work place manners

[beastieangel01]

I don't understand why people lack work place manners. I don't understand why they cannot askto borrow something off anothers desk before doing so.

And even if they skip that step, why don't they PUT IT BACK after they are done?

Also, the whole taking other peoples food/drink from the fridge and eating/drinking it is something else that irks me.

:mad: :mad: :mad:

[abcdefz]

...you gonna eat the rest of that?

[abcdefz]

'cause i would finish it if, you know, but if you're gonna finish it go ahead

[Qdrop]

yeah, some asshole stole the scissors right off my desk last week.

so you know what i did? do ya?!?!


i stole the pair out in the press lab for myself!

that's right! EVERY MAN FOR HIMSELF....IF THEY WANNA PLAY SAVAGE...I'LL PLAY SAVAGE!

[abcdefz]

he jellied my stapler

[yeahwho]

I will occaisionally do the obligatory 10 ft. of toilet paper hanging out my ass at work. About twice a year.

[beastieangel01]

Ever thought of getting a red swingline stapler?

yes. Seriously, someone has taken my stapler before too. I made sure to make my user picture Milton on MSN (we use it here at work) before someone called me on it :p

I used to be the front desk, so the desk was the whore to the office for supplies. It got on my nerves and I even put up a sign that read "if you borrow something from this desk PLEASE put it back! Thanks."

Now, I am upstairs, out of the way, and there was STILL SOMETHING taken off my desk. I bought a space heater with my own money just last week since it's always freezing in the office (the people in their own offices say it gets to hot, as do the people that are a little larger than some). So instead of making 6 people too warm, I got my own heater. Anyway, I didn't come in to the office on Friday but am here full-time now for a few weeks. This morning, there was frost on my car, my heater didn't work in the car, I was running late so I didn't blow dry my hair (and I get much colder when my hair is wet), so going in to work I was happy to know I have my space heater ready for me...

no. Not at all. No one asked me to borrow it, no one informed me that they did borrow it. And furthermore, THEY DID NOT PUT IT BACK. I spent over 30 minutes looking for it since the office was empty (only one person in other than me at the time) with no luck. I had to send out a mass mail to everyone asking for the person that "borrowed" it to return it to me.

I finally got it back 30 minutes later.

I don't ever mind people borrowing things but for christs sake, put it fucking back where you found it.

:mad:

[tracky]

We had a guy like that at work last year (he got sacked at the end of the year... thankfully). He'd always be stealing my ruler from my office & would also use my coffee & milk (I buy my own cause the coffee work supplies is crap). Both these things annoyed me so much, not the fact that he used them, but the fact that he NEVER asked. So I used to bad mouth him all the time around the bosses, hoping that they'd fire him... ;) Be nice ;)

[Rock]

Hasn't this been a problem with you for the past year or so?

Whats worse is when people lie about you at work. Bitch. This cunt just told my boss I haven't tried contacting her to do something for the past 6 months when I call her every two weeks. Mudskipper looking bitch. I guess thats what I get for not having my requests in writing. Fucking Whore. I don't wish anything bad on anyone...but her. The fucking cunt.

[beastieangel01]

Hasn't this a problem with you for the past year or so?


yes. Like I said, I was at the front desk for the past few jobs so in a way, it comes with the job. It sucks, but it's true when you are the front desk.

but now, I'm not even CLOSE to the front desk. Someone literally came up the stairs, in to my department, in to the area my desk is in, and took something.

what. the. fuck.

and yeah that woman is a stupid cunt fucker.

(sorry, a little angry today, I hate hate hate being cold and I hate my things being taken without being asked and then them not getting returned) *(&#$%(&*$%#

[Rock]

(sorry, a little angry today, I hate hate hate being cold and I hate my things being taken without being asked and then them not getting returned) *(&#$%(&*$%#

Don't apologize...let it out baby...let it all out (i'm right there with you as far as being a little angry at the moment).

[jabumbo]

my old desk was empty, and my place now, i have what i need, but so does everyone else

so i havent had this problem

[abcdefz]

yes. Seriously, someone has taken my stapler before too. I made sure to make my user picture Milton on MSN (we use it here at work) before someone called me on it :p

I used to be the front desk, so the desk was the whore to the office for supplies. It got on my nerves and I even put up a sign that read "if you borrow something from this desk PLEASE put it back! Thanks."

Now, I am upstairs, out of the way, and there was STILL SOMETHING taken off my desk. I bought a space heater with my own money just last week since it's always freezing in the office (the people in their own offices say it gets to hot, as do the people that are a little larger than some). So instead of making 6 people too warm, I got my own heater. Anyway, I didn't come in to the office on Friday but am here full-time now for a few weeks. This morning, there was frost on my car, my heater didn't work in the car, I was running late so I didn't blow dry my hair (and I get much colder when my hair is wet), so going in to work I was happy to know I have my space heater ready for me...

no. Not at all. No one asked me to borrow it, no one informed me that they did borrow it. And furthermore, THEY DID NOT PUT IT BACK. I spent over 30 minutes looking for it since the office was empty (only one person in other than me at the time) with no luck. I had to send out a mass mail to everyone asking for the person that "borrowed" it to return it to me.

I finally got it back 30 minutes later.

I don't ever mind people borrowing things but for christs sake, put it fucking back where you found it.

:mad:






....that's pretty much over the line. How'd she even know you had a heater? What would make her think the company would buy a little space heater for a personal office? Can you lock your office?

[Qdrop]

I finally got it back 30 minutes later.

I don't ever mind people borrowing things but for christs sake, put it fucking back where you found it.

:mad:

did you bitch her out!?

i mean, shit...that is YOUR heater....that's fuckin theft.

what a ho.....complain to her boss.

or slice her with a razorblade.....whichever...

