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

if you're complaining on the internet about your colleagues' failure to supply you with coffee it's possible you might be your office's own stupid, annoying co-worker

Haha otm

The last place I worked that let the coffee run out was trying to cut office expenses and filed for bankruptcy a month later.

overheard someone placing an order for food at work: "on a bah-gay"

i guess she meant baguette

raspberry baguette

little red corvay

if you're complaining on the internet about your colleagues' failure to supply you with coffee it's possible you might be your office's own stupid, annoying co-worker

While I'm not disputing the last part, I figured it was better to complain on the internet than complain to the 2 people whose job it is to make sure there is coffee who I assume must be struggling in some way if they aren't capable of doing 1 person's job between them.

Of course it's possible that everyone in the office is complaining on the internet and nobody's told them we've run out. I dunno I was at home on Friday when it apparently ran out.

i mean, you could just ask them to get some more coffee in if that's part of their job. if it's possible that no-one's told them you've run out then quietly fuming instead of politely asking for help seems... counterproductive

or you could take wmc's advice and take the coffee shortage as a harbinger of impending doom and get a head-start on finding a new job, perhaps in a place where all kinds of coffee are lavished upon you throughout the working day

This thread is not for helpful advice! Stop it.

i've been off work for almost 3 weeks - before that i spent several weeks highly stressed, getting everything ready for the people doing my job.

i get back today, and everything is just a big fucking mess, and no one seems to know anything about anything. my boss does this to me all the time, just leaves me to clean up everyone else's fuckups.

Did someone tell you yet that we're out of coffee?

I changed roles recently but the team in Syd who are taking over my work are fecking hopeless. Its the same work they already do! They just have to use a different ordering system for the orders I did. And they cant apply brain to the task. If it deviates from the expected norm, it apparently involves flinging hands in the air and going "help its all too hard". Despite my carefully screen-shotted step by step documents, training sessions over TeamViewer, and helping them constantly on the phone.

Lord help us if I'd left the company all together.

Also, someone today used my (really distinctive and obviously not one of the generic office ones) bowl, filled it with oats and milk, half-assed microwaved it unknown minutes/hours ago, and just left it sitting in a gross lump in the microwave :|

Soon my firm will be getting a new copier/printer/scanner and I know that this time, no one besides me will learn to use it.

Today, as I do the first week of every. single. month., I taught my boss that "Control-A" is how you select all files in a folder. (He "couldn't" figure out the billing program, so he puts each day's billables on a separate Excel sheet and has a secretary enter them each month.)

(Ctrl-A was to select all Excel files to attach to email to secretary.)

Happiness Is . . . a four-day weekend starting tomorrow and your boss scheduling a department-wide conference call for 3-4pm.

my higher-up loves to pull that shit on us every time we have a department-wide meeting.

we keep telling him to move it but he insists on it

"basicallly it's friday and our thoughts are on our weekend plans, not our milestones or growth projection"

there's a PM here who's infamous for scheduling meetings with shitloads of non-needed people over friday lunch. "that's the only time all these people are free!" yeah there's a reason for that, dipshit

There are only two of us in and I have a lot to do today plus the constant fear that something urgent will come in that the other 80% of the team who are away today normally do and I won't have a clue and will have to spend hours panicking through scraps of documentation

so I didn't really want to listen to a monologue about... whatever this monologue is about. how bad and evil someone is for trying to send us some perfectly run-of-the-mill non-outrageous work, right now, I think.

I know everyone's being dying to know what happened about the missing coffee - well it turns out it was stolen! How exciting. Well, the backup instant coffee was anyway.

Office managers were well aware there was no coffee, but evidently didn't see it as a very important issue (why I don't know) so they only bought some replacement instant coffee today, and the machine coffee we will have to wait for, because apparently people were very thirsty this month and drank it all and that's all we're getting.

I don't know if investigations are ongoing into who stole the instant coffee. My guess is when the other coffee ran out one of the other teams hid it somewhere so they would still have coffee while the rest of us complained about headaches/switched to tea.

I'm taking Poo's side here. As someone who's grossly underpaid for working a stressful shitty job, I feel pretty entitled to the free battery-acid coffee they provide and get miffed when they weren't clever enough to order more before it ran out

there is no free anything where i am, i guess cos of it being public sector.

i am leaving my current job to go to another department in a few weeks - even in a job i like that sense of dgaf that descends when you're leaving is so enjoyable.

It appears lessons have been learned from the coffee debacle, and 6 industrial size vats of Gold Blend turned up yesterday. Still no nice coffee, but I guess they are sticking to the monthly allowance for that.

