Office vent

[faerycloud]

Anyone has anything to vent about their office,
I had posted in mjy LJ about things that had been bugging me this week at work and a bunch of girls replied back with their little annoyances so i thought it would be a cool thread to start.

My vent for today is why would someone have to bring their 2 liter bottle of water with them just to go to the printer???

[marchfamily]

<hi>

Cube neighbor - must you slurp your coffee?
Kitchen sharer - microwaving fish should be illegal. So should burning popcorn.

Oh, I'm sure I'll be back with more!

[catch]

Office venting is what I do best. I work with lunatics!

There's a group of 3 psychos on my floor. Psycho V, Psycho E and Psycho M. V talks on the phone ALL DAY! Loudly! Everyone can hear her. Even when she's talking dirty to her exbf who just happens to be in his 70s. It's very gross. She's 43. She still lives with her parents and is always arguing with them on the phone. Even more annoying is that when she's done, she calls her sisters and her bf and repeats the arguement word for word. And when Psycho E passes by, she repeats the story. And if she notices that I'm not busy, she sighs loudly and then starts the story again, even though I just heard it about 5 times. Drives me nuts! But how do you tell a lunatic that you don't want to hear her cracked out story? I nod, I turn away, I face my computer, I stand up and pretend I have somewhere to go, she doesn't shut up! Sometimes I walk away and she just talks even louder so I can hear her from down the hall. I don't get it. She's psycho! :eek:

As for Psycho M and Psycho E, ugh, those aren't that much better. M is a very repressed....sexually frustrated individual, lol. He's the type of person that you can speak to for 10 minutes and say "hot damn, he needs to get laid, pronto!" And he's like 60 years old. He is the king of nitpicking and he's my immediate back up, meaning if I'm at lunch or away from my desk, he has to jump onboard and cover for me. He doesn't. Instead, he calls my manager to tell her that I'm not at my desk or that he needs my help and she makes him find me. Even if I'm just in the copy room making copies, where I told him I would be. I've told our manager about his behavior and she just rolls her eyes and says she knows he's a loon but she doesn't know how to calm him down. He makes his life high-stress. If he gets intercommed, instead of just talking to the person through the intercom, he RUNS to their office like a mad man. M is the type that runs down the hall and has actually tackled me by mistake. While I was carrying two cups of water to my desk. Water everywhere. He then grabbed napkins and tried to dry me down, starting with my boobs. He's gay, but still, hands off the boobs! Totally creepy.

Rumor has it Psycho E has a drinking problem. I don't know, but something is very weird with her. She can pass by my desk 3 times and tell me the same story each time! She thinks Psycho V is out to get her but Psycho V is on the phone all day long, I doubt she even thinks about Psycho E. But Psycho E once made me follow her to ladies room to tell me that Psycho V was on the phone talking to managers and telling them that she took long lunches. She said it was a plan to get her fired. Ummm...I just heard Psycho V reminding her old man ex about how she used to leave dirty underwear underneath his pillow. She's not out to get you Psycho E, lol.

TGIF - 2 days free of psychos ;)

[Ummm]

catch - omg, i'm laughing so hard!!!!

everyone seems very normal where i work :)

[faerycloud]

OMG!! Catch, you had me so cracked up, those are the best office stories lol!!

[Kanga]

Nothing too major yet. I just started in an office/inbound call center, and currently we are in training. I won't go too much into detail, but I just wonder where they find these morons! Fortunately the people that bother me the most work opposite shifts I do, otherwise I would go nuts. One of my pet peeves is when people ask the same questions over and over and over. If they would just freaking pay attention. The one psycho is really bad at it, and since we're both pregnant and have the same last name (very common last name) she thinks were best buds :eek: :rolleyes: :mad:

[daener]

I used to have a boss who would take the copy of the paper from the reception area to the bathroom with him....then drop it back on the coffee table to be shared with our visitors. I would sneak out there and pick it up using a tissue and throw it away. If you want to read in the bathroom at home, more power to you, but MUST you do so at work?!?!

[jnshanna]

OMG, this thread is hilarious! Catch, that story cracked me up!

Microwaving fish?? Ewwww! That really could be an office crime. We have a lady that does that too.

