Things about your co-workers that annoy you

[cyanmonkey]

When I was on active duty I regularly took the crap shifts on holidays etc. for my fellow Marines.

What I had an issue with was the attitude that since I'm single with no kids, I couldn't possibly have anything worthwhile to do with my time.

If you've been at sea for six months, absolutely let the married folks and new fathers off first.

I work at a place with a lot of single guys and I (wife and three kids) am very sensitive to this type of thing. The last thing I want is resentment. I'm not leaving before you because I have a family, that's just not fair.

 

[Onkel_Udo]

thank you for pointing at me and laughing

I am an American...it is what we do. Now go slip on a patch of ice so I laugh at you again.

 

[GrogNerd]

I work at a place with a lot of single guys and I (wife and three kids) am very sensitive to this type of thing. The last thing I want is resentment. I'm not leaving before you because I have a family, that's just not fair.

the type of attitude which would make me not mind at all if you DID leave before me

it's the pricks who feel entitled to who don't deserve to

 

[Baja_Brewer]

$20 million would be my tipping point. below that I would keep my job, above, I would quit

and that would be gross winnings, after taxes

$20? Jesus, you guys must be raking in some serious dough if that's what it would take for you to quit.

$3 Million for me. Annual return of 4% on that would be $120k before taxes. That would keep me in a nice place in low cost of living areas, but I'd provably try and buy a few - one for skiing, one for beach/coastal living, one for the woods/seclusion.

I don't dislike my job aside from feeling slightly underpaid, I just don't need the stress.

 

[Firewalker11]

Well fix it right then! 30 degree temperature swings when no one is jacking with the thermostat is not right. That's not condensation from the roof drain. That's a damn leak. Door butlers have arms. And have to be set. Right. And how about you measure those doors with something other than your hand and the eye you can't see out of? And are you ever coming back with those missing drawer pulls?

Yeah. We've some crappy vendors and contractors.

Yupper, I'm the guy that comes in and fixes what the name brand (Franchise) vendors break or can't/won't do.

Door butler? UK?

Roof leaks are tricky, I am a trustee of my church as well and we had a "leak" that took us three years to locate, yes, THREE years! It turned out that it was in fact a cold water pipe that supplied the restrooms on the upper floor, it was in the ceiling (lower floor) in the old part of the building in a wall where the builders of the new building decided to use the void as a cold air return (not code) so when the toilets were used and hands were washed, condensation from the very humid return air would drip from the pipe and follow the air return tin some 50 feet away from the pipe to a light fixture located about a foot from a skylight...

Not a roof leak at all, just some insulation and a a tin box around the pipe (compromise with the building inspector) fixed it.

Your 30° could be a as easy as someone blocking the thermostat with a coat, opening a door to cool the space allowing the thermostat to heat the space more because of the falling temperature or the use of a space heater in the room causing the thermostat to cool the room more.

HVAC is dumb, it just does what we make it do, simple physics.

And no, I am NOT coming back with those drawer pulls, it wasn't specified in the agreement...

 

[podz]

I tell you, I've been buslhitting in this thread here and there, but this is the truth:

People who show up to work under the influence of an extremely nasty virus.

Biological attack against your coworkers should be punishable by - well, all sorts of things...

 

[betarhoalphadelta]

$20? Jesus, you guys must be raking in some serious dough if that's what it would take for you to quit.

$3 Million for me. Annual return of 4% on that would be $120k before taxes. That would keep me in a nice place in low cost of living areas, but I'd provably try and buy a few - one for skiing, one for beach/coastal living, one for the woods/seclusion.

I don't dislike my job aside from feeling slightly underpaid, I just don't need the stress.

$3M (after taxes) I'm probably keeping my job. At least for a few years. About double that is quitting money.

Remember that once you have no job, and a lot more leisure time, expenses go UP. Every day is vacation ;-)

 

[Baja_Brewer]

$3M (after taxes) I'm probably keeping my job. At least for a few years. About double that is quitting money.

Remember that once you have no job, and a lot more leisure time, expenses go UP. Every day is vacation ;-)

I've factored that in: ski passes are a fixed cost (in that they only need to be purchased once a year.)

Chances I would end up working again, just not my current line of work.

 

[dkwolf]

I tell you, I've been buslhitting in this thread here and there, but this is the truth:

People who show up to work under the influence of an extremely nasty virus.

