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

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  1. Pile Driving Miss Daisy

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    So you said she's not bad but vapes, clearly she wants to get in your pants. What's the hold up?
     
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  2. Whammy Business

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    I’m not single. If I was, I would have disappointed her sexually weeks ago.
     
  3. racer

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    My former boss just recently got a new role (aka got people leadership taken away) and just sent a teams message talking shit about two of the people on that team to the whole team. Oops.
     
  4. Shawn Hunter

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    Well it’s easy to see why he got demoted.
     
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  5. The Blackfish

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    What did he say
     
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  6. racer

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    Relatively tame stuff. So and so is driving me nuts, why can’t this other person just help xyz, they do this all the time, etc.
     
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  7. jrmy

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    You should pull a real power move and send a message to the whole team complaining about this is why he is no longer allowed to manage people and pretend like you didn't mean to include him on the message.
     
  8. WhiskeyDelta

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    It's annual review season, which is always a disaster, made worse by the fact that a lot of the workforce was told to go home and stay there so there's not a lot to right about this year.

    I got the feedback from the Commander about the one I wrote and her suggest I include that we were able to shift the work center to 8hr shifts from 12hr shifts. Which would be great if we'd gone to 8s. Or had ever been on 8s. Or had any plan to go to 8s in the future. Or if the work center who DID do that even worked for the same agency that we do. Or worked in the same building.
     
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  9. racer

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    At least they’re doing reviews on schedule. Mine is past due and nobody knows when it will happen.
     
  10. WhiskeyDelta

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    We’re “on aisle we started a full quarter before they’re due. Which means I can just lie and say I was “projecting” things my Airman will do
     
  11. racer

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    racer I think you’re on mute.”
    Nope, I just don’t have anything to say to your stupid ass.
     
  12. racer

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    Currently on a virtual pizza making team building with scattergories in between steps. Ugh.
     
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  13. Butthead

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    My workplace started a 5 year plan in 2015 to increase diversity among employees, particularly in management. I supported it at the time and I still do.

    The person tasked with delivering the results of this plan referred to a work culture of "white supremacy" about a dozen times when she really meant "white privilege"

    I don't know if I've ever cringed harder in my life
     
  14. WhiskeyDelta

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    Passive aggressive work emails

     
  15. wes tegg

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    One of the assistants in our office has the same birthday as me. If I had my way, no one in the office would know my birthday. She, however, really likes to celebrate hers. She's on my wing of the office, separate from the bullpen setup where most of the other assistants have cubes. So, a steady stream of staff has been walking past my office to go wish her a happy birthday. Each time, she has told them that it's also my birthday. Each time, they stop by my office on their way back to their cube to tell me happy birthday, too. I've been here an hour and all I have accomplished is typing out this post.
     
  16. Redav

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    This is a strange way of telling everyone it's your birthday
     
  17. El Tiburon

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    Other than the birthday wishes it sounds like a pretty average Monday in the office.
     
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  18. bigred77

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    Happy birthday!
     
  19. TC

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  20. El Tiburon

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    LORDY LORDY, WES TEGG IS FORTY!!!!
     
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  21. Vinegar Strokes

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  22. wes tegg

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  23. Shawn Hunter

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    If my birthdate is known at work, I always take my birthday off, if I can, to specifically miss out on people recognizing it.
     
  24. TC

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    I do not like to know or be known.
     
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  25. Shawn Hunter

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    At my last employer, they always did something for someone’s birthday. When it was getting near mine I told them to not even mention that it was my birthday. Then I got laid off the weekend before my birthday

    :ded:
    :cryingjordan:
     
  26. Redav

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    Thankfully covid has killed us having to celebrate everyone's fucking birthday at my work. At one time they sent around a spreadsheet where you filled out your birthday. I didn't fill mine out. Got a reply all email "Redav it looks like you didn't fill out your birthday!"

    Goddamit
     
  27. jrmy

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    That's what you get for being annoying.
     
