Things about your co-workers that annoy you

[GrogNerd]

for those with the lazy co-workers

Slyly Nudge a Lazy Coworker to Get Back to Work by Offering Your Help

If a lazy coworker is dragging your productivity down, a genuine offer to help might be enough to light a fire under them.

I don't see it working on the chronic lazy, like myself, but you might give it a try

 

[sablesurfer]

email comes from group a, the email says if any problems contact group a.....

....so the tester sends an email to group b

 

[dkwolf]

Have a coworker who is in self-destruct mode. Basically daring the company to fire him, broke up with his girlfriend last week, losing a custody battle with his ex-wife. Got moved out of a private office into the bullpen (cube area) today.

I'm just slightly concerned that he's nearing the snapping point... and am giving serious thought to 'bending' company policy and wearing my concealed carry rig tomorrow.

 

[Renegades_Brew]

Life Safety is nothing to be toyed with. If there are serious concerns a quick call to HR with your concerns would be a good idea.

 

[ScrewyBrewer]

By the end of the week not much, at the start of the week everything.

 

[sablesurfer]

Life Safety is nothing to be toyed with. If there are serious concerns a quick call to HR with your concerns would be a good idea.

Yeah, I found out that the trigger words are 'i feel threatened'. I had a co-worker that went off in a loud argument on the floor. Seems I was the only one (on a floor of 20, and 5 management) that went to management and said something. I wanted that on the record.

The question 'but do you feel threatened?' came up twice. It seems that might have been the point when HR would have done something. Stupid me, I said no because the guy is all bluster and used to ghetto yelling to get his way. Now he is still here almost a year later, two more tantrums on the floor, and turns out ALL of management is scared of him and will never correct him in case he yells again.

I should have said yes.

 

[dkwolf]

Life Safety is nothing to be toyed with. If there are serious concerns a quick call to HR with your concerns would be a good idea.

Agreed; all of the higher-ups in the office are aware of his current state. What triggered me is a comment he made in the parking lot as we were leaving last night. Odds are 97% that it was a "harmless" comment - we joke about things quite a bit that probably shouldn't be joked about. But given all that has gone on lately...

I did have a text message exchange with my boss last night discussing the possibility of it being a valid concern - he agreed that the individual is not completely stable right now, but not likely to act out in the office. Going to keep tabs on things for a few days and see how they progress.

(In all honesty, this change might do him good - in his office, he could sit and stew about things, and privately b*tch to people. Out in the middle of the bullpen, he can't dwell on it as much)

 

[Mainer]

That one dude who quit like three months ago, but still comes back once a week, ostensibly to "visit" but really to tell us how we're all doing our jobs wrong.

 

[GrogNerd]

That one dude who quit like three months ago, but still comes back once a week, ostensibly to "visit" but really to tell us how we're all doing our jobs wrong.

unemployment: he's doing it wrong

 

[Mainer]

unemployment: he's doing it wrong

Not unemployment. He got a job with another nonprofit, but it's a work-from-home job. I think he's realizing that working from home all day has its drawbacks when you have 3 kids.

 

[GrogNerd]

Not unemployment. He got a job with another nonprofit, but it's a work-from-home job. I think he's realizing that working from home all day has its drawbacks when you have 3 kids.

well, then. I guess my joke lacks the critical element of humor. bummer

boss and I both work from our respective homes, but he has 3 kids + his wife works from home & I have no kids, wife doesn't work from home, so it's just me and my hound.

and he's usually in the back yard doing his job chasing rabbits.

 

[sablesurfer]

Agile is NOT the answer to EVERY project!!! Grrrr....sigh.

 

[olephart]

code monkey ?

An affectionate term for a specific kind of underpaid, overworked (often by volition), increasingly underappreciated indentured servant, otherwise known as a Software Programmer.*

Derrived from the Latin-Greek "Codex" and the Obsolete-Japanese "Donkey Kong San"

"Socrates says we're all just expendable code monkeys, sitting here in the late Tokugawa period. 😉

 

[Natdavis777]

Stupidity. Their stupidity annoys me...

 

[sablesurfer]

code monkey ?

LOL.

No longer a code monkey, now a systems admin and sometime project leader/manger.

 

[olephart]

This motivational speech has helped me many times when dealing with the common-sense impaired higher-ups at my place of employment... :smack:



Remember, whatever the nitwits do, at quitting time, "It Just Doesn't' Matter"...

