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

oh and now I remember my story about the admin girl who won't answer her phone. I spoke to my old team leader, who went and spoke to the area manager, who then got in a fight with two other managers for 'leaking information' to me!! when it was another manager entirely who tipped us off to the slackarse's ways in the first place.

Boss “have you seen The Da Vinci code?”
Me “Erm no, i haven't read the book either”
Boss “it’s .......”
Me “like I say, I haven’t seen it”
Boss “oh, sorry.”
Me “right! I’m just going downstairs”

I think I am about to accidentally kick her power cord out of the wall.

Today, he's alternating between singing The Birdie Song and whispering "oooh bloody nora! ya little monkey!" in a "comedy old man" voice.

Everybody’s annoying me today.

A good policy for new mums returning to work, I feel, is to PRETEND that there is a person in the office who cannot have kids for biological reasons, and IMAGINE what it would be like to be considerate to that person. That way you do not annoy other women in the office by ducking out of responsibilities with the OH MY BABY excuse (this happened at the last non-magazine office I worked at).

Boss “have you seen XMen 3?”
Me “I’m going tonight”
Boss, tells me more than I’d like to know.
Me “like I say, I haven’t seen it”
Boss “I’ve done it again haven’t i?”
Me “yes!”

I think I'm being the annoying coworker at the moment :/

And even worse is the "here I am at work but I have BABY BRAIN so I cannot think straight or get anything done" excuse. I don't get to use "I have DIDNT GET ANY SLEEP AT THE WEEKEND BRAIN so I cannot think straight or get anything done" as an excuse and I really don't see the difference.

/furiousfedupcranky

Me: "Yes, there are two very obvious problems. One, you've done [blah blah blah], the same mistake that you made last time you had to ask me for help with this. Two, you've missed out a closing quote mark on one of the tags on the page. Look, it works now I've fixed it."

(wait ten minutes)

Co-worker: "It still doesn't work."

Me: "It did after I fixed it." *click on View Source* "no, because you've just re-uploaded your broken version and overwritten the one I fixed."

To myself: grrrrrrrr

So true. My boss has been using this excuse since she announced she was pregnant. She's not even HAD the baby yet......

"Thank you SO much." (Anytime anyone does anything.)

"I'm sorry for interrupting." (When you're doing nothing but breathing.)

"Bub-bye" at the end of every phone call.

Uses max number of words in discussing the simplest concepts.

I cannot tell you how repugnant I find it that we are apparently considered equally competent and valuable by the temp agency.

"Bub-bye" at the end of every phone call.

woah, dude, this is called manners! if this bothers you, you need to relax.

I do this, so do most Britishers. G-kit OTM.

I am not EVEN fucking kidding here.

Technician came in earlier, left a pile of CDs on my desk and said 'can you phone S4ndie [tutor] and tell her her CDs are ready?' I phone S4ndie; she's left for the day. An hour or so later, I get a call from S4ndra [another tutor] saying 'where are the CDs I asked for?' 'Oh haha' I go, 'the technician said S4ndie'. S4ndra doesn't sound very happy, comes to collect CDs. Picks them up and reads post-it attached to the pile. 'But these SAY S4ndra on!!!!' she says accusingly and does her 'I'm the most important person ever, how dare you make me wait for things' stare at me. At which point I want to say, so fucking what if they do, all I was doing was exactly what the technician told me to do and why he couldn't make his own phone calls in the first place I don't know, nor is it my job to decipher his post-it notes.

Technician = surely he can operate a phone?

Trashy coworker #2: (shortly afterward) I'm worried about my son, he's such a bully. I mean, maybe he's just aggressive, but he beats all the other kids up all the time.

Trashy coworker #1: OHHH don't worry about that, that's how my boys were.

haha, I got this dude sacked, sort of!