When they drag customers down the aisle.
Things about your co-workers that annoy you
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When they drag GROOMS down the aisle !
I work for a growing engineering firm (Zweig Hot List, ENR Top 500, etc.) In the last 5 years, my previous company merged with the firm I'm now with, and we've bought out two other firms, with a few more acquisitions in the works.
One of the acquired firms was a small family owned architecture firm, and the entire staff merged into our operation. The principal of that firm, to this day, emails the entire company when he is going to be out of the office on vacation. Okay, dude. You used to work in a single-discipline office where everyone of the 30 employees interacted with you directly at some point during the week. You're now part of a multi-discipline, multi-office firm with a couple hundred employees. There are over a hundred people who have never met you, and will never interact with you. They do not give two flying ducks about whether or not you're on vacation. Have you not noticed that you are the ONLY person that sends out company-wide emails to announce your vacation plans?
One of the acquired firms was a small family owned architecture firm, and the entire staff merged into our operation. The principal of that firm, to this day, emails the entire company when he is going to be out of the office on vacation. Okay, dude. You used to work in a single-discipline office where everyone of the 30 employees interacted with you directly at some point during the week. You're now part of a multi-discipline, multi-office firm with a couple hundred employees. There are over a hundred people who have never met you, and will never interact with you. They do not give two flying ducks about whether or not you're on vacation. Have you not noticed that you are the ONLY person that sends out company-wide emails to announce your vacation plans?
This isn't annoying so much as funny.
Me: This office is clean but how long will it stay that way?
Coworker 1: She'll keep it clean, she's anal.
Me: True.
Coworker 1: I could use a little anal. In my office.
Me: Uh, I, uh, what?
Me: This office is clean but how long will it stay that way?
Coworker 1: She'll keep it clean, she's anal.
Me: True.
Coworker 1: I could use a little anal. In my office.
Me: Uh, I, uh, what?
They talk. I wish they'd stop.
triethylborane
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nDub
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Yes! I deal with this at work.
There have even sent out notifications to stop it and people still do it.
I don't care that your leaving on vacation, we never interact!
GrogNerd
mean old man
Setup auto-reply in Outlook. that will let those who try to get ahold of you know you're not around and will leave everyone else the hell alone
Imagine if this whole thread worked at the same place.
GrogNerd
mean old man
coincidentally, I just want to let everyone know I go on vacation tomorrow.
we'll be here. Irma will be over to the right, not bothering us
we'll send you a picture of her at CPA
we'll be here. Irma will be over to the right, not bothering us
we'll send you a picture of her at CPA
Yes, what a novel idea. It's even company policy that we use auto-reply. But this @$$clown still feels the need to broadcast it.
Personally, I HATE using auto-reply. I make it a point to never talk about my vacations or travel plans on social media, etc. for the express purpose of not advertising when I'm not home. And then my job forces me to broadcast to every spammer that happens to hit my email address that I'm not in the office (so probably on vacation and not home).
GrogNerd
mean old man
went to Williamsburg to visit my Dad one Memorial Day not long ago and when we came back our front door was wide open. storm door was closed, but the main door was open almost all the way it can be
my guitar was still leaning against the wall right inside the door, so we figured nothing else was taken
our door does not face the street, it's perpendicular, so a random drive-by wouldn't have noticed.
it's just the boss and me, so I do have to inform the "entire" company.
my guitar was still leaning against the wall right inside the door, so we figured nothing else was taken
our door does not face the street, it's perpendicular, so a random drive-by wouldn't have noticed.
it's just the boss and me, so I do have to inform the "entire" company.
Co-workers? I'm self-employed. My boss is a jerk.
Mark
Mark
GrogNerd
mean old man
My boss send me emails for pricing quotes that I got 30 minutes before I left for the day and tells me in the future I can handle it. I can handle it, and I planned on handling it the next day because I spent until 5 minutes minutes before I left with an inspector so I didn't have time. He also only works may 30 hours a week.
The rest of the staff don't want to change their habits because they've been there forever and nobody made them do anything, so when I try they complain and I get undermined by my boss.
Who isn't actually my boss, in some weird cluster of dumb organization him and I are on the same level of management, and when you follow the lines I am not under his direction. But I am still expected to follow him
The rest of the staff don't want to change their habits because they've been there forever and nobody made them do anything, so when I try they complain and I get undermined by my boss.
