we have a spam blocker on our email system. it won't let you know that you have an email in there until about 4 in the afternoon.

the amount of times that i've missed something important because of that is incredibly annoying

7/28/2008 10:41:12 AM

when the secretary listens to nothing but 90s radio.

i didn't want to listen to pretty fly for a white guy when it was new, i sure as shit don't want to listen to it now.

7/28/2008 11:01:12 AM

Sounds like the secretary needs to get acquainted with her volume control. Back when I worked in a cubicle, I would either turn my music *very* low, or listen through headphones.

7/28/2008 11:14:23 AM

Yea, I wish people would use headphones here, I don't want to hear their music at all.

7/28/2008 11:34:52 AM

people that dont understand that the internet is not the best tool for researching fact vs. fiction on any questionably subject

7/28/2008 11:43:44 AM

Quote :

"My favorite is seeing them being used to pay for cigarettes."

It's illegal, you can get crazy fined for doing that.

7/28/2008 1:57:40 PM

it was a sarcastic statement, I don't see it everytime I go into the grocery store, or since I lived in my hometown, but I have seen it a couple of times and it pisses me off.

Cameron Village and Tryon Village Harris Teeters ftw

[Edited on July 28, 2008 at 3:13 PM. Reason : .]

7/28/2008 3:11:01 PM

Eek, my coworker is taking the job offer from the Blackberry people and we are officially out of coffee. It is a bad day for IT!

7/28/2008 4:00:55 PM

I'm lookin for a job

looks like you have an opening?

7/28/2008 4:02:14 PM

Quote :

"the Black Berry people"

it's BlackBerry, and it's Research in Motion

7/28/2008 4:04:07 PM

it's also better paying and sucks a lot for me

and it's with Wyle IS

^^haha, can you do 2nd/3rd tier tech support?

7/28/2008 4:21:07 PM

Quote :

"^^haha, can you do 2nd/3rd tier tech support?"

probably

whats the pay like?

7/28/2008 5:16:57 PM

as soon as my co-worker walks in the door, she starts talking. she doesn't stop.

she has the most annoying laugh i've ever heard, and i kind of want to hit her.

four people in one office is such a pain in the ass

7/29/2008 9:14:09 AM

Not really work place or anything, but at remington grill last night my food and a cops food came on the same tray and I was with my gf so I just grabbed both not thinking and realized when I sat down that I had someone elses food, so I walk up to the counter about the same time the Cary PD officer comes up to the counter and hand the tray towards him offering his food back to him, he stands there like the biggest douchebag and tells me to set it on the counter, like i've got some fucking disease. I promptly walked back to my booth, placing it on a table across the restaurant.

7/29/2008 9:17:46 AM

will that be with or without spit?

7/29/2008 9:23:26 AM

I have a coworker who thinks it's cute to pronounce peoples names with a bad French accent. Like Johnson becomes "Zhawnsawn". Damn, it gets on my nerves.

7/29/2008 9:29:05 AM

Quote :

"I promptly walked back to my booth, placing it on a table across the restaurant."

If nobody else will call BS on that, then I certainly will. I'm willing to bet it went down as you setting it down for him & walking back to your table & sitting down.

7/29/2008 9:31:54 AM

The main printer for my office is right behind me. I have to listen to the damn thing printing all day and have everyone and their brother crowding my space, asking me to borrow a pen or wondering aloud why the printer isn't working. I'm about to go Office Space on the damn printer just so I can get some peace and quiet.

7/30/2008 12:39:27 PM

print a sign for your desk


I don't know why the printer won't work.
I am fresh out of pens.
My stapler is broken.
NO, I won't bring you the contents of the printer tray when it finishes.

7/30/2008 12:47:13 PM

Quote :

"and i kind of want to hit her."

so wrong,,, but i laughed.

7/30/2008 12:48:53 PM

^^^ Work IT and the printer and copier for most people were within 6' of me. Definitely love my new office.

7/30/2008 1:37:24 PM

^^she's so painful

[Edited on July 30, 2008 at 1:39 PM. Reason : .]

7/30/2008 1:38:53 PM

yeah i buy lunch everyday... so stop looking at me with lunchtime envy written all over your face.

7/30/2008 1:43:27 PM

My Outlook just committed suicide.

7/30/2008 4:38:19 PM

This was my rant in the Morning Crew thread....I figure it was better here.

I can't stand people that wait until the last minute to do things.

OH MY GOSH

Seriously

This fucking bitch in my office has known she has to completely close out her study and ship all her correspondence and shit by Friday. Bitch knew this a long time ago, but she waits until TODAY to do it all, and comes to my desk with like 5 reams of paper to sort and put in chronological order. I swear if she comes up to me one more time today, I'm gonna get fired. She's that really loud mouth fat chick that tries to make sure the attention is always on here because normally no one would pay her dumb ass any damn attention. She always cops an attitude with me. I do not work for her. I only help out when I don't have other shit to do, which I have a list of shit to do today since I will be out 3 days next week. She wants this done by 1pm and I'm so not going to finish it.

I haven't been this mad in a while.

7/31/2008 9:32:53 AM

Quote :

"Work IT and the printer and copier for most people were within 6' of me."

I don't have a printer in the same room as me, but I don't mind the sound and I love the smell of fresh ink

I might be getting a bigger office because 1 out of our 3 people is leaving. The next few weeks are going to suuuuuuck.

