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

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.

chinese food at your desk? Srsly?

where do you expect me to eat it when it's 3.30 and has become apparent that I'm not going to get an actual break tbh

I'm a regular desk eating offender, I admit, but so is my office mate so I assume we're all good.

a guy two cubes down is in the middle of an expletive-ridden 5 minute+ monologue rant on a hypothetical situation that he invented. we're in the midst of workforce attrition - for every 2 people who leave, we can only hire one new employee. angry guy says "you know what's going to happen? 5 managers leave, they fill their 5 positions and fire 10 staff! and these shithead managers will have no one to manage! they don't actually do any fucking work themselves! they...etcetcetc"

COWORKER WALKING DOWN THE HALL WHISTLING THE ANDY GRIFFIN SHOW THEME SONG AS LOUD AS YOU CAN: THAT IS NOT CUTE. IT IS DUMB AND ANNOYING. STOP IT RIGHT NOW. YOU SUCK.

Maybe s/he is still in mourning, jeez.

COWORKER WALKING DOWN THE HALL WHISTLING THE ANDY GRIFFIN SHOW THEME SONG AS LOUD AS YOU CAN: THAT IS NOT CUTE. IT IS DUMB AND ANNOYING. STOP IT RIGHT NOW. YOU SUCK.

this is me.

I hate to tell you this, but you suck.

tbf I'm trying to finish writing a thing that has been annoying and elusive for a couple of days and shrill whistling that continued on for far longer than necessary sent me a little over the edge.

My dog loves Andy Griffith for some reason. He watches the whole show. But what is up with obsessive compulsive.

Aww. My Grandparents' cockatiel used to whistle that theme all the time; I've been trying to teach my own bird for the last year but he's having a lot of trouble.

I would never whistle at work but people hum at work all of the time, which doesn't bother me, but some people think it's low class.

When I was a kid my best friends' parents had been in a concentration camp as a child, and they said the guards used to whistle. After they told me that, I developed a huge complex about being a white Christian American.

I don't think I ever whistled again, it would conjure images of work camps and chain gangs!

One of the janitors at my last job used to whistle "Patience" by Guns 'n' Roses all the time but he would always mess it up!

My family would have whistling contests when I was little. Italians hum, sing, whistle around the house all of the time! But to this day I'm scarred by whistling!

I'm not opposed to whistling in general. This unknown coworker was whistling SUPER LOUD while walking down a hall lined with offices where people are writing things and it just struck me as an affectation, plus it was rude.

usually i just hum, or go "do-de-do de doooo"

i usually clap my hands way above my head like i'm at a U2 concert in Europe in 1989

<3 ZS you are amazing

That's true, whistling in an office environment is a bit chirpy. I guess I've heard janitors or delivery people do it, but I'm not class biased. But if you're not doing manual labor, you're a desk jockey it's a bit weird.

One co-worker just asked another co-worker why her headphones are labeled "left" and "right" and if it mattered which ears she put them in. The response was that it's "personal preference".

Responder went on to explain how "some studios manipulate it so that certain sounds only come out of one of them."

HOLY SHIT NO ONE CARES THAT PARTS OF FUNNY FARM WERE FILMED IN THE TOWN YOU GREW UP IN SHUT UP

The coworker that I bitched about for bringing me a 30 page senate bill to read and interpret for her so she could win in a fight with someone in the union who insisted I read it even after I told her I didn't have time to do so? She came back today before I got in to find out what I'd thought, and told our admin to tell me to come by her office and tell her what I thought about the senate bill.

That's damn nervy, sister.

What does anyone think of people who think you need to "sell out" a little bit in order to bring in a sensible amount of money?

I'm finding this argument less persuasive as I get older. And yes, even I have tried the "sell out" thing.

