knowing how to play office politics is part of being an adult

10/24/2013 11:55:53 AM

yep

10/24/2013 12:03:34 PM

10-4

I play them, but not when this report was due yesterday

10/24/2013 12:05:18 PM

^^^that's funny since you're so childish on tww

[Edited on October 24, 2013 at 12:05 PM. Reason : ]

10/24/2013 12:05:22 PM

went to a workshop over the past couple of days. it is incredibly annoying to be sitting in an auditorium and every other person holds up their ipad to take a picture of EVERY slide presented.

10/24/2013 1:37:23 PM

guy in the cubicle next to me keeps humming hakuna matata

10/24/2013 1:52:06 PM

dealing with customer emergencies (not my department) just because I have knowledge of the items in question.


lost half a day today because of it, and I'm so pissed at the moment that I'm about to say fuck it and skip my 430 conference call.

10/24/2013 2:41:19 PM

^^
lol

10/24/2013 2:43:20 PM

10/24/2013 3:02:23 PM

if I have to explain the difference between a plant growth chamber and an incubator one more time...




please, oh please if you don't believe me then at least do some research before telling me 'oh we can just grow that in one of our incubators'

NO WE CAN'T.... just no


[Edited on October 25, 2013 at 11:13 AM. Reason : .]

10/25/2013 11:08:21 AM

I'm gonna relay one from the wife.
Her office just installed a bunch of white noise machines in the cube farms. 95% of her coworkers like it, because it drowns out the noise of 100s of workers all doing different noisy shit.
Of course there is 1 guy who is on a crusade to have them shut off, despite the fact that they're not much louder than an older model HVAC system and have cut out the sounds of nail clipping, apple biting, etc.

Her only complaint is that they make her sleepy, since we use white noise to put our sons to sleep at night.

10/25/2013 12:01:56 PM

^
i think i would hate that too. bc i'm not a middle aged woman

10/25/2013 1:50:10 PM

i love white noise machines in offices, but sometimes they are definitely turned up too loud.

10/25/2013 1:52:53 PM

^^so you're the guy in the office who complains about everything?

I'd much prefer that over people sniffling, humming, coughing, talking on the phone, cutting their fingernails, tapping on their desk, eating apples, scraping yogurt containers, listening to rush limbaugh, sighing heavily every 5 minutes, tapping their fingers or feet......

10/25/2013 2:02:08 PM

Yeah, white noise machines are awesome.

10/25/2013 2:03:59 PM

^^
no i'm the guy that suffers quietly

i'm usually wearing headphones though so i don't really care

[Edited on October 25, 2013 at 2:20 PM. Reason : .]

10/25/2013 2:19:26 PM

White noise machines would definitely be a plus. There are only 12 people who work in my area, but there are no cube walls. When four other people have walked in and there are five different conversations going on, loudly, plus someone tapping their feet, plus someone slurping their tea, plus someone laughing out in the hall--I have to fight the sensation to get up and run away. It's pretty overwhelming. Noise-canceling headphones are my only salvation.

10/25/2013 5:48:26 PM

Clients who know zilch about your job, and then questions your response to their question.

10/29/2013 1:13:14 PM

where do I begin for this week

10/29/2013 2:26:43 PM

**during midterms**

"Can I have a bathroom break?"

"Sure."

**comes back with a god damn footlong sub**

10/29/2013 3:12:32 PM

I finally had enough with the humming dude today and got up and asked him to stop humming. He absolutely refused to believe I could hear him. I'm like "you're right. I just randomly got up, walked over here, and am asking you to stop doing something that I don't actually know you are doing, but that you just happen to be doing".

10/29/2013 10:00:23 PM

Was he also one of the stinky indians?

10/30/2013 10:24:15 AM

^^Everytime he hums tap a pen loud enough for him to hear, or fuck around with a stapler, any stupid shit that would annoy him and let him know when you can hear his humming.

10/30/2013 11:01:17 AM

How do we feel about email signatures?

I don't personally care for them, but I don't generally notice them if someone does have one. One of our assistant principals sent out a staff-wide email saying that HR has decided that some of our staff are in violation of the "acceptable use of electronics" policy by having a quote as an email signature, and we are to remove them immediately.

10/31/2013 4:33:07 PM

Quote :

" I don't personally care for them, but I don't generally notice them if someone does have one. One of our assistant principals sent out a staff-wide email saying that HR has decided that some of our staff are in violation of the "acceptable use of electronics" policy by having a quote as an email signature, and we are to remove them immediately."

To add-

I HATE people who have a signature with more than 4 single-spaced lines.

10/31/2013 4:41:43 PM

^I used to work in marketing for a small design firm and can attest that it's best to have a policy that's "You can have X,Y & Z in the signature and nothing else"

We used to have some designers with pages of crap they had added. Some would see legal text at the bottom of e-mails from clients, like it and copy and paste it onto theirs. Our "green" designers wanted to push every eco friendly thing we did into marketing materials and would have different color fonts all over their e-mail signature promoting shit. And don't get me started on the Acronyms.

I was the only person in marketing and one of only 3 overhead employees. I was the only person in charge of brand integrity and it was losing battle. I finally just stopped when I got them to agree that everyone couldn't make their owns "additions" to our logo.

