Things about your co-workers that annoy you

[Psylocide]

Our Mail server decided to become a bit bitchy after all the other servers got a nice upgrade to server 2012... mail server is still working well on server 2008... and has decidedly crashed about once a day this week. Luckily for our IT team it is the summer here and most workers are on their summer vacations.

Biggest thing that annoys me is we set up this ebay style section that you could sign up for internally to sell or get offers from other people selling items. Some people abuse the system selling nearly everything... Best was a half used roll of paper towels for $1... And yes... We all got the "sold" emails when each and every small item sold... The user usually posted about 10-20 at a time.

Hahahaha, I would have a heyday with that.

"Full pack of post-its, unopened, $0.75"

"Swingline Stapler, Red, like-new condition, $5.00"

"Pilot G-2 Gel pen, half full, refillable, $1.00 (refills available for $0.25/ea)"

"Handsome Year 2015 calendar of old trucks, 1/2 off. $4.00"

"Paper clips of many colors, bundles of 12, $0.50 (colors may vary)."

 

[Renegades_Brew]

Hahahaha, I would have a heyday with that.

"Full pack of post-its, unopened, $0.75"

"Swingline Stapler, Red, like-new condition, $5.00"

"Pilot G-2 Gel pen, half full, refillable, $1.00 (refills available for $0.25/ea)"

"Handsome Year 2015 calendar of old trucks, 1/2 off. $4.00"

"Paper clips of many colors, bundles of 12, $0.50 (colors may vary)."

just be sure to attach a photo of each item to ensure that you fill up everyones mailbox space limit faster! (Yes, person was guilty of this too)

 

[Grannyknot]

Biggest thing that annoys me is we set up this ebay style section that you could sign up for internally to sell or get offers from other people selling items. Some people abuse the system selling nearly everything... Best was a half used roll of paper towels for $1... And yes... We all got the "sold" emails when each and every small item sold... The user usually posted about 10-20 at a time.

This is something your work offers as a way for employees to sell their personal items?

 

[Renegades_Brew]

This is something your work offers as a way for employees to sell their personal items?

Yup. Was provided as a way to allow people to continue selling things to the other people at work. While making it a separate email that users can opt into if they want. So those who really don't want the spam don't have to get the emails.

 

[SharonaZamboni]

Hahahaha, I would have a heyday with that.



"Full pack of post-its, unopened, $0.75"



"Swingline Stapler, Red, like-new condition, $5.00"



"Pilot G-2 Gel pen, half full, refillable, $1.00 (refills available for $0.25/ea)"



"Handsome Year 2015 calendar of old trucks, 1/2 off. $4.00"



"Paper clips of many colors, bundles of 12, $0.50 (colors may vary)."

I love the G2 pens. Nearly everything I've written at work for many years was with a G2. If I didn't have my pen for some reason, I'd run out to the store before writing a thing.

 

[KVANTAN]

And I work with just such a fella.



Not to mention someone else here decided it was a good idea to hose down an entire stall today. People are disgusting. Don't give them too much credit.

I used to bounce in this club and would take the trash out each night from the bathrooms. While going over the men's, I noticed a seat cover dispenser on the wall was protruding oddly. Looked behind it and lost all faith in humanity. Some godless animal had crapped his boxers. Big crap too. And removed them and stuffed them back there. He probably went back to the dance floor too.

Another time one of the cocktail girls brought me a big hot chocolate chip cookie from a bakery on our block which I got all over my hands trying to eat. They were covered in melted chocolate chips. It was pretty late that night and I ran into the bathroom to wash them off so I could get back to the door. Some random drunk dude was at the sink next to me washing his hands too and took one look at all that chocolate and about lost his dinner. He made a big deal about it, "dude! Wtf! Come on man! That's horrible get me the f out of here ahhhhhh gross" and bugged out of there. I didn't even have time to react or try to explain. I just gave one finger an extra lick and kept washing.

 

[jdp]

They exist.

 

[KVANTAN]

Just some reply to all fun....

We had a community email list for our small housing development of 28 semi attached units. Unfortunately all the wannabe Perry Mason lawyers (and real ones...even worse) wanted to turn every minor discussion about fixing some trivial item into a Supreme Court case but of course always found an excuse not to actually file any lawsuits or do anything productive to resolve any problems. My neighbors wife tried to forward one of these lame brain discussions to her husbands work email and added "here go these ****heads trying to out lawyer each other. What tools, why can't they stfu?"