RDWHAHB

 

[Zuljin]

I don't know why we have training. Why we toil over logic diagrams. Insist on O&Ms and write SOPs. We don't follow any of them. Stop wasting time and paper.

And the paper. It's 20 friggen 16 and these troglodytes insist on scratching marks on paper.

 

[Jasper18]

You know what even though I work alone now, after reading all these posts I guess I'll rant and rave about my old job. It was working for the Army as contract mechanics with Sikorsky up in Ft. Belvoir in DC. I literally don't know where to start with this list. lol I guess lets talk about my boss: BIG Puerto Rican guy who was the test pilot. Someone thought it would be a fine idea to put a Pilot in charge of mechanics. At some point he got the name Coco (as in the gorilla) because he had the stature of a standing gorilla, and honestly, it was terribly hard to understand him while talking face to face, and IMPOSSIBLE while on the phone. Due to the mission we were supporting, we were stuck on 4 10 hour shifts, and most days we sat in the break room and counted ceiling tiles for 9 out of 10 hours. It was enough to drive you mad. Coco would just kind of drop by from time to time and micromanage. He would just walk in the office, check out the hangar floor and send us all out with brooms. He loved doing that as "punishment" for us. Times like that he would say that we use the hangar (the helicopters weren't ours, they were the armys and we worked on them) and that we should keep it clean. Great. Fine. That works, but then when we want to do something to make our life easier, i.e. park the helis differently, or move things around then suddenly it's the Army's hangar and we can't do that. So which is it? If it's the Armys hangar then they can keep it looking good. They used it as well for their blackhawks and made a mess. BTW the army guys sat around just as much as us. They were just down the hallway. Lets not think that they were on the range or on maneuvers or anything. They're on autotrader and youtube just like us. I know it sounds petty on here im sure, but in the moment, when you're being micromanaged and held to double standards it's quite frustrating.
Now lets move on to the biggest PITA: A man we called "The Worlds Ugliest Man." He sure was. We had an EH&S guy named Steve. Great guy. He was about to leave for a new job and his EH&S Duty was gonna open up. I put my vote in for taking over his duty. I wanted it to fluff up the old resume you know? On to TWUMan. His name is Manny. Also Puerto Rican guy. Now Manny used to work at our site a while ago, and him and one or two other guys who are no longer around are friends with Coco. They abused that fact to no end. They would never work and Coco would do squat. Eventually they all left, or in Manny's case went to another base of operations in the company. I believe it was Corpus Christi. That base was going to close so he had no choice but to volunteer for a station on Kwajalein Island in the pacific if he wanted to stay with our company. Our company at great expense moved him out there, and after a week the guy QUIT. (One of our guys actually left his family for 3 months to help cover for that guy leaving.) Heres the kicker: Coco took it upon himself to re-hire this guy at our base. He didn't tell his boss, he didn't tell our supervisor. The guy just showed up one day. A month later is when Steve was leaving us. As I said I applied. Coco decided to put his friend Manny in the position. EH&S was an additional duty on top of you being a mechanic. That's how it was for Steve, that's how it is for all of our other additional duties. Can you see where I'm going with this? Environmental Health and Safety became Manny's main job. He milked it for 39 out of 40 hours a week. Literally shuffled papers all day long. Needless to say I wasn't happy. It was a slap in the face, so Coco and I had words. I was vocal at my displeasure and everyone thought it was complete stupidity on our boss's part. The boss went so far as to lie to my face about how Manny had great experience and how STEVE was doing a bad job. He wasn't. He got an A on his EH&S eval. The man in charge of EH&S for the company even hated Manny and had no idea why he was given the job. I might add that the HR guy from Corpus Christi stuck a note in Manny's file (which was sent straight to our HR guy) that said: "Haha got you back." We sent him Manny the first time and now he's back lol. What does that tell you about the man? To wrap it up: We all hated him, and tortured him until the very end. The program shut down, we all moved on, and I think he's still unemployed.

I profoundly apologize for the length and seeming incoherence of this post. It just all came streaming back lol.

 

[betarhoalphadelta]

Agreed; all of the higher-ups in the office are aware of his current state. What triggered me is a comment he made in the parking lot as we were leaving last night. Odds are 97% that it was a "harmless" comment - we joke about things quite a bit that probably shouldn't be joked about. But given all that has gone on lately...

I did have a text message exchange with my boss last night discussing the possibility of it being a valid concern - he agreed that the individual is not completely stable right now, but not likely to act out in the office. Going to keep tabs on things for a few days and see how they progress.

