Things about your co-workers that annoy you

[Michigan_Wolfman]

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. 😉

We have monkeys in the printing industry too. Press monkeys...ink mixing monkeys...bundle monkeys...warehouse monkeys...forklift monkeys...sewer monkeys...book block monkeys...binder monkeys...cover monkeys...and come to think of it, the entire company is even run by monkeys...Suit monkeys in that case.

 

[b-boy]

We have monkeys in the printing industry too. Press monkeys...ink mixing monkeys...bundle monkeys...warehouse monkeys...forklift monkeys...sewer monkeys...book block monkeys...binder monkeys...cover monkeys...and come to think of it, the entire company is even run by monkeys...Suit monkeys in that case.

Like this? That's me in the foreground. I have the same dead look in my eyes after 30 years of corporate bliss.

 

[Michigan_Wolfman]

b-boy, you just made my day. LOL

 

[GHBWNY]

What annoys me about my co-workers are the same imperfections I see in myself.

 

[GrogNerd]

I'm sure if I had any imperfections, they would annoy me

 

[Onkel_Udo]

What annoys me about my co-workers are the same imperfections I see in myself.

Me, not so much. My imperfections annoy me as well but few of them are shared with my coworkers...except occasionally stubbornness.

 

[Scout]

Some guy shows up to work an hour early and parks his big ass truck right up front, then sits in it waiting for others to leave so he can get a closer spot. I don't know why it bugs me, but it does.

 

[petey_c]

Some guy shows up to work an hour early and parks his big ass truck right up front, then sits in it waiting for others to leave so he can get a closer spot. I don't know why it bugs me, but it does.

I've got better things to do with my time than sit in a parking lot for an hour.

 

[betarhoalphadelta]

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.

Not necessarily true. I'm an engineer, and got a slightly higher verbal score on the SAT than my math score. The skills aren't mutually exclusive.

Engineering just selects for math regardless of verbal skills, and verbal skills are highly visible, so the unbalanced folks stick out.

 

[m00ps]

Not necessarily true. I'm an engineer, and got a slightly higher verbal score on the SAT than my math score. The skills aren't mutually exclusive.

Engineering just selects for math regardless of verbal skills, and verbal skills are highly visible, so the unbalanced folks stick out.

Im skored higher in math than engrish.

But yeah, I totally see your point. We engineers are notorious for not having great social communication skills. But that doesn't mean we cant match up synonyms and know how sentence make good

 

[Onkel_Udo]

Not necessarily true. I'm an engineer, and got a slightly higher verbal score on the SAT than my math score. The skills aren't mutually exclusive.

Engineering just selects for math regardless of verbal skills, and verbal skills are highly visible, so the unbalanced folks stick out.

The thing is, engineers that stay working as Engineers (until recently) excelled at not being able to communicate with other human beings that were not engineers. The ones with broad based social, managerial, communications skills almost always got pulled into the project management or other role. IT was the same way for years as well.

The "until recent" comment is a nod to how well they seem to be prepping the current batch, and this probably goes back 5-10 years, of Engineers for their need to successfully interact with all members in a team environment. Either something changed in the education or something changed in the individuals attracted to the engineering disciplines. Whatever it was, I am pleasantly surprised with most of the under 35 crowd of engineers I work with.

 

[olephart]

It's a new day and a new fluster cluck...
The way I see it is I have two choices; Alcoholism or Apathy. I'm not allowed to drink at work so I guess I I'll have to quote Phil Collins, "I don't care anymore"!

 

[beaksnbeer]

We have monkeys in the printing industry too. Press monkeys...ink mixing monkeys...bundle monkeys...warehouse monkeys...forklift monkeys...sewer monkeys...book block monkeys...binder monkeys...cover monkeys...and come to think of it, the entire company is even run by monkeys...Suit monkeys in that case.

What no yard apes working outside?

 

[dschare]

I work in a nursing home. I'm finding more and more of my co- workers have absolutely no respect for the people we care for. My mother would have back handed me for some of the things coming out of their mouths!

 

[Pyg]

My DB-******-clown of a coworker went to the fbi, made a complaint of defrauding tax payers, all because he is set to retire and wants to take management down with him.
So my office mate who admins the program got to have a chat fri with the FBI.
Of course the DB is way off base and the proposal was written correctly, bid properly and admin properly.
No fraud took place. Which he would know if he had worked in that unit.
He didn't so he doesn't.
Know the problem is 1/2 the office likes him because of his aspergers awkwardness, and they don't know what he did.
Further the rest of us have to walk on egg shells because of he disagrees with us , which is daily, he may just go complain!!!!

 

[Jasper18]

My DB-******-clown of a coworker went to the fbi, made a complaint of defrauding tax payers, all because he is set to retire and wants to take management down with him.
So my office mate who admins the program got to have a chat fri with the FBI.
Of course the DB is way off base and the proposal was written correctly, bid properly and admin properly.
No fraud took place. Which he would know if he had worked in that unit.
He didn't so he doesn't.
Know the problem is 1/2 the office likes him because of his aspergers awkwardness, and they don't know what he did.
Further the rest of us have to walk on egg shells because of he disagrees with us , which is daily, he may just go complain!!!!

Can't they get him on making a false report? It was clearly a lie.

 

[Pyg]

Can't they get him on making a false report? It was clearly a lie.

But I think there is a difference between knowing you are lying and being ignorant and wrong.
He in his heart and F-up mind believes he is right, this is why inhale diagnosed him either autistic or aspergers.
If he is right you are definitely wrong.
He had to leave earlier today for a "doctors apt" which he forgot about (which is out of character).
I would not be surprised for him to yell at the Feds when thy tell him they are not moving forward

 

[Jasper18]

But I think there is a difference between knowing you are lying and being ignorant and wrong.
He in his heart and F-up mind believes he is right, this is why inhale diagnosed him either autistic or aspergers.
If he is right you are definitely wrong.
He had to leave earlier today for a "doctors apt" which he forgot about (which is out of character).
I would not be surprised for him to yell at the Feds when thy tell him they are not moving forward

If I know people at all they'll say you're the d**k for being insensitive to someone with a disability.

