― MarkH (MarkH), Wednesday, 15 January 2003 13:58 (twenty-one years ago) link
― dave q, Wednesday, 15 January 2003 14:21 (twenty-one years ago) link
― g-kit (g-kit), Wednesday, 15 January 2003 14:45 (twenty-one years ago) link
Other things he did: worked at his cube standing up (making everyone around him very tense), unbuttoned his shirts halfway down his chest, commented on every phone conversation I had (work related or not), talked to himself, and played horrible CD-Rs of cabaret tunes he wrote and produced. I think the whole experience inoculated me against ever being annoyed by co-workers again.
― mike a (mike a), Wednesday, 15 January 2003 16:14 (twenty-one years ago) link
Unfortunately something this stupid is uttered in my office at least once a day...
― Nicole (Nicole), Thursday, 16 January 2003 03:26 (twenty-one years ago) link
― Ned Raggett (Ned), Thursday, 16 January 2003 03:54 (twenty-one years ago) link
― Nicole (Nicole), Thursday, 16 January 2003 03:56 (twenty-one years ago) link
― Ned Raggett (Ned), Thursday, 16 January 2003 03:57 (twenty-one years ago) link
― isadora (isadora), Thursday, 16 January 2003 04:15 (twenty-one years ago) link
― Ally (mlescaut), Thursday, 16 January 2003 04:54 (twenty-one years ago) link
― j.lu (j.lu), Thursday, 16 January 2003 23:19 (twenty-one years ago) link
― luna (luna.c), Wednesday, 2 April 2003 16:09 (twenty-one years ago) link
― Chris V. (Chris V), Wednesday, 2 April 2003 16:16 (twenty-one years ago) link
An old japanese woman wearing a baby dress and pigtails jumping and down in front of me at the desk. I just came in. Please, let me wake up a bit first. Or am I still dreaming?
― Erik, Wednesday, 2 April 2003 16:30 (twenty-one years ago) link
― Horace Mann (Horace Mann), Wednesday, 2 April 2003 16:37 (twenty-one years ago) link
― Sarah McLUsky (coco), Wednesday, 2 April 2003 18:16 (twenty-one years ago) link
― Sarah MCLUsky (coco), Wednesday, 2 April 2003 18:16 (twenty-one years ago) link
i feel like i'm missing out
― jess (dubplatestyle), Wednesday, 2 April 2003 18:21 (twenty-one years ago) link
There's nothing like a five minute meeting with your boss in which he tells you that you've basically got like two months to turn things around with a mouth full of Mike n' Ikes.
― hstencil, Wednesday, 2 April 2003 18:23 (twenty-one years ago) link
― cybele (cybele), Wednesday, 2 April 2003 19:14 (twenty-one years ago) link
big flat mole on the left side of his face with 9 really long and scraggly hairs growing out of it. He was always playing with them... twisting and pulling on them (but not pulling them out.) Very distracting....
― order some disorder, Wednesday, 2 April 2003 23:19 (twenty-one years ago) link
"Please tell me if you understand what I am saying, at the moment in the exqualifier there are only a 4 digit code, you append another 3 in front of them I don't know where, but doesn't matter anyway to sort out the letter in the front for the new code."
I assure you it makes only 1% more sense to me than it does to you.
― Martin Skidmore (Martin Skidmore), Thursday, 3 April 2003 10:19 (twenty-one years ago) link
― Andrew (enneff), Thursday, 3 April 2003 10:54 (twenty-one years ago) link
― Nick A. (Nick A.), Thursday, 3 April 2003 11:23 (twenty-one years ago) link
― toraneko (toraneko), Thursday, 3 April 2003 14:18 (twenty-one years ago) link
THis goes on at least ONCE A WEEK in my office.
― Ally (mlescaut), Thursday, 3 April 2003 14:35 (twenty-one years ago) link
― Ned Raggett (Ned), Thursday, 3 April 2003 14:40 (twenty-one years ago) link
Also, I don't think the owner's secretary knows how to use the phone properly, because she's always complaining that "the phones are down", but it's only her phone, apparently. And when someone comes in to test it, it works.
― Ally (mlescaut), Thursday, 3 April 2003 14:45 (twenty-one years ago) link
I think you just identified the perv dream of far too many people in the world. But you'd have to give them guns too.
― Ned Raggett (Ned), Thursday, 3 April 2003 14:47 (twenty-one years ago) link
― Ally (mlescaut), Thursday, 3 April 2003 14:49 (twenty-one years ago) link
― Sarah McLUsky (coco), Thursday, 3 April 2003 14:57 (twenty-one years ago) link
― Nick A. (Nick A.), Thursday, 3 April 2003 15:58 (twenty-one years ago) link
― g-kit (g-kit), Friday, 4 April 2003 07:12 (twenty-one years ago) link
― smee (smee), Friday, 4 April 2003 07:14 (twenty-one years ago) link
― Madeleine (Madeleine), Friday, 4 April 2003 07:29 (twenty-one years ago) link
The only really annoying thing my current co-workers do is send me ridiculous spam forwards about poisoned shampoo samples (normally originating from higher up in the Council!), then look sceptical when I explain that it's a dumb scaremongering thing to do. Also I have to tell them how to spell things all the live long day.
