Things about your co-workers that annoy you

[Grannyknot]

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.

We only have 14 people in this office.
There is no traditional "HR dept".
If 1 person is the problem, why not just address them personally face to face?

 

[sablesurfer]

Email - This thing has changed
Email - This thing has changed and this extra step
Email - This thing has changed and notify
Email - This thing what has changed, plus one more bit.

Me - Uhm, has this been documented and posted to the process site so that everyone has the exact steps to follow? (When, who, what, etc?)

........email chain ends.

LOL...just doing my job people as the process person.

 

[Venari]

I gave in my notice to my bosses, and they've requested I train a replacement.

I ask my lackeys if any of them are interested. One says he hates paperwork so he doesn't want to be in charge. The other doesn't want to handle the responsibilities of being in charge. I'm short staffed, so I don't have the three OTHER staff to ask.

Boss hires somebody new with the instruction that they be trained to replace me.

The other two immediately become resentful that a new hire is going to be their boss, and that they got passed over for promotion.

 

[TheCADJockey]

They keep bothering me while im trying to educate myself.

 

[jmcquesten]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YbYWhdLO43Q&feature=youtu.be

They keep bothering me while im trying to educate myself.

I hate that I just spent 2 and a half minutes watching that. This building's not going to model itself.

 

[TheCADJockey]

I hate that I just spent 2 and a half minutes watching that. This building's not going to model itself.

I haven't got to finish it yet because people keep asking for stuff.
What kind of building and what kind of model? I'll do it.

 

[jmcquesten]

I haven't got to finish it yet because people keep asking for stuff.
What kind of building and what kind of model? I'll do it.

It's a school. And it's the PM&E that I'm modeling. The girl in our other office has about 30 hrs of Revit experience, so not only is she not helping, but she's doing stuff that I'm going to have to fix. Can't convince the boss to get me a VPN router for the house so I can work on it at home even though I'm the only one in the office most of the time. It would be nice to cut down on my commute days (hour each way).

 

[TheCADJockey]

The girl in our other office has about 30 hrs of Revit experience, so not only is she not helping, but she's doing stuff that I'm going to have to fix.

Revit is amazing.
I wish I could use it every day.

 

[sablesurfer]

I haven't got to finish it yet because people keep asking for stuff.

Hint, it's not about ice cream.

 

[TheCADJockey]

Hint, it's not about ice cream.

Oh. Well funk that then. That ice cream looked so good.

 

[jmcquesten]

Revit is amazing.
I wish I could use it every day.

I definitely prefer it over autocad, and won't even touch Bentley. And if you want to use it every day, there's a place here for you

 

[TheCADJockey]

I definitely prefer it over autocad, and won't even touch Bentley. And if you want to use it every day, there's a place here for you

Where's here? Because the here where I am can't keep me busy.

 

[jmcquesten]

Northern Virginia. About an hour from DC. I'm trying to get out of this area asap. People and traffic around here suck.

 

[Rhumbline]

I.... Can't convince the boss to get me a VPN router for the houste so I can work on it at home even though I'm the only one in the office most of the time. It would be nice to cut down on my commute days (hour each way).

I love Revit, I do use it every day. It has saved me thousands of hours and made me look like a hero to the folks who don't know any better.

Count yourself lucky that your boss won't authorize the VPN router. If you had it he would just expect you to be available 24/7 at a moments notice.

Oh, I lived in Centerville, NOVA blows goats. Move down to Florida and chill!

 

[Billy-Klubb]

I gave in my notice to my bosses, and they've requested I train a replacement.

I ask my lackeys if any of them are interested. One says he hates paperwork so he doesn't want to be in charge. The other doesn't want to handle the responsibilities of being in charge. I'm short staffed, so I don't have the three OTHER staff to ask.

Boss hires somebody new with the instruction that they be trained to replace me.

The other two immediately become resentful that a new hire is going to be their boss, and that they got passed over for promotion.

I have seen that happen before. you will now get the blame for anything that goes wrong. even after you've been gone a while.

 

[jmcquesten]

I love Revit, I do use it every day. It has saved me thousands of hours and made me look like a hero to the folks who don't know any better.

Count yourself lucky that your boss won't authorize the VPN router. If you had it he would just expect you to be available 24/7 at a moments notice.

Oh, I lived in Centerville, NOVA blows goats. Move down to Florida and chill!

NOVA definitely sucks. I don't see how people can do this their whole life, and I'm a little ways from the real craziness. I realized this past summer that I'm kinda over the heat of the southeast, so Florida won't work. I'm trying to get back up to Alaska but that's still a few years away. Hope to be back in Hampton Roads by this time next year until then.

 

[n240sxguy]

One word. Sports.

 

[CoreyD]

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".

SENIOR? Was he senile? Maybe a touch of the "old timers"?

 

[Kee]

SENIOR? Was he senile? Maybe a touch of the "old timers"?

No, just amazing ignorant in some ways. He is actually a pretty good guy and is savvy concerning equipment and drilling operations. Definitely not good in geography. When we were working out of Egypt he called to tell me the rig is moving to Africa (???). I asked what country and he said "Africa! We are moving to Africa!". (It was the Congo).

