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

I have been stuffing myself with flumps and refresher bars to power up before the meeting. I will probably keep quiet and squirm through it.

There's so much more but I think if I get started I'll never stop.

spent the next 15 minutes checking .ssh/authorized_keys, hosts.allow, iptables config, mysql.user and mysql.db tables in minute detail and demonstrating that it works from my pc.

turns out that he doesn't know how to spell 'calypso'.

On Friday I had put this something in her office and said 'I've put the thing in your office'.

Later on Friday she moved the something back to my (reception) desk and said 'I'll put it there, then I'll be able to find it on Monday'.

Arrrrgh!

Me: "I can't make the changes on this one page because it's a PDF file. Can you email me the original you made the PDF from?"
Her: "I don't have it - maybe look on [name of laid-off web designer here]'s computer?"
Me: "Already did. Only the PDF version is there. I need the original so I can make the changes"
Her: "I don't know where it could be"
Me: "It's a pretty detailed form [it's a three-page application form with lots of stuff dense-packed in] and it would be a major pain to redo from scratch."
Her: "Well we didn't want anyone to make changes on it once it was done"

*head hits table*

And people ask why I'm leaving.

B: "Did I tell how good a movie Scary Movie 3 was?"
D: "I know thats one of the best movies."
C: "I've never seen it, should I?"
B&D: "Absolutely!"
B: "I also love that Steve Martin movie Bringing Down the House. Queen Latifah is such a good actor."
ME: "Are you fucking serious?"
BD&C: "Yes, and besides you like all those WEIRDO movies like The Duke Tennenbaums."
ME : "Im going to smoke bye."

This is one of many incidents my then girlfriend used to tell me about. She hated his guts but I looked forward to finishing work and hearing about him.

He was a tight fisted lad as well, he used to go out with them for a pub lunch and not order anything. He would sit with a half pint (or a pint if someone else was buying) of lager then eat everyone's leftovers.

If someone bought a pile of cakes for everyone in the office he would take a bite out of all of the surplus ones in the fridge so that no-one else would eat them.

if he hadn't gone and copy the other 4 times it would actually have been clever of him (or at least he could pretend that it was) to copy it once first!!

I'm not an obsessive tidier but there's nothing more annoying than not being able to find a cd when a customer asks for the listening copy of it.

Also since I'm simply his co-worker I don't know how to say it. I've been meaning to mention it to the boss but then I'm telling tales and as I said he is a nice guy.

!!!

Co-workers who make it seem that their daily tasks are "incredibly difficult but dammit, they do it anyway, no problem at all, hey you gotta pay your dues", doing this only to impress the higher-ups.

i.e. this girl I work with who makes it seem like her daily chores of assembling footage notes and keeping in contact with the transcription company are tasks that will take her ALL FUCKING DAY, and she's very sure to be very nice and act "tired" but "hey, it's cool...", plus compensating for the fact that she doesn't do any fucking work by coming in a little earlier and staying a little later. And all she does is surf the net! Hey I surf the net too obviously but I also work constantly! damn.

One day I screamed at him that all he wanted was a) more money, b) a job in his field of study, and c) to sleep with the girl he'd been flirting with all that fall.

That shut up him for a day or two, but no more.

She hates me. Or maybe I should stick with "She hate me" but that movie sounds rub.