The little things at work that bother you...

[ToucanSpam]

Everyone has little things at work that drive them slowly mad. It's a fact; everyone kinda hates their job. What are your pet peeves at work? It can be anything, from another human being to having a stapler out of staples or someone stealing your pens. Lash out and vent here.

My pet peeve is when someone comes up to the register and asks for someone else to speak to about cameras, because they need 'an expert'; now, I understand I'm new to the Photo Lab scene, but ouch. I do constantly carry a booklet that described every camera we have, and I'm fairly aquainted with the operation and qualities of our best sellers...maybe I take that too personally, but ouch people. I'm wearing the damn lab coat, just because I'm a pretty face doesn't mean I know nothing.

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[abcdefz]

...one of my main pet peeves is about to end: having no work to do.

This Friday we have a meeting to settle on styles once and for all for the documentation, then I switch to our new software. If it imports projects from the old software properly, all's well, but it's very likely that I'll have to kind of start from scratch, as far as building the chapters and topics go, and that'll be probably a good month or so of cut-and-paste.

[voltanapricot]

The fact that one of my co-workers is called Nighat pron. Nigga because it's so embarassing calling out her name for help when you've a bunch of black customers looking around giving you dirty evils because they think that you're an ignorant racist poo ooooh my Jesus.

Why.

[Planetary]

The fact that one of my co-workers is called Nighat pron. Nigga because it's so embarassing calling out her name for help when you've a bunch of black customers looking around giving you dirty evils because they think that you're an ignorant racist poo ooooh my Jesus.

Why.

hahahaha. (y) that's a good one...

[ericlee]

I had a box of pizza with 3 pieces left in it sitting on the table for my wife. I told her I will be bringing it home and she was all happy.

The box was sitting on the table for nearly 15 minutes and the dayshift crew came in. Well, I took the box home to my wife and she opened it and there was only one piece left.

I was pissed and came into work the next day and while they were all in a group, I told them simply, if you didn't buy something then, it's not yours.

[burbboi]

all the constant changes in protocol without adequate training to implement them. That and the she-male I spoke of is now of my tech team. Freaks me out a bit.

[abcdefz]

The fact that one of my co-workers is called Nighat pron. Nigga because it's so embarassing calling out her name for help when you've a bunch of black customers looking around giving you dirty evils because they think that you're an ignorant racist poo ooooh my Jesus.

Why.



How about a surname?

If one of my co-workers were named "nigga," you can damned well bet I'd be calling 'em "Smith" or whatever.

[beastiegirrl101]

I had a box of pizza with 3 pieces left in it sitting on the table for my wife. I told her I will be bringing it home and she was all happy.

The box was sitting on the table for nearly 15 minutes and the dayshift crew came in. Well, I took the box home to my wife and she opened it and there was only one piece left.

I was pissed and came into work the next day and while they were all in a group, I told them simply, if you didn't buy something then, it's not yours.

same with my office, they are vultures. If I have something left over from a holiday, party, bday...and I want to get rid of it all I have to do is bring it to work. They will eat anything.

We are going through our slow season right now and the phones are not even ringing, so I have to sit here for 8 hours and pretend to look busy. I pretty much shoot our resumes all day...but it makes me crazy when I think of all the things I could be getting done if I wasnt here.

[abcdefz]

I had a box of pizza with 3 pieces left in it sitting on the table for my wife. I told her I will be bringing it home and she was all happy.

The box was sitting on the table for nearly 15 minutes and the dayshift crew came in. Well, I took the box home to my wife and she opened it and there was only one piece left.

I was pissed and came into work the next day and while they were all in a group, I told them simply, if you didn't buy something then, it's not yours.



...it's a good idea to just write your name on something if you're leaving it in a community workspace. If I walked into the break room and saw a pizza sitting out, I'd assume it was up for grabs.

[ms.peachy]

I had a box of pizza with 3 pieces left in it sitting on the table for my wife. I told her I will be bringing it home and she was all happy.

The box was sitting on the table for nearly 15 minutes and the dayshift crew came in. Well, I took the box home to my wife and she opened it and there was only one piece left.

