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

lol.

Last week, I asked a coworker in passing whether they were heading up to the meeting and they replied "no, I'm going to use the litterbox".

god i would love to work with cats

although herding them all up for a meeting, i mean, well you know

That used to happen to my former office mate all the time, too. She had two names that Americans think of as Chinese last names that were also one letter away from rhyming and the fucked up permutations of her name that people who had worked with her for seven years would come up with were mind boggling.

But this is the same office that would often send correspondence to the other person on our floor who shared my first name (spelled differently, though) even though our last names were different. This included the time HR came into her cubicle to personally tell her to come to a meeting about a payroll fuck up, and didn't realize that she wasn't me until she saw my name on some documentation and let them know that they had the wrong Jen(n)ifer. She had worked there for something like 20 years at that point.

i've probably moaned about this before, but in my shittier jobs i invariably got called by the same amalgamation of my first initial and bits of my last name. like if my name was lee windsor i'd get called lindsay.

it's still early on here so i'm trying to correct it while there's still time, but it can be pretty demoralizing. at my last position (same org, different city and subject matter) i was on very friendly terms with pretty much everyone that i saw on a daily or weekly basis, hundreds of people. so to switch here to a new position, knowing no one, and literally half of the interactions are people wandering by my desk saying "Hi Scott, how are you?" and walking off before i can respond...it feels like i failed 9th grade and have been sent back to 5th grade in a different school district

but it's ok, my cool new placard will fix everything!

Boss got a bill from the HVAC repair company that included a $45 "Trip/Fuel Surcharge." She wrote them a letter saying that she would not pay $45 for fuel because that was practically a full tank of gas for a 2 mile round trip.

The HVAC bookkeeper called and told me that the $45 was a standard surcharge on all service calls. Their invoices going back to 2011 all show that charge.

The bill is way past due but my boss now wants ME to call the bookkeeper and tell her that $45 for a 2 mile round trip is gouging and she wants an adjustment to reflect a reasonable actual amount of gas used.

Last week, I asked a coworker in passing whether they were heading up to the meeting and they replied "no, I'm going to use the litterbox".

This is awesome.

The bill is way past due but my boss now wants ME to call the bookkeeper

uuuuuuuuuuuuuuugh
stupid!
annoying!

It's ultra annoying that she has been paying the surcharges in previous bills but now suddenly has a bee in her bonnet about this one. If this were the first one, I think you could manage to gin up enough righteous indignation but this is absurd.

She's gotten really fucking crabby and negative lately because she has some kind of tricky kidney problems or maybe-you-have-lupus? so she has some excuse but man, what a fucking crabcake.

Someone from upper management sent a group e-mail telling us that we could all come in wearing casual dress tomorrow. Unless we're customer facing. Which is practically all of us. Except this doesn't even apply to the half of us (including me) who are off tomorrow. Great motivation job, upper management team guy!

office is closing at three, which is when the full-time employees will depart (the handful that are even here, anyway). if part-timers leave, will they be paid for the rest of their shifts? do they have to sit in front of their computers in an empty office for three more hours (there's nothing to do) to get paid? is it 'legal' to fill out a timesheet saying they worked the missing hours if they didn't?

Guy in my office has spent the past hour on speakerphone to some poor bastard, reading out a 15-page questionnaire question by question and expecting the respondent to have all the answers at his fingertips instead of, you know, emailing him the fucking questionnaire.

p sure i've bitched abt this guy before but he came in late/called out so much that they switched him from FT to PT. He now comes in 3 days a week and he has not ONCE come in on time for all 3 of his days (he will either call out or come in late for at least one of them, often 2 or all 3). When I say "late" I don't mean like 10 or 30 minutes, I mean a minimum of 2 or 3 hours. Often times he'll come in and then take his lunch break an hour later. He also refuses to come in on one of his 4 days off to make up the time because he has his schedule set up the way it is and it works for him and that's the way it is.

He's incredibly defensive and argumentative, nothing is ever his fault, he's the most hilariously pathetic Apple fanboy (it's kind of fun to fuck w/ him actually because he'll get so riled up if you ever insult anything Apple ever), he's just a dummy.

It shouldn't bother me but we started at the same time and used to be pals but our relationship has definitely soured since we started a year and a half ago (seemingly unbeknownst to him). So I have to talk to him all the time and he comes on lunch break w/ us sometimes and it's not really possible to avoid him entirely

but like damn dude why do you still work here?

I mean we work at a help desk call ctr so there are 100+ other ppl that do the same thing that we do, so he totally just slips under the radar. I kind of want to spitefully bring it up to the HR ppl and be like "why are you letting this fly?"

several people i work with have intentionally strange laughing styles, and it has become something of a competition of late

Do any of them sound like Goofy? because that would be awesome.

one of them is somewhat reminiscent of a throatier goofy

I say to that coworker, "give us pure unadulterated goofy or go home."

or Krusty.

