we used to have this one when I was an entry level rep who would show up at your desk and immediately start asking a question without even bothering to check if you were on a call. I eventually stopped signaling "on a call" at her and would just let her talk and then resume talking to my customer so she'd feel stupid.
then again this is the lady who actually said "well according to my records, your mom's dead. you might wanna talk to your father" to a customer so.....
― waht, I am true black metal worrior (Neanderthal), Wednesday, 8 March 2017 01:13 (seven years ago) link
omg
I mean, if you want to rudely do a wicked own on your customer, I guess "you're mom's dead" is acceptable
― mh 😏, Wednesday, 8 March 2017 04:48 (seven years ago) link
LOL that reminds me of when I worked for a govt dept I wont name. Part of our assessments involved reviewing birth certificates. Now in Victoria in the 60s and 70s, adopted kids had their real birth details hidden but the cert itself had a code on it that meant ADOPTED if you happened to know thats what it meant.
Work colleague looking over a 50something mans paperwork cheerily says "oh so you're adopted!" to him.
He had no idea and was understandably quite upset.
― Stoop Crone (Trayce), Wednesday, 8 March 2017 05:24 (seven years ago) link
that's like a comedy sketch about bureaucrats, just needs colleague saying "sir? sir??" because he's having a heart attack and can't respond
― mh 😏, Wednesday, 8 March 2017 05:29 (seven years ago) link
hahaha Trayce
― waht, I am true black metal worrior (Neanderthal), Wednesday, 8 March 2017 09:19 (seven years ago) link
omg!
― kinder, Wednesday, 8 March 2017 14:32 (seven years ago) link
Jesus.
― The Perks of Being a Wall St R (darraghmac), Wednesday, 8 March 2017 15:49 (seven years ago) link
holy shit
― Yoni Loves Chocha (VegemiteGrrl), Wednesday, 8 March 2017 17:22 (seven years ago) link
"Hi Dad! or should I call you FAKE DAD! WHY DIDN'T YOU TELL ME?"
― waht, I am true black metal worrior (Neanderthal), Wednesday, 8 March 2017 17:38 (seven years ago) link
Tbf, him being in his 50s, good chance he's already an orphan one or the other anyway.
― pplains, Wednesday, 8 March 2017 18:30 (seven years ago) link
O.M.G.
A manager sent out an email to everyone a little bit ago commemorating International Women's Day. Someone I work with who is kind of consistently a pain in the ass apparently didn't realize she clicked 'Reply All' when she responded: 'I’ll show my husband my b o o b s when I get home!'
― The twin snake of violence and sex is more like a sick wolf. (Old Lunch), Wednesday, 8 March 2017 20:01 (seven years ago) link
Looooooool!
― mom tossed in kimchee (quincie), Wednesday, 8 March 2017 20:11 (seven years ago) link
(I should note that one of the ways in which she's a pain in the ass is her inability to retain any pertinent work-related info no matter how many times it's reiterated. Such as, 'PLEASE STOP CLICKING 'REPLY ALL' WHEN YOU RESPOND TO DEPARTMENT-/COMPANY-WIDE EMAILS'. One hopes that she might have learned the lesson this time 'round.)
― The twin snake of violence and sex is more like a sick wolf. (Old Lunch), Wednesday, 8 March 2017 20:21 (seven years ago) link
we've had our server go down when some idiot emails the entire firm about something because then 3,000 people start replying "take me off of this email chain" while replying all, then another 3,000 ironically write "PLEASE STOP REPLYING ALL" while replying all
― waht, I am true black metal worrior (Neanderthal), Thursday, 9 March 2017 00:28 (seven years ago) link
Yeah, that happens about every three weeks or so in my workplace. And it's usually the same folks hitting 'reply all' every time it happens. I don't know how some of these people manage to feed themselves.
