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

yep, basically that's the plot. 3 misfits share a jail cell, Tom Waits and John Lurie race to out shtick each other, while Roberto Benigni struggles to get their names right.

The escape is one of my favorite bits in all of film.

really looking forward to when the guy next to me stops having a 1:1 call on leaky headphones, meaning the whole office hears 55% of a conversation (50% of it very loud), while he clicks and drums and fidgets with a springy biro and jiggles his creaky desk up and down with his knee

someone can probably work through this, perhaps even most people, but I suspect even the less sensorily-deranged people in the office are not reaching 100% efficiency while this goes on (50 minutes and counting)

p. sure the person on the other end is a manager so I guess they're OK with that though

My boss asked today how I felt ab the job. This freaked me out. Am I being let go? Don't think so but paranoia has set in. Lol.

that seems like it could be innocuous unless you've seem downtrodden or have been griping? tbh I have been giving plenty of feedback lately regarding training I should be getting and things that my manager should be pushing back on

Yeah, she's actually very nice. Interested in how we're doing outside work. (Except one colleague. They hate eachother. I don't like it but try to keep out of it.)

20 minutes now of them talking about wasps and rollercoasters and blind greyhounds and videogames and tv licence legalities. they sit facing each other, i sit two desks along but am only slightly further away and no amount of Late Junction in my earphones means i can't hear them just prattle on.

would noise cancelling earphones be impractical?

Omfg yesterday manager and colleague had gigantic shouting fest in the shop. Very uncomfortable as we had two pple. I sold them some goods while trying to calm my colleagues down. Wtf. I really wanted to say: ffs take it upstairs.
Also they tried to make me take a side. No fucking way did Ido tgat

Guy has learned the phrase "writ large" and uses it for all-purpose emphasis.

"I heard the hiring committee is made up of five men with only one woman, it's like sexism writ large!"

"I'm not sure we need to go over the December video numbers again, we've done that writ large."

It is time for lunch, for I am hungry writ large

Strangely, it's charming when you do it, loathsome when he does it

someone has microwaved hot dogs

did i ever mention the lady who used to work near me who would microwave a full, skin-on raw fish filet? that happened with regularity

there's a few fish microwavers in my office which is abhorrent of course but somehow the hot dog really filled the whole office, more than any of the fish people. also all the fish people are either from eastern europe or the global south so perhaps my Western-Eurocentric mentality is as much to blame

there's probably no discernible difference but for some reason some freshwater locally-caught fish seem especially odoriferous when microwaved, especially the amount of time to get it from raw to cooked

woman, who admittedly already bothers me, has been complaining this afternoon about how bad her “migraine” is. aside from her sporadic complaining she seems fine – snacking on cheese and joking around with another coworker, at one point singing some song they were both trying to remember. as someone who suffers from the occasional, *actual * migraine – this really is getting under my skin. I will miss the odd day of work because of them, or sometimes leave early if I’ve got one coming on – but when I suggested she go home if she’s got a migraine, she just kinda shrugs and says she’ll be ok and has work to do (I also know for a fact she’s not too busy). maybe this belong on irrationally angry, but I want to choke her (she’s complaining about some friend of hers right now).

now she's left early to catch a movie/dinner.

but when I suggested she go home if she’s got a migraine, she just kinda shrugs and says she’ll be ok and has work to do (I also know for a fact she’s not too busy). maybe this belong on irrationally angry, but I want to choke her (she’s complaining about some friend of hers right now).

this annoys me too. also when people say things like "i'm so depressed right now", which is not something that someone who is depressed would say

yes! after she left i was talking to a coworker who's on the same page as me - and this is exactly what he said.

Hmmm. I do work with migraine attacks. That said, everyonz can tell though. But I do it cause I was warned staying home too much, wld be criticized. And it's doable. Not easy, but doable.

I've only ever had one full-on migraine and there was no way I could work through that, luckily I was home when it happened because all I could do was curl up in a ball on my bed.

I've had a few "silent migraines" at work where your vision gets blurry and you get aura symptoms, but you don't feel like your head is in a vice, you feel a bit dizzy and it's hard to look at computer screens when you've got shimmering lines all over your vision but you can kind of work through it and it goes away after about an hour. I guess technically it's still a migraine, could she have had one of those?

^ https://www.allaboutvision.com/conditions/ocular-migraine.htm

i get them from time to time, like 3 a year and they only started about 5 years ago. freaked me out the first couple of times but now i just sit back and enjoy them (i get no other symptoms, just the vision thing and a slight disassociated feeling)

I had one of those once, and even tho there wasn’t much pain, it scarred the shit out of me.

co-workers asking you to sponsor them for their half marathon/3k park run gets annoying when done repeatedly.

is a 3k worth sponsoring?

yeah i was messing i guess, i've seen a coworker ask for sponsorship for a 5k and it raises an eyebrow but i suppose the money all goes to the same type of commercialised charity.

just had a conversation with a co worker in which we mused over which of the four ppl in our office that are through for promotion are going to make the worst boss and its been a real downer if im honest trevor

do you reckon you'll get the job all the same?

✔

nah got an email since to that effect tbh

co-workers asking you to sponsor them for their half marathon/3k park run gets annoying when done repeatedly.