I guess it depends on the definition of sell out? I feel like I sold out by going to work for the government instead of working for a nonprofit or legal service agency, even though I make shit money and still ostensibly am advocating on behalf of workers, albeit in a quieter way than I had hoped.

omgomgomg

We use Lexis as our subscription database here and as an attorney, I use it ALL THE TIME like all attorneys do. It is a famous program. It, or its competitor Westlaw, is a piece of famous legal software. For some reason, when I try to search, I get routed to a Google 404-ish page with a weird text string in the search box. So I called our New! Improved! computer help desk center, waited on hold for ten minutes, and the guy who answered had NEVER HEARD OF LEXIS. Never heard of it. He actually said, "Well, I've never heard of this program so I'm not sure what I can do."

Finally got him to escalate a ticket (instead of just saying, "Oh, okay, I don't need this critical application anymore, thanks"). How long will it take, I ask, because I've got some deadlines and need to do some research. He has no idea. He just couldn't say. Can he make it high priority? He can, but it might take awhile, depends on how busy people are.

There will be blood.

is your computer switched on?

I'll let the desk side service person turn it off and turn it back on if/when s/he gets here just to be passive aggressive.

Jesus fucking christ!! I had at least heard the names "Lexis" and "Lexis Nexis" as far back as middle school b/c I picked them up from the world around me - prob. from advertising and maybe from school? But for a person at a help desk, supporting a pretty big bunch of government agencies employing many, many legal professionals to have never heard of it?? That person's employment needs to be re-evaluated.

Nobody has addressed my open help ticket yet, btw.

posts very much in character warning:

So popcorn girl has really tamed down the popcorn lately, until this week it had been like once every couple of weeks. Very tolerable. But suddenly, she's rocketed back up to three bags a day both yesterday and today. Which, going beyond the awful-smelling cheap crap she burns, who wants to eat popcorn multiple times a day when it reaches 100 degrees outside? idgi

Three bags of popcorn/day. She must have the most amazing digestive system.

Nobody has addressed my open help ticket yet, btw. <-- going to make that my display name soon

guy right behind me (in a call centre, mind) comes in, sits at his desk at 8.59, waits for the first call of the day, inhales like he's about to cartoon blow the fuckin wall down and says EEEEEEEEEEEEEEEYYYY-AWWWWWWWWWWWWWWW, EEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEYYYY-AWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWW, EEEEEEEEEEEYYYYYYY-AWWWWWWWWWW until lunch time. he takes an hour off, bums round, whatever, sits back at desk, another huge breath in, fills the aul lungs up good, that phone rings, EEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEYYY-AWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWW, EEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEYYYYYYYYYYY-AWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWW, EEEEEEEEEEEEEYY-AWWWWWWWWWWWWW until 5pm, logs off, goes home, presumably to a fuckin stable i dunno

oh look wait i got a pic of the fucker right here

http://cache2.artprintimages.com/p/LRG/26/2687/FKWUD00Z/jodi-cobb-close-view-of-a-braying-donkey.jpg

nobody would hire that kind of a animal to answer a phone

ha i was wondering have i mentioned this dude yet and sure enough

i notice yanks didn't address my earlier question maybe they didn't hear me over the BRAYING HAWS of this mountainous amadán to my right

― underleg aeroboots i have smithed (darraghmac), Friday, 4 May 2012 09:16 (2 months ago)

xp public sector

Jvc, popcorn woman crosses my mind sometimes, so your update is interesting. Condolences though.

omg darraghmac's post is killing me.

logs off, goes home, presumably to a fuckin stable i dunno

Why is this so funny? It is so funny.

you have the benefit of critical distance, this motherfucker better have the benefit of critical illness cover

I'm definitely laughing with you, and not at your pain. Also I'm imagining a donkey sitting in a cubicle, straightening his tie before braying into the phone all day.

Carl, it's inexcusable that your help desk isn't being held accountable for their inexcusable incompetence.

Xp the pic of the donkey made it funny

he has a big honest moonish face and talks shite with the confidence of a man who has never fully understood any of the complaints made about him