I was pissed and came into work the next day and while they were all in a group, I told them simply, if you didn't buy something then, it's not yours.
OK now, to play devil's advocate, I have to ask, is this a communal table in the general group eating area? Because pretty much anywhere I've ever worked where there's a communal kitchen, leaving something on the table like that is basically an invitation that says "help yourself", unless you've left a note or soemthing to the contrary. If that's the case, you've no one to blame inthis case but yourself, and coming in and telling everyojne off just makes you look a bit... you know.

[voltanapricot]

How about a surname?

If one of my co-workers were named "nigga," you can damned well bet I'd be calling 'em "Smith" or whatever.
Eh yeah we've thought of that one before but it makes it too obvious that there's such a big problem.

[abcdefz]

Eh yeah we've thought of that one before but it makes it too obvious that there's such a big problem.


...lesser of two evils, I'd say.

The person would have to be pretty fucking ignorant to not know that their name sounds just like a derogatory, racist slur.

[ms.peachy]

...lesser of two evils, I'd say.

The person would have to be pretty fucking ignorant to not know that their name sounds just like a derogatory, racist slur.
Really, You'd think they'd maybe prefer to use their surname, or a nickname.

Can you get away with pronouncing it Nee-GHAH or something?

[cosmo105]

when i answer the phone, hi, *my store's name*

hi, is this *my store's name*?

*sigh* yes...

[ericlee]

OK now, to play devil's advocate, I have to ask, is this a communal table in the general group eating area? Because pretty much anywhere I've ever worked where there's a communal kitchen, leaving something on the table like that is basically an invitation that says "help yourself", unless you've left a note or soemthing to the contrary. If that's the case, you've no one to blame inthis case but yourself, and coming in and telling everyojne off just makes you look a bit... you know.

no, it's just a table in the office. I put my bookbag there every day and the box was sitting right next to it.

Nothing here is communal and they all know it. I know exactly who did it when I told them because of the reaction of the guy and it was the guy who always has to come in and complain about everybody here.

Everybody here tries to get along and we have a simple system of, if you want something then just ask.

[voltanapricot]

...lesser of two evils, I'd say.

The person would have to be pretty fucking ignorant to not know that their name sounds just like a derogatory, racist slur.
I agree with you. She introduced herself to all staff as "Nigga" and I guess no one who works with her more often than I do is pally enough to throw in the surname like some pally thing.

peachy: I do often try to pronounce the 'g's' more softly with a soft 't' to do a little justice but really, nobody can help but feel awkward saying in front of somebody unknowing i.e. customer. It would still come across the same.

[ms.peachy]

no, it's just a table in the office. I put my bookbag there every day and the box was sitting right next to it.


Ok well that's different then.

Kick his ass. Eatin' your pizza, who does that bastard think he is?:mad:

[mp-seventythree]

Nothing at my work annoys me.....yet

[ericlee]

Ok well that's different then.

Kick his ass. Eatin' your pizza, who does that bastard think he is?:mad:

heh, not my pizza. I could probably handle it alot better if it was mine. Even worse, it was my wife's pizza which was supposed to be her breakfast and she's been craving pizza.

I should have her just go a few rounds with him and she's quite capable of doing so.

[sab0tage]

The way blokes at work who have the same job role as me, do a lot less work than me and get paid about £5000 a year more than me are always moaning about something :mad:

[jabumbo]

...one of my main pet peeves is about to end: having no work to do.

thats the reason both of my internships ended earlier than they should have

and it really bugs me since when they hired me, they said i would work until this time, and then they cut me out early because they can't give me enough to make it worth me being there

[enree erzweglle]

We have flex time at my work I use it. I come in early and then leave at ~3p. Most people that I work with come in at ~10a and so they should leave at ~7p.

So for the last several months, I'd been spending a couple of hours during the work day each day sending email back/forth with someone that I knew. When I needed to, I made up the time on projects at home, usually in the nights when I couldn't sleep. Got my projects done, it was okay.

But for a few weeks in February & March, I stayed at work--I was actually in my office--until 4-6p. I found that most of those people who roll in at 10a leave at ~3:15-3:30. They're not working from home.

Which is a kind of pissy work ethic and I wish I didn't know that about the ones who do it.

[wanton wench]

when i answer the phone, hi, *my store's name*

hi, is this *my store's name*?