Who isn't actually my boss, in some weird cluster of dumb organization him and I are on the same level of management, and when you follow the lines I am not under his direction. But I am still expected to follow him
I had a meeting with Bob , and he said to do this.
Well, I had a meeting with Bob, and he said to do that.
Let's call Bob.
This voice mail box is full.
Well, I had a meeting with Bob, and he said to do that.
Let's call Bob.
This voice mail box is full.
Upthewazzu
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Why do you hate it so much? Outlook gives you the option of only auto-replying to folks within your organization. Also, you don't have to specify why you're out of the office. My standard out-of-office message is "Hello and thank you for your email. I am currently out of the office with limited email access. I will respond to your message as soon as I return [sometimes I'll list the return date]".
Boom, done. You could be at home sick on the couch or in the jungles of Belize. No one knows why you're gone but at least they know you're gone and aren't left hanging.
Our company prides itself on being responsive to clients, so the auto-reply is as much, if not more, for people outside of the organization than it is inside. Anyone inside can look at our Skype app and see that I haven't been at my desk for 4 days.
An auto-reply is also, to a spammer, auto-confirmation that they hit a valid email address. And if your email signature is automatically inserted into your email (like ours is) and you can't turn it off, *BOOM*, they've got your cell phone number, too.
skraeling
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Lady at work is possibly the loudest eater in the history of humanity.
I mean sweet Jesus close you damn mouth when you eat.
Sounds like a nat geo special on primates across from me.
And before anyone even says anything no shes not black that was not a joke I was making. We descended from apes.
Also has the most irritatingly consistent morning yogurt ritual.
Queue spoon on plastic cup.
Schhh schhh schhh eat
Schhh schhh schhh eat
I mean sweet Jesus close you damn mouth when you eat.
Sounds like a nat geo special on primates across from me.
And before anyone even says anything no shes not black that was not a joke I was making. We descended from apes.
Also has the most irritatingly consistent morning yogurt ritual.
Queue spoon on plastic cup.
Schhh schhh schhh eat
Schhh schhh schhh eat
Genghis
... and the banned played on.
We had one of those at the office for a while. I had to avoid the lunchroom whenever he was in there. Made me nauseous.
Had a guy working for us for a while that was the dumbest smart man I've ever known. Was a pretty good engineer, but completely OBLIVIOUS to anything going on around him. You could literally be talking about him IN FRONT OF HIS FACE and he wouldn't notice. Hated it when he parked next to you, because wherever the car stopped rolling was where he parked it. Keep in mind, I work for an engineering company. Most of us parked almost perfectly inside the lines (lined up, evenly spaced between the lines, etc.) It was nothing for him to be 20 degrees off, parked across two spaces - or sometimes, halfway up on the curb. Messiest eater I've ever seen. Our surveyor once joked that you could take one his sweaters, boil it in water, and get soup. Would regularly get those foil packets of tuna and heat up a plate in the break room. Or go grocery shopping at noon, and completely fill the (shared) freezer with his frozen dinners.
And the manspreading was the worst. Don't get me wrong, I'm a guy. I know it's nice to air the boys out. But when you're sitting on a break room chair, and basically have your legs spread out so your feet are BESIDE the chair. He would literally take up half the break room table - which would be bad enough, but he sat in the middle of the table, regardless of if he was the only person there or not.
I don't miss him at all.
And the manspreading was the worst. Don't get me wrong, I'm a guy. I know it's nice to air the boys out. But when you're sitting on a break room chair, and basically have your legs spread out so your feet are BESIDE the chair. He would literally take up half the break room table - which would be bad enough, but he sat in the middle of the table, regardless of if he was the only person there or not.
I don't miss him at all.
magno
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Hah! just found this thread... I need this outlet.
I work for a small company - about 15 employees. We hired a new guy in January straight out of college. We had interviewed 2 applicants, liked the other one better, but she accepted another offer...
It became clear within his first week that he had misrepresented his qualifications at the interview, but the consensus was that he was fresh out of school, and to let him grow into the position. One of the first things that he told me on his first day was that he was "really, really smart", which I took as a sign of someone who is not actually so. We share an office, and he talks constantly, and when he isn't talking he is whistling. I've taken to wearing large headphones when I need peace and quiet.