[beastieangel01]

....that's pretty much over the line. How'd she even know you had a heater? What would make her think the company would buy a little space heater for a personal office? Can you lock your office?

No idea how she even new. I know the guys I work with upstairs know since it's sitting right here. But otherwise, no one should have since no one else is in this office. Unfortunately this office space is a shared one with 3 other people. But it's seperate, and up some stairs away from everyone else.

Again, I usually don't mind people borrowing things but put them back ;/

[beastieangel01]

did you bitch her out!?

i mean, shit...that is YOUR heater....that's fuckin theft.

what a ho.....complain to her boss.

or slice her with a razorblade.....whichever...

Well, she returned it and said "well I couldn't ask you to borrow it, you weren't here" and set it down and I said "well okay, that may be true, but at least put it BACK next time, thanks." I was being nice, I guess.

Apparently, the reason why I couldn't find it when I looked around this morning is because it was in a drawer in HER DESK.

:rolleyes:

[Qdrop]

Well, she returned it and said "well I couldn't ask you to borrow it, you weren't here" and set it down and I said "well okay, that may be true, but at least put it BACK next time, thanks." I was being nice, I guess.

Apparently, the reason why I couldn't find it when I looked around this morning is because it was in a drawer in HER DESK.

:rolleyes:

DUDE!!!

you fuckin KNOW that if you hadn't put out an email....she would have kept that fuckin thing.

THIEF!!!!

watch her carefully from now on.....
it is now your sworn duty to get her ass fired.


for the good of mankind.

[enree erzweglle]

At my work, they had to hold a series of seminars to teach people not to take things from the desks of the support staff. They called it training of some sort. It was mandatory. The only thing it did was to empower the support staff to get bitchy at people who borrowed without asking. Since then, they hang sarcastic signs in and around their spaces in an attempt to extend the lesson on common courtesy.

If I worked in an open plan, I'd be tempted to put my stuff in my desk and lock it all away. Then, I'd have a second/identical set of stuff, which I'd arrange nicely and then cement it all to my desk.

[abcdefz]

Well, she returned it and said "well I couldn't ask you to borrow it, you weren't here"




...civilized people know, then, that you don't take something if you can't secure permission. (n)

[tracky]

she was tryna gank that heater from you (n) rude bitch

man some people. there's only a few but that's all it takes

[beastieangel01]

the thing is, she is really pleasant. And I've never had a problem with her before.

Meh. I admit, I've borrowed things before, like scissors or something but I have always asked first, or if the person is gone, I always put things back. But it's always been small things, like scissors. Not something someone bought personally to use though.

[tracky]

All the pleasentries are just a facade then

[Ace42X]

All the pleasentries are just a facade then

Correct. They are designed to make business transactions seem less mercenary.

[jackrock]

he jellied my stapler
:D :D (y)

[kate]

i told a guy i had to poop yesterday and he went and told everyone else, so everyone was coming up to me all day "you poop yet?"
wtf

[TurdBerglar]

you never tell a guy you need to take a shit. what the hell is wrong with you?

[Bob]

Correct. They are designed to make business transactions seem less mercenary.

that and to steal your stuff when you're not around

but that too

"peter, what's happening..."

[kate]

i thought he'd just laugh some, not make everyone aware of my clenching

[marsdaddy]

Someone stole my blackberry charger when I was on medical leave. Don't worry though, I put on hex on him.

[TurdBerglar]

i thought he'd just laugh some, not make everyone aware of my clenching


guys don't shit at all dureing highschool. becuase if they do and someone comes in, that's the end of it. you get things thrown at you from over the stall, they kick the door in then they tell everyone (y)


guys are funny when it comes to shitting

[Bob]

guys don't shit at all dureing highschool. becuase if they do and someone comes in, that's the end of it. you get things thrown at you from over the stall, they kick the door in then they tell everyone (y)


guys are funny when it comes to shitting


i never shit at school once. in fact, i don't think i ever even pissed.

i'm not sure how i pulled that off for 4 years quite honestly

it wasn't because i was afraid of getting the door kicked in (although maybe i should have been), it was just that the toilets were really gross and besides, all anyone ever used the bathrooms for at school was for smoking anyway

[kate]

dude the old ladies at work fucking let loose in the bathrooms like they have sound proof stalls or something! there was this one lady in there, gruntin away, breathin heavy, very obviously in distress, all of a sudden it was like her head fell through her body and landed in the toilet making the biggest PLOP i've ever heard, and she goes "*sigh* oh thank you lord!"

[TurdBerglar]

dude the old ladies at work fucking let loose in the bathrooms like they have sound proof stalls or something! there was this one lady in there, gruntin away, breathin heavy, very obviously in distress, all of a sudden it was like her head fell through her body and landed in the toilet making the biggest PLOP i've ever heard, and she goes "*sigh* oh thank you lord!"


it's even worse when you're in the stall next to someone like that and you try not to laugh on top of trying to be quiet so no one can hear the shit exiting your body.

[Bob]

i'll tell you what's even worse, is when your desk is on the opposite side of the building from the bathroom, the bathroom has a loud exhaust fan that automatically turns on with the lights, and you can STILL fucking hear someone's diarrhea!

i mean, it's hilarious, but it's also kind of embarrassing when you see them later in the day

[marsdaddy]

dude the old ladies at work fucking let loose in the bathrooms like they have sound proof stalls or something! there was this one lady in there, gruntin away, breathin heavy, very obviously in distress, all of a sudden it was like her head fell through her body and landed in the toilet making the biggest PLOP i've ever heard, and she goes "*sigh* oh thank you lord!"By the time you're old, you realize everyone poops and farts aren't quite as funny. Dutch ovens never lose their charm, though.