Things about your co-workers that annoy you

[sablesurfer]

So, how's this for a story. I had to take some emergency time off, had to get down to Oklahoma to help the GF take care of family matters. My boss knows why I am headed out of town, he had to approve it...THAT MORNING.

As I am driving I call into a team meeting. He kicks of the meeting with one his special management taught socializing/break the ice ideas. The kind that piss me off because I really don't give two f#%&s about what someone's favorite color is or pet they had as a kid. These are not my friends, I don't care.

He starts with..."ok, to get going we'll go around and find out what was the worst part and best part of your christmas". It comes to me and I am like, "i'd rather not play right now." He insists that I participate....

"Well, the worst part is my girlfriend's mom died. I'm headed there now."

And I left that just hanging there. Such a F#@%er!!

 

[Brettomomyces]

So, how's this for a story. I had to take some emergency time off, had to get down to Oklahoma to help the GF take care of family matters. My boss knows why I am headed out of town, he had to approve it...THAT MORNING.

As I am driving I call into a team meeting. He kicks of the meeting with one his special management taught socializing/break the ice ideas. The kind that piss me off because I really don't give two f#%&s about what someone's favorite color is or pet they had as a kid. These are not my friends, I don't care.

He starts with..."ok, to get going we'll go around and find out what was the worst part and best part of your christmas". It comes to me and I am like, "i'd rather not play right now." He insists that I participate....

"Well, the worst part is my girlfriend's mom died. I'm headed there now."

And I left that just hanging there. Such a F#@%er!!

That sucks, especially after ignoring your request to pass. Obviously the holidays mean a lot of different things to different people and that was a pretty terrible question to ask in general. Sorry for your loss as well

I had a pretty similar incident with an ice breaker opener to a staff meeting. Other manager decided to do the "penny game", where everybody grabs a penny and says something special about them that happened in the year the penny was minted. Gets towards the end, and my older Thai gal just starts bawling because the penny she got was the year her husband had a bad accident and they lost their house.

 

[drainbamage]

So, how's this for a story.

That sucks, man. Nobody wants to spend the holidays that way, much less to get the 3rd degree from your office about it.

On the bright side, maybe your boss will think twice the next time he considers a cheesy icebreaker game.

 

[drainbamage]

Gripe du Jour:

My department is in the basement of the building, right by the back door to the employee parking lot. There is an entryway and another door that leads to the actual work area. Traditionally, that door was always left open, because one of the older employees would have a hissy-fit whenever it was shut (I don't know, the whole thing pre-dated my being in that department). Downside is, this time of year, whenever the back door opens, a cold draft blows through and across the hall...right into the department admin's office, freezing her out. That older employee retired at the end of 2015, so the admin asked if it was ok to finally start shutting the door through the winter. I didn't care...but then of course I had to listen an entire day of "why's the door shut?" from everyone who passed through. Most people were just curious, except for one guy, who seemed genuinely irritated by the 3 seconds it took to open and shut a door:

"Why's the door shut?"
- "To keep the cold out."
"So?"
- "When the outside door opens, the draft goes right into [Jane]'s office."
"Uh, yeah. So...?"

And he stands there and scowls at me for a minute before changing the subject to something else. I just looked back at him and shrugged, because I honestly I didn't know what he expected me to say. Good gawd man, you work 2 floors up and there are 3 other ways into the building. This has literally no bearing on anything you do.

 

[finsfan]

This has literally no bearing on anything you do.

Change. People hate change whether it truly affects them or not. His routine is shot now!

 

[drainbamage]

Change. People hate change whether it truly affects them or not. His routine is shot now!

Oh, I know. It's just laughable how just how little change it takes to send people into a tizzy.

If I knew it was that easy to troll my co-workers...

 

[finsfan]

Oh, I know. It's just laughable how just how little change it takes to send people into a tizzy.

If I knew it was that easy to troll my co-workers...

They may have just opened a can of worms. I feel bad for them.

