Things about your co-workers that annoy you

[Zuljin]

IT people are lazy, smug, and don't know what they're doing. HBT IT folks excepted, I'm sure.

We need this app on the iPads so we can do this.
Lol! You can't find that app on there?
Nope. Tell me.
Well, it's right. ... Well ... Okay. You need to download that.
I need to? Y'all set these up.
Yeah. Just download it.
You do recall that you disabled us from doing that, right?
... You'll need to submit a ticket for that access.

And those damn tickets! Everything is a ticket, and they can't keep that working, either.

 

[phug]

Don't complain about tickets. If your office has two it guys and a bean counter, and there aren't enough tickets being opened to justify two it guys, you can kiss one of them goodbye. Even if they're overworked and really need a third giy

 

[Natdavis777]

Had someone miss their shift today because they had jury duty (selection really). Her shift is 10a-10p... My old shift. She calls at 130 and asks who is in charge if she needs to come in (she still has over 60% of a shift to work) and we say its up to one of the people who work late (since workforce cuts down as the evening progresses). She then "reminds" us she has been up since 7am, and to take that into consideration.... OK, you missed last Thurs too. Stay at home. WTF. I want to choke 90% of my co-workers because they call in all the floccing time!! Or weasel out of their shift. I was at work today... Sick. I was up at 0530, didnt fall asleep until 0200. Ive missed 4 days in 6 years, and 3 of those are only because my child was sick and couldnt go to the sitter.

Work ethic seems to have faded like common sense...

 

[1977Brewer]

Had someone miss their shift today because they had jury duty (selection really). Her shift is 10a-10p... My old shift. She calls at 130 and asks who is in charge if she needs to come in (she still has over 60% of a shift to work) and we say its up to one of the people who work late (since workforce cuts down as the evening progresses). She then "reminds" us she has been up since 7am, and to take that into consideration.... OK, you missed last Thurs too. Stay at home. WTF. I want to choke 90% of my co-workers because they call in all the floccing time!! Or weasel out of their shift. I was at work today... Sick. I was up at 0530, didnt fall asleep until 0200. Ive missed 4 days in 6 years, and 3 of those are only because my child was sick and couldnt go to the sitter.

Work ethic seems to have faded like common sense...

We get our entire shift off, paid for jury duty. We can also take a vacation day with 30 minutes notice and PTO at any time we wish. I let my guys use vacation for sick time since we buy back PTO at 1/2 rate, double if you don't use any at all.

Because they're people first and workers second.

 

[Natdavis777]

We get our entire shift off, paid for jury duty. We can also take a vacation day with 30 minutes notice and PTO at any time we wish. I let my guys use vacation for sick time since we buy back PTO at 1/2 rate, double if you don't use any at all.

Because they're people first and workers second.

When the same people constantly abuse the system, constantly call off, and make the same group of people deal with the excessive work load all the time, they dont get much sympathy. Case in point.

 

[1977Brewer]

Yeah you missed the people part.

 

[Zuljin]

How do you like 12 hours? Do you work the three/four on/off schedule?

I only worked 12s as a regular schedule on the boats. That was more a lifestyle than a job. We lived on the boats 28-36 days a hitch. It wasn't like there were days off, let alone a true end of shift. Rough weather, tie up to a rig or problems while under way? All hands on deck!

We are looking at going to 12s at the plant. We have two shifts now that work 8, 8, 12, 12 with three days or nights off. I dunno. I like my M-F 8 hour days, but I'm special.

 

[Natdavis777]

Yeah you missed the people part.

I got the people part. See they dont mind bithcing when people call in on their shifts and complaining about how they are screwing us, but have no problem doing it themselves. Pot calling the kettle black. If she was on jury duty all day, Id have no problem with it. But she wasnt. She only missed a few hours of her shift (one of three days a week). Yeah we could have used her, and she knew that, but used this as an opportunity to not come in to work. The fact that she has been sick here and there along with her buddy for the past six months on days we are especially short, yeah people tend to take notice.

I understand people are people, and shouldnt be a slave to work. But they forfeit the right to bitch about others missing all the time and the hardship they endure when they do it themselves.

 

[Natdavis777]

How do you like 12 hours? Do you work the three/four on/off schedule?

