Jump to content

Your work pet peeves

Parliament

By Parliament
in Lulz

 Share

Recommended Posts

Sam Lin

Sam Lin 3550

Posted
Posted
9 hours ago, Sandman said:

If someone takes my lunch from the fridge, I'm gonna pull your fucking card. You do not mess with a man's meals. 

This. What in the actual fuck Parliament, I hope you're trolling.

 

3 hours ago, BrazilHorn said:

oh and people who read their power point slides verbatim. WTF we can all read. Why are we meeting???

And this. This is my life.

Link to comment
Share on other sites
Bodhi

Bodhi 1123

Posted
Posted
On 8/22/2022 at 4:33 PM, morehornsepower said:

Don't "reply all", unless the whole group really needs to see your damn reply.

4 hours ago, BrazilHorn said:

oh and people who read their power point slides verbatim. WTF we can all read. Why are we meeting???

51 minutes ago, RollLeft said:

...employees who take longer than five minutes on the shitter due to browsing the fkn internet.  Fk you.  Do that shit on your own time.

All of the above. I will add:

1) Department or Company-wide emails asking for charitable donations for your marathon.  Sorry you couldn't qualify for Boston, I'm not interested in paying for you to get in through Charitable Exemption.  

2) Grandstanding during meetings.  We get it, you want to make a favorable impression.  Could you at least come up with some information that adds value to conversation first?

3) HR.  Mostly comprised of women that weren't smart enough to be nurses or grade school teachers.

  • Hook 'Em 3
  • Haha 1
Link to comment
Share on other sites
deadshank

deadshank 24652

Posted
Posted

Folks that refuse to be on time for meetings.   I’m taking about the serial offender types.  You’ve got a 5 minute window after the agreed to meeting time.  
 

If you didn’t call ahead of time to tell me you’d be late and outside the 5 minute window then I am not waiting on you.  
 

Don’t be an inconsiderate ass.  My time is just important than yours.  

  • Hook 'Em 3
  • Like 1
Link to comment
Share on other sites
Guest

Guest

Posted
Posted
7 hours ago, Bodhi said:

 

3) HR.  Mostly comprised of women that weren't smart enough to be nurses or grade school teachers.

Thank you for making my day.  I've worked with exactly one dude and 2 ladies in HR that i respected in almost 3 decades of work.  The others were laughably inept when it came to actually dealing with 'human capital.'

Link to comment
Share on other sites
South Austin

South Austin 52431

Posted
Posted

Printer etiquette can set me off.  Two examples--

Sending a print job that requires manually loading letterhead or oversized paper, and then taking your sweet as time while you're on the internet before walking down to feed the paper, causing all of the other print jobs in the queue to be delayed.

We have cover pages on all of our print jobs with employee names as a convenient way to separate multiple jobs that come out in rapid successions.  A few folks leave those cover sheets on a cabinet by the printer, when there's a mother fucking recycling trash can right there on the floor next to the printer. 

  • Hook 'Em 2
  • Rage+1 1
Link to comment
Share on other sites
Parliament

Parliament 14224

Posted
  • Author
Posted
4 minutes ago, South Austin said:

 

We have cover pages on all of our [b] TPS Reports[/b] with employee names as a convenient way to separate multiple jobs that come out in rapid successions.  A few folks leave those cover sheets on a cabinet by the printer, when there's a mother fucking recycling trash can right there on the floor next to the printer. 

1234

  • Like 1
  • Haha 1
Link to comment
Share on other sites
Upgrayedd

Upgrayedd 5810

Posted
Posted
2 hours ago, deadshank said:

Folks that refuse to be on time for meetings.   I’m taking about the serial offender types.  You’ve got a 5 minute window after the agreed to meeting time.  
 

If you didn’t call ahead of time to tell me you’d be late and outside the 5 minute window then I am not waiting on you.  
 

Don’t be an inconsiderate ass.  My time is just important than yours.  

Meetings in general.  Leave me alone.

  • Hook 'Em 1
  • Like 1
Link to comment
Share on other sites
Kennythetiger

Kennythetiger 9374

Posted
Posted
2 hours ago, deadshank said:

Folks that refuse to be on time for meetings.   I’m taking about the serial offender types.  You’ve got a 5 minute window after the agreed to meeting time.  
 

If you didn’t call ahead of time to tell me you’d be late and outside the 5 minute window then I am not waiting on you.  
 

Don’t be an inconsiderate ass.  My time is just important than yours.  

My wife is chronically 5-10 minutes late to everything. I left her once when she wasn’t ready to go. I don’t recommend it, but it fixed things. 
For about a week. 

  • Hook 'Em 1
  • Haha 1
  • Fuck Around and Find Out 1
Link to comment
Share on other sites
morehornsepower

morehornsepower 887

Posted
Posted (edited)
35 minutes ago, Cheeseweasel said:

You are obviously not interested in a touchpoint ballparking the pinpoint synergy in our group. Let's drill down on this and figure out your core competency and retarget. 

