For the most part, I've been blessed with good coworkers. <knock on wood> However, I have witnessed/experienced:

- A team meeting where everyone responded that they would attend, yet only half the team showed up or called in
- "Everyone in this room, still has a job. Your colleagues in the other room are getting their pink slips right now."
- No fewer than three of my cube-farm neighbors on the same telecon at the same time. Did it occur to you to book a conference room?? :rolleyes:
- "I can't find your timesheet. Therefore, you didn't give it to me. Therefore, I'm not paying you." (from a former client whom I almost had to take to court to get paid... lying SOB)

To be continued...

ok...the school that I teach at has a huge age difference (about 20 years between me and the next youngest person, the principal!) Oh course, they all know more than me cause they have been teaching since the dark ages. They also are not very excited about change in faculity. I call the it the rest home becasue they only way you can get a job out there is if someone dies or retires, which they do not want to do. I was the first teacher the principal had every hired right out of college and the first person to be hired in ages period. They try to make my life hell....it is a very gossipy school where I am left out of the entire circle. Not to mention very one there is native to the county but me (or the state for that matter). They all wear those little jumper dresses and orthopedic shoes. This is middle school for gosh sakes...of course the kids think I am way cooler cause I am only 25 and don't try to act like them whatso ever. I used to get really upset that I didn't fit in and that someone of them out there were just down right mean. Now I don't care...I'm just careful I won't wear, say, or do anything that will cause a heart attack! Ok....end of my rant! :rolleyes:

sorry, its just that we just started back to schoo...so its starting all over again! I would leave, but I love my kids and we are the top school in the county! :D I guess the old people know what they are doing!

One of my assistants got knocked up out of wedlock (but they're engaged now) and is constantly whining about the baby and how stressful it is - she's only four months in.

SHUT UP SHUT UP SHUT UP.

Thats okay, one of my co-workers asked me if I were pregnant & then laughed it off when I said no. Talk about some hurt feelings right here-she gets to laugh & I get a new complex about the way I look and feel!

My former mentor is this obnoxious jerk who thinks he is better than everyone. He also claims to be Christian even though he is anything but, and that also drives me nuts because I'm Christian and he makes Christians look bad. He wants so badly to be a manager so he can tell people what to do and he's trying to build his own little "empire" in the area that he moved to, because he got kicked out of where the rest of us worked! He also admits that he doesn't respect women in the workplace, and he's told me that I should be popping out kids instead of working. When I pointed out that I wasn't married, he told me there was no reason why my boyfriend who is still in college shouldn't be proposing to me. :rolleyes:

And the new girl we just hired is stuck up and is always on the friggin phone taking personal calls. I don't know who the hell she's talking to, since she doesn't know anyone down here. She likes to tell us how much money she (read: her family) has. She claims that the dress code here (pants and no open-toed shoes) are cramping her style.

I do like my co-workers except most of them don't understand the concept of deadlines. Deadlines are set for a reason....Try to follow them and if you don't, don't come complaining to me.

My biggest complaint is some of the part-time people. They stand around talking and having a grand old time, which is awesome, except I'm the one doing all the work. I might be full-time and have a little bit of seniority over them, but dammit, I need help sometimes and I need a little more than just folding one shirt then skipping off to go talk some more. Please. Talk on your break or something. Meet for a drink after work. But for Pete's sake, get your lazy arses over where you're supposed to be and DO something! :mad:

i had a coworker at my grocery store job (i have another job thats why i say which one) and she wore holely jeans and wondered why the manager that night told her she couldn't wear them at work. "he is just getting on me cause he is my step uncle" i wanted to say "um no cause that looks tacky at the work force"

I have some:
guy number one: Is an asshole with a nasty temper. I once went up to a woman and cheerfully asked her if she needed any help and then he waves me over to where he's standing to tell me "watch that one, she's a real cupcake to deal with" only because he's racist...seriously, he's got issues. If he cant find something in the stock room, he'll start cussing and kicking whatever is in his way.

guy number two: asks me creepy things like "so when are you going to take me out?" and then when I ask apprehensively what that would entail he says "oh...drinking and smoking, you know"...and then follows it with "if you hang out with me you're gonna get sooo fucked up!" and smiles *shudders*

bimbo girl: calls all customers "sweetie" or "honey" has bleached blonde hair, wears pants too damn tight for her and has a voice that would convince you she's sucking on helium. She loves to giggle vapidly about her stupid life with other employees instead of working, but loves to cut in front of me when I'm VISIBLY approaching a customer and essentially screw me out of a sale.

EGADS! This is gonna be one looong-ass year!

Ick. I don't envy some of you. I had some "winners" to, all of them from my last job. I know I've posted about my old boss before. But here it is again.....


My boss was a bit of an "ice queen". So awful that she deserves her own list:

- She never tried to make any warm, personal connections with anyone except for her two favourite employees. One was a girl she went to school with and the other was a guy she used to work with at another branch.

- She made me and my co-worker, the office juniors, do the work of the senior workers because they were behind on a very important project. She was desperate to get the tasks done and we worked hard at finishing up for them *on top* of our regular work. After all, we wanted to be team players.

