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

It's possibly a gross overreduction/simplification on my part but this thread has, for real, not joking, done a huge deal to make me not ever want to work an office/cubicle type job.

I've worked in grocery stores, at retail store, in the woods for the US Forest Service, in a flower shop (delivery, sales, design), delivering pizzas, waiting tables and tending bar in several restaurants (including serving on a yacht), and in a couple of offices, and in my view, offices are no worse than any of the other settings. For me, office work is preferable, particularly b/c I don't have to deal with the public as much.

I love dealing w/ the public though :(

Oh. Carry on, then.

I'm very good at customer service, but I don't like doing it.

i am awesome at computer-nerdy stuff like edi and spreadsheets and finding out things, even hand-keying huge orders I'm clam-happy. just pleeease don't make me call anyone or be called by anyone ;_;

I don't know if I actually like working with the public or not, but I'm very good at it, so it feels as though I like it.

i can do it, i'm just terrible at thinking on my feet & get v anxious if things go awry

I don't enjoy it, but I was pretty good at it -- and unlike my current job, it was something I could walk away from at the end of the workday and not have to think about.

I loath the public. Disgusting savages, the lot of em.

Only thing worse than talking to some of my co-workers would be having to talk to them within a customer-retailer relationship.

I don't mind the public, it's refreshing to deal with people who aren't crazy. Because I work on the phone a lot and some sales people are NUTS. Like the one who screamed at my boss and sent me threatening e-mails. Anonymity encourages abusive behavior. But dealing with people face to face is physically taxing but people certainly behave better.

The worst - being interrupted at work BY BILL COLLECTORS when you have an important job to do. It's the insinuation that you are working at some shit job and can't pay your bills.

What I miss about waiting tables is talking to lots of people and getting to entertain them a little (if that's what they wanted).

What I really miss is the money. 5 years into my job as a paralegal, I am finally making almost as much as I made at my last waitering job (at a kinda-fine-dining seafood restaurant).

one co-worker said she was looking for a "vegan spiderman watch", and a dude bro said "vegan!?? tell your friend to man up and eat a steak!" with no hint of irony. now he's talking about bacon. i didn't think these people really existed.

wait she was looking for a vegan spiderman watch

How Heavenly This Leftover White Chicken Chili is

My family loves this shit.

Ugh. Yeh, they do. I used to work with a "foodie" type who I told I wanted to go to a certain fine-dining vegetarian restaurant that had an amazing reputation. Her response: "Meh. I like meat."

If you can't conceive of amazing non-meat food, and see the omission of meat as a culinary challenge, then fuck off with your foodie-ism.

xp - yeh, wait - vegan watch?

xxp yeah, i don't really know what that is... maybe part of the spiderman alternate lifestyle collection. hopefully this thread's googleproofed because i can't imagine there are too many pages out there selling those

"Vegan watch" would imply a non-leather band.

Cf. vegan shoes

i'm trying not to be that guy but lol vegan watch i know i know i'll stop

Presumably "vegan Spiderman watch" means a watch that does not have a leather band? Which happen to be the vast majority of search results for "Spiderman watch," because how many children's watches come with leather bands?

Not that your "eat a steak dur dur dur" coworker is something other than an asshole, mind you. Just that I can't quite get past somebody needing to search for a "vegan Spiderman watch" like it's something that needs to even be labeled as such or is somehow tough to find.

Just miles and miles of vegan Spiderman watches right here

And yes, there are adult Spiderman watches with leather bands but I am not going to apologize to anyone offended by my suggestion that Spiderman watches are properly for children.

well now i am outraged

Maybe you can get Spiderman to come to your next birthday party to soothe your fury.

only if he wears leather

it got creepy, didn't it?

Would invite Italian spider man to my birthday party

Spidergimp

I've clearly been living in Brighton for too long, because I understood the concept of a vegan watch immediately.

hopefully this thread's googleproofed because i can't imagine there are too many pages out there selling those

Yes, it was de-indexed earlier this year, so we're safe. vegan watches vegan spidermen vegan spiders vegan men

i am interested in leather spiderman

maybe

He won't be interested in someone so ambivalent.

Stake your claim!

Also red dye made of these dudes could be a reason why you would want your Spiderman watch to be labeled as vegan.

i'd like to think of it as a watch featuring vegan spiderman. i mean, spiderman's a young guy, there's probably a lot of shit he wants to try out

i kinda think of this guy as vegan spiderman

http://collider.com/wp-content/uploads/amazing-spider-man-andrew-garfield-damage.jpg

- Boss has been complaining about his old, slow, buggy, POS desktop computer for months.
- IT guy set up his laptop to be his main machine.
- He has still been using the old POS desktop and complaining about it.

- Co-worker's desktop bit the dust.

- Boss suggests that co-worker can just have his old (POS) desktop since he now has the laptop.
????????

(POS = Piece of Shit, not Point of Sale)

[kills thread by bitching about coworker]

how dare you stay on topic

In an email to me, Jesse once named the Quad Cities as Rock Island, Moline, Davenport, and Spiderman.

lol

agggghhhh

lovely coworker backing up someone on vacation. she's very good at her job but as a backup omg she drives me insane.
she's someone who is so thorough as to ask questions that NO_ONE has the answers to, where the previous 2 examples of the process she needs to follow are not enough to create a body of evidence for her and she turns the whole thing into a fucking royal commission coroner's inquest, slowing the whole process down to a ridiculous crawl. she has now turned a very simple request into a 24 hour odyssey and I just want to slam my head into my desk repeatedly until it stops

i'm too tired for this bullshit

Hmm. Sounds like this could be the last time she's called to back up someone on vacation. Ridiculous like a fox.

one more

i hate being the backup for someone who never involves you in ANY of their day to day work until the day before they go on vacation, and then give you a panicked speech about everything that needs to be done in vague handwavey sketches that you know will become a giant clusterfuck within a day of them being gone

help me
help you

ugh

I don't have co-workers anymore but I noticed this year everyone I know from all over received a crocheted-like fluffy scarf from the crafty co-worker.
Then I received the exact scarf from a friend.
When I asked if she made it she said no, her co-worker made it for her to give to me. Co-Worker Scarf, sure you got one.

day one of flying blind, backing up vague handwavey coworker on vacation (who also happens to have the most notoriously needy, handholding, minutiae-needing account base in the entire company)

omg
deluge of things I knew nothing about
til noon it was terrifying. open his email 'YOU HAVE 200 UNREAD MESSAGES' wtf
by the end of the day, it was ok
but uuuuuuuuuuuuuugh talk about throwing me in the deep end.

thank god for Outlook keyword 'search' function, if I couldn't trawl his emails to find out what the fuck everyone was talking about i'd have been screwed

3 more days of this

I got ppl (hopefully) backing me up for 3 weeks. We have a wiki, and EERYTHING I do is listed as how-tos in it. Has been for years. Every year, that said, I get asked the same dumb questions. By people who have worked there longer than me, backed me up before more than once, and just shouldnt need to ask.

Txt the other day "how do I access the fax mailbox?" (our faxes come via email). I'm like.... seriously? You're asking me this NOW? I just said "use outlooks webmail? nfi what the pwd is by the way, ask the MIS guy". Havent heard anoher word.

I expect to come back to a giant pile of badly or not-done mess. Meanwhile I flat out REFUSE to even look at my work mail. This is the only decent, fully switched off break I get all year (my role doesnt allow long breaks at any other time as there's always shit on)

we had a whole wiki thing implemented a few years ago but none of my coworkers want to read anything, they just want magical question-answerers sitting on their laps 24/7

so it wallowed in unupdatedness

hence my current situation lol