Things about your co-workers that annoy you

[Grannyknot]

I asked him how to spell Hypocrisy, then said never mind and went back to typing an email!
no one seemed to get it!

LOL!!!!
To be honest, nobody seems to care about hypocrisy anymore.
Its almost like as long as you admit to being a hypocrite, its all good.

 

[BreezyBrew]

Email conversation between me and my boss this morning.

Boss: I want to get together tomorrow and discuss A & B.
Me: Ok
Boss: Lets set a time.
Me: I'm available all day long.
Boss: Ok, then set a time we can meet.
Me: 10:00am
Boss: Probably not good for me, I have a meeting at 10:30

WTF.

Convo with a client of ours:

Me: Sent meeting invite for 10 AM
Them: Accepted invite
Them this morning: I won't be able to make our meeting, have a dentist appt, won't be in until 10.
Me: No problem. Would 11 work?
Them: "I think so"

 

[Beernik]

You see the train wreck coming.

Me: Hey, this is a bad idea. We should do this instead.

Boss: This is fine.

Me: This is going to be a train wreck.

Boss: We will do some cartwheels and backflips to avoid the train wreck.

Me: Don't you think we should do something to stop this train wreck? It's still coming.

Boss: Stop arguing with me about this. I know better.

*crash*

Boss: Why did this train wreck happen?

Me: Honestly?

 

[Beernik]

I swear he thinks if he asks me the same question five times he will eventually get a different answer.

Sometimes he does. It's "Make a ****ing decision!"

 

[Zuljin]

I swear he thinks if he asks me the same question five times he will eventually get a different answer.

Sometimes he does. It's "Make a ****ing decision!"

When I get that, I start giving answers to questions that weren't asked.

"Pluto"
"George Washington Carver"
"May flies"

 

[CthulhuDreaming]

Co-worker comes asking me for help. I have more years of experience than he has on earth.

Co-worker: Can you help me with X?
Me: Sure.. It looks like...
Co-worker: It's A, isn't it?
Me: No, I think it's...
Co-worker: I'm pretty sure it's A.
Me: It can't be A, let me tell you wh...
Co-worker: It has to be A.
Me: (rolls eyes)
Co-worker: You're not being very helpful.
Me. (Defenestrates co-worker)

 

[n240sxguy]

Co-worker comes asking me for help. I have more years of experience than he has on earth.

Co-worker: Can you help me with X?
Me: Sure.. It looks like...
Co-worker: It's A, isn't it?
Me: No, I think it's...
Co-worker: I'm pretty sure it's A.
Me: It can't be A, let me tell you wh...
Co-worker: It has to be A.
Me: (rolls eyes)
Co-worker: You're not being very helpful.
Me. (Defenestrates co-worker)

Gotta love the fun coworkers. I'm on the other side of your coin. A guy on my shift started working at the plant the year before I was born. When I had been there six months, he was asking me questions. He's a freakin pro if he's not the one running the job. If he's running it, you'd think he hadn't been there more than a month.

 

[Taiin]

General cattiness. I work in healthcare. There are lots of women. Too many in too small an area leads to conflict. If there isn't, there should be a mathmatical calculation that works out the value of the maximum number of women in a certain number of square footage. I can already tell you that the locker room and nurse's station is too small!

 

[dkwolf]

General cattiness. I work in healthcare. There are lots of women. Too many in too small an area leads to conflict. If there isn't, there should be a mathmatical calculation that works out the value of the maximum number of women in a certain number of square footage. I can already tell you that the locker room and nurse's station is too small!

One of the guys on my fire department went from working on the maintenance crew at an ethanol plant, to the maintenance director at the local hospital. Toughest part of the transition has been dealing with the fact that his work environment is now 97% women.

 

[Zuljin]

Now you listen here. I've been doing this a long time. A long time. How long have you been there?

All day.

 

[hunter_le five]

General cattiness. I work in healthcare. There are lots of women. Too many in too small an area leads to conflict. If there isn't, there should be a mathmatical calculation that works out the value of the maximum number of women in a certain number of square footage. I can already tell you that the locker room and nurse's station is too small!