We had to go to a mandatory all-department meeting one day; but we only had three days left before the project deadline. All we do at the meeting is announce birthdays, listen to each department give a little monthy summary and employee kudos, listen to a short speech and then eat cake or cookies. My co-worker and I felt that we could get a LOT of work done in that one hour and I asked if we could be excused. After all, it would make her look good if the project finished on time. At first she said it would be ok, but only this once. THEN, she immediately changed her mind and angrily snapped at me saying that we had to go. Her reason? That the monthly meeting is the company's time to recognize our fellow employees and it would be rude of us not to be there to acknowledge the hard work of others. Ok, so Geanie and I worked double time to complete the work. Meanwhile, I went to the meeting and figured out what her deal was - it was her favourite employee's birthday and she wanted us all to be there to clap for him. :rolleyes:

Neither at that meeting, nor the following month's meeting did my boss recognize Geanie and I for being team players and doing many hours of extra work in order to cover for our colleagues and help her behind out. But hey, Geanie and I were there. After all, " it's rude of us not to be there to acknowledge the hard work of others" :mad:

- She had a knack for ignoring one of the nicest guys in the office, always skipping over him when greeting everyone at a meeting. :(

- She and her favourite girl employee came up with this grand idea that we shouldn't have an office holiday party because *they* felt that Christmas is a season of giving. I don't actually have a problem with this, I'm all for helping others. My discomfort with this stems from the fact that "they" decided that, instead of an office potluck/party, we were all going to go down to a local soup kitchen on company time and dish out food for the down and out.

Doing community service on company time is cool. However, though we were told it was voluntary, they made us feel very much obligated to go by saying things like, "If you don't go, you'll have to stay here all by yourself. That means you'll have to take all of the student phone calls and no one will be here to help you" and "We should be thinking of others and not ourselves" and "Don't you want to help the unfortunate?" Grr! Way to force YOUR values on others!

The last straw for me was when I found out that one of the ladies I worked with was upset about the prospect of going. Her son had become a drug addict and ran off from home. The idea of going to the shelter upset her very much as it reminded her of the pain of her son's illness. Our boss did not excuse her. :mad: The whole afternoon, my colleague looked distressed and uncomfortable. :(

- Though our department wasn't having a holiday party, our Southern California region was having a company do. It was going to be held at 6:30pm, one hour away. We work until 6pm. The boss next door let *his* workers go home at lunch, sympathetic that a one hour drive would turn into two hours in rush hour traffic and that the ladies especially would need time to get ready for the formal event. My boss? Nope. Keep working until the clock hits 6! People kept begging her to let everyone off even a little early. No go. She actually circled around the office to make sure no one had skipped out! I saw her come by at 3:30 to check on us. Fifteen minutes later, I went to her office because I had a question about something. Her office was dark! I asked the lady in the cubicle outside her door where the boss went. "Oh, she left ten minutes ago. I think she went home to get ready for the party." :mad: :mad: Scared that she might return any minute, everyone stayed...but eventually bailed at 5:30pm.

Oh, by the way, even though Geanie and I were full-time employees, we weren't invited. :mad:

Oh yes.....several months after I quit, I got an e-mail from Geanie saying that she transferred to another location because she just couldn't stand the boss anymore.

.....Kelly :)

Ok...obviously I have some issues with that one boss. LOL


Here were the other "gems" I worked with:


- "Prima Donna Lady" This lady worked for the Enrollment Department. I worked in Academic Counseling. One of my jobs was to conduct pre-evaluations of transcripts for potential students. Enrollment Advisors are supposed to give them to me 24 hours in advance. In practice, people didn't do that, they'd wait for the student to show up for their appointment to gve them to me. Fine, they were usually pretty cool about it - they'd be patient and understood if I had a meeting or something. Though Prima Donna Lady would always walk up with her fake niceness and ask me to do it *now*. Other times she would just walk up and demand I do it. If I couldn't, she would get all huffy with me and start complaining. My supervisor (not boss lady) once caught her in the act of having a fit and finally believed Geanie and I about her behaviour.


- "Vulture Guy" started irritating me during my last two weeks at this company. After he found out I was quitting, he always seemed to be at my desk, peering into my drawers and asking me if I was going to take my stapler/pens/paperclips as if I was Office Depot and he was going shopping. He'd come by and says things like, "Ohhh you've got those notepads I've been asking for", and "say, do you think they'll let me have your computer monitor?" I was like "Dude! I haven't left yet!!!" When my co-workers finally presented me with a going away card, I saw that my buddy, Geanie, had signed a fake message from him saying, "Can I have your parking space? Vulture Guy" hehehe


- Finally, there was "Shower Lady". I have no problem with honouring people at work when they're having a special milestone in their lives. However, there was one girl who was always coming around to invite me to the latest in-office "occassion shower". In the space of a couple months, I had already gone to a wedding shower for a guy I worked with and attended a baby shower for a really nice supervisor lady who I didn't really know, but attended my department meetings. Though, that's not enough for Shower Lady. She kept trying to rope me into going to showers for people I didn't know. One day she invited me to a baby shower for a girl who worked downstairs whose name I didn't even know. I politely declined saying that I didn't know her and I couldn't really afford to put aside anymore work time to go. What I didn't know was that girl was Shower Lady's friend. She shot me a really nasty look as if I was the biggest jerk in the office for not wanting to honour the nice pregnant girl. I wondered why she would be mad, but oh well. I sometimes think that she invites everyone so as to get the maximum amount of gifts for the recipient.

Plus, Shower Lady ALWAYS skipped over my co-worker who was sitting *right next to me*. EVERY TIME she would breeze right past Geanie and loudly invite me and not her. :confused: That irritated Geanie to no end!

Pah! Some co-workers are not cool!!

.....Kelly :)

I have a severe headache right now. Why, you ask?
I am a receptionist, and the 70 year old man whose office is nearest to my desk is sitting with his door open, blasting Judy Garland on repeat.
33 more minutes till quittin' time...