One theory being discussed in the kitchen this morning was that the new team of people who arrived in the office a couple of weeks ago (company bought out another smaller company, although our company is itself quite small, I think including this new team there's about 80 people) are rampant caffeine addicts.

i love the only semi-humorous vilification of the other that goes on with teams separate from your own in an office

i'm in the public sector too - we do get free coffee but i choose to buy and aeropress my own in the office because i'm an insufferable prick xxp

haha - i don't have any caffeine, and i only drink tea at home, more of a water guy in the day, but apparently in my office nothing whatsoever is provided, no milk, no tea, nothing apart from water.

In our office, there is a terrible, gag-inducing coffee machine on a different floor, as well as a hot chocolate machine. I myself go for the slightly less incompetent coffee available in our cafeteria for a dollar and change.

There is a "water club" among my office-mates, where a group of people have chipped in to secure a bubbler and water delivery. I was a member for many years, but costs varied a bunch as people joined and left the club. At peak usage, it only cost something like $7/person for a three month supply, but last I checked it was closer to $30. I just go for tap water these days, which is supposedly filtered, but who knows how often they change it.

When I worked for the state they didn't provide anything, either. There wasn't even a kitchen area so people had to wash their dishes in the bathroom sinks. We had a similar water club that I joined after catching someone washing his pants in the water fountain by the bathrooms.

I'm public sector and we get milk, but for DRINKS ONLY NO CEREAL!!! so I bring my own for cereal
We also have zip taps (hot and filtered cold water) which are brilliant

I'm just imagining the passive aggression that would occur after someone who was not part of water club, honestly or otherwise, started using the water cooler paid for by water club.

The first rule of Water Club is that you do not talk about Water Club...

omg yes. We kept the water cooler in our suite of offices (each "office" consisted of an admin's office, a boss's office, and a cubicle area where they stuck us attorneys) but people would sometimes come to "borrow" water (I do not want it back when you're done, thanks). The other attorney who I shared the cube space with was a bulldog about it, so I would just let her handle it, especially because I didn't really care that much. But she would jump up from her desk and demand fifty cents from people who wanted water.

For a while, our water orders were not matching our consumption. We'd run out of water a few weeks before our next delivery was scheduled. People voiced their suspicions that non-water club members (most likely security guards) were availing themselves of the cooler after hours. No one has actually did anything about it though.

My current job in the legal private sector has a kitchenette with microwave, fridge, sink, ice maker, paper plates, plastic forks, napkins and paper towels, and free Starbucks coffee, Tazo tea, Flavia coffee maker thing, filtered water, hot chocolate packets, half and half, non-dairy creamer, sugar, honey, lemon packets, salt, and pepper.

It's glorious.

We have a fridge, microwave, and one of those bottle-less watercoolers that's permanently plumbed into the mains water supply and also dispenses water hot enough for tea/coffee.

snoball do we work in the same office

We don't get free coffee and I don't see an insufferable prick aeropressing their own. So I guess not. Although you could be in the other office.

(in which case please tell the guy there with the chronic BO problem to wash and use a deodorant)

"hey can you combine these three elements of this graphic into one line?"

*combine 3 elements into one line* "how's this look"

"great but can you separate those 3 elements so theye're not all on one line like that"

the woooooooorst

fuckin dyin over heah

"can you print these"

prints these

"oh can you add my contact info to them"

murders u

nothing to bitch about.

it is kind of funny that the higher ups request for peace and quiet so people can get work done, yet spend most of the day speaking very loudly to each other.

and headphones on!

Speaking of water and coffee and whatnot we're about to get a tap that not only supplies chilled and boiling filtered water, but a third tap produces CARBONATED WATER.

What a time to be alive. (we also get free tea/coffee/biscuits/fruit, beer on fridays and they have energy drinks in the vending machine).

the nightmare project I left in February is still apparently in such bad shape that it's almost on the CEO's desk.

I got copied on an email about one particular assignment, asking me if I could add some background on the development of that particular task. I tried very politely to point out that not only did I have nothing to do with it, but that the person who did was actually...him. Which he apparently forgot.

no really, tell us more about the cartoonist who took the far side mentality and added a christian point of view

shout out to all the 50+yo str8 white dudes who smugly and loudly backpat each other abt their uninformed conservative politix in the break room during lunch

My new colleague was explaining how the media coverage of the PEGIDA rally he attended was unfair because it only showed people waving German flags and cut out all the guys waving Swedish and Danish ones in order to make them look like bigoted nationalists. Seems like a really nice guy otherwise but...uh.