― The twin snake of violence and sex is more like a sick wolf. (Old Lunch), Thursday, 9 March 2017 00:34 (seven years ago) link
one of the times it happened it gave way to a really stupid urban legend that still goes around here.
so one guy basically gets sick of the 3 million emails, replies and basically calls everybody who was replying all "idiots" in the thread. and then people were talking about that and someone out of curiosity looked in our company director. He saw a guy who had the same first and last name (but with 2 minutes of research, was quite obviously not the same guy) and saw "terminated" next to his name, and starts a rumor that spreads like wildfire that the dude was fired for calling everybody idiots. It still gets brought up any time someone sends a snippy email ("careful - you don't wanna get fired like that guy who called everybody 'idiots').
― waht, I am true black metal worrior (Neanderthal), Thursday, 9 March 2017 00:41 (seven years ago) link
*directory
i reply-all-ed once, died on the spot & immediately moved my reply-all icon to the other side of my toolbar so i wouldnt do it ever again
― Yoni Loves Chocha (VegemiteGrrl), Thursday, 9 March 2017 00:51 (seven years ago) link
I insulted my ex-boss to another colleague of mine once on instant messaging while we were in a meeting with him. forgetting I was sharing my screen at the time with him.
fuck him though
― waht, I am true black metal worrior (Neanderthal), Thursday, 9 March 2017 01:08 (seven years ago) link
My coworker was asking me what my dreams were. Um, nothing I feel like sharing at work???
― tokyo rosemary, Thursday, 9 March 2017 02:07 (seven years ago) link
One of the first questions the new security guard asked me was "where does your boyfriend work?" Um.
― tokyo rosemary, Thursday, 9 March 2017 02:10 (seven years ago) link
I guess people I work with make me say "um" a lot.
xpost WTF?
― waht, I am true black metal worrior (Neanderthal), Thursday, 9 March 2017 02:35 (seven years ago) link
IME it's not really worth sharing too much with co-workers, at least at my job it feels like it could be used against me later on
― Carlotta's Portrait (Ross), Thursday, 9 March 2017 02:40 (seven years ago) link
I'm one of those people who draws a hard line between work and my outside life though, and I've rarely hung out with anyone here outside of work
Yep same.
Never ever ever anything ever add workmates to bookface or twitterNext to never socialise with em out of hours (tho tbf I have done in past jobs)Esp avoid getting mad drunk in front of workmates. Even though I'm a big drinker! Or perhaps especially because, haw.
― Stoop Crone (Trayce), Thursday, 9 March 2017 03:07 (seven years ago) link
I was typically like that in the first half of my career. One of my best friends is someone I met at work ten years ago, but other than him, was very much separation of church and state. when I joined my new department 6 years ago though, I kind of caved because it's more of a tightknit environment and I let my guard down a little.
I have several of them, including the head of my dept as FB friends, but they're all filtered to a Friend list I've marked "exclusions" that I block from seeing all posts, so they can't see anything I post, other than Profile photo and cover photo updates (and the drunken video of me seeing Mayhem that I accidentally made Public).
i won't even list the company I work for on Facebook anymore.
― waht, I am true black metal worrior (Neanderthal), Thursday, 9 March 2017 03:16 (seven years ago) link
I got tagged with 100 of my co-workers, past and present, to a Facebook post that said "HERE'S US ON CAKE DAY!" and it was a video clip of Forrest Gump running down a dirt road.
― pplains, Thursday, 9 March 2017 03:29 (seven years ago) link
but they're all filtered to a Friend list I've marked "exclusions" that I block from seeing all posts, so they can't see anything I post
Really whats the point of friending someone then, I say?
― Stoop Crone (Trayce), Thursday, 9 March 2017 04:27 (seven years ago) link
(I should practice what I preach and defriend the people i unfollowed a jillion years ago)
it was them that friended me, I didn't want to hurt anybody's feewings
― waht, I am true black metal worrior (Neanderthal), Thursday, 9 March 2017 04:29 (seven years ago) link
I wanted to say I don't have any dreams because I'm dead inside but I didn't think that would go over too well.
― tokyo rosemary, Thursday, 9 March 2017 04:50 (seven years ago) link
"last night I dreamed...somebody loved me..."
