Things about your co-workers that annoy you

[betarhoalphadelta]

Damn you got back on the horse quickly!

I was wondering if anyone would catch that.

 

[SupervisingChildren]

I was wondering if anyone would catch that.

Caught it too.

Coworkers in the building next door are trying to take our per diem staff person who is filling in for someone using a planned vacation day tomorrow because someone over there called off for tomorrow. Not gonna happen. They had advanced notice, and my building shouldn't be punished by being single staffed.

 

[iijakii]

I was wondering if anyone would catch that.

You're a glutton for punishment

 

[bleme]

Who told you it was a good idea to hire 2 new "engineers" fresh out of school that have never used a CAD program and don't know a thing about construction?

I think the whole construction industry is infected with this thinking. We are a subcontractor and I don't think a day goes by when we don't have to explain to a GC why he is an idiot. It seems to be worse, the bigger the company. We were on a $450m project and every single one of our contacts at the GC's office was a freaking intern!

 

[GilSwillBasementBrews]

FTFY. Seriously, this was the minimum at one job I worked...most folks failed one or the other.

Had to laugh at the setting things on fire. Reminded me of a Maitenance worker who used to work here. Grinding near a bucket of solvent, sends a hot spark into sad bucket igniting it. Runs all over the shop looking for a fire extinguisher that was right behind him to begin with. Inserts end of extinguisher into bucket and sprays. Needless to say flaming solvent sprayed all over shop which promptly was out out. Then noticing bucket still on fire inserts end of extinguisher and repeats spraying flaming solvent all over Maitenance bay. Can't imagine why he no longer works here.

 

[Zuljin]

P.a.s.s!

 

[MaxStout]

Had to laugh at the setting things on fire. Reminded me of a Maitenance worker who used to work here. Grinding near a bucket of solvent, sends a hot spark into sad bucket igniting it. Runs all over the shop looking for a fire extinguisher that was right behind him to begin with. Inserts end of extinguisher into bucket and sprays. Needless to say flaming solvent sprayed all over shop which promptly was out out. Then noticing bucket still on fire inserts end of extinguisher and repeats spraying flaming solvent all over Maitenance bay. Can't imagine why he no longer works here.

I'm visualizing that scenario right now, with Yakety Sax playing.

 

[SharonaZamboni]

Coworker hit my car with a company vehicle on Friday, didn't say a word to me, and hasn't admitted to it yet.

 

[Black_Marsh_Brewer]

File a hit and run with the plate...

 

[TheCADJockey]

I hate that HR will confront me now and then about not clocking out for entire lunches.. being +/- a minute on a 30m break. Sorry, I got **** to do. Yet, every salaried person in here comes and goes as they please. Ex: Boss left at 11am today to go downtown for lunch. Two hour lunch? Sure. I don't take a full 30m and get scolded.

 

[betarhoalphadelta]

I hate that HR will confront me now and then about not clocking out for entire lunches.. being +/- a minute on a 30m break. Sorry, I got **** to do. Yet, every salaried person in here comes and goes as they please. Ex: Boss left at 11am today to go downtown for lunch. Two hour lunch? Sure. I don't take a full 30m and get scolded.

I think we discussed this before in this thread. At least in CA (and likely in NY) they are legally obligated to give you 30 minutes off for lunch if you're paid hourly.

So here's what happens. They have to offer you a 30 minute lunch. You don't necessarily want to take it, because of whatever personal reason you prefer. Maybe you like to leave 30 minutes earlier. Maybe you're just not a lunch person (I'm not). So you tell your employer that you really don't care about taking a full 30 minutes for lunch for [insert reason here].

Then down the line, they fire you for some reason. And you go lawyer up and sue them for violating wage and hour restrictions. When they say that they *offered* you 30 minutes for lunch and that you didn't want it, you lie and say that they're making that up. They pressured and harassed you into skipping or shortening your lunch break. And in a pro-worker state like CA or NY, they can't prove that they didn't pressure you, so they end up losing the case.

Not that you'd ever do this, of course. But other people have done this.

So employers don't make it optional. They say that you HAVE to take 30 minutes off for a lunch break. Because they don't want to be sued without a paper trail absolutely proving without a shadow of a doubt that you voluntarily and without any pressure are waiving your 30 minute lunch break for [insert reason here].

