Things about your co-workers that annoy you

[bleme]

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 The damn thing is about two weeks out of date now.

Can you pull your version from last nights back-up?

 

[beernutz]

My only peeves are co-workers who don't know the difference between reply and reply-all and co-workers who open their office doors (thankfully we have them and not cubicals) and then have loud phone conversations.

The former bugs me because there are a couple of co-workers who consistently do this even when the original email says to please not reply-all but instead reply directly to the sender. One of them is somewhat dense but the other just thinks the world must not be deprived of her input on any question.

To the latter, shut your freakin' door! I am trying to concentrate and I don't particularly care what you and your spouse are doing this weekend.

 

[dkwolf]

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 The damn thing is about two weeks out of date now.

I swear, we work for the same place. (if the staff numbers weren't drastically different). We've had guys pull the "I prefer to work on my local machine" - for various reasons, including "I don't want to mess up, if I leave a copy on the server I can mess up the local copy, and always have a backup".

We make it explicitly known that this is not allowed. Both because of the file management nightmare you just experienced, and because our local machines are not backed up - the server is. All work must be saved on the server, no exceptions.

And we had a new hire last year that I finally had to sit down and explain to him that, "You've worked here three months. We've been doing this for decades. There is literally nothing we are going to ask you to do in the next year that has not been done at least once already. There is ALWAYS an example for you to follow. Before you create a new document, come see one of us. There is one you should be using, formatted how we need it to be."

About that same time, he had been started working on a very complex, in-depth process (takes us about 4 months start to finish to get through). On the technical side of things, I *am* the office expert on it. I was gone on vacation, and he told my engineer that he was going to try and rewrite one of our calculation spreadsheets. Engineer told him no, use the sheets you were given as an example. He mentioned it to me. Told him no, there are reasons the sheets are set up the way they are. I leave on vacation for a week, and when I come back, he comes back to my desk all happy and proud of himself, because he rewrote the spreadsheet. Looked it over for a few minutes, and while it worked for that specific project, it did not take into *other* factors commonly present on those types of projects. After reviewing it, and still having this happy little puppy just beaming with pride at my desk...

Me: Do you remember Brian telling you not to spend any time doing this, just use the sheet that is already set up?
Him: Um..yeah, bu...
Me: Do you also remember me telling you that the existing sheet has been set up for a decade, and has been error-tested on over a dozen projects, and not to fix something that isn't broken?
Him: But I made it better.....
Me: After being told twice specifically NOT to spend any time on it. And it's not better. It does not allow for <situation A> <situation B> or <situation C>. There is a REASON we told you to use the templates we have set up. You don't have NEARLY the understanding of the total process you would need to start making changes. If you have questions about how a process works, or think you might have a suggestion to improve it, that's fine. But come talk to me or Brian. Because you don't know enough to know what you don't know. Now throw this away, and go back and do it the way we told you to two weeks ago.

I thought he was going to cry.

 

[dkwolf]

My only peeves are co-workers who don't know the difference between reply and reply-all and co-workers who open their office doors (thankfully we have them and not cubicals) and then have loud phone conversations.

The former bugs me because there are a couple of co-workers who consistently do this even when the original email says to please not reply-all but instead reply directly to the sender. One of them is somewhat dense but the other just thinks the world must not be deprived of her input on any question.

To the latter, shut your freakin' door! I am trying to concentrate and I don't particularly care what you and your spouse are doing this weekend.

There is actually a relatively easy solution to this - but it has to be implemented by the sender. Send the email to yourself in the To: field, and use a blind carbon copy (Bcc) for everyone else. On the recipient end, it only shows that the email was sent to them, and reply all will only go back to the original sender.


And speakerphone abuse should be punishable by death.

 

[beernutz]

There is actually a relatively easy solution to this - but it has to be implemented by the sender. Send the email to yourself in the To: field, and use a blind carbon copy (Bcc) for everyone else. On the recipient end, it only shows that the email was sent to them, and reply all will only go back to the original sender.


And speakerphone abuse should be punishable by death.

Agree on the use of Bcc but that would involve reversing a lifetime of my co-worker's ingrained behavior.

