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

One time when we dropped some hints (she & I sit in a quad with two others) she started whining about how we "don't understand her pain"(!) and how if no one wanted to talk, fine, she wouldn't talk in a 30 minute drama fit. I wish I thought your line would work, d!

eyebrows, im tellin you, its in the eyebrows

Her pain??

Oh yes, her pain. IIRC it was because the VP had dropped an assignment on her lap and we stopped listening/responding after about 30 minutes of bitching to us about how busy she was/how she didn't have time for it.

It kind of sounds like she's having a nervous breakdown, tbh. (Not that it would excuse anything if she was, and maybe I'm naive in thinking that people can't be so utterly horrible without some major cause.)

They totally can, unbelievably and depressingly.

I do think that might be the case. I often feel bad for her when she's just being stressed/sad and not overtly dickish.

it's really terrible working a job where you don't have the ability to make formal complaints. at my last place, the HR guy sat across from the CEO, who would demand to find out what employee was complaining so he could call them and ream them out for complaining about other personnel rather than doing their jobs. it was awful.

so grateful to work for a huge corporation rn.

do yo u know this person ?

the snagger - When assigned a task to do she makes it seem like her completing the task is dependent on someone else doing some associated task first before she can continue, thus not doing the task and blaming someone else for it when really it was not necessary to make the tsk dpendent on that other person at all, they just didnt want to do the task.

All my coworkers!

Talked same coworker who hated my guts last Friday off the ledge yesterday. Lady needs a vacation. No one should be yelling on the phone at 6:30 Thursday!

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Passive-aggressive_behavior

President told all my coworkers not to contact me til he'd had a chance to call me (he appeared in the office at noon to explain the layoffs to those who remained employed,) but then never called me. A pox on them all. Many talked to me anyway. :)

Back at the end of January, my department (marketing) received an email from Exec. VP A, about an industry event that we're cosponsoring. She asked for help in promoting it, and said that she, our CEO, another VP, and Reg. Mgr. B would be attending.

Since part of my job involves our social media properties, I asked who could cover this event for us, and was told to reach out (ugh) to the attendees, so I contacted Reg. Mgr. B, who agreed to blog and tweet for us.

Yesterday, our CEO sends an email to Reg. Mgr. B telling her about the show and letting her know that lots of potential prospects will be there. Reg. Mgr. B replies, saying she's excited because she's going and will be covering for social media for marketing.

CEO contacts Exec. VP A and says, "Do you know anything about Reg. Mgr. B going to this show?" Exec. VP A - who originally gave me the list of attending people that included Reg. Mgr. B - says, "Nope, I don't know anything about it."

Now, the CEO is up my boss's ass (he's an SVP) asking, "Did someone in your department tell Reg. Mgr. B to attend this show? I need to be in the loop on these things."

Utter insanity. Luckily I save every email.

facepalm

stuff like this just turns me into

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guy in my office talks and acts like a sports announcer. always slightly too loud, makes a point of reading unfunny things on twitter aloud, constantly peppers his speech with stuff like 'my buddy x does _______; really great guy'. uses the word bro without irony. is a jets fan.

today he was training this new employee on something fairly simple and it just went on and on and on. he may or may not be a bad person, but either way i want him to shut the fuck up.

jets fan. say no more

Now, the CEO is up my boss's ass (he's an SVP) asking, "Did someone in your department tell Reg. Mgr. B to attend this show? I need to be in the loop on these things."

Utter insanity. Luckily I save every email.

Yep, Ive had this. Same applies. Email and save it all. Couple weeks ago boss accused me and the office manager of insisting "for months" that some credit we were due from a carrier was $25k worth.

