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

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err october

not as funny when you have to re-edit :(

salvatóre, Wednesday, 26 October 2005 16:36 (eighteen years ago) link

"tina" is a close talker. when standing, she moves closer to speak within a 12 inch range. if you're sitting when she approaches you, she'll remain standing but practically rest her crotch on your shoulder and correspond from above.

nein Socken (nein Socken), Wednesday, 26 October 2005 17:19 (eighteen years ago) link

http://www.cc.gatech.edu/~haro/seinfeld.jpg

n/a (Nick A.), Wednesday, 26 October 2005 17:25 (eighteen years ago) link

ibook/ipod girl (yes, her again) works in pictures. you'd think that by now she'd understand it's CMYK, not fucking CYMK, wouldn't you? i know it's a tiny, tiny thing, but every time i hear her say it, i want to scream.

grimly fiendish (grimlord), Thursday, 27 October 2005 10:13 (eighteen years ago) link

Why don't you just call it 'smick'?

Mädchen (Madchen), Thursday, 27 October 2005 10:17 (eighteen years ago) link

because that would break my twee-ometer. i mean, i already have to cope with people who call a schedule a "schedders", and that makes me want to rip heads off left, right and centre.

aaaargh, someone is now sneezing repeatedly in a really ineffective and wussy way. GAAAAAAAH!

hmm. the problem really is me, not them, isn't it? gah.

grimly fiendish (grimlord), Thursday, 27 October 2005 10:20 (eighteen years ago) link

i love secret santa!! i hope we do one this year. (we did two years ago but not last year)

ken c (ken c), Thursday, 27 October 2005 10:22 (eighteen years ago) link

i heard someone call a schedule a "skehdule" once. wanted to kill him.

ken c (ken c), Thursday, 27 October 2005 10:23 (eighteen years ago) link

according to my oxford language toolkit, the american "sk" pronunciation is now common in britain.

i think i alternate between the two, depending on which day it is. which makes me stupid and annoying, i guess.

grimly fiendish (grimlord), Thursday, 27 October 2005 10:33 (eighteen years ago) link

grimly i told you before, twat her!

not-goodwin (not-goodwin), Thursday, 27 October 2005 10:38 (eighteen years ago) link

I find shedule more of a pain to say because sh and d are at the front of your mouth. Skedule has a nice back-to-front rock.

Mädchen (Madchen), Thursday, 27 October 2005 11:09 (eighteen years ago) link

there's still some idiots here who cannot open the office door properly.

Try pulling the handle DOWN before you push the door open YOU ARE BREAKING IT, CANNOT YOU TELL BY THE LOUD SNAP IT KEEPS MAKING WHEN YOU COME RUSHING IN !?

Ste (Fuzzy), Thursday, 27 October 2005 11:27 (eighteen years ago) link

I’ve heard what’s an attachment too many times.

not-goodwin (not-goodwin), Thursday, 27 October 2005 11:34 (eighteen years ago) link

Every time this guy in work sends me an email he finds a reason to send a document to the printer next to me so he can come and collect it and casually ask "Did you get that email I sent?"

"The one that you obtained delivery and read receipts for?"

"Um..."

"If you get a message that tells you I received and read the email then it means exactly that. I received and read the email."

"I wasn't trying to chase you up about it or anything."

"Good, because it wouldn't have helped your cause."

Onimo (GerryNemo), Thursday, 27 October 2005 11:38 (eighteen years ago) link

"Can I have 5 minutes to discuss subject x? I've been called to a meeting tomorrow with team y to discuss where they're going with it, and so I want to get up to speed on where you think we're going."

"Is 4-ish OK?"

He's currently playing Minesweeper, having just booked his car in for a service. If he wasn't my boss' boss I'd tell him to go fuck himself. (Although there's no way he can come out of this meeting tomorrow without looking like a cunt)

aldo_cowpat (aldo_cowpat), Thursday, 27 October 2005 13:02 (eighteen years ago) link

I should have said, this conversation took place at about half past one. He's still playing Minesweeper.

aldo_cowpat (aldo_cowpat), Thursday, 27 October 2005 13:21 (eighteen years ago) link

What time is it now?

jdubz (ex machina), Thursday, 27 October 2005 13:27 (eighteen years ago) link

Twenty to four.