It sucks. But that's why they do it.

 

[TheCADJockey]

So employers don't make it optional. They say that you HAVE to take 30 minutes off for a lunch break. Because they don't want to be sued without a paper trail absolutely proving without a shadow of a doubt that you voluntarily and without any pressure are waiving your 30 minute lunch break for [insert reason here].

It sucks. But that's why they do it.

Yeah we may have talked about it, I understand.. I just hate that the salaried employees completely abuse not being on the clock. That and the fact that HR sat me down once and said this:

HR - You have to take a lunch.
Me - Ok. They just asked me to do something, so I clocked back in.
HR - Oh. If you are working, you have to stay clocked in.
Me - I work through my lunch every day. So do I need to take a lunch?
HR - Well if you're working, you have to stay clocked in. But you have to take a lunch.

So, they really don't have an answer for it. It doesn't matter, just hate people that leave for hours and still make bank. Not that they do anything while they're hear anyway heh.

 

[nDub]

Not that you'd ever do this, of course. But other people have done this.
[insert reason here].

I was hoping the bold "have" would be a hyperlink to some case file...

I work for a very large municipal utilities company and they have some of the strangest rules and some seemingly obvious rules they like to remind us of periodically. "Don't' steal from the company" being an obvious one.

The only reason I can think that a company like mine has these rule is because some jack@$s at some point has done it and got away with it just because it wasn't a rule yet.

 

[Grannyknot]

I hear ya Cadjockey.
My complaint is that if i'm 5 minutes late, i have to turn in a "time off request" and its deducted from my vacation time. But if i stay 5 minutes past 5, it means nothing (although i usually work to 5:30).

On mornings that i have to drop my son off at school, there is no way i can make it to work on time. I had to negotiate a plan where on those days, i get a lesser lunch break.

 

[TheCADJockey]

But if i stay 5 minutes past 5, it means nothing (although i usually work to 5:30).

This is the biggest thing for me. Just complete lack of respect.

 

[dkwolf]

This is the biggest thing for me. Just complete lack of respect.

My senior engineer is one of those clock-watchers. If I'm not at my desk and WORKING at 8:00, he gets pissed. Not in the office - if I walk in at 7:58, log in to my computer, and go fill my coffee cup, that's unacceptable. But he has no problem whatsoever coming back to my desk at 4:55 and wanting to have a 20 minute conversation about project status.

He hasn't said anything to me directly, but through my supervisor, I know he keeps an eye on it. The day he DOES say something to me is the day that I start walking out the door at 5:00 on the nose, whether he's talking to me or not. If you're going to nickel and dime me on the front end of the day, you're going to respect and honor my time at the end of the day.


This is the same guy that gets pissed off when I take vacation during the summer (our busy season, construction and all) - he'll cry and moan while I'm gone about me not respecting our work flow. And then take the next week off. Then, at the end of the year, when I take half of December off (because I've been here over a decade, and have 4 weeks of vacation to use annually), he gets sideways about that too.

You don't want me to take vacation, ever? Then pay me for my unused time instead of cancelling it at the end of the year.

 

[DoctorMemory]

He hasn't said anything to me directly, but through my supervisor, I know he keeps an eye on it. The day he DOES say something to me is the day that I start walking out the door at 5:00 on the nose, whether he's talking to me or not.

Start now. If he complains, tell him to talk to your supervisor.

[Disclaimer: I'm now a conslutant, so I'm perfectly happy to stay for as long as people want and discuss their problems at length, and follow-up with a summary e-mail, for which they're paying me literally dozens of dollars an hour, so feel free to take this with a grain of salt.]

 

[brettwasbtd]

Yeah we may have talked about it, I understand.. I just hate that the salaried employees completely abuse not being on the clock. That and the fact that HR sat me down once and said this:

HR - You have to take a lunch.
Me - Ok. They just asked me to do something, so I clocked back in.
HR - Oh. If you are working, you have to stay clocked in.
Me - I work through my lunch every day. So do I need to take a lunch?
HR - Well if you're working, you have to stay clocked in. But you have to take a lunch.