What I'd actually said that IF I was calculating it right - and I was not at all sure I was and needed to confirm - that figure would be right. I also had only said this TWO DAYS EALIER. Months my ass. I showed the office mgr the email and she went into him with it. No apology for bein wrong, of course. Hes never wrong.

some guy from my team left when we moved our offices, but now he's back after about 5 months on a freelance project. he now stops by every day to chit chat with everyone here like he never left, and his contract was just extended. i can't help but to loathe this guy, he's a 30-something coddled mamas boy who still lives at home and can work whenever he pleases. if i spent 5 months unemployed i'd be living on the streets.

i'll have to get over it at some point, but everytime he stops by i'm filled with rage. on the one hand i'm resentful of the easy life he gets to lead, and on the other i don't respect the dude ... acts with this self-assured confidence but has never even lived on his own. whatever, i'll get a handle on it.

god, everyone is so fucking TOUCHY here sometimes! it's driving me nuts. small sample:

last november, i worked with this big shot guy over in the big shot Office of Big Shots and Big Shot Apprentices to draft up a webpage. it was supposed to be posted last november, but due to another big shot being a big asshole, the whole thing got delayed until this coming monday.

so, today i email the guy who helped me draft up the webpage just to remind him that we're going to post this thing on Monday. i say, "I'm checking in to make sure that we're ready to go on Monday. We've already mocked up the page, so it should be ready to go." i was saying that mainly for benefit of other cc'd people on the email, since they didn't know that the page was already mocked up. i then go on to thank him for his help in this project, bla bla bla.

i get back this response:

"What do you mean, "We mocked up the page that will appear on Challenge.gov"?

I prepared it weeks ago."

so since he's an up and comer in the Office of Neurotic Assholes, i apologized for not being clear and said that yes, he mocked it up weeks ago (even though it was actually ME who prepared all the language for it, but never mind).

ugh, come on weekend just get here

at least it'll get here a day early in a week or two :\ :/

there's this guy on my team who laughs after everything he says. like, riotous, uproaring laughter after the most pointless, mundane things. it's not like he's saying anything funny, or anyone else is saying anything funny. he wants everyone to laugh with him without making the effort to be funny.

of course i dislike him after he called the obscuro music stuff i hung up in my cube "pretentious" in some snide, backhanded way (and yet he has Gustav Klimt postcards in his). in meetings he sits like he's the king of my department, and a few times i saw him staring at me with these really creepy eyes. whenever i'm talking to someone he'll act weird and try to bring attention to himself like darting around and making funny faces, or if I'm talking to one of the girls in my department he'll sneak up out of nowhere and try to bring the conversation to himself. i think this dude is nuts, but everyone seems to like him because he forces everyone to laugh with him. i just want to say one day, "yeah, you're right, turning a doorknob is fucking hilarious"

Our malpractice insurance provider sent us a notice that on our renewal application, we'd failed to provide the number of hours that my boss works per year.

Last week, I'd given the application to my boss and put a flag on the # of hours area so she would be sure to fill it out, but she ignored it and mailed it off.

Her reaction to their request for the missing information: "Oh, argh. Why do they need to know that?"

She says that a lot.

When the bank wanted her home address when setting up our credit card system, when her mortgage company asked for her addresses for the last X years, when a bar association asked for her membership number on their membership renewal form. She just skips the question if she thinks it's dumb.

She's a hero for our times.

I once skipped the "Mr/Mrs/Ms" section on a hospital form and got yelled at in a full waiting room. This was after they told me to fill out lots of pages and wouldn't give me a pen.

just be like FUCK YOU AND YOUR PATRIARCHY and dance at them.

Jesus, they wouldn't even give you a pen?

i think i might need to find a new job. whenever i try to express myself or i'm feeling good, one of the people here has some snarky bullshit to give me. like, laughing boy made some backhanded remark to everyone about the weird artsy crap i hung up in my cube as being "pretensious", and now that i'm feeling more confident thanks to therapy, captain awesome did some passive aggressive spiel that i'm pretty sure was about me. he was like "well at least i don't talk in monotone like this hurrhurrhurr" ... and I know that I talk in a monotone sometimes because of my anxiety, and I figure it had to be about me, why the hell else would he say that in listening distance from me right after i'm being more confident around the office.

like, i don't get along with these people that well, i find their personalities grating, but i bite my tongue and try to find something about them i like, get to know them, etc. i'm a friggin professional, i don't say dumb passive aggressive bullshit about them as tempted as I am.

geez, when I first got here my boss totally crossed the line w/ me. she flirted with me in totally inappropriate ways, like playing with her bra strap and jiggling her boobs, touching my hands, pulling her shirt down when I talked to her, putting her pen up to her mouth w/ dick sucking lips and shit like that. in my pre-therapy messed up state i was like "woah, maybe she's into me", so I went along with it, then she made some public announcement around everyone that co-workers shouldn't fraternize with their bosses ... which was totally about me! i was so fucking embarassed when she said that because I know she talked about it with other people at the office, and she's the one who started that shit! god damn this place is weird.

errr, pretentious. anyway, life's too short to deal with this crap. i can't really think of anything redeeming about this job except that it gives me a paycheck twice a month.

