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

If they're away, they fwd it from their BlackBerries and ask me to print it.

what kind of idiot walks around an office barefoot. this kid has got balls.

Re: the email about not printing emails, someone in my company emailed a client of ours with that signature once...

The client being a paper company, who was very upset by it.

printers upset me

I hate when co-workers and members of the same organization can't handle basic communication. I've been handed two deadlines for Monday, only one of which can realistically be completed in that amount of time. Now both of them are refusing to budge because they both have "important weekend plans". Meaning, I have to give up my own weekend plans to be here to get both deadlines done. Ridiculous.

make some plans

popcorn festival?

swallow a bag of pop corn and then go get i n the hot tub and feel it pop

playing around with your phone instead of working while everyone else pulls their weight. Its kind of obvious how littel you do at a workplace when your screensaver is always on

one of my directors treats me like a complete pee-on...im about two seconds away from letting her have it. this woman makes assumptions constantly about my job performance and things that she doesn't think i did, when in turn i've actually done them.

Did you look up peon in the dictionary?

I know what's like to be a urinal.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=u6f9TyXNs6w

do you think i give a shit how to spell it.

I sincerely apologise for my cruel and weak zing attempt.

its ok, im pissed and grumpy.

INSANE!

Yeah like, who prints emails anyway!?

a) we totally print heaps of emails (but a tiny fraction overall) with details of contract variations and suchlike for people to be able to reference, even if they weren't on the email / don't work here until 2013

b) there are totally managers in approx 1 zillion orgs worldwide who still don't handle email but have their assistants print them out twice a day

I am trying to really not use paper at all if I can help it.
its hard though becuase I like to diddle and write notes

by diddle you mean doodle, right?

spell it how you like

ok - after googleing I guess I do not diddle.
sorry for the gender-ambiguousness there
Still, with stem cells these days you never know - I hear their growing cocks on all kinds of people

This is more of a general bitch about "stupid, annoying" societal issues, but a bitch must be pitched anyway. I suppose I should look on this a bit differently considering I'm soon to become a parent myself, but I'm continually baffled by the blatant hypocrisy afforded parents. Today we were having a meeting about an interview our firm is taking part in Monday and divvying up the workload for this afternoon. One of the firm's partners flat-out said, "well since (X)and (Y) have kids, we'll just make (Z) come in over the weekend to make up the difference". No joking, not irony, nothing - completley serious. I know this is fairly standard out there, but the idea that just because someone has procreated their home lives and commitments have more value than anyone else is such bullshit.

I know this will probably never change and I should look forward to being able to use that excuse myself, but its still such a ridiculous attitude.

and people who go on "extended potty breaks"

i think at my place of work if you have kids, you are afforded less luxury.

I always think if you have kids you should get more sick days cause you have to stay home when they get sick but I can imagine if I mentioned this ever the people with no kids would throw things at me and yell

although having a kid makes a great excuse for bagging in to work...."oh my kid has the shits, I wont be in today." works, everytime.

Well I certainly think there should be the flexibility to deal with those kind of sick kid issues. There definitely is a difference in that regards. My issue is more when there is extra work to be done and it is always delegated to the employees without kids because its imagined that their personal lives can't possibly be important.

why dont you just offer to watch their kids while they work

yeah thats kind of shit.

this is part of why I sing tbh

Skee Dappa Dee Dappa Dee.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lDvr7d5qZUw

worse perhaps when I worked somewhere where the boss would bring in her kids who would run around causeing havok AT work when school was closed

When I worked in home health, we had a rule against bringing kids to a client's house. Some people did anyway. (Mostly because about 90% of them were single moms.)

Jon, I know exactly what you mean. Years ago, when I was working at another company, a coworker and I were asked to give up a couple of weekends to serve as production assistants on out-of-town video shoots. Beyond the fact that this was completely outside my job description -- I was hired as a fact-checker/proofreader -- I was really bothered by the fact that the assignment fell to, oh look, the two young single guys in the department. So I pretty much just refused to do it. My performance review that year took a hit, but that was the only real consequence.

:'( most people at my work print every single email "for the file."

