Things about your co-workers that annoy you

[TheCADJockey]

https://goo.gl/SsAhv

If I can find one without, your argument is invalid.

 

[Onkel_Udo]

I have refrained from posting in this thread for quite some time but it is month end close and people have gotten on my last nerve.

When my coworkers request something it is an emergency and I tend to react quickly. Most responses are within an hour if I am in the office

When I request something from them it has gotten to the point that I give them a deadline, put a reminder in my calendar, send them a 48 hour and a 24 hour reminder. I normally get less than a 50% response rate.

Being a numbers guy, I track this and report to their superiors and mine...no results.

I report the accuracy of the (forecast) data they provide me verses the (forecast) data the predictive model I built creates (to populate the numbers when I got no responses)...to the Director of Finance. He asks my boss "Why do we need these other folks" in the same meeting. I think you can guess where it goes from there...and it is not with me getting a big fat raise.

My boss thought the big wigs were going to see it as a valid cross-check to what the humans where producing. He somehow did not note that month after months my variance was about 3.5% (-+) and consistently so while theirs varied from 4-11% swinging wildly.

 

[Rhumbline]

I'll say it again...

Every manager keeps a certain number of deadbeats on the books so that when his boss tells him he has to cut payroll he can comply without adversely affecting productivity.

Think of them as the ablative insulation that burns away to protect the valuable payload. Be happy that they are there.

 

[Grannyknot]

"here is xyz project and about 10% of the information you need to effectively get started on the project, if you have a question, just call my cell that I never answer or email me and i'll be sure to respond in about 3 weeks."

 

[sablesurfer]

Wait...then what do you call this kind of mouse? Before laser mice...

 

[sablesurfer]

https://goo.gl/SsAhv

If I can find one without, your argument is invalid.

Rickrolls suck now with ads at start. Then people can just go..."oh, right." and click out.

 

[hunter_le five]

Wait...then what do you call this kind of mouse? Before laser mice...

An antique

 

[TheCADJockey]

Rickrolls suck now with ads at start. Then people can just go..."oh, right." and click out.

Sorry. I tried. You win.

 

[Rhumbline]

Wait...then what do you call this kind of mouse? Before laser mice...

That's just a mouse. The others are optical mouses, whether they use a camera or laser or infrared.

 

[TheCADJockey]

This is by far, the nerdiest conversation I've ever tried to break up.. and failed.
I'm going back to the Video Games thread.
Someone come get me when we can start complaining again.

 

[Firewalker11]

I once washed the engine room chief's coffee mug. I used soap and water and rinsed it out real good. That mug was clean as new.

You'd think I kicked his dog.

I got 8 hours EMI for cleaning the shops Sr Chief coffee mug.

 

[n240sxguy]

What's up with these people and their nasty ass coffee mugs? They like them "seasoned" or something. When I get a build up in mine, stuff starts coming off and floating in my cup. Nasty. I try to wash it before then.

On the other hand, it's my mug, leave my **** alone! Maybe that was the problem.

 

[TheCADJockey]

What's up with these people and their nasty ass coffee mugs? They like them "seasoned" or something. When I get a build up in mine, stuff starts coming off and floating in my cup. Nasty. I try to wash it before then.

On the other hand, it's my mug, leave my **** alone! Maybe that was the problem.

Yeah I don't get it. Boss leaves his mug half empty every afternoon and tops it off the next morning without dumping or cleaning. Likely poisoning himself with all the **** that falls from the drop ceilings we have in the offices. I clean my desk every day, every morning there is a fresh coat of dustandstuff on it.

Shrug.

 

[Rhumbline]

In the Navy at least, it's a badge of rank. That's why scrubbing a mug is such a serious offense.

I was a Marine, but from my experience, when Navy guys get together the first thing they compare is sea time, the second is Shellback status, then sub/surface duty, and then how grungy their coffee cup is. Rank is way down the list.

 

[DrunkleJon]

In the Navy at least, it's a badge of rank. That's why scrubbing a mug is such a serious offense.

I was a Marine, but from my experience, when Navy guys get together the first thing they compare is sea time, the second is Shellback status, then sub/surface duty, and then how grungy their coffee cup is. Rank is way down the list.

I dont know. I prefer having the best tasting coffee I can. That crap does not help things.

On topic: They keep interrupting my lunch with inane questions. Its called a lunch break. Give me a break.

 

[TheCADJockey]

On topic: They keep interrupting my lunch with inane questions. Its called a lunch break. Give me a break.

Nobody talks to me... until I start eating lunch.
Then they look at me, disgusted that I have my feet on my desk.

Get out of my office, turds.

 

[beernbourbon]

yeah, when I was in the field, I NEVER understood that.....I'm on your f-ing job site for 10 hours, you can see me, you can ask me any question ANY TIME....why.....why do you feel it necessary to come up to my truck and ask me (usually beyond stupid) questions with my face full of my sammich?????? I will not share said sammich, so......

GO

AWAY


I just started going off site for a half hour, just to get some peace and quiet. In the office, not so much. But, I'm bad about not even stopping to eat lunch these days, so matters not.

