Things about your co-workers that annoy you

[SharonaZamboni]

My coworkers annoy me by watching television and playing with their phones.

They bathe and dress people, brush their teeth, give them medication, shop, cook meals, spoon feed them, clean the house, do laundry, shovel snow, and often get injured while preventing injury to others. Then they have the nerve to relax for a while when the work is done.

Darn $15/hour government employees.

 

[Hamaki]

My coworkers annoy me by watching television and playing with their phones.

They bathe and dress people, brush their teeth, give them medication, shop, cook meals, spoon feed them, clean the house, do laundry, shovel snow, and often get injured while preventing injury to others. Then they have the nerve to relax for a while when the work is done.

Darn $15/hour government employees.

Monetary income is the perfect deceiver of a man's (or woman's) true worth.

Criss Jami

 

[Billy-Klubb]

My coworkers annoy me by watching television and playing with their phones.

They bathe and dress people, brush their teeth, give them medication, shop, cook meals, spoon feed them, clean the house, do laundry, shovel snow, and often get injured while preventing injury to others. Then they have the nerve to relax for a while when the work is done.

Darn $15/hour government employees.

those bastards!

 

[GrogNerd]

voicemail message from one of my customers, asking my boss to call her back.

I ask the boss if he wants me to call her, he says no, he will do it.

He then messages me that she figured it out on her own but is too embarrassed to tell us what it was.

 

[Qhrumphf]

When coworker calls me to tell me he called the helpdesk about a problem...

Umm....ok, I need to know this why?

 

[Billy-Klubb]

When coworker calls me to tell me he called the helpdesk about a problem...

Umm....ok, I need to know this why?

we have a few guys that will walk across the shop to tell someone that they told the boss about a problem with (insert anything), even though the only person it affects is them. one of them make a huge deal about having to fix anything he didn't weld. I forgot a Slow Moving Vehicle sign socket on a part and he put it on for me (2 small spot welds). I heard about it for 2 weeks until I said, "Happy floccin' birthday! Do I owe you a BJ or something?!?" then he didn't talk to me for 1 week. that was good week.

 

[n240sxguy]

we have a few guys that will walk across the shop to tell someone that they told the boss about a problem with (insert anything), even though the only person it affects is them. one of them make a huge deal about having to fix anything he didn't weld. I forgot a Slow Moving Vehicle sign socket on a part and he put it on for me (2 small spot welds). I heard about it for 2 weeks until I said, "Happy floccin' birthday! Do I owe you a BJ or something?!?" then he didn't talk to me for 1 week. that was good week.

Awesome


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[TheCADJockey]

- The guys from the machine shop that bring me a drawing and tell me I forgot a critical dimension. I hate trying to teach grown men how to do Math.

 

[GrogNerd]

this time, I'm the idiot.

call from customer, they can't connect to the database. can access the folder containing the application, but it bombs out on loading data

I check ini files, they're good, odbc drivers installed and configured, firewall is set with proper port configuration, still no joy.

so I explain problem to the boss

boss: did you check if the SERVICE is running?

me: (facepalm that's a slap the boss can actually hear over text message) d'oh!

 

[SupervisingChildren]

Boss just told me he's taking off the 24th-30th and now I'm screwed into working Christmas, and now my fiancee and I won't get to spend the day with our kids. Really? I asked him 2 weeks ago so we could coordinate and he just sandbagged me. ****!
Especially after I worked thanksgiving. Wtf!

 

[TheCADJockey]

Boss just told me he's taking off the 24th-30th and now I'm screwed into working Christmas, and now my fiancee and I won't get to spend the day with our kids. Really? I asked him 2 weeks ago so we could coordinate and he just sandbagged me. ****!
Especially after I worked thanksgiving. Wtf!

Zero tolerance for that bs. Take off the first week of January to screw him over. Thats garbage man. Feel for ya. Last time someone did that to me, I wasn't there when he got back. Although, that was a long time ago in a meaningless job.

 

[SupervisingChildren]

Zero tolerance for that bs. Take off the first week of January to screw him over. Thats garbage man. Feel for ya. Last time someone did that to me, I wasn't there when he got back. Although, that was a long time ago in a meaningless job.

Yep. The worst part is he told me he'd give me off Christmas as his daugther is grown up and I have two little kids. Thanks a lot, a-hole.

 

[n240sxguy]

I can't give you any advice on that. I'd be pissed. On the other hand, I work 12 hr swing, so I'm working days Christmas. I worked days thanksgiving too.


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[Billy-Klubb]

my boss ticked off 5-6 of us today. they had changed day shifts hours from 4-4 to 5-4. night shift still works 4-4. since day changed, nights have been coming in 15-30 minutes early (3:30-3:45) every day. some of us days have been coming in 15 minutes early every day to help shave off some of that time on Thursday. we got told today that days can only come in 5 minutes early, but it's OK for nights to continue coming in earlier. so I get flocced out of spending that 4 hours with my son on Thursday. and the reason for the time change? Paint and Set-Up shops don't like seeing welders leaving early on Thursday. the whole deal with night shift is salt in the wound since day shift puts out 2-3 times the work they do with one less hour a day to do it.

in short: all them martha floccers.