The answer is 1 per X sq ft. Insert the number square feet total in your place of work (don't forget to include the parking lot or any adjacent buildings!) for X. It doesn't matter what X is, the answer is always 1 at any X value. The graph is just a flat line.

I've learned this from personal experience.

 

[brew_ny]

when they forget their user name and password over the weekend after 20 years

 

[Zuljin]

when they forget their user name and password over the weekend after 20 years

Hey. This login thing isn't working.

 

[brew_ny]

Hey. This login thing isn't working.

first initial last name and pass how much easier can it be?

 

[Zuljin]

Do I have to use capital letters? Numbers? Symbols? Can I use @ and "? Can I use ?? And speaking of ", you put my login in "", but when I type that, it doesn't work. Does it have to be the first letter capital? How many letters, because my name is my password, and it doesn't have a lot of letters.

 

[DrunkleJon]

Co-worker comes asking me for help. I have more years of experience than he has on earth.

Co-worker: Can you help me with X?
Me: Sure.. It looks like...
Co-worker: It's A, isn't it?
Me: No, I think it's...
Co-worker: I'm pretty sure it's A.
Me: It can't be A, let me tell you wh...
Co-worker: It has to be A.
Me: (rolls eyes)
Co-worker: You're not being very helpful.
Me. (Defenestrates co-worker)

It always amuses me when I realize that someone actually felt the need to come up with a word for this. Then I realize that it is a good word. Needs to be used more often. The Verb needs to be done more often as well.

when they forget their user name and password over the weekend after 20 years

Have a lady here that calls up 5-6 times a day because she cant remember hers and needs it reset. We have begun reminding her that she reset it and put it in the safe/her purse/tattooed it to the back of her hand but she still forgets. I have been here for nearing 5 years and this all started this past year.

 

[n240sxguy]

How bout asking for the number for the control room on the other side of the plant, that they've had to call at least a couple times a week for over 20 years.

 

[Hamaki]

when they forget their user name and password over the weekend after 20 years

I have maybe half a dozen different username/passwords at work and I try to do the same thing with each but they seem to have different rules for the password and several of them force you to change every 90 days. It's not like I work for some secretive agency so really makes no sense to me. I think I finally have a password that fits all criteria - GoF*ckYourself!01. Except there is a "u" instead of a "*". When I have to update the end digit advances to 02 & so on. Some programs of them I use only rarely so I have to try several past iterations of my password. Kind of gratifying, in a way.

 

[brew_ny]

I have maybe half a dozen different username/passwords at work and I try to do the same thing with each but they seem to have different rules for the password and several of them force you to change every 90 days. It's not like I work for some secretive agency so really makes no sense to me. I think I finally have a password that fits all criteria - GoF*ckYourself!01. Except there is a "u" instead of a "*". When I have to update the end digit advances to 02 & so on. Some programs of them I use only rarely so I have to try several past iterations of my password. Kind of gratifying, in a way.

1Amk1nG or L3tM31n works for me

 

[dkwolf]

I have maybe half a dozen different username/passwords at work and I try to do the same thing with each but they seem to have different rules for the password and several of them force you to change every 90 days. It's not like I work for some secretive agency so really makes no sense to me. I think I finally have a password that fits all criteria - GoF*ckYourself!01. Except there is a "u" instead of a "*". When I have to update the end digit advances to 02 & so on. Some programs of them I use only rarely so I have to try several past iterations of my password. Kind of gratifying, in a way.

Some password programs won't let you use a password if it shares "x" number of concurrent letters with your previous password. Like, if your current password is iLikeBeer#1, it wouldn't accept Beer1$Go0d for a new password, because they both have "Beer" in them.

 

[Qhrumphf]

Change your password every 5 days. Can't use the same password in the next 50 passwords. Must be 800 characters. Must use 14 different special characters, a 3:7 ratio of uppercase and lower case, include 4 spaces and two underscores, and every numeric digit at least twice.

But its your fault if you forget it.

And I don't do anything sensitive whatsoever...

 

[ColoHox]

Change your password every 5 days. Can't use the same password in the next 50 passwords. Must be 800 characters. Must use 14 different special characters, a 3:7 ratio of uppercase and lower case, include 4 spaces and two underscores, and every numeric digit at least twice.