I thought she was a hero because it killed the email list but her mortification was on another level being a very sweet first grade teacher type of girl.

 

[lhommedieu]

Other than the fact that they expect me to show up at work every day - no; I can't think of anything...

 

[TinyHands]

Here is a prime example. And yes, it may be overly technical so I will translate at the end.

A group of our email guys found 8:30 am to be a good time to move a mailstore containing almost 400 mailboxes to a different server. I have spent the past almost hour telling people to grab a cup of coffee and be patient with us and email will work again. Eventually.

TG;DR(Too Geeky; Didnt Read) - Broke email for almost 400 people at a time when everybody is first logging in.

As an IT guy myself, you don't have to be an expert network architect to see the problem with that decision.

"So, what's the impact?"
"Uh, well, I guess those people won't be able to use email during that time."
"You said AM, right? Not PM?"

IT... building and subsequently crippling dependencies since Turing

 

[Darwin18]

Standing desks are the ultimate in bourgeois privilege.

"Boo hoo. My desk job is so easy that I feel the need to stand all day just to stay challenged."

**** off. Let's ignore the fact that we all went to college in the hopes that one day we would have a nice desk job instead of actually working on our feet all day. Remember how great your feet felt after standing for a 10 - 12 hour shift? I do. It wasn't a good feeling.

The guy in the cubicle next to me somehow convinced HR to pay for a standing desk even though weeks ago, HR sent out an email saying they wouldn't pay it without a doctors note. I understand if you have severe back pain from an accident or a chronic injury, but this kid is young (22) and is just fat.

It's bad enough that I can't stand his voice or even his face. Now I get to put up with him standing over our cubicle row all day. Except, EXCEPT, he only stands maybe for an hour total during the day. The rest of the time he sits in a tall stool with his feet up on his desk. The cost of this annoyance? $650. That's $650 that isn't going to be going to raises, improvements, anything. It's a total waste of money.

Everyone in this office who previously had a standing desk has been fired over the last year. I can only hope that this trend continues.

 

[DrunkleJon]

Standing desks are the ultimate in bourgeois privilege.

"Boo hoo. My desk job is so easy that I feel the need to stand all day just to stay challenged."

**** off. Let's ignore the fact that we all went to college in the hopes that one day we would have a nice desk job instead of actually working on our feet all day. Remember how great your feet felt after standing for a 10 - 12 hour shift? I do. It wasn't a good feeling.

The guy in the cubicle next to me somehow convinced HR to pay for a standing desk even though weeks ago, HR sent out an email saying they wouldn't pay it without a doctors note. I understand if you have severe back pain from an accident or a chronic injury, but this kid is young (22) and is just fat.

It's bad enough that I can't stand his voice or even his face. Now I get to put up with him standing over our cubicle row all day. Except, EXCEPT, he only stands maybe for an hour total during the day. The rest of the time he sits in a tall stool with his feet up on his desk. The cost of this annoyance? $650. That's $650 that isn't going to be going to raises, improvements, anything. It's a total waste of money.

Everyone in this office who previously had a standing desk has been fired over the last year. I can only hope that this trend continues.

This is pretty much what I picture when someone asks for a standing desk.

 

[brettwasbtd]

So maybe this is more of a "Brett has a conscience" thing, but my coworkers are horrible with actually being at work 40 hours a week. The project I am on its near impossible to accomplish any work remotely. Maybe there is an hour or two per week that could be handled outside the office. So how then do my coworkers hit 40 hours a week when the come in at 9 and leave at 3?

They don't.

Then there is the guy who didn't show up on Monday and none of the managers noticed... Don't know if he had an excuse or told everyone. Same guy conveniently has to "work from home today" (friday) cause of plumbing issues at his house (remember its not possible to accomplish anything remotely).

Problems is I have been on the team the longest and know the software insde and out so everyone comes to ask me questions. I overslept one day and didn't make it in until 10 and everyone wondered where I was...fml

OK, end of rant. I need a beer

 

[azscoob]

Today I realized as I looked around. The shop.... I'm the Milton Waddams type, gonna set the place on fire..... You bust your ass getting sh!t done and forever more it's the baseline, today went something to this effect... "what do you mean, you started the the repair at 1pm, pulled the blown engine out, assembled the new engine and installed it by 3:30pm (your quitting time) but it's not gonna be ready till tomorrow morning??? Can't you stay late and have it running tonight????"

It's an 18 hour job....

'Clink' goes the zippo....