Biological attack against your coworkers should be punishable by - well, all sorts of things...

This thread has been going long enough, I can't remember if I've mentioned her or not, but...

We used to have an PART-TIME accountant in our office that would routinely use up her sick leave almost as fast as she earned it. Now, keep in mind, she only worked until 1:30 every day - but she would routinely (like, every two weeks) schedule chiropractor appointments at 12:30. Why she couldn't move them back to 2:00, we never could figure out. But needless to say, she never had ANY sick time built up, so when she DID get sick (about every 4 months), she came to work. And shared.

 

[fuzzy2133]

I've factored that in: ski passes are a fixed cost (in that they only need to be purchased once a year.)

Chances I would end up working again, just not my current line of work.

I would have to work at least part time to not drive my wife crazy and just to keep my brain active.

$10m sounds really good, pay off loans, set up kids for college stash most away for retirement and donate to rest to charities like mikeroweWorks.

 

[DrunkleJon]

We have a girl working at my work whose job it is to sit at the front desk of our little 4 desk (help desk) office and say hello to those that do by for help and maybe hand out the occasional password or cell phone. She burned up her entire 3 week balance of combined sick and vacation in the first two months. She somehow managed to talk the powers that be to let her take lwop when she needed to stay home afterwards. This year she has yet to get a full paycheck once and has been absent from 3-4 days per month all year. And to think she is complaining about not getting paid enough and wants to move into a position on the help desk.

 

[Billy-Klubb]

We have a girl working at my work whose job it is to sit at the front desk of our little 4 desk (help desk) office and say hello to those that do by for help and maybe hand out the occasional password or cell phone. She burned up her entire 3 week balance of combined sick and vacation in the first two months. She somehow managed to talk the powers that be to let her take lwop when she needed to stay home afterwards. This year she has yet to get a full paycheck once and has been absent from 3-4 days per month all year. And to think she is complaining about not getting paid enough and wants to move into a position on the help desk.

we have a new employee (the one that throws any/everyone under the bus) that makes a lot more than all us "old" employees, thanks to the new heads. today they were complaining that they need a raise. they already brag about how much more they make an hour than the rest of us. almost all of our newer hires are like that. and we have to train them how to do what we're doing, including how to weld in some cases. I just got my anal (because I feel like we're getting flocced) review and was told I could work on my attitude with the new hires. yeah, that's not gonna happen as long as I have to train new hires to do maybe a quarter of what I do and have to listen to them brag about their wages. the real problem is this is the best job in my area right now. I'll deal with it, but I don't have to smile when they shove large objects up my review.

 

[petey_c]

I tell you, I've been buslhitting in this thread here and there, but this is the truth:

People who show up to work under the influence of an extremely nasty virus.

Biological attack against your coworkers should be punishable by - well, all sorts of things...

I remember one of my Navy reserve buddies worked for Fuji bank at the WTC. His boss (as well as many of his co-workers, was Japanese) gave him a lot of schist because he missed a day of work with one of those nasty week long virus infections. "You are not dedicated to the success of this business!" Let me stay home and be a little less infectious so this way the whole floor isn't out... He got the opportunity to get what everyone else was having too.

 

[podz]

we have a new employee (the one that throws any/everyone under the bus) that makes a lot more than all us "old" employees, thanks to the new heads. today they were complaining that they need a raise. they already brag about how much more they make an hour than the rest of us. almost all of our newer hires are like that. and we have to train them how to do what we're doing, including how to weld in some cases. I just got my anal (because I feel like we're getting flocced) review and was told I could work on my attitude with the new hires. yeah, that's not gonna happen as long as I have to train new hires to do maybe a quarter of what I do and have to listen to them brag about their wages. the real problem is this is the best job in my area right now. I'll deal with it, but I don't have to smile when they shove large objects up my review.

Sounds like you just need to take a vacation for a while and let them see just how much they miss you.

 

[Billy-Klubb]

Sounds like you just need to take a vacation for a while and let them see just how much they miss you.

I doubt they'd miss me too much. all the new heads glare at me and some of the old heads do the same.


edit: every place I have ever worked has made it a point to tell the employees that we're all replaceable at any time. but the next breath they claim to care about all of us and our families. more reason I hate people.

