Let's bitch about our stupid, annoying co-workers

Are you in the US, Old Lunch? The "lunch at desk " sounds like they are getting ready for the new FLSA regs for December 1 - in case you might answer a work email or three while eating lunch, bing - could be overtime!

Yeah, I'm in the US. And this is coming straight from HR, so that doesn't surprise me at all. I just need to relay to any and all concerned parties that the idea of doing one iota of work for this company while off the clock is laughable in the extreme.

Yes, we had a big meeting about all that a couple of weeks ago, in particular with exempt staff who will move to non-exempt, so they might have *possibly* answered a work email or two while at lunch and next thing you know, overtime. We're grant-funded, so that could be a problem...

there's a systems guy who on multiple occasions has made config mistakes which caused things not to work. things that are p crucial that we have working. and I might be forgiving cos we're all human, except the ensuing convo always looks like this when we're testing...

Us: Hey, we expected <result> but am getting <other result>. Can you look into this when you have a chance?
Him: That's weird, I have no idea why it wouldn't be working. (end of message, awkward silence)
Us: Can you take a look at it, or do you know a resource who might be able to help? This will cause a major problem if this isn't working properly tomorrow morning.
Him: (no reply to various forms of attempts to communicate, so we give up and root around, struggling to find somebody who might be able to help, and then when they show up, points out dude set it up wrong and has to fix it for him).

oh my god these people will not fucking shut up about the heating/cooling

my kingdom for a kitana

XD

Apparently a coworker has left a brassiere on the bookshelf in my office. I don't know what to do about this at all.

I think the best course of action is to pretend that I haven't seen it.

I feel like I need some more context here.

But I believe that general rules of etiquette dictate that you should leave a rumpled undershirt or perhaps some sock garters in her work area as a show of mutual regard.

I don't know which of my women coworkers it belongs to!

http://65.media.tumblr.com/avatar_1d6330389db6_128.png

I left the office to use the restroom and when I came back it was gone. The best possible resolution to this predicament.

Took a while for my phone to upload to photobucket, but here is the bookshelf, during wilder times:

http://i166.photobucket.com/albums/u120/kingkonggodzilla/20161118_081601_zpsh0xytztc.jpg

1: print photo
2: frame
3: place on shelf in it's place

Okay, hard lol @ that.

lol

do it!!! lol

I'm actually gonna delete that from my photobucket because I feel like a bit of a creep posting someone's undergarment up there. But just so you all know I wasn't making this up.

Like whoever the hell left that there just borrowed my office to change after I had gone for the day and probably was mortified that they'd left it.

Your workplace should really look into constructing a restroom, which would additionally serve to curb those desperate instances of people defecating in your trashcan for want of a more appropriate place to do such things.

We have restrooms. And a locker room! And a copy room that people rarely venture into! But I guess some of the people who have cubicles instead of offices do their post-work changes in offices that aren't in use. The thing is, we have an office that is only used by a woman who comes into town once a month, so if you're going to change in someone's actual office, rather than one of the several appropriate places to change, why use mine and not that one?

Maybe it was already occupied by another changer?

Maybe some people fucked on your desk.

^^^

this possibility should be considered.

Oh shit!

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― the kids are alt right (darraghmac), Saturday, November 19, 2016 5:30 AM (two hours ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

I think of this story all the time, especially the stunning conclusion

People who take the lift up one floor. Lazy fuckers, why can't they use the stairs?

because i lack an acl, ya fuckin git

No, there's nothing wrong with their legs.

my building had a sign in the lifts telling people to stop frowning or commenting on one-floor lift usage.

it does bother me but i don't think i was the reason for the sign.

we've done this before, some people may have hidden disabilities that mean they need to use the lift, obviously some people are lazy, thoughtless fuckers, probably best not to get into it unless you are absolutely certain the person is in the latter category and not the former

see also: disabled parking spaces etc

yeah i think it's fair enough really - it is weird for people to be mean to others without knowing - though plenty of them of course must just be lazy thoughtless cunts.

my feeling was that the lifts should be better and then people wouldn't be so frustrated, and that the building's willingness to clamp down on the frustration was telling in this way.

what's the main objection, is it an environmental thing or is it the seconds you lose getting to your destination or something else

Don't know why this would annoy anyone tbh

one example: it can be annoying in a busy, crowded building if you suspect that people who genuinely need the lift to access other floors are being kept waiting because lazy bastards are filling them up unnecessarily

but like i said, impossible to tell

I prefer to just assume that everyone's a lazy bastard, it doesn't seem an unreasonable assumption to make given what else I know of the ppl in my workplace

and yeah, resent the additional time needed to get to my destination

why not assume they're impatient bastards, then?

that makes no sense, with the time taken to wait for the lift to arrive they could have got there quicker by using the stairs

Like how standing still on an escalator is slower than climbing the stairs? True in most cases but not all.

This lift politics stuff is interesting, I've never had cause to consider it tbh

Like if they're there for accessibility only & not accessibility + convenience that's simple enough - able-bodied people should take the stairs in all cases anyway.

what's the main objection, is it an environmental thing or is it the seconds you lose getting to your destination or something else

it is actually the time. dunno how your building is but p much everywhere i've ever worked the lifts have been a nightmare. cumulatively the amount of wasted time is a low-level irritant.

when you've waited ages for the lift in the first place it does grate a bit.

any excuse to post this btw: http://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2008/04/21/up-and-then-down

I work in a one-storey farm building & live in a ground-floor flat, v rarely go anywhere with enough floors not to just use the stairs

I used to work on 13th floor and would seethe at lift being taken up by people going 1-2 floors. Could make me late for work, not just by 'a few seconds'
Not to mention shops with tiny lifts but loads of people with buggies/wheelchairs needing to use them.

i dunno if it's a trick of the light or just more thoughtless cunts, but in my lift at work, if you're standing in either corner at the back, a lot of people seem to massively overestimate how much room there is between their back and your face. i've never known this to be a thing in other places i worked.

this is what interests me though - it seemed before that everyone was in agreement that lift use became justifiable at two floors+, are we changing it to 3+ now

I bet you could walk up 3 floors in the same amount of time it takes to wait for & ride these slow, slow lifts

My floor is secure, so I have to take the elevator.

not just by 'a few seconds'

what are we talking, 45 minutes?