Things about your co-workers that annoy you

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Working night shift rotating 12's makes me annoyed with everyone I work with, the worst thing though is that a few like to tell on all the others thinking it makes them look better. Fools!
 
Calaeb said:
Working night shift rotating 12's makes me annoyed with everyone I work with, the worst thing though is that a few like to tell on all the others thinking it makes them look better. Fools!
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Gotta have an understanding spouse to make it work. I get pissy all around on nights. The 4th day shift is brutal too. I don't have anyone that tells on anyone on my shift. I have a butterfly brain that can't keep his attention on anything. He keeps jumping from one Ponzi scheme to the next, all the while trying to convince us all to join up. Another is just dumb. He's been running this job since the year before I was born; 35 years. He was asking me questions about it 5.5 years ago when I had been there 6 months. Another is an a$$hole, but pretty good on the process. The last is a little slow unless it's about baseball or maps. Crazy world.
 
I went in for lunch the other day and Boss's wife is cleaning out the fridge. I check the fridge and my lunch is GONE! I ask her about it and she tells me it stunk so she threw it away! Tupperware and all! Then, instead of any kind of apology, she tells me that I'll "just have to go eat from that infested taco truck you like!" Arrrrggghhhh! Somebody is getting stink-bombed again!
 
bleme said:
I went in for lunch the other day and Boss's wife is cleaning out the fridge. I check the fridge and my lunch is GONE! I ask her about it and she tells me it stunk so she threw it away! Tupperware and all! Then, instead of any kind of apology, she tells me that I'll "just have to go eat from that infested taco truck you like!" Arrrrggghhhh! Somebody is getting stink-bombed again!
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They would get an expense invoice from me for the cost of the tupperware, plus the cost of my lunch that day. It was their action that caused me to have to go buy my lunch, they can pay for it.
 
... the hardest part of my job is convincing myself that my supervisor's unorganized mess that he doesn't know what to do about "doesn't get to me", even though I have to "deal with it"...

I'm just as happy as a canary....in a coal mine!
 
... the mental giants around here that remember to wipe their butts, (thank goodness), then forget to flush...
 
Just came in from working from home yesterday and the bastard I share an office with move out and erased the white board. I had really important stuff on it that I can't get back because the guy who wrote it on the board left the company..............
 
Hah lol we have one guy who doesn't wash his hands and has been confronted on it many times. Fricken disgusting now everything he touches is forever unclean lmao
 
jbunton said:
Hah lol we have one guy who doesn't wash his hands and has been confronted on it many times. Fricken disgusting now everything he touches is forever unclean lmao
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Nothing like sitting in the stall doing your thing. Hear the guy one stall over sound like he is dying, get up wipe, flush and then just walk out the bathroom. You are like, "Wait, what? He didn't wash his hands? WTF." What's worse is you have no idea who it was. Now everyone is suspect and don't touch a thing in the office.
 
TorMag said:
Nothing like sitting in the stall doing your thing. Hear the guy one stall over sound like he is dying, get up wipe, flush and then just walk out the bathroom. You are like, "Wait, what? He didn't wash his hands? WTF." What's worse is you have no idea who it was. Now everyone is suspect and don't touch a thing in the office.
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I was in the bathroom the other day washing my hands and I heard voices. I paused for a minute... guy in the stall (also sounded like he was dying) was talking to someone on the phone at the same time? Awkward..
 
treacheroustexan said:
I was in the bathroom the other day washing my hands and I heard voices. I paused for a minute... guy in the stall (also sounded like he was dying) was talking to someone on the phone at the same time? Awkward..
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Normally I try to be considerate of others in the room (Within reason. It is the bathroom. Certain...noises...are to be expected). But in the case of someone else on the phone, if I can let loose a stall-door rattling, mirror-shaking blast of flatulance, I let 'er rip. If you're going to take a call in the john, I'm going to make sure everyone on the other end knows it.
 
dkwolf said:
Normally I try to be considerate of others in the room (Within reason. It is the bathroom. Certain...noises...are to be expected). But in the case of someone else on the phone, if I can let loose a stall-door rattling, mirror-shaking blast of flatulance, I let 'er rip. If you're going to take a call in the john, I'm going to make sure everyone on the other end knows it.
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LMAO, I do the same. Make as much noise as I can.
 
There is an extremely obnoxious woman in a cubicle near me who has a habit of tearing her husband a new one everyone she talks to him on the phone. Yesterday he was having some difficulties with his e-mail and called her.

