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

related: I know you ate your desk

I guess s/he needed some extra fiber.

Seriously, anyone living on nothing but popcorn is going to get pretty damn sick - its nothing but fibre and salt. Hello, scurvy!

Yes, coworker, let's keep interrupting and complaining about off-topic items on a meeting that has already run 20 minutes over, and when the thing you're complaining about IS NOT UNIQUE TO YOU!

I also dislike the people who wish to back into their parking spaces, but don't know how to do it, so they drive through one parking space to get to the other side and park. I once almost got hit by some idiot that did that.

Similarly, the idiots that use the parking lots as driving lanes and drive through them rather than the designated lanes. If the lot is empty, ok whatever, but when it's at the height of its activity, no drivers are looking for you when you're doing that!

Jesus lady. Take the minutes, don't take the minutes, nobody else cares if they happen or not. But don't bully someone else into taking them, then whinge that they don't include everything on your own copious notes which you always write anyway, and stop them being sent out until you've rewritten them, which you then don't do for a month (by which time any information on them is either irrelevant or obvious to everyone), and then have a massive hissyfit about how long it takes you.

EVERY. TIME. This has happened at least ten times with at least five different people taking apparently inadequate minutes. Fucking hell.

(I should know better than to check my work email from home, yes? I already had an earful of this all day and all yesterday and now I have an inboxful too)

lady sounds like the type who writes Powerpoints in paragraph format and overexplains things

A critique of your powerpoint that you have to give in front of the company president is not fairly comparable to the McCarthy hearings.

I hate co-workers that can't take feedback. the one major chewout I've ever gotten I treated as a valuable learning experience.

what should have taken approx. 1.5 hrs max has now evolved into a multi day project, due to the total spazz idiot airhead that i've been stuck working with on this thing. she set the times for us to meet yet was still 90mins late monday and 40mins late today. she talked my boss into making her a part of this project that was MY idea and which i already had worked out, and all the things she told our boss she could contribute have turned out to be TOTAL BULLSHIT. ugh.

Point that out to boss! Or dont you want to be a dobber.

Jesus lady. Take the minutes, don't take the minutes, nobody else cares if they happen or not. But don't bully someone else into taking them, then whinge that they don't include everything on your own copious notes which you always write anyway, and stop them being sent out until you've rewritten them, which you then don't do for a month (by which time any information on them is either irrelevant or obvious to everyone), and then have a massive hissyfit about how long it takes you.

EVERY. TIME. This has happened at least ten times with at least five different people taking apparently inadequate minutes. Fucking hell.

(I should know better than to check my work email from home, yes? I already had an earful of this all day and all yesterday and now I have an inboxful too)

You should have known what you were getting in to when you started working at Nine Year Old Girls R Us.

xp ugh it's this weird situ where my boss just lets this spazz get away with anything - she is so fuckin flaky (eg. she didn't turn up for an afternoon shift starting at 2pm bc she SLEPT THRU HER ALARM) and unreliable and air-headed but she gets really easily butthurt and makes a point of letting everyone know that she is special bc a) her dad died 3yrs ago and b) she is bi-polar and has ADD.

thing is, my boss is also totally fuckin flaky so they are like two peas in a pod. this is the same boss who thinks it would seem 'desperate' to advertise the fact that we manufacture our clothing locally (and this is in berkeley, the fcukin hippieorganiclocavore capital of the world).

oh man, Berkeley, say no more.

(Don't) Putting Spaz

I also dislike the people who wish to back into their parking spaces, but don't know how to do it, so they drive through one parking space to get to the other side and park. I once almost got hit by some idiot that did that.

I do this allllll the tiiiiime! or would if i drove more than once a year. it's not to do with backing in, it's to do with getting a quick exit! would have to be pretty unlucky and unobservant to be in danger of hitting someone coming from the other direction imo.

would have to be pretty unlucky and unobservant to be in danger of hitting someone

^from the man who doesn't look behind him when changing lanes iirc

encyclopedantic^

yeah I subscribed to the jaymc.xls mailshot

I stand by all of my manoeuvres - only thing I've ever crashed into was stationary and right in front of me. (of course I realise i'm not doing myself any favours with this argument.)

backing in is fine, but driving through the spot to the other side=NO NO NO. someone almost hit me doing that once here, and took a spot that I had a right to! I shoulda hit him, cuz I woulda collected nice $$$$ on that.

also coworker why do you keep asking me what I mean by these notes when I've told you multiple times in the past that these notes aren't written by me, but by your superior. Makes you look pretty dumb that you don't even understand your own department's MO.

would have to be pretty unlucky and unobservant to be in danger of hitting someone

^from the man who doesn't look behind him when changing lanes iirc

― meta the devil you know (onimo), Thursday, September 23, 2010 10:50 AM (10 hours ago) Bookmark Suggest Ban Permalink

saw ledge's post and also thought of that changing lanes thread straight away. scary stuff ledge.

God I'm trying not to begin the day on a cranky note but it's next to impossible when a certain someone keeps asking me questions about notes LEFT BY PEOPLE IN HER OWN DEPARTMENT. And this is not the first, second, third, or even fourth time I've told her, no, this is not my note, it is your project lead's, please see HIM if you have questions about how this works.

Not to mention that it's sad that you don't know how your own department's process works...but even worse that you go to someone outside of it to ask!!!

we got some paranoid people in the bathrooms here. i keep finding these toilet paper "flags" in the stalls in two places: one to fill the small gap between the door and the wall panel, and one to fill the gap in the back of the stall wall.

These things look like they take 5 minutes to take each. Why? To tackle the obvious clear and present danger of the person in the next stall craning his head back to watch you take a dump? It's ridiculous and a waste of toilet paper!