 

[drainbamage]

They may have just opened a can of worms. I feel bad for them.

Oh just you wait... I'll start signing my forms in green ink. You hear me?! Green!

LET ANARCHY REIGN SUPREME!!!

 

[slym2none]

When my sister & I had our restaurant, we had a cook that couldn't take change, at all. We'd change up the menu (as food ran out, right?) and Oscar would have a small breakdown. More than once I'd see him throw down his apron & walk outside like he was going to leave. After 2-3 times of this, we figured out he just needed time to mentally change his way of doing things, but the drama that ensued was always hilarious.

 

[Kee]

On a drill ship where I used to work our supervisor changed the day of the safety meeting. It was a regular topic of conversation for the next 6-8 months.

 

[Renegades_Brew]

I'll just leave this here... Fairly self explanatory...

[ame]https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BKorP55Aqvg[/ame]

 

[Kee]

I'll just leave this here... Fairly self explanatory...

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BKorP55Aqvg

There has been many times when all that I wanted was a supervisor that understood the laws of physics.

 

[MaxStout]

Gripe du Jour:

My department is in the basement of the building, right by the back door to the employee parking lot. There is an entryway and another door that leads to the actual work area. Traditionally, that door was always left open, because one of the older employees would have a hissy-fit whenever it was shut (I don't know, the whole thing pre-dated my being in that department). Downside is, this time of year, whenever the back door opens, a cold draft blows through and across the hall...right into the department admin's office, freezing her out. That older employee retired at the end of 2015, so the admin asked if it was ok to finally start shutting the door through the winter. I didn't care...but then of course I had to listen an entire day of "why's the door shut?" from everyone who passed through. Most people were just curious, except for one guy, who seemed genuinely irritated by the 3 seconds it took to open and shut a door:

"Why's the door shut?"
- "To keep the cold out."
"So?"
- "When the outside door opens, the draft goes right into [Jane]'s office."
"Uh, yeah. So...?"

And he stands there and scowls at me for a minute before changing the subject to something else. I just looked back at him and shrugged, because I honestly I didn't know what he expected me to say. Good gawd man, you work 2 floors up and there are 3 other ways into the building. This has literally no bearing on anything you do.

Are those people on the spectrum? It's like Rain Man, freaking out when his brother removed a book from his shelf.

 

[dkwolf]

The coworker I have nicknamed "The Ice Princess", because she is ALWAYS COLD. I know I've ranted about her here before.

Thermostat is set at 72° in the office, yesterday it was between 25-30° outside. Enough machines and people in the office that by mid-afternoon, it had risen to 74° (in other words, the furnace WASN'T RUNNING). But she decided to bump the thermostat down to 71°, because it was getting warm.

HOW THE FLOCK DO PEOPLE GRADUATE WITH AN ENGINEERING DEGREE, AND NOT UNDERSTAND HOW A SIMPLE LOGIC CONTROL CIRCUIT WORKS? If the ambient temperature is above the set point of the thermostat, it doesn't matter if you set it to floccin' FORTY, it isn't going to make a difference. But she was all pleased with herself because "I was nice, I turned down the heat."

No, you airhead. You turned down the set point.

 

[iijakii]

I used to work in a place that had such a bull**** thermostat. It was either blowing hot or cold. I swear it never turned off. We all tried programming it differently and nothing seemed to help. Didnt help that one lady was always cold and kept bumping it up 1 degree here and there, which was enough to turn on THE BLAZE.

 

[MaxStout]

maybe she thought the hysteresis in the control is zero and the AC would kick in.

 

[hunter_le five]

[thermostat rant]

You work here?

One of my employees has done the same. She's also the same lady that thinks if she turns it up to a higher number, it will heat faster, and if she turns it down to a lower number, it will cool faster.

No, it's either on or it's off. All that you accomplish by jacking it up to 80°F is forgetting you did that until everyone is sweaty and b!tchy and wondering what ******* turned the heat up to 80. Or forgetting she set it to 60°F and freezing the whole unit up by the end of the day.

