Things about your co-workers that annoy you

[TheCADJockey]

I just stare at them, occasionally letting out a ridiculously sarcastic, and equally loud laugh. Might as well make it awkward when I can. I swear half these people don't do anything.

 

[Wingnutt73]

Yes, but just when you think "everything" covers it, they go and outdo themselves.

Lol So true, so true.

 

[Grannyknot]

How is this not a firing offense... several times over?

I think they keep him around for a few different reasons.
1. he has been with the company about 20 years.
2. he does a few things that would be hard to replace
3. boss feels sorry for him because he lost everything in a divorce (not surprised)
4. maybe he is kept around for the comic relief of stories about him (theres many more)

 

[agrazela]

There's this guy who farts in my cubicle all the time.


Hey wait, that's me.

 

[GrogNerd]

I've always said, "Make it idiot-proof and someone will build a better idiot"

 

[1977Brewer]

I think they keep him around for a few different reasons.
1. he has been with the company about 20 years.
2. he does a few things that would be hard to replace
3. boss feels sorry for him because he lost everything in a divorce (not surprised)
4. maybe he is kept around for the comic relief of stories about him (theres many more)

1, 2, and 4 are pretty much the reasons they made me a supervisor. 3 is never gonna happen.

 

[Psylocide]

My coworker has done nothing all day but surf CNN and bark out headlines.

I am a program admin, as is he. We have our work come from field staff, so things can slow down.
I have spent my time (when not on this sight lol) revamping material for our website, revising and updating our training material and publication material.
He just sits there yawning loudly.
And management does not want to spend the time or effort to go through the process of removing him!

Yeah, but you've been on HBT all day... snickering in the corner.

He's probably posting on an Anderson Cooper fan board about how annoyed he is right now.

 

[1977Brewer]

He's probably posting on an Anderson Cooper fan board about how annoyed he is right now.

You know, there's a guy on ac360love.com that gripes about his beer guzzling cubemate ll day...

 

[dkwolf]

There are four people in my office right now; not one of them is talking to me. One came in and asked for a drawing, another came in to ask that guy about his kids. Then two passerby's decided they wanted in on it.

Beat it nerds.

Be glad you have an office. The CEO of my company is all about "open spaces", so only 5 offices in my building have doors (and those are glass barn-door style that don't block all the sound), 6 more offices have full walls, but no doors (they are framed out to add a door later if we can ever talk the head cheese into it). 7 cubicles in the middle, with 4.5' walls between them, and 3 desks along the front window with a little 8" high divider between them.

My desk (one of the 7 cubicles) sits 6' from our main printer/copier, and right next to a large island countertop that FREQUENTLY gets used for project discussions - and several of our engineers have no concept of "you don't need to talk full-voiced all the time". I keep a pair of studio monitor headphones at my desk specifically for blocking out enough of the noise that I can get my work done.

What's really infuriating is when someone will walk into my cube to talk over the wall to the guy in the cube next to me. It's 20 feet to walk around the outside, f*cker. Try that.

I have no shame in farting on those people. If you're going to stand in my space, you're going to do it in my stench

 

[Billy-Klubb]

(juice, sugar, bread, a sock, and a trash bag)

that is almost word for word how my dad describe the honeymoon with my mom!

 

[TBC]

I love my co-workers!!!

 

[Billy-Klubb]

I love my co-workers!!!

..

 

[TBC]

I ain't no hippie. Just trying to bring some positive vibes to this thread but you're pretty funny.

 

[Billy-Klubb]

I ain't no hippie. Just trying to bring some positive vibes to this thread but you're pretty funny.

that's like walking into Surly and asking for a Michelob Golden Ultra on the rocks.

 

[TBC]

Had no idea about surly, not from MN, until I googled it now I get your joke. Also, I liked your previous picture of the green Oompa Loompa better than the Lord of the rings knock off!!!!!

 

[Natdavis777]

You know what grinds my gears (Peter Griffin), I call in last friday (my 3rd time in over 5 years...) and everyone busts my balls....Ive got thick skin. But all the fu**ers I work with call in 4-5x a year at least!!!

 

[Billy-Klubb]

Had no idea about surly, not from MN, until I googled it now I get your joke. Also, I liked your previous picture of the green Oompa Loompa better than the Lord of the rings knock off!!!!!

that's Mahatma Gandhi, bruva!

 

[Pyg]

Yeah, but you've been on HBT all day... snickering in the corner.

He's probably posting on an Anderson Cooper fan board about how annoyed he is right now.

Actually he posts on Facebook an then rants to the office that Ann Margaret is talking back to him.