7/31/2008 9:54:31 AM

Quote :

"... I do not work for her. I only help out when I don't have other shit to do..."

This is where the word NO comes in handy.

7/31/2008 12:22:52 PM

yea I am the youngest by at least 15 years at my office..... not many people there are easy to relate to

7/31/2008 12:24:56 PM

ha, yeah until june i was the youngest by 22 years in my office

7/31/2008 12:30:36 PM

15" PowerBook G4 running 10.3.9 which runs ONE of CAD, Photoshop, Illustrator,....at a time. Oh wait, Photoshop won't work at all.

7/31/2008 1:49:14 PM

when the first five hours fly by and the last four take FOREVER.

also, when the secretary says over and over that she needs to hire a receptionist b/c she doesn't have the time to do her paperwork and answer the phones, except she's on the phone on personal calls 4 hours/day.

7/31/2008 1:50:42 PM

When a boss splits their labor pool in two, to accomplish two different tasks.

One of which requires getting shit from way up high.

...And leaves all the tall people doing the task where being short isn't a disadvantage.

7/31/2008 4:53:41 PM

Quote :

"15" PowerBook G4 running 10.3.9....."

when they crash from overheating

7/31/2008 7:53:11 PM

coworkers that have been there forever and I am out producing them and they have to bring it up all the time (less than a year). I guess they are afraid they will get fired...makes me want to even increase my output more....

7/31/2008 7:55:25 PM

When the person who takes over a web-based weekly task doesn't delete old data...leaving me to delete 6mos of it when they were out one week.

I must have sat there going TAB SPACE TAB SPACE TAB SPACE TAB SPACE for 20 minutes

8/2/2008 5:56:25 PM

FAT FAT FAT FAT FAT FAT FAT FAT FAT

patients


especially those over 150 kilos


shit 120 kilos will break you down over a few days

8/2/2008 11:15:22 PM

^ honey, in this country we use pounds.

Ironically, because I was about to add: (mostly foreign) co-workers who keep using metric, or reversing the numbers in the date so like today is 3/8/08 instead of 8/3/08

I don't care what they used in *your* country... you ain't there right now.

8/3/2008 12:24:28 AM

Why, yes! I fucking love coming in on Sundays to pick up equipment I've never handled before!

8/3/2008 12:29:14 AM

Quote :

"My favorite is seeing them being used to pay for cigarettes."

it is impossible to buy cigarettes with food stamps in NC. not only illegal, but completely impossible. it's all electronic.

now, back in the days of paper food stamps, people would buy a pack of koolaid and pay with like a $.50 or $1 food stamp. the cashier had to give change back on it, so they would have enough to buy the cigarettes if they were like $.50 short or something.

8/3/2008 12:40:16 AM

Quote :

"^ honey, in this country we use pounds. Ironically, because I was about to add: (mostly foreign) co-workers who keep using metric, or reversing the numbers in the date so like today is 3/8/08 instead of 8/3/08 I don't care what they used in *your* country... you ain't there right now."

fuckwit, this IS my country of origin.

but dosage calculations in *this* country are predominantly metric, so pounds are converted to metric

mg/kg

occasionally drams or grains are used

8/3/2008 12:50:02 AM

We were suppose to have an IT meeting at 1pm, and I took an early lunch so I could be here for it.

It is 1:50 and we still haven't started

8/4/2008 1:51:34 PM

If I ask more than one question, I need an answer to more than one question. Lots of people don't seem to understand that.

8/5/2008 10:39:32 AM

I mean I'd like to get one real answer instead of an "I dunno" to every damn one I ask my boss.

so smile girly

8/5/2008 10:40:21 AM

8/5/2008 10:41:49 AM

Quote :

"^ honey, in this country we use pounds. Ironically, because I was about to add: (mostly foreign) co-workers who keep using metric, or reversing the numbers in the date so like today is 3/8/08 instead of 8/3/08 I don't care what they used in *your* country... you ain't there right now."

RELATED ANNOYANCE:

when a bunch of euros come over and dont change their default paper size and cause all the print queues to take a dump

8/5/2008 10:47:41 AM

i think day-month-year makes more logical sense.

but people get easily confused,,,

so today is

05 Aug 2008

8/5/2008 10:50:01 AM

^yeah i date everything DDMONYY

05AUG08

8/5/2008 10:52:41 AM

Quote :

"when a bunch of euros come over and dont change their default paper size and cause all the print queues to take a dump"

haha that's funny because we get a lot of paperwork from out of the country and it's on a different size paper, and people keep fucking up their copies because they don't realize it. I'm like come on! When you stack your paper and this shit is sticking out, did you not realize it was a different size?


Oh and we use the day, month, year format here at work.

8/5/2008 10:52:52 AM

baby talk.

seriously, you are 47 years old. stop it.

8/5/2008 10:59:55 AM

Quote :

"I can't stand people that wait until the last minute to do things."

What about when those people make lame excuses about why they waited.

ughhhhhhhhh

We have a relief secretary who does this constantly with everything in her life, especially work. The people she's supposed to be doing things for end up helping her out while she complains about her woes to us (things that could have been easily prevented by planning more than 2 hours in advance).

Seriously maybe 5 kids with 3 dudes wasn't such a hot idea after all. It's tough to listen to her. Sometimes it's so white trashy that I want to laugh and cry at the same time.

8/5/2008 11:26:07 AM