I only worked 12s as a regular schedule on the boats. That was more a lifestyle than a job. We lived on the boats 28-36 days a hitch. It wasn't like there were days off, let alone a true end of shift. Rough weather, tie up to a rig or problems while under way? All hands on deck!

We are looking at going to 12s at the plant. We have two shifts now that work 8, 8, 12, 12 with three days or nights off. I dunno. I like my M-F 8 hour days, but I'm special.

Most of us do three 12s. My set shift is Mon/Thurs/Fri 0700-1900. Its not bad. It is awesome for childcare as my wife works at the same hospital and works resource, so she is able to make her own hours. Therefore we only need childcare a few times a month. On the other hand, when I worked construction, it was nice working five 8s or four 10s... I think four 10s is the ideal shift.

 

[n240sxguy]

How do you like 12 hours? Do you work the three/four on/off schedule?

I only worked 12s as a regular schedule on the boats. That was more a lifestyle than a job. We lived on the boats 28-36 days a hitch. It wasn't like there were days off, let alone a true end of shift. Rough weather, tie up to a rig or problems while under way? All hands on deck!

We are looking at going to 12s at the plant. We have two shifts now that work 8, 8, 12, 12 with three days or nights off. I dunno. I like my M-F 8 hour days, but I'm special.

I love shift work. I work a rotating 12hr shift. 4 days 6 off 4 nights 4 off 3 days 3 nights 4 off. Repeat. Without extra overtime I work 14 days and am off 14 days out of every 28, and have a week off at a time every month. Doesn't get any better than that.

 

[Beernik]

I'm excited to get back on 4 x 10s next week. I haven't been able to do it since my daughter started school, almost 5 years ago.

Here's my gripe:

Coworker #1: Works his ass off. Always takes on extra work to keep himself busy. Passed over for promotion 4 times in the last 7 years. Finally, the consolation promotion comes up - he's most qualified for the position vacated by the last person promoted over him. Except that position gets reclassified by upper management to a position below him.

Coworker #1, justifiably fed up, applies for an equivalent job on the outside and is offered it at a $10,000 per year more than he was making. He walks into the office and demands a match or he's turning in his notice. To his surprise, they give him the match.

Coworker #2: spends 50% of his time chatting to other people and has been voted biggest "time suck" of the division. He gets told by other divisions to stop going into their areas because he's wasting their employee's time too. The perfect example of Coworker #2's ability to work slow is it took him 2.5 months to move from one cubical to another. Anyone else would have come in on a Saturday and had it done in 3 hours or less.

Coworker #2 hears about Coworker #1's raise and is furious because he thinks he should be getting a raise too.

Coworker #3 has a promotion forced on her because one of the managers quit and she's the only one remotely qualified for the position. Coworker #2 thinks he deserves to spend another 2.5 months moving cubicals again because Coworker #3's old cubical is better than his new one.

My opinion: Coworker #2 needs to shut up and be thankful he hasn't been axed yet.

 

[gratus fermentatio]

People change certain settings (which are standard) on various CRITICAL systems for whatever reason, but don't change those settings back to standard when they're done. They don't bother to tell anybody what they did, what they changed or how the system is impacted by these changes. Then somebody else comes along (like me) and tries to their job; but can't because of the setting changes. Now that person (ya, ME) has to puzzle through things, try to figure out what was changed & change those settings back to standard. Only about an hour of work time lost to this fiasco. Just how I wanted to start my shift. End rant.
Regards, GF.

 

[Zuljin]

People change certain settings (which are standard) on various CRITICAL systems for whatever reason, but don't change those settings back to standard when they're done. They don't bother to tell anybody what they did, what they changed or how the system is impacted by these changes. Then somebody else comes along (like me) and tries to their job; but can't because of the setting changes. Now that person (ya, ME) has to puzzle through things, try to figure out what was changed & change those settings back to standard. Only about an hour of work time lost to this fiasco. Just how I wanted to start my shift. End rant.
Regards, GF.

Holy ****! You work here, too?!

We're about to implement some protections against that BS. I'm the project "champion" of that. Some folks gonna be upset when they can't just turn off an alarm and pass it to the next shift.