 

[dkwolf]

A big part of my job is managing agricultural drainage ditches (farmer puts drain tile in their field, it runs into a manmade ditch dug 100 years ago... I'm in charge of maintenance on those ditches). So that portion of the job leads to a lot of in-the-field contacts with landowners. Some of them know quite a bit about the drainage district systems. Some can't find their own ass with both hands, a map, and a flashlight. Probably 80% of the time, when there is a problem with a district tile or ditch, I show up on site, do my review, and leave without ever talking to the landowner. Sometimes the owner requests a phone call before I show up so they can be on site while I'm there, sometimes they DEMAND to be on site while I'm there. And I'm worse than the cable company - I usually don't know that I'm hitting the field for a review day until the day before, and on a long day, I'll hit between 10-12 sites (scattered around 3 counties - a site review day is typically 200+ miles of road time). I never know until I show up how long I'm going to be at any one given site - sometimes I can see the repair from the road, drive right to it, take a couple pictures, set a flag out for the contractor, and be gone in 20 minutes, sometimes I spend an hour searching a 40 acre tract before I find a 2' diameter hole over a tile. So usually, the BEST I can do for any given landowner is "Hey, I'm leaving my last job and heading your way. I'll be there in 20 minutes." On OCCASION, I'll make exceptions if they can only meet at a given time.

Today was one of those times; I needed to talk to the landowner to understand what his problem was. Called him when I left the office (30 miles away)... no answer. So went to my second site for the day... guy finally calls me back two hours later, right before lunch. Since I'm only 15 miles from his place, and need to head his direction to get lunch anyway, I agree to meet him on site at the drainage ditch at 12:45. I show up at 12:30, because I never want a client to have to wait for me.

1:00 rolls around, he still hasn't shown up, and I'm running out of time (I have another site I have to be to, 35 miles away, by 3:00, with two stops to make in between), so I call him. He says "Yeah, I'm here, whenever you show up we can look at it."

Turns out, despite us agreeing to meet at the ditch, "Here" was his shop, 1/2 mile away down the road.


Idjit.

 

[Zuljin]

Dude! I played in lots of ditches for free. You're getting paid for it? You hiring?

 

[Billy-Klubb]

our new brooms (lead & assistant lead) are now counting finished parts in front of us (so we know they are keeping tabs) and also making lists of people talking. even if they are trying to get clarification on a print. there are certain people that are allowed to talk all day long. they are exempt. one of the new brooms clocks in then runs back out to smoke as well as sneaking outside to smoke. that's ok if he does it. I'm starting to feel like I quit smoking again. with the anger and all.

 

[TheMadKing]

things about my coworkers that annoy me = things about my coworkers.

I hate my job because of them.

Anyone hiring in the western states? No seriously.

 

[Billy-Klubb]

things about my coworkers that annoy me = things about my coworkers.

I hate my job because of them.

Anyone hiring in the western states? No seriously.

we're hiring welders if you wanna move to SW Minnesota.ipe:

 

[TheMadKing]

we're hiring welders if you wanna move to SW Minnesota.ipe:

that's a bit far mate, but thanks for the heads up!

 

[sablesurfer]

we're hiring welders if you wanna move to SW Minnesota.ipe:

Will you train me? I am extremely quick learner, even tried one of those tech school virtual welding set ups and got compliments.

What are the real estate options? We need a few acres.

ps...only half kidding, I need to get out of corporate world soon, but always been a tinkerer, mechanic, carpenter, DIY'er....and a brewer.

 

[fuzzy2133]

things about my coworkers that annoy me = things about my coworkers.

I hate my job because of them.

Anyone hiring in the western states? No seriously.

We are always hiring however I would not recommend moving to CA. The other 2 states above us I have heard good things about.

 

[dkwolf]

Will you train me? I am extremely quick learner, even tried one of those tech school virtual welding set ups and got compliments.

What are the real estate options? We need a few acres.

ps...only half kidding, I need to get out of corporate world soon, but always been a tinkerer, mechanic, carpenter, DIY'er....and a brewer.

There is a manufacturing facility in the same town I work (about an hour and a half south of Billy) that once or twice a year, holds "open tryouts" - you come in, do a couple welds, they look at your work and decide if they can train you or not.

Pay is good enough that my boss (who, despite being a design engineer, got certified as a welder at his previous job... "certified 2" I think is what he said) - anyway, he went in to the test day just for kicks and giggles... pay was good enough that he halfway thought about leaving his job as a licensed professional engineer to go weld for them.

 

[Billy-Klubb]

they are going to be there when I walk in the door today. that annoys the hell out of me.

 

[Firewalker11]

we're hiring welders if you wanna move to SW Minnesota.ipe:

MIG? They are restructuring at my old place, got liberated last week.

 

[Firewalker11]

they are going to be there when I walk in the door today. that annoys the hell out of me.

Discreet berry punch?

 

[DrunkleJon]

Discreet berry punch?

Weld up an automated berry punching machine.
Set it up at coworkers station.
Activate when they get particularly annoying.
Profit