 

[skraeling]

Agree on the use of Bcc but that would involve reversing a lifetime of my co-worker's ingrained behavior.

bullets are cheaper and quicker.

 

[Zuljin]

"When they come for me, I'll be sitting at my desk, with a gun in my hand, wearing a bulletproof vest..
Singing "my, my, my, how the time does fly, when you know you're going to die by the end of the night."
- Catch 22

 

[bleme]

There is actually a relatively easy solution to this - but it has to be implemented by the sender. Send the email to yourself in the To: field, and use a blind carbon copy (Bcc) for everyone else. On the recipient end, it only shows that the email was sent to them, and reply all will only go back to the original sender.

The problem with this method is that the people who get it can't tell that it was sent to me already, so they will then all proceed to send it to me again. Unfortunately, they do that when I am on the CC: list as well...

 

[betarhoalphadelta]

I just set my eldest son (10) up with an email address. With that came rules. One of the rules?

Don&#8217;t use &#8220;Reply all.&#8221; Many adults don&#8217;t even understand how to use this properly.

 

[jschein]

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.

Right click on the file go to properties and see if you crack IT staff has previous versions setup

 

[GrogNerd]

me, while troubleshooting a customer's email problem: it's not just our program, this says you have an error in Outlook too

customer: it doesn't say error

me: if this pops up, it indicates an error with the username or password on the email server

customer: but it doesn't say, "error"

me: ...

 

[dkwolf]

me, while troubleshooting a customer's email problem: it's not just our program, this says you have an error in Outlook too

customer: it doesn't say error

me: if this pops up, it indicates an error with the username or password on the email server

customer: but it doesn't say, "error"

me: ...

Ah yes, the infamous ID-ten-T error. Or the less common variant, PEBCAK.

 

[GrogNerd]

In her defense, the problem was their email server, so no PEBCAK

But yeah... that window means something ain't right

 

[b-boy]

Send the email to yourself in the To: field, and use a blind carbon copy (Bcc) for everyone else. On the recipient end, it only shows that the email was sent to them, and reply all will only go back to the original sender.

I hate bcc. I've banned it for people who report to me. It's only ever used to squeal on people, or keep managers 'secretly' in the loop.

It's the cowards way out. If you're going to be a weasel, then be a weasel. Just do it so everyone knows you're a weasel.

 

[dkwolf]

I hate bcc. I've banned it for people who report to me. It's only ever used to squeal on people, or keep managers 'secretly' in the loop.

It's the cowards way out. If you're going to be a weasel, then be a weasel. Just do it so everyone knows you're a weasel.

I'm glad I don't work for you.

It has its uses. In my company, it gets used more from top-down than from bottom-up. Not sure how your weasel statement applies to that.

 

[b-boy]

I like stuff out in the open. I like transparency.

I don't like the idea of 'lurkers' listening to my conversation without my knowledge. If I'm communicating with someone, I like to know who is in on that conversation. It's no different than a lurker on a conference call. If you want to know what's going on, step up to the plate and make yourself known. If you have an issue, address it face to face.

I try not to say anything in an email that would get me into trouble, but stuff happens. I might say something stupid if I'm upset about a situation. I'd speak differently if I knew my boss's boss was listening in.

The weasel part comes in when people use bcc to tattle on their peers. They pull a senior person into some issue being discussed to get someone in trouble. Why not just say 'Hey - I'm ccing Joe on this thread'. It's less 'weasely'.

I'll occasionally use bcc to send myself a copy of an email thread so I can archive it, but that's about it.

 

[bleme]

I only use bcc when I am emailing outside the company. I want my boss to know what I told them but I don't want them to try cutting me out of the loop and talking directly to my boss.

I also use bcc if I am sending a proposal to several contractors as I don't want them to know who else I am bidding with and I am just too lazy to send the same email 12 times.

 

[betarhoalphadelta]

When everyone gets evacuated for a fire drill, and when we're all making our way back into the building a bunch of them ignore paved pathways and trample the groundcover plants.

I mean, it's a minor thing, but would it kill you go to 20 feet out of the way?

 

[Zuljin]

I hate bcc. I've banned it for people who report to me. It's only ever used to squeal on people, or keep managers 'secretly' in the loop.

