Annoying/Cringeworthy things your co-workers do....

TYVM

 

No it’s like a net promoter score that they give companies but yes it’s one way they measure the business not me personally

 

Wow just found out I am the number 1 people leader in the galaxy. Last year I was number 1 on planet earth.

 

Jealousy is a terrible color on you my friend. I for one have always said I’d hire ole One Two straight away if I had a mall cell phone case kiosk

 

We do this every year. My favorite question is "I never see positive results from these surveys" which always scores off the charts company wide

 

The survey administrators must come up with a really strong way to spin interpreting that question. They’d all be out of jobs and those surveys would be discontinued if that specific question carried any weight.

 

My favorite question was when we used Gallup.

“Do you have a work best friend?”

the first time the response rate had like a 10% affirmative

 

It's really more of an indictment of administration

 

My old job turned into a debacle during COVID, we had to use personal equipment to WFH (no stipends, finally got company laptops in like 2022 lol). A ton of people were burnt out because people left and they wouldn’t rehire. They did a survey and it was like 50% positive across the board and the response was maybe worse than if they didn’t do it at all.

They sent out an email basically saying this is how it’s going to be if you have any issues talk to your manager (when they couldn’t do anything without 5 levels of approval). “Remember the impact your hard work has on the customer”, “If you feel overwhelmed by work try some new time management strategies”.

 

My favorite is you do the survey and then have to have meetings about the survey where you then have to come up with action plans.

"We wanted to hear your voice. We hear you and the solution we've come up with is more work."

 

My current job, someone told me that one time they had some negative results so they made the team come up with an action plan. So after that people just stopped doing it and gave positive answers so they don’t have to make a plan.

 

Previous gig this question caused some problems. I don’t know if it was 10% but it was low enough that the ding dongs in HR initiated a company wide effort to “fix” it which turned into a ton of really aggravating team building bullshit.

 

My old boss referred to a problem as a tar baby in a meeting with our controller and I. He was so confused when we told him it was a racial slur (he knew it to mean a problem you should avoid because you'll get stuck with it)

 

is his name Arthur?

because I have the same person and his name is Arthur

 

Scott

 

Phil

 

“Anonymous”

 

I am the curmudgeon; I have no desire for friendship at work.

 

I'm the same

 

There’s a handful of people at work I’ve had drinks with. But I’m not vacationing with any of them.

 

I’m the opposite. I always make friends at work. 2 of my really good friends I met at 2 different jobs. 1 of them officiated our wedding.

 

I have a handful of work “friends” but I generally try to never see anyone from work outside the office.

 

We recently had a get together scheduled at a local bar after work. Everyone said they couldn't do the originally planned date as it approached. It got rescheduled to a later date. Then, on the day of the newly scheduled date, the first 6-7 people that responded in teams said they couldn't make it. So it just flat out got cancelled.

 

A true philosophy for our age

 

Roughly 20 years ago, at a company called CPSI, now TruBridge, they sent out an employee survey with a question roughly asking, "Other than more money, how can we improve employee morale?" I did not fill out said survey.

 

I know this is a personal preference thing, but I always laugh when I see “thank you for your email” on someone’s out of office. It’s only happened a couple of times, but I’m a big fan of getting an email that says something along the lines of “fuck your company we are pissed off” and then one of the recipients auto replies “thank you for your email. I’m out of the office until Tuesday.” It happened once when a coworker neglected to do something extremely important prior to taking time off and an enraged third party replied all “Bob where the hell is this it’s almost 5” and then Bob auto tossed back “thanks for your email, I’m currently out of the office.”

 

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I turn auto replies on whenever I’m traveling for work which has been a few days every week for the past month or two. A contractor of mine keeps replying to my out of office saying “no problem”

 

Love that

 

Over here eating just a can of cream of chicken.

 

Is his desk in the break room? I imagine he would be put there cause he’s gotta smell like soup sweat all day.

 

We just have a small little kitchen area in the corner of our main office room.

 

Go heat up some fish

 

"Cream of" soups are ingredients. Didn't realize people actually just ate them.

 

I brought that up to him and he just stared at me like I had turds hanging out of my mouth.

 

Aren't you supposed to add milk to those? Did he add milk?

 

No, it was basically chicken pudding.

 

That guy’s got a body or three in his walls.

 

I was talking to one of my buddies at work (UCF grad) about breweries, and he mentioned he had a friend back home that made oat milk. I figured there can’t be that many people making Oat Milk there so I asked if his friend also made popsicles which he later confirmed.

Long story short, the cringeworthy thing is associating with Mix.

Spoiler

 

Lmao