Things about your co-workers that annoy you

[Rhumbline]

I just had this conversation:

Him-How do I go about getting 205 painted above my door?
Me-You mean the outside door?
Him-Yes, when we got our new glass door they didn’t paint 205 above the door.
Me-but didn’t we letter the door to say Housing?
Him-YES!, but it doesn’t say 205. The door on one side of us says 204, and on the other side says 206, ours needs to say 205! How do I get that painted?
Me-you can put in a work order with Facilities… But does anyone actually come looking for door #205, and not the Housing office?
Him-IT NEEDS TO SAY 205! SOMEONE WAS CONFUSED!!
Me-You can submit a work order to Facilities.

So, I picture someone looking for the Housing Office, being shown where it is on a map and told that it is door 205, going to that location and seeing 204 on one side, a door marked Housing Services, and then on the other side a door marked 206 and walking away confused because although it says Housing, it didn’t have the 205 above the door.

 

[DrunkleJon]

First. He is a 60ish Americanized Brit that lives alone and has no friends.
Second. His 'mum' was 93 and still lived across the pond
third. He is celebrating her life
fourth. I am the only one that got the cake.

weird.

Methinks someone is flirting.

 

[Melana]

Methinks someone is flirting.

Oh.. Ewww... NO WAY. did i say ewwwwwwww?

 

[TheCADJockey]

Oh.. Ewww... NO WAY. did i say ewwwwwwww?

...at least he has a job.

 

[Rhumbline]

...at least he has a job.

..and let's not forget the endearing accent.

 

[Mexibilly]

I share an office with a know it all engineer who never shuts up, hijacks every conversation in his vicinity, involves himself in conversations that don't involve him and is on a perpetual mission to tell people that they're wrong, which invariably leads to him telling all about something completely unrelated.
He's a sharp kid, don't get me wrong, but it seems to me that he's lacking self confidence and so is ever attempting to prove how smart he is.
He can be (is) hugely annoying, but I do consider him a friend and he is often a great resource

 

[beernbourbon]

Methinks someone is flirting.

yup. That would be how I would perceive that. He only wants to share his 'cake' with you, Melana.

 

[TheCADJockey]

Boss doesn't talk to me all week.
130pm on Friday, drops four hot projects on my desk.

Grumble.
There goes an hour.

 

[Melana]

yup. That would be how I would perceive that. He only wants to share his 'cake' with you, Melana.

NOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO

 

[DrunkleJon]

So, is "Cake" what all the cool kids are calling it nowadays?

Mexibilly, do you work here?

 

[TheCADJockey]

Mexibilly, do you work here?

I work here.

 

[ScrewyBrewer]

On Monday mornings.....everything.

 

[drainbamage]

I share an office with a know it all engineer who never shuts up, hijacks every conversation in his vicinity, involves himself in conversations that don't involve him and is on a perpetual mission to tell people that they're wrong, which invariably leads to him telling all about something completely unrelated.
He's a sharp kid, don't get me wrong, but it seems to me that he's lacking self confidence and so is ever attempting to prove how smart he is.
He can be (is) hugely annoying, but I do consider him a friend and he is often a great resource

I know that guy!

 

[TheCADJockey]

I know that guy!

I'm that guy.

Minus the friends.

 

[drainbamage]

We received a government-wide email today reminding us that, no, Ashley Madison does not fall under approved Internet use and yes, we can tell when you're using it.

This is one time I actually am waiting for an awkward reply-all from someone.

 

[Rhumbline]

We received a government-wide email today reminding us that, no, Ashley Madison does not fall under approved Internet use and yes, we can tell when you're using it.

This is one time I actually am waiting for an awkward reply-all from someone.

See, this brings up an interesting issue. If we are to believe that there are a lot of users with .gov emails then how did they not mention anything about it before now?

I was talking with my CIO recently and we were giving each other a bit of grief. She made some comment about knowing every site we visited, I asked her if that didn't obligate her to report any wrongdoing, since knowing about a pedophile or stalker amongst us and taking no action would expose the University to an extreme liability.

She didn't seem to get it.

 

[drainbamage]

See, this brings up an interesting issue. If we are to believe that there are a lot of users with .gov emails then how did they not mention anything about it before now?

The thought crossed my mind too.

I'm assuming IT was too busy with the mundane everyday crap to bother.

Based on prior experience with people using their work computers to do dumb stuff, IT usually doesn't interfere unless someone sucks up a bunch of bandwidth (streaming music/videos) and slows the rest of the office down.

Perhaps the better question was, if they know what the site is, why was it not blocked by the server in the first place?

 

[hunter_le five]

Coworker walks into my office and says: "There's an item on this receipt that I don't know what it is. Should I Google it to find out?"

Did you... did you just ask me if you should use a search engine to find the answer to a question you have? And why do you need my opinion on the matter?

 

[hunter_le five]

"Hi this is ___, I used to work there until a few weeks ago when I quit, remember me? Anyway, I just found out my new job at ____ doesn't offer health insurance, so I was wondering if I could get on your COBRA?"

Blue Cross should be contacting you any day now with COBRA enrollment information, we don't really handle that.

"Oh okay great. And that's, like, FREE, right?"

