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

See thats the thing, as far as I knew, I WAS doing it the right way. Its not my fault someone edited the firm-wide letterhead template.

The owner of that print shop is an interesting character. Major workaholic, pushes her people hard, but is careful to check herself constantly and ease off the gas if she's stressing people out. And she's big on taking a few minutes before various points of no return, double checking your work, reducing the error/waste rate. I kinda liked working there, hard as it was.

And she's big on taking a few minutes before various points of no return, double checking your work, reducing the error/waste rate.

Big fan of this idea, tbh.

There were problems with our email service last night, so our brilliant IT dept fixed it...which caused something else in the same program not to work. Idiots.

weird. our email has been really strange lately too.

anyways - if you're so smart, why don't you fix the email yourself then?

lol

You joke, but I don't have enough fingers to count the times that tech support was so bad, I had to fix things on my own...

The real reason I'm mad is that they may have just deleted my mailfile "on accident"

what i hate more than anything is people who say 'on accident'!!!

well, ok, that sounds really annoying if they can't retrieve it.
but one of the best ways to be the stupid/annoying coworker is to assume everyone else's job is easy and if everything doesn't go as expected it's because they're stupid/annoying.

xpost ha ha

The anger may be irrational, but it is pretty frustrating to lose 90 minutes of work due to not being able to access anything at all.

Fortunately, it seems to have resolved itself.
I would cut the dept more slack if I hadn't had major issues with them for the last 5 years and if complaints about them weren't the first thing out of most of our employees' mouths during townhalls.

I'd expect to be criticized if I performed this way in my role.

But anyway...problem solved, moving on w/ my day now.

office communicator message to from our accounts team, y'know that lot on 30-40k+

"in the post room there is a tray for africa and asia and latin america, i have a letter here for egypt where do i put it?"

my response: "you don't know where egypt is?"

accounts: "you didn't answer my question, which tray do i put it in?"

lol

meanwhile they are bitching about you to their friends "so unhelpful! I hate it when someone answers a simple question with a question!"

no actually after providing a link to maps.google.com (i'm an arse but we have a lol relationship, she once asked me what a spreadsheet was)

so, it continues

accounts: "it's not as simple as you think, egypt is in africa and the middle east, so which tray do i put it in?"

is there a mid-east tray?

not pulling your weight even when people say to you point blank "everyone thinks you are not pulling your weight"

she once asked me what a spreadsheet was

wait waht

okay, well i sent her an email with an *.xls attached and i got an email back saying "IS THIS A SPREADSHEET???"

i forgot, everythis is always caps, hehe

i still don't really know what she meant by that response. it's become a bit of a thing in our team though, "IS THIS A EMAIL???"

Can only imagine what she must have said the first time she had sex

"IS THIS A SPREAD SHEET?"

maybe she meant "you call that a spreadsheet?"

TIMING! yeah!

Seriously, I don't mind getting rounds of tea in, but guys, it might be nice to reciprocate once in a while. Seriousloy, the all wait around looking for someone to make a round, then when I decide to be the bigger man and get the tea in, they all reach towards me with their mugs anxiously requesting a drink, it's like springwatch in here.

Seriously.

Ha ha making rounds of tea. That never works.

what the fuck are you talking about

i think they're making tea by the cauldron.

You've been here for two years. We work for a regional publishing company. QUIT ASKING THE ENTIRE OFFICE WHERE "GREENBRIAR" IS AND BOOKMARK GOOGLE MAPS.

thats just rong

Don't ask me to explore alternatives and write a new role proposal that could possibly change my job, and then pretend that it doesn't mean anything. You have only made me realise that my job isn't effective and totally broken. Your a senior level, smug faced, time wasting twunt.

Garghhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhh!

"Hey guess what Trayce, I'm leaving on friday!"
"aw no, why? Oh btw who's driving yr major project now?"
"you are"

U&&^%^&

(in fairness a) I already was and b) he said I was doing a brill job and c) he isnt a boss)

Working on a project of a six-impossible-things-before-breakfast nature. It has been utter madness from day 1, and though good people are working 70 hour weeks on it, there's a certain amount of chaos. Everyone has been heroically good-humoured about it.

A week ago my boss brought in a new temporary project manager with the sole task of applying some control to all this.

New PM to me, about 4x a day: "What's the bloody point of all this? This project is a load of shit, there's been no governance, I'm used to working somewhere where there's some FUCKING ORGANISATION, you are wasting my time &c &c."

Do I rat him out? He's raised my blood pressure to the point where I want to go off sick just to get away from him.

Politely tell him that getting angry is understandable but not constructive, and that you believe it is his job is to introduce a set of controls which will ensure the project delivers to cost,quality and time.

That's where I started. /sigh

Yeah like um, isnt it his job to introduce said governance and organisation? Geesh.

tbh PM sounds like me most of the time. I don't know how the hell people put up with this shit otherwise. I'm not a PM though.

slap his cuntish face

People put up with loads of stuff perfectly well until some idiot starts ranting about how shit it all is. "you are wasting my time" is the worst. yes. we're all wasting our time. we'd all much rather be doing something fun or creative but unfortunately this is work, and we need to feed our children so stfu.

idgi then. Or is the point of this thread that you rant about how shit it all is to people outside of the office? Doesn't seem very constructive. I guess I figure it's better I complain about stuff on the off chance someone will actually do something about it.

lol I mean I have in fact used the words "stop wasting my time" this morning. But they were!

Poo, if people are being stupid, lazy, wilfully disorganised, and you have asked them 100x to get organised a little more and they've ignored yr sage advice, I'm calling that 'situation A'.

If, OTOH, people have been working themselves into fits of exhausted nausea to mobilise in 6 weeks >1000 new recruits in 6 new offices, doing high profile work every step of which has to be picked over and signed off by legal people,, and YOU WERE HIRED SPECIFICALLY TO HELP US BE ORGANISED, I'll call that 'situation B'.

B /= A.

And yes I think people sometimes vent here to save themselves being inappropriately rude in the workplace.

"You're wasting my time", such a horrible status-protecting thing to say. there with "I'm a very busy man" or "sent from my Blackberry"

(sorry CP, nowt personal of course :D

Yeah Zora's right, if someone was explicitly hired to fix the "load of shit" but then does nothing but bitch about it being shit and do nothing to fix it AS THEY WERE HIRED TO DO I'd be piss mad.

This guy is indeed superheating my urine.

part of my new duties this week involves loading €5k in coins into my car and driving them to the bank, uninsured and without supervision/help.

Nobody sees a problem with this, i dunno. I feel like a walkon part in 'heat', ie victim #5 or w/e

ps five large in coins is fucking heavy

btw where do you work and what is your most likely route

also do you happen to have a superfast forklift

(buys Nixon mask)

the route is the only one to the bank from the civic offices and my car reg is 02 W heeeeey waitaminute