 

[Pyg]

If I know people at all they'll say you're the d**k for being insensitive to someone with a disability.

I would agree, but he is unaware of his condition.
However simply watching him you see the patterns.
Good thing is he would never admit to being "disabled"

 

[Jasper18]

I was more talking about the other co-workers than the guy. At least I guess it's a good thing he doesn't know?? Anyway I hope this gets resolved for you.

 

[nDub]

If I know people at all they'll say you're the d**k for being insensitive to someone with a disability.

This reminds me of a time I was in high school. I had just saved up and bought a new (to me) trumpet for our high school jazz band and was super careful with it. One morning I set it down on a tom tom drum to pull my sweater off. Then this other trumpet player who was in a wheel chair was rolling through the class room and grabs a hold of the drum and pulls it out of his way. Well my trumpet started sliding off of it but both my arms were still caught in my sweater so I just watched it fall to the ground (seemed like in slow motion) and I shouted out. I quickly got out of the sweater and picked up my trumpet which now had a nice bend in the bell and started yelling at the kid. Then i realized that the whole room was staring at me like I was a monster... So I held up the trumpet so everyone could see and mumbled something like he needed to be more careful. I never did get an apology from the kid. I still feel mix emotions like I was justified at being mad but its not like he wanted to be rolling around having to move things out of the way so he could get through. Good times.

 

[Jasper18]

I think you were right to be upset. I know I would have been. Yeah he didn't want to be in a wheel chair, but it wasn't your fault that he was. Still gotta be careful.

 

[sablesurfer]

I just told the brand new boss..."Let me lay out all the data before you start solving one off items." Was that bad? Sigh.

 

[UndeadFred]

Not necessarily true. I'm an engineer, and got a slightly higher verbal score on the SAT than my math score. The skills aren't mutually exclusive.

Engineering just selects for math regardless of verbal skills, and verbal skills are highly visible, so the unbalanced folks stick out.

Yeah, I was told upon my admission to a fairly prestigious engineering college .. oh, what... over 25 years ago, that only two people who were accepted had higher verbal SAT and ACT scores than math in my class.. for the first time in over 10 years... and it turned out that the other person in the class became one of my best long term friends. He scored higher than I did. I was good enough though. I accepted being the dummy in the top 1%.

It is actually sad when you have the skills that you are often tasked to translate "engineerese" into English-- and at the same time have to be a teacher of Engineering to explain it to management. It's fun for about the first 15 years though.. but I tire of it now, actually.

 

[Grannyknot]

Preach to us all year long about how important a strong military is, thank you for your service, respect our troops, pray for our troops, etc etc etc etc

Then schedule full workdays for Memorial Day & Veterans Day.

 

[fuzzy2133]

I just told the brand new boss..."Let me lay out all the data before you start solving one off items." Was that bad? Sigh.

How is being a pro-active employee bad? Many people in that sort of position take the "it looks broke on paper so lets fix it" approach. Was their any response? I would unfortunately bet your attempt to help the new boss look good fell on deaf ears.

 

[DoctorMemory]

It is actually sad when you have the skills that you are often tasked to translate "engineerese" into English

My wife's an engineer. Sometimes I think she married me because she needed a proofreader! But it all works out, I hate to think how much more I'd be paying for a mortgage if somebody who does more calculus in a week than I've done since leaving college didn't run over the numbers a time or two.

 

[sablesurfer]

How is being a pro-active employee bad? Many people in that sort of position take the "it looks broke on paper so lets fix it" approach. Was their any response? I would unfortunately bet your attempt to help the new boss look good fell on deaf ears.

Actually, it bothering me because he kinda looked shocked that any one would ask him to wait a moment and not interject with his 1.5 weeks of experience. Sigh.

 

[DrunkleJon]

This reminds me of a time I was in high school. I had just saved up and bought a new (to me) trumpet for our high school jazz band and was super careful with it. One morning I set it down on a tom tom drum to pull my sweater off. Then this other trumpet player who was in a wheel chair was rolling through the class room and grabs a hold of the drum and pulls it out of his way. Well my trumpet started sliding off of it but both my arms were still caught in my sweater so I just watched it fall to the ground (seemed like in slow motion) and I shouted out. I quickly got out of the sweater and picked up my trumpet which now had a nice bend in the bell and started yelling at the kid. Then i realized that the whole room was staring at me like I was a monster... So I held up the trumpet so everyone could see and mumbled something like he needed to be more careful. I never did get an apology from the kid. I still feel mix emotions like I was justified at being mad but its not like he wanted to be rolling around having to move things out of the way so he could get through. Good times.

I find that disabled people do not want to be coddled and treated like they are fragile. As such I will treat them exactly as I will those who are 'normal'. You would be amazed how often you will be thanked for treating them like a person over a charity case. Then again there are also those who use it as an excuse for being an ****** and you are screwed either way.


Thankfully most of my coworker gripes have been rectified aside from the boss who decided to completely change how we do things in my department without any real idea of how we operate. He got another person in on it with even less relevant experience than himself.

 

[Venari]

You would be amazed how often you will be thanked for treating them like a person over a charity case.

I got invited out to dinner by a friend's uncle. This uncle is in a wheelchair (I never asked why). Apparently, over the THREE TIMES I met him, he's decided I'm the one friend of his neice/nephew-in-law that doesn't talk down to him or patronize him.

Free steak