunately let my personal life spill into work. That combined with an unusual series of illnesses led my performance to not be up to my usual standard. Not everybody even noticed, but some people did, and my manager got concerned.

In the last 8 months, I've completely reversed that negative trend and more than compensated for the brief bad blip on my radar, so something like this, even though it probably will not even be remembered in two days time, I took as something that could reinforce some of the negative beliefs to my peers that I unfortunately bestowed upon myself last year.

Just judging by your descriptions, I would die a slow painful death if I were employed where you work..

turns out it was a big misunderstanding due to a technology flaw - she thought I was out of the office because she didn't see me online due to a name change I'd processed which required her to readd me. so I did overreact.

Added to the list of things I've learned about my annoying co-worker:
- his fraternity brother's cat has a tumor the size of a golf ball on its face.
- he like Costco.
- he will be hanging out with his girlfriend this weekend.
- he cannot wait until he has money, so that he can have a place to barbecue.

STFU.

anybody have those coworkers who see you eating lunch, or are on the phone, and start yammering away asking for your help? and don't mind how much of your time they take up, they dont want you to leave until they get what it is they're doing?

currently two ladies beside me are ringing around to see if anybody has a 'child of prague' idol that they can decapitate to ensure good wedding on a wedding date at the end of next month.

wtf? that's appropriate work convo?

well, the wedding is only a month away, obviously this is a looming emergency.

this is way the fuck upthread at this point - but "wildly inappropriate conversations" in the office are my reason d'etre.
especially mid-meeting.
it is the funnest thing ever and i will never stop. ever.

thank you, co-worker, for taking a dump, blocking the toilet, making no attempt to fix the situation OR let anyone else know to come fix it for you (how fucking hard is it to use a plunger???).

currently two ladies beside me are ringing around to see if anybody has a 'child of prague' idol that they can decapitate

Is this some kind of catholic thing? o_0

it's 'some kind' of catholic thing (at least i'm pretty sure a child of prague is an idol of the infant christ) mixed with some kind of hedge witch thing. a mix that's fairly common out where i'm at.

Someone at my last job used to complain about women leaving "menstrual blood" in the toilets. Turned out it was the red Toilet Duck the cleaners used.

Male or female complainer?

In Ireland some brides will place an Infant of Prague statue outside their house the night before their wedding. This is meant to ensure that there will be good weather for the wedding day.[citation needed]

http://irishherault.wordpress.com/2009/07/03/infants-of-prague/

"Tradition had it that the Infant of Prague worked better without the head, so you were only delighted when your mam decapitated yours, years ago when she was cleaning."

Never heard of any of this in my life, my ancestors left a lot of tradition behind in the old country.

If only there were a place people could look up such information. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Infant_Jesus_of_Prague

So, its kind of f-ed up when the thing I'm looking forward to least about Monday morning is dealing with my annoying co-worker, isn't it?

We have a problem with half our IT dept being split between London & Brighton, with all sorts of related political and ideological differences.

The latest is that the Brighton developers are for some reason incapable of working with NULL values in databases, so we have to add "dummy" entries with an ID of 0 so we can set all the NULL values to 0 and still have a foreign key constraint on our tables. This won't mean much to non-relational database people but rest assured is completely fucking retarded.

wait, what the hell

My manager went straight to the CTO saying we shouldn't do this but was shot down.

The head of Brighton IT is a total moron but somehow has a lot of clout with the business. This is just the latest in a long line of completely stupid decisions...

Male or female complainer?

Male. The toilets are unisex.

Poo: dontcha love when decisions get made out of someone's sheer inability...no...REFUSAL to learn how to do it the right way?

If only there were a place people could look up such information. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Infant_Jesus_of_Prague

― ned ragú (suzy),

I quote a wikipedia article and you tell me to look up the wikipedia article I quoted :/
The article doesn't mention decapitation, that's why I went on to find another one. Telling people to look up stuff they've just looked up = a+ zinging

[citation needed] is usually a telltale sign

Sorry Onimo for some reason I did not even see your post, was replying to DM.

let's bitch at our stupid, annoying co-posters

eh if i were posting as some sort of omniscient expert on the subject this might be a thing. but i saw this at work, it was strange (i don't think the existence of a wikipedia article would necessarily change that) and pretty annoying behaviour from two annoying co-workers.

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no worries Suzy :)

think I'm getting a bit tetchy on here, might be time for a sabbatical.