*sigh* yes...
idiots!
how about this........there are two glass doors on either side of the hallway where my desk is. people come down from court and say "does this door go outside?" one time i'm going to say no just to see how they respond.

[ericlee]

once again, the whole part when soldiers give me their weapon, pointing it at me. It's not really a little thing either because most of the time they don't have their bolt locked to the rear and I can't look inside to see if it's clear. We've got a hole in the ceiling because a soldier supposedly cleared his weapon and that hole could've easily been through the armorer rather than the ceiling.

Another thing I hate is when a high ranking officer turns in their pistol with the slide foward rather than locked to the rear, the way it's supposed to be turned in and they don't know how to lock it to the rear!! You don't earn such a high rank from being in the military for just 5 years. It takes a long time to acquire such rank and a pistol is their primary weapon and they don't even know how to use it!

Oh crap, I can go on and on. Needless to say, it won't be much longer till I'm outta this joint.

[kll]

the 11-year old son of one of my agents who thinks that playing in my office when he's on spring break, xmas break, sick days, etc is the best way to utilize his time...

agents calling me after deadlines begging me to pull strings to help them out

[ericlee]

My hypocritical coworker who complains about dayshift sleeping when he comes in and relieves them. This mug will sleep 4-5 hours everynight and very often customers will come and see him racked up like that, snoring away.

He also likes to show me some stuff from something he's reading and it's always never interesting. I'd always have to pause whatever I'm watching or doing just to look at his little gay and boring stuff. You know, if I want to read the paper then I'd just look at it myself at my own leisure.

[abcdefz]

My hypocritical coworker who complains about dayshift sleeping when he comes in and relieves them. This mug will sleep 4-5 hours everynight and very often customers will come and see him racked up like that, snoring away.



..when I worked at a video store, we had a guy who would fall asleep at the rental register if he'd been partying too much the night beofre. The customers would literally have to wake him up sometimes. That was laternately funny and pathetic/embarassing.

...he later was promotoed to assistant manager, solely because he'd been there for so long. :eek:

[DapperDiverge]

where do i begin??

i had this real asshole manager and one time one of the toliets in the ladies' room was outta order (just one)...so what did his brilliant ass do?? he shut down all the restrooms to the public, men's room and ladies' room, and only one toliet was out.
Now, any genius could tell you that all you gotta do is put a sign up saying "Out of Order" right?? Not this jerk.... to make a long story short, i was working on the floor putting merchandise out and a lady said that her little girl needed to use the restroom and that she was learning to be potty trained...so of course i let her go to the rest room before her kid pissed her pants...just logical... well, my manager found out i let her use the restroom and he chewed me out!! what a motherfucker!!

he always gave me more work to do than anyone else. Everyone else would slack off, but he was cool with them...then one day i make a comment (near closing time by the way) that the customers were real bitches, thinking he'd be cool with it and totally agree (cuz no one bitched more about customers than him) and he had the balls to right me up for a warning!! a fucking warning!! :eek: :mad: I quit that bitch so fast!!

my pet peeve: people in high positions abusing their powers!!

[hpdrifter]

People bogarting the copier with their huge copy jobs.

Also people who take the elevator from the first to the second floor.

We've also been getting this slough of wrong numbers lately, which mystifies me because when you call there's a recording which talks about our company. Its like 60 seconds long or something. And yet people persistently push the button when its over and ask, who is this?

[cosmo105]

when the new chick will answer the phone as she's ringing someone up...and take the phone call and completely ignore the person she's ringing up...and make huge gestures like OH MY GOSH CAN YOU BELIEVE THIS PERSON I'M TALKING TO ON THE PHONE and be hugely overdramatic as the line starts to build up and people start staring at me and finally i say can you just move so i can ring these people up and get them out of here? i really wanted to say something to her about it last night but she's so damned touchy i'm afraid to say one thing or else she'll start hyperventilating and talking monosyllabically and be a bitch to all the customers SIGH.

[ms.peachy]

Also people who take the elevator from the first to the second floor.