Yes, why don't you eat your lunch standing up in our tiny kitchen, blocking access to the fridge and the microwave and the taps and the counters

There’s a strict rule not to take days off during holidays/extended weekends. What does colleague do? Still plans time off anyway. (Previous manager was unable to say no and didn’t much care as she was planning to quit. New manager didn’t know of this rule.) As I have been dumped w the late shifts the last two weeks, I’m...well pissed off even more. I told my manager that my colleague just goes ahead and plans during times when it’s not allowed. I feel kind of a backstabber. :-(

Yes, why don't you eat your lunch standing up in our tiny kitchen, blocking access to the fridge and the microwave and the taps and the counters

this kind of behaviour! we moved office about a year ago and for a while it was clean and quiet and easy to work in. I don't know if it's a critical mass of numbers that leads to a rise in this kind of behaviour, or whether it's the fact the big influx seems to all be civil servants, or a combo of the two, but almost invariably in the kitchen now someone will be leaning with their back to the one water tap, staring at their phone, or talking to someone having left their beaker standing in the way of the tap, or microwaving some fucking vomit smelling cheese-based lunch. prob worth buying water just to avoid having to acknowledge the existence of these people

this is the law of office kitchens

- conversations must be held standing in the doorway or in front of the sink/microwaves. on no account should you stand somewhere that isn't in the way of something
- never clean anything, ever
- never empty out your soggy cereal leftovers before dumping the bowl in the sink
- hold meetings in there and glare at anyone who dares enter to use the kitchen for actual kitchen purposes

while I'm here

why not Slack me to ask me how to do something, when literally the last conversation we had on Slack was me telling you how to do it. you fucking imbecile. I just replied "scroll up a bit"

Haha, all of those rules apply for my office. I'd prob bring my lunch if the entire kitchen area wasn't so fucking gross.

sink and sponge/cloth covered in coffee grounds at 8.01am every single day

sink and sponge/cloth covered in coffee grounds at 8.01am every single day

argh OTM
also every interior surface of the freezer

there's one particular large team here which seems to have split into 3 factions and at any given time one of those factions will be hanging out in the kitchen, standing in front of the fridge and the sink for an extended chat

oh, and the inside ceiling of the microwave is covered in mysterious rust blisters, which makes me paranoid that it might not actually be ~safe~, but the facilities guy was like "eh it's fine" in that "it's just you being weird" kind of way, so... it probably is just me being weird tbh

guess we're lucky to have a fridge with a freezer compartment and a microwave, my last place had neither

we have a fancy coffee machine now, it's like an automated barista machine, but the trouble is nobody cleans it. it has a milk compartment in the bottom, it is refrigerated, but the milk is sucked up through a rubber tube from this and basically the very bottom of the milk never gets used, so if it isn't cleaned out regularly, you get cottage cheese in the bottom after a few days.

similar things happen to the coffee grounds container. if you don't actually clean it out, grounds harden in the bottom and turn into mould. I only noticed because I got the message to empty it one day and pulled it out and it was just a massive green lump.

I've pointed both of these things out to the office manager but she doesn't give a shit, she doesn't drink coffee and doesn't seem to think it's anything she should be concerned about. I only work in the office twice a week but seem to have become designated coffee machine cleaner, maybe because everyone else doesn't mind drinking cottage-cheese-spore-coffee blend

cottage-cheese-spore-coffee blend

yum

we have a misspelled sign telling people not to dump "COFFEE GRINDS/GOUNDS" into the sink. The kitchen area shares a wall with the sinks in the bordering men's restroom, and excessive dumping somehow clogged the pipes earlier this year, causing the sinks to back up

i low key blame my roommate for clogging our kitchen sink with coffee grounds a few months ago. it was TERRIBLE

the mystery is that the sink they were dumped in does have a garbage disposal

not running a ton of water after the grounds seems to cause them to solidify in the pipes, though

my job requires regular live photographs, so for about 15 years now we have had a network of freelancers who upload pix to a flickr pro account. flickr has of course gone through a lot of changes in that time, including being owned by and having various levels of integration with yahoo

somehow, one of the photographers got his personal yahoo email account linked to our flickr account, such that anyone with the proper flickr credentials could access it

so this week a colleague stumbled across 15 years of this photographer's emails trying to find men and women to have sex with, featuring very very detailed and explicit photos, requests, prices, directions, hourly hotels, etc.

we got it de-linked and as far as we know he remains unaware -- although i'm not sure he'd really care

that is amazing.

whom amongst us, etc etc

guess we're lucky to have a fridge with a freezer compartment and a microwave, my last place had neither

I don't know whether it's some kind of anomaly that I'm only now, in a professional setting, decades after working unskilled jobs in like food service and factories and what have you, encountering the most profoundly stupid people I've ever had the displeasure of working alongside or if people in general are just getting stupider and the workplace just happens to be where I've become most acutely aware of this phenomenon.

I was, admittedly, being a little bitchy the other day when I mentioned to someone that I have to explain things to (that one guy) like he's a dog but...well, it's mostly only untrue inasmuch as a dog might eventually understand what you're telling him.