Things about your co-workers that annoy you

[n240sxguy]

I'm beginning to think I'm the Superman of my building. I seem to be the only one strong enough to lift the jug.

My shift ended up having a water war with another shift. They wouldn't get water, gloves, or anything. We started dumping whatever water we had left after our shifts to make them go get water.


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[n240sxguy]

These people truly know the comfort of a "broken in" pair.

I always hate it when I get my gloves too dirty, and I have to get a new pair. Nothing like a good broken in pair.


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[Punity]

I always hate it when I get my gloves too dirty, and I have to get a new pair. Nothing like a good broken in pair.


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New ones are just to stiff. Although oil and certain types of gloves don't mix but who cares if they are the cheapest right!!!

 

[Zuljin]

Gloves is gloves. Put on a pair of those brown jerseys and mix up that lime.

 

[n240sxguy]

I refuse to wear the brown jerseys. We have some decent nylon ones that have a rubber coating on the palms and fingers. I use those and the cheap junk Chinese $1 a dozen plain grey leather gloves. About half a pack are usually acceptable to wear. I'm not sure what part of the cow the rest are made from, but they should find something else to use it for.

Speaking of gloves; they got some awesome ones for the mechanics a few years ago. They are a Kevlar blend. You can see through them, but they are super heat resistant. I held a lighter right under my hand, and never felt a thing.


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[Zepth]

I held a lighter right under my hand, and never felt a thing ever again.

Fixed it

 

[n240sxguy]

Fixed it

Haha


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[Fedora]

I always hate it when I get my gloves too dirty, and I have to get a new pair. Nothing like a good broken in pair.


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For work gloves I agree. But for welders... man there's nothing like a brand new pair of welding gloves.

 

[grathan]

I hate how they keep firing all the management. They think keep piling in the new is gonna make things fresh, but they are destroying the backbone of a fairly solid process. That and it now takes 2 people to do the job a single person used to do and even that is giving too much credit to some of them.

All they keep mentioning is "corporate-like returns".

 

[Punity]

That I pretty much got leapfrogged for a promotion to be my supervisor by a guy who's worked here longer then I have but actively tries his hardest to do the least amount of work during his week.

I was told that I didn't get it because I have the least experience, which if funny since I remember filling in the guy that just got the job on how our process ran.

So for this week he works for me and next week I for him.....FML

 

[W0GWT]

that i pretty much got leapfrogged for a promotion to be my supervisor by a guy who's worked here longer then i have but actively tries his hardest to do the least amount of work during his week.

I was told that i didn't get it because i have the least experience, which if funny since i remember filling in the guy that just got the job on how our process ran.

So for this week he works for me and next week i for him.....fml

 

[Punity]

Crossed my mind this morning......let's burn this muthaF**** down pookie

 

[j1n]

That I pretty much got leapfrogged for a promotion to be my supervisor by a guy who's worked here longer then I have but actively tries his hardest to do the least amount of work during his week.

I was told that I didn't get it because I have the least experience, which if funny since I remember filling in the guy that just got the job on how our process ran.

So for this week he works for me and next week I for him.....FML

That's some BS man. Last job i had i got shafted for a promotion (it was out of spite). i ended up getting a new job and getting a 20K+ increase in salary. Then i hooked up people from the old job with new jobs at my new company. I'm pretty sure they regret fkin me over cause i got the last laugh.

You should start planning your move to get a new job. i know i would.

 

[Punity]

It's mind boggling because it's an active joke his lunch starts at 10:30. Like its not operations that joke about that either upper management does as well. I've been told from day one that he has naked photos of someone with the amount crap he's able to weasel out of or get his way.

 

[j1n]

Maybe hes banging someone in upper management. Hey i know a guy that got a nice promotion cause he was layin that pipe. She was nasty though so id say he earned it lol.

 

[Punity]

Ew is all I can say

 

[Zuljin]

It's mind boggling because it's an active joke his lunch starts at 10:30. Like its not operations that joke about that either upper management does as well. I've been told from day one that he has naked photos of someone with the amount crap he's able to weasel out of or get his way.

I work with that guy! Dude must have some serious dirt on somebody.

 

[Fedora]

Our " maintenance guy" AKA the boss's son... Need I say more??

 

[Beernik]

I'm not really bent that I didn't get my boss's job when he retired even though I'm still doing 1/3 of his job. I know I wasn't the favored candidate.

All through the recession it was "we can't hire anyone." When I started the job 6 years ago, we were 10.5 FTEs. We had three reitrements. One was replaced with 0.5 FTE by shifting someone over parttime into out section. One was filled internally in the section. So that put us as 8 FTEs.

Then a coworker went out on FMLA. It was a fairly major procedure, so I can't begrudge her even though that puts us at a skeleton crew of 7 FTEs. She won't be back until December.

Here's what gets me: there are three, maybe four, "higher priority" positions to be filled before the two empty ones in our section (if they decide to fill them). Also, for some reason, we can't fill a position in less than 6 months. So even when the coworker gets back from FMLA in December, we won't be fully staffed for what looks to be two or three years.

