100!


that's an annoyance?

[Edited on December 21, 2012 at 10:50 AM. Reason : ]

12/21/2012 10:43:34 AM

coworkers who bring their bills to work, then complain all week long when they forget to pay (and double annoyance when they insist on DRIVING to the local spot to pay the bill)


mail that shit or pay online!

12/21/2012 1:19:46 PM

Have to come in on Monday as no one else on the team with my skill set will be here (they all have more seniority than me and hence were able to take vacation). Not only that, but I'll be driving from eastern NC to Richmond to work my shift, then back to NC.

Plus they are closing the building at noon. Why the hell not just close for the day? Why make people come in for 4 hours on Christmas Eve?

[Edited on December 21, 2012 at 4:26 PM. Reason : w]

12/21/2012 4:26:12 PM

I have to work 4hrs Monday as well, but I'll get paid for 8. I'm not salary.

12/22/2012 12:31:48 PM

Welp,

Got into it with the project manager today. We're 4 days behind schedule, so now he wants to start cutting corners on the part of the project I was largely responsible for. We're redoing some hydraulic piping, and he's going to put back in pieces that have been patched on and previously fixed. While pointing it out to him, he got pissed off after questioning his corner cutting. It ended it when I asked him what the fuck does he want me to do, and he told me that he "wished I would go the fuck back home." So I did, and on my way I out I told him to blow me.

He's on his own for tomorrow. Strangely enough, I have received 2 phone calls from other people asking for help. I helped one and told the other to consult with "the wise one." I'm not going to be told to not help and then be asked to help.

I may be committing suicide where I work, but there is no way in hell I'm going to put up with him being a disrespectful cunt after all I was doing was the job given to me.

12/22/2012 11:26:00 PM

being asked when I am going to get married.

too much jesus in my workplace.

12/24/2012 10:44:20 AM

Quote :

"someone brought their cat to the office in a carrier because they have to take it to the vet"

I brought my dog to a job interview once, but only because the place I was interviewing was 2 hours away and then I had to drive in a completely different direction from home. Got the job, though

Also, we've got an email thread going on that goes something like this:

A: Hey, we're doing a SQL query in the testing environment on your system for our mildly related application for BlahBlah looking at the Foo table and we're not getting the results we expected. Can you help us? Is our connection string right? *provides production connection string w/ write access accounts*
Boss's Boss: Holy crap, that's PROD, don't use that
A: No, it's test environment, see? *provides PROD only accounts again*
Boss: No, really, that's PROD. Stop using it NOW, or else we'll assume you broke it the next time something goes wrong.
A: OK... Can you help us with our query, though?
B: Hey, you are looking at the wrong tables for BlahBlah info, look at the Foo2 table
A: No, what we want the Foo table for looking at BlahBlah
B: No, you WON'T find BlahBlah in that table, it's totally different stuff. Use Foo2
A: When can you fix this?
B: ...
A: *two days later* has this been fixed?
C: I don't think that table does what you think it does
A: Has it been fixed?
A: We need this fixed ASAP
A: PLEASE HALP!!!

12/24/2012 3:41:30 PM

yah for holiday pay!

^I honestly don't what would happen if someone did that in one of our production environments.

12/24/2012 11:39:40 PM

for fucks sake people

if you're going to be lazy and call instead of sending an email, at least leave a fucking voicemail letting me know what the fuck you want.

[/rant]

12/28/2012 12:48:18 PM

I thought being lazy means to send e-mail instead of calling?

12/28/2012 1:12:51 PM

^^^^
A coworker had been using a production environment for testing shit. I didn't find out about it until what he was doing started fucking up IIS (I fucking hate Windows). When I complained to our boss he couldn't have given less of a fuck. It's still a problem to this day.

Also, leaving time on the microwave. Could you have waited that extra 1 - 7 seconds for your lunch? Or just pressed the stop button?

12/28/2012 1:31:37 PM

^^ Naw, with emails you have gather your thoughts and compose sentences, hopefully re-reading those sentences to ensure they make sense etc...it takes some effort. It's way easier to just call someone instead and audibly vomit into their ear.

12/28/2012 1:34:42 PM

^^ Why waste my time pressing the stop button if I don't have to do so?

12/28/2012 4:17:34 PM

"See ya next year, haha"

"Oh, good one, I've never heard that joke before!"

12/31/2012 9:52:55 AM

^ Just heard that not five minutes ago.

12/31/2012 5:32:01 PM

Get email today that says:

"OMG, I can't do my work!! OMG!!! I got an error message that says one of the columns is too wide!!! What do I do???"


Seriously?

1/2/2013 10:30:31 AM

When the lab fucks up, I get to tell these bitchy pregnant ladies

"Hello, Mrs. So and so? Yes, that test you have been driving me crazy about... Well, we gots nothing BECAUSE FEDEX SUCKS AND TOOK FOUR DAYS TO DELIVER YOUR OVERNIGHT PACKAGE. So the blood is unusable and yup, you get to wait another two weeks. Ps, should have had an amnio and been done with it." -_-

[Edited on January 3, 2013 at 7:20 AM. Reason : .]

1/3/2013 7:19:49 AM

fucking school buses

i guess this is more of an "on the way to work annoyance"

and what's worse is the peopleidiots who stop for them going the opposite direction on a 5 lane road (turn lane in middle) which you are NOT supposed to do.

1/3/2013 8:04:20 AM

^yes

hwy 55, i'm lookin at you



http://www.ncbussafety.org/schoolbussafety/sbswlaw.html

1/3/2013 8:30:44 AM

juiced up change-orders from our sister company.

fuuuuuck that mess.