Ha, I don't mind that so much, but here's the one that gets me:

Every single elevator where I work has a light on the outside of it with an arrow pointing up or down. When the elevator stops, the light goes on with the appropriate arrow showing the direction that it is currently traveling, and whenthe doors open, the little recorded voice plainly says "Lift going up" or "Lift going down". But always, always, always, some idiot(s) get on and try to punch the button for a floor that is in the opposite direction and then can't work out why it doesn't light up. And then the car starts moving and they say, in a startled voice "Oh, is it going up?" And sometimes it's all I can do to stop from saying "Yes you fucking idiot it is." But you know, I'd probably get fired for that, so instead I just stare at them and try to say it with my eyes.

[hpdrifter]

so instead I just stare at them and try to say it with my eyes.

Dude, that made me laugh out loud. Yeah, we don't have the recorded voice in my building, but we definitely have the arrows that light up. They make a little dinging sound when they light up too, so you can't help but look at them.

Why? do? people? do? that?

[Documad]

I found that most of those people who roll in at 10a leave at ~3:15-3:30. They're not working from home. Which is a kind of pissy work ethic and I wish I didn't know that about the ones who do it.
I have the opposite issue. I have a few co-workers who leave at 3 p.m. and they can't bring their work home. In theory, that's okay because they come in early and work a couple of hours before I arrive. But whenever I'm behind on something and come in early, they're either not at their desks or they're doing something completely personal before the bosses show up. Even that wouldn't bother me, but sometimes I need their help and they're always too busy. :rolleyes:

The good part about me working odd hours is that my boss's boss does too, and he thinks I'm a slave to the job because I'm working till 7 p.m. on a Friday night with him. But I got in at 9:30 a.m. and I'm meeting my friends for dinner at 8. :)

[Documad]

People bogarting the copier with their huge copy jobs.
I've been doing it for weeks via my secretary. The case that caused it settled this morning right before I needed all the copies, so we're dumping boxes and boxes of paper into the recycling bin tomorrow and I feel really bad.

My pet peeves have little to do with work and lots to do with co-workers' revolting habits like drinking out of dirty coffee cups and rattling the change in their pockets, and one who clips his fingernails at his desk.

As for real work, I've been going literally insane for about six months because the biggest sack of shit co-worker I've had in years wasn't doing any of his work and his worst things have been reassigned to me. I can't really tell people who bad it is because he's a long time employee who was well loved. Only the secretaries know how bad he is because they're had to work for him (and isn't that the biggest clue in the world that none of them wanted to be assigned to him?) So my worst projects are the ones that were his, and I'm behind because I wasn't doing them, and it's much more difficult to take on something that's half done wrong than it is to do it correct from the start. After all this, he quit recently and I suspect that he knew he was leaving for months and that's why he wasn't doing his damn job. They're having a party for him soon and I can't attend because I would kill him in front of his family.

[enree erzweglle]

I have the opposite issue. I have a few co-workers who leave at 3 p.m. and they can't bring their work home. In theory, that's okay because they come in early and work a couple of hours before I arrive. But whenever I'm behind on something and come in early, they're either not at their desks or they're doing something completely personal before the bosses show up. Even that wouldn't bother me, but sometimes I need their help and they're always too busy. :rolleyes:

The good part about me working odd hours is that my boss's boss does too, and he thinks I'm a slave to the job because I'm working till 7 p.m. on a Friday night with him. But I got in at 9:30 a.m. and I'm meeting my friends for dinner at 8. :)Yes, that first problem you described? ...I see that too. This one woman that I work with gets in at 7, but she spends between 7 and 9 visiting people and seriously doing nothing. Sometimes she visits me and tries to do that for like an hour and I can't take it because that's all time that I'll have to make up. I'd rather just get into work, do my work, and leave.

My boss's boss works early hours too AND he works in the middle of the night. The man is a machine because he does other stuff outside of work too. Anyway, I'll be logged in at 1 or 2 in the morning and he'll send mail and I'll answer and we both know that the other one is working. :)

[peterclamp]

Well as the boss at my store I get told lots of private things in confidence, this is the kind of stuff that in normal circumstances would make good gossip!

I get told...

I'm pregnant
I'm gay
My marriage is ending

In truth I do keep it secret but inside I usually want to go go tell someone straight away, apart from this last one which I got told this weekend...

I really like you, I've got a crush on you

OMG! What do you say to that? I'm her (married) boss, she is engaged to be married and I am 11 years older than her!
Admittedly she is pretty and we do get on very well and i suppose mess around/flirt in what I thought was a harmless way, if I was not married I would def. take things further...