Three years from now, we'll probably have another one or two retirements in our section. Which means we will go right back to being understaffed.

 

[Beernik]

Good news: I'm interviewing for another job. It is basically the same position that I didn't get in my office. This position is in Olympia, WA, which is near the top of the list of places my wife would love to move to.

 

[n240sxguy]

Sounds like a win. Good luck!


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[TheCADJockey]

A Daily Occurence by a group of dudes that want to be left alone

One lady in an office full of guys; guys who are enjoying the silence of working and drawing. She suddenly jumps up at lunch time, audibly 'sniffing' around the office like a blood hound trying to figure out who has the real food before grumbling about how all she gets to eat is a salad. Then while we are trying to enjoy our lunch she asks, "Have you guys seen (insert some idiotic mind drool of a tv show)?"

No. We've told you every day, we have hobbies and or things we would rather do after sitting in an office all day that do not involve sitting in front of a tv.

"Oh okay, let me tell you ALL about this show".

Inevitably we leave and go sit outside just to be in our own quiet for a little longer before we get to come in and listen to her eat. Is she loud when she eats her lunch? You bet your sweet ass she is. I don't know, maybe she is in fact trying to kill each and every lettuce leaf by stabbing the glass plate as hard as she can like she is trying to get a fork full of macaroni. I guess it could be possible that her artificial sweetener (gag) just refuses to dissolve in her tea, that would warrant clanking the spoon at 100RPM around your mug for ~1.5 min. right? I'm not angry, none of us are. We're quite sure you buy only the freshershest vegetables known to man and can not help how crunchy it is, but try swallowing it before you begin to berate our ear holes with stats on your brand new iPhone. You're a mother of three kids that we have never met but know every detail about, do they all eat with their mouth open too?

TL;DR = STFU, the men are trying to work. Thanks. I needed that.

 

[Vegetarisk]

Let's see... Constant whistling, humming, finger drumming, clipping nails (toenails too!), not washing hands, not proof reading memos for spelling errors, general inability to perform basic computer functions like opening and saving word documents...

AHHHHHH!!!!!

 

[Qhrumphf]

When coworker who lives way the hell out in the sticks complains that his commute is longer than mine. When same coworker passive-aggresively blackmails me if I need to call out sick. When I get calls from said coworker before 7am. When new job asks me to take a week off of of current job (using backlogged vacation time) and then doesn't need me the whole week. When new boss starts texting me at 8am on a Saturday morning taunting me because my team is losing to his team. Ok, that one's actually quite entertaining and doesn't annoy me. But it does annoy my wife

 

[Vegetarisk]

Oh yeah I have co workers who commute only about 10-15 minutes. Not that it's a contest but they abuse it by leaving early/coming in late for "traffic"

 

[drainbamage]

Oh yeah I have co workers who commute only about 10-15 minutes. Not that it's a contest but they abuse it by leaving early/coming I late for "traffic"

At my job, it was the guy who lived closest to the office who was the most consistently late. I once asked him why and his only response was, "well, when you live only 10 minutes away, you don't have as much chance to make up time if you get caught at a light or hung up in traffic." Maybe that excuse would fly the first time or two it happened, but not 3 or 4 days out of every week.

 

[Vegetarisk]

I've worked places where I lived only 5-10 min away and was constantly late. It's because you assume you'll have plenty of time in the morning because you live so close so you can stop for coffee or whatever. Then you hit a red light and are suddenly 5 min late. That was also when I was 20 years old and didn't know better, I guess some people don't always figure these things out,

 

[Qhrumphf]

Problem with my job is that both of us work exclusively in the field. So I'm usually 20-30 mins from most of my work. He's usually 2 hours away. But he uses how far away he lives as an excuse to accomplish less (since time to and from our first/last is work time). Doesn't bother me when I'm not swamped. But when I'm buried and he won't pull his weight it bugs the crap out of me. MF'er that's why I pay literally 4 times the rent that you do. Man up and deal with it or move closer to town. I won't miss it when my new job goes full time and I can kiss this one goodbye.

 

[n240sxguy]

When coworker who lives way the hell out in the sticks complains that his commute is longer than mine. When same coworker passive-aggresively blackmails me if I need to call out sick. When I get calls from said coworker before 7am. When new job asks me to take a week off of of current job (using backlogged vacation time) and then doesn't need me the whole week. When new boss starts texting me at 8am on a Saturday morning taunting me because my team is losing to his team. Ok, that one's actually quite entertaining and doesn't annoy me. But it does annoy my wife

What line of work do these announces come from? I would hate all of that.


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[Qhrumphf]

What line of work do these announces come from? I would hate all of that.


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Similar but not identical to field-based claims adjustment estimating (ie we do much of the same stuff, but don't work with insurance companies, but rather contracted with manufacturers). Basically drive around and write auto body estimates.

Counting the days till I leave the auto industry and start living the dream in a production brewery.