Please don't ever use the term "dick sucking lips" again.

yeah, i know it's gross, but i have no idea how else to describe it. "a look on her face with obvious sexual overtones" ... sounds like i'm writing a legal complaint.

anywho, i shoulda left this job after that happened.

FFM OTM

anyone else want to weigh in here on "dick sucking lips"?

Hey thanks for cutting off my answer so you could go round all the men in the room one by one and listen to them say "dunno" instead, maybe next time you should just say "does anyone know anything about x but please only answer if you don't so I can feel cleverer than everyone"

(excerpts from sleep-deprived and taking shit too personally vol. 34950)

ok was totally overreacting yesterday, stressed out as all hell. except for the weird supervisor flirtation shit. new boss boss is totally giving me the cold shoulder, makes an obvious point of ignoring me during meetings. today captain awesome was like "dude, she's ignoring you" and i'm like 'yeah'. not a good sign.

dude I'm sure all the ringtones and alarm sounds will still be on your new phone when you get home and you don't have to try them all in the office

also this is the 3rd new smartphone you've got in 5-6 months, guess you earn more than me, congrats

anyone else want to weigh in here on "dick sucking lips"?

― Spectrum, Thursday, April 4, 2013 4:42 PM (5 days ago)

first up, "dick sucking lips" shouldn't be used to describe miming fellatio, which seems to be what was happening. it should be used to describe a certain appearance to the lips that lead you to believe that they would be good for sucking dick. is that the case here? if so, i've edited your post to reflect proper usage:

geez, when I first got here my boss totally crossed the line w/ me. she flirted with me in totally inappropriate ways, like playing with her bra strap and jiggling her boobs, touching my hands, pulling her shirt down when I talked to her, putting her pen up to her mouth and smacking it all over her dick sucking lips and shit like that. i still have the pen sitting beside my computer. i stole it from her office. in my pre-therapy messed up state i was like "woah, maybe she's into me", so I went along with it, then she made some public announcement around everyone that co-workers shouldn't fraternize with their bosses ... which was totally about me! i was so fucking embarassed when she said that because I know she talked about it with other people at the office, and she's the one who started that shit! god damn this place is weird.

― Spectrum, Thursday, April 4, 2013 1:23 PM (5 days ago)

but, even now that know the proper usage, i'd recommend avoiding the term.

I'm here for absolution. I'm about to cut my fingernails at my desk, in my office with the door closed. Bless me ILX for I'm about to sin.

oh if you're in your own office with a closed door I do not see this as being a problem.

Thank you. The deed is done. I feel SO MUCH BETTER. I hate typing with long nails. *shudder*

you're absolved since u have an office with a door. rest easy, carl

Just hacked my nails back this morning to avoid that terrible, terrible typing-scraping feeling. (Deed done in my bedroom).

You can just about whatever you want in your own office, lawd knows I do.

Why did Boss' shredder stopped shredding? B/c it overheated when she was using it with the space heater pointed at it 2 or 3" away.

Man why even ask for my summary of yesterday's crisis which you were not even slightly interested in helping w/ yesterday if you are just going to talk over it and disagree with minor aspects of my wording

if you know so much more about it than the people who actually had to deal with it then maybe you should have fixed it for us and sent the 200 apologetic emails I had to send for someone else's fuckup

(this rather closely resembles my last post on this thread and yes it is directed at the same person, and no they are not my boss or it might be acceptable)

i work in a huge office building in the suburbs. its parking lots are also huge and far flung.

i just saw a dude in a trans-siberian orchestra tshirt and cargo pants rollerblade from his car to the front door of the building.

teaching u how to live