 

[DrunkleJon]

The days you just get up from workstation and wait for IT to delete all and block at the mail servers. :-D (I believe some people really do it maliciously.)

Had one of those reply-all waves yesterday. Someone pointed out the Ignore message chain feature in outlook (deletes the message and any replies to it, awesome) and people kept reply-alling. All in all >100 reply-alls asking to be removed from the list. Ugh.

Most of us do three 12s. My set shift is Mon/Thurs/Fri 0700-1900. Its not bad. It is awesome for childcare as my wife works at the same hospital and works resource, so she is able to make her own hours. Therefore we only need childcare a few times a month. On the other hand, when I worked construction, it was nice working five 8s or four 10s... I think four 10s is the ideal shift.

I am with you there. I wish it were an option here.

 

[TheCADJockey]

Sometimes the best thing about my job, is that my chair swivels.

 

[brettwasbtd]

Ok, love venting on this thread!

Coworker has called out sick today so and does frequently on Mondays/Fridays so I searched in Outlook and came up with the following days he has called out sick:
Monday 4/27 April
Friday 5/29 May
Monday 6/29 June and Tuesday June 30*
July out on vacation 2 weeks through the end of the month
Friday 8/14

* - Now I think it was the June time, he was legitimately sick as he sound horrible when he came back on Wednesday. This made me think ok, maybe its just a coincidence. He has been fine all week and it just so happens he falls ill on a Friday. SMH.

The real question is given this pattern, will his next out period be on Monday August 31st or will he wait a full 4 weeks to get sick again?

 

[beernbourbon]

Monday 4/27 April
Friday 5/29 May
Monday 6/29 June and Tuesday June 30*
July out on vacation 2 weeks through the end of the month
Friday 8/14

The real question is given this pattern, will his next out period be on Monday August 31st or will he wait a full 4 weeks to get sick again?

So what's the over/under? What are the bets? I mean, if we're gonna do this, let's make it at least exciting....

 

[Beernik]

The real question is given this pattern, will his next out period be on Monday August 31st or will he wait a full 4 weeks to get sick again?

I sometimes call in sick with an eye problem, as in "Eye can't see myself going into work today." It usually happens when my frustration meter is pegged.

It not usually monthly. More like quarterly. I'd never bank any sick leave if I did it monthly.

 

[DrunkleJon]

Shweet. Its officially FTS O'clock for me today. My coworkers can all kiss my butt.

 

[TheCADJockey]

The people I work with are extremely lenient. They just fired one of our designers for calling in once a week, claiming vehicle troubles despite having a 2015 Subaru. The lies did the person in. I don't even call. I'll text him "yo mad hungover, if want me, ill be there after lunch"... usually just get back, "lol idiot". Honesty is what got me the job, lifes too short to lie.

 

[beernbourbon]

The people I work with are extremely lenient. They just fired one of our designers for calling in once a week, claiming vehicle troubles despite having a 2015 Subaru. The lies did the person in. I don't even call. I'll text him "yo mad hungover, if want me, ill be there after lunch"... usually just get back, "lol idiot". Honesty is what got me the job, lifes too short to lie.

i've noticed a trend in our industry...... people are getting tired of the BS/lies/avoidance/blaming.
Much to the owner's chagrin, I am brutally honest with clients...."yeah, you can't have that sh!t by then, not possible. BUT, I can give it to you on XX" They seem to appreciate that. And when myself or one of team screws something up, I go to the client and own it. "hey, we f-d this up, but, we're going to fix it, and I'll let you know when it's done." You'd be surprised how much they appreciate that, and when it's time for another project, we're getting much closer to the top of the list.

 

[TheCADJockey]

i've noticed a trend in our industry...... people are getting tired of the BS/lies/avoidance/blaming.

Its pretty amazing. I didn't have a good excuse, so just told him I was hungover. Got a kick out of him laughing at me for it. It does help that I had a few beers with my bosses boss, one day, and he told me he calls in "sick" to go golf all the time.


So. Its pissing rain right now. We work in a steel building. You can tell its raining because you can't hear yourself think its so loud in here.

"Woah... is it raining?"
"Wow its really coming down!"
"Holy crap, hope you brought a boat to work! lololol"

Last hour. About to start laughing maniacally from my office to freak them all out again.

