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Post by Dr. Doofenshmirtz (Heywood) on Mar 14, 2008 10:26:18 GMT -6
Every time I feel like I'm in the movie "Office Space"... "Corporate Accounts Payable this is Nina speaking. Just a moment." ;D
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Post by Saggitariutt Jefferspin (ith) on Mar 17, 2008 11:30:38 GMT -6
My "work space".
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Post by Dr. Doofenshmirtz (Heywood) on Mar 17, 2008 11:58:42 GMT -6
Itheus, did you put the new cover sheet on your TPS report?
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Post by bucketochicken on Mar 17, 2008 12:08:02 GMT -6
The gigantic fucking landwhale in my office? Who is really loud and obnoxious? And all of her sentences end in a question mark? Even when she's not asking a question? Like this one time? At Pie Camp? I ate a bicycle? That girl? She like, needs to be culled from the herd?
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Post by jwiley10 on Mar 17, 2008 18:34:17 GMT -6
My assistant standing at my doorway asking me if there is anything she can do for me the second I walk into my office in the morning. Um, let me turn on my computer and check my calendar first, please.
Also, you fellow attorneys can relate to this one. The ultra-dramatic opposing counsel who acts like every oral argument he gives is an audition for Broadway. I had a jagoff this morning parade around the courtroom randomly throwing papers on the ground trying to make a point (he alleges my clients, a mid-sized casino, did not have the best filing system for their gaming control board documents).
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Post by NOTTHOR on Mar 17, 2008 18:55:48 GMT -6
Whoa jwiley, aren't a lot of litigators jagbags like that?
My biggest work gripe is burnt popcorn.
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Post by bucketochicken on Mar 17, 2008 19:31:04 GMT -6
Whoa jwiley, aren't a lot of litigators jagbags like that? My biggest work gripe is burnt popcorn. Guh. Cosign. Right after college I worked for the lifeless soul-crushing hatefactory of McLeodUSA in C.R., and all the fuckin landwhale lab escapees who worked there would have the whole place reeking of microwave popcorn mixed with burnt microwave popcorn all goddamn day long. Smelled like burning squirrel hair. God that place sucked.
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Post by Gumbyhawk on Mar 18, 2008 7:13:11 GMT -6
Whoa jwiley, aren't a lot of litigators jagbags like that? My biggest work gripe is burnt popcorn. Guh. Cosign. Right after college I worked for the lifeless soul-crushing hatefactory of McLeodUSA in C.R., and all the fuckin landwhale lab escapees who worked there would have the whole place reeking of microwave popcorn mixed with burnt microwave popcorn all goddamn day long. Smelled like burning squirrel hair. God that place sucked. Please allow me to cosign on the burnt popcorn. I also remember that smell. At one of my past employers, they had their HVAC intake vents right there in the cafeteria/lunchroom (fuckin DUMB). So, EVERYONE throughout the building could enjoy that "burnt squirrel hair" smell. It got worse when they would fire up the "on site" Weight Watchers meetings.... OMFG...
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Post by Gumbyhawk on Mar 18, 2008 7:26:38 GMT -6
I also need to add this one: companies that have no problem having two meetings a week, another meeting once a month, and the ever-popular and fruitful half-day seminars every six months... yet continue to bitch about low production numbers. Thankfully, I no longer work at said company. Man, was that annoying as hell.
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Post by Dr. Doofenshmirtz (Heywood) on Mar 19, 2008 12:12:32 GMT -6
I make one change to a program and it messes something else up. I try to fix that and something else gets messed up. It's been that way for 3 days now. Time to put it aside and do something different.
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Post by MoHawk on Mar 19, 2008 12:16:59 GMT -6
The fact that I don't really have a desk, or work station, to call my own. I used to, and long story short here, we hired a sports director about a year ago, he gets here at 6 in the morning, I don't get in until 9, and as of last week, everything I had hanging up at my desk has been removed and replaced with his stuff.