It's the cowards way out. If you're going to be a weasel, then be a weasel. Just do it so everyone knows you're a weasel.

I like stuff out in the open. I like transparency.

I don't like the idea of 'lurkers' listening to my conversation without my knowledge. If I'm communicating with someone, I like to know who is in on that conversation. It's no different than a lurker on a conference call. If you want to know what's going on, step up to the plate and make yourself known. If you have an issue, address it face to face.

I try not to say anything in an email that would get me into trouble, but stuff happens. I might say something stupid if I'm upset about a situation. I'd speak differently if I knew my boss's boss was listening in.

The weasel part comes in when people use bcc to tattle on their peers. They pull a senior person into some issue being discussed to get someone in trouble. Why not just say 'Hey - I'm ccing Joe on this thread'. It's less 'weasely'.

I'll occasionally use bcc to send myself a copy of an email thread so I can archive it, but that's about it.

All of this. It's banned at all our plants.

When everyone gets evacuated for a fire drill, and when we're all making our way back into the building a bunch of them ignore paved pathways and trample the groundcover plants.

I mean, it's a minor thing, but would it kill you go to 20 feet out of the way?

We've this one gal in support services who wears high heels. Knowing where the evac muster points are, and how far the walk can be- yeah. Not smart.

 

[dkwolf]

I only use bcc when I am emailing outside the company. I want my boss to know what I told them but I don't want them to try cutting me out of the loop and talking directly to my boss.

I also use bcc if I am sending a proposal to several contractors as I don't want them to know who else I am bidding with and I am just too lazy to send the same email 12 times.

Not to mention, with a public project, you have to make sure that you provide the same exact information to all bidders. Just sent an addendum to bidders, used BCC to send the email once and make sure it was the same for all of them.

 

[TorMag]

Had a gal come in two weeks ago (hourly employee, different sick benefits) sick as a dog, in her cubicle across from mine, wrapped in a blanket, hacking and coughing for two days. I get sick from her, really sick, double ear infection, infected throat and eyes. I stay home and work from home. But she's now all pissed off that I am telling people she got me sick. Yet this week, she works from home all week. Why they hell did she not work from home when she was sick....

 

[GrogNerd]

EMAIL from customer: Our emails are not sending today

me: oh, really?

 

[GrogNerd]

reviving this as a general "this annoys me" thread

new router, I'm reconfiguring all the connected devices in the house and can't get the Foscam camera back on the network. I go to their website and try to log in, but don't remember my login information, none of my email addresses are working for lost password, so I figure I'll just create a new account

I put in an email address which the site says it wants to verify by sending me a verification code I need to enter into their website and it will expire in 180 seconds

this was Saturday morning and I'm still waiting for that verification code

 

[CGVT]

Check your junk folder

 

[homebrewer_99]

I've been retired for 7.5 years. The last time I even "saw" any of my ex-coworkers was over 6 years ago.

 

[Master]

My old job (I just quit yesterday) I had a copilot that wouldn't bathe regularly.

Just hosed himself down with Axe. The showers are less than 20 feet from our room, and you don't even have to go outside.

 

[GrogNerd]

not co-workers, but the woman who refused to marry my Dad but wants to be known as his wife annoyed me this week

tl;dw (too long, didn't write) I attended my Dad's funeral this week, but was excluded from participating in it and told I was not welcome

so yeah, feeling annoyed and real sh!tty right now

 

[dkwolf]

not co-workers, but the woman who refused to marry my Dad but wants to be known as his wife annoyed me this week

tl;dw (too long, didn't write) I attended my Dad's funeral this week, but was excluded from participating in it and told I was not welcome

so yeah, feeling annoyed and real sh!tty right now

Whoa.


Not. Cool.


Sorry, man.

 

[olephart]

Just about had big forklift prongs in the rear quarter panel of my vehicle as I left work today. The "operator" was looking to his right, pulled onto the street without stopping or looking.

...I'm getting outta there real soon...

 

[ThirstyPawsHB]

The thing that is most annoying about my co-coworkers?? They're homo-sapiens...mic drop