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

please stop shouting, please

The entire department just behind me (in our garbage open-plan office where there is no privacy and certainly no barriers against sound) is comprised of individuals who have seemingly never been exposed to the concept of an 'inside voice'. Or the concept of 'working instead of pretending you're on your third glass of wine at a raucous dinner party'. I assume these were qualities that management actively sought out? At any rate, it's...it's just such an absolute delight.

guessing that here darragh is using “Sicilian” to mean “someone from Sicily,” not “someone from America”

Sometimes, sic, your corrections are in reference to things that were never said or even inferred. Just FYI, if you want to save yourself some time.

(At any rate: the unspoken-yet-readily-acknowledged thread that runs through my panoply of work-related complaints is that I just plain don't belong here and that the real problem is that I haven't moved the christ on already. I accept this as primarily my failing, I just don't allow it to curb my bitchery.)

im not, and i know im fierce on the distinction as it pertains to my own set, but im not sure sicilianity actually dilutes tbh

ITALIANS ARE NOT THE SAME AS SICILIANS, as Sicilians will tell you when you meet them and about every five minutes thereafter.

Not like Italians to be hung up on whereabouts in Italy they come from.

there were a number of hilarious things that came out of a conversation between my traveling companions and a younger Polish dude when I was visiting a few weeks back, but one of the best might have been that residents of Warsaw, unlike the people of Krakow, are "not really Polish"

well yeah this isnt a strange phenomenon tbf

like, dubs....arent *real* gaels like. everyone knows this.

And Glaswegians aren't Scottish (i.e. Protestant) enough but they dgaf.

*nods*

ITALIANS ARE NOT THE SAME AS SICILIANS, as Sicilians will tell you when you meet them and about every five minutes thereafter.

Not like Italians to be hung up on whereabouts in Italy they come from.

― Michael Oliver of Penge Wins £5 (Tom D.), Monday, November 4, 2019 10:18 AM (eighteen minutes ago) bookmarkflaglink

as someone who is 1/8th genovese i don't care where in italy you're from as long as it isn't the south

Sometimes, sic, your corrections are in reference to things that were never said or even inferred. Just FYI, if you want to save yourself some time.

I’m not sure if this is in reference to anything that was said or even inferred

Ha ha ha...I'm 1/4 Calabrese and I grew up around a lot of Italian-Americans and let me tell you, the Calabrese were taught that Sicilians were the "shit" Italians. Then I take a course in Italian and the Northern (very white) Italian teacher tells us that southern Italians are worthless, their food sucks and they have made no contributions to culture and history.

So this past week, this new dude screws up a project, gets chewed out for it, so of his own volition he goes and does it again, just to prove he can do it right. Never mind that it is pointless, redundant, and a waste of everyone's time.

can't we all just agree that italians were a mistake and call it a day

My work AGM today, thoughts and prayers appreciated

a good coworker has predicted “fireworks” during his group meeting next week where the ridiculous manager I’ve complained about will be attending. apparently the last full group meeting they had ended poorly and with the manager in town, there may be torches and pitchforks

A little off-topic, what I learned from that Italian class (which I was taking for work anyway) - never say, "quanti ani hai" instead of "quanti AN-NI hai". Pronounce both of the "n"s or else you're saying "how many assholes do you have?"

Sounds like a Jurassic Park question

And then having to get up really early in the morning so I can come in to work early because I have to clean up a mess someone else made. My health is no good, I can't keep living without sleep, I'm cleaning this shit up for free (because we're all screwed if someone doesn't). I'm too old to find a new job so all I can do is make these sacrifices in hopes that maybe someone will eventually care that I did all of that work.

Maybe just run through exactly what you all put in each one of your variously coloured bins one more fucking time.

Every time there is a mass behavioral issue to solve with our representatives, I get met with blank stares when I ask if anybody surveyed the people who made the mistake why they thought this was the correct way to do it.

Kinda amazes me that people who get paid three times my salary don't understand that solving a widespread behavioral problem requires understanding the root cause first.

Bring in the consultants for that, on their even more inflated day rates!

We all occasionally hit send before we realize we've mistyped an email address. It happens, we're human. We might even occasionally have a bad day and punch in the wrong address several times over before we finally get it right. But when we just keep forwarding that same email until it finally reaches its recipient but don't bother to delete all of the previous failed attempts from the body of said email, it might appear to the recipient as if we're suffering from an as-yet-undiagnosed neurological condition.

imo this person thinks it's your fault for having the wrong address and wants to show you what you did

That actually happens! Semi-regularly! 'I have already attempted to send this to you three times previously with no response. (scroll down and see multiple instances of the email being sent to nonexistent addresses)'

I'm like 94% convinced that our CEO is some sort of warlock who feeds on the cognitive capacity of anyone who works for or with us. As if my dumb ass alone isn't evidence of that theory.