Guh.
So now I wander aimlessly from computer to computer in the newsroom without one particular desk specified as "mine".
It's a little offputting.
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Post by Gumbyhawk on Mar 19, 2008 12:27:33 GMT -6
The fact that I don't really have a desk, or work station, to call my own. I used to, and long story short here, we hired a sports director about a year ago, he gets here at 6 in the morning, I don't get in until 9, and as of last week, everything I had hanging up at my desk has been removed and replaced with his stuff. Guh. So now I wander aimlessly from computer to computer in the newsroom without one particular desk specified as "mine". It's a little offputting. Ummm... yeah, Mohawk. I'm gonna have to ask you to move your stuff into STORAGE B, m'kay??
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Post by Dr. Doofenshmirtz (Heywood) on Mar 19, 2008 12:29:43 GMT -6
The fact that I don't really have a desk, or work station, to call my own. I used to, and long story short here, we hired a sports director about a year ago, he gets here at 6 in the morning, I don't get in until 9, and as of last week, everything I had hanging up at my desk has been removed and replaced with his stuff. Guh. So now I wander aimlessly from computer to computer in the newsroom without one particular desk specified as "mine". It's a little offputting. Ummm... yeah, Mohawk. I'm gonna have to ask you to move your stuff into STORAGE B, m'kay?? And while you're there can you take care of the little cockroach problem? Thanks.
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Post by Gumbyhawk on Mar 19, 2008 12:33:24 GMT -6
The fact that I don't really have a desk, or work station, to call my own. I used to, and long story short here, we hired a sports director about a year ago, he gets here at 6 in the morning, I don't get in until 9, and as of last week, everything I had hanging up at my desk has been removed and replaced with his stuff. Guh. So now I wander aimlessly from computer to computer in the newsroom without one particular desk specified as "mine". It's a little offputting. Why not take the opportunity to crap your pants at work??
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Post by MoHawk on Mar 19, 2008 13:22:23 GMT -6
The fact that I don't really have a desk, or work station, to call my own. I used to, and long story short here, we hired a sports director about a year ago, he gets here at 6 in the morning, I don't get in until 9, and as of last week, everything I had hanging up at my desk has been removed and replaced with his stuff. Guh. So now I wander aimlessly from computer to computer in the newsroom without one particular desk specified as "mine". It's a little offputting. Why not take the opportunity to crap your pants at work?? Who says I haven't???
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Post by mattahawk on Mar 19, 2008 20:59:32 GMT -6
The JIT policy. Just in time, if you happen to have a bad part in your current supply and you need one then you have to explain to the supply guy what happened and he don't get or don't care. Employees who kiss ass and do nothing. Bosses who have a hard on for you if you make 1 little mistake yet fail to care if someone else makes a bigger mistake.
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Post by Gumbyhawk on Mar 20, 2008 8:33:02 GMT -6
The JIT policy. Just in time, if you happen to have a bad part in your current supply and you need one then you have to explain to the supply guy what happened and he don't get or don't care. Employees who kiss ass and do nothing. Bosses who have a hard on for you if you make 1 little mistake yet fail to care if someone else makes a bigger mistake. Word on the mistake thing! And you just KNOW that you are being set up on some things too. There is some little detail that they are secretly HOPING you will miss just so they can brow-beat you for it. Damn...that's stimulating!
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Post by Saggitariutt Jefferspin (ith) on Mar 20, 2008 9:54:27 GMT -6
Brewing a pot of coffee every time I want a cup. It's a HUGE fucking pot...I swear, people just wait for me to brew a new batch, and go to town as soon as I leave. Either that, or there's some really wired coffee gnomes running around. If you empty it, FILL IT.