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  28. Shawn Hunter

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    Should have put March 36th
     
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  29. Shawn Hunter

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    Well that’s not nice
     
  30. TC

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    "Let's have a birthday club! You pay in $20, then on your birthday you get money."
     
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  31. Where Eagles Dare

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    HAPPY BIRTHDAY TEGG!!!!
     
  32. Where Eagles Dare

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    It is now a thread
     
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  33. racer

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    Lmao they fired Shawn for his birthday
     
  34. One Two

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    I do this if possible. Our main floor assistant sends an email out every morning listing birthdays so there is no avoiding it. Normal ritual is there is then an influx of “hey what are you doing for lunch?” “You got lunch plans?” “Why don’t we get a group together and go eat!”
     
  35. NP13

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    I always take mine off. And that's about the only thing I do that day.
     
  36. Shawn Hunter

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    To be fair, everyone but the owners got laid off then as well. A month later they sold the property they were operating the business out of.
     
  37. racer

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    How many exterior entrances did it have?
     
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  38. Shawn Hunter

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    Five. The upstairs had its own entrance. Company owned two of the retail spaces in the ground floor and each had a front entrance and an employee entrance.
     
  39. Tommy Callahan

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    Have a coworker that just doesn’t get a lot of things. We have the option to wfh right now, but if there is something you need to do in the office more than welcome to go in. I normally wear a golf shirt to work but when it’s cold out or have other reasons will wear button down and slacks. So I mean relatively relaxed dress but use your best judgement. He shows up to do something in pajama pants and a hoodie last week...
     
  40. Shawn Hunter

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    Well does the company have an official dress code?
     
  41. Tommy Callahan

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    Yes. What I wear for the office. Plant is allowed to wear t shirts and the like
     
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  42. Shawn Hunter

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    Is the code ever actually enforced if someone doesn’t follow it?
     
  43. TC

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    Lawyers operate in a different world from the rest of us.

    -posted from my hoodie
     
  44. Simon Templar

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    I’m wfh and have a customer facing polo that drapes over my reading chair for the times I have to actually do a video call.
     
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  45. TC

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    I'm nude from the waist down
     
  46. Simon Templar

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    My wife would be disgusted and laugh at me uncontrollably if I tried that.
     
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  47. BellottiBold

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    I am absolutely a founding member of team "don't acknowledge my birthday at work" and loathe whenever one of those "sign ups" circulates to share bday info.
    Had a good thing going in the office where the fact that nobody knew when my bday was had become a bit of a running joke. Enter new boss' boss who during her first "all staff" meeting decided on a team building exercise where you're supposed to all line up by birthday sequentially (year excluded) without verbally communicating. I thought about just lying but decided there wasn't any point - they'd just be stupid about that day instead of the real one. So we play the game (this new higher up just destroyed my 3 year thing immediately upon arrival :angry:) but one of my immediate coworkers is out that day, and hence doesn't get the benefit of the "reveal". His spouse (who is also in our dept) lets him know that he's missed it, but that he can't divulge the info. So we fuck with the guy who was out a little bit, at first refusing to acknowledge that it even happened... just doing everything to make him question whether it happened or not basically. But in reality he already knows the month, so it's just a matter of the day that he's unsure of, so I decide to just taunt him with it by writing it on post-its and hiding them throughout his space for him to discover (over and over again). The finding of post-its unfolded over several months pre-pandemic. Then a week or two into wfh he finds one and lets us all know in chat. Cue triumphant fist-pump
    We were in zoom last week at one point, and he reached for a notebook to jot something down, turned the page, and found another one :laugh:. It had been like 10 months since the last one :laugh:
     
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  48. wes tegg

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    Are you sure you don't work with Shawn?
     
  49. Shawn Hunter

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    I mean if you don’t enforce your dress code then you don’t really have a dress code, you have a dress recommendation.
     
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  50. racer

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    It’s called Pooh-bearing. Try it.
     
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