Most guys would probably think I should stop moaning and enjoy it but I can see problems developing...

1. We both like each other but know taking it further would be wrong.
2. If we try and carry on as friends and colleagues will inner feelings just make it too uncomfortable to work together?
3. It may cause ructions (sp.) with my other staff if gossip starts.
4. We both like our jobs but would one of us feel forced to leave?

So I now have this fantastic gossip which I most def. cannot shout about and it is driving me nuts daily!

Any (sensible) advice appreciated!

Other than that...work is good!

Pete :o

[ms.peachy]

For someone who is "11 years older than her (sic)", you sure sound like you're thinking about this issue like a hormone addled teenager and not like a responsible adult manager. Unless your goal is in fact to set yourself up for a sexual harassment lawsuit and ruin your marriage, your only real option is to say to her "That's very flattering, thank you very much" and then put an end to this "harmless" flirting, in light of the fact that it is not actually harmless.

[CrankItUp!]

Not being able to actually ride a bike while having to work my ass off on repairing 20+ of them daily when its beautiful weather outside sometimes. :(

[peterclamp]

For someone who is "11 years older than her (sic)", you sure sound like you're thinking about this issue like a hormone addled teenager and not like a responsible adult manager. Unless your goal is in fact to set yourself up for a sexual harassment lawsuit and ruin your marriage, your only real option is to say to her "That's very flattering, thank you very much" and then put an end to this "harmless" flirting, in light of the fact that it is not actually harmless.


No I am not wanting to ruin my marriage or anything else, I only answered this thread in a light hearted manner. I was just stating that I do find her attractive, as I do Angelina Jolie or many other woman but I would not have an affair. If I were not married then I would consider taking the potential relationship (does an 11 year age gap matter to much - 22yrs/33yrs?) further but only if the work situation was changed ie one of us moved to a neighbouring store.

It is a shame tho because before this we have been good friends who seem to share a similar thought wavelength and I would have been happy for it to carry on like this, in fact when she told me on Saturday it was a real shock. I just wonder by me saying that I am flattered but no thanks if we can return to being friends again. To be honest most of, if not all the flirting comes from her and I actively do not encourage it and go out of my way to treat her the same as the rest of my team as I know the damage that can be done.

My point was that it was ironic that I get to hear all the juicy gossip and none of it I can discuss with anyone especially the last bit!

Anyhow, I will try the approach you suggest tomorrow and see how that goes, thanks.

[ms.peachy]

Anyhow, I will try the approach you suggest tomorrow and see how that goes, thanks.
Well, good luck. It is obviously difficult, since she has revealed this and made herself a bit vulnerable, and now you have to find a way to respond that isn't going to hurt her feelings. But as you said she is engaged, maybe this is just a bit of pre-wedding jitters? I'm not saying she doesn't actually fancy you a bit, but maybe, in a way, you're just the person that happens to "be there" at the moment. Who knows.

Either way, my gut feeling is that in these situation, the less said the better really - don't get into long complicated statements about how it's a shame that the timing is wrong, blah blah blah, all of that - you'd be digging yourself a hole, I think. Just a very simple "That's very flattering thank you, you're a lovely person as well, [insert fiance's name here] is a lucky fella." And that's really about all you need to say, methinks.

[Rancid_Beasties]

Underage kids who get in your face when they are asked for ID. If we werent an independant bottle shop, say we were a dan murphy's or something, they would get ID'd at the door, and if any of their mates were under 18 that were with them none of them would get in. I think they should consider themselves lucky that we at least dont check their ID's at the door.

Secondly, customers who dont read price tickets, then get in my face about how i am charging them too much. I take them over to the ticket and show them that I was charging them the correct amount, and more often than not they just walk out swearing and stuff. Fucken drunks.

[Tzar]

when i answer the phone, hi, *my store's name*

hi, is this *my store's name*?

*sigh* yes...
hahaha

one of my peeves is when i'm working, it's busy, and people complain to you about prices of certain products, and they say shit like "wow?! $4.32 for that!?" and look at you as if you just set the price right there and then.

fucking hell.. check the prices, or check the label. if it's something high and mighty like... heinz soup.. of course it's gonna be more expensive than some homebrand shit. don't blame me from high prices.