Triggered.  Also: let's "do a quick sync" and  "double-click on that" to make sure our "resources are aligned" and working towards our "organizational objectives".

[edit]: just grow a pair and say you don't agree or understand and you want to discuss it.

Edited by morehornsepower
finish your thoughts, morehornsepower...
Link to comment
Share on other sites
MonkeyDoughnut

MonkeyDoughnut 10226

Posted
Posted
3 hours ago, deadshank said:

Folks that refuse to be on time for meetings.   I’m taking about the serial offender types.  You’ve got a 5 minute window after the agreed to meeting time.  
 

If you didn’t call ahead of time to tell me you’d be late and outside the 5 minute window then I am not waiting on you.  
 

Don’t be an inconsiderate ass.  My time is just important than yours.  

Agreed and going along with this, if you schedule a weekly meeting for say 8am... start at 8am... don't wait for the serial offenders to show, don't care what their titles are.  If you don't plan to start until 8:15am... don't set the meeting for 8am, set it for 8:15am

  • Hook 'Em 4
Link to comment
Share on other sites
DukDukGru

DukDukGru 48

Posted
Posted (edited)

 

4 hours ago, deadshank said:

Folks that refuse to be on time for meetings.   I’m taking about the serial offender types.  You’ve got a 5 minute window after the agreed to meeting time.  
 

If you didn’t call ahead of time to tell me you’d be late and outside the 5 minute window then I am not waiting on you.  
 

Don’t be an inconsiderate ass.  My time is just important than yours.  

1 hour ago, MonkeyDoughnut said:

Agreed and going along with this, if you schedule a weekly meeting for say 8am... start at 8am... don't wait for the serial offenders to show, don't care what their titles are.  If you don't plan to start until 8:15am... don't set the meeting for 8am, set it for 8:15am

This is my life

Edited by DukDukGru
I'm new to quoting.
Link to comment
Share on other sites
Tom

Tom 2959

Posted
Posted
1 hour ago, MonkeyDoughnut said:

Agreed and going along with this, if you schedule a weekly meeting for say 8am... start at 8am... don't wait for the serial offenders to show, don't care what their titles are.  If you don't plan to start until 8:15am... don't set the meeting for 8am, set it for 8:15am


Sure, fair point.  But also don’t start meetings at 8:00 am or the start of the day before I’ve had time to come in and check my email and get settled in.

  • Hook 'Em 3
  • Like 1
Link to comment
Share on other sites
Tom

Tom 2959

Posted
Posted

People who ask for read receipts on their emails.  I’m always going to say no.

People who spell others’ names wrong in emails.  It’s lazy.  Everyone’s name is spelled out for you in their email address.  Stop being lazy.

People who plop down in the stall and shit right next to you.  There are four bathrooms accessible to our floor.  Find another one or come back in five.  I’ll be out in a few minutes.  Let me shit in peace.  

  • Hook 'Em 4
  • Like 1
Link to comment
Share on other sites
Guest

Guest

Posted
Posted
4 hours ago, deadshank said:

Folks that refuse to be on time for meetings.   I’m taking about the serial offender types.  You’ve got a 5 minute window after the agreed to meeting time.  
 

If you didn’t call ahead of time to tell me you’d be late and outside the 5 minute window then I am not waiting on you.  
 

Don’t be an inconsiderate ass.  My time is just important than yours.  

Haha.  No fucking way.  We going...

Link to comment
Share on other sites
Guest

Guest

Posted
Posted
2 hours ago, Kennythetiger said:

My wife is chronically 5-10 minutes late to everything. I left her once when she wasn’t ready to go. I don’t recommend it, but it fixed things. 
For about a week. 

shiiiiiit.  Even my kids knew.  Dad will leave your ass.

Be on time.

Link to comment
Share on other sites
Sbbruin

Sbbruin 21825

Posted
Posted
2 hours ago, Kennythetiger said:

My wife is chronically 5-10 minutes late to everything. I left her once when she wasn’t ready to go. I don’t recommend it, but it fixed things. 
For about a week. 

My life would be glorious if my wife were chronically late only 5-10 minutes.  She has what is clinically termed "time blindness."  It's a real thing and it can be so incredibly aggravating.  She has no sense of the amount of time passing, or how long a task will take.  If she needs to be somewhere in 20 minutes, and it is a 10 minute drive away, she MAY leave with 10 minutes to spare, but not take into account any of the other elements of travel: parking, walking, elevators, etc.  Like all of that takes a microsecond.  It is truly bizarre.  My daughter has ADD, and was clinically diagnosed with time blindness.  When we got the diagnosis, I looked straight at her and was like- "well, there it is.  This is you."  

  • Hook 'Em 4
Link to comment
Share on other sites
Celery Man

Celery Man 20929

Posted
Posted
24 minutes ago, bolverk said:

When people leave 2-3 seconds on the microwave.

Goddammit this is my wife at home and it’s weirdly irritates the same part of my brain that she hits when I go to check my side mirrors and she is digging around in her purse blocking my line of sight. 