1/3/2013 5:08:52 PM

^^,^^^ what's even worse is when there's 4 lanes with a median in the center and people still stop for a school bus on the other side

idiots

1/3/2013 5:23:54 PM

I got behind some dumbass who stopped for the city bus on 54 in RTP the other day. Slammed on brakes to stop and everything and pissed off myself and a number of drivers behind me. And no, there wasn't anyone or anything in or near her lane of travel.

1/4/2013 12:43:43 AM

Quote :

"^yes hwy 55, i'm lookin at you"

People think they're being extra safe when they do this, I think, but they're really creating a road hazard.

1/4/2013 7:04:22 AM

there is nothing extra safe about it. there are laws preventing school buses from letting off students on the opposite side of the road in a situation like that.

1/4/2013 8:22:47 AM

Co-worker in my office talking about something she needs help with.

Had to fart. Held fart.

Co-worker leaves office.

Fart.

Co-worker abruptly walks back in and right up to my desk.

Stifle laughter as much as possible.

1/4/2013 11:32:02 AM

- I am being asked to implement (and maintain responsibility for) a task that an out of department coworker is being held responsible for, from her department's VP....

1/4/2013 1:15:52 PM

Working retail sucks

nuff said.

1/4/2013 4:17:06 PM

This is me weeks ago:

Quote :

"I made a huge mistake that's going to set me back about 2 to 3 weeks for this particular experiment. I had the guy above me, who is like my supervisor take a look at my cells, and I can tell he's like " god wtf did you do?" He says these cells can be used anymore, and he throws my plates of cells into the biohazard bin hard and obvious like it's the end of the world. As if he has never made a human error before. And he has, many times. Asshole."

And TODAY, not part of this project, but over heard.

The group is about 80% done, close to publishing and today, he discovers that the sequence he designed for this gene cloning is missing the first two proteins. They essentially have to start over, you can't not include it even if the first two proteins won't make a difference. It's called lying.

hahaha KARMA!

1/4/2013 5:45:19 PM

Quote :

"and what's worse is the peopleidiots who stop for them going the opposite direction on a 5 lane road (turn lane in middle) which you are NOT supposed to do."

IIRC, it depends on the state.

1/4/2013 6:29:51 PM

Quote :

"Working retail sucks nuff said."

working retail isn't bad it's the customers that suck. In high school I worked in a music store (CD's not instruments) and customers would drive you nuts.

1/4/2013 6:44:57 PM

I got pulled over on the way home from school today for an expired registration.

Not one, but TWO school buses from my school roll by with my students yelling at me and taking my picture with their phones. I'm probably being tweeted all over the interwebs by now.

Cop comes back and said "that sucks man, i'm letting you off with a warning"

Thanks kids!

1/11/2013 4:31:54 PM

way to go Smath74

1/11/2013 4:38:41 PM

I've probably complained about this multiple times already but people abuse the "flag as urgent" option on email way too much. On the other hand, there are those lovely people who ONLY read emails marked "urgent". Wtf just check your damn email.

1/14/2013 8:41:49 PM

Conversations between older co-workers about assorted pains/sicknesses they have/are having

1/15/2013 9:59:28 AM

^ them or their children

somebody around here is always sick and nobody ever shuts up about it

1/15/2013 10:17:35 AM

at least they have children so you don't have to hear about sick pets

1/15/2013 10:19:24 AM

One of the bosses comes in and talks about his 17 year old daughter's high school drama every once in a while...it's kind of odd imo

1/15/2013 10:22:13 AM

Having to prove I did my job because someone else wasn't doing theirs.

1/15/2013 11:32:15 AM

scheduling meetings AFTER our workday is over.

1/15/2013 11:35:19 AM

Quote :

"I've probably complained about this multiple times already but people abuse the "flag as urgent" option on email way too much. On the other hand, there are those lovely people who ONLY read emails marked "urgent". Wtf just check your damn email."

It's worse if you have to retrieve help desk tickets. Everything needs to be fixed yesterday. I actually don't work help desk but when they forward requests to me it's always high priority.

1/15/2013 12:15:05 PM

Over 200 daily emails.

1/15/2013 12:16:33 PM

Quote :

"Over 200 daily emails"

'working emails' or just spam and all?

1/15/2013 12:17:49 PM

Co-worker who talks to everyone as if she is talking to a small child. And I don't mean like condescending but in a soft cutesy voice.

She also nods her head when she talks to you in some misguided attempt at nonverbal communication, and it makes it impossible to tell whether she is asking a question or making a statement.

1/15/2013 12:22:25 PM

^ or does someone reply all to every email they get. It was starting to become a problem for me.

1/15/2013 12:22:28 PM

i generally get between 15 and 40 worthy emails a day.

1/15/2013 12:25:33 PM

^^^

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Phf9s2DFdMM

1/15/2013 2:06:22 PM

i generally get 1 or 2 worthwhile emails a day. sometimes as many as 5!

1/15/2013 2:09:42 PM

Yeah, I'm like that now but it used to be 15-40. Sucked coming into the office with a dozen emails waiting for you every day, most of which required a response. When I started my new group I thought my email was broken one day b/c I came in and there was nothing waiting for me. Such a nice change.

1/15/2013 2:17:28 PM

Fuck dojo. It can go die in a fire!

1/15/2013 3:58:16 PM

The lady who teaches in the classroom next to my office has the loudest, most annoying, high pitched voice. TONE IT DOWN BITCH, YOU'RE FUCKING UP MY CHI

1/16/2013 12:26:27 PM