Why does the lady one desk down from me feel the need to announce everyone that drives into the parking lot? Do we care? Not really. And the same woman also announces when there is a temp. change outside. Oh, it's 91 now everyone! Hello? We don't care!! And what exactly does she do if she's so preoccupied? I'd really like to know. LOL

[pride&prejudice]

catch, that is just too funny. People in my office seem way normal now. :)

Microwaving food and then leaving it there for 3 hours until the next person goes to make their lunch should be illegal. And usually its soup and they never wipe it up so its all over the bottom of the microwave.

[BSBC]

I have to deal with a passive-aggressive divorced woman who I'm much more senior to in the organization. She's a total witch - completely mismanages her work and then blames my team for her inability to complete assignments. I actaully think she is in over her head and I would normally try to help people like her out, but she's gone after us one too many times.

I just sit through a meeting with her today. I raised the "divorced" part b/c she comes to work dressed in very inappropriate clothing and she flirts with men in the workplace During this morning's meeting, she was heavily flirting with my counterpart (who was clueless). I think she gets by in her area b/c she lays on the sugar with one of the more senior men in her area.

Actually, my entire company is passive-aggressive, so work is just one big fun place to be.

[marchfamily]

Do NOT, I repeat, DO NOT, clip your nails at work. EWWWWWW!

[faerycloud]

along the hygiene guidelines,
can you please apply lotion before coming in to work?!?!
people here come in and get to their cubes and start lotioning their legs and arms and so on :eek:

[catch]

speaking of hygiene...

Don't take documents into the bathroom with you!! It's very disturbing to be peeing and hearing you farting and doing God knows what while you're flipping pages and reading an agreement! It's even worse when you cross your legs and I see your foot dangling inside of my stall. Your foot is invading my privacy, lol. I feel bad for your secretary who has to make the revisions you wrote on the agreement while you were in the bathroom. She probably has no idea where that document has been. That's a freaking health hazzard! She probably doesn't know that you don't wash your hands after your done either. I see you turn on the faucet and pass one hand through the water and then turn off the water and leave the bathroom. Where's the soap? Where's the scrubbing and lathering? You went to law school. You learn how to wash your hands in Pre-K! Geez! :eek:

And another thing, if you think you stained your pants, please go inside of a stall and take off your pants and check in there. Don't hang around in front of the mirrors and try to check that way. I don't need to see you in your underwear at 9:30am. I haven't even had my breakfast yet, Psycho E, you goddamn psycho.

[BSBC]

Don't let your poor planning impact other work areas.

Department A has not planning activity what so ever. They wait until the last minute and then promise Department C that a task will be completed, even though they have to have Department B finish the task for them.

I manage Web sites for a large company. A lot of business areas will promise that content will appear on the Web site on a particular date without consulting me or my team. This happens all the time. At the end of the day, we have to complete the projects to deadline, so we essentially get screwed either way (if we finish the project, we set the precedence that you can be a poor planner and still get work done and if we don't get the job done it becomes our problem).

One of the departments that pulls this maneuver all the time, not only plans poorly but will pull all sorts of stunts if their work doesn't get done. Last year they even said a member of my team was "hostile" towards them, which negatively impacted my employee's performance review (per HR).

This is why I am looking for another job!

[Boopy]

Overall things are pretty good were I work. However, I do have one problem with my immediate supervisor, R. For some reason R thinks it's extremely funny to fart around people and then wait for the smell to reach them. :eek: He does it one of two ways. Either he goes into someone else's office and lets one rip and then runs out and shuts the door or he calls someone over to his office under the pretense of asking them a work related question and then while that person is trying to help he lets it rip. The absolute worst was one day when he drove a group of guys from the office to lunch. Apparently on the way back he let out a good one, then proceeded to lock the windows so they were all "trapped" in the car. Well, it was too much for one of our other coworkers, B. B ended up vomitting on himself while in the car!! :eek: :eek: Poor B had to go home immediately. Everyone else thought it was a hoot. :rolleyes: Oh did I mention, we're in a very high up department of a very large Fortune 500 company? :confused:

[BethElena]

What really gets me is when our project manager goes out of his way to "check up on me". He'll come up front, see me eating a candy bar, and say "OH. I guess you're getting fat just in time for the wedding." When he said that yesterday, I was about to burst into tears and strangle him. It has been pretty hard getting used to working with 2 men all day long - 1 anal retentive, the other who changes his mind every 5 minutes. I reinvent the wheel 5 times a day, on a good day.

[faerycloud]

Oh did I mention, we're in a very high up department of a very large Fortune 500 company? :confused:

OMG!! I was going to ask yuou where in the world you worked!! that is disgusting

[faerycloud]

Yikes Beth that is so mean!!

