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

If it bothers you, just start making her stuff into a pile and at some pre-determined time the next day, if she hasn't picked it up, just throw the whole thing away. When she looks for it, apologize really nicely but you had no idea it was hers....

I'm sure I annoyed the entire office the past few months with all the hardware traffic that's been going in and out: 60-some server-sized boxes. Plus tons of trash (cardboard boxes) for the few that are staying.

The woman I'm taking over from just gave a presentation to a ton of people I'll be working with and made no reference at all to leaving or that I would be taking over. I was in the audience.

I was too lazy to pick up my print job, and then another woman apparently made off with my job and another colleagues.

Gotta watch my back at this new job. Too bad I can't print out with indemnity a 60-pg Comic Con schedule anymore (used to have my 'own' printer).

Thought that said 60-pg Comic Sans for a mo. That would have been hella stupid and annoying.

OMFG CAN YOU JUST SAY WTF YOU NEED FROM ME IN THE FIRST PLACE INSTEAD OF ASKING ME TO REVISE 1500 TIMES WHEN WE ARE IN TIME CRUNCH AND I CAN'T READ YOUR MIND!?

what is the protocol for retrieving print jobs? whenever i print something out, i always go over to the printer to grab it, pretty much right away. this new co-worker always leaves print jobs on the printer, sometimes for a day or two. every time i grab a print job of mine, i have to flip through this person's stuff--and it's not always work related stuff she's printing out, either. i feel like i'm being an ass for complaining but at the same time i don't eat doritos for breakfast do i?

― Mr. Que, Tuesday, February 3, 2009 9:00 PM (6 days ago) Bookmark

Here is the magic ratio I've discovered: the amount of printing an employee does is generally inversely proportional to his or her intelligence and the quality of his or her work. (Obviously this does not apply if you actually work in a printshop.)

how about the fact that same bitchy coworker i just went off about emails me things to print. it takes longer to email me the doc than it does to hit the print button.

There's a bin next to the printer for unretrieved jobs. It seems to work pretty well. It's also next to the recycle tub, which also works pretty well.

Can you please get our printer fixed today? something went wrong over the weekend and I can’t get it to work.

Thank you!

it was a paper jam. you take out the jammed paper. AMAZING!

At my old job, we actually had a policy (for about a week) that you were supposed to print out an e-mail to a coworker that you were sending to them and leave the paper copy in their mailbox as well.

Someone didn't get an email one time or it was delayed or it went to their spam folder and THAT ^^ happened.

where I work now no one prints anything: even faxes come in digitally, are pdf'd and stored. I feel guilty when I print one page of something personal cos we pretty much never do. Closest to actual "paperless office" ive ever been.

I routinely print out long articles from the New York Review of Books o_O

and when i get home i put the paper upside down in the paper tray of my own printer

*UPDATE*

lol when when i'm gchattin' with my gf I'll have her call me on my office line when the annoying talker makes her daily drop-ins. If only she were a flagrant bitch or in no way integral to me getting my job done I'm pretty sure I could tell her to shove off.

I also made my office line #1 on my blackberry speed-dial. I'm such a pussy.

i print a lot of stuff from school. i also steal all the wasted paper to print things on the other side at home because i'm cheap and i don't want to buy paper.

tracer - what happened with your 15 hour red-eye shift?!

I routinely print out long articles from the New York Review of Books o_O

...

and when i get home i put the paper upside down in the paper tray of my own printer

This is the way to live.

i ended up not having to do it - the work-from-home-thingie magically came back just minutes before a taxi was due to arrive at my house and take me on on a 1.5 hr drive to west london

however the 20-minute phone fight i had with the acting boss of my dept. is irretrievable and either today or tomorrow i am going to have to speak to this tightass about it and probably apologize because he's so wound up he will never mention it and it will simmer forever inside him

Arggghhh people trying to manage projects which aren't theirs because they resent someone else being put on it, picking up on every little mistake going OH GOD I KNEW THAT WOMAN WOULD GET IT ALL WRONG and busybodying the subordinates on the project (i.e. me) to see what I've done yet (nothing on the next phase because the person actually in charge told me not to yet - HAVEN'T YOU EVEN DONE THAT YET WHAT IS THAT WOMAN THINKING), rearranging our meeting times so she can come when she wasn't invited, declaring that everyone else on the project who is massively confused because we keep being told different things (partly because the management change their mind every 5 minutes and partly because she keeps appearing and contradicting everything) is just being, like, feebleminded and/or stubborn, THEY SHOULD KNOW EVERYTHING I JUST SAID IS THE ONE TRUE WAY ALREADY AND STOP COMPLAINING

(also I'm going on a week's leave tomorrow and everyone else is cool with that except the busybodying woman has just remembered everything I was ever meant to do but had to drop because some other urgent project appeared out of nowhere and wants it all before I go away, and admittedly this is only a problem because I'M the stupid and annoying coworker, but, jesus, get me out of here. meanwhile I made a fuckup of something she didn't even ask for which I wanted to get done before going and that'll need some careful checking to put back together. aargh)

sorry guys, rant over. maybe i can tread water until the end of today and then i get a week to daydream of never coming back

should probably not have lingered in front of the xpostometer with the words "stupid, annoying co-workers" on my screen at like 40 points but hey, screw you guys

My coworker who can and will talk about how much he hates DRM for hours is right in the middle of what's probably a 1/2-day long anti-DRM jag.

