Things about your co-workers that annoy you

[1977Brewer]

I've actually gotten great response. It's basically the same 10 people being addressed, and most of them don't have e-mail. It's posted on the doors now too.

 

[betarhoalphadelta]

Email etiquette:

-If you left me a voicemail, there is no need to send me an email saying you left me a voicemail.

I do this. And the reason is that I know I may miss voicemail for 2-3 days on a regular basis (on my desk phone; my cell has it immediately). And if I'm traveling, it could be a week or more.

 

[Grannyknot]

So why not just scrap the voicemail and handle it all via email in the first place?

 

[eatmorefrogs]

It's 2015. You can stop putting "Microsoft Office" under "other skills" on your resume. We sure hope you know how to use Word.

 

[1977Brewer]

It's 2015. You can stop putting "Microsoft Office" under "other skills" on your resume. We sure hope you know how to use Word.

+1

Might as well put "Can use a touch tone phone." "Proficient with a pencil."

 

[hunter_le five]

"Proficient at use of internet box"

 

[hunter_le five]

It's 2015. You can stop putting "Microsoft Office" under "other skills" on your resume. We sure hope you know how to use Word.

Once had an applicant claim to be "Very proficient at MS Excel", which happened to be very important to the job.

I gave her a very simple test during the interview: a column of numbers, and asked her to find the sum of the column, average, etc.

Applicant pulls out her iphone, and starts adding the numbers by hand.

Me: I thought you knew Excel pretty well?

Applicant: Oh, this is what Excel is? I thought it was the little blue "e" that takes you to the internet.

 

[eatmorefrogs]

Once had an applicant claim to be "Very proficient at MS Excel", which happened to be very important to the job.

I gave her a very simple test during the interview: a column of numbers, and asked her to find the sum of the column, average, etc.

Applicant pulls out her iphone, and starts adding the numbers by hand.

Me: I thought you knew Excel pretty well?

Applicant: Oh, this is what Excel is? I thought it was the little blue "e" that takes you to the internet.

It's really obvious when someone manually totals stuff, too.

It also never ceases to amaze me how often someone selects the wrong tool for the job, like sending a Word document with a table of numbers in it instead of using Excel.

Also, the more I mull it over, there are some aspects of some versions of the office suite that would make sense to highlight for certain positions. (i.e. specifically mentioning Visio if it's relevant.) As a broad, sweeping statement, however, it's generally still accurate that you don't need Office on your resume.

Oh, and don't PDF your Word document and send it over to me for edits.

 

[MarshmallowBlue]

They ask me to do work while I'm trying to read the forums.

 

[GrogNerd]

They ask me to do work while I'm trying to read the forums.

quelle horreur

 

[drainbamage]

They ask me to do work while I'm trying to read the forums.

The Struggle is real.

 

[agrazela]

Once had an applicant claim to be "Very proficient at MS Excel", which happened to be very important to the job.

I gave her a very simple test during the interview: a column of numbers, and asked her to find the sum of the column, average, etc.

Applicant pulls out her iphone, and starts adding the numbers by hand.

Me: I thought you knew Excel pretty well?

Applicant: Oh, this is what Excel is? I thought it was the little blue "e" that takes you to the internet.

Yeah, but was she hot?

 

[TheCADJockey]

Is everything a thing? Because that is what annoys me about them. Everything.

Just kidding. I'm too busy doing their work to be annoyed with the work they aren't doing.

 

[n240sxguy]

Once had an applicant claim to be "Very proficient at MS Excel", which happened to be very important to the job.



I gave her a very simple test during the interview: a column of numbers, and asked her to find the sum of the column, average, etc.



Applicant pulls out her iphone, and starts adding the numbers by hand.



Me: I thought you knew Excel pretty well?



Applicant: Oh, this is what Excel is? I thought it was the little blue "e" that takes you to the internet.

That is hilarious. Good for you. You know how to get on the Internet.

