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

'peanut butter in your area' hee hee

Careful with all those dogs around.

Ha.

On the allergy tip once my office decided to have the stupidest theme day ever: "wear tons of perfume/cologne", with prizes for guessing the smells, most obnoxious scent etc. I am not even joking. I think I privately emailed my boss and said "are you kidding? I'll end up with a migraine, i am kind of allergic to strong perfumes" and they called it off and kind of made it clear I was the spoilsport which was embarrassing :(

that sounds like my worst nightmare jfc what a horrible idea

That's insane. My former workplace office (current employer but I work from home bitchez) had signs up asking everyone not to wear strong perfume.

On the 'stupid, annoying coworkers' tip, I can't believe I have never mentioned this guy here, but I once had a 'manager' who was the sales-iest, cheesiest doofus ever whose 'thing' was guessing women's perfumes to impress them. I remember on his first day he did it to one of the cool office ladies who had a lot of political power in that company, and he kind of did it subtly in conversation and she thought it was cool, and it came off okay. Then he tried to do it with every single other woman he met in the office. It was such an obvious, lame 'trick' and I hated him instantly.

We have a suggestion box on our company intranet where we are given the option to submit comments signed, or anonymously. This is the fun that you get to have when you attempt to submit anonymously.

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what kind of fucking joke is this?

do you work at clickhole?

that can't be. . . real?

I mean WAHT?

are you fucking kidding me? that is the most ludicrous thing I have ever seen.

I made a strongly worded addendum to my anonymous submission letting them know that this was Not Okay.

I love loaded choices - 'we let you keep the freedom of anonymity but here's why it's horrible and nobody should do it'

my company briefly had an employee's corner board that served a similar purpose but we weren't given the option of anonymity. So of course when we posted we had to use restraint (and no doubt many didn't because of the non-anonymity factor), and a few times I got a 'talking to' because of something innocuous I posted as I 'didn't go through proper channels'.

the other thing that pissed me off recently is the company survey. for years, I had responded positively in the survey, as my dept is one of the few that is still run well, so I've been pretty chipper for 4 years. This last year was not so rosy (for outside reasons), so I responded honestly about why I wasn't enjoying my job lately . At the end, they gave us follow-up questions based on our responses and the first thing was about my lack of engagement and they asked 'are you aware of how your lack of engagement is affecting other employees'.

Basically wrote a long screed (as it was thankfully anonymous) saying how lame it is to suggest we're to blame for our own misery, as if it is outside of the realm of possibility that the company could be contributing to it.

That series of suggestion box responses is just freaking bizarre.

surprised there wasn't another box that said "we respect your request to remain anonymous. In this instance, we have respectfully declined and have traced your machine via IP. We will take your suggestion under consideration, and will schedule a follow-up meeting to determine why you didn't want to share your name."

last box is just "Sorry, ___name___, but we have to let you go."

thats incredible, incredible

box 1: "all suggestions are valid, even anonymous ones"
box 2: "it is possible you wish to remain anonymous because you fear retaliation or ridicule"
box 5: "FINE BE THAT WAY, ANON, BUT REMEMBER: NOBODY GIVES A FUCK ABOUT YOUR COWARDLY ANON OPINIONS"

The Monster Co-Worker at the End of the Comments

I love how it ends with "anyway we dont GAF about your anon comments lol so go for your life"

I KNOW. I anonymously told them that this was manipulative, childish, and spiteful and that we can make decisions for ourselves and that we're not children.

jesus, if you hadn't screencapped that i would not have believed it tbh

That's incredible.

Is the insinuation intentional here??

"we would regard it as morally repugnant to ridicule you for for making any (signed) suggestion"

Yeah is the tone meant to be playful and jokey, or is it serious??

i don't even fuckin know but like how deluded do you have to be to think that employees want to remain anon because they're going to be OPENLY RIDICULED BY UPPER MANAGEMENT and not because oh idk they don't want to be perceived as critical of the company that employs them bcz how could THAT possibly have ANY negative consequences

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1S7BGDpVotg

if you don't mind me asking how big is your company (# of employees?)

150-200 maybe?

lol this is the line that really kills me:

After a brief period of regret about a lost opportunity to understand something that may be important, we will continue as though you never said a thing.

They're so certain they can't and won't understand.

that's so insane.

i remember before there was a big "anonymous survey" where i worked, in a regional bbc office about 7/8 years ago. but after my team filled it out we realised it was divided by the section you worked in, and the line managers of each section were sent the comments. tv and radio had about 30 people each, but the web team i was on was just 4 of us including the line manager whom i expect everyone else tore to pieces too.

I feel like I'm interrupting a big discussion here which I will read later but I have to get this out. I sent an email to a person asking if she was the the correct recipient and she wrote back "Yuppy Guppy!!!!!". What? Is that even a saying?

OMG I can't handle that anonymous thing. It's too ridiculous!

xpost i've never seen that but it sounds kinda like when ppl reply YEPPERS!

disgusting savages basically

yuppy.... guppy? Dear god in heaven.

"I'm sorry, I appear to have accidentally emailed a high school girl by mistake, please disregard"

It's the Ned Flandersization of America, I tell ya!

sounds australian tbh

oi in the arvo, yuppy guppy?

aye mate

i think you oughta write back swearing like a sailor just on general principle

this one colleague, who is a friend, but has been increasingly disappointing of late, seems to think it's acceptable to always get things wrong the first time and just fix it afterwards.

In the last week, I gave her two items to work on where I actually prepped everything for her in advance (all she had to do was execute), and she screwed *both* up due to not reading the instructions, so I had to go back and correct her (even more frustrating is it took me two weeks of nagging to get her to even respond to begin with).

Then today, I find out this assignment I gave her to execute has been done incorrectly by 60% of the team she presented it to for weeks, which means she probably didn't train them all (or do a good job of it).

thankfully I'm off the project other than a few loose ends but I keep wondering like, wouldn't it be easier if you just got it right the first time?

this time I had to ask her to fix it cos I spent over 50+ hours over the last two months volunteering my team to clean up their messes and frankly don't have it in me anymore. kind of bummed that I worked 65+ hour weeks in December to ensure this thing went well cos I had no help and they have *five managers* and still can't operate their center.

maybe she was going to do it right, but then she thought 'we are all stardust'

who is a friend, but has been increasingly disappointing of late

hey ppl dont talk about friends like this tbph maybe try turning of the mgmt speak its nagl

offered without rancour but srsly now

ppl do learn & take in info differently
i like writing instructions but it's key to know how much writing is too much and some ppl just need to see what to do rather than read it, they will never read a thing you write

patience, revision, patience etc

not saying u did anything wrong

b

but

ignore the "b but" lol

Mgmt speak gtfo dude I'm not this persons manager. Srsly I know I'm persona non grata here but like when I give someone a link to a page I want them to post something and they instead ignore the link and post it in the same doc I am pretty sure I didn't fuck up.

(Not directed at you Vege.)

wonder what yr next screen name will be

Srsly I know I'm persona non grata here but like when I give someone a link to a page I want them to post something and they instead ignore the link and post it in the same doc I am pretty sure I didn't fuck up.

tbf I can't actually follow this sentence

good god, our office is being renovated (people are being temporarily moved to another suite in several groups during construction) and people are coming up with THE MOST RIDICULOUS THINGS to get upset about like

• how was the temporary seating chart arranged?
• why aren't people sitting with their friends?
• I heard we're not allowed to have books or plants at our desk anymore! If they don't let us have books on a shelf then I'M NOT PERFORMING MY BASIC JOB DUTIES
• will be we betting new chair mats?