― waht, I am true black metal worrior (Neanderthal), Thursday, 9 March 2017 04:52 (seven years ago) link
told the person that is supposed to be taking over this project for me that I would be in mandatory manager training today and tomorrow, and asked her to handle tasks in my absence.
about 4-5 requests came in today addressed to us both, she didn't touch a goddamn one of them. Nice unexpected 2.5 hours of work for me (of course, there shouldn't be 4-5 last minute urgent requests coming in either, but that's another story)
― waht, I am true black metal worrior (Neanderthal), Tuesday, 14 March 2017 00:16 (seven years ago) link
i work in an "agile team" which many of you may know is full of snakeoil and bs but the "standup" meeting in which everyone stands each morning and says what they did the day before and what they're doing this day can be excruciating. i think the point is that because you're standing you spend less time, but ime some people have no self-awareness about the stuff they're saying or the relevance of it to everyone else, or they lack the ability to clearly communicate a few tasks that might be of interest, so you get like an unedited story of their day, while you stand. it is really tiresome at times in my new job.
― Bein' Sean Bean (LocalGarda), Friday, 17 March 2017 10:46 (seven years ago) link
It's entirely built in unfortunately
Schoolchildren stuff but pays the bills
― brat_stuntin (darraghmac), Friday, 17 March 2017 10:48 (seven years ago) link
glad to hear it's in ireland also.
i've worked in teams where any diversion would be hurried on, in a way that was polite and just a fact of the meeting. people would just laugh if they were told to save it for a conversation after the meeting. i guess it's just a matter of a good culture. some places have it, some places don't. all good people in my new place but just more problems generally about culture as it's more distinctly civil service than my last place. there's a sort of faffing politeness about the british civil service, as you'd expect.
― Bein' Sean Bean (LocalGarda), Friday, 17 March 2017 11:01 (seven years ago) link
Over here the politeness ain't a necessity
― brat_stuntin (darraghmac), Friday, 17 March 2017 11:16 (seven years ago) link
we had a 1 minute 'hourglass' in our scrums. but we also had 20 people in them...
― koogs, Friday, 17 March 2017 11:47 (seven years ago) link
a weird, young security zealot arrives in the evening and sits near me watching wrestling videos & trump propaganda loudly on his phone. i try not to engage, but he seems to have decided that i'm his friend and is persistently chatty. lately, he's taken to expressing his vaguely lewd appreciation of certain female staff members & students as they pass by our vicinity. i get the sense that this is for my benefit, an attempt at "male bonding". all of which i've mentioned to my boss, who shrugged it off :/
― The sandwiches looked quite dank. (contenderizer), Friday, 17 March 2017 11:51 (seven years ago) link
Saying "excuse me, I have to get back to work" in a bright cheery tone has worked wonders for me over the years.
― well the bitter comes out better on a stolen Switch cartridge (snoball), Friday, 17 March 2017 11:56 (seven years ago) link
Security zealot shouldn't be watching anything except the office. I'd be tempted to reprimand him for a lack of professionalism.
― syzygy stardust (suzy), Friday, 17 March 2017 12:37 (seven years ago) link
Wacky office Irish guy walking around in giant Irish flag plus matching wig
― Chuck_Tatum, Friday, 17 March 2017 14:14 (seven years ago) link
Now he's wearing a giant green bowtie semi-ironically chanting "Let's get drunk, let's get drunk"
Now he's hanging the flag from the ceiling and drawing a crowd
― Chuck_Tatum, Friday, 17 March 2017 14:16 (seven years ago) link
Send death squad plz. Take me, take him, I don't care which
Irish or "Irish"
― brat_stuntin (darraghmac), Friday, 17 March 2017 15:13 (seven years ago) link
hmm i wonder
― not even my mate ross king sniffed out this hot gossip (bizarro gazzara), Friday, 17 March 2017 15:23 (seven years ago) link
oirish
― mh 😏, Friday, 17 March 2017 15:25 (seven years ago) link
He's from Dublin and likes writing wacky reviews on Amazon, which he shares with us on Slack
― Chuck_Tatum, Friday, 17 March 2017 15:33 (seven years ago) link