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

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.

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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.

I'm guilty of wearing my iPod in the elevator, but only in the morning when I'm heading into the office and I always turn it down to make sure I can hear. I always take mine off when I walk away from my desk too though, that is pretty rude.

yea, I can live with that. I posted a friendly reminder on our web bulletin board about it just asking that people respect their co-workers, and got a whiny response from someone in one of the entry level positions saying they have such a tough job and don't get much of a break and oh they should be allowed to wear their iPod at their desk (something I never argued otherwise).

One of those "woe is me, you don't get how it is to be me" messages, to which I politely replied that I'd had their position when I started with the company and yes I do know what it's like but I DIDN'T WEAR IPODS ALL AROUND THE BUILDING AND IGNORE CO-WORKERS TRYING TO ASK QUESTIONS!

I hate to keep contributing to this thread, but it's been that kinda month so far.

so this morning, I get a list of names/SSNs in the office mail from another team in the building with no explanation as to why. I'm not affiliated with them at all, and this team has an uber-rigid security 'agreement' you have to sign with them before you can even do work with them.

So now I have the pleasure of having to alert my manager to cover my butt, lock away the materials, and then try to find out who sent this to me and why because THEY DIDN'T EVEN WRITE THEIR NAME ON THE ENVELOPE.

This girl has single-handedly ruined popcorn for me forever.

lol knew this had to be a popcorn post before opening. you should leave a bag of skittles on her desk with a note that says "Take...the...hint"

you could ruin popcorn for her via the popcorn trick

expect an unpleasant visit from HR afterward though

Hah, I really hate to be so predictable about this, but I'm honestly surprised how much this bothers me. I mean, 100% honest, this has been 2-4 times per day - every day for over a month. And with my desk being within 15 feet of the microwave, its all I smell.

"Sir, as part of our investigation, we need to ask a few questions. Are you aware of the function of the bottom of the popcorn tub and why removing it was a bad thing?"

i for one would be totally down with a PA note in this instance - still a new job for you so maybe don't want to make a direct complaint to her or the boss and maybe look bad, but a sneakily-placed note might do the trick? nothing too harsh, maybe "this popcorn thing is getting weird and the smell, day in day out, is really sickening to a lot of ppl in this office".

i mean, seriously, this behaviour of hers is pretty fucking weird.

Beware the popcorn lung!

i would seriously and anonymously send her this ^^ link

I'd send it not anonymously! I'd lean over her cubicle going OMG HAVE YOU READ THIS OMG THIS IS BAAAAD

Watch her freak out and stop eating popcorn.

Buy her loads more so she dies, problem solved.

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I'm seriously considering these ideas, she is on her SECOND bag of popcorn since she got here 40 minutes ago.

I mean, its 8:30 in the morning ffs. Who eats two bags of popcorn for breakfast???

last night I was at the movie theatre eating popcorn and I thought of this thread and thought of someone consuming that much popcorn in a day and it ruined the popcorn for me. so now i have a vested interest in this.

like you should buy all the popcorn in a 30 mile radius and destroy it

Find a well throw her in it then bury her in popcorn.
Only flaw is she may eat her way out and tell police or HR on you.

this last two weeks is just killing me, it was so peaceful before.

if I review your work (which is one of my responsibilities) and find you made a significant mistake on something that impacts another team, and I tell you that day to fix it immediately, and you let four business days pass without giving me any update, and when I ask you what's up, you say "oh sorry I've been super busy, I'll do it today", and then you don't do it...that's the point I stop talking to you and start talking to your manager.

Unreal.

Jeez, sounds like you need to start throwing furniture. People obv aren't taking you seriously.

this has been a truly abnormal month. I usually don't have this many issues at the same time. This person though would be wise to do the right thing as this gets documented permanently, so there's no chance of anybody 'forgetting'.

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That very scene has passed through my head more than a few times over the last month.

I mean, seriously. That's too much popcorn. Your only hope is that she contracts diverticulitis.

Does she eat anything else? Are these the 100 calorie light popcorn bags? Maybe she has an eating disorder.

oh she definitely has an eating disorder

I've never seen her eat anything else at the office, she never leaves for lunch. Just the popcorn.

She basically shouldn't still be ALIVE.

need stealthy pic of her eating.

Maybe she'll get scurvy, lose teeth, and be unable to chew anymore popcorn.

you should try to wean her onto more appropriate corn-based meals as a way to convert her to real food. like make her grits for breakfast, for example.

Well now I want this "how long to die of malnutrition" experiment to continue why because it look intersteing.

the popcorn diet

Because I'm dumb enough to be using my real (but very common) name, I always half-expect revives here to be my co-workers finsing me out.

Find a well throw her in it then bury her in popcorn.
Only flaw is she may eat her way out and tell police or HR on you.

Tried to find pic of Lucy Liubots eating way out of popcorn and spitting it at everyone but failed.