 

[Galek]

It's 2015. You can stop putting "Microsoft Office" under "other skills" on your resume. We sure hope you know how to use Word.

Actually not so much. There are a lot of people who do not know how to use them. It is quite discouraging when you see a competent resume and realize within 5 minutes of talking to the person that their computer knowledge is facebook and google.

 

[TheCADJockey]

Actually not so much. There are a lot of people who do not know how to use them. It is quite discouraging when you see a competent resume and realize within 5 minutes of talking to the person that their computer knowledge is facebook and google.

Sadly, yep. Heard Overpaid Person #3 in office next to me today say, "ok... so how do I open that in paint?". But oh... she is just SO tech savvy. Bitter? I'm not bitter. She has "experience".

 

[Grannyknot]

Me: dude, there is piss all over the toilet seat. did you do that?
Brad: I don't know. it might have been.
Me: You were in the bathroom right before me. why didn't you just grab some TP and wipe it up? (at this point I was still being somewhat lighthearted about it)

and then....

Brad: cause man the flu is going around and its bad. I'm not going to touch that toilet seat. everyone has been on that thing.

Serious.

 

[Psylocide]

Me: dude, there is piss all over the toilet seat. did you do that?
Brad: I don't know. it might have been.
Me: You were in the bathroom right before me. why didn't you just grab some TP and wipe it up? (at this point I was still being somewhat lighthearted about it)

and then....

Brad: cause man the flu is going around and its bad. I'm not going to touch that toilet seat. everyone has been on that thing.

Serious.

He's got a point... my wife got gonorrhea from a bus seat.

 

[n240sxguy]

He's got a point... my wife got gonorrhea from a bus seat.

But not the flu. Poor excuse. I disinfect the toilet at work before every use. You never know where people have been. Just like that bus seat.

 

[betarhoalphadelta]

So why not just scrap the voicemail and handle it all via email in the first place?

Because I called them. I would have rather talked to them in person. It's more personal. But they didn't pick up.

A lot of people have caller ID or will see a missed call, and then I'm the guy who called but didn't think highly enough of them to leave a message. I don't want to be that guy.

So rather than "call me back", which could end up in days of phone tag, I let them know via voicemail that I called and a short description of what it was about, and mention I'll follow up with an email.

It gives the personal touch that email lacks, even though it will probably be handled over email anyway...

 

[fuzzy2133]

It's really obvious when someone manually totals stuff, too.

It also never ceases to amaze me how often someone selects the wrong tool for the job, like sending a Word document with a table of numbers in it instead of using Excel.

Also, the more I mull it over, there are some aspects of some versions of the office suite that would make sense to highlight for certain positions. (i.e. specifically mentioning Visio if it's relevant.) As a broad, sweeping statement, however, it's generally still accurate that you don't need Office on your resume.

Oh, and don't PDF your Word document and send it over to me for edits.

We have gotten a few resumes that are a picture taken with their phone of their printed resume then attached to the email they sent us. Really? How are we to take you seriously. Kind of suprised we have not gotten any "selfies" with them holding their resume.

 

[n240sxguy]

We have gotten a few resumes that are a picture taken with their phone of their printed resume then attached to the email they sent us. Really? How are we to take you seriously. Kind of suprised we have not gotten any "selfies" with them holding their resume.

Maybe they are just resourceful. Solving a problem with what they have on hand. Nah. Just lazy or dumb most likely. Not caring how they present themselves. On a side note; what if they took a picture of the resume, converted it to a PDF, then sent it? That might be the one you really want because they can really solve a problem with good results. They would deliver what is expected with the minimum effort.

 

[Zuljin]

ASAP.

Okay. You'll get it later in the week. That's the soonest I can get to it. If you wanted it by the end of day, you should have said so, and sent it a few days ago.