Wd sooner have my eyes pinned open for 72 sleepless hours of the worst of rotten.com than see any of my coworkers take a dump

yea but in order to do it in this stall, you'd have to crane your next back almost in a sleeping position, or if you were at a urinal, would have to look to the right and duck. I mean these guys are protecting themselves against an evil that doesn't exist!

"You're coming to lunch at 12.30 right?"
"um... first Ive heard of it. I actually had plans.."
*whining* "noooo I'm not taking no for an answer, COME TO LUNCH"
"Uh dude I was going to be shopping on my lunchbreak..."
"you can go shopping after lunch!"

Dude, are you even listening to yourself!? Gah. I hate pushy people. I said no, I don't have to justify why or be talked out of it. Fuck off.

he just likes your company, trayce!

If he was asking me to lunch on his own I'd be even more worried, he's a married man with a kid o_0 Nah its the sales team wanting to "thank" me for helping them hit the quarterly targets (heres a tip guys: LET ME GET BONUSES LIKE YOU DO), but he's already buying me a cider after work (I conceded to that to shut him up heh).

This makes it sound like I am rly anti social at work hhaha. I'm not, I just hate things being last-moment sprung on me. And I *loathe* people who wont take no for an answer :(

And I *loathe* people who wont take no for an answer

me 2

Is it a particularly aussie thing? "gwwannn just have ONE beer, what areya a poof?" and that sort of shit. I hate it. I worked at a place that hassled a MUSLIM guy for politely declining a friday beer. FFS guys - our client base is in BAGHDAD, get a clue.

often times if I get invited for an after work beer I politely decline simply because I'VE BEEN AT WORK ALL DAY, I'd like to, y'know, go home and stuff and relax. It isn't personal if I decline. Besides, you're also asking me to needlessly spend my own money, so I should have the final say on whether I do that, no?

got this one co-worker who doesn't understand how any processes work and this one thing we worked on has had numerous problems, a few of which were my department's fault, but most of which were not. Everytime something goes wrong there's no objective "can you tell me what the root cause is", it's basically insinuating we messed up and can we take a look at it and fix it.

I mean do you not realize that leading off with an implication of my dept's guilt without even knowing half the details is probably going to make me less likely to want to help you than if you just ask if I can take a look to see what happened?

Whenever the office spaz would try to coerce me yet again to eat the desserts someone brought in or go out for drinks, i would always tell her how she would be the best drug dealer ever. She seriously could not drop it until I had said no 7 times. I sometimes had to throw away food because she would still put shit on my desk after I said no.

8:15 in the morning and she is already on her first bag of popcorn. This has continued for the entire month I've been here, 2-4 bags of popcorn per day. I don't get it, I would get sick of anything if I ate it that often.

I am so sick and tired of people who refuse to follow procedure. Obviously we can't be so inflexible as to never allow exceptions, but today is another example of yet another co-worker who I had to say "no" to because what they wanted was outside of proper procedure, and yet again, is fighting me on it. The main things that angered me:

1. I took the time to proactively provide alternative options, and this person apparently didn't read them. He responded in snarky fashion that if I couldn't do it his way, could I at least give him alternatives? I GAVE YOU FOUR OF THEM!!!!

2. Email was very condescending, presuming that I obviously don't know what I'm talking about. A. I've been working here nearly six years, and this guy maybe 1-2, B. I used to have his job so I know what it entails, and C. BECAUSE of that experience, I am explaining to him why this approach is THE WRONG ONE.

3. I will likely, as usual, get painted as the bad guy simply because I don't kotow to those who simply ignore the regulations of their job in favor of doing things "how they want to do it".

sorry for the vent, got unusually ticked off about this.

san te: by the books 4 lyf

Misread that as "Emeril was very condescending"

It must be a diet thing, shes on her fourth bag of popcorn since 8:30 this morning. It is now 3:20.

Maybe it's some sort of "dredging the canal" master cleanse.

there's a canal I'd rather not travel

Been half listening & trying to ignore fucking golf conversations for FIVE HOURS. Guys who have played golf for decades quibbling over rules.

I could xpost this to "innocuous things that make us irrationally angry" but still: one of my office-mates saunters into our three-person office every morning, greeting us with a quietly-spoken "g00d m0rning, gentl3m3n." We've been sharing this office for 5 months and it's the same damn thing every day. I don't understand the need for this affectation.

I sometimes eat caramel corn for breakfast, but never in the office! I once had a co-worker who not only would eat popcorn in the office, but who kept his own popcorn popper in his cubicle. I think even munching popcorn on the train is rude! Unless it is candy corn, in which case you are obligated to share heaping bags of it with your office mates.

I'm tired of the people here who wear their iPODs everywhere in the building, including the elevator/outside. It's really unprofessional, and also especially annoying when I'm asking you to press an elevator button for me and you SHRUG and POINT AT YOUR HEADSET as if to say "I can't hear you and this song is too good for me to pull this out of my ear atm".

I mean I have a co-worker who listens to his iPOD as he pisses.

I just can't imagine what would happen if one of our clients came up and tried to ask one of them a question and got rebuffed like that.

Either stop sucking your fucking teeth and making stupid clicky noises, or visit the fucking dentist, for fuck's fucking sake.

going back to the complaint I had last week, these twits still aren't listening to me. Despite me giving clear, and easy alternatives to do the work they want that will achieve the same results, be better functionally, and take half the time, they are still asking me to misuse technology simply because they don't know how to train their associates. It is weaker functionally, will take double the time, and is technically not even allowable under the guidelines.

I want to bang my head against a wall with these people sometimes.