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

you forgot the bit about
- they made you and other salaried workers come in on weekends to do the jobs of the hourly-paid staff, so they wouldn't have to spend extra

- and the CEO refused to address you directly after you gave notice

even just reading the above is making steam shoot out of my ears xxpost

Oh god, that sounds like a nightmare.

And I sincerely hope, somewhere in his/her black little soul, the "torpedo tits" commenter is positively on fire with shame, for belittling a cancer victim, what in the actual christ.

he felt bad about it for like a day and then started up with the name again later, but mostly with other people. see the above part about "resisting" and becoming a problem.

that list is only a tiny percentage of the shit he endured for 5 years

and also that guy's aunt died of breast cancer

I'm trying to fix a piece of writing for publication and the original is so bad and nonsensical and legally incorrect in a really obvious way that I can't fix without torpedoing the entire thing. It's making my head hurt.

Ugh yes, similar thing happened to me last week. I'd gathered a bunch of data around E3 in early June, then for some reason the data was given to the interns to make into an 'infographic' that we could post on the company blog (the interns are not there to do graphics). Their end product was eventually given back to me with instruction to fix it. Not only was it graphically poor (no corporate/professional blog would ever dare claim it as their own) but half of the little blurbs they'd written based on the data were factually incorrect. Brilliant use of everyone's time, that -- could've saved both interns a full work day had it just been given to me in the first place (and it would've been ready in time to be relevant instead of being completed two weeks after E3 finished). Felt kind of bad for the interns being told to work on that project to begin with, think they were a bit out of their depth.

a while back a friend of mine was translating something from french for academic publication, except it turned out she wasn't really translating, she was merely editing the esl prose. great! except it became evident that it had been largely fed through google translate, and it turned out there wasn't a french original. the border between editing and co-authoring quickly disappears.

new annoying but also creepy coworker:

our new driver is sort of the worst. he started this week and he's already gotten on the bad side of at least half the female staff. we've had this problem before with one guy just hitting on all the women constantly: the old GM fired him, the new GM hired him back. fortunately the new GM is gone soon but who knows who's replacing him.

on a less important note, he doesn't really seem to understand things. me and another driver will be trying to coordinate tomorrow's huge giant orders, trying to get everything organized and he's just hindered us at every step. we'll tell him exactly what the plan is and how we're going to do it (and i'm talking micro-tasks like "moving these boxes over here for now") and he seems to understand and happily agrees, and then does the complete opposite. he speaks and understands english better than half our employees and they'd all understand what we meant anyway.

also he just doesn't leave. he'll stick around and keep working hours after managers tell him to clock out. he was still there an hour into my second shift yesterday (and he took one of my orders before i even knew it existed). i asked him why he won't clock out and he goes "yes, i'm still here because i get what i want." i had to inform him that they're going to cut his hours off if he gets close to making overtime. it's hard to talk to him about anything seriously because he's always so smiley and bubbly!

on a much more important note, he was talking to a girl on the phone and said this exact quote: "i hate it when you say you're scared of me. if you say you're scared of me again i'll kill myself." WELP

"i hate it when you say you're scared of me. if you say you're scared of me again i'll kill myself."

jesus christ

Well, here's hoping he's a man of his word! And that he won't want to take anyone with him when he goes.

woah, thats a real One Hour Photo vibe right there

I can definitely vouch for the job PTSD. I just had my one year anniversary at new job but from time to time I still find myself reacting unnecessarily (internally, not in interactions with peole) to things some people do because I was so conditioned to awfulness.

Xpost that guy sounds scary!

that is creepy but i think we're all glossing over the fact that trayce made a "one hour photo" reference

My boss replies to emails pretending to be me. Urghhhhhhh.

lol what was wrong with my ref?

My boss replies to emails pretending to be me. Urghhhhhhh.

Can you send an email to your boss to stop fucking doing that with their name at the bottom?

That was my first thought too!

guys

no stupid annoying co-worker problems to report in a whole week

btw i abbreviated stupid annoying coworkers there but caught it just in time

I decided against dealing with the issue via email over the weekend, which means I have to confront it in person today! Eeek. I hate confrontation. But I hate someone pretending to be me even more. I think...

Don't apologize for confronting them and don't argue with them. Just tell them how you feel and that you want them to stop. #justcamebackfromacourse /annoyingpatronisingbusybody

Geez, I have annoyances in the workplace, but "torpedo tits" and a frat party atmosphere isn't one of them. Among them is organizing and editing and updating the old boss' files - like procedure manuals that are ten years old. Turnover is so high around here that I am one of the few underlings who understands the documents. Work here long enough and you're expected to know everyone else's job...

Relevant to krakow: http://www.askamanager.org/2012/04/my-boss-is-using-my-email-account-to-impersonate-me.html

Wow, what a weird, unprofessional practice. Aren't there laws against this sort of thing? I guess if the business is small enough, people think they can get away with anything.

I can't imagine that happening anywhere I have worked. It is not only harassment, it is bad for general morale and bad management. That boss would be fired immediately!

Background: I'm crazy busy at work. Everybody who has the job I have is almost always crazy busy. Also I used to be a union steward but quit a couple of years ago because this local is run by power-mad idiots.

