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

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!'

Looooooool!

(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.)

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

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.

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').

*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

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

My coworker was asking me what my dreams were. Um, nothing I feel like sharing at work???

One of the first questions the new security guard asked me was "where does your boyfriend work?" Um.

I guess people I work with make me say "um" a lot.

xpost WTF?

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

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 twitter
Next 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.

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.

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.

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?

(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

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.

"last night I dreamed...somebody loved me..."

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)

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.

It's entirely built in unfortunately

Schoolchildren stuff but pays the bills

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.

Over here the politeness ain't a necessity

we had a 1 minute 'hourglass' in our scrums. but we also had 20 people in them...

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 :/

Saying "excuse me, I have to get back to work" in a bright cheery tone has worked wonders for me over the years.

Security zealot shouldn't be watching anything except the office. I'd be tempted to reprimand him for a lack of professionalism.

Wacky office Irish guy walking around in giant Irish flag plus matching wig

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

Send death squad plz. Take me, take him, I don't care which

Irish or "Irish"

hmm i wonder

oirish

He's from Dublin and likes writing wacky reviews on Amazon, which he shares with us on Slack

it me

busted

for reference: The Reinforcin' O' The Stereotypes

He's from Dublin and likes writing wacky reviews on Amazon, which he shares with us on Slack

jesus god this guy sounds like a monster

Yeah no arguments carry on

colleague just came around the desk to show me a "prototype" he's made for putting a wardrobe in his house. like some string that showed where the wardrobe would be. as he came around i sort of thought "please no it's 4 o'clock i have a hangover, please be going elsewhere" but i couldn't have prepared myself for a story that was so hard to respond to with the straight bat of a smile.

my eyes were having none of it - entirely dead as i gazed up trying to nod enthusiastically.

like some string that showed where the wardrobe would be

Retaliate by giving him a one hour lecture on Visio.

wow a prototype for a wardrobe made of string. jesus.

it was like, just some string that showed where the wardrobe would be. he said "until you do this you just have no idea of what it'll be like to have a wardrobe there" - it seemed to me given there's nothing inside the borders of the string you still have no idea but i didn't want to ruin the lifehack.