These are actual quotes taken within a span of about 90 seconds.

"WHY DO YOU KEEP INTERRUPTING ME I DON'T UNDERSTAND"

"STOP INTERRUPTING ME"

"JUST LET ME FINISH TALKING. I DON'T GET IT, WHY DO YOU DO THAT?"

1. Take care of your personal issues on personal time.
2. Don't yell so loud everyone in the office can hear you.
3. Stop being such a c u n t.

end rant.
 
schematix said:
There is an extremely obnoxious woman in a cubicle near me who has a habit of tearing her husband a new one everyone she talks to him on the phone. Yesterday he was having some difficulties with his e-mail and called her.

These are actual quotes taken within a span of about 90 seconds.

"WHY DO YOU KEEP INTERRUPTING ME I DON'T UNDERSTAND"

"STOP INTERRUPTING ME"

"JUST LET ME FINISH TALKING. I DON'T GET IT, WHY DO YOU DO THAT?"

1. Take care of your personal issues on personal time.
2. Don't yell so loud everyone in the office can hear you.
3. Stop being such a c u n t.

end rant.
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Man I feel bad for this guy...stop calling this B! Literally ask anyone else first.
 
schematix said:
There is an extremely obnoxious woman in a cubicle near me who has a habit of tearing her husband a new one everyone she talks to him on the phone. Yesterday he was having some difficulties with his e-mail and called her.

These are actual quotes taken within a span of about 90 seconds.

"WHY DO YOU KEEP INTERRUPTING ME I DON'T UNDERSTAND"

"STOP INTERRUPTING ME"

"JUST LET ME FINISH TALKING. I DON'T GET IT, WHY DO YOU DO THAT?"

1. Take care of your personal issues on personal time.
2. Don't yell so loud everyone in the office can hear you.
3. Stop being such a c u n t.

end rant.
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I worked with a guy that used to do this whenever his wife called. We worked in an office that did not allow personal calls and this piece of work would pace around the office on his cell, tearing into his wife.

"Why do you not understand how the snow blower works?"

"The baby has a rash. The doctor said it's a rash. Stop worrying about it."

"No, we're not talking about this when I'm on lunch, because I'll be eating then. We can talk later... I don't know. Tomorrow. Next Week. Just not now!"
 
schematix said:
There is an extremely obnoxious woman in a cubicle near me who has a habit of tearing her husband a new one everyone she talks to him on the phone. Yesterday he was having some difficulties with his e-mail and called her.

These are actual quotes taken within a span of about 90 seconds.

"WHY DO YOU KEEP INTERRUPTING ME I DON'T UNDERSTAND"

"STOP INTERRUPTING ME"

"JUST LET ME FINISH TALKING. I DON'T GET IT, WHY DO YOU DO THAT?"

1. Take care of your personal issues on personal time.
2. Don't yell so loud everyone in the office can hear you.
3. Stop being such a c u n t.

end rant.
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Yup, we work in the same place. Almost every day.
 
So, worked on a project for over four months. Many many many meetings with some members of management as we work out plan, execute plan, and authorize plan. Was all finally wrapped up and approved two months back.

We went with option 2 for this plan.

Today, I get an email that includes BOTH managers asking...do we have any option 1's in place for the project.

!?!?!?!?!?!?!?!?!
 
gratus fermentatio said:
Extremely non-confrontational people in positions of authority. They either can't or won't tell the people under them to stop screwing around & do their damned jobs. Put me in charge, I'll get that $hit squared away right quick.
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We have one of those. The man is great at process. A regular wizard. But he is not a personnel manager. Or really any kind of manager. He's was installed in his position due to a lack of options at the time and there being a boss above him who was running the department by proxy. They wanted a yes man on the ground and he fit the bill.
 
When the people who close up at night don't do their f***ing job and I'm left to put out their fires in the AM. Especially when their incompetence compromises the product.

We make the product you sell and make your tips off. Respect us.
 
I am getting a new job. Gave my current employer 2 months notice and my last day is the end of the month. I put in for some final Vacation around Thanksgiving and was told that since I wasn't finishing out the year, I am only entitled to half the remaining vacation I am supposed to have.

Half annoyed. Half relieved that this situation gives me leave to no longer give a rip about this job. Jokes on them, I'll be treating the rest of the month like a vacation and not doing jack bone.
 