 

[Psylocide]

Its pretty amazing. I didn't have a good excuse, so just told him I was hungover. Got a kick out of him laughing at me for it. It does help that I had a few beers with my bosses boss, one day, and he told me he calls in "sick" to go golf all the time.


So. Its pissing rain right now. We work in a steel building. You can tell its raining because you can't hear yourself think its so loud in here.

"Woah... is it raining?"
"Wow its really coming down!"
"Holy crap, hope you brought a boat to work! lololol"

Last hour. About to start laughing maniacally from my office to freak them all out again.

 

[brettwasbtd]

So what's the over/under? What are the bets? I mean, if we're gonna do this, let's make it at least exciting....

5:1 he calls out sick again within the next four weeks, 10:1 that sick day is a Monday or Friday

 

[Grannyknot]

I was asked to turn in a vacation request for 15 minutes this morning.
I got in at 8:15 because I had to drop my son off at school and they don't allow drop offs until 7:45.

I still haven't turned it in.
Might just let this one escalate and see how far it goes.

 

[sablesurfer]

Me: "So I have read all the documentation that is posted for this, and still have questions. Can you help?"
Them: "Sure, no problem, here is a site with all the documentation posted."

W

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[Tin4]

5:1 he calls out sick again within the next four weeks, 10:1 that sick day is a Monday or Friday

There's a 40% chance people are going to be sick on a Monday or Friday.

You know, as a sick person I have to say, I can't help it.

I have a horibbly deviated setpum that leads to horrific sinus infections (puss in the sinuses) and I have at least a few headaches a month. I mean like, I can't see out of my right eye. I'm blind. I go smell blind, but it's not as detrimental to work.

On top of all that my life has several emergencies each and every month without fail. Emergencies that aren't my fault despite their repetition.

Really though, lets go back to the 20 hour work weeks...of feudalism. That's right, when you were serf (nice term they came up with for someone more than a slave, but less than a person) you worked 20 hours a week.

Think you're truly free? You're not. None of us are. I love it, but invisible walls make it harder to understand your limitations.

And I'm babbling...sorry...have a headache.

 

[Rhumbline]

i've noticed a trend in our industry...... people are getting tired of the BS/lies/avoidance/blaming.
Much to the owner's chagrin, I am brutally honest with clients...."yeah, you can't have that sh!t by then, not possible. BUT, I can give it to you on XX" They seem to appreciate that. QUOTE]

I've taken to telling people "I can tell you a lie that will make you happy, or the truth which will make you upset, which would you like?"

 

[beernbourbon]

Me: "So I have read all the documentation that is posted for this, and still have questions. Can you help?"
Them: "Sure, no problem, here is a site with all the documentation posted."

W

T

F

????

HEY!! which cubicle are you in, cuz I KNOW you are working in my office.....

 

[Natdavis777]

Ok, love venting on this thread!

Coworker has called out sick today so and does frequently on Mondays/Fridays so I searched in Outlook and came up with the following days he has called out sick:
Monday 4/27 April
Friday 5/29 May
Monday 6/29 June and Tuesday June 30*
July out on vacation 2 weeks through the end of the month
Friday 8/14

* - Now I think it was the June time, he was legitimately sick as he sound horrible when he came back on Wednesday. This made me think ok, maybe its just a coincidence. He has been fine all week and it just so happens he falls ill on a Friday. SMH.

The real question is given this pattern, will his next out period be on Monday August 31st or will he wait a full 4 weeks to get sick again?

We had a gal who was on short term disability for years. She knew how to work the system. You have to be off of STD for a certain amount of weeks in able to re-qualify and not have it go to FMLA where your own PTO is used. Sure enough, she would come back for a few weeks, then boom, another "injury" that allowed her to come in and sit on her a$$... Best part is, her shift is only 2 days a week! After a bunch of management changes, they started picking up on the trend. Hell, even when she was cleared to work, she was horrible. Literally took two lunches one night and watched me and other person drown with patients while she sat there and ate for over an hour. She ended up resigning a few months later.... I havent got a confirmation from my supervisor, but its pretty evident it was a "you can resign or you can be fired"