omfg, going to have to unfortunately have another talk, probably a much more serious one, about Mr. GOOD CONVERSATIONS sucking up so much of my time. This dude constantly needs his hand being held despite supposedly knowing how to be an amazing QA for software projects.
I’ve had to tell my good conversations guy 3 times to disable the firewall in systemctl or it will activate on boot. Yet still every time he reboots he says it is “bizarr” that the firewall keeps turning on.
I just asked her for some help on something. Long story short it’s an old program that’s very shitty and you use an excel template to update information. She said she’d send me the documentation she has on it that will help. She sent me 4 files and none of them have anything to do with the program I’m trying to get to work.
Sadly I didn’t even open them after reading the titles of the files Thank god I ended up doing so after seeing this post and getting a glimpse of the warlocks
This is more cringe stuff customers do to your work place, but the front of house group chat for the bar I work at just had this. We are closed Mondays so I guess this dumbass just showed up and got mad at that fact?
My job has been driving me nuts off and on for the last year, so I’m definitely easier to be annoyed than normal these days. I work with a guy who’s from a real small town, he’s in his early 30s but acts and dresses like he’s 62 years old. Lately I’ve noticed he can’t say something unless he’s eating or slowly sipping his coffee like he’s a detective from a 1960s movie. Now that I’ve noticed it, it drives me nuts. Naturally I had to point it out to another guy and I feel validated that he’s noticed it too.
Just signed a retirement card for a coworker. Forgot about the office cards. Haven’t seen one in a couple years. Still not showing up to the after work retirement happy hour.
Have a co-worker that’s a navy vet and is one of those “people just don’t want to work these days!” kinda person. And is also incredibly broke. She calls out all the time. Like at least once a week.
Coworkers I’ve been with over the last three weeks keep popping hot about a week after we’ve been together. I only find out later. Thanks everyone for you know giving a guy a heads up
We had a guy who wrote the same phrase on every card for every occasion. It was like ‘You did it!’ or something along those lines. He had a pretty dry sense of humor. We ordered him a stamp of the phrase signed with his name and that was probably one of my favorite office ‘things’ I’ve ever been a part of.
I normally don't even write anything other than my name. I really could not give a shit less about circulated cards. My previous medical practice would do a birthday card for everyone and some of these people I'd never met before because we had a couple satellite locations. Sometimes I'd get one to sign and be like "who the hell is this?"
Some people aren't creative enough to come up with customized greetings on the spot. It's ok to admit you struggle
I just don't care enough about 99.9% of people at work to write a customized statement for them. If we're not friends, you're not getting any special birthday card treatment.
Maybe 1 or 2 for my mom. Depends on if I can find a good one that I know she'll like. Found a card one year that had a cat on it that looked like one of her cats growing up and it's been a permanent staple on her fridge ever since. I don't really buy cards for anyone else.
I used to have to sign and come up with a note for several of these a week seemingly - once put "get well soon on" a pregnancy announcement and "Congrats - so happy for you" on the employee that was sick because we had two out that everyone had to sign. I was like 23 at the time so I hadn't really honed in my A-game for card banter yet. They also had us sign these literally in the middle of a busy shift - it was an absurd time to schedule that - but nonetheless it became a running joke that I'll probably never live down.
This might sound lame/ sensitive, but Id always make an effort to go to those, and Id feel hurt if no one would come to mine
It was a huge company with a ton of turnover - probably never interacted with 25% or more of the people I signed cards for.
There is an old lady in my office that has annoyed me for many years. Just constantly in everyone's business. Asking where you are whenever you are late or leave early. Always puts her face right in my fucking lunch when i'm carrying it down the hall and inspects/smells it to deem it worthy or not. Very loud and outlandish MAGA idiot. She has been saying for years she's going to retire but nobody is going to make her leave, despite becoming less and less relevant to daily busines operations. I really can't stand her. Anyways her husband had a massive heart attack and she has been forced to semi retire to take care of him. Some are saying she will never come back, but she has insisted that she will come back whenever she can. She's in her mid 70s and should 100% just retire, but won't. I don't pray often, but I say a nightly prayer for that old man to cling on to life for the next few years.
My last job had a going away thing for everyone when they left. I told them I didn't want it. Of course everyone had also started to get annoyed by them because we had like 6 other people all quit within a month and that accounted for about 1/3 of the employees at that location lol. Also refused to tell them when my birthday was so I wouldn't have to be bombarded with everyone telling me Happy Birthday.
One of my project managers starts everything he sends me with “quick question” and ends them with a smile emoji and I hate him.
One of my GCs hit me with the "Can I get you for a one minute call?" and proceeded to add me to a conference call and ask a bunch of questions about updating the construction schedule.
We hired a new guy last week and so far he has microwaved and eaten an entire 1lb pack of bacon for breakfast every single day. Our entire floor smells delicious and it’s making me want bacon. I foresee our health insurance rates going up next year.
Excuse me but I checked and microwaving a 1lb of bacon is completely within the company guidelines so please take it up with management if you have an issue with me.
Posted in another thread, but I just went off on our IT guy. He’s a lazy piece of shit who won’t even go so far as to give you rights to software and straight up lied to myself and my boss about getting me a laptop. He said he didn’t want to mess with getting me one because he’d have to put everything on a new laptop. I just sent an email to him and my boss tearing him a new asshole because he just set up our new employee with a laptop. He’s a worthless human and apparently my new coworker got one from another office in the area so I asked my boss if I could do the same and if the IT guy I was talking to is even worth speaking with as he is complete useless when asked to do anything. It took him 10 days to get me access to software I already had access to but the license expired and he just had to give me another code.
If I ever saw him in person again I’d have to fantasize about punching him in the fucking face because of how lazy he is. I had to wait outside of a building for over an hour with the head of HR when I got hired because he had the keys to it and hadn’t shown up. Dude shows up in pajamas and slippers at 11am and it was the biggest deal ever for him to physically unlock a door and hand me a box.
Do you work for my company? At my previous department, it took me like 5-6 months to get access to one of the applications I needed to use.