 

[Qhrumphf]

my boss ticked off 5-6 of us today. they had changed day shifts hours from 4-4 to 5-4. night shift still works 4-4. since day changed, nights have been coming in 15-30 minutes early (3:30-3:45) every day. some of us days have been coming in 15 minutes early every day to help shave off some of that time on Thursday. we got told today that days can only come in 5 minutes early, but it's OK for nights to continue coming in earlier. so I get flocced out of spending that 4 hours with my son on Thursday. and the reason for the time change? Paint and Set-Up shops don't like seeing welders leaving early on Thursday. the whole deal with night shift is salt in the wound since day shift puts out 2-3 times the work they do with one less hour a day to do it.

in short: all them martha floccers.

Spike their coffee with ny-quil. Problem solved.

 

[Billy-Klubb]

Spike their coffee with ny-quil. Problem solved.

I suppose that's more legal than what I was thinking.

 

[Qhrumphf]

I suppose that's more legal than what I was thinking.

Miss 4 hours with your son at work, or miss 14 years in the pen.

 

[Billy-Klubb]

Miss 4 hours with your son at work, or miss 14 years in the pen.

I been pretty good for about a decade. my wife & 2 boys keep me that way.:rockin:

 

[SupervisingChildren]

Floccing boss texted me this evening to say "I know how overwhelmed and stressed you are and to let me know if there's anything I can do". Really? Rescind your time off request for me since you know exactly what's going on!

 

[BreezyBrew]

Floccing boss texted me this evening to say "I know how overwhelmed and stressed you are and to let me know if there's anything I can do". Really? Rescind your time off request for me since you know exactly what's going on!

Oh Geez. That's just their guilt taking over. That sucks man. Arg!

 

[n240sxguy]

Spike their coffee with ny-quil. Problem solved.

I like that.


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[n240sxguy]

I suppose that's more legal than what I was thinking.

I bet I like your idea better.


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[n240sxguy]

I suppose that's more legal than what I was thinking.

Two words for you: salt peter. You'll feel better knowing they can't get it up.


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[DrunkleJon]

Spike their coffee with ny-quil. Problem solved.

I am trying to figure out how you can hide the flavor of red and green in coffee. I know coffee, especially how I brew it, is a strong flavor but I know of nothing that can mask the flavor of nyquil. Maybe open the liquid gels ones and use those. Bring it up with the painters, maybe they can get off their butts and start leaving early on Thursday as well.

 

[forstmeister]

My office has a small fridge that 3-5 of us use for our lunches and stuff. Today I came in to find that someone filled about 1/3 of it with yogurt cups for the week. I had to cram my lunch container in and hope the lid doesn't pop off now.

And the sink? Let's just say that people like to leave their empty Tupperware containers and coffee mugs for days so there is no room in the strainer for the 1-2 things I need to wash and dry each day.

Jerks

 

[TheCADJockey]

Floccing boss texted me this evening to say "I know how overwhelmed and stressed you are and to let me know if there's anything I can do". Really? Rescind your time off request for me since you know exactly what's going on!

He definitely knows what he did is funked up and is feeling guilty. Tell him the truth. You were expecting to use that time to be with your family and it is just adding to the stress. He knows it sucks, let him hear it from you. He opened the door for a text response, let em have it.

 

[Wingnutt73]

We have all or most of us seen Sinfeld Correct. Remember the episode where George always looks so busy and frustrated when his boss walks by but he really is doing nothing? This is my counter part. We are team leads and both have the same job. I can get mine done with no hesitation or frustration at all. He huffs and puffs around the office all week like he never has time to do anything. This really erks my Tater!!!

 

[n240sxguy]

My office has a small fridge that 3-5 of us use for our lunches and stuff. Today I came in to find that someone filled about 1/3 of it with yogurt cups for the week. I had to cram my lunch container in and hope the lid doesn't pop off now.

And the sink? Let's just say that people like to leave their empty Tupperware containers and coffee mugs for days so there is no room in the strainer for the 1-2 things I need to wash and dry each day.

Jerks

Slam your lunch in there and pop some of that yogurt open. At least the dishes are washed. We have one shift that is bad about leaving dirty dishes and pans around. One guy on my shift just started throwing it away. They learned to clean up after themselves.


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[forstmeister]

Slam your lunch in there and pop some of that yogurt open. At least the dishes are washed. We have one shift that is bad about leaving dirty dishes and pans around. One guy on my shift just started throwing it away. They learned to clean up after themselves.


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I've thrown away dirty dishes too. No excuse for that ****. Be a grown up and clean up after yourself

 

[DrunkleJon]

I have a coworker who always has a knee-jerk reaction to any problem posed to him. Instantly he assumes that you have not done a single thing to diagnose further than "It doesnt work" even if you have included such information of what you have tried and what happened/didnt. Then when he finally realized that it was actually a problem sends some 'information' that is not even helpful. Then when you try and clarify he gets combatative and acts like someone kicked his kitten and took his lollipop.