 

[Billy-Klubb]

the a$$ kissers. we have a few, but the worst is a guy that didn't get the promotion he wanted. he went from welder (not a very good one) to break press operator, to plate laser operator and thought he was gonna become the floor supervisor a/k/a Assistant Manager since that was the same path our old one went. he's the kind of guy that thinks everyone else is stupid and he's the only guy in the entire company with common sense. he likes to run the plate laser faster on the heavier plate so it gets done faster, which leaves wavy edges and bad start/stops with blow back. then he sits back and claims the machine is a pile of junk because he can't cut 10ga and 1" plate at the same speeds.

 

[FamilyTradition]

He's got a point... my wife got gonorrhea from a bus seat.

Bus seat? Really?? If it's true I don't think I'll be taking mass transit for a while.

... Or was bus seat the name of the mail carrier?

 

[Hamaki]

Bus seat? Really?? If it's true I don't think I'll be taking mass transit for a while.

This is not the first time. Didn't you learn about this in high school? I mean not in class but from that guy that "knew" everything.

 

[TheCADJockey]

the a$$ kissers. we have a few, but the worst is a guy that didn't get the promotion he wanted. he went from welder (not a very good one) to break press operator, to plate laser operator and thought he was gonna become the floor supervisor a/k/a Assistant Manager since that was the same path our old one went. he's the kind of guy that thinks everyone else is stupid and he's the only guy in the entire company with common sense. he likes to run the plate laser faster on the heavier plate so it gets done faster, which leaves wavy edges and bad start/stops with blow back. then he sits back and claims the machine is a pile of junk because he can't cut 10ga and 1" plate at the same speeds.

This is the young engineer in the office next to me. Cocky as HELL, fresh out of school that his parents paid for and drives the car his dad bought him for graduation. Get this... overheard him saying "my machine shop" and he orders people around instead of asking them. Nobody likes him, and if the shop heard him say they worked under him? A slow death.

I asked him a 'yes or no' question related to a drawing he wanted me to do, since he was too busy watching youtube videos about some computer game, and he sighed before coming to my office. He then proceeded to explain to me how to draw a hex nut. I slid my chair back and let him stand there and draw the hex for me while I drank my coffee. It was nice to have someone draw my millionth hex for me, it was becoming tiresome.

 

[FamilyTradition]

This is not the first time. Didn't you learn about this in high school? I mean not in class but from that guy that "knew" everything.

Yea just like my roommates brother that got crabs from a public restroom

 

[Melana]

The people that come into the office with the latest flu. We have the tools and technology to work remote yet they come in coughing, sneezing, and breathing when sick. STAY THE FLOCC HOME!

 

[FamilyTradition]

This is the young engineer in the office next to me. Cocky as HELL, fresh out of school that his parents paid for and drives the car his dad bought him for graduation. Get this... overheard him saying "my machine shop" and he orders people around instead of asking them. Nobody likes him, and if the shop heard him say they worked under him? A slow death.



I asked him a 'yes or no' question related to a drawing he wanted me to do, since he was too busy watching youtube videos about some computer game, and he sighed before coming to my office. He then proceeded to explain to me how to draw a hex nut. I slid my chair back and let him stand there and draw the hex for me while I drank my coffee. It was nice to have someone draw my millionth hex for me, it was becoming tiresome.

Young engineer here, 25, can't stand engineers like this. First internship I had was at a small automation shop. The owner started me out being the machine shops beeotch. Learned more than I ever could. When I messed up the shop guys would belittle me till I wanted to die. Quick way to only make a mistake once and always ask. Started designing 10% of the time while having to build everything I designed while still catching flack for everything, slowly gaining the respect of the older shop guys.
Second internship there was 50/50 shop and design. Still caught a lot of crap but started getting really close to everyone there.
Graduated college and they took me on full time. It was my dream job perfect balance of desk and shop time. Two years in the one owner steals all the money from the other.

I think all engineers need to work a good long while in a shop before touching a computer