 

[Renegades_Brew]

When someone asks for help but "forgets" to put the building or room number they need help in...

Escalate that when they refuse to answer your email asking for the missing information...

 

[Rhumbline]

They ask me for info...
I tell them that what they are asking me for is not going to give them the data they need and I suggest a different set of info...
They cry to a higher-up...
He tells me to give them what they asked for...
I do that...
They tell me it isn't what they needed.

They ask me for info...
(repeat ad infinitum)

I have to keep reminding myself that I get paid the same whether I'm being productive or not. I actually had a note by my front door for years that read "It's a good gig, don't quit!"

 

[sablesurfer]

So...they might steal your left over half of a super burrito from local place....

But...they won't steal your Asian inspired beef and peppers over rice...

Heathens.

 

[Onkel_Udo]

They ask me for info...
I tell them that what they are asking me for is not going to give them the data they need and I suggest a different set of info...
They cry to a higher-up...
He tells me to give them what they asked for...
I do that...
They tell me it isn't what they needed.

They ask me for info...
(repeat ad infinitum)

I have to keep reminding myself that I get paid the same whether I'm being productive or not. I actually had a note by my front door for years that read "It's a good gig, don't quit!"

Been there...done that...living it again now.

My favorite is "Can I have x for the auditors".

"No, I told you when you had me build this the base data was compromised and I was faking the system out."

"So how do I deal with the auditors"

"Not sure...maybe give them my 8 page disclosure sheet on the findings during data validation that caused me to make all the forms as "for information only. Not for budgetary or reporting needs.""

"What do we use for those"

"Nothing that I know about...I hope you just pull it out of your butt because I am covered."

Manager walks out...Finance Manager walks in "Can I have that 8 page disclosure because hey re coming for me next as he will say it is our fault."

 

[DrunkleJon]

The fact that I have been here since 6:30 am, it is now 7:23 pm and the earliest I can see myself leaving is 8. These additional 5 hours I will have to burn as flex leave sometime between now and the end of the pay period (the 15th). I have been here for 13 hours now because not only are we understaffed, but we had 4 people call out today/use their flex hours from working the holiday, etc on the same day. This would have left someone on this afternoon shift solo and overwhelmed and I am too nice of a guy to allow this to happen. I am sure that the boss is going to try to punish me for being nice and use this as an excuse to make me work the 3-11 pm shift permanently. That's a whole lot of nope there.

 

[KVANTAN]

Coworker gets privately reprimanded for using a gender slur against a woman half his age.

Proceeds to voice his objection via a companywide email "I would never use such language towards a woman, quite simply (her real name) is a lying B****"

Later that week, he loudly combines an inappropriate race and gender slur against me in front of a multi-million dollar European customer. I say inappropriate because I am a white male.

Actually, my coworkers can be very entertaining.

Yes, dramatic firing by the end of that week.

 

[Billy-Klubb]

every place I've worked has had HR baiters. they magically become offended by things they are doing or talking about when another coworker says/does them. like the guy with a wandering eye that would crack jokes about it all the time then gets offended when someone else makes light of it in the same conversation. or the gal that would talk about her chest size constantly and try to get others to do the same, then try to get them for sexual harassment. or any of the people that would walk into a private conversation and are offended by the language or subject matter after participating in the conversation.

 

[1977Brewer]

every place I've worked has had HR baiters. they magically become offended by things they are doing or talking about when another coworker says/does them. like the guy with a wandering eye that would crack jokes about it all the time then gets offended when someone else makes light of it in the same conversation. or the gal that would talk about her chest size constantly and try to get others to do the same, then try to get them for sexual harassment. or any of the people that would walk into a private conversation and are offended by the language or subject matter after participating in the conversation.

This is my new janitor. Always nosing his way into stuff and then coming away with problems. I have a boilerplate response now, "Stop, think about how that became your problem, and continue if you honestly believe it is."

 

[Pyg]

In my office we have a serious doosh, who can not see anyone else's point of view. He is always right refuses to be Wrong even I he has to argue against his previous decisions to be right this time!
Yesterday he walked around the office explaining to everyone that the TV can figure out your demographics and send certain tv commercials specially to you.
He said that is why he gets all the propecia & Viagara commercials.

Didn't care enough to correct him!

 

[Venari]

In my office we have a serious doosh, who can not see anyone else's point of view. He is always right refuses to be Erin

Quite frankly, I'd refuse to be Erin too!

But I do have friends that are always right and get upset and wont talk to me when I prove them wrong.

 

[Pyg]

Quite frankly, I'd refuse to be Erin too!



But I do have friends that are always right and get upset and wont talk to me when I prove them wrong.

Fixed it....
The doosh is the type of guy who asks you a question. And responds to your answer with "correct", which baffles me because why bother asking if you knew the answer anyway.

I think he has Aspergers, which he is unaware of , which makes me somewhat feel bad for calling him a doosh.
Somewhat!