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Post by Master Blaster on Mar 20, 2008 21:27:13 GMT -6
1.Email tasking 2.Email tasking gone crazy 3.Administrative programs to check assessments on administrative programs. 4. Above being subjected to a colonoscopy by a visiting training and assessment team whose members you remember from way back as being the sleazest guy around in checking off requirements. 5. The guy at the meeting who just has to add one more thing. 6. Meetings with no point that actually confuse the situation more because the guy doing the last little add on doesn't have a fu@@ing clue about anything. 7. Flight quarters at 0100. 8. Man overboard all hands muster at 0238 because some jack ass threw a chemlight in the water. 9. Stinky people who don't respect your personal space. 10. I got a secret people......
Oh and yes i could keep going.
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Post by TBELL on Mar 21, 2008 6:00:05 GMT -6
Along the burnt popcorn smell. People here take the last cup of coffee but leave just a little bit in the bottom of the pot. Yet they fail to either make more or SHUT THE BURNER OFF! About 15 minutes later this horendous smell of burnt coffee fills the air.
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Post by Gumbyhawk on Mar 21, 2008 6:39:22 GMT -6
Past job I had: I would come into work about an hour early every day... never took any other break other than lunch and occasionally a "work poop". Then, if I ever had to leave 15-20 minutes early in order to make a dentist or doctor appointment, I would invaribly get the little "well, you need to try to make up that time" speech. My fuggin' boss was probably still drooling on her pillow in the morning while I was already at my desk! Like I said... FORMER boss...thankfully.
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Post by socal on Mar 21, 2008 7:50:25 GMT -6
Past job I had: I would come into work about an hour early every day... never took any other break other than lunch and occasionally a "work poop". Then, if I ever had to leave 15-20 minutes early in order to make a dentist or doctor appointment, I would invaribly get the little "well, you need to try to make up that time" speech. My fuggin' boss was probably still drooling on her pillow in the morning while I was already at my desk! Like I said... FORMER boss...thankfully. My past evil witch boss did the same thing. While I do spend a lot of time online ( ), I take a lunch roughly once/month. She would keep detailed track of the time I took off for various reasons. I noticed she would send me an e-mail at least once/week saying she's leaving for the afternoon, etc... so I started logging the dates & times for those "times off" - to use as ammo for a future argument over time off. In the time I tracked, she had quadrupled my time off requests - to the extent she would have been taking unpaid time off. Alas, she quit in January after 27 years - and I never had a reason to use my time-off tally. My new (and once former) boss doesn't give a crap. Just get your job done & he's fine.
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Post by Gumbyhawk on Mar 21, 2008 7:52:38 GMT -6
Past job I had: I would come into work about an hour early every day... never took any other break other than lunch and occasionally a "work poop". Then, if I ever had to leave 15-20 minutes early in order to make a dentist or doctor appointment, I would invaribly get the little "well, you need to try to make up that time" speech. My fuggin' boss was probably still drooling on her pillow in the morning while I was already at my desk! Like I said... FORMER boss...thankfully. My past evil witch boss did the same thing. While I do spend a lot of time online ( ), I take a lunch roughly once/month. She would keep detailed track of the time I took off for various reasons. I noticed she would send me an e-mail at least once/week saying she's leaving for the afternoon, etc... so I started logging the dates & times for those "times off" - to use as ammo for a future argument over time off. In the time I tracked, she had quadrupled my time off requests - to the extent she would have been taking unpaid time off. Alas, she quit in January after 27 years - and I never had a reason to use my time-off tally. My new (and once former) boss doesn't give a crap. Just get your job done & he's fine. I can't help but notice the sex of both bosses in these stories of ours.
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Post by mattahawk on Mar 21, 2008 8:53:27 GMT -6
Unfortunately mines a dick. Literally. During slow times in our company people get moved around and occasionally laid off. Other people get to split their jobs up and I usually get the worst end of the stick. Or so it seems. I really hope my uncle hires my ass out of there.
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Post by Dr. Doofenshmirtz (Heywood) on Apr 10, 2008 12:04:30 GMT -6
Getting to work at 6:30 in the am sucks.
Getting off work at 3:00 in the pm rules.
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