Things about your co-workers that annoy you

[gratus fermentatio]

This could be the start of something beautiful.

We'll need some video of the victim posted so we can all enjoy it.
Regards, GF.

 

[gratus fermentatio]

We've got a FNG who apparently smokes like a train & stinks to high heaven of cigarette smoke & ashtray. I can smell him from 15 ft away; I know, I measured (15' 3"). My stepdad smoked for nearly 40 years & I don't recall him stinking like that; though he did reek of aftershave quite often. I understand this guy probably doesn't know how bad he reeks, but it would be nice if he'd do something to eliminate it, I find it quite offensive.
Regards, GF.

 

[TheCADJockey]

I find it quite offensive.
Regards, GF.

Only once was I told I smelled bad but in my defense, it was after a 42 hour stint in the architecture studio finishing up a model of the Highline in NYC. Epic model. Horrible few days. We were covered in coffee, beer and glue.

Now that I'm in the process of quitting, every time someone from production comes over for a drawing I gag at the smell emanating from their clothing. It is rather unpleasant.

 

[Zuljin]

That's cheap cigarettes. Premiums don't smell great, ever since I quit, but the cheap ones always smelled like burnt dog crap.

 

[TheCADJockey]

They want me to teach the old guy in sales how to use CAD.

Way to belittle my degree. Let me just go summarize years of experience for this guy.

 

[ColoHox]

They want me to teach the old guy in sales how to use CAD.

Way to belittle my degree. Let me just go summarize years of experience for this guy.

I feel your pain. On the other hand, he likely won't pick it up very well and may feel even more out of touch. I had to "teach" an older coworker how to enter formulas in Excel. When he wasn't catching on, I could see in his demeanor his realization that he was outdated...and I felt bad for him.

 

[betarhoalphadelta]

They want me to teach the old guy in sales how to use CAD.

Way to belittle my degree. Let me just go summarize years of experience for this guy.

For basically my entire childhood, my father (an architect) said he was "going to" learn CAD. He never did, which is why he finished his career selling financial services products instead of drawing houses...

 

[TheCADJockey]

When he wasn't catching on, I could see in his demeanor his realization that he was outdated...and I felt bad for him.

I asked if it was what he really wanted. He said, "yeah i mean it looks easy when you do it." So I'm slowly adding one command at a time to his toolbar. Gave him 'Line' and 'Circle' and told him to just sketch a house, like the one in the comic. Turned on all the necessary options and configurations for osnap for him. The sighs from his office sound like its not going well.

For basically my entire childhood, my father (an architect) said he was "going to" learn CAD.

I still do floor plans by hand at home. I don't want to lose that ability because of CAD. A fully penciled set of prints can be amazing.

 

[Rhumbline]

... The sighs from his office sound like its not going well.

Imagine the fun when you try to teach him about paper space vs model space!

and printing to scale...

 

[hunter_le five]

The sighs from his office sound like its not going well.

Imagine the fun when you try to teach him about paper space vs model space!

and printing to scale...

Speaking of space, has NASA hired you yet CADJockey?

https://www.homebrewtalk.com/showpost.php?p=6857588&postcount=65

 

[TheCADJockey]

Speaking of space, has NASA hired you yet CADJockey?

Maybe..

 

[mattv21]

Imagine the fun when you try to teach him about paper space vs model space!

Oh god, few things frustrate me more than trying to teach this concept to somebody who's mind simply isn't able to process it. I know that different people just don't see things in certain ways, but come on. Viewports aren't that hard...

 

[Rhumbline]

Oh god, few things frustrate me more than trying to teach this concept to somebody who's mind simply isn't able to process it. I know that different people just don't see things in certain ways, but come on. Viewports aren't that hard...

I taught AutoCAD for two years in the local community college.

I always knew I was in for a fun day when we covered that for the first time. Also a fun day was absolute vs relative x-y coordinates.

If your coworker just needs to do some simple stuff, viewing and measuring and such, you might try what I do which is to set them up with TrueView from AutoDesk. It's free and that's what I give my folks when they absolutely have to be able to open CAD files.

 

[TheCADJockey]

It's free and that's what I give my folks when they absolutely have to be able to open CAD files.

He convinced them, the higher ups, that CAD looks easy enough for him to figure out. So they are expecting him to be doing shop drawings by the end of next week. Even with them wasting my time trying to teach him, I'll have everything done by Tues-Wed anyway.

 

[dkwolf]

I feel your pain. On the other hand, he likely won't pick it up very well and may feel even more out of touch. I had to "teach" an older coworker how to enter formulas in Excel. When he wasn't catching on, I could see in his demeanor his realization that he was outdated...and I felt bad for him.

Yep. Sounds like Earl, one of the Senior Technicians in my office. I was printing out some maps for a drainage district reclassification one day, and he was looking at them. Asked me how long it took to create them -- it used to take him 3-4 days doing it by hand.