People at my place are either starting to play dumb, or are becoming mental midgets fast.

Yesterday I'm assigned research to determine, among other things, why a specific item was not mailed to a customer. In the end, my research determined that the person responsible for mailing the item was the person that requested the research, a fact that was documented in a very obvious manner had she bothered to look.

Wouldn't you think that even if the name didn't ring a bell, you'd at least double check to make sure it wasn't your responsibility first before wasting someone else's time? This is a frequent occurrence!

ever since my boss got married, he's scatterbrained as hell. forgets to send me invites, doesn't reply to emails or messages, is unresponsive to everyone (including a poor coworker who tried to ask him three times to get a laptop so she could work from home while nursing her poor husband back to health)...it wouldn't bother me so much if he didn't give us all the speech about how we shouldn't be letting personal lives affect work.

he also interrupts people in the middle of sentences all of the time so if you haven't made your complete point in three words, forget it...you'll never get to finish it.

realized today that i work at the mexican version of jersey shore

lol

club hounds who come in hungover on tuesday, a totally closeted bodybuilder, way too much eyeliner, and constant drama regarding guys i've never seen named "mike" and "julio" with regard to which of the two of them has texted most recently

we had two co-workers arrested on site for something I can't really specifically mention but it involved conspiracy for fraud

last week that is

I got a companywide email today announcing that all employees now get a free chiropractic adjustment every month. Wonderful. I still haven't gotten the salary and benefits I was told I would qualify for over three months ago, so it still costs me $250 a month to maintain access to a real doctor, but thank goodness I no longer have to worry about the dread SUBLUXATIONS.

they can't deny you benefits if you qualify per plan provisions. that'd be an ERISA violation. have you not gotten the benefits because they simply haven't mailed you anything, or did you attempt to enroll and were you told you couldn't?

if they impede you too much in getting what you were promised, you can always go to the Department of Labor.

This is a tiny company (12 people) and the promise wasn't in any formal context, just a "oh hey, you've been here a while, how about we set you up with salary and benefits if you make it through the holidays alive."

"setting you up" w/ a salary is kinda important iirc

xpost I see. Regardless of the size, though, if the company offers insurance through ERISA and the employees pay for it on a before-tax basis, they can't merely drop the ball like that or they can risk losing the ability to offer before-tax benefits. I'm sure you're probably not trying to rock the boat, but I'd be like raising holy hell over it. they have to give you at least a 31 day enrollment period too.

I'm starting to get worried my job is turning to me into an Angry Man.

I can't seem to get through a day here without getting into a strop about something, F'ing and blinding etc.

What do you do when it seems like 80% of the people you have to deal with at work are incompetent? I've been here 4 years which is the longest I've ever worked anywhere and I think it's probably at least a year too long. This team seems to spend most of its time lately tidying up other people's mistakes and working on what is probably the most badly managed "upgrade" project I have ever worked on.

I just got my wife a job at this company as well, haha. I get an "introduce a friend" bonus when she's been here 2 months, at this point I think I'm going to hand my notice in the day after that cheque clears.

Argh.

i find that when i'm getting all pissy about everything it's probably time for a break. when was your last vacation?

Funnily enough we are going on holiday next month. That will help, but I still have to get through 4 weeks without getting fired for calling a manager a cunt.

well - try to send your thoughts towards wherever you're off too. even knowing you'll be getting away soon can help.
how long, btw? two weeks?

Yep, we're off to L.A.! Woohoo! Actually I feel better already. Thanks :)

srsly MICROSOFT OFFICE COMMUNICATOR

morelike microsoft monitor ur subordinates working hrs..

Two things:

1. Our department is big on tracking work (presumably so bigwigs can cut our headcount later down the line if they think we're "slow"), which makes sense. It's used to determine the projected hours we work on tickets we open in a database. Sometimes it gets to be ridiculous. The project I'm on now may take me 40-60 hours to complete. Because of teh stupid archaic way we have to create tickets for this project, it will likely take me 4-6 hours just to create them (during which time I of course can't get any real work done). I've spoken up a million times about the process being bad and made other suggestions but they fall on deaf ears.

2. This guy in our dept is nice but overcommits to things, then makes mistakes as a result of being overwhelmed. He was in charge of doing an editorial review of documetns we were passing onto a client. he did this with a partner. turns out he made 33 mistakes -- 40% of the items we sent over had to be redone. FUCKING USELESS.