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

WTF.

xp

that was a response to Mount Cleaners, but it applies to car and ENBB, too.

God, that really really is one of the finest Tweets ever Tweeted. lolol

i wish it were appropriate to yell, 'get your head outta your ass!' on conf calls. this woman hates me because she doesn't follow up on any of the shit she says she will do so i have to harass her about it, and so anytime i ask a question about why this or that went wrong, she responds like i'm an idiot, and i have to be like no, you misunderstood my question. and then she'll answer appropriately.

The otherday I asked a workmate how she was finding some missing fields in some of our order entries, by which I'd meant "because I dont have an easy way to bulk search for this" and she replied with "by doing my job" :|

Bitch.

A couple of years ago i walked into one of the toilets in the building i worked in and there was blood everywhere. On the floor, on three of the cubicle doors, splashed all over the mirror, in all the sinks, etc. Just a ridiculous amount that it's difficult to imagine would have come from a nosebleed. It looked like a crime scene. Checked back twenty minutes later and it was absolutely spotless.

Health and safety protocols mean that any accidents have to be written up and posted on the internal message boards but there was never a word said about it.

you'd be surprised how much blood can come from a nosebleed. on several occasions i have sneezed and bled like a water faucet. and it did resemble a crime scene more than once!

did you then proceed to run in and out of as many stalls as possible in a random office bathroom while violently shaking your head back and forth?

she replied with "by doing my job" :|

Bitch.
--frances boredom coconut (Trayce)

That would drive me up the wall! There's no need for that kind of attitude when you're trying to figure out how to do the job more efficiently

not being a bitch is part of her job too.

or it should be.

"by doing my job"

I just broke up a fight* in my god damn office between a supervisor from another department and one of her employees. Why did they come into our office to fight? What the fuck is a supervisor doing getting into a public yelling match with an employee???

*Verbal, thank god (there is a history of physical fights here, but this was more civilized), so it was just me saying "Hey. Hey! HEY! STOP YELLING IN THIS OFFICE! TAKE IT OUTSIDE NOW."

Hand to God, I wrote an email today that featured the sentence, "The question mark is in there because the sentence is a question."

god, why is it up to me to try to impose some order on this process of [REDACTED]? everyone else involved is higher ranking than i am, and yet it's me who finally got fed up and started creating agendas and forcing them on everyone, and taking notes and blah blah. i can't stand this disorganization, but when you promote the person next to me who has the same job description but TAKES NO INITIATIVE and makes absolutely no effort to facilitate a smoother working environment, i think you are actively trying to get me to hate you.

yes, please paste the contents of the word document into an email and make comments and changes there so i can't see it. it's so much better than using track changes. i do enjoy spending my time comparing line by line changes to make sure i get everything

i must be in a bad mood today!

It's going around.

My coworker buys tuberoses and eucalyptus from the farmers' market every Thursday which means every Thursday afternoon between May and October is Headache Day for me. She offered to move the flowers "farther away" from me, but given that you can smell them all the way down the hall, I don't think moving them two feet away from my desk is going to matter much.

It smells nice from a distance but when I'm sitting in an enclosed space with them, it's like being punched in the face by the candle aisle of a craft store.

Rayuela: can you cut and paste back into a Word document and then compare the two? (ie http://www.codejacked.com/comparing-two-versions-of-a-word-document/)

Sorry if this is no good/too late to be useful/something you already know about!

Hand to God, I wrote an email today that featured the sentence, "The question mark is in there because the sentence is a question."

Oh god thats hilarious. I had a similar wtf yesterday: "why is this customers username and password the same thing?". Considering they pick their own, HOW WOULD I KNOW. Customer is stupid?

Hot tuna is not a suitable office lunch food, especially when eaten at your desk in a small office

Oh my no.

A creamy tuna/mushroom pasta sauce is the only thing I've made in the last 10 years that literally made my wife scream when she smelled it.

My boss abbreviates "follow-up" as "f/u." So today I got "Thanks for the excellent f/u!"

Yeah, fuck you too.

It's unfortunate that it abbreviates badly b/c otherwise I'd use it all the time. And I do in notes to myself.

LOL one of the acronymns in fibreoptic rollouts is FAP which was making me giggle today as it was all FAP FAP FAP all over this land access design document.

I'm so childish.

I have maybe talked about this in this thread, but an old boss of mine (kooky lawyer with the most rudimentary computer skills) decided to try responding to his own emails, which he would do in all caps and treated kind of like a telegram, so opposing counsel's paralegals would get emails from him that said things like:

FU ASAP

TY,
Bob Loblaw

The rooms on the first floor of the south wing of my old workplace all have numbers prefixed by FFS.

