Things about your co-workers that annoy you

[MaxStout]

Sounds like a lost cause.
But she also sounds like she has managed to collect a paycheck for a long time by doing absolutely nothing, which I sort of admire in a way if she's not an absolute burden on the rest of the office.

The troubling thing is that you have become the "catch all" for her questions.
I'd try to figure out a way to direct that toward someone else.
Maybe just a simple "You know what...... Rick in accounting is really good at internet".

The best way to not be the catch-all for someone's stupid questions is to not give a direct answer and force the person to think for herself (or take her questions somewhere else, which is more likely).

Q: "How do I ______?"

A: "What do you think?" Or "I think you know the answer to that."

Do that a few times, and you'll no longer be the go-to.

 

[DrunkleJon]

The best way to not be the catch-all for someone's stupid questions is to not give a direct answer and force the person to think for herself (or take her questions somewhere else, which is more likely).

Q: "How do I ______?"

A: "What do you think?" Or "I think you know the answer to that."

Do that a few times, and you'll no longer be the go-to.

Or my personal favorite. Selective deafness. "How do I..."
"..."

 

[TheMadKing]

My supervisor literally just told me "I'm aware there has been a deep systematic problem in our federal reporting process for years, but I want New Employee to figure it out. Nobody is allowed to help her and I want it done in 2 weeks."

Hmm I wonder why there has been a problem since he took over as supervisor. Maybe its because you don't allow your staff to work together and combine resources to proofread and troubleshoot a**hole!!!!

Divide and complain. That's his management style.

 

[Rhumbline]

I hate it when my coworkers use "literally" as unnecessary filler to make their sentences seem more erudite.

Just kidding, in a figurative sense.

 

[TheMadKing]

it wasn't unnecessary filler. It was a adjective modifying the adverb "just" to demonstrate that it had actually, not figuratively, happened in close temporal proximity to the moment of posting.

Now if I had said, my boss is literally an a**hole, please feel free to comment on my word choice as that is highly unlikely.

Sorry.. I'm grumps and have a degree in English, touchy subject.

 

[MaxStout]

My supervisor literally just told me "I'm aware there has been a deep systematic problem in our federal reporting process for years, but I want New Employee to figure it out. Nobody is allowed to help her and I want it done in 2 weeks."

Hmm I wonder why there has been a problem since he took over as supervisor. Maybe its because you don't allow your staff to work together and combine resources to proofread and troubleshoot a**hole!!!!

Divide and complain. That's his management style.

Then if the troubleshooting exercise goes south, your boss has New Employee to throw under the bus.

Had a few managers like that. Real classy.

 

[TheMadKing]

Then if the troubleshooting exercise goes south, your boss has New Employee to throw under the bus.

Had a few managers like that. Real classy.

yup, and he uses the excuse of "they'll never learn unless they figure it out for themselves, and its all about building character and skills. It's for their own good."

Um, last time I checked you are a technician supervisor not a life coach there Jack!

 

[SippinSudz]

My armoured car guard partner is the type of guy that needs to wash his vest every few days. He washes it every 2-3 weeks.

He knows it stinks, he even wafts it in the truck saying "oh god I need to wash this thing." And still doesn't.

 

[Rhumbline]

it wasn't unnecessary filler. It was a adjective modifying the adverb "just" to demonstrate that it had actually, not figuratively, happened in close temporal proximity to the moment of posting.

Now if I had said, my boss is literally an a**hole, please feel free to comment on my word choice as that is highly unlikely.

Sorry.. I'm grumps and have a degree in English, touchy subject.

I was being a d!ck. I'm traveling today and that always makes me grumpy.

Apologies,

 

[TheMadKing]

I was being a d!ck. I'm traveling today and that always makes me grumpy.

Apologies,

No worries, I think we'll both feel better now that we can have beers! Have a good weekend

 

[Natdavis777]

I asked my supervisor for my last few years of performance reviews (a few weeks ago) and she ended up giving me my full tenure. Then asked "who's hiring"? I asked why, and she said, "I may want to follow"... MY who purpose (aside from doubling my salary) of switching job was to get away from YOU (her)

 

[gratus fermentatio]

Went to the men's room & saw this:

 

[TheCADJockey]

Went to the men's room & saw this:

Isn't that where it goes?

 

[Homercidal]

My boss emailed me to say that nobody can hear her on her phone, so I call her and sure enough, she's barely audible.

So I go down and check the volume and it's up all the way and then I grab the handset to swap cords and I see that someone placed some tape over her mouthpiece.

Pretty good joke. I asked the young CFO about it and he didn't know about it. But he thought his brother was the culprit. I can see this kind of thing making the rounds around here.

Time to buy an Annoy-a-Tron!

 

[SharonaZamboni]

Went to the men's room & saw this:

Well, it is the men's room

 

[TheCADJockey]

Well, it is the men's room

I was under the impression they install themselves. I've been assembling them this way for years. Place it as shown, return at a later time and it is in the correct position.