MORE ENGINEERING LESS SNORTY LAUGHING

Jesus Christ, M4rk Phi11p5, you have to be the most, to quote Luanne van Hauten, the most incompetent and managerially impotent person alive. How you ever got to be in charge of anything (especially people more educated, and certainly smarter than you) is amazing. You've lost our respect, and trying to be an asshole to everyone to cover up your own unacceptable failures, and being a total hypocrite is just making you a bigger asshole than you are. And your macho, misogynistic attitude doesn't help either.

Fuck you, you piece of shit.

Dear colleague who does what I do in a very closely related organisation

Stop sending snarky emails to colleagues in a third very closely related organisation and copying them to everyone. I don't think you mean to be snarky, and she occasionally deserves it, but it takes time and energy to work out a reply that defuses the situation.

Your colleague who does what you do in a closely related organisation

girl: loses something
girl to me: can you call finance and tell them you lost xyz and ask for another copy?

why am i your bitch???

Wow. Please say you told her to stick xyz sideways!

i just kind of hit my internal killifile button because i'm pretty sure after she leaves for vacation i can find it and avoid all this dramas but USADL:GKJS.

Arrgh. Just arrgh.

Oh fuck you, you sales asshole, its not MY FAULT we have a pricebook with an error in it so your quote to Big Client is somewhat wrong. You and management set the pricing. NOT ME!

So it is not my issue to fucking go and sort it out, so dont throw hissyfits in my direction!!&*!^!$%!#!

*tears hair*

Aformentioned asshole also happened to not pay me for the first half of February; likely there will be a long, tedious, and stressful bureaucratic process ahead of me, like those other people who are still missing pay from December. Here's to your being fired!

*Purple Rain comes on radio*

Co-worker: Oh, I LOVED Oprah in this movie!
Me: o_O

Same woman couldn't wait to go to Hawaii for vacation to see the hunchback whales.

lol at this very moment, four feet away, my acting boss is answering questions from our brand new CEO who is asking simple, basic questions about what we do and he is DYING ON HIS FEET

the problem is that this will just make him less confident and he will now be more bullying and weird and passive-aggressive than ever

It always amazes me how some people seem to get into higher up roles by the skin of their teeth and you wonder how they hold a job when they're as dense as dark matter.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dilbert_Principle

So I work in a building with like 30 other people, everyone pretty much knows everybody and socially things are relatively laid back most of the time. But there's been occasional rashes of people's lunches/etc. getting stolen out of the refrigerator everybody uses, and in the last couple weeks I've had 2 cans of soda stolen. This morning I shook the shit out of a soda can and put it in the fridge and am waiting to see how long it takes to disappear. Am I just inevitably egging this on to become a bigger thing than it has any right to be, or should I be proud of my lame attempt at vigilante justice?

you watched that Simpsons ep where Bart blows up Homer with a shook-up Duff, didn't you.

well bitching and whining about it in an email to the entire staff will just make you the cheap bitchy, whiny guy and just letting people steal your stuff is not an option so i honestly think you did the best thing.

well bitching and whining about it in an email to the entire staff will just make you the cheap bitchy, whiny guy

Heh I did this and yeah to people I don't normally interact with I'm the guy who got pissed off about stolen cheese, but on the upside no-one's stolen my food since then, so y'know, whatevs.

yeah definitely not doing an e-mail or anything like that.

actually the thing that complicates this is that the guy who works next to me also had a soda stolen yesterday, so he just put a post-it on the refrigerator noting both thefts. so whereas before only people in my little dept. know that I had a soda stolen recently, now it's public knowledge and the soda bomb could be more easily traced back to me. I kinda covered my ass by using a different type of soda than what I usually bring in and putting it in a different place than I usually do, though, so I'm prepared to play dumb.

you watched that Simpsons ep where Bart blows up Homer with a shook-up Duff, didn't you.

― WmC, Thursday, February 26, 2009 11:54 AM (5 minutes ago) Bookmark Suggest Ban Permalink

true story, yesterday for like an hour I was feeling annoyed about this and thinking "is there something I could do to booby-trap a soda? cover it in a clear sticky material? no. hide something weird at the bottom of the can? no....oh, duh, I can just shake it up, why didn't I think of that an hour ago?"

on the other hand, it could easily be tracked ot him, since he posted the note.

Why would it be bad if the thief found out who it was who shook up the soda anyway?

It wouldn't necessarily, but I'd rather just burn them so they wouldn't wanna do it again than have a big confrontation.

I mean I'm kinda psyched about it working but at the same time a lil embarrassed to be all immature and "lol REVENGE" about this.

it'll be funny more than anything, esp if you tell a few other coworkers what you've done (obv coworkers who aren't likely to be the culprit), so then when you all hear the explosion and the resulting cussing, you can all eye each other and snigger.

i would totally do this.

the person wont confront you because then they would have to admit to being the soda stealer.

haha yeah who knows...the thing is that we have 4 floors, and I'm pretty sure it wasn't anybody on my floor, so if I find out who did it, it'll probably be hearsay later on, or if someone is walking around with a big wet stain on their shirt.