Good job I don't have anything better to do than mong about on here otherwise I'd be pissed off by now.

aldo_cowpat (aldo_cowpat), Thursday, 27 October 2005 13:38 (eighteen years ago) link

Jan screams, spits and throws a chunk of chewed nectarine across the room. We have a maggot. Other co-workers advise her as follows:

- Phone Asda to complain
- Throw out all the rest of the fruit you bought at the same time
- Never buy fruit from Asda again

Mädchen (Madchen), Wednesday, 9 November 2005 10:35 (eighteen years ago) link

I have no annoying co-workers anymore, I have an office to myself...the boss has been off sick for a month...I'm going slowly mad....

smee (smee), Wednesday, 9 November 2005 10:42 (eighteen years ago) link

you miss your boss that much?

ken c (ken c), Wednesday, 9 November 2005 10:46 (eighteen years ago) link

I'm stranded in a tiny office, in a business centre - with no human contact, ANY contact is preferable to this...

smee (smee), Wednesday, 9 November 2005 10:56 (eighteen years ago) link

So what are you doing with us then? :-)

Nathalie, the Queen of Frock 'n' Fall (stevie nixed), Wednesday, 9 November 2005 11:00 (eighteen years ago) link

That's why I'm here! For the first time in ages...

smee (smee), Wednesday, 9 November 2005 11:00 (eighteen years ago) link

- Never buy fruit from Asda again

that is excellent advice.

emsk ( emsk), Wednesday, 9 November 2005 11:00 (eighteen years ago) link

It's excellent advice, but the reasoning behind it is shonky.

Mädchen (Madchen), Wednesday, 9 November 2005 11:13 (eighteen years ago) link

Never buy fruit from Asda again
this could happen in any supermarket.

not-goodwin (not-goodwin), Wednesday, 9 November 2005 11:20 (eighteen years ago) link

I did point out that fruit from your garden is quite likely to contain critters (more likely because it's not pesticided to fuck). I love putting my Mum's raspberries in a sink full of water and watching the worms float to the surface.

Mädchen (Madchen), Wednesday, 9 November 2005 11:43 (eighteen years ago) link

maybe my four-day weekend softened me a bit, but fucking hell the guy who sits next to me is going insane. yesterday's shift was an eight-hour (ok i only stayed six and a half BUT IT FELT LIKE EIGHT) complaining jag, and he's turned his bile on this guy who is really nice and who's a bit lazy, but, you know, so is this dude. at least the guy he's complaining about is competent and doesn't whine every time he can't figure something out right away.

it's getting creepier and creepier to watch this guy's hatred metastize -- he hasn't had to deal with all the other people he's complained about over the past year, so now his anger is focused like a laser on this one dude, and it's ugly, and everyone in the office is just watching in horror.

also he has like 150 (ok that's an exaggeration, it's only 15 or so ... ugh, 'only') t*dd mcf*rl*ne figurines of baseball players on his desk, and he and his roommates -- who he also works with, yet he has a picture of the three of them on his desk, even though when one of them isn't in the office they also turn their complaining rays on each other -- go to the toy store almost twice a week in order to stock up on more.

it's getting to the point where i want to say to him, 'you obviously hate working here since all you do is complain, so why don't you just quit and give your space as a full-timer to someone who actually DOES THEIR JOB CORRECTLY?' (there are a couple of part-timers who are really good at their jobs, but who can't get hired on full-time because of budget considerations ... bah.)

i dunno. somehow, i think that these dudes' crappy diet is at least partially to blame. maybe all that white sugar and white flour and bad cheese (you know, the type the cheapo pizza places use) is like turning into papier-mache in their systems, and their bodies are producing excess bile to compensate.

googleproofed! (maura), Wednesday, 9 November 2005 14:33 (eighteen years ago) link

fattie in front of me comes over to my desk every fucking morning and bangs on the cube as loud as possible and asks "are you awake"....every fucking day. Then she proceeds to laugh like Barney Rubble. one of these days im going to shove a donut in her mouth when she starts.

bingo (Chris V), Wednesday, 16 November 2005 12:59 (eighteen years ago) link

OMG WE HAVE SOMEONE IN OUR OFFICE WHO LAUGHS LIKE BARNEY RUBBLE TOO

Ste (Fuzzy), Wednesday, 16 November 2005 13:37 (eighteen years ago) link

Ugh. I think I would shove something worse than a donut in her mouth. Maybe a shotgun.

My boss is not so much annoying me as putting me in awe of her mighty piss-taking skills. She's doing a part-time MA (as am I) which takes her out of the office for a day a week. She can't afford to take time off though so she's making up the hours by staying late and skipping lunches etc. EXCEPT SHE'S NOT. She usually leaves before me, goes 'just for a coffee' with everyone else at lunchtime, and uses work time to go shopping and to galleries and to do assignments. And I thought I was being a bit cheeky using the odd quiet minute to read a journal article...

Oh and when I was on holiday she dumped a load of stuff out of her office and into my stationery cupboard which is overfull already. Her shelves are now filled almost entirely with personal books. Meanwhile I don't even have my own desk. Grr.

Archel (Archel), Wednesday, 16 November 2005 13:57 (eighteen years ago) link

ok she just came and banged on my desk loud as possible again as im eating lunch. "Hey Chris (holds up can of Campbells soup) look what i got at Wal-Mart for $1.50, its pretty good!"