So a coworker who might be a steward, or is maybe just active in the union, came in to our office yesterday and handed me a stack of 30 pages - a print out of a senate bill and the legislation it's supposed to create - and asked me to read that over and let me know what I thought because other people have read it and she thinks they are reading it wrong. It's got something to do with pension reform or health insurance or something, I don't know or care. I told her I was really busy and probably wouldn't have a chance and she put it on my desk and told me to get to it when I got to it and give her a call.

And I know this lady and $10 says this is just some pointless pissing match she decided to get into with some other ding dong in the union, because that's pretty much all they do - have pissing matches over inconsequential bullshit and misappropriate funds.

I'm not going to read it, but I'm just annoyed that I told her no and she ignored me.

I've posted about this before but I cannot express how unbelievably, massively postal I am getting over the unceasing noise of my boss sitting behind me, open-mouthedly crunching loudly on fucking rice crackers ALL DAY LONG. Like she seriously dips into her little plastic bucket, rattles around in it then slowly noisily munches away, at least 3 times a day. I get uncontrollably tense hearing the noise and have to put my headphones on. Uuuughhh.

OH NO! you'll have to listen to ~music~! horrible horrible music!

;p

quiet you!

Well, I didn't get my promotion after all. I thought I was a shoe-in!

Again, it's not my nature to be bitter, it just seems to be the system that people get turned down for promotions and jobs and it should be "understood" why.

But to be passed over by someone I know isn't that talented and doesn't work very hard and is simply good at calling attention to herself kind of hurts. I actually got told by my boss that it was because I don't "sell" myself. I was taught growing up that you had to work really hard to deserve anything, that it wouldn't be handed to you. That hard sell was arrogant and aggressive and entitled.

Again, maybe I have the problem and need to improve my skill sets.

No, I think any reasonable human has contempt for the person who sends out an e-mail to announce that they've completed some minor task. Unfortunately bosses are not reasonable humans for the most part

showing as idle for literal hours on communicator while working from home.

I've had to explain to my line manager no less than four times what my working arrangement is this summer: "three days a week, Wednesday to Friday." I even sent a little colour-coded calendar to show the days I will work. Twice. This has been going on for like a month now. At one point he told payroll that I'd be working 4-5 days each week in July (I think this was after the second time I told him I wanted to do max three days per week).
WTF seriously. It's not that confusing is it??

Sometimes I with this thread was on 77 and then I realise it's probably for the best that it isn't. I would just complain all. the. time.

isn't that a good thing if he wants you to be on payroll for four days, while you work only three?!

STOP CORRECTING HIM IMMEDIATELY!

^^
"Oh, I figured after our second conversation it had been cleared up. I don't look at my paystubs closely"

"... or go ahead, it's not like you'd notice anything."

Some kindly mod deindexed this thread a few days ago, so while it's not on 77, it isn't searchable if that helps.

This afternoon I went to have coffee with a coworker who is neither stupid nor annoying and of whom I am quite fond. On the way back, we tried to catch an elevator (as I've mentioned before, the elevators in our building are notoriously slow and awful so people go to great lengths to grab one when it's available) and she stuck her hand between the doors at the last minute and the door shut on her hand. She was so laid back about it, I thought she was just fucking around. I'm all "Haha you are funny!" And she just smiled and really calmly said, "No, my hand is actually stuck." I had to grab her wrist with both hands and give it a good tug, but I pulled her hand out. She shook it off, literally, and we got in the next elevator and went back to talking about whatever work bullshit we had been talking about when she nearly lost a hand.

She just now showed me a nasty red mark on her arm and said that she's weirdly calm under pressure and that she probably won't freak out about what happened until sometime later tonight.

Like, I didn't really get how stuck she was until I saw her hand. She was really stuck! But she was so fucking chill about it.

With the addition of this incident, in the last couple years I've seen somebody get hit by a car, somebody fall face first into a stationary train (and lay there dazed and bleeding at my feet until the ambo came), somebody who fell face first into a revolving door, and somebody who got his foot stuck between the train and the platform (mind the gap, motherfucker!). Those last two happened in the last two or three months.

I need people to stop having near-horrific accidents in my vicinity. It's making me jumpy.

stay away from me!

I want to stay away from me! After the last two, I am so careful about watching my feet I'm probably going to walk into a pole and die of a closed head injury.

I walked into a pole once. I was perving on a guy at the time :/

Ugh everyone at work seems to have the dumb today.

boss: "can you guys make sure you dont leave the meeting room in a mess when you leave it? Theres tissues (?) and mess on the table and the TV is all out of place bla bla"
workmate, bafffled: "we didn't move the tv at all, and we didnt bring anything into the meeting room to have been left a mess, huh?"
boss: "just dont do it again"

lol wtf

then 5 mins later
workmate: "please send me the list of customers affected by the migration"
me: "what, the list in the document i just sent you in the email you're replying to?"

*head goes on desk here*

chinese food at your desk? Srsly?

Someone in our office microwaved popcorn this morning and I feel I now have an insight into the pain jon was suffering for so long upthread. Thankfully it only stank out the kitchen and not the office itself, but yeuch if I had to smell that 3 times a day I would probably have to quit.

Summer interns are getting on my nerves. It is a design and photographic publisher and they are two stereotypical child psychology major types. Academically, their background is a little lightweight for what we do. We don't edit children's textbooks.

Either their academic advisor plays golf with HR or HR felt sorry for them for their lack of qualifications.