What buggs you most about your co-workers? - Page 3

aephi alum · #31 06-23-2004, 10:14 AM

I can't believe I forgot about the Dress Code Police! There is one woman in my office who runs around telling people they're inappropriately dressed (our dress code is business casual). I overheard her yesterday talking to two women, telling one of them her skirt was too short (I think it fell just above the knee) and asking the other, "Those aren't jeans, are they?"

At a previous job, we had the IT department from hell. If there were software packages or upgrades to install, they wouldn't go up to people and say "I need to install X on your computer, it'll take five minutes, can I do it now or should I come back later?" They would wait until people stepped away from their desks, and then just go and install, and if the computer had to be rebooted and the user lost their data, what did they care.

WCUgirl · #32 06-23-2004, 10:18 AM

I work w/ a total of 4 other people. The closest to me in age is our office manager, and she graduated from college 12 years before I did. So, I am sort of the unofficial computer expert of the firm. Whenever someone needs something simple done, like formatting changed on their Word document, guess who they come to. ME! I'm also the only one who has ever used PowerPoint, so I get stuck putting together all the presentations for the seminars we conduct. It's very annoying -- PowerPoint really isn't that hard to learn.

tsuadpi859 · #33 06-23-2004, 10:30 AM

I could go on and on about this one...
I work for the state so of course there are plenty of people in my building who got their job because of "who you know". Well the guy in my office got his job because his girlfriend is the former governor's daughter. Anyway, he is constantly on the phone with her (we share an office) and they are always arguing. He even brings her to work some days, for the ENTIRE day!!
When he's not permanently attached to her he is coming in late, leaving early and most definitely not marking it on his time sheet.
He will disappear for hours and come to find out he's been in the storage room....sleeping!!
rant over

ZTAngel · #34 02-07-2005, 02:00 PM

I'm bumping this because one of my co-workers keeps pissing me off.
I have all the marketing supplies in my office. Pens, coffee cups, brochures, etc. are in my office. When someone needs a pen or something to give to a client, they'll stand in my doorway and say, "Hey ZTAngel, I need a pen to give to Mr. Jones. Can I grab one?" Sure, no problem. Well, I have this one asshole co-worker who just walks on into my office. I'll be doing work or I'll be on the phone with a client and he'll walk on in without saying a word. He'll go through my office, grab what he needs, mess up the organization of everything (throwing the pens around until he gets the color he needs or dropping stuff all over the floor), not clean up his mess and then walk on out without saying a word. I got so annoyed today because he did this several times that I finally just now sneered at him, "Sure...help yourself." He just looked at me and then kept doing his thing. Ugh.

aephi alum · #35 02-07-2005, 02:49 PM

I have a new annoying coworker! Actually, he's been there longer than I have, but I hadn't had to deal with him until a couple of months ago.

I'm writing some code that's going to be deployed on servers that "John" is responsible for. He and I agreed on the system architecture months ago, and he's signed off on the design. Now, suddenly, at nearly the last minute, he wants to change things around. To support the new architecture, I will have to rewrite half my code, modify the database design, and we have to do another round of QA. And we'll miss our launch date. And who will look bad as a result? John? No. Me.

adpialumcsuc · #36 02-08-2005, 02:02 PM

Don't even get me started...
I actually like most of my co-workers. I do have a pet peeve that they all like to push, especially lately. Timeliness. We open for business at 8:30 and close at 5:30. I don't care if you want to stay late, yeah for you, but you still have to be here at 8:30. Coming in at 10:30 or noon is not acceptable because we have lost half of our business day already.

erica812 · #37 02-08-2005, 02:18 PM

Okay, I work for a 2 year college that shall remain nameless. So it's not Harvard, but I am MIGHTY proud to have landed a job as an adjunct professor. I love my students, and I see really positive things happening there.

Now, I am SICK AND TIRED of listening to my colleagues talk about how worthless the school is. How they would be at a "real" university if so and so hadn't done such and such back in college.

Be proud of what you do and do your best. I just wish people would cool it with the negative attitudes. The students are bound to pick up on that negative energy.