This makes my eyelid twitch. THE EMAIL IS THE DARN FILE. It reminds me of working for a govt department, everything was so freaking old fashioned and arcane and NO ONE knew how to do aything outside their little, set-in-concrete ways. We had ONE windows pc for typing up word docs on (the main work I did was doe on old COBOL mainframes - and this was in the mid 90s).

Oh and also when I had my first ISP job? When we created a new user account, we'd also print out the page with the confirmation user/pass and put it in a pile. WHY? In the end, someone stole half the pile and started using the logins for free internet, til he got caught and fired. We stopped doing it after that heh.

I did some consulting for a PR with really good flexible working and maternity policy in place, but the experience was ruined by a newly-returned mommy going all My Child whenever anyone demanded anything of her, or disagreed with her. But for the most part (especially here), women who have children get hosed by HR and micromanaged out by their bosses - who, on many occasions, are also women.

Trayce, the weird part is that we never purge our emails. My emails go back to 2005, and include those of two of my predecessors. My bosses emails go back even longer.

It's not even like they limit their prints to shit of substance! E.g.:

Partner sends email: Hey Associate, can you tell me what time your meeting w/ Client is?

Associate prints that email.

Associate replies: It's at 1:00.

Partner prints that email.

Partner replies: Thanks.

Associate prints that email.

Ad vitam aeternam.

This makes my eyelid twitch. THE EMAIL IS THE DARN FILE.

As I said, it's for the reference of people who won't start working here for another three years and won't have received the email.

That's what migrating (? that's what our IT consultant calls it) previous users' emails to new users' accounts is good for!

Exactly. And why Outlook etc is centralised on a server. Or bloody should be in an office.

Or on the web like gmail::groupwise blows btw

That's what migrating (? that's what our IT consultant calls it) previous users' emails to new users' accounts is good for!

what about when a temp from the online catch-up service is confirming the rights variations on a certain program? they should have 100 other employees entire email histories migrated to their account just so they can search for any single instance that any of those 100 ppl have discussed ANYTHING about the program -- instead of walking to a cabinet, taking out the file with the contracts and revisions in it, and seeing that someone has helpfully filed the one actual useful email out of hundreds and hundreds and hundreds about this specific issue relating to the program?

Exactly. And why Outlook etc is centralised on a server. Or bloody should be in an office.

our email is on servers, not local machines, if that's what you mean? but presumably on a bunch of them given the dozens and dozens of different offices around the continent. (and anything over six months old gets archived and you have to search a vault in Outlook for it.)

OK printing out very specific emails that discuss contract terms and replied agreements is a diff thing - I can see having copies of that makng sense. Printing every single thing seems overkill.

It's not even like they limit their prints to shit of substance! E.g.:

Ha ha, that reminds me of my first job out of high school, as an office assistant. I was told to keep a file of all fax machine transmissions; when my boss saw me throw away a little slip of paper that just had the date and time (because the old-ass thermal-printer fax machine would spit these out every day for some reason), he demanded that I keep a file of those, too. So there was this manila folder with about 200 little half-slips of thermal fax paper and maybe four actual full-page transmissions.

get ready for a lengthy rant!!!!!!

i went on vacation for 2 weeks - unpaid vacation, since i get no paid time off at my job - and since i'm the only person who does my job, i had to train a staff member to take over for the time i was gone. i spent 2 full days doing this, and i also left extremely detailed, written instructions for everything she needed to do, including v specific itinerary for each day she was working.

she managed to do everything either completely wrong or not at all, and also managed to 'lose' a bunch of things AND create a ridiculous amount of extra work for me - more than if no one had been there to do my job. and not just extra work, but a ton of extra stress, since she fucked up so much stuff that has long-term consequences.

AND she used my hair brush and left it FULL of her gross hair. ugh.

I AM SO MAD

the thing that really gets me is that the money she was paid to 'work' could've been paid to me as vacation time instead.

the litigation industry thrives on having all of these emails printed and filed. what one person thinks is of no substance could be the needle in the haystack an opposing counsel is looking for. you never know. it's always better to cover your ass on this stuff. anyway, you're not going to send entire outlook mailboxes to opposing counsel when they request docs for discovery. you have to have the hard files so that all relevant documents can be coded, numbered, etc, in sequence.
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so shitbreath lady has taken to calling me "guru". "this is chris he is the guru when it comes to..." really annoying

Maybe you can be her fresh breath guru.