 

[slym2none]

[ame]https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7FgOQBJEV-k[/ame]

 

[drainbamage]

Are those people on the spectrum? It's like Rain Man, freaking out when his brother removed a book from his shelf.

Nah, nothing like that, mostly just fear of change like fins said.

[Also, the guy's an ex-Marine, so I'm sure there was an element of "suck it up, you pvssies" in there. Doesn't really affect me either way.]

Incidentally, the admin was off today, so The Door stayed open. We'll see how much wailing and gnashing of teeth there will be tomorrow when she shuts it again.

 

[drainbamage]

HOW THE FLOCK DO PEOPLE GRADUATE WITH AN ENGINEERING DEGREE, AND NOT UNDERSTAND HOW A SIMPLE LOGIC CONTROL CIRCUIT WORKS? If the ambient temperature is above the set point of the thermostat, it doesn't matter if you set it to floccin' FORTY, it isn't going to make a difference. But she was all pleased with herself because "I was nice, I turned down the heat."

Good luck. I've tried explaining that one to my wife many a time. No success yet.

 

[fuzzy2133]

Nah, nothing like that, mostly just fear of change like fins said.

[Also, the guy's an ex-Marine, so I'm sure there was an element of "suck it up, you pvssies" in there. Doesn't really affect me either way.]

Reminds me of my grandfathers philosophy that the shop was not open unless the office door, front and rear roll up doors were open (fully open for public to see everyone working) with the open sign showing in the office.

This was what he was taught working at a gas station for his first job and it was his opening/closing routine until he retired.

 

[beernbourbon]

Good luck. I've tried explaining that one to my wife many a time. No success yet.

OMG This!!!! Don't Fvcking touch it, it's fine. No, you CAN leave the thermostat set at 68, have the furnace set to ON, AND the windows open when it's 76 outside this afternoon.... Cuz it won't floccing KICK ON UNTIL IT GETS DOWN TO 68 in here!!!!!

 

[drainbamage]

OMG This!!!! Don't Fvcking touch it, it's fine. No, you CAN leave the thermostat set at 68, have the furnace set to ON, AND the windows open when it's 76 outside this afternoon.... Cuz it won't floccing KICK ON UNTIL IT GETS DOWN TO 68 in here!!!!!

Yup, exactly.

"Turn the furnace off, we're wasting power!"

No...it's set at 65 and ambient temperature in the house is 68. The furnace isn't running, no power is being wasted.

I've given up on tilting at that particular windmill.

 

[SteveH aka shetc]

Paper steamers like this appear most days in the men's cubicles at work. Why does it annoy me?

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[podz]

Paper steamers like this appear most days in the men's cubicles at work. Why does it annoy me?

Hey, at least they're not used.

 

[slym2none]

^^^ relevant fact

 

[DrunkleJon]

Wait. People do that? Do people have a habit of peeking on poopers in your office?

 

[betarhoalphadelta]

Good luck. I've tried explaining that one to my wife many a time. No success yet.

I have the same issue with my wife in the car. She asks why I'm turning down the thermostat, because "it's not even hot outside." Well, no sh!t... I'm not outside. I'm in the car. And in here, it's roasting.

Luckily we have a vehicle with dual zone climate control now. Probably saved our marriage!

 

[cattmoble]

Ditto on the last 2 pages of this thread ALL that sh!t is very annoying.

 

[Venari]

Yup, exactly.

"Turn the furnace off, we're wasting power!"

Well actually....

The transformer in the furnace is ALWAYS on. Until you cut power to the furnace itself (usually a red switch in the vicinity of the furnace, or flip the breaker), the transformer will ALWAYS be converting 120v to 24v (all of the furnace's circuitry is on the 24v side). However, the power that's being drawn is minimal until the thermostat switch actually closes.

This is referred to as "ghost load".