[Boopy]

OMG!! I was going to ask yuou where in the world you worked!! that is disgusting


Yup, it's hard to believe this man has the position he does and still does this stuff. Other than this he's a pretty good guy, just a little immature. It doesn't help that his boss usually finds it funny too.

[catch]

Wow Beth and Boopy, both situations are just awful! What is wrong with people?!

[JenniferEC]

And another thing, if you think you stained your pants, please go inside of a stall and take off your pants and check in there. Don't hang around in front of the mirrors and try to check that way. I don't need to see you in your underwear at 9:30am. I haven't even had my breakfast yet, Psycho E, you goddamn psycho.

LOL! :p I've never seen someone do this, but this is gross.

[Vishenka69]

Even more annoying is that when she's done, she calls her sisters and her bf and repeats the arguement word for word. And when Psycho E passes by, she repeats the story. And if she notices that I'm not busy, she sighs loudly and then starts the story again, even though I just heard it about 5 times....She's psycho!
Catch, do we work in the same office? Only my psycho is older and calls her husband Papa. Who does that?

We recently (Monday) moved to a new building and now our cubes have a red wall. I feel like a bull having to stare at this huge block of red all day long. Don't they teach HR people at some point that red is a bad office color.

[catch]

"Papa", lol, that's hilarious!

Vishenka, I'll trade you that red wall for all of this beige and brown in my cube. It makes me sleepy! But at least I can make it more interesting with a colorful box of tissue, lol. I also have some pics of FH and our dogs to spice things up :D

The red is really weird though.

Hey, is anyone freezing to death in their office? It's 96 degrees or so in NYC and my feet are numb from the cold.

[faerycloud]

Hey, is anyone freezing to death in their office? It's 96 degrees or so in NYC and my feet are numb from the cold.

ugh, yeah i'm in florida and half the time i can't type my fingers are frozen

[shopaholic]

Hey, is anyone freezing to death in their office? It's 96 degrees or so in NYC and my feet are numb from the cold.

Yes, I have a floor heater just for this purpose. :D

[jennylou]

Do NOT, I repeat, DO NOT, clip your nails at work. EWWWWWW!

Or worse your toe nails. Ick.

[pride&prejudice]

When you go and tell me to write a memo complaining about the harassment that I put up with from a fellow co-worker, don't start back peddling and telling me to do something totally different and you don't want to be bothered with it when I go through with it. Get a back bone and stand up to management.

[BSBC]

When you go and tell me to write a memo complaining about the harassment that I put up with from a fellow co-worker, don't start back peddling and telling me to do something totally different and you don't want to be bothered with it when I go through with it. Get a back bone and stand up to management.

Amen to this! I completely feel your pain and wish you had support from your manager.

I am involved in a similar situation. One of the people I manage was speaking to another person in our company. The person was being hostile to my employee, so I asked the employee to transfer the call to me. The woman I spoke to was not happy with our resolution, so she went to my boss. When my boss said that this was not an issue, the woman went to HR. So I'm now being reprimanded by HR and could be put on probation or lose my job.

A very similar issue happened to be last year and I ended up with a Performance Improvement Plan. My company is very passive-aggressive and if you get accused of anything, you are automatically guilty. I wouldn't mind if I were being reprimanded for something that I did, but this is crazy. I'm also in management, which makes it even more annoying because I was only trying to help out one of my employees.

I will gladly support one of my own employees, even if it puts me at risk. Most people in management just do not want to stick their necks out.

Needless to say, I'm actively looking for another job.

[pride&prejudice]

Amen to this! I completely feel your pain and wish you had support from your manager.

I am involved in a similar situation. One of the people I manage was speaking to another person in our company. The person was being hostile to my employee, so I asked the employee to transfer the call to me. The woman I spoke to was not happy with our resolution, so she went to my boss. When my boss said that this was not an issue, the woman went to HR. So I'm now being reprimanded by HR and could be put on probation or lose my job.


I'm so sorry that you are going through this! I actually do have the support of my manager, which is a blessing.

The irritating part about my situation is that I tried everything I could to keep it in house and try to get it resolved. But no matter where I went, I was sort of told to just shut up and just let this die. Well no, the guy that did this to me is a manager and shouldn't be allowed to do things like this just because his buddy is the main boss!

