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

it was you Neanderthal, wasn't it

well the good news is that as a civil servant I can tell them to go fuck themselves without any retribution more serious than them moving me to a different team.

so I did.

― dn/ac (darraghmac), Thursday, 12 June 2014 16:37 (2 months ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

they just offered me acting role leading the new team, completely moronic choice ahead of a guy already here and more capable ffs.

lol

on a week's PTO this week but you wouldn't know it given how many times I keep logging in (once was for an expense report tho). Unfortunately managed to see my inbox and couldn't stop myself from looking. The one project team I have that doesn't go live for 4.5 months and has barely chirped at me in weeks is suddenly emailing the hell out of me. Even though I warned them about my PTO, they're emailing me like hawks. Of course, given my anxiety/tendency to harp on things, I decided just to reply to them now and get em over with, whilst reminding them that I'd be back next week (which, y'know, shoulda been a clue given my out of office message which on Outlook 2010 prominently displays at the top before you even hit 'send' on an email).

No more logons. everything else can wait. so glad I gave none of these fuckers my number.

told boss im turning it down, ah well i'll regret that in the morning

Even though I warned them about my PTO, they're emailing me like hawks

sure

xp you sure the other person wants it? sometimes people just want to stay put.

he snapped their hand off. round of promotions announced today ppl treating me with kid gloves I kinda think I should act more annoyed cos I've been asked to keep it under wraps but lol offices huh

i did not participate in my workplace's 'ice bucket challenge'

The problem I have with those type of workplace charity participation events is that it reduces the problem itself—ALS research donations?—to the level of a meme. Sure, money gets raised, but I take my charity with a bit more solemnity thank you very much. That movember thing, my god, stop talking about it. I'm injecting a mixture of bleach and airplane glue into my own prostate just to MAKE IT STOP.

Still gonna need a bucket then.

finally figured out why one of the only decent people i've worked with at my job mysteriously disappeared. apparently she had been turned into the department scapegoat and people up there were tormenting her, led by her boss. which is bullshit because she was the nicest, hardest working person i've met here and we both initiated all sorts of projects together to make our departments run better. apparently she left one day crying, disappeared for a month for "illness", then quit.

this happened around the same time things got seriously fucked up for me in my department with a majority of my co-workers turning on me and saying some of the most fucked up things anyone's ever said to me, led by my manager. it's like this place was doing some kind-of blood purge or something. i thought i was going crazy. and this is one of the biggest corporations in the US. there are some seriously screwed up places to work out there.

Arrrrgh you have an OFFICE with a DOOR, youre the only one here who DOES, can you please USE THE DOOR AND CLOSE IT WHEN YOURE ON THE PHONE, I dont care about PBX settings and I have to sit right by you.

+ ∞

some people sure like to wash dishes in the office kitchen sink, FORFUCKINGEVER

hey at least they wash them! If I find one more grotty coffee cup/spoon piled up in the sink ....

This is more of a stupid workplace thing.

Love my job. Happy with who I work with. I'm walking out of the office tonight and see a cardboard box leaning against a beam in our editorial department. A 42" monitor says the label.

Oh cool, I say. You guys getting a TV?

Yeah, says one of the senior editors. Sort of. It's going to display our Google Analytics in real time.

Ha Ha, I say. No really. Are we going to keep it on Fox or Al-Jazeera?

No really, says the editor. He sighs - it's going to display our Google Analytics in real time.

What in THE fuck.

Last year during an office remodel, they put IPADS outside all of the conference rooms so we could book times to meet.

Know how hard it is to use an iPad that's attached to a wall at a 90º angle, four feet off the ground?

Are there enough things going on in realtime googanals (lol) to even want to see them on a screen!?

NO.

surely there's going to be more to it. still, even if it was on the weather channel all day long, seems like a waste of 42 inches.

highlights of all your failings, with commentary from skip bayless

Roofcam of blank skyline.

oo look a bird just flew past.

a 42" monitor is £300 quid these days, a day's wages for some people.

using ipads to do the same job as post-it notes though, that annoys me...

Other People's Fuckups, man.

Did just get to write email asking

"How can we provide assistance in correcting your implementation of these rules?"

which i'm pretty proud of as a corporatese knife twister

That's a good one.