For the record I don't have a cubicle, just a 1970's style metal desk, so open , no privacy, but I can multi task my work and beer talk.

 

[hunter_le five]

Coworker mentions she saw some movie over the weekend while we were eating lunch.

Just trying to make polite conversation, I asked, "oh, how was it?", expecting maybe a brief sentence or two in reply.

Coworker proceeds to begin describing, scene-by-scene, the entire movie, including notable dialogue exchanges, character backgrounds, what each character was "feeling", what characters were wearing, what their houses looked like, and pretty much the entire plot including all minor details. I don't even know if she liked the movie; she never got around to mentioning that part.

After about 15 minutes of her nonstop jabbering (and me nodding my head and saying "uhuh.... uhuh...." ), I had to interrupt her and told her I needed to get back to work. I was asking you if you enjoyed the movie, not for a play-by-play analysis. Dafuq is wrong with you?

 

[TheCADJockey]

I was asking you if you enjoyed the movie, not for a play-by-play analysis. Dafuq is wrong with you?

Uhh, did you even READ the book!?? It was so much better than the movie.

 

[Psylocide]

Uhh, did you even READ the book!?? It was so much better than the movie.

Ugh... thanks for jarring loose this long forgotten memory, dammit.


[ame]https://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_embedded&v=8QCBOb22p-Y[/ame]

 

[Zepth]

Uhh, did you even READ the book!?? It was so much better than the movie.

Panel #3.

 

[GrogNerd]

Coworker mentions she saw some movie over the weekend while we were eating lunch.

Just trying to make polite conversation, I asked, "oh, how was it?", expecting maybe a brief sentence or two in reply.

Coworker proceeds to begin describing, scene-by-scene, the entire movie, including notable dialogue exchanges, character backgrounds, what each character was "feeling", what characters were wearing, what their houses looked like, and pretty much the entire plot including all minor details. I don't even know if she liked the movie; she never got around to mentioning that part.

After about 15 minutes of her nonstop jabbering (and me nodding my head and saying "uhuh.... uhuh...." ), I had to interrupt her and told her I needed to get back to work. I was asking you if you enjoyed the movie, not for a play-by-play analysis. Dafuq is wrong with you?

how ungrateful you are to not appreciate her JRR Martin novelization of that movie

 

[1977Brewer]

My janitor's standing in my office, eating King Cake (Happy Fat Tuesday, btw...) loudly, and sipping coffee even louder. Go pull some trashcans dude.

 

[clairecunn83]

I'm an office manager and my desk is right by the main door. I work with all men (chick, here!), and they feel like they have to give me a reason every time they leave to take a piss...like I give a d@mn?! Just go take a piss, man...we've been in this "marriage" far too long for us to have a convo about it every...single...time. Same goes for your obligatory poop-shoot after lunch. Yes, I know that's where you disappear to for 20 minutes every day at 1:30pm. Over it. Let's skip the small talk, mmmkay?

 

[Goofynewfie]

After about 15 minutes of her nonstop jabbering

Henry Phillips- She's Talking Again: http://youtu.be/KHoJ26Gcp_E

 

[Pyg]

My coworker who does only what is specifically listed in his job title, no more, no less, currently has a lull in his workload.

He just fell asleep at his desk while reading CNN.

Of course Karma hating me as she does, the BIG boss walks by as his phone rang, wakes him up and no one is the wiser.
Of course I am typing this as Big boss man is standing 2 desks behind me.

 

[brewme29]

Engineers who design stuff for us to use that NEVER works. They never come see what we're working with. They just draw f'd up and send it to the machine shop. The machine does a great job, but since the drawing sucks, the fixtures suck. And every time it's the same response.."our computer model says it will work". Well dumbsh#t, we can't take your computer model to the track and race it, we have to take actual cars. Why don't you try getting out of the nerdery and find out what will work in real life.

 

[TheCADJockey]

Why don't you try getting out of the nerdery and find out what will work in real life.

Real life? Explain...

 

[CreamyGoodness]

"What does this mean, my browser isnt supported?"
Me: "You're in IE 9, and the site you are on needs to use IE 11 or Chrome, I'd just use Chrome"
"Huh?"
Me: "Chrome, the browser. Just open the site in Chrome. You have chrome right?"
"I have no idea"
Me... getting annoyed but not showing it: "Why dont you go into your programs and see if you have it."
"Uh?"
Me: "Please just click start. There, you have it. Now just go to the site you were previously in in Chrome."
"THANKS!!!"

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"Ok I did it in Chrome. How do I know my changes are in my internet?"