I'm still getting messages on my personal email address for some electrical contractor in Florida, despite having emailed the offender that they have the wrong address.

I have a lot of information about what devices are installed at a certain mouse-governed theme park due to their continued confusion and have yet to determine what to do with it.

Is there way way to hack their fast passes?

Just send it to the mouse guys and ask are you okay with your business information being shared this way. Should get a pretty swift reaction.

wtf dude I'm not shutting off the faucet

i get a lot of misdirected emails to my personal address and when I reply to say "you've got the wrong email address" the usual response is "well this is the one you/your colleague/Todd gave to me, which one am I supposed to use???"

xp sorry I thought you wanted that, but play on, play on

I have a lot of information about what devices are installed at a certain mouse-governed theme park due to their continued confusion and have yet to determine what to do with it.

Please note that utility data for the entire campus is also included. This was the only data made available with the application, and in order to accurately estimate and verify savings, individual building meter data will need to be obtained from the campus.

I have quite a common name and get a lot of Gmail meant for other people: medical details, flight tickets etc., which I guess is often the result of people entering their own email addresses wrongly when they place the order. Who does that?

loads of people it seems

I get gmails for some guy in Wisconsin who buys a deer-hunting license every year, some guy in Ireland who does something to do with horse racing, timesheets for a temp worker in the midlands (that was a bit of a weird one, since I am from the midlands and my namesake was working not far from where I grew up)

I used to reply telling them but it doesn't make any difference, they just keep on coming.

So I work in the nonprofit division of a company that, by and large, handles for-profit business. The primary email address I monitor consists entirely of the word 'nonprofit' before the @. Not a lot of ambiguity there. So when I regularly receive emails that are like 'yeah hi would you be interested in this retail auto parts franchise' I have to wonder what people think 'nonprofit' means. Or if they've ever given it any thought. Or if they think. Gag me. With a spoon.

i get a lot of misdirected emails to my personal address and when I reply to say "you've got the wrong email address" the usual response is "well this is the one you/your colleague/Todd gave to me, which one am I supposed to use???"

― kinder, Friday, December 20, 2019 3:27 AM bookmarkflaglink

Lol "don't you tell me you're not the right person!" always blows my mind. i have a dude at work whose name is exactly the same as mine, sans three letters (first and last) so the same would sometimes happen to me.

So they'd email me when they wanted him and I'd say "you really mean this guy" and give them the right contact and they go WELL MY BOSS TOLD ME YOU WERE THE PERSON.

"I think i know who I am, athankyou"

You think. Which means you can't say for sure.

C'mon. Stop fuckin' with me, Neondirtpal.

My boss is trying to convince my coworker to buy the business bc she wants to retire

She wants $250k

The company hasn’t made a profit in years

She has been loaning the business money each year for years

How does she think my coworker could get a loan to buy a unprofitable business?

A couple weeks ago coworker told me she had a meeting set up with boss so she could present a business proposal (let coworker run the business for a year, split profits, pay boss a salary*, boss doesn’t have to do anything, see if coworker can make the business work before committing to purchase). Coworker is surprised bc boss says she also has a business proposal.

Coworker comes back from meeting and when I ask what boss’ proposal was she says 0_o boss suggested a new way of merchandising the stores 0_o

That was her bUsinESs pRopOsaL

*boss has not been paying herself a salary for years. We recently got audited.

Boss has somehow kept this v badly run business afloat for 40 yrs
NB her side hustle is landlord to several properties in the Bay Area and New Zealand

Some people have weird ass vanity businesses. it's so strange. I had a friend that asked if I would take her daytime shifts in a small, typical trendy boutique in the east village for two weeks ( I did not work there at all and supposedly the owner was fine with her asking whoever for two weeks). There were some days not a single person would come in. I think I sold 4 things the entire time I was there. The owner did not seem bothered.

Oh my boss goes hard out with this business and is v invested in it, she’s just not good at it

I know there are a myriad of reasons those businesses exist, especially ones that are very boutique and sell $$ over short periods to moneyed clients or are a hobby for a rich person, but my go-to thought is always money laundering

She could never work for anyone so she had to go into business for herself. She has a v scatterbrained approach to everything and constantly contradicts herself. The only reason she’s managed this long (apart from injecting more outside money into it every year) is bc we have little competition

I always think it's a money laundering front too. xpost

I always liked how Rice to Riches was set up to launder money and then it unexpectedly became a successful business. That was rice pudding was really good. I think there was a pizza place front in blyn too that unexpectedly became really popular too.

I did not know that about Rice to Riches.
Should've guessed something was dodgy; they serve COLD rice pudding.

I only like cold rice pudding!

cold rice pudding is extremely common ime