I threw my boss and a new advertiser under the bus this morning, sort of.

not one but two coworkers post pics of dishes (food items) they didn't have anything to do with producing and don't say it's not their work. phonies

i think i'm done working for corporations. what i want out of my work is to create things and go as hard and fast as i can to the fullest extent i'm capable of, and then beyond that wherever that goes. and then i have to work with people who have petty, fragile egos, power trippers, bored Machiavellis, status-obsessed nitwits, people who are easily threatened for the stupidest reasons. and then maybe they end up as one of the majority of people who on their death beds regret they didn't live life the way they wanted to because they cared more about iPads and how they look in pictures in peoples' minds or vomiting their demons on others than their own values. i'm getting sick of this stupidity, and that includes my own.

Spectrum from your posts it sounds like you're in a particularly fucked up environment.

it is particularly fucked up. i've worked for other corporations, though, and it was the same thing plus corporate espionage and more back stabbing... actually, it was way more vicious than here, just a little classier. i only lucked out there because the sub-corporation i worked for was a little fiefdom where people were actually cool. word was we were unique in that regard and we eventually got shut down. maybe smaller corporations are different, or those two places were anomalies, that's the fullest extent of my experience.

so I made the mistake of mentioning we're going to NYC and now a pack of nosey in my space biddies keep, now I mean KEEP loudly proclaiming marriage proposals despite one polite assurance that this is not on my agenda and shit it went on for days way beyond uh what I'd call acceptable and TBH I think I can take a joke more than most so eh I told them I had set her an earnings target and to get her teeth and eyes fixed before she turned thirty which was now looking unlikely and TBH I had planned to pop the question but was now regretting booking the trip because I'd probably have kicked her to the kerb by now and surely will straight after but hey plenty more fish in the sea thanks for asking and now they don't seem to want to talk to me about marriage or my relationship or uh much of anything anymore so desired result achieved I spose

I find that not washing, like, ever is an easier way to get co-workers to stop talking to me.

headphones + intense focus y'all

then you act annoyed when they make you take your earphones out.

But only slightly. Just a whisper of death stare before you break it and remove the earphones with a smile.

^ doesn't work ime, I tried escalating well beyond slightly annoyed and it still didn't stop the fuckers. What did solve the problem was quitting.

worth considering bytimes but TBH I find oversharing entirely made-up and uncomfortable content usually puts a stop to insistence on oversharing

hurrhurrhurr. good point d-mac, i need to kick my own oversharing habit.

I'm seriously running out of things to listen to in my headphones. I've been wearing earplugs at times, but this is kind of an asshole move on my part too.

Yeah I wish headphones worked. Ive had people talking at my back for minutes, me not hearing a word of it or reacting. They're over-ear cans and everything, cmon you dolts. I'm not responding and Ive my back to you. Doesnt that tell you something?

this is why I'm glad I work from home. the banalities of the contractors who used to sit next to me in the office used to drive me up the wall. because they'd have these conversations at volume 11.

Oh well nobody talks to me unless they've got a specific question.

I have to say, I've worked for small and medium businesses, non-profits, government agencies, and big corporations (or their law firm equivalent) and the corporate gigs were by far the least dysfunctional. Which is not to say that you're not working in a dysfunctional hellhole, Spectrum, because holy shit you clearly are, but just to say that you shouldn't turn down an otherwise good job if it happens to be in a corporate environment out of fear it will be equally terrible.

That said, I've worked in some spectacularly dysfunctional work environments so it's possible I don't have a completely balanced perspective on it.

I work for a small company and they just fire you the moment dysfunction is sniffed.

I like it

That's true about corporate employers, although I have found that the difficulty lies in maintaining high standards and composure in that corporate culture. Got an aging relative? Cousin behind bars? Forget corporate life!

With some unreliable family members to deal with, I've avoided those jobs - because I need a more liberal env so I can drop everything and head home, if need be.

dear ppl releasing 'important' information (which could have been done at any time this week, and which i now have to write about, and which you hope will attract notice) at 4:30pm on the friday of a long weekend

fuck you and your stupid fuckin faces

I have a co-worker who will only ever schedule meetings at 4:30 on Friday or, barring that, between noon and 1 so that everyone gets to skip lunch.

a few years back, our company brilliantly decided that teams would no longer be allowed to have administrative access to their own case management tools and would have to instead request updates to the system through a special team that would do them for them.

Most of the tasks took anywhere between 15-30 minutes when the team was allowed to do them themselves. The 'special team' requires a minimum of four business days to turn them around, and rarely if ever are able to do it quicker, citing that they are 'too busy'...even in urgent situations.

When informed they had made things 1920% slower in the process, they responded by essentially saying they didn't care and that it's going to stay this way.

Are you in spec, ILX?