FirstAidBrewing said:
I am getting a new job. Gave my current employer 2 months notice and my last day is the end of the month. I put in for some final Vacation around Thanksgiving and was told that since I wasn't finishing out the year, I am only entitled to half the remaining vacation I am supposed to have.

Half annoyed. Half relieved that this situation gives me leave to no longer give a rip about this job. Jokes on them, I'll be treating the rest of the month like a vacation and not doing jack bone.
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Giving notice is is such a double edge sword. On one side you an employee who actually wants to do the right thing and give proper notice and not burn any bridges and leave with some dignity and respect. Yeah they have to question is my employeer going to allow me to give proper notice? Will I be effed over or even just flat escorted out? Maybe I shouldn't give notice?...

On the other edge you have the company who has to decide is this guy going to screw me over? Maybe I should screw him over first?

So at the end of the day ties do end up getting cut and it becomes endless cycle of people getting jacked around.

I personally think the company should be the bigger person and give the employee the benefit of the doubt until proven otherwise so that proper notices don't become a thing of the past..which they are slowly becoming.
 
TexasDroughtBrewery said:
Giving notice is is such a double edge sword. On one side you an employee who actually wants to do the right thing and give proper notice and not burn any bridges and leave with some dignity and respect. Yeah they have to question is my employer going to allow me to give proper notice? Will I be effed over or even just flat escorted out? Maybe I shouldn't give notice?...
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Yep...unless you find yourself "business critical" as I did in two of the last three jobs I quit. The first one convinced me to stay on an additional 6 months (generous bump in pay and promise they would fix the issues...which they did not). The second one paid for an additional week of pay, a generous "demob" fee, a week of per diem AND covered a hotel/meals/etc if I stayed an additional week to train my replacement.

My current contract...I think there would be a knee-jerk reaction where they would want to kick me to the curb because the boss thinks we all believe we are "family" but then he would come to reason and try to retain me. I plan to test that theory next year without warning the consulting company I technically work for.
 
First off, I'm not a coffee drinker so this might annoy some more than it annoys me... The company that I work for graciously provides free coffee for all employees. The coffee machine is right behind the water fountain.
Not once, but twice in the same week while filing up my water bottle I caught someone emptying the coffee pot and looking around the room to see if anyone saw them so they wouldn't have to refill it.

I mean, c'mon it takes like 30 seconds to empty the coffee and change a filter and then turn the machine on.
 
TexasDroughtBrewery said:
Giving notice is is such a double edge sword. On one side you an employee who actually wants to do the right thing and give proper notice and not burn any bridges and leave with some dignity and respect. Yeah they have to question is my employeer going to allow me to give proper notice? Will I be effed over or even just flat escorted out? Maybe I shouldn't give notice?...

On the other edge you have the company who has to decide is this guy going to screw me over? Maybe I should screw him over first?
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I've also known that some companies, if you give notice, will escort you out that day. But they'll keep paying you for the next two weeks of your notice and your actual termination day will be 14 days out.

Basically they know you've mentally checked out, so there's no need for them to keep you in the building. But actually terminating you officially that day causes all sorts of headaches (and if they terminate you before your notice they might need to pay severance/etc depending on the state) so they'll just write off that 2 weeks of pay as cost of business.
 
danszabrew said:
First off, I'm not a coffee drinker so this might annoy some more than it annoys me... The company that I work for graciously provides free coffee for all employees. The coffee machine is right behind the water fountain.
Not once, but twice in the same week while filing up my water bottle I caught someone emptying the coffee pot and looking around the room to see if anyone saw them so they wouldn't have to refill it.

I mean, c'mon it takes like 30 seconds to empty the coffee and change a filter and then turn the machine on.
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The last company I worked for and my current company have solved this age old work problem. They have both gone to individual coffee servings similar to Krups. You brew your own cup. Much better for everyone involved and you get a fresher cup of coffee.
 
My job when i give notice is 3 days of 10 hours of "knowledge base training" where I get to train someone, then that's it. Still get a month severance and a handshake.

We solved the coffee thing. While work supplies the coffee, we like our coffee, so we personally buy peets, starbucks, lavazza, and between 6 of us, always have something good on hand. (even cafe bustilio does the trick and it's cheap!)

Now, what annoys me is the small talk with someone I don't know when they want something. get a lync message, "hi dan" and that's it. so of course, respond back "hello", then get the "how are you" will my response effect the outcome of what you are going to ask me? ask me how I am doing in person, lync, spit it out, I am busy person...

and of course that one person who is on homebrewtalk all day....
 
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