(In all honesty, this change might do him good - in his office, he could sit and stew about things, and privately b*tch to people. Out in the middle of the bullpen, he can't dwell on it as much)

Seriously watch out. I've had two trainings on workplace violence, one recently, and there are some serious red flags in what you posted.

That's not to say he's going to do anything. Because for every 500 people showing these red flags, 499 don't shoot up their workplace. But these are red flags. Particularly the "harmless comment."

Honestly, my advice (if you have any semblance of a relationship with the guy) is to take him out to lunch. Let him know he's respected, and you know he's going through a tough time, and that you care. A lot of the situations that go violent are people who think they're being disrespected in the workplace. Putting him in the bullpen might not have helped. But letting him know that people care might go a long way.

And don't talk to management. Talk to HR. This sounds like a bad situation waiting to happen...

 

[b-boy]

I had to post this.

I got this email in regards to an internship my company was offering. We interviewed 7 people from a local university for 1 Summer internship.

The result has been constant pestering. They've called multiple times. They've emailed daily. They've contacted other people in my group to get my direct phone number. One of the candidates had their professor write an email demanding feedback. I've even had friend requests on Facebook.

The email below was the coup de grace. Apparently my 30+ years of experience don't count for anything in this student's eyes. This kid is currently in college and has zero work experience. The names have been blanked out to protect the guilty.

What the hell is wrong with these kids?

=====================================

From: **** ***** [mailto:*******@gmail.com]
Sent: Friday, May 13, 2016 8:50 PM
To: ******, ***** [******]
Subject: Re: Query

Hi,

I met my other peers who gave the interview today.
One of them got the offer.

I am surprised as you seem to have made a hasty decision.
The person whom youll gave the offer does not have the required skill set in c# and .net.
Also due to unethical activities this semester.
I don't mind that you do not select me as I am anyways interested in full time and the following candidates are much better compared to me.
But I felt bad for ***** , ***** , ***** and *****.
***** has work exp in desired skill set she is very good.
***** has work exp in desired skill set and nice work ethics.
***** has projects in desired skill set and he is very good in coding too.
***** has good nature and willingness to learn.

I was expecting *****,***** or ***** to get an opportunity. If youll have another opening do consider them.

Nevertheless it was nice interacting with you.

May be the person whom youll selected is the best candidate as per your decision and hopefully works out well.

Thanks,
*******.

 

[gunnuts]

Some of these people breath my air

 

[Jasper18]

I had to post this.

I got this email in regards to an internship my company was offering. We interviewed 7 people from a local university for 1 Summer internship.

The result has been constant pestering. They've called multiple times. They've emailed daily. They've contacted other people in my group to get my direct phone number. One of the candidates had their professor write an email demanding feedback. I've even had friend requests on Facebook.

The email below was the coup de grace. Apparently my 30+ years of experience don't count for anything in this student's eyes. This kid is currently in college and has zero work experience. The names have been blanked out to protect the guilty.

What the hell is wrong with these kids?

=====================================

From: **** ***** [mailto:*******@gmail.com]
Sent: Friday, May 13, 2016 8:50 PM
To: ******, ***** [******]
Subject: Re: Query

Hi,

I met my other peers who gave the interview today.
One of them got the offer.

I am surprised as you seem to have made a hasty decision.
The person whom youll gave the offer does not have the required skill set in c# and .net.
Also due to unethical activities this semester.
I don't mind that you do not select me as I am anyways interested in full time and the following candidates are much better compared to me.
But I felt bad for ***** , ***** , ***** and *****.
***** has work exp in desired skill set she is very good.
***** has work exp in desired skill set and nice work ethics.
***** has projects in desired skill set and he is very good in coding too.
***** has good nature and willingness to learn.

I was expecting *****,***** or ***** to get an opportunity. If youll have another opening do consider them.

Nevertheless it was nice interacting with you.

May be the person whom youll selected is the best candidate as per your decision and hopefully works out well.

Thanks,
*******.

This kid apparently skipped his English classes. Sheesh I had to re-read a few parts just for it to make sense. These are college level students? Just proves what a waste of money college is. They can't even form coherent sentences.

 

[autobaun70]

I had to post this.



I got this email in regards to an internship my company was offering. We interviewed 7 people from a local university for 1 Summer internship.



The result has been constant pestering. They've called multiple times. They've emailed daily. They've contacted other people in my group to get my direct phone number. One of the candidates had their professor write an email demanding feedback. I've even had friend requests on Facebook.