So, they really don't have an answer for it. It doesn't matter, just hate people that leave for hours and still make bank. Not that they do anything while they're hear anyway heh.

You take lunch at Xpm (insert time you leave) in your car

 

[brettwasbtd]

So Coworker A comes and asks me a question and even my horrible memory remembers that Coworker B had the exact same issue 3 weeks or so ago.

I tell Coworker A to go ask Coworker B to forward Coworker A the email they sent out to the support team a while back. (This quick interaction allows me to keep track of what I'm doing and continue on with my work)

20 min later Coworker B comes and says "Hey brettwasbtd, I couldn't find that email anywhere... Sorry"

I go into Outlook, click on Coworker B's name, click sort by name. Arrow down over a few emails until I find the one question, click forward, enter on Coworker A and Coworker B's email address and hit send...Time elapsed...40 seconds.

Million dollar question, how does Coworker B not find the email he sent? Also, how does he not remember the resolution to the issue?

Oh and now I have completely lost track of what I was trying to program in My software

Sooo much incompetence it makes me want to cry

 

[TheCADJockey]

Million dollar question, how does Coworker B not find the email he sent? Also, how does he not remember the resolution to the issue?

Deleted it? I deleted everything out of habit until I finally got rid of something important. Now I just leave it all.

 

[iijakii]

I hear ya Cadjockey.
My complaint is that if i'm 5 minutes late, i have to turn in a "time off request" and its deducted from my vacation time.

I wouldn't be able to work in a place like that. Holy hell that's insane.

 

[brettwasbtd]

Deleted it? I deleted everything out of habit until I finally got rid of something important. Now I just leave it all.

That is a valid point, however, Coworker B's track record is proven to be pretty careless.

If they did delete it I would expect them to be quicker in their response and said "I couldn't find it cause I delete my emails"

 

[dkwolf]

Start now. If he complains, tell him to talk to your supervisor.

[Disclaimer: I'm now a conslutant, so I'm perfectly happy to stay for as long as people want and discuss their problems at length, and follow-up with a summary e-mail, for which they're paying me literally dozens of dollars an hour, so feel free to take this with a grain of salt.]

Oh, I'm paid hourly, (so the 17 hour day at an exhibition booth last week was BANK), and I work on average 0.5-1.5 hours of overtime every day. But if he wants to nickel and dime, my overtime will be at MY discretion. Or, if he talks to me for 10 minutes, I'm rounding up to a half hour.

 

[drainbamage]

I hear ya Cadjockey.
My complaint is that if i'm 5 minutes late, i have to turn in a "time off request" and its deducted from my vacation time. But if i stay 5 minutes past 5, it means nothing (although i usually work to 5:30).

That's the letter of the law at my office, but only one supervisor actually enforces it as such. Everyone else (rightfully) thinks it is nuts.

The dumb thing is, say you show up 5 minutes late and stay 5 minutes late in the afternoon to make it up, he expects you to fill out a leave form for the 5 minutes you missed in the morning, and an overtime form for the "extra" time you worked in the afternoon. Funk that. Thank God he's not my boss.

 

[beernbourbon]

Yeah we may have talked about it, I understand.. I just hate that the salaried employees completely abuse not being on the clock. That and the fact that HR sat me down once and said this:

HR - You have to take a lunch.
Me - Ok. They just asked me to do something, so I clocked back in.
HR - Oh. If you are working, you have to stay clocked in.
Me - I work through my lunch every day. So do I need to take a lunch?
HR - Well if you're working, you have to stay clocked in. But you have to take a lunch.

So, they really don't have an answer for it. It doesn't matter, just hate people that leave for hours and still make bank. Not that they do anything while they're hear anyway heh.

I was hoping the bold "have" would be a hyperlink to some case file...

I work for a very large municipal utilities company and they have some of the strangest rules and some seemingly obvious rules they like to remind us of periodically. "Don't' steal from the company" being an obvious one.

The only reason I can think that a company like mine has these rule is because some jack@$s at some point has done it and got away with it just because it wasn't a rule yet.

My senior engineer is one of those clock-watchers. If I'm not at my desk and WORKING at 8:00, he gets pissed. Not in the office - if I walk in at 7:58, log in to my computer, and go fill my coffee cup, that's unacceptable. But he has no problem whatsoever coming back to my desk at 4:55 and wanting to have a 20 minute conversation about project status.