But its your fault if you forget it.

And I don't do anything sensitive whatsoever...

I just leave a sticky note on my work monitor with my password on it. :rockin:

 

[Pyg]

I just leave a sticky note on my work monitor with my password on it. :rockin:

Ditto.
however that is only to sign on my computer.
I have atleast 7 passwords, for 10 different web applications and programs.

And they all have to be changed at different times.

 

[1977Brewer]

Our passwords expire every 90 days. I never log off because my PC is the camera server, so every 90 days my e-mail stops working on my phone and I have to have IT change my password. It's fun. I've had to have them change it from the beach before.

 

[brew_ny]

I just leave a sticky note on my work monitor with my password on it. :rockin:

masking tape on the underside of the keyboard

 

[ColoHox]

masking tape on the underside of the keyboard

That would work, but my approach is more of a passive aggressive protest against the password policy.

 

[Psylocide]

I have all my passwords in a word document on my desktop... so if I ever forget my computer login, it's right there on my desktop.

I can't get to it, but I know it's there.

 

[Taiin]

The answer is 1 per X sq ft. Insert the number square feet total in your place of work (don't forget to include the parking lot or any adjacent buildings!) for X. It doesn't matter what X is, the answer is always 1 at any X value. The graph is just a flat line.

I've learned this from personal experience.

Your formula is brilliant. Any number of women greater than X will always lead to conflict!

Not sure who did it, but there is craft herpes in my locker at work now.

Have a lady here that calls up 5-6 times a day because she cant remember hers and needs it reset. We have begun reminding her that she reset it and put it in the safe/her purse/tattooed it to the back of her hand but she still forgets. I have been here for nearing 5 years and this all started this past year.

Has she remembered her password for the past few years and in the past year is having trouble remembering? Because if so, she definitely needs a health evaluation. Though it is hard to find a tactful way to say "hey, your memory is crap lately, go to the doctor!" I have occasionally snuck a mini mental health exam into conversation with my father (he did catch on the last time, hah!), since Alzheimers has occurred in the family. Perfect score each time, but still.

 

[Zuljin]

How bout asking for the number for the control room on the other side of the plant, that they've had to call at least a couple times a week for over 20 years.

"Call so and so and tell them blah blah blah."
"Have so and so call me."
"Can you transfer me to so and so?"

How about you use the same phone or ptt you just used to call me, which they also have, and go fuq yourself?

Change your password every 5 days. Can't use the same password in the next 50 passwords. Must be 800 characters. Must use 14 different special characters, a 3:7 ratio of uppercase and lower case, include 4 spaces and two underscores, and every numeric digit at least twice.

But its your fault if you forget it.

And I don't do anything sensitive whatsoever...

Yep.

Your formula is brilliant. Any number of women greater than X will always lead to conflict!

Not sure who did it, but there is craft herpes in my locker at work now.

Has she remembered her password for the past few years and in the past year is having trouble remembering? Because if so, she definitely needs a health evaluation. Though it is hard to find a tactful way to say "hey, your memory is crap lately, go to the doctor!" I have occasionally snuck a mini mental health exam into conversation with my father (he did catch on the last time, hah!), since Alzheimers has occurred in the family. Perfect score each time, but still.

How is it, working at a strip club?

 

[DrunkleJon]

Your formula is brilliant. Any number of women greater than X will always lead to conflict!

Not sure who did it, but there is craft herpes in my locker at work now.

Has she remembered her password for the past few years and in the past year is having trouble remembering? Because if so, she definitely needs a health evaluation. Though it is hard to find a tactful way to say "hey, your memory is crap lately, go to the doctor!" I have occasionally snuck a mini mental health exam into conversation with my father (he did catch on the last time, hah!), since Alzheimers has occurred in the family. Perfect score each time, but still.

Yeah. She took a leave of absence and when she returned she was using one of those mobility scooters. Something is up.


Oh, I have another gripe. I work on a computer help desk. As a result someone always answers the phone. This makes my coworkers/'customers'/etc all realize that since we answer the phone, and are behind computers, that we are receptionists or operators too.

"Thanks for calling... this is DrunkleJon how can I help you?"
Transfer me to my boss Billy Bob
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