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

THE FORM IS BLANK

I'm telling you. Just don't do it. Say you can't get to it today and then everybody will forget.

agree

i agree in theory but in real life i've received 4 different emails about this from 3 different offices in the past 30 minutes and i can hear people arguing about it in a nearby room

i seriously can't do this much longer. a lot of people helped me out to get this job transfer but i don't think i'm going to make it to the year mark

patiently awaiting theformisblank.biz

Just hand in a blank form? I'm with Roxy. Email blast all parties and say "no reportable duties, form signed and on X's desk". Shred form. Set fire to office. Leave town.

These assholes need to be addressing each other directly instead of using you as their go-between errand boy.

― Aimless, Tuesday, 10 February 2015 19:32 (Yesterday) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

This. this happens to me all the fucking time, here's what I would do:

1) Email AND instant message (if possible) all parties, so it's documented multiple ways.

2) Indicate that both parties are providing differing instructions,and politely ask if both parties can meet to discuss, as you are merely the messenger, and it is causing you extra work. Offer to attend if need be, but place the onus on them to solve the problem.

3) State, politely, that you are going to hold off doing anything with the form until you receive further instruction, and attempt to lock down who that instruction will come from (so there's no chance of thinking you're in the clear only to have this happen again).

the same thing happened to me in December. we're customer service, there was a problem with our document imaging system that the Imaging group discovered, and which required an IT team to fix (and a form to be filled out). instead of them doing it themselves, they came to us, asking us to create the form. Ok, fine, I create the form, and the IT group goes "nope, it's set up fine", and closes it. Imaging group says "nuh uh! nuh uh!".

I blew up at the IT group and said in pointed words "can you PLEASE just get together with the IMAGING team and hash this out"? Three hours later it was fixed, after a MONTH of back and forth.

"" "" co-patients

had an exchange with a horrible woman who shouts all night at nurses out of her room as I filled my water jug opposite her door. she's been keeping everyone awake.

"what's going on" she bossed me.

"hospital, mrs, everything's going on"

"you're all money men. money men!"

"makes the world go round mrs"

"fix my pillows!"

(very quietly, just for her) "fuck off" then I tapdanced away

two good co-patients - the one who suddenly in the middle of the night suddenly started going PAIN! PAAAAIIIIN! ooh PAAAAIIIIIIIIIIIIIIN! for a v long time. the nurses took her away after about two hours and then she died.

then after a particularly serious operation on ME there was an old dialysis patient opposite who said "have they got rid of it?" and I said "well, they can't be certain but they seem fairly optimistic." and he said "well they would say that it's very unlikely you know" and I called him a po-faced Jeremiah which seemed to satisfy him. I'm fine btw u boring morbid cunt.

this isn't a annoying fellow patients thread I know but whatever.

Fizzles man sending my best wishes for a speedy recovery!

ey fizzles didnt realise you were in: speedy getting out

fizz, was that a reminiscence or are you in? If the latter & you're in London, do you want a visit, supplies, books, etc?

oops sorry it does sound like a reminiscence.

fond reminiscences delivered drunkenly I'm afraid, hence possibly the confusion. gratified at the response tho. feel there must be something minor coming up I can make a meal of to get books and well wishes and will post here with full details when that happens.

get well soon fizzles

sozzles to hear fizzy, feel better

aw you fuckers.

feel there must be something minor coming up I can make a meal of to get books and well wishes and will post here with full details when that happens.

No need to go that much trouble we are a friendly lot round here.