The email below was the coup de grace. Apparently my 30+ years of experience don't count for anything in this student's eyes. This kid is currently in college and has zero work experience. The names have been blanked out to protect the guilty.



What the hell is wrong with these kids?



=====================================



From: **** ***** [mailto:*******@gmail.com]

Sent: Friday, May 13, 2016 8:50 PM

To: ******, ***** [******]

Subject: Re: Query



Hi,



I met my other peers who gave the interview today.

One of them got the offer.



I am surprised as you seem to have made a hasty decision.

The person whom youll gave the offer does not have the required skill set in c# and .net.

Also due to unethical activities this semester.

I don't mind that you do not select me as I am anyways interested in full time and the following candidates are much better compared to me.

But I felt bad for ***** , ***** , ***** and *****.

***** has work exp in desired skill set she is very good.

***** has work exp in desired skill set and nice work ethics.

***** has projects in desired skill set and he is very good in coding too.

***** has good nature and willingness to learn.



I was expecting *****,***** or ***** to get an opportunity. If youll have another opening do consider them.



Nevertheless it was nice interacting with you.



May be the person whom youll selected is the best candidate as per your decision and hopefully works out well.



Thanks,

*******.

I would endorse her for "mastery of oxygen thievery" on LinkedIn.

 

[Baja_Brewer]

Complete sentences? We don't need no stinkin' complete sentences!

.

What the hell is wrong with these kids?

=====================================

From: **** ***** [mailto:*******@gmail.com]
Sent: Friday, May 13, 2016 8:50 PM
To: ******, ***** [******]
Subject: Re: Query

Hi,

I met my other peers who gave the interview today.
One of them got the offer.

I am surprised as you seem to have made a hasty decision.
The person whom youll gave the offer does not have the required skill set in c# and .net.
Also due to unethical activities this semester.
I don't mind that you do not select me as I am anyways interested in full time and the following candidates are much better compared to me.
But I felt bad for ***** , ***** , ***** and *****.
***** has work exp in desired skill set she is very good.
***** has work exp in desired skill set and nice work ethics.
***** has projects in desired skill set and he is very good in coding too.
***** has good nature and willingness to learn.

I was expecting *****,***** or ***** to get an opportunity. If youll have another opening do consider them.

Nevertheless it was nice interacting with you.

May be the person whom youll selected is the best candidate as per your decision and hopefully works out well.

Thanks,
*******.

 

[smurfjuice]

The fact that my night guy shows up at 9:45-9:50 am. he is such a d**k

 

[sablesurfer]

Just reached a point where the performance review people request has the last boss's comments on it. The boss who didn't make it a year. Wonder if I can send a caveate follow up of...'fyi - i am still here after a decade, he didn't make it a year.' ?

 

[betarhoalphadelta]

This kid apparently skipped his English classes. Sheesh I had to re-read a few parts just for it to make sense. These are college level students? Just proves what a waste of money college is. They can't even form coherent sentences.

To be fair, it sounds like a computer science job (coding). There's a good chance English isn't this person's first language. Science and engineering disciplines attract a LOT of foreign students. In the industry, it's the same. If I took a WAG at it, I'd guess as high as 20-30% of the engineering & software workforce at my job is foreign-born.

While I'm as critical of poor language skills as anyone, I don't hold folks who grew up outside the US to the same standards as natives.

 

[fuzzy2133]

Also due to unethical activities this semester.

The question remains what was the unethical activity and how were you not involved since you have knowledge of it.

 

[Kee]

The question remains what was the unethical activity and how were you not involved since you have knowledge of it.

To cast general aspersions on someone, especially when you have a vested interest, without offering evidence, is unethical.

 

[dkwolf]

To be fair, it sounds like a computer science job (coding). There's a good chance English isn't this person's first language. Science and engineering disciplines attract a LOT of foreign students. In the industry, it's the same. If I took a WAG at it, I'd guess as high as 20-30% of the engineering & software workforce at my job is foreign-born.

While I'm as critical of poor language skills as anyone, I don't hold folks who grew up outside the US to the same standards as natives.

Not to mention those skilled in the engineering world tend to be somewhat lacking on the language side of things to begin with.

Both of my bosses, who are licensed civil engineers, can't spell to save their own lives. Probably should have been my first clue that I wasn't going to make it in engineering school when I got an A in honors english my freshman year.