He doesn't take direction well, and has tried to reinvent the wheel on a myriad of issues - forgetting (or ignoring) that everyone else at the office has years of successful experience at this. He regularly bites off more than he can chew, and projects and deadlines suffer for it. He refuses to work off the shared server, preferring to save his work locally, and putting it on the server when he is "done", despite repeated requests to not do so. He is nearly always the last one in, and first one out, claiming that he is working from home through the VPN, but anything that does happen from home usually requires major revision, or he has some story about software not working for him, etc. For various reasons, I have had the pleasure of working with him on most of his projects.
We had a summer intern, and several times she came to me saying that the new guy was trying to foist his work off on her. She also told me that he claimed, as a 75% deadline was coming up on a project she was working on, that he liked to be at 100% at the 75% deadline. My reply was "he doesn't know what it feels like to be at 100% at the 75% deadline". She hinted to me that she liked the work we were doing, but wouldn't accept an offer if she had to work with this guy.
He is also an expert on just about everything (just ask him). He spent a 2 hour car ride with me one time trying to convince me that vehicles with automatic transmissions get better gas mileage than those with standard transmissions (I drive a standard, he drives an automatic). Besides saying that I didn't believe that to be the case as he first mentioned it, I just let it go. He would not drop it, and had all sorts of reasons why he was right, including something about the computers in the standard vehicles activating the brakes automatically when the gears were shifted.
Unfortunately, we are super-busy, and relatively short staffed. We cannot afford to give him the boot at the moment.
/ Rant over
I work for a small company - about 15 employees. We hired a new guy in January straight out of college. We had interviewed 2 applicants, liked the other one better, but she accepted another offer...
It became clear within his first week that he had misrepresented his qualifications at the interview, but the consensus was that he was fresh out of school, and to let him grow into the position. One of the first things that he told me on his first day was that he was "really, really smart", which I took as a sign of someone who is not actually so. We share an office, and he talks constantly, and when he isn't talking he is whistling. I've taken to wearing large headphones when I need peace and quiet.
He doesn't take direction well, and has tried to reinvent the wheel on a myriad of issues - forgetting (or ignoring) that everyone else at the office has years of successful experience at this. He regularly bites off more than he can chew, and projects and deadlines suffer for it. He refuses to work off the shared server, preferring to save his work locally, and putting it on the server when he is "done", despite repeated requests to not do so. He is nearly always the last one in, and first one out, claiming that he is working from home through the VPN, but anything that does happen from home usually requires major revision, or he has some story about software not working for him, etc. For various reasons, I have had the pleasure of working with him on most of his projects.
We had a summer intern, and several times she came to me saying that the new guy was trying to foist his work off on her. She also told me that he claimed, as a 75% deadline was coming up on a project she was working on, that he liked to be at 100% at the 75% deadline. My reply was "he doesn't know what it feels like to be at 100% at the 75% deadline". She hinted to me that she liked the work we were doing, but wouldn't accept an offer if she had to work with this guy.
He is also an expert on just about everything (just ask him). He spent a 2 hour car ride with me one time trying to convince me that vehicles with automatic transmissions get better gas mileage than those with standard transmissions (I drive a standard, he drives an automatic). Besides saying that I didn't believe that to be the case as he first mentioned it, I just let it go. He would not drop it, and had all sorts of reasons why he was right, including something about the computers in the standard vehicles activating the brakes automatically when the gears were shifted.
Unfortunately, we are super-busy, and relatively short staffed. We cannot afford to give him the boot at the moment.
/ Rant over
treacheroustexan
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One of the new hires slurps a whole can of soup out of a bowl, no spoons involved. it's the worst.
skraeling
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Hes not entirely wrong. Ok I mean coming from this guy he is wrong, considering the source. It depends on the cars, but "some" autos are as good or better than their MT counterparts. Autos are not like they used to be.
Still prefer my three pedals though (+ boost).
Nope. She is however probably one of the single most neurotic people ive ever known.
The absurd yogurt ritual is consistent, irritating, but thankfully brief. When she starts eating lunch though? I leave my desk.
Sounds exactly like a recent MIT grad (PhD) that I just had to fire after 6 months because he couldn't compete with an amazing community college intern. Feel sorry that he wasted hundreds of thousands of dollars for an education that he will never be able to use. He'll probably end up teaching.
magno
Sound Level Technician
Holy hell... so today he took a bunch of work that he had been working on locally, and moved it back to the server... And, in the process, he overwrote one of the documents that I had been working on, which he had not been working on. The damn thing is about two weeks out of date now.
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