Whassup Fizz? Nowt serious??!?!? Got to keep the Tom Quotient up, man.

sudden onset case of the vapours requiring urgent airlift of good scotch and an advance review copy of the new tom mccarthy

ooh, you bunch of arseoles, I'm sitting here drinking a glass of filthy wine laughing at ilx. I'm fine apart from the usual sketchiness.

and to get it back on track and cap it off I seem to have got mixed up with a v unannoying co-worker who also happens to be technically married.

as my brother said last week - bit of a backward step isn't it? getting pissed then drunk texting a married woman then sitting round all day eating cereal and watching cricket? I said not.

a bottle of laphroaig is whispering sweet nothings beside me, although 4pm is late for a skalk

I once, as an experiment you understand, decided to a decent-sized glass of whisky - macallans ten almost certainly possibly highland park - when I got up. "what's it like I wonder" I said to myself.

after having it I was filled with an enormous creative and social energy. I got ready and went out filled with a thousand plans. when I got to central London I suddenly felt more tired than I had done in my life ever before. and quickly returned home. where I laid on the bed listening in a totally unengaged way to a South Africa - england test.

my new boss is a dick.

ooh ive often wanted to do that, maybe a treble of something nice before a wandering of dublin, that sounds like a nice next day off that does

Och theres nothing worse than booze that wears off at like 3 in the afternoon. Waste of a day.

Yeah the only way out of that is straight through it.

This is why I never drink at lunchtime anymore.

i just get really tired really quickly if i start early

This is why I never drink at lunchtime anymore

^^^ this was how i knew i had become old

especially now that that long exhausted post-drink afternoon stretch involves caring for a highly energetic 2yo

last fall was leading project where my direct report missed all of her deadlines but one, to the point where other people (including me had to finish her work). then she went on leave (for valid reasons) on the day training was supposed to start, which left me to fill in at the last minute (FOR AN ENTIRE MONTH).

finally gave up...said I can't do this anymore to the department lead, and went back to my old position. would rather do work than delegating it.

probably my first case of work-induced depression ever

yeah, I've been managing a bunch of fairly junior employees this year and have spent an increasing amount of time holding hands and cleaning up messes. It is wearing very thin at this point. I've had similar thoughts of moving away from management and going in a more technical direction.

holding hands and cleaning up messes sums it up exactly. I have mucho respect for anybody who can do it and stay sane - some people are built for it, but not me. I was conned by the unusually smooth first year and a half in the position.

hopefully if you make that decision there's something better on the technical side waiting for you!

I often overhear the lass nearby me who is managing our recent move to an offshore call centre. Customers hate these things: they get staff with accents who are going off scripts and have minimal clue. And boy oh boy do these staff seem useless. Theyre Fijian, and despite many months of training and admonishment they still seem to be just as useless as when they started - tickets are barely readable english, customers complain about useless troubleshooting, poor english and rude tone on calls. I'd hate to be that manager - she's tried everything. Not a lot one can do remotely tho I guess.

(without meaning to stereotype, there's also a cultural problem because islander folk just dont take shit very seriously, life is pretty laid back - and that comes over very strongly in the lack of GAF of their work ethic)

lol @ expecting offshored call centre worker to GAF

jfc it's gotten to the point where I'm having panic attacks in anticipation of Monday.

Mostly cuz I'm a month overdue rolling off my last project as a manager and no end date in sight.

Oh good, a poster I spent ages working on and that just needed one much-delayed name dropped in to a space I'd carefully left marked in order to be made complete was then mucked around with and "redesigned" by my boss when she was putting that name in on my day off. And now she's eating a big plate of peanut-buttered toast at her desk a metre away which is making my feeble anaphylactic throat and heart hurt.

Um if youre deadly allergic to nuts she shouldnt be allowed to have them in the office surely? :| Also she sounds like a dick.

Yeah I'd go to HR immediately.

I also think it's gross when people bring dogs in the office. I mean, yay, stress relief, but boo asthma.

people only bring crying babies to my office :(

We get both.

One manager brought her dog to her open office. Went to an afternoon meeting. Mutt whimpered for two hours straight.

I love office dogs and office babies/kids, but totally totally understand why people wouldn't.

Not cool to have to put up with peanut butter in your area when you're allergic, though.

'peanut butter in your area' hee hee

Careful with all those dogs around.