[enree erzweglle]

one of my peeves is when i'm working, it's busy, and people complain to you about prices of certain products, and they say shit like "wow?! $4.32 for that!?" and look at you as if you just set the price right there and then.
Seems that it takes a special sort of discipline to work with the public, whether it's in the service industry or in the health-care field. I don't think I could do it or do it for long. When they deal with service reps or health-care workers, a lot of people forget themselves and forego basic manners--they get this elitist kind of attitude. They feel entitled to that. I don't get it--people who work in those fields, I think, need the most understanding because man, those are hard and/or tedious jobs and the pay & hours are usually crap.

(Besides, most people who work in the stores in my neighborhood work for chains or franchises and I have to wonder: can people in those positions affect pricing? ...don't think so.)

[Tzar]

(Besides, most people who work in the stores in my neighborhood work for chains or franchises and I have to wonder: can people in those positions affect pricing? ...don't think so.)
exactly.

oh nah, actually.. i'm the one responcible for the price of... nappies in the whole state. yes, me, the guy behind the counter. i HAVE to be responcible for that.

if a customer pisses me off, i still act all nice and calm to them.. i just pack their shit wrong in the back :D; grapes at the bottom of the bag, oranges next, then bananas (y)

[cookiepuss]

Every little thing at work bothers me. :rolleyes:

[cosmo105]

oh god, the PRICES. jesus. okay, the stuff we sell at my store is a little higher-priced than conventional products. that's to be expected, no? yet i guarantee i'll get someone bitching about HOW IS THIS ANY BETTER THAN THE REGULAR JUNK AND YET YOU CHARGE 2 DOLLARS MORE FOR IT and the worst are the old fogeys screaming at me for raising the price 9 cents. i'm sorry, i don't even put the price stickers on these products. the distributor figures out our prices based on a set profit margin we've had for...oh...DECADES. and if they raise their prices, we have to raise ours. simple as that. in case you haven't noticed, the price of gas has affected the price of everything.

one more really irritating thing:

"hi, i'm looking for something, but i don't know what it is."

"okay...have you gotten it here before?"

"i think so. i'm not sure."

"well, do you know what you take it for?"

"not really. i take it every day, though."

"do you know what the bottle looks like?"

"no. but it was a clear capsule filled with white powder. does that help?"


*smash*

[Tzar]

^ *smash* - there's that little pane of glass that smashes in everyone's head when shit like this happens. i know it definately happens in my head.

"hi, can i get cigarettes here too?"
"yeah...." *gives obvious look at the "CIGARETTES AVAILABLE FOR PURCHASE AT THIS REGISTER" sign*

"ok ill have... horizon 40s in the 8mg?"
"umm they're in 30s or 50s"

"ohh ok, umm 50s"
*walks off, grabs smokes, scans em + hits the "over 18" button on register*

"oh wait... what are those?"
"errhh horizon 5.."
"NO i wanted... no, WINFIELD blues in the 50s"

*smash*
*sigh*
"they only come in 20s or 25s"
"yeah 25s"

[Rancid_Beasties]

^Yes! Fucken cigarettes. We have alot of regulars who expect me to know what they mean when they ask for cigarettes. How about you just tell me so I dont have to waste my fucken memory space on your dirty habit.

[Sarky Devotchka]

With a shop full of picture frames, people come in and ask:

"do you have frames here"

"do you do framing?"

"is there someone here who can help me frame this?"

Or this happened to me the other day:

customer: "is that blonde girl here? she always helps me"

me: "you mean red hair? sara? she's gone for the day."

customer: "she's tall and thin"

me: "alison? she has brown hair. she's not here today"

customer: "no, she's blonde."

me: "well, it's probably sara, she has red hair"

customer: "is the owner here?"

me: *looks around empty store* "nope, JUST ME!"

customer: "when will she be back?"

me: "tomorrow, she'll be here all day"

customer: "when will she be here?"

me: "all day"

customer: "what does that mean?"

me: *shoots customer in the face*


Also, my boss is a bit of a micromanager, but it's pretty easy to brush him off. He's quick to apologize when he's been too pissy.