 

[podz]

I doubt they'd miss me too much. all the new heads glare at me and some of the old heads do the same.


edit: every place I have ever worked has made it a point to tell the employees that we're all replaceable at any time. but the next breath they claim to care about all of us and our families. more reason I hate people.

Then ain't no choice but to be happy.

 

[cyanmonkey]

Then ain't no choice but to be happy.

Salt?

 

[GrogNerd]

I hate people.

so do I

sucks double for me, working in customer service

 

[Zuljin]

Salt?

Cocaine.

 

[hunter_le five]

Morning, less-than-gruntled employees.

Back to the ol' cocaine mine, as they say.

 

[drainbamage]

Morning, less-than-gruntled employees.

Speaking of which, is there such a thing as being gruntled?

 

[hunter_le five]

Speaking of which, is there such a thing as being gruntled?

Depends on how much beer I had at lunch.

 

[DrunkleJon]

Speaking of which, is there such a thing as being gruntled?

How cute is she? I may be willing to help re-gruntle her.

 

[drainbamage]

We just recently got an official policy clarification that drinking alcohol at lunch is, in fact, acceptable. Of course, there are a few conditions: don't do it in the office, don't drive a company car when you drive to/from lunch, if you appear visibly intoxicated, you will be disciplined.

Small victories...

 

[TheCADJockey]

Small victories...

That's pretty cool, was it an issue previously? I wonder about that a lot, despite the fact that I'm not concerned about it. My boss takes me out for lunch beers now and then, we've seen other engineers out on lunch, but if someone sees him he tries to mask his beer real quick. The other guys drink liquor on lunch, not worried about a couple ipa's. He's just weird.

 

[drainbamage]

That's pretty cool, was it an issue previously?

Not really. We had joked about it some with my old boss (we thought it was allowed but limited to 1 drink only, he thought it was expressly forbidden), but no one really pressed the issue or abused the privilege*. It's just nice to know I can have a beer with lunch and not have to worry about one of the teetotalers narcing on me.

*There is one rumor where a couple of the older guys supposedly parked their company car in an unassuming location and walked over to a strip club for a couple hours in the middle of the day, but I don't think it was ever substantiated.

 

[DrunkleJon]

Not really. We had joked about it some with my old boss (we thought it was allowed but limited to 1 drink only, he thought it was expressly forbidden), but no one really pressed the issue or abused the privilege*. It's just nice to know I can have a beer with lunch and not have to worry about one of the teetotalers narcing on me.

*There is one rumor where a couple of the older guys supposedly parked their company car in an unassuming location and walked over to a strip club for a couple hours in the middle of the day, but I don't think it was ever substantiated.

At my first real job (using my degree, sorta) we used to have beer lunch fridays (and often would catch a decent buzz). My direct boss jokingly gave me and a coworker some crap when he saw us walking out of the sorta nudie bar one lunch that we had attended with a dozen other coworkers. That was a cool company as they provided beer and wine to us on the condition that we got all of our work done. It really did offset some of the down sides.

 

[TheCADJockey]

It's just nice to know I can have a beer with lunch and not have to worry about one of the teetotalers narcing on me..

Got ya. Think this was the real problem. I guess some lady from the line stopped at the bar to pick up some grease bomb of a lunch and snitched on one of the guys having a labatt blue. Now everyone hides their beer like the smart kid hides his answers in high school. Still, doesn't bother me. With no written rules forbidding it, I'll laugh at them if it came down to it.

 

[Onkel_Udo]

Every place I worked in Europe the attitude was bit more relaxed on this.

The brewery had "mislabels" in the cafeteria for the equivalent of $.30/half-liter. Even us construction guys were allowed one.

At the construction tool company I interned for, champagne brunches in the office for birthdays were normal and having a beer at lunch was as well if you went off campus.

The same company in the US had very strict no-alcohol policies even for board members when they were on the clock. This caused a bit of friction (the first time) when the European board members would come over and the dinners that went on expense accounts were alcohol free even if the wives were there. The policy applied to any situation that could be considered "work" so even the golf outings with clients had to be alcohol free for the employee (though they often bought the client a drink on their own dime).

Contrast this with the time the Chinese "partners" came to the home office in a Germanic country and the "companions" they were supplied may or may not have ended up on expense accounts.

 

[Randomnoob]

The way my boss makes me work and stuff. I hate that.