Things about your co-workers that annoy you

[n240sxguy]

It's a spoogee!

That's a great name!


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[n240sxguy]

That sounds like a sex act. :fro:

You're thinking of a sploogee. Totally different.


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[BigAndo]

I work in a social club. My supervisor has been off for a month, with a broken front tooth.
1. Does she think the damn thing is going to grow back? Why isn't it fixed by now?
2. If she's too damn self conscious to come to work, why the hell can she come in to drink/socialise?
But, not making too much fuss because its better without her! Lol


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[Beernik]

The **** hit the fan with my manager retiring today. My coworker who is now the acting manager is being the acting micromanager.

You would think for being the guy who said he didn't want it that he would be more hands-off.

 

[Billy-Klubb]

The **** hit the fan with my manager retiring today. My coworker who is now the acting manager is being the acting micromanager.

You would think for being the guy who said he didn't want it that he would be more hands-off.

we had about the same problem in my old shop.

 

[drainbamage]

My branch manager (2nd line supervisor) quit for a new job last September. The guy that got promoted as his replacement has a pretty bad reputation for laziness and procrastination (You'd be fair in wondering how he got the job in the first place, but that's a whole other story).

This week, the Traffic guy from one of the local city governments called the branch manager with a question about our traffic signal software. He didn't respond in a timely manner, so the guy just called the old manager at his new job and asked him instead. :smack:

 

[b-boy]

The **** hit the fan with my manager retiring today. My coworker who is now the acting manager is being the acting micromanager.

You would think for being the guy who said he didn't want it that he would be more hands-off.

He'll probably mellow out after awhile. When you first start managing people you tend to overcompensate. Remember, he just got the weight of the world dumped on him. Just let him know you can handle things and he'll back off eventually. Micromanaging is exhausting.

 

[Beernik]

That's what I told my coworker who I was consoling on the phone until midnight. It was a long day for both of them. It's an extremely political project they are working on. The big boss is meddling in the project, giving away the farm in negotiations, and steering the project in the wrong direction.

His stress level has to be through the roof.

I also think the guy who is the acting manager knows he isn't a good manager. He's told me that he is doing it because he was asked to but he won't take the job permanently.

Which is good for me because that makes me most qualified applicant when they decide to advertise the position.

 

[Chadwick]

Awe, my experience in who gets the job. It won't be the guy that can best do it. In fact, that guy will likely get shafted for no reason. The most stupid, ignorant, "I'm good at blaming others for my screw-ups" guy, will get the job. God help the rest of you. I'll bet a complete moron with no real experience gets the job. To add insult to injury, I'll only give that poor sap of a tool a 5% chance of even having a college education that is even remotely related to the job he is about to take charge of.

The best you can hope for is that this new boss is hired completely from the outside. If so, he will make some effort to learn the job you have to do. He might even be empathetic, if you are really lucky.

God help you, the world isn't fair, just, or even sane in the least.

Been there, experienced that. I hope your experience if better than mine.

 

[Rhumbline]

...

Which is good for me because that makes me most qualified applicant when they decide to advertise the position.

I wish you the best. My experience is that they'll hire an outsider. The theory is that if they promote from within they have to train two people, they guy they promoted and the guy they hired to take his place.

Good luck!

 

[Beernik]

Thanks.

That thought has occurred to me.

I told my wife if they bring in someone from the outside, someone who doesn't know the program, I'm going to sit back and watch it burn for a while.

The learning curve is steep, the consequences for failing an audit can be severe, and my ability to assist the new manager might be hindered by all the field inspections I have to schedule at exactly the same time as the audit.

 

[jgln]

They sleep all the time

 

[petey_c]

The fact that I have coworkers is enough to irritate me. Somebody likes to stink up the mens room at about the same time every morning, don't know who, but you could almost set your watch by the stink. He turns the light & fan (they're connected) off when he leaves & allows his stink to linger far longer. I'm really starting to hate that guy, whoever he is." More people need to learn about the "courtesy flush."
http://www.google.com/imgres?imgurl...a=X&ei=MKEUU4jNMsTL2QWIqoCoBA&ved=0CDsQ9QEwAA
Definition: The act of flushing the toilet the instant the nose cone of the poop log hits the water and the poop is whisked away to an undisclosed location. This reduces the amount of air time the poop has to stink up the bathroom. This can help you avoid being caught doing the WALK OF SHAME.

