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

Wow, some people really should not post to Facebook. That is so unprofessional! I think it's okay to bitch on a bulletin board, but I wouldn't complain about jobs on Facebook unless I didn't have a serious commitment. Offending the wrong person could screw up your career for YEARS.

yeah, it's kind of shitty. We both do sales reporting now, I do the grunt work and she builds the more interesting reports.. I mentioned in my review that I'd like to move into marketing should the opportunity arise and she said that probably wouldn't happen. Then a VP went past her completely and offered me a role! That was ~6 weeks ago and no official announcement has happened yet and she's been very distant and weird since. I DIDN'T DO ANYTHING. I even gave her a heads up immediately when I realized they hadn't spoken to her - she didn't "officially" find out until two weeks ago. I feel like that deserves a little more than casual resentment. Ah well.

Maybe some of you do this as well, but I don't get the guy who eats lunch at this desk watching straight-up recordings of Halo missions on YouTube.

I quite like watching videos of people playing stuff. It's gaming the lazy way. Very relaxing.

FFM, that manager is being super unprofessional and also a jealous petty jerk. Also - congratulations!!!

Wow, that is so immature. I don't know if you like your job or not - it sounds like you do. I hate when you love your job and most of your co-workers but then you get some childish behavior. Don't know if that's your situation, but I've been there. Like you're happy and like everyone then some childish snub occurs. I mean, you get comfortable and excited and someone pulls your chair out from under you.

I have a friend who has worked one shit job after another and her attitude is, well, I'll just leave if I get sick of it, "says more about you than me." With my resume, I can't have that carefree attitude. I mean, "college degree, graduate work, design and publishing experience...and you just walk out of a job if you don't like it." Doesn't work well in interviews.

Thanks, Carl! I got to submit my first ad to be printed in a Legit (trade) Magazine, felt so cool.
I like Excel but my current job is hard to *love* - I think the new one will be extremely lovable! I'm the type who prefers to be busy than bored. The kicker is, I'm still not a 'manager' so it wouldn't have been a promotion for her! No good reason for angst. OH WELL. She's not being mean to me directly, just kind of annoying.

FFM! - that's superb. Well done! As for your co-worker, imo it'd be better to be mean to you directly (not that she should do that either) than post somewhere where she surely knows you'll see it. Bizarre.

Maybe some of you do this as well, but I don't get the guy who eats lunch at this desk watching straight-up recordings of Halo missions on YouTube.

Which bit is bugging you, the desklunch or the LetsPlays? I hate it when people eat at their desks but Ive ranted about that so many times on this thread i'm not starting again (boss who sits behind me's on hols in Borneo the last 2 weeks - its been bliss not hearing crunch slurp clink all day long)

at my last job i sat next to this old dude who would bring in an entire cooler with salad ingredients for his lunch

I'm getting a little tired of two co-workers who sit next to me who believe that EVERYTHING IS A CONSPIRACY (TO MAKE THEM DO MORE WORK).

help me

new guy positioned adjacent to me jiggling head back and forth incessantly constantly hands all over his face regularly picking or entering orifices subsequently examining fingertips plus really battering keyboard inbetween help me

Coworker stopped me in hall to congratulate on still unannounced promotion.. other coworker overheard and congratulated me on my pregnancy

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damnit

Ha ha what?

All she heard was congratulations and my chunky frame apparently led her to believe I was concealing a pregnancy! Not awkward, promise. (A little awkward. Luckily it's someone I can threaten to 'duel in the parking lot after work.')

That has happened to me - chirpy congratulation on bun in the oven in a packed and silent room full of co-workers...

God, people are so fucking weird

^^^^

It is weird! I would never! Ljub, if you want to split childcare costs let me know :P

I'm sadistic, but I take great, GREAT pleasure in innocently, hurtfully saying "but I'm not pregnant?!" when people do that. The mortified look on their face is enough for me :D

I am constantly dumbfounded by how clueless and tactless people can be

xp Hahaha. I think I said "what the hell, jerk!" or something similar. She's not an easily embarrassed type sadly.

FFM, I'll do the school run if you do the weekends

Sounds like a plan!

My boss asked for help attaching photographs from My Pictures to an email using Outlook. She couldn't find the right picture b/c they were not showing up as thumbnails, so I told her just to go to Start and then to My Pictures so we could copy and paste them into the email. Before I could stop her, she closed her draft email and closed Outlook before clicking Start. That was weird b/c she definitely is more knowledgeable than that.

Next I had to basically give her a grueling tutorial on how to copy and paste a file. She seemed to think she had to open the picture and copy it from the image itself. Back in Outlook, she kept trying to paste it in the subject line - probably thinking it was the attachments line.

Then she wanted to send two other pictures to another person. She went to close Outlook again but I stopped her. She said, "But I have to go to the pictures folder!" I told her that she didn't have to close Outlook to do that - just click Start. She sat still, looking baffled, said, "But then how do I get to the Pictures folder?" and closed Outlook. Then I had to repeat my entire Copy/Paste 101, but this time with the black magic of selecting multiple files ;__; which she does ALL THE TIME in other programs. She performs ALL of those tasks all the time

In Outlook, she tried to paste the files into the subject line.