The look on his face when I told him it took me 10 minutes in ArcMap.... You had to feel bad for him. He had just realized that a job he used to be able to count on keeping him busy most of the winter, could be done by a young guy and a computer in a week.

 

[Billy-Klubb]

I worked with this guy in the steel yard in South Dakota. he worked in the weld shop as a tacker. they didn't let him weld since he could never pass his 3/8" plate weld test. he'd always try to fill the whole thing in one pass which is a huge no-no. then after the inter-company takeover, he transferred to my department (shipping & receiving/customer service). when he was in the shop, he'd crap himself on purpose to go home. he tried that with us when he transferred. our boss told him to go wipe his butt & get back to work. then 4 of us all left the steel yard to work for the methane pump company in Wyoming. the pump company opened us a shop in South Dakota so we didn't have to move and to also recruit people from our town. they put our boss in charge of the shop and the pants pooper 2nd in command, even though our boss recommended me and told them the pants pooper was a bad idea. then our boss transferred to Wyoming and they put Captain Poopy in charge of our shop with no 2nd in command. he ran the shop into the ground with spending and overtime. WY wages were much higher than SD wages and he like those big checks. we didn't have enough work during the slow time to justify 50 hour weeks. I talked to the owners about it and they wouldn't listen. then we hit a real slow point where if we let 1 guy go (there was only 4 of us) and dropped us down to 35 hours, we could have stayed afloat and still made more than we were in the steel yard. Captain Crappy kept us on 50 hours and they shut down our shop in SD. when I finally went to WY and worked in their shop, the owners apologized about not listening to me and for putting Dr. Defecation in charge. I ended up becoming the assistant manager of their weld/production shop after 3 years on the floor building methane/oil pump units and pipe welding. the whole thing was very annoying.

 

[TheCADJockey]

when he was in the shop, he'd crap himself on purpose to go home.

I should try that..

 

[agrazela]

I should try that..

If you really want to go home early, crap on your boss!

 

[Fedora]

Haha ha! I knew a guy that used to do that.

"I gotta go, boss. I shyt my paaants."

 

[soccerdad]

U guys are making this sh*t up.

 

[petey_c]

We have a guy at work that's called in from the road a few times saying the same thing. If I sharted on the way into work, I'll think of another excuse why I can't come in...

 

[sablesurfer]

Would you ever give in to a request from a boss that you send them the entire job submission that you submitted for another job?

 

[betarhoalphadelta]

Would you ever give in to a request from a boss that you send them the entire job submission that you submitted for another job?

Is this another job in your own company?

 

[sablesurfer]

Is this another job in your own company?

Hypothetically, yes.

 

[CreamyGoodness]

"James, Concur is asking me if this receipt has European VAT tax on it?"
"The receipt you just showed me for the hotel in Montreal?"
"Yeah"
"What continent is Montreal on?"
"... America right? The one we are on?"
"Right... and America is what?..."
"What do you mean?"
"Is it or is it not Europe?"
"No, why? ooooooh... thanks"

FML

 

[betarhoalphadelta]

Hypothetically, yes.

You're in a weird spot, then... Assuming you didn't do anything f'ed up in the job submission like call your boss an idiot or wildly misrepresent what you've done, there's probably not much risk. But then, part of that depends on your boss, depends on your company culture, etc.

What sort of relationship do you have with your boss? Good? Any chance you can just ask why the boss is making this request?

 

[sablesurfer]

What sort of relationship do you have with your boss? Good? Any chance you can just ask why the boss is making this request?

I did, that went badly. Two days of the silent treatment now.

 

[Grannyknot]

Email this morning:
"Smoking is not permitted in the warehouse. If anyone is caught smoking in the warehouse you'll be fired"

Only 1 person in the company smokes. Everyone knows who it is. Stop treating us like a kindergarten class. Deal with your employees directly when appropriate.

 

[dkwolf]

Email this morning:
"Smoking is not permitted in the warehouse. If anyone is caught smoking in the warehouse you'll be fired"

Only 1 person in the company smokes. Everyone knows who it is. Stop treating us like a kindergarten class. Deal with your employees directly when appropriate.

Ah, tales from HR Hell.

In a situation like that, they HAVE to make the announcement to all employees first. If not, you're singling one employee out.

 

[Kee]

"James, Concur is asking me if this receipt has European VAT tax on it?"
"The receipt you just showed me for the hotel in Montreal?"
"Yeah"
"What continent is Montreal on?"
"... America right? The one we are on?"
"Right... and America is what?..."
"What do you mean?"
"Is it or is it not Europe?"
"No, why? ooooooh... thanks"

FML

I was on a drilling rig being towed off the coast of Africa when the captain on the tug announced that we were crossing the equator. A few guys ran up to the helideck (just for the hell of it) and looked at the ocean. One of the SENIOR supervisors said "I don't see anything".