 

[paulster2626]

The fact that I have coworkers is enough to irritate me. Somebody likes to stink up the mens room at about the same time every morning, don't know who, but you could almost set your watch by the stink. He turns the light & fan (they're connected) off when he leaves & allows his stink to linger far longer. I'm really starting to hate that guy, whoever he is." More people need to learn about the "courtesy flush."
http://www.google.com/imgres?imgurl...a=X&ei=MKEUU4jNMsTL2QWIqoCoBA&ved=0CDsQ9QEwAA
Definition: The act of flushing the toilet the instant the nose cone of the poop log hits the water and the poop is whisked away to an undisclosed location. This reduces the amount of air time the poop has to stink up the bathroom. This can help you avoid being caught doing the WALK OF SHAME.

Seeing as how my **** doesn't stink, I consider my co-workers lucky when they get to enjoy the fruits of my morning labor.

 

[Beernik]

It has been suggested to me that if I want the manager's job I need to shave the beard off and be more of a Yes Man. I suppose I can go beardless for a couple months. But 50% of the job is contract and construction management. What Yes Man does those things well?

 

[petey_c]

Seeing as how my **** doesn't stink, I consider my co-workers lucky when they get to enjoy the fruits of my morning labor.

I tell my wife her poop smells like bunnies and rainbows...

 

[Billy-Klubb]

Seeing as how my **** doesn't stink, I consider my co-workers lucky when they get to enjoy the fruits of my morning labor.

I tell my wife her poop smells like bunnies and rainbows...

an old contract welder I worked with always used to say, "Well, I didn't go in there to make Angel Food Cake." or "I didn't go in there to eat ice cream." he also had to drop one off while driving down the interstate, so he pulled over & dropped one off. right behind his truck, not in the ditch or the passenger side, because he wanted to wave at all the cars going by.:rockin:

 

[beaksnbeer]

Some a$$hat moron dumped a refrigerated piece of equipment off the forklift while loading it onto the truck. "Hey there's a hissing noise coming from this thing...Never mind it stopped!:smack:

 

[n240sxguy]

Some a$$hat moron dumped a refrigerated piece of equipment off the forklift while loading it onto the truck. "Hey there's a hissing noise coming from this thing...Never mind it stopped!:smack:

As long as it stopped, it's ok, right?
Hahahaha.


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[Beernik]

So the acting manager has been at it for six business days now. Including me, he has nine people under him.

He has had shouting arguments with two of us and brought a third to tears.

At this rate he'll piss off the whole section the end of the month.

 

[dfc]

I'm a teacher, but I work in a multimillion dollar facility. I work in rooms (recording/mixing/post production studios) that may see 7 different instructors in a week. There is a set default for every room that is called "zeroed" or "zeroed out". We work in three week cycles and the curriculum repeats with a new group of students every three weeks (the students get a total of 12 cycles {36 weeks}). Every week 2 Friday I run into problems because the instructor that had the room before me (I know who it is, but will not mention his name) failed to zero out the room the day before. It's annoying that I have to fix someone's problem during my instruction time simply because they were too lazy to fix it their damn selves.

 

[Rhumbline]

I just remembered this one.

The last two places I've worked I had a coworker who clipped his or her toenails at their desk.

But that pales in comparison to the guy who did it in the first class cabin on a trans Atlantic flight.

In what culture is that considered acceptable?

 

[BreezyBrew]

Alabama

 

[drainbamage]

China, maybe? Don't they consider spitting in public no big deal?

 

[Billy-Klubb]

when I visited England (Newcastle), I had observed many people (including myself) urinating in public. maybe it's in pretty much every culture...

 

[SharonaZamboni]

Toenails? Like, take off your loafers and socks, then clip in your cube? Or are flip flops standard footwear? 'Cause flip flops and clipping is okay where I work.

 

[forstmeister]

I used to clip my nails in my office. There was only one other guy and he said he didn't mind. Now I wonder if he was grossed out by it.

 

[MaxStout]

when I visited England (Newcastle), I had observed many people (including myself) urinating in public. maybe it's in pretty much every culture...

It's a common occurrence in France, too. First time I visited Strasbourg, I was standing on a busy intersection, waiting to cross the street. Some businessman in a suit, standing a few feet away, just whipped it out and relieved himself along the curb. He didn't even bother to turn around, just kept facing the street while he took a leak.

 

[Melana]

The guy that comes in after I do (well they arrive to work after me) and proceeds to close my blinds. WTF?!?

 

[Beernik]

Does the sun shine on his desk?

In my office, the people who have the worst problems with sun glare are not the people sitting next to the windows.

Thank you LEED design standards.