 

[Zuljin]

Standing desks are the ultimate in bourgeois privilege.

"Boo hoo. My desk job is so easy that I feel the need to stand all day just to stay challenged."

**** off. Let's ignore the fact that we all went to college in the hopes that one day we would have a nice desk job instead of actually working on our feet all day. Remember how great your feet felt after standing for a 10 - 12 hour shift? I do. It wasn't a good feeling.

The guy in the cubicle next to me somehow convinced HR to pay for a standing desk even though weeks ago, HR sent out an email saying they wouldn't pay it without a doctors note. I understand if you have severe back pain from an accident or a chronic injury, but this kid is young (22) and is just fat.

It's bad enough that I can't stand his voice or even his face. Now I get to put up with him standing over our cubicle row all day. Except, EXCEPT, he only stands maybe for an hour total during the day. The rest of the time he sits in a tall stool with his feet up on his desk. The cost of this annoyance? $650. That's $650 that isn't going to be going to raises, improvements, anything. It's a total waste of money.

Everyone in this office who previously had a standing desk has been fired over the last year. I can only hope that this trend continues.

If someone told these asshats they HAD to stand, they wouldn't stand for it.

We actually had a DC try it. The Maint dept got a row of PCs to do work orders on. He thought putting in seats would encourage loafing. Maybe he didn't think NOT putting in seats would encourage rioting. They got seats.

 

[Venari]

can i complain about my housemates? On brew/bottle day i can't find anything because the old nag went and organized my brew supplies. I've currently gone over the house and can't find my bottle brush anywhere, and i can't think of another way to clean this carboy, because i don't have access to pbw or oxyclean without paying insane shipping rates and waiting several weeks.

 

[MaxStout]

can i complain about my housemates? On brew/bottle day i can't find anything because the old nag went and organized my brew supplies. I've currently gone over the house and can't find my bottle brush anywhere, and i can't think of another way to clean this carboy, because i don't have access to pbw or oxyclean without paying insane shipping rates and waiting several weeks.

Obsessive-compulsive roommates always organizing your stuff?
There's an app for that...

 

[drainbamage]

Obsessive-compulsive roommates always organizing your stuff?
There's an app for that...

How many roommates can you fit in there? ipe:

 

[DrunkleJon]

Darn it Rosie! Stay outta the brewing equipment.

 

[Rhumbline]

How many roommates can you fit in there? ipe:

Two... if you use a medium grind.

 

[betarhoalphadelta]

Two... if you use a medium grind.

Do housemates ferment?

 

[Rhumbline]

Do housemates ferment?

some of my former ones certainly did! And not in a good way.

 

[BUCKNUTS]

There's no way to say this without grossing you people out, so I"ll just come out and say it. I notice a lot of people on this thread are complaining about bathroom hygiene (I'm still only on page 52, atm). Assuming you're wearing clean laundry, and assuming a daily morning shower, I think it makes more sense to wash your hands BEFORE using the bathroom. Unless you end up touching your own poop, or get splashback from a urinal.

Assuming you're clean, then everything is neatly kept inside your (freshly laundered, hopefully) shorts. It's not out and about getting dirty. But your hands are.

Thoughts?

I'm a healthcare worker and the most annoying thing about my co-workers is all the bull**** heroics. Why can't you just do the job you get paid for without constantly lauding yourself? And #2 is the idea that I might work with people who think like the quoted post. I am dumbfounded.

 

[1977Brewer]

I'm a healthcare worker and the most annoying thing about my co-workers is all the bull**** heroics. Why can't you just do the job you get paid for without constantly lauding yourself? And #2 is the idea that I might work with people who think like the quoted post. I am dumbfounded.

I'm in charge of janitorial for 200 people. I wash my hands if you look at me weird.

 

[BUCKNUTS]

I'm in charge of janitorial for 200 people. I wash my hands if you look at me weird.

Lol good call

 

[1977Brewer]

Lol good call

But I don't wash after I piss. I'm a mystery wrapped in a riddle.

 

[BUCKNUTS]

But I don't wash after I piss. I'm a mystery wrapped in a riddle.

I say wash before and after but I did infection control reports for 12 years and know what a huge percentage of infections are caused by cross contamination related to poor hygiene.

 

[hunter_le five]

Why are you people pissing on your hands?

 

[1977Brewer]

I...don't. If it's good enough for your mamas mouth...

 

[hunter_le five]

Not you, 1977. Us Texans all have impeccable aim.