My weirdo butt slapping co-worker can get really snippy and short sometimes and finally this morning I snapped and barked "Don't give me attitude, I didn't do anything wrong!" at her. The look on her face was priceless and she must have apologized about 5 times throughout the day because she realized I was totally right. It was sorta awesome.

Good for you!

That happened to me the other day! I was trying to be proactive abt my job/doing stuff that had to be done but wasn't required of me and my boss was being kind of bitchy and I just said sternly "I'm just trying to help", and it was like the power went out and she just paused and then got super apologetic and apologized like 3x in the next hour.

Yes! I bet it was awesome, right?

This must be the week for it! I mutinied Thursday morning when my boss and her assistant basically gave me a five gallon bucket of scraps and told me to turn it into a pint of strawberry jam.

hi 5's all around

All our work-fu is strong.

i swear my workplace's general blasé attitude really bothers me.

i am a lazy cunt at the best of times but i treat my job with a minimum standard of respect. lately i just lol at how lax my place is, people rolling in at 945 or 10 when it's a 930 start (but effectively anyone serious would come in at 9.)

nobody is ever told off for anything, and they're all paid well with good bonuses. if it's a sunny day some of them start whinging at the bosses to ask can they leave early, like fucking kids in playschool or some shit.

this was topped off last week when my boss rang in sick on thurs and said he wouldn't be in friday either. never heard the like of this in my life, someone pre-emptively saying they're sick for the following day.

he said he had tonsilitis yet he was in today, of course, "oh yeah antibiotics sorted it".

no coincidence that i was off friday and he'd have had to do my duties that day, as it was i had to do a megaload of work thurs.

i just can't get over how a big company has no discipline at all, you'd think it'd make my job easy and maybe it does, but overall it makes me want to leave.

can i get a job pls

The three (very nice) people who share my office never rock up before 10:30. They work late as a result, and they all work hard, but it means I spend the first few hours of every day fielding phone calls and telling confused-looking co-workers looking for them that they're not in. Which is really annoying. As is the inability of said co-workers to get used to the fact that THEY'RE NEVER HERE BEFORE 10.30 STOP ASKING ME WHERE THEY ARE!!!

when it's a 930 start (but effectively anyone serious would come in at 9.)

hate this kind of culture (thankfully absent at my place). fair enough some people might like high pressure and long hours and maybe the compensation is appropriate, but not for me ta. our core hours are 10-4.30 and you're free to work your full 7.5 hours either side of those.

7 hours, actually.

flexitime is the best. i'd struggle to put a monetary value on it.

i just find it uninspiring personally, that kind of environment.

I'd kill for flexi again, I miss that about public service jobs so bad. all the corp IT jobs ive had have done shit like writing you up for being FIVE MINUTES late. I mean jesus.

if i ever find an environment i find personally inspiring i'll run a fuckin mile tbh

why?

i come from a bad home, y'ronner

they only bumped me up since. i'm not gonna act inspired about it tho.

my stupid annoying coworker has decided she doesn't want to do something and (seemingly unilaterally) that I'm going to be the person to do it; it's a heap of shit which is going to involve lots of boring admin and nagging of other coworkers

she basically sent me a long email outlining what's involved, copying in the CEO and her boss ostensibly saying over to you. I've responded w/a stalling email saying 'thanks for this, we'll have a look into how we can help with this.' but ultimately I'm going to have to say 'fuck actual off, you're not my boss; if it's a priority that this get done on my time then ask/convince my boss not me.'

I'm finishing up my work during my notice period here and I've got more work than I can finish, which I have been very transparent about, but my coworker flat out refuses to take on any of it even though she's months ahead of deadline and has plenty of time to do the work. In fact, she was begging the admin to give her more cases to work on. Just be a team player, coworker! I mean, it doesn't matter to me one way or another. I will finish what I can and my boss will deal with it, but it shocks and amazes me that someone would flat out refuse to help out in a situation like this. What is the benefit to her?

Another coworker organized a going away lunch for me (<3) and the coworker who won't do any more work, with whom I have shared an office for nearly five years and have what I thought was a friendly relationship with has told me, "No offense, but I'm not going to go to your lunch." I don't think she hates me. She just thinks spending her lunch hour with me would be an imposition. She did tell the admin that she wanted to "do something" for me, and thought she would bring in donuts. If you want to do something, just go to lunch. Jesus.

(nb: I don't really like donuts.)