  • Hook 'Em 1
  • Like 1
  • Haha 1
  • Rage+1 1
Link to comment
Share on other sites
Sandman

Sandman 3403

Posted
Posted
3 hours ago, bolverk said:

When people leave 2-3 seconds on the microwave.

It's worse when someone doesn't bother to enter the required cooking time and just puts it on for 10 mins. Then they stop it at some random time and say "good enough" and leave it paused at 6:32 remaining and walk away. 

  • Like 1
  • Rage+1 1
Link to comment
Share on other sites
markstanco

markstanco 12570

Posted
Posted
20 hours ago, BrazilHorn said:

 

oh and people who read their power point slides verbatim. WTF we can all read. Why are we meeting???

Reminds me of a vendor.

This guy used to fly a few times a year from SoCal to Texas for a meeting with about 6 of us, and he would bring a white paper for a new product.  Pass it out, and then say "I will wait for 2 minutes until you read it".  The second time I told him to just go over it with us, but he insisted to do the sit and read.  And no, not because of me, but I am sure many complained about him and he is no longer in the industry. 

Link to comment
Share on other sites
JesusSweatDuck

JesusSweatDuck 17781

Posted
Posted
On 8/22/2022 at 4:20 PM, tfoolry said:

IMs that start with.  Hi or good morning with no question.  Send a fucking email.  
 

 

On 8/22/2022 at 8:01 PM, nnm said:

Nah. I’m ok with that. Is a common courtesy seeing if I’m actually online and actually can be interrupted with whatever the issue is. Much better than putting a lengthy issue in an IM and assuming I’ll instantly address it. 

http://www.nohello.com

 

 

Link to comment
Share on other sites
JesusSweatDuck

JesusSweatDuck 17781

Posted
Posted

Also, people who walk around the office barefoot, people who don't wear deodorant, smokers who inhale 4 cigarettes right before a meeting and stink up the entire conference room, people who don't wash their hands after using the restroom, people who talk on the phone in the restroom, people who schedule meetings at times you're already booked and don't ask if you can make it

 

There's more, but just writing this is making me angry

  • Hook 'Em 5
Link to comment
Share on other sites
Sbbruin

Sbbruin 21825

Posted
Posted
12 minutes ago, Mez2 said:

Scheduling 8am meetings on a Monday

This should be punishable by hanging.  I need Monday am ramp up time.  Even if my weekend was mellow, which it usually is at my age, I need time to get my brain engaged.  It's like an old diesel engine that needs to run for a bit to get to operating temp.

  • Hook 'Em 3
  • Haha 1
Link to comment
Share on other sites
Js1

Js1 85258

Posted
Posted
7 hours ago, South Austin said:

Printer etiquette can set me off.  Two examples--

Sending a print job that requires manually loading letterhead or oversized paper, and then taking your sweet as time while you're on the internet before walking down to feed the paper, causing all of the other print jobs in the queue to be delayed.

We have cover pages on all of our print jobs with employee names as a convenient way to separate multiple jobs that come out in rapid successions.  A few folks leave those cover sheets on a cabinet by the printer, when there's a mother fucking recycling trash can right there on the floor next to the printer. 

I have tried to teach my coworkers what "secure print" is and they look at me like I just tried to teach them calculus in Japanese. 

Link to comment
Share on other sites
Grade of D as in David

Grade of D as in David 13253

Posted
Posted
31 minutes ago, markstanco said:

Reminds me of a vendor.

This guy used to fly a few times a year from SoCal to Texas for a meeting with about 6 of us, and he would bring a white paper for a new product.  Pass it out, and then say "I will wait for 2 minutes until you read it".  The second time I told him to just go over it with us, but he insisted to do the sit and read.  And no, not because of me, but I am sure many complained about him and he is no longer in the industry. 

Was the 2 minutes not enough for you?

  • Haha 3
Link to comment
Share on other sites
nnm

nnm 36327

Posted
Posted
19 minutes ago, markstanco said:

Friend is a GM for a local mfg'ing company around here, but the HQ is in California.  Every Friday he has a concall at 5PM Texas time and it goes on for +1 hour.  

I worked for 12 years for a European company. 4 am calls were regular things. Adapt and advance. 

Link to comment
Share on other sites

Join the conversation

You can post now and register later. If you have an account, sign in now to post with your account.

Guest
Reply to this topic...

×   Pasted as rich text.   Paste as plain text instead

  Only 75 emoji are allowed.

×   Your link has been automatically embedded.   Display as a link instead

×   Your previous content has been restored.   Clear editor

×   You cannot paste images directly. Upload or insert images from URL.

×
 Share
Go to topic listing


Football ... Basketball ... Baseball ... Other Sports ... Futbol ... 🤫995🤫 ... Gambling ... Movies & TV ... Music ... Hobbies ... Lulz ... Food & Travel ... Daily Texan ... Business and Markets ... Cloak Room ... Help ... For Sale ... Board Discussion ... Subscribe!... Donate!... Advertise... COOKIE MONSTER!

×
×
  • Create New...