― Liz :x (Liz :x), Friday, 4 April 2003 07:41 (twenty-one years ago) link
― suzy (suzy), Friday, 4 April 2003 08:04 (twenty-one years ago) link
― Archel (Archel), Friday, 4 April 2003 09:16 (twenty-one years ago) link
― Archel (Archel), Friday, 4 April 2003 09:18 (twenty-one years ago) link
― Sarah McLusky (coco), Friday, 4 April 2003 12:27 (twenty-one years ago) link
― Tracer Hand (tracerhand), Friday, 4 April 2003 15:29 (twenty-one years ago) link
― Liz :x (Liz :x), Thursday, 10 April 2003 10:42 (twenty-one years ago) link
― Chris V. (Chris V), Thursday, 10 April 2003 10:52 (twenty-one years ago) link
― Nick A. (Nick A.), Thursday, 10 April 2003 11:04 (twenty-one years ago) link
― Chris V. (Chris V), Thursday, 10 April 2003 11:06 (twenty-one years ago) link
I have found that replying to annoying forwarders with a link to Urban Legends stops them dead in their tracks.
― Madchen (Madchen), Thursday, 10 April 2003 11:27 (twenty-one years ago) link
― Madchen (Madchen), Thursday, 10 April 2003 11:28 (twenty-one years ago) link
― Nick A. (Nick A.), Thursday, 10 April 2003 11:28 (twenty-one years ago) link
One of our senior partners asked me to scan some pictures for his daughter this morning, first thing - they were from medical books, examples of colostomys, I still feel ill.....
― smee (smee), Thursday, 10 April 2003 11:31 (twenty-one years ago) link
― Aaron W (Aaron W), Thursday, 10 April 2003 11:36 (twenty-one years ago) link
So a weird update on my workstation thing noted above. Turns out it was NOT my manager who made the decision to put them both in my workstation, it was a decision made by a different coworker. I came in the following morning and my manager actually pulled me aside and apologized to me and said that was not his solution and he notified the other coworker that it was unacceptable and another solution needed to be worked out. So at least I'm back to just one additional body in my workstation.
Funny thing is though, I had not yet said a single word to my manager about the seating arrangement when he apologized to me. I was planning to later in the day during my weekly one on one with him, but he brought it up before I did. Anyway, said coworker that made the dumb decision in the first place has made a giant production about not speaking to me since this all happened, because they are a petulant baby and upset that they got (rightfully, imho) told off about a (terrible) decision.
― Maxmillion D. Boosted (jon /via/ chi 2.0), Tuesday, 4 June 2024 19:21 (two weeks ago) link
my boss is a perfectly nice guy, he's not toxic and he's very friendly, but he's not getting any better in the disorganization department.
he scheduled a meeting at 8:45 in the fuckin' morning, which is before my shift even starts, for no reason (and it could have been an email). he bumped up a meeting by 3 hours, which forced me to take a short lunch. he always gets the dates wrong when communicating assignments, leading people being allocated to classes that they're not actually available to teach, which we then have to fix.
he double books people on assignments, he double books reservations in our training environment, and this one particular issue with the training environment, he continues to try and solve by doing the one thing I told him will not solve the problem and pleaded with him to please stop doing ...over and over...for four years. I've even forwarded the same how to document ten or more times.
he's not stupid. and he loves me so it isn't hurting my career, but man, I'm just baffled as to how someone is this sloppy and running a department.
― Iacocca Cola (Neanderthal), Friday, 7 June 2024 22:06 (one week ago) link
Crown Prince Dickrod of Painfully Sincere Folk Dickdom telling me that garage bands aren't "punk".
― Enjoy Nuoc Mam With Mr. Qualk (I M Losted), Friday, 7 June 2024 23:44 (one week ago) link
Uh lol wow
― Iacocca Cola (Neanderthal), Saturday, 8 June 2024 01:12 (one week ago) link
That is serious RONG
my boss's boss asked me last Thursday if I'd present a quick 5-10 minute presentation during a meeting today. I got this email while I was in the midst of handling an escalated situation in training (basically, some dork accidentally shared private learner feedback w/ the entire class).
somehow, I was the only person in a team of 50+ people left off of the invite (despite the fact that we have an Group set up in outlook to prevent these types of situations). I only found out it was already going on when my boss messaged me when only 10 minutes remained to ask if I was still presenting today.
passive aggressively emailed them the To and CC fields to show I wasn't on it so they can't claim I 'declined' the meeting.
― Iacocca Cola (Neanderthal), Monday, 10 June 2024 15:57 (one week ago) link
team lead wants us to tell him, and everybody else, what we've been doing. it's like he hasn't been paying attention in morning meetings. feels like homework.
and he's done this by putting a word document on dropbox. so now 10 people have downloaded a copy of this word document and will all try and upload it ahead of the meeting. he could've put this on confluence, or used dropbox paper, noth of which we use and which support concurrent editing by multiple people, but no.
― koogs, Monday, 10 June 2024 16:32 (one week ago) link
noth / both
― koogs, Monday, 10 June 2024 16:33 (one week ago) link