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one of them does an extremely high pitched squeaky laugh for long periods of time, and everyone just LOVES IT. but when she is caught by surprise by something funny, she laughs at a normal pitch. super contrived.

tempted to scratch marks on my dell every time a certain someone says 'workflow'

so like ive been promoted and that's great etc. its a panel format, I landed high on it and expected to get my pick of roles, thats great etc. this didnt happen but as it happened I was told I'd be getting a position that I'd have wanted anyway so that was fine, no harm no foul- even if I found out through social media last Thursday night hey I'm not into irl drama it was no skin off my nose. news was due to break officially (along with several other similar appts) on monday- I'm off on exam leave and thats cool I can meet n greet next week when I'm back.

got a text tonight from what I thought would be my new direct manager informing me that I'm being posted to a role that doesnt suit me, my aims or my skills after some last minute reshuffling today.

so now ive to walk in to work tomorrow to kick everybodys arses and I'm not even officially the boss of anyway yet and wtf is wrong with this place ffs.

ughhh dmac that blows!

yeah that's the fucking worst

let's not get hasty its a pretty big promotion but it was perfect as is and it was v nice without late-stage bullshit tbs

but you can agree that late-stage bullshit is the fucking worst and also blows

He now comes in 3 days a week and he has not ONCE come in on time for all 3 of his days (he will either call out or come in late for at least one of them, often 2 or all 3). When I say "late" I don't mean like 10 or 30 minutes, I mean a minimum of 2 or 3 hours

In every call centre I've worked in, that'd result in termination by now. How's he getting away with that!?

Because we have 100+ employees and the way it's set up we pick up on two rings so we almost always have a queue of employees waiting for a call (and not the other way around) and it takes so long to train people before they can be thoroughly productive on the phones I guess it's just cheaper to keep him on.

I resent the fuckin' hell out of it though.

Well I was allowed my little strop and coolly told it didnt matter wtf I thought. Got assurances over support, college, training and role and I'll be working with ppl I like so it could be worse /tantrum

fuckers

Lyfe tho

grrr

guy staring at his phone got on an elevator with me. i went from 4 to 6. only when the door opened and i was getting off did he notice where he was and start grumbling and pushing buttons on lower floors

not so much annoying as lmao smooth move ex lax

"how are you doing "
"aaaaeeeh not to shabby"

stop saying that you fuckign idiot

lol

Stop spelling "too" as "to," Latham.

today I taught a coworker how to bookmark a website and when she asked me all I wanted to do was point to the exit and say GET OUT

wow. so last week a co-worker who i rarely see (she works in a different state but occasionally visits our office) dropped by unexpectedly and asked how i liked my new position. i was just starting into my response when she said, really loudly, "oh you don't want this job. this job SUCKS. you gotta start looking for a job in a new division. you don't want to be here. trust me." shit like that. she's whisper-screaming all of this in the middle of the day and i gave her the STFU, WTF is wrong with you look. our wonderful conversation proceeded for another few minutes like that. she doesn't like the people at my new position, i guess, and she's a very outspoken and loud person. anyway, that happened, then i forgot about it.

just now my supervisor came up to me. turns out that the loudmouthed co-worker told HER boss that i was bored because i didn't have enough to do (?), then the boss told HIS boss (both of these people are in a different division entirely from me) that i didn't have enough to do. That boss told MY boss' boss that I was bored, and then that boss (2 layers above me, in my own division. i'm going to need to bust out an organizational chart for this stupid story) told my supervisor that I didn't have enough to do and was bored. My supervisor just came to me to give me more work because she heard from her boss' boss that i was bored.

GODDAMMIT YOU STUPID ANNOYING CO-WORKERS

if u can break that down to 30 seconds pls?

Wait, so she went and lied to your bosses!??? Surely theres some way to repair this fuckup.

Bcs it sounds like she's trying to get you fired.

ughhhhhh karl wtf dude that blows!

that coworker needs a dickpunch asap

um, i think she would need a dick first...

oops

well the sentiment still applies

she had good intentions, i think - to slyly let upper management know that they have a new employee who needs higher profile stuff to do. someone similarly intervened without telling me 5 years ago and ended up helping me out quite a bit in the process. unfortunately she fucked up this time, though.

one of my coworkers goes berserk and calls for backup if he has like 3 work tickets to do

"aiaiagh we're getting crushed!"

no we are not you ridiculous simian drip

If I had three calls in my queue I'd be lounging back in my office chair with my feet up on the desk.