Things about your co-workers that annoy you

[TheCADJockey]

I'm so confused right now.

 

[hunter_le five]

 

[Hamaki]

Hairspray. I forgot how noxious it can be until a new person showed up in our office who uses it.

 

[SnakeRidge]

But if it is the answer to everything, and a math problem is a question, then the answer has to be 42, even when it isnt. Right?

Yes, but the Answer and the Question are mutually exclusive. If they were ever both to be known in the same universe, then the universe would turn into something else entirely. Probably weirder.

Still set theory though (mutually exclusive sets, that is)

 

[Psylocide]

But, 42 is only the answer in one dimension. There are an infinite number of realities where 42 is completely incorrect.

 

[GrogNerd]

But, 42 is only the answer in one dimension. There are an infinite number of realities where 42 is completely incorrect.

i would posit, given an infinite number of realities 42 would be the answer in an infinite number of them, with it being incorrect in an approximately equal number

would also have to consider the possibility it is neither - or perhaps both - in another set of infinite realities

 

[TheCADJockey]

There is no 42.

 

[GrogNerd]

There is no 42.

consider my mind blown

 

[CreamyGoodness]

"You blew my mind, now blow me" ~George Carlin

 

[soccerdad]

There is no 42.

Shhhhhh ... don't let the Brooklyn Dodgers hear that.

 

[hunter_le five]

There is no 42.

...38, 39, 40, 41, 43, 44....


Huh, I'll be damned.

 

[dkwolf]

Back to the cow-orkers.

Guy that sits at the cube next to me. Lazy as **** - he's a decent worker in the field, but constantly whines about how his truck got bumped from the heated garage attached to our office, and has to park in the parking lot now. He HATES having to walk to his truck (all of 50 feet), even though once he gets to the jobsite he might have to walk several miles over the course of the day. So instead, if our chief surveyor is going to be in the office for the day, or the guy on the other side of me, he'll drive their trucks instead. Which then screws THEM, if during the middle of the day they get called out to a jobsite and the tools or information they need is in their work truck. He absolutely refuses to go buy supplies either - we're all on the company charge account at the farm/hardware store just down the street for that very reason. If he breaks or loses a hatchet, or shovel, or any other tool out of his truck, he'll "borrow" it out of someone elses truck - but he forgets to either TELL someone he 'borrowed' from their truck, or never puts it back until he's asked. It has gotten to the point that the guy next to me got tired of it, went to the store and bought two new spades, gave one to Tim, and told him "don't ever take mine out of my truck again". Most of us have cables at our desks to hook up our data collectors..he doesn't, so instead of asking the secretary to order one from Amazon, he "borrows" mine, which I never realize until I try to use it and have to go hunt it down.

He's been pulling our side-by-side UTV behind his truck for two weeks now because he needed it on one job, and it's "too much of a pain to unhook"... except I hooked up to that thing every single day this summer - and the new trailer is a heck of a lot easier than the old one. If he wants to pull it around, fine...but it KILLS fuel mileage. On one day this summer, I filled up when I left the office...and had to fill up again to get home.

But the worst is the drinking. Don't get me wrong, I don't have a problem with having a beer or two, or twelve on occasion, but for crap's sake... you're a 28-30 yr old man, working in a professional office setting. Maybe, just MAYBE, you shouldn't tie one on so hard on a Thursday night you come to work smelling like booze on Friday. Or drink so hard on Sunday that you have to call in "sick" on Monday. He damn near got fired the day our head surveyor had it lined up for Tim to meet a client at 9:00 on a Wednesday morning (and the head surveyor was on vacation); Tim drank enough at darts on Tuesday night that he called in sick, but didn't let the boss know. Boss gets a phone call from the client at 9:30 saying "Hey, where is your guy? Haven't seen him yet."

If you can't guess, I'm catching whiffs of booze over the wall here at work right now. Don't believe he's drunk, but pretty sure it's starting to sweat out of him. He's a good guy (aside from his work issues), and I like him...but I wouldn't be real sad to see him get fired right now.

 

[MatIPluto]

Hairspray. I forgot how noxious it can be until a new person showed up in our office who uses it.

I feel your pain... We have an intern that uses a ton of Axe body spray. Maybe it's just me, but I feel like by the time you're done high school you shouldn't be using this stuff anymore. Or at least learn how to use it in moderation.