At home at least.. I avoid public restrooms whenever possible.

 

[Venari]

At least what you didn't find was this:

 

[Hamaki]

Well, it is the men's room

Oldest son worked a couple of restaurant and said that in both cases the men's was routinely less disgusting to clean than the lady's. When pressed for details he was vague other than to say there was blood involved and in places you would not expect to find it.

 

[Venari]

Oldest son worked a couple of restaurant and said that in both cases the men's was routinely less disgusting to clean than the lady's. When pressed for details he was vague other than to say there was blood involved and in places you would not expect to find it.

As somebody who's worked retail and had to clean the bathrooms regularly, I can confirm this with disgusting details.

 

[slym2none]

As somebody who's worked retail and had to clean the bathrooms regularly, I can confirm this with disgusting details.

+1

Ladies, please - don't hover above the toilet! If it looks clean, it probably is cleaned regularly.

 

[Billy-Klubb]

the new hires that think they know everything and change your welder settings.

 

[GrogNerd]

the new hires that think they know everything and change your welder settings.

I hate when they do that

And I don't even weld

 

[FirstAidBrewing]

My boss is very anti-micromanagement and puts a lot of trust in us to self-monitor and just get done whatever work we have to do. We have one co-worker that I am now convinced literally makes service tickets up just to get onto the road and out of the office. Or at the very least he is overly willing to forego remote support when that is clearly an option that will save the client the cost of our travel (some of them are over an hour away). He is subsequently gone for the majority of the day. Then when he records his hours and work, his five-hour road trip has magically boiled down to maybe 90 minutes of on-premise billable work.

Yesterday he was supposed to accompany me to a job around noon where the extra hands would have been very helpful. At 9am he leaves the office saying "I'm headed out" and refuses to say where, nor is there anything scheduled in his calendar. 45 minutes later I get a call from him saying he's got to go to a client to address a major issue and won't be able to help me. Sure enough this morning I look at his logs and his major issue was a video card driver update and a laptop with wireless issues, even though the laptop literally never leaves its hard-wired dock.

Sorry for the long post, but I've officially had it with his BS.

 

[Hophunter]

My most troublesome employee came into my office asking if she could adjust her hours to be 6 am to 2. Our core testing hours are 10-2:30ish. I told her 7-3 is the earliest I am comfortable with. She questioned my decision multiple ways and said she didn't understand why if someone else was around to finish up. Then told me she would like to go over my head. Good luck fn b.

 

[slym2none]

the new hires that think they know everything and change your welder settings.

Just change their face as much as they changed your welder settings. You know, turn a few teeth up (or down), tweak the nose, punch some berries... that sort of thing.

 

[Rhumbline]

My most troublesome employee came into my office asking if she could adjust her hours to be 6 am to 2. Our core testing hours are 10-2:30ish. I told her 7-3 is the earliest I am comfortable with. She questioned my decision multiple ways and said she didn't understand why if someone else was around to finish up. Then told me she would like to go over my head. Good luck fn b.

At least she had the decency to tell you she was going above your head.

Worst case scenario: She's boning your boss and she gets everything she wants. In which case you merely refer all subsequent requests to your boss and let him explain why Suzy is different.

Best case scenario: Your boss fires her for going over your head.

Win/Win either way...

 

[Hophunter]

Thats nasty. (In family guy cleveland voice). No chance of boning. Just stupid. Came in today and complained b/c she overheard her coworker say to someone else that she was told to receive our samples b/c she wasn't doing anything. Which may have been true. I swear I'm head babysitter.

 

[Grannyknot]

I have 2 "in-boxes" to drop off mail & paperwork at my office. One is outside my door, in case it is closed, the other is on my desk. There is one guy in my office who insists on walking into my office every time he has something for me, be it mail or a fax, and standing there holding it out in front of me until I take it. If I am holding my phone or don't acknowledge him, he literally puts it right in front of me, sometimes on top of something else I am looking at.

 

[dkwolf]

I have 2 "in-boxes" to drop off mail & paperwork at my office. One is outside my door, in case it is closed, the other is on my desk. There is one guy in my office who insists on walking into my office every time he has something for me, be it mail or a fax, and standing there holding it out in front of me until I take it. If I am holding my phone or don't acknowledge him, he literally puts it right in front of me, sometimes on top of something else I am looking at.

I had an engineer that would do that to me - no matter what I was working on, he'd bring in his redline drawings and set them on top of my pile, or worse, on top of my keyboard. After the first several instances, I'd pick it up, look him dead in the eyes, and put it at the bottom of my pile of drawings.

He couldn't understand why I would drop whatever I was doing to help my boss out with a job, and put anything and everything I could in front of one of his jobs. He even asked my boss about it one day, how he could work with me. Boss replied, "Because I treat him like he works WITH me, not FOR me." Dude never got it.

 

[hunter_le five]

One of my coworkers, an older lady, is walking around the office singing the Oscar Meyer Wiener song. I've no idea why. But it is highly out of character for her, and highly annoying.

I suspect drugs.