After all that she said, "Argh. Why can't Blackberry make the process more user friendly?"

o_O

FROM: STAFF
TO: MANAGEMENT
SUBJECT: MANDATORY TRAINING, TAKE ASAP

EFFECTIVE IMMEDIATELY: ALL MANAGEMENT MUST TAKE THE FOLLOWING TRAINING AS SOON AS POSSIBLE:

"HOW TO USE THE THING THAT YOU USE EVERY DAY FOR 8 HOURS"
INCLUDING ESSENTIAL MODULES SUCH AS "HOW TO COPY AND PASTE", "SAVE VS. SAVE AS - HOW DO I EVEN", "CTRL+S, CTRL+C, CTRL+X, CTRL+V > THEY WILL SAVE YOU HUNDREDS OF HOURS", "WHAT DOES CTRL MEAN??"

i get it that people that grew up without computers aren't going to get it as quickly, but jesus fucking christ. it's like i go outside to grab a coffee but i accidentally take a left instead of a right. i realize that i'm at the wrong intersection. what do i do?! what do i do!? i could just recalibrate and walk the proper direction but instead i call a cab and go home, go to sleep, wake up again, go back to work, and then go back outside to get a coffee. THIS time i'll take a right instead of a left.

My boss asked for help attaching photographs from My Pictures to an email using Outlook. She

This is the point when I knew who posted this.

Haha, yes. Post about someone behaving very much in character.

ZS, yes, tho today she was extra, super special. She definitely knows most of the shit she couldn't do today, but it was like she was senile! I was felt a touch of genuine concern, but she is otherwise completely normal. She just came down with an acute case of the dumbs today.

it's like i go outside to grab a coffee but i accidentally take a left instead of a right. i realize that i'm at the wrong intersection. what do i do?! what do i do!?

And here's what our co-workers do:

CO-WORKER: I think I'm at the wrong intersection. Could you give me directions to the coffeeshop?

YOU: Sure. It's fairly nearby. First, just go back to –

CO-WORKER: Okay, this bus just stopped and I'm giving the driver my fare. What next? *doors shut*

Well, now I know who the undecided voters are.

Although one girl does like Ron Paul.

Grr.

I spend a fair amount of time analyzing my bosses' behaviors and I think her deal is that when it comes to computers, she can't seem to transfer knowledge. I.e., she knows how to select text in Word (to copy, cut, delete, whatever), but more than once when she was online, she called me into her office to ask how to select text from a web page. I remember telling her "Exactly like you do in Word," and her not understanding. It's like learning to drive from scratch - from the point of training wheels on a bicycle, even - when you go from a street to a freeway.

Also, is there a thread for bitching about stupid fucking vendors and clients??

this seems close enough

I'm a candidate for a support engineer job but the people I'd be supporting are software developers and system administrators and the systems I'd be supporting are Linux servers, but maybe it will turn out that there's a more-advanced version of this I'll have to deal with.

But yeah computers are really difficult for people and it isn't necessarily their fault!

Why are people who are paid so much so frequently senile/forgetful/cbf ? Mine yelled at the entire support team a few weeks back for an "unauthorised" purchase of 4 hard drives for a server RAID array. Hard drives he'd recommended and approved purchase of mere days earlier. This was pointed out to him but he didnt apologise.

He bailed me up last week to demand I send him some info on certain supplier accounts ASAP OMG NEED IT URGENTLY.

Which'd be fine... except it was info he already had, had been sent to him by me TWICE, and had taken me some hours to write up :|

I just re-sent it to him. With the relevant bits bolded. Honestly sometimes its like that Simpsons episode where Mr Burns keeps demanding Don Mattingly shave off sideburns he doesnt even have. This guy can be told to his face "YOU HAVE THAT INFO ALREADY" and he just yells "DONT COMPLIN JUST DO AS I ASK".

FFS.

Also I did lol massively at ""SAVE VS. SAVE AS - HOW DO I EVEN".

Sometimes I can see where I could start getting that way with computer stuff. There is a shit-effin-ton of industry specific software and proprietary add-ins that I've never seen before and I managed to learn the very basics of it but there's just so much and I'm kind of crazy busy and I get a little "Why doesn't this just do exactly what I want it to do right now?!?!!!?! Fuck it I'm calling the service desk" about renaming a file in the document management system. (Right click, select "properties," change the name. :/ )

The software etc is at the new job. I forgot that part.

I've said it before, but it bears repeating: a little part of me dies whenever I hear the reporter behind me say to someone over the phone, "Hey there, just wanted to give you a shout..."

GIVE YOU A SHOUT
GIVE YOU A SHOUT

BASTARD IN A BASKET
BASTARD IN A BASKET

He also writes somewhere in his copy each week: "The sush and such deal tipped the scales at $780,000...." EVERY SINGLE WEEK.

Also I did lol massively at ""SAVE VS. SAVE AS - HOW DO I EVEN".

Ha! I didn't know what you were talking about b/c I somehow missed that post, and yes, hardy lol. Plus I just now re-read i could just recalibrate and walk the proper direction but instead i call a cab and go home, go to sleep, wake up again, go back to work, I LOLed so hard I spewed food pizza all over my monitor. Can I excelsior that even though this thread is deindexed?

xps

food pizza as opposed to that liquid sort! =)

oh - lol - I changed it b/c it rhymed, not to differentiate from Play-Doh pizza.

yeah i worked with someone who'd say "give you a shout," fucking annoying

Liquid Pizza would be interesting.

Wait, that would be Pizza Soup.

I was thinking like Liquid Smoke but pizza flavored.

Our side of the building is mostly empty except for a row of 5 of us, a few managers and a woman in the corner office adjacent to the fire escape. It's a pretty quiet area.

EXCEPT. The woman by the fire escape has the most annoying habit of shouting from her office at whoever is passing by. She'll keep talking to someone who's just left her office HEY DON'T FORGET TO BLAH BLAH BLAH. Or if someone she knows walks anywhere near her office door she'll caterwaul HEY DID YOU GET THAT THING I SENT YOU? WHAT DO YOU THINK?

And if she gets no response she'll repeat the same thing 10 times. At the same volume. It's horrific.

I get dejavu because she sounds EXACTLY like my across the street neighbor, a terrible woman who screams from inside the house at her children playing in the front yard.