My response: "Mary, i've had campbells soup before. Yes its pretty good, now if you'll excuse me im eating my fucking lunch."

im el groucho today.

bingo (Chris V), Wednesday, 16 November 2005 17:01 (eighteen years ago) link

oh and i forgot this beaut before the campbells soup announcement.

as she sees me eating my grilled chicken salad.."what kind of chicken is that?"

my response "the one with feathers."

bingo (Chris V), Wednesday, 16 November 2005 17:04 (eighteen years ago) link

you didn't plunk it first? hardcore!

ken c (ken c), Wednesday, 16 November 2005 17:35 (eighteen years ago) link

PLUCK even

ken c (ken c), Wednesday, 16 November 2005 17:35 (eighteen years ago) link

Fuck!!!!!!!!!!!! This woman has just started in my office, a kind of 70s hippy-dippy type, with a drippy London accent, who is a Buddhist vegan (and never fucking stops going on about it), into fucking reincarnation and rebirth and all that shite and who REFUSES TO LEAVE THE OFFICE AND GO HOME LIKE NORMAL PEOPLE thus depriving me of my Friday opportunity to kick off my shoes and burn some CDs and shit - GO HOME YOU STUPID HIPPY BITCH!!!!!!!!!!!

Oh No, It's Dadaismus (and His Endless Stupid Jokes) (Dada), Friday, 18 November 2005 17:56 (eighteen years ago) link

V1c M4s3d4 finally got himself fired today, I think. Won't know until my boss goes to his bosses and makes sure we can do this. One too many times, you stupid motherfucker. One too many times.

TOMBOT, Friday, 18 November 2005 18:02 (eighteen years ago) link

She's still fucking here!!!!!!!!! What do you want a gold star? Fuck off home!

Oh No, It's Dadaismus (and His Endless Stupid Jokes) (Dada), Friday, 18 November 2005 18:05 (eighteen years ago) link

maybe shes waiting for you to leave so she can get all tantric in the office!

petesmith (plsmith), Friday, 18 November 2005 18:08 (eighteen years ago) link

No wonder China invaded fucking Tibet, fucking Buddhists

Oh No, It's Dadaismus (and His Endless Stupid Jokes) (Dada), Friday, 18 November 2005 18:10 (eighteen years ago) link

the law clerk that i've complained about numerous times upthread was fired on wednesday. i'm actually pretty shocked, this is a state job. phwhoah.

ai lien (kold_krush), Friday, 18 November 2005 19:06 (eighteen years ago) link

This Buddhist woman is doing my nut in, she's so insecure and is constantly apologising and panicking over the slightest little mistake.

Oh No, It's Dadaismus (and His Endless Stupid Jokes) (Dada), Tuesday, 22 November 2005 12:09 (eighteen years ago) link

Sounds like she won't last a week there anyway.

robster (robster), Tuesday, 22 November 2005 12:51 (eighteen years ago) link

Nah, the boss is a hippy too, she's here for the duration

Oh No, It's Dadaismus (and His Endless Stupid Jokes) (Dada), Tuesday, 22 November 2005 12:54 (eighteen years ago) link

jesus my co-workers are having one of those 'i am the most PC' convos ever. currently people who oppose gay marriage 'probably think it's ok to rape their wives' and 'want to bring back stoning witches'.

Theorry Henry (Enrique), Tuesday, 22 November 2005 12:57 (eighteen years ago) link

Last Friday the Buddhist Woman and Steve (another guy who works in the office) are having a conversation...

Buddhist Woman: "I met your brother when I was down at the printers. He's very like you, even his voice."

Steve: "Yeah, he is. We say a lot of the same things too, so whenever I'm out with him I sort of know how he's going to phrase things and express himself."

Buddhist Woman (perfectly seriously): "Well, you see, you might have known each other in a previous life. You might have made a connection in a previous life."

Me: "Couldn't it just be that they're related to one another?"

Steve: "Errrrrrrrrrrr....."

Oh No, It's Dadaismus (and His Endless Stupid Jokes) (Dada), Tuesday, 22 November 2005 13:11 (eighteen years ago) link

I'm beginning to think I'm going to have to start looking for another job.

Oh No, It's Dadaismus (and His Endless Stupid Jokes) (Dada), Tuesday, 22 November 2005 17:18 (eighteen years ago) link

New Printer

James called me to say that he now won't be able to complete the printer networking until tomorrow morning so, in the meantime, I have switched back on the other printer which can now be used until tomorrow!

James also informed me that the printer/scanner/copier tuned into Lucy's computer can not be networked as that model type can only be connected to one machine.

I was thinking of asking James to connect it to the new spare computer (he will complete the installation of this tomorrow!) at the 'hot desk' - any other suggestions?

David


Hi David

Have you got any plans for the computer I’m on at the moment? I’ll be gone in a month anyway ...


Hi Lucy

I think it will probably remain here at PDU (possession is nine tenths of the law!) as one of the assets of the University.

David


Hi David, you thick bastard, do you really think I'd try to walk off with a computer when my contract ends?

Mädchen (Madchen), Thursday, 24 November 2005 14:33 (eighteen years ago) link

Today my boss made me wash all the paper clips in the office. Because they were dirty. IN HER MIND.

They're drying on paper towels in the office bathroom as we speak.

LMN, Thursday, 1 December 2005 21:56 (eighteen years ago) link


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