[Documad]

My boss's boss works early hours too AND he works in the middle of the night. The man is a machine because he does other stuff outside of work too. Anyway, I'll be logged in at 1 or 2 in the morning and he'll send mail and I'll answer and we both know that the other one is working. :)
Do you ever do it on purpose? Because I sure do. I feel a little guilty, but I'm merely human. :o

When I'm working on a Sunday or staying really late, I sometimes try to think of something I need to tell my boss, just so that I can email him and he'll know that I was working. I never do a groupwise email though, because my co-workers would call me on it. :p

[enree erzweglle]

Do you ever do it on purpose? Because I sure do. I feel a little guilty, but I'm merely human. :o

I have, but not with him because he's known me forever. I do it, though, with other people who maybe don't know me as well. I just did it, in fact. I won't be at work for a couple of days and am putting some hours in now, just finishing up, so I sent mail to a couple of people who maybe wouldn't have known that otherwise. I didn't used to do that but I do it occasionally when I think that people don't realize the hours that I tend to work. Like if they see me leaving at 3 and don't realize that I'll be back on later (like now) or that I came in early, then I'll often intentionally email them when I'm working late. Just to get the message to them.

[Documad]

I have, but not with him because he's known me forever. I do it, though, with other people who maybe don't know me as well. I just did it, in fact. I won't be at work for a couple of days and am putting some hours in now, just finishing up, so I sent mail to a couple of people who maybe wouldn't have known that otherwise. I didn't used to do that but I do it occasionally when I think that people don't realize the hours that I tend to work. Like if they see me leaving at 3 and don't realize that I'll be back on later (like now) or that I came in early, then I'll often intentionally email them when I'm working late. Just to get the message to them.
That's fair. Some people think that flexible hours means you're goofing off. It's fair to remind them that your work gets done because you're spending time doing it. I know that our receptionist thinks that I'm home doing yard work.

[ericlee]

heh, my coworker asked me why do I yell at him when I talk to him. I just told him that didn't realize I was and shrugged it off.

The reason I do is because he's one of those who says "huh" before you even have two words out of your mouth so I just figure I should start with a loud yelling voice so that I don't have to repeat myself anymore to him.

[Lindsey_1535]

People and idiot people

[HEIRESS]

idiots who send 75 mls of water when I need atleast 1.75L for a full potability test and then get pissy when I request that they send more when its perfectly defined in prior discussions

assholes who use the last of the gloves in my size and dont go out to storage and get more

people who pee on the toilet seat

people who shit on the toilet seat

people who menstruate on the toilet seat

[roosta]

when i was working i could have filled a million threads with things that bothered me.

call centres = (n)

[yeahwho]

when I'm sitting here at the computer checking out the BBMB and some assclown looks over my shoulder and asks, "what's that your looking at"?
It's a little thing, but it bugs the shit out of me, almost as much as when I go to checkout the animated gif thread at work and Joe Blow has lambasted the fucker with gay porn....cause he/she wants to get banned, then some scurvynozzle here at work looks over my shoulder and says "Now what are you looking at"?

I basically am just getting started, but this site is usually a great work timekiller...till people start looking over my shoulder.

[ericlee]

I go to checkout the animated gif thread at work and Joe Blow has lambasted the fucker with gay porn....cause he/she wants to get banned, then some scurvynozzle here at work looks over my shoulder and says "Now what are you looking at"?



yeah, they came right back the day after being banned and posted again in the gif thread. It wasn't porn though.

[ToucanSpam]

people who pee on the toilet seat

people who shit on the toilet seat

people who menstruate on the toilet seat

Jesus Christ of Nazareth, what kind of people do you work with Heiresss? The blind?

[yeahwho]

All the little things can become a big deal....

here's a list of things I've run into so far today,

Bad Breath (from a mile away) I said something to him...had to.

Somebody cooked a cheese sandwhich in the microwave that smells like poop.

Over talkative dude yakking about some stupid 4x4 truck he's rebuilding.

Over the weekend a moron came to work, got paid overtime and put everything he used away in a different place he originally got it from. So every drawer and shelf is different, kind of funny but mostly just bothersome.

A guy who's here for one day only (I told him just go fuck off, I don't care if you do anything) keeps asking me what he should do. Get a clue.

twice while making this post I had to switch to another window, these people can creep you out after awhile. The things we end up doing for money.