10/31/2013 4:49:23 PM

^^Wow I've never even heard of this. Honestly didn't realize an adult could think a quote in their professional work email was anything other than stupid.

And on that note... my goddamn supervisor continues to delay my receipt of a project that he is responsible for. It is way past the point of just being late. Dude you're the head of the department but this affects my work flow too.

10/31/2013 4:54:12 PM

- getting lectured 'nicely' by a double-team from our VP sales and salesman because of my absences from [bullshit] project meetings.

- [on a dr pepper generated annoyance] I jumped off a conference call (with our customer for the single largest project we've don) to grab someone whom ive been playing phone tag with all day, only to return and find out I had put them on hold with elevator music for about 4mins

10/31/2013 4:56:29 PM

i'm with a client that just did major brand unification so i am required to use
name
company
on behalf of [standard signature for client company which is 2 lines]

I agree with them about not allowing quotes, i would absolutely not allow quotes if it was my decision

10/31/2013 5:01:22 PM

Dr Pepper is that person you ALWAYS imagine on the other end of the line when you get put on god damn hold.

10/31/2013 5:06:50 PM

^haha whut.

that conference call lasted until 5:30. I aint got time for that.

10/31/2013 7:31:13 PM

Sales rep in my subdivision has a computer that makes a SUPER high pitched whine.

I leave the doors open to my office so I can hear the workers and if the inspector drives up, sales agent closes them.

Boss coming down to "help" me, but really just getting peeved that I still have not learned the computer system.

I was supposed to do a pre-drywall meeting with clients this week, my first one. I had it set up for 12:00 Tuesday. Boss was going to do it with me so I could learn. Boss emails at 11:30 and says he cant make it, so I have to wing the meeting myself, without ever having done one.

10/31/2013 7:44:08 PM

ice munchers are worse than apple eaters

11/1/2013 3:00:42 PM

I hate people who send emails with no signature, no name, no phone number, etc. I am not gonna play email tag with you when you dont respond for days and my questions can be answered in a 20 second phone call.

11/1/2013 3:04:25 PM

gum smackers too

11/1/2013 3:10:21 PM

Work email signatures should be name, phone numbers, title and maybe address. No crazy fonts. No crazy colors. No stupid quotes. No attachments. It's your work email. Act like a goddamn professional.

11/1/2013 3:20:41 PM

^

11/1/2013 3:33:24 PM

Mine is

Name
Company
Phone
Fax (my boss made me include this)
Website

11/1/2013 3:36:24 PM

Cranky baby won't nap. Also cranky baby head butted my front teeth.

11/1/2013 3:58:36 PM

Quote :

" Work email signatures should be name, phone numbers, title and maybe address. No crazy fonts. No crazy colors. No stupid quotes. No attachments. It's your work email. Act like a goddamn professional."

Seriously! Awhile back my company sent out a memo communicating exactly that and had our supervisors reiterate that message, yet I still see stupid fonts and quotes on so many emails. Especially from women.

11/1/2013 5:52:39 PM

....just got off a conference call (545EST) that was scheduled for 5pm my time because the guys in Chihuahua were on MT, and daylight savings to boot.


Now I have to back up some files manually.

11/1/2013 5:58:03 PM

^^^ Report him to HR. Headbutting is not OK in the workplace.

[Edited on November 1, 2013 at 6:07 PM. Reason : ijs]

11/1/2013 6:07:36 PM

I did inform the boss but only to let her know how he got teeth marks on his forehead.

11/1/2013 6:28:11 PM

My signature is my name and internal extension. I don't really deal with outside vendors... And the handful that I do, I give a business card, or they're on-site contractors.

And in reality, the large majority of the employees on site don't really need a full blown signature for the same reasons. You aren't in sales. You are not a support role... I don't need your address everyone knows where you sit.

11/1/2013 6:34:58 PM

Mine looks like:

My Name
Department
The Site Where I Work

My Desk Phone Number
My Cell Number

11/1/2013 6:37:30 PM

Name
job title
company - site where i work
office #
cell #

11/1/2013 6:49:16 PM

On Wednesday, after I'd left work for the evening, I got an e-mail requesting that I call the person who sent the e-mail. No specifics on what they needed.

The next morning, when I'm back at work and about to give this guy a call, I get another e-mail saying please call me today, but in the evening, since you didn't yesterday. Which, screw that, it was Halloween and I had plans.

So after some more e-mail exchanges, during which he complained that he only had my work number and not my personal number, I ended up staying late today on a Friday at work, since this guy was so keen on getting an evening call.

I gave him a call and he was like, the evenings aren't really a good time for me to talk, but all I needed is for you to e-mail me a meeting schedule for next month, which I was able to do in about 3 seconds.

11/1/2013 8:49:10 PM

Vomit.

11/1/2013 9:20:54 PM

^^ wow that is ridiculous, did you ask him why he didn't just ask you in the email? Sounds like one of those persons who cannot communicate through email for work, has to use the phone all the time

11/2/2013 12:18:57 AM

He's probably old as balls.

11/2/2013 3:36:58 AM