 

[DrunkleJon]

The coworker who turns on streaming news/radio/etc then locks their computer and leaves the room for hours on end. Sure I could go over there and attempt to locate the speakers and turn them down, but I shouldnt have to. I may just start powering his/their computer(s) off

 

[TheCADJockey]

You can tell when everyone in my office isn't working, they all gasp at the same time when breaking news hits. Then proceed to talk about it. This morning it was an hour and ten minute debate about the color of that funking dress. Sit your asses down and do something.

 

[GrogNerd]

You can tell when everyone in my office isn't working, they all gasp at the same time when breaking news hits. Then proceed to talk about it. This morning it was an hour and ten minute debate about the color of that funking dress. Sit your asses down and do something.

subject has probably changed to Spock

 

[user 198378]

For the record I don't have a cubicle, just a 1970's style metal desk, so open , no privacy, but I can multi task my work and beer talk.

I don't have cube either bro, sucks so much :/

 

[TheCADJockey]

One of the highest paid people here showed up at 930am (instead of 8am), talked about that 'trending' dress debacle for an hour, talked about her kids for an hour, went on an extended lunch and left at 230pm. I don't concern myself with others often, but when I have to do work she neglects... it concerns me.

 

[Vegetarisk]

Coworkers printed out a 5 day weather report, scanned it, then emailed it to the whole office today...

 

[1977Brewer]

Coworkers printed out a 5 day weather report, scanned it, then emailed it to the whole office today...

This is just amazing.

 

[moreb33rplz]

reading some of these makes me think my coworkers are pretty cool

 

[Vegetarisk]

This is just amazing.

Yeah, that one blew my ****ing mind. Like it took me a few seconds to figure out why I had a pdf of a weather report in my inbox.

 

[watermelon83]

Coworkers printed out a 5 day weather report, scanned it, then emailed it to the whole office today...

I work with a guy that prints the joke mails spread around the company to bring ho,me and show his wife/buddys. I offered to set up the mail account on his phone, he said printing was easier.

 

[dfc]

This one chick talks, breathes and eats. It annoys the piss out of me.

 

[MaxStout]

Might be kinda tough, since she's been dead a few years; but that might actually work to your advantage with such a scent. "Zombie office duchess de toilette."
:cross:
Regards, GF.

Eau de Dead Do Stink.

 

[SharonaZamboni]

I feel your pain... We have an intern that uses a ton of Axe body spray. Maybe it's just me, but I feel like by the time you're done high school you shouldn't be using this stuff anymore. Or at least learn how to use it in moderation.

Coworkers who purchase, then apply Axe to people who have no ability to refuse application. I can smell that crap seven hours later. Then I hunt down the can and throw it in the trash. That's some seriously smelly shtit.

 

[MustBeZ]

Apql05 w

 

[hunter_le five]

One of my coworkers is ranting and raving because someone left a couple rows blank on a day-by-day sales report spreadsheet.

Her: "I'm going to go chew his ass out and make him redo this report! This is ridiculous! How could he send me an incomplete report!"

Me: "Wait, wasn't that location closed on those days, due to the weather?"

Her: "So?"

Me: "So... there's no sales to report in those blank rows. It's all zeroes."

Her: "..... Well... he should've filled them in, instead of leaving them blank! He needs to redo it!"

Me: "Filled them in... with zeroes...."

Her: "Yes."

Me: "Why don't you just hit the 'zero' key a couple dozen times and move on with your life? The end result will be the same, and it will save both of you a lot of time."


My coworkers like to throw tantrums over literally nothing. It must be the only exciting thing going on in their lives.

 

[SnakeRidge]

One of my coworkers is ranting and raving because someone left a couple rows blank on a day-by-day sales report spreadsheet.

Her: "I'm going to go chew his ass out and make him redo this report! This is ridiculous! How could he send me an incomplete report!"

Me: "Wait, wasn't that location closed on those days, due to the weather?"

Her: "So?"

Me: "So... there's no sales to report in those blank rows. It's all zeroes."

Her: "..... Well... he should've filled them in, instead of leaving them blank! He needs to redo it!"

Me: "Filled them in... with zeroes...."

Her: "Yes."

Me: "Why don't you just hit the 'zero' key a couple dozen times and move on with your life? The end result will be the same, and it will save both of you a lot of time."


My coworkers like to throw tantrums over literally nothing. It must be the only exciting thing going on in their lives.

Yeah....so there's a problem with your TPS reports. Did ya get the memo I sent?

 

[SupervisingChildren]

Coworker stated that she refuses to clean out the toaster oven tray as she doesn't use it (this is a group home mind you). After making a big deal out of it, boss cleans it in 2 minutes. Why spend more time complaining when you can just get it done in less time?