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

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?

ultimately it just bums me out that people devote so much time and energy to getting worked up about little things at work because they don't have much else going on in life I guess

It's almost as though a working environment that treats employees like children who don't know their own minds results in employees who act like children.

My employer is currently in the middle of a merger with another company, and their equivalent of our department is in "meltdown" to quote one of their HR people. Like I thought our roll-out of *INSERT NAME OF NEW-ISH TECH* was way behind schedule, but they haven't even started. Despite them having a team dedicated to figuring out how to do the deployment. Oh and they have two hours of scheduled time on their group calenders every day to discuss 'merger issues' which basically boils down to a large proportion of them getting laid off because they don't actually seem to be doing anything.

Ha that reminds me of when we merged companies ohhh...2 years back now? And at the time someone said they aimed to have our billing and IP dbases merged with theirs within 3 quarters. I did laugh. 2 years later its still not happened.

"This new e-mail system" = Gmail, a free service that's been provided since 2004.

it is 77°F in my office

the window is already open

translate pls

too effing hot

right down to the vernacular, impressive service

Newish colleague (neither stupid nor annoying tbh but y'know coworker so seemed the thread) was running a big annual black tie dinner for the first time tonight. He came back from tm lewin in the afternoon with a new dress shirt and realised he didn't have any cufflinks. I keep spares in the office because I've had the same thing happen in the past, so I offered them up.

Two hours later I went by the staff toilet on my way out

http://cl.ly/image/3S062J462h0u/File%2010-03-2015%2022%2037%2027.jpeg

gah!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Oh lord it takes like two things to unwind (no tools required or water main turned off). Might be gross in there but I'd do that any day to avoid losing someone else's stuff.

One of my colleagues wanted to bring in an external AV contractor to change a bulb in a video projector that could be reached by standing on the table underneath it.

coworker is on calls all day selling movies to customers, constantly mangling actor names

in the last 10 minutes alone
ChristophER Waltz
JuliannA Moore
Kayley CuCOW (lol though)
oh and talked about Jennifer Aniston for a long time before he realized he meant Jennifer Lopez

u_u

i got into a huge fight with a coworker yesterday, and she repeatedly called me a liar*. then last night she called and left me a message apologizing for her 'losing her temper' but not for the accusations. she wants me to call her back so i'm not gonna, bc i'm mean and like holding grudges.

*this is boring, but to justify why her lying accusations are so stupid:
i'm the garment-dyer. i have to come up with new formulas to try and match the samples that coworker (65yr old french lady) gives me. i also manage the inventory, which means that i decide what goes out (sizes, colors etc) to each store. so she's telling me that we have to discontinue the cranberry and continue the moss bc the latter sells well and the former doesn't. how does she know this? bc she works about 15 hours a week, split between two stores. i tell her it's actually the other way round, bc i see the inventory sheets so i know the actual numbers. she starts telling me she doesn't believe me, that i just say a color is selling well if it's a color i like, and that it's not selling well if i don't like it. this is... nuts. like, why would i give a shit?? i don't work in the stores, i don't buy these clothes, i couldn't care less. it's in my best interests to correctly predict what is selling well and keep it stocked, bc i take the blame when we're left with tons of a bad color at the end of the season. but she wouldn't let up on this ridiculous idea, so yeah, fuck her.

it shouldn't amaze me, but I am constantly amazed at how few people know how to apologize properly and handsomely. the non-apology or halfway apology or just the misapplied apology for the wrong thing seems to rule the world, not just the god damned playground. it takes patience and forgiveness to cope with all the rotten apologies one gets in the course of life.

otm

^^^

It can be so freeing to sometimes just own a mistake and say "i got it wrong, what can I do to repair this?" and not make any excuses.

^ this is actually one of the best ways to gain a reputation for competence and reliability, ironically

Good apologies and good acceptance (focused on solutions, dispassionate) are beautiful and the inspire so much respect. Three of my co -workers/bosses are really great at both and that makes up for a ton of quirks.

OTOH, my direct boss is terrible at both - on my the rare occasions she apologizes, it's hyperbolic and irritated ("That was my stupidity"). Usually she doesn't own up to mistakes, but says, "This didn't get done right. It needs to get done."

Anyway, that sucks, J. What a bizarre accusation. Like you're a shill for cranberry.

Yeah this is true, I remember I got massive respect from the QA manager at one of my previous jobs because I owned up immediately to breaking something and fixed it straight away, from then on he trusted me over most of the other devs, who he said would've just denied all knowledge of it.