Things about your co-workers that annoy you

[Billy-Klubb]

Boss yells into my office every day, "What are you working on?" and most of the time.. it is minutes after he gave me a big project. The guy is so indisposed and distracted by his personal life and booking extravagant vacations that he can't be bothered with the simplest task, so he has to ask me if I'll take it.

Don't ask. Just put it on my desk. Point. Grunt. Draw an arrow on it. I'll do it.

sounds like my wife's boss.

 

[evchenko]

maybe a complete Stephen Hawking rig?

 

[Genghis]

Point. Grunt. Draw an arrow on it. I'll do it.

Sounds like foreplay to me.

 

[TheCADJockey]

sounds like my wife's boss.

Don't be so hard on yourself.

 

[sablesurfer]

The f'n sippy cup person on my floor!!!!!! Gah!

 

[cyanmonkey]

The f'n sippy cup person on my floor!!!!!! Gah!

Explain.

 

[TheCADJockey]

Explain.

Sippy cup.

 

[cyanmonkey]

Sippy cup.

Why does a child work with you?

 

[TheCADJockey]

Why does a child work with you?

What do you mean? Who cleans your bathrooms?

 

[cyanmonkey]

What do you mean? Who cleans your bathrooms?

Ha ha ha. Clean bathrooms.

 

[TheMadKing]

Yesterday my mechanically inept boss ran a DIY water vacuum system with the outlet valve closed and blew apart a piping connection. The connection was a rubber sleeve holding 2 pieces of PVC piping together with hose clamps.

I suggested "instead of using that mickey mouse connection we should replace all the piping with threaded steel pipe"

His reply. "No absolutely not, the pressure will blow those pipes apart and with steel pipes, that would kill someone. Even if it doesn't explode, the pump would just turn the water in the reservoir to steam and blow the pump apart. The PVC is a safety mechanism. I know it would explode because I've seen it happen!"

It's a 1/2 hp motor with a plastic impeller and was never meant to be run with the outlet valve closed at all...

This man has the power to tell me what to do, and there's no reasoning with him.

 

[Kee]

Yesterday my mechanically inept boss ran a DIY water vacuum system with the outlet valve closed and blew apart a piping connection. The connection was a rubber sleeve holding 2 pieces of PVC piping together with hose clamps.

I suggested "instead of using that mickey mouse connection we should replace all the piping with threaded steel pipe"

His reply. "No absolutely not, the pressure will blow those pipes apart and with steel pipes, that would kill someone. Even if it doesn't explode, the pump would just turn the water in the reservoir to steam and blow the pump apart. The PVC is a safety mechanism. I know it would explode because I've seen it happen!"

It's a 1/2 hp motor with a plastic impeller and was never meant to be run with the outlet valve closed at all...

This man has the power to tell me what to do, and there's no reasoning with him.

The man ain't too bright, but if you pump against a closed valve something will eventually give, just not how he imagines.

 

[iijakii]

.5hp creating enough pressure to blow steel piping, lol yeah right. If you deadheaded it the worst that'd happen is probably it'd overheat and stop working.

 

[TheMadKing]

.5hp creating enough pressure to blow steel piping, lol yeah right. If you deadheaded it the worst that'd happen is probably it'd overheat and stop working.

exactly what I said, it has a thermal switch in the pump, and he seems to believe the impeller will superheat the water in a matter of seconds. I told him it would have to sit with the outlet valve closed for at least 30 minutes to even bring the temp of the water near boiling.

He has no concept of materials strength or mechanical properties at all.

 

[Billy-Klubb]

if steel pipe bursts, it will split. it won't shatter. I kinda want to meet your boss. and maybe slap him a little.

 

[dkwolf]

if steel pipe bursts, it will split. it won't shatter. I kinda want to meet your boss. and maybe slap him a little.

I'd recommend using a steel pipe.

 

[TheMadKing]

I'd recommend using a steel pipe.

Nah, apparently those things are explosive

 

[TheCADJockey]

Nah, apparently those things are explosive

We make a lot of steel things esplode where I'm from

 

[cyanmonkey]

We make a lot of steel things esplode where I'm from

You build pipe bombs for a living?

 

[TheCADJockey]

You build pipe bombs for a living?

Mmm... kind of? Not the intended outcome but it happens.

 

[MaxStout]

His reply. "No absolutely not, the pressure will blow those pipes apart and with steel pipes, that would kill someone. Even if it doesn't explode, the pump would just turn the water in the reservoir to steam and blow the pump apart. The PVC is a safety mechanism. I know it would explode because I've seen it happen!"

It's a 1/2 hp motor with a plastic impeller and was never meant to be run with the outlet valve closed at all....

Does that guy have a G.E.D. in engineering?

 

[podz]

My coworker uses my competence as the justification for his experimentation, then when his experiments fail he comes to ask me to help him solve the problem. I have started to tell him to come back to me after 1 week and we will discuss it.

 

[TheMadKing]

Does that guy have a G.E.D. in engineering?

He has a masters in chemistry, the world outside the lab and paperwork must be a magical mystery to him.

 

[Onkel_Udo]

He has a masters in chemistry, the world outside the lab and paperwork must be a magical mystery to him.

Walter White is the only Chemist with common sense I ever met (even if we never met...and he is fictional).

 

[FnBeerTime]

I take it English is a second language for him?

Haha I should have clarified, no, it's his native tongue.

 

[Hamaki]

Haha I should have clarified, no, it's his native tongue.

I have a cousin in his 70's born with some kind of peach amphetamine and is developmentally disabled. Never got far in school and lacks a lot of social skills. I never worked with him but I'm told he was a damn good cowboy in his younger days. I'm sure he never made $300K a year but always had a roof over his head, enough to eat & beer money.

 

[FnBeerTime]

Haha, I hear you. This guy is a special person, he's a great car salesman and is under full belief that people are stupid and can't understand numbers if you put too many in their face. Energy galore and very well dressed and taken care of with nice white teeth and an expensive tan. One of his best lines to me was "the more you spend on yourself the more you make". This after spending $10k on clothes etc. Very hard to share a room with this guy's head and listening to him is painful. "We need to be cogsnis about what people want". Insert cognisant and he sounds normal.

 

[podz]

I take it English is a second language for him?

No, it requires a native speaker to come up with something so cleverly stupid. The guy is clearly narcissistic and simply trying to get attention. Tell him that he's wrong or stupid and you'll be wrapped up with him for half an hour.

 

[Venari]

Does that guy have a G.E.D. in engineering?

With all sorts of "informational videos" on youtube, we all have a Good Enough Diploma in any subject.

 

[Kee]

With all sorts of "informational videos" on youtube, we all have a Good Enough Diploma in any subject.

He probably saw this video (5 minutes in you get to see stuff blow up):

[ame]https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=85yVVN8yi9w[/ame]