Things about your co-workers that annoy you

[Billy-Klubb]

Good attitude. Meet our new, more diplomatic @Billy-Klubb . Our old one would have handed out more than a few berry-punches already.

I do think that any employer planning on installing cameras should warn their employees well in advance and express their reasoning (we have been seeing material losses, vandalism, etc recently) and see if people oppose and if they have alternative solutions. I find cameras to be imposing and easy to abuse.

Previous job of mine, they installed some web cams in the lobby, plan pick up room, and a common area so that at a glance we could see whats going on. You dont know how many times various employees were asking for copies of the tape (that didnt exist) from specific periods.

I was there when they announced the cameras were being installed. they lied to us from the beginning saying it was only for security but has been nothing but spying ever since. the "cream of the crop" can watch the cameras from anywhere there's internet access.

And I would not have lasted long at your employer! Way too many questions with a policy like that:
Does "unnatural hair cuts or hair colors." apply to women?
Does this mean no shaving? Does the entire office have to look like the Taliban?
What is the definition of a "natural hair cut"? where is the reference guide for this? Is there a visual guide that can be referred to?
Is there a company sanctioned barber, who has been made aware of the hair needs of the employees?
Does this mean everyone has to go grey "naturally"?

And with all that being said, my employer doesnt mind me being a wise A$$ and values me (except for the 7.5 hours I spend on here a day!)

I stuck out 2 years with that company. I almost always wore a "do-rag" at that place in case the Army or Marines showed up for inspections and what not.

 

[DrunkleJon]

background:
I work on a computer help desk. We are a smaller, more isolated help desk than the big one where I work. We have a completely different ticketing system and operate under the big one, but have our own policies/servers/etc that we control. This other big help desk sends us tickets for the people on our systems that are useless. "person is having trouble connecting." Okay, who is having the problem and to what? Just got another one "having this problem here is their contact phone number" WHO IS HAVING THE PROBLEM?

Then there are a couple of our supervisory people who like to ask questions and provide some 'helpful' thoughts or tidbits on messages i send out. If i need to have all of my decisions/solutions second guessed why do I still work here?

 

[TheCADJockey]

I work on a computer help desk.

Maybe they don't respect you because you work on your desk. Get a chair, sit up and fly right my man!

Everyone rides coat tails at work these days it seems. The engineers are trying to take credit for my work more and more now. Funk you. Pay me.

 

[DrunkleJon]

Zactly. No respect.

 

[Beernik]

I think I found a written copy of my organizations management strategy: 6 Signs Your Boss Hates You.

I'd be worried if I didn't know that this is the MO of all managers with all staff.

 

[Grannyknot]

This isn't really annoying, just funny how stupid he is, although sometimes his stupidity gets annoying...

My boss, the company CFO, and a very well paid employee returned from spring break recently.
I asked him where he had been and he replied, St. Petersburg Florida.
Except he thinks the "St." is short for South, so he told everyone in the office he had been to....
South Petersburg Florida.

I wonder how many people he has told that to.

 

[TheCADJockey]

This isn't really annoying, just funny how stupid he is, although sometimes his stupidity gets annoying...

My boss, the company CFO, and a very well paid employee returned from spring break recently.
I asked him where he had been and he replied, St. Petersburg Florida.
Except he thinks the "St." is short for South, so he told everyone in the office he had been to....
South Petersburg Florida.

I wonder how many people he has told that to.

Ok. That's pretty great

Our intern thought a dimension on a drawing today was calling out 'degrees of radiation' drunk... failing to realize it was a radius. I let that one slide.

 

[Kee]

Ok. That's pretty great

Our intern thought a dimension on a drawing today was calling out 'degrees of radiation' drunk... failing to realize it was a radius. I let that one slide.

I worked with someone that called for help when a computer message said "push any key to continue". She could not find the "any" key on the keyboard.

 

[mattd2]

Ok. That's pretty great

Our intern thought a dimension on a drawing today was calling out 'degrees of radiation' drunk... failing to realize it was a radius. I let that one slide.

Was the intern an engineer? I once had to show a grad engineer around site because our manager didn't expect them to know what a real life valve, etc looks like - e.g. She expected that they would try and find something that looks like 2 triangles stuck together... Sad thing was she was right

 

[n240sxguy]

Was the intern an engineer? I once had to show a grad engineer around site because our manager didn't expect them to know what a real life valve, etc looks like - e.g. She expected that they would try and find something that looks like 2 triangles stuck together... Sad thing was she was right

Haha. That's great. Depending on which side you look at, a plug valve may look like a set of triangles, vaguely anyway.

 

[Billy-Klubb]

our plate and tube laser operators. only one of them isn't a completely arrogant f***. we all get it: you run a fancy piece of equipment. all hail the laser operator.

 

[hunter_le five]

our plate and tube laser operators. only one of them isn't a completely arrogant f***. we all get it: you run a fancy piece of equipment. all hail the laser operator.

If I got to play with high-powered lasers everyday, I imagine I would be drunk with power too.