He hasn't said anything to me directly, but through my supervisor, I know he keeps an eye on it. The day he DOES say something to me is the day that I start walking out the door at 5:00 on the nose, whether he's talking to me or not. If you're going to nickel and dime me on the front end of the day, you're going to respect and honor my time at the end of the day.


This is the same guy that gets pissed off when I take vacation during the summer (our busy season, construction and all) - he'll cry and moan while I'm gone about me not respecting our work flow. And then take the next week off. Then, at the end of the year, when I take half of December off (because I've been here over a decade, and have 4 weeks of vacation to use annually), he gets sideways about that too.

You don't want me to take vacation, ever? Then pay me for my unused time instead of cancelling it at the end of the year.

all of this - why is it even still a thing? I just can't understand the concept of managers being so anal that they watch the clock like that. I have people that come in anywhere from 7-930, and leave anywhere from 4-7pm, lunch is when the hell ever you take it. Now, I have to occasionally remind them I'm not paying them to stand around and BS, but their overall productivity is beyond compare. I get more work out of them just by letting them do their own thing. They have a project, they know the deadline, as long as we meet the deadline and the project meets my standards, who really cares what hours you work?

 

[SupervisingChildren]

That's the letter of the law at my office, but only one supervisor actually enforces it as such. Everyone else (rightfully) thinks it is nuts.

The dumb thing is, say you show up 5 minutes late and stay 5 minutes late in the afternoon to make it up, he expects you to fill out a leave form for the 5 minutes you missed in the morning, and an overtime form for the "extra" time you worked in the afternoon. Funk that. Thank God he's not my boss.

That supervisor sucks. My company is similar, but my boss is cool. My kids get on the bus at 7:50, so I usually get in 5 minutes after 8. It's known that I have no control over it, so it's not an issue. I routinely work 8:05-4:20+ with a paid lunch, but I've been working through lunch lately. I only claim 8 hrs per day (8-4) unless I have to work an extra half hour or more.

 

[petey_c]

Deleted it? I deleted everything out of habit until I finally got rid of something important. Now I just leave it all.

He deleted it or was too lazy to look for it.

 

[petey_c]

So, our shifts don't overlap anymore. Management wanted to pressure us into having the eve shift come in 15 minutes early everyday for "turn over". I said no, they said yes. I said pay me OT. They said why? 15 minutes X 5 days/week X 52 weeks = 60-ish hours of unpaid time. At OT rates that's some good $$. I generally come in early anyway (Relieve the watch. Thanks Navy...). They relented, bastiges...

To get back on topic. Co-worker (who by the way, is a nice guy)(I know, this has been covered before) who has plenty of bank-ed sick leave, comes in with some sort of crew crud (cough/cold/flu/URI). Over ten days(no no, I'm okay. It's getting better...)! I worked my forty and was looking forward to four days off. Started sounding funky on Friday. Feeling like schist on Sat (day off 1). Here it is heading into day four and still feeling like poop. Okay, I'll get my pacifier and blankey and take a nap now... I guess I'll start to feel better tomorrow when I have to go back to work.

 

[gratus fermentatio]

If your food leaves a puddle of grease in the microwave, YOU clean it up. If your food splatters all over the inside of the microwave, YOU clean it up. The microwave isn't on the janitor's list of things to clean. Nobody else should be forced to deal with your nasty, greasy, splattered mess. Your mother doesn't work here, clean up your own damned mess.
End rant, carry on.
Regards, GF.

 

[petey_c]

If your food leaves a puddle of grease in the microwave, YOU clean it up. If your food splatters all over the inside of the microwave, YOU clean it up. The microwave isn't on the janitor's list of things to clean. Nobody else should be forced to deal with your nasty, greasy, splattered mess. Your mother doesn't work here, clean up your own damned mess.
End rant, carry on.
Regards, GF.

A paper towel is a wonder cloth! Drop it on top of your food before you nuke it and presto, food splatter stays contained. Imbeciles...
On a similar rant/note; Put your food on a piece of foil before you put it in the toaster oven, so it doesn't drip on the heating coils and start to smoke. We have a roll of foil available for free.