Um no, you actually gotta pay full-price for that.

"What do you mean 'full-price'?"

When you worked here, the company paid 75% of the premium for you. So instead of paying $78 a month, you're gonna have to pay $312.

"Well, I don't think that's fair!"

So... you are suggesting that we should continue to pay for your insurance even though you don't work for us anymore? Grumble grumble millennials grumble grumble.

 

[SharonaZamboni]

I'd like to know more about this $312/month health insurance.

 

[n240sxguy]

I'd like to know more about this $312/month health insurance.

Yeah. That's what mine costs, and the company pays a lot of it. That's for a whole family though. Maybe his was just an individual.

 

[Zuljin]

The dildo drama continues. Turns out, it wasn't a dildo. It was worse. No. Not an actual penis, but I don't blame you for thinking that. Someone carved a penis out of a piece of spray foam.

Are you sure? It could have been a random piece of leftover spray foam that just happened to look sort of like a penis.

No. It was a penis. A big ol penis with a big ol mushroom head on it.

No way it could have just been some trimmings? Happenstance?

Nope. Someone sat down and carved a phalic totem of cartoonish proportions.

Really?

Yep. And now the GO HR knows.

Really!? They couldn't just throw it away?

I know. But someone told. They asked the boss if everyone who works here is sick.

Yes. Yes we are.

And this isn't the first time. A few years ago, someone found a purple glittery floppy rubber vibrator with the motor and stuff removed. First, it was left on a counter. Then clipped to a clip board. It made the rounds for about a month. Then, someone slid it over the shifter on a company truck. Dude got in on night shift and grabbed a big handful of rubber dick! He pulled it off and shook it at a security camera. This was when some of them were only monitored in our own control room. He started pointing it the camera and acting like he was doing stuff with it before he threw it into the tall grass. It was never seen again. Ah. Good times.

 

[Baja_Brewer]

I'd like to know more about this $312/month health insurance.

COBRA? IIRC, it doesn't cover much til you meet a really high deductible...

 

[sablesurfer]

I requested updated documentation.

I got...
- An email
- With an email as attachment
- That lists the file path to the documents

WTF?!?!?! How that hell was that efficient?

 

[Grannyknot]

Had a typical conversation with my project assistant today:

PA: I made a mistake on a spreadsheet and accidently erased a bunch of information.
me: oh that sucks
PA: yeah so its impossible to search for those numbers since they aren't there anymore.
me: yeah that is a pain in the butt.
PA: sooooo.....(just keeps standing there in my office door)

trying to decide the best response:
a. hold on, let me whip out my harry potter wand and make the numbers come back.
b. have you tried the time machine in the closet that could take you back to before you made the mistake?
c. let me drop everything I'm doing and fix it for you for the next 2 days.
d. f-off you are fired.

 

[Rhumbline]

Had a typical conversation with my project assistant today:

PA: I made a mistake on a spreadsheet and accidently erased a bunch of information.
me: oh that sucks
PA: yeah so its impossible to search for those numbers since they aren't there anymore.
me: yeah that is a pain in the butt.
PA: sooooo.....(just keeps standing there in my office door)

trying to decide the best response:...

e) "No problem, just open up the backup file that I told you you needed to create on a regular basis"

If you're still getting the deer in the headlights look, then the correct answer is "D"

 

[Hamaki]

No spreadsheet wiz myself, but isn't there an "undo" arrow in the toolbar? There is in mine...

 

[dkwolf]

No spreadsheet wiz myself, but isn't there an "undo" arrow in the toolbar? There is in mine...

Change something.
Save the document.
Close the document.

Open it up again and try and undo the change.

 

[dkwolf]

Had a typical conversation with my project assistant today:

PA: I made a mistake on a spreadsheet and accidently erased a bunch of information.
me: oh that sucks
PA: yeah so its impossible to search for those numbers since they aren't there anymore.
me: yeah that is a pain in the butt.
PA: sooooo.....(just keeps standing there in my office door)

trying to decide the best response:
a. hold on, let me whip out my harry potter wand and make the numbers come back.
b. have you tried the time machine in the closet that could take you back to before you made the mistake?
c. let me drop everything I'm doing and fix it for you for the next 2 days.
d. f-off you are fired.

Why do you not have a nightly server backup?


Our entire server is backed up onto a tape system every night. Every Friday, the IT guy brings a set of backup tapes to work with him from home, and the Thursday night backup tapes go home with him at lunch, and into a fire safe in his basement. The next Friday, they come back to the office. So even if our entire office is wiped out, the most we will lose is one week of work.

We used to go as far as every quarter, a set of the backup tapes was UPS'd to another office of ours 100 miles away.

 

[hunter_le five]

Why do you not have a nightly server backup?


Our entire server is backed up onto a tape system every night. Every Friday, the IT guy brings a set of backup tapes to work with him from home, and the Thursday night backup tapes go home with him at lunch, and into a fire safe in his basement. The next Friday, they come back to the office. So even if our entire office is wiped out, the most we will lose is one week of work.

We used to go as far as every quarter, a set of the backup tapes was UPS'd to another office of ours 100 miles away.

People still use tapes for backups?