 

[gratus fermentatio]

I'd be trying to figure out a way to modify them so they could be used at a distance & then mount it to my truck. It would be a whole new commute!
Regards, GF.

 

[TheCADJockey]

I would be the worst laser operator ever.... just yelling "PEEEEW PEWPEW" all day.

 

[SnakeRidge]

We used to have a sign in my optics lab that said "do not look at the Lazer with remaining eye"

 

[Pyg]

When someone is talking to a spouse on the phone and finishes with "love you", he screams across the office "stop telling the customer's you love them".

When this is done 4 times a day for the last 7 years, it ceases to be funny!

 

[TheCADJockey]

When someone is talking to a spouse on the phone and finishes with "love you", he screams across the office "stop telling the customer's you love them".

When this is done 4 times a day for the last 7 years, it ceases to be funny!

I love you too.

 

[DrunkleJon]

I didn't know you cared. You dont tell me often enough.

 

[fuzzy2133]

Too late I want a divorce from this roller coaster relationship.

 

[Natdavis777]

A tech called up today (she was doing biopsies) and asked my manager of all people, "which way do we scan so we can angle the tube?"

As for CT terminology, there is only two ways of acquisition. Axial and Helical. That is comparable to a Carpenter to a screw and a nail. Pretty fu*king night and day...

Axial allows for angle scanning while helical is contiguous scanning. She makes more money than me... WTF...

 

[treacheroustexan]

"I'm overqualified for this job"

I hear that about ten times a day. You knew what your job was when you accepted it, theres the door.

 

[Zuljin]

"I'm overqualified for this job"

I hear that about ten times a day. You knew what your job was when you accepted it, theres the door.

"I could do ____ but they don't pay me for that." One guy in notorious for saying that. Then, when he tries to do ____, epic fail.

 

[treacheroustexan]

"I could do ____ but they don't pay me for that." One guy in notorious for saying that. Then, when he tries to do ____, epic fail.

Pretty much. haha.

 

[phug]

I work in it and this one person complained about disappearing emails. I told it it was normal, whereupon she said "where we ever told about this? We need to be told about this. Why isn't someone telling us about this, we nee to know" so I copy pasted the line out of the training doc that I personally gave her on day one with her laptop. Told her it was in the document she was given on day one. It's under the email section where it reads " Important: disappearing email information" arg

 

[Zuljin]

Wait a minute. It's normal to have disappearing email? So normal there's a policy about it? It can happen, sure. Email is not the best place to store important information, but there shouldn't be regularly disappearing email.

 

[DrunkleJon]

Yep, sounds to me like something aint set up right.

 

[GrogNerd]

Sounds Hillary-hosted

 

[phug]

It's an email management process. Anything in re inbox for more than 90 days gets moved to the same folder structure within a folder called old inbox items. It lives there for a year before being deleted. Prevents email bloat on the servers. No one ever deletes anything unless they have to

 

[Onkel_Udo]

It's an email management process. Anything in re inbox for more than 90 days gets moved to the same folder structure within a folder called old inbox items. It lives there for a year before being deleted. Prevents email bloat on the servers. No one ever deletes anything unless they have to

For other companies it is a process for limiting their liability. Not that they are hiding thing but the management of "All email not archived in accordance with company policy are automatically deleted after 90-days unless notice of pending investigation is made by..." Again, it is not an Enron document destruction thing as employs are also instructed to properly archive and email that could be used in current or future claim.

 

[dkwolf]

It's an email management process. Anything in re inbox for more than 90 days gets moved to the same folder structure within a folder called old inbox items. It lives there for a year before being deleted. Prevents email bloat on the servers. No one ever deletes anything unless they have to

I used to say I never delete emails. Then my supervisor and I started venting to each other about coworkers, and some of those emails got deleted because they didn't need to be sitting on a company computer (I knew for a fact that it wasn't being monitored, because the IT guy sat right next to me, and I was his substitute when he was on vacation). Then we merged, and the more severe rants (anything with something that could be used against us) went to text messages, because we knew that the new IT manager WAS monitoring emails (although to what extent, we still don't know, if it's just keyword monitoring, or if they only monitor specific employees... i.e. a young engineer that they were unhappy with job performance, but needed something 'extra' to justify letting him go). And, the merged company now sends out a notice to the entire company on your birthday. Yeah, those get deleted.

Pre-merger, we were on a POP server, with all mail being downloaded to the local machine. We'd upgrade computers every 3 years, so when I came due for an upgrade, I'd burn my entire .pst file onto a DVD and keep it in my desk. After a "burp" one year that caused me to lose a 2-year window of email, I now make it a point in mid- to late spring to archive the entire previous years' emails into a separate .pst file, and burn that to DVD. We've since moved to an exchange server, and we're limited to 2 GB of email storage, so that helps to keep my allotment free. Plus, when my boss comes back with "Hey, remember the lagoon expansion project we did back in 2005? Why didn't we expand further to the east?" I can go back to emails and find an answer.