Well, I told our EEO rep that I wasn't happy with the outcome and she told me to write a memo and it would go on file with my boss' record of what he did, etc. I would stay inhouse, but yet something would be done. Well, when I finished the memo, she's now telling me that she has nothing to do with it and is referring me to EEO. Both my 1st line supervisor and I are at a loss for words, becuase she just contradicted herself!

Sorry if this is jumbled, its just feels good to get it out.

[BSBC]

I feel so sorry for you. Companies are really brutal today. I just don't understand why people check common sense and decency at the door.

At least your manager is supporting you, which is important.

Fortunately, for my most current "incident," my manager is supporting me. Our HR representative, however, is going after me. The most frustrating thing about my current situation is the fact that I've never met the woman making the allegation and last week was the first time I ever either spoke to her or emailed her. I could totally understand if she had worked with me in the past and if I had given her a reason to punish me, but I don't understand why this is happening now.

If only I could win the lottery. I would be done with work.

[BethElena]

Hey, is anyone freezing to death in their office? It's 96 degrees or so in NYC and my feet are numb from the cold.

I freeze year round...I love my personal heater for the winters -- the guys make fun of me because it has a remote control :D

[faerycloud]

-- the guys make fun of me because it has a remote control :D

that is too cool hehe,
unfortunatly they do not allow us to have anything we plug in here, not even a cup warmer!

[Kimberland30]

Our VP has to TALK THIS LOUD all.the.time. And when he walks by my office, he always looks in. Always. It's creepy. We are going to be renovating soon, so his office will be far from mine. Thank you God.

I also have a jacket on daily and a personal heater (though it's 100 degrees outside). I don't have a remote control though, I'm jealous. :)

[faerycloud]

ok, let's say i talk to a client on the phone and tell them i will email them information i need in writing from them, then i don't hear back from them so i call and they say, "oh i'm sorry i may have deleted the email if i didn't recognize who it came from" duh!!!!
I mean in the workplace chances are you will get emails you don't recognize, you may want to take a look before deleting!!!!! especially if you're expecting something.

[TheFuture]

I work in an office of 7 people - me and my "suite mate" are down the hall from the other 5 people (which actually is pretty nice since we don't think we could handle being in the office with everyone else). What irks me is when I go down to the hall to check my in box and happen to notice that all of the other girls are sitting in one of thier offices eating lunch together that they had ordered in - and they didn't even think of asking us (me and my "suite mate") if wanted anything or wanted to join them for lunch.

This happens about 2-3 times a week. It drives us crazy - so we have started having lunch by ourselves and even heading out for lunch too. Not inviting them to join us.

I don't know why it bothers me, but it does!!!

[solongtogo]

I work with a guy who REALLY enjoys food. Like wierdly so. He's from Pennsylvania and always talks about how they have awesome sub sandwhiches there, but nothing here. Well he tried Jimmy Johns today (it's a sub chain in most college towns) and actually told us that it was like an orgasm. Freak.

[camberne]

I would just be happy if the people I worked with would do their jobs. I do my job, and when I have to pass something along to you to do - just do it... don't b*tch, don't moan, don't act like it is such an imposition. It's your job, just do it. The person I'm most frustrated with works from home like I do, so making a couple of phone calls is not that big a deal. You'd think that I was asking her to unload potato bags from truck. (weird analogy, but I just couldn't come up with anything cute).

[Sazoo]

My boss always grabs papers off of the printer & then tries to figure out who the belong to...except he often guesses wrong & gives my stuff to my co-worker or her stuff to me. Or, sometimes he thinks it's junk & tosses it in the recycle bin - oh, & he reads everything that he grabs from the printer, too. I hate having to re-print something because it's not there when I go to get it. He also riffles through the incoming mail if he walks by my desk & sees it sitting there waiting for me to go through it. This stuff irks me to no end - leave my stuff alone, please! :rolleyes:

I have a red file folder that is marked "Please SIGN & return to Sarah". In the folder I put documents that require his signature - usually it is checks, but sometimes there are other types of documents/forms that require his signature. Somehow he always assumes that anything in the folder that is not a check doesn't require his attention - let alone his signature. So he signs just the checks & returns the folder to me. Then I have to remove the signed checks, add a post-it note to the form saying "please sign HERE" & give it back to him! I'm about ready to make a joking comment to him like this - "I don't ever put anything in your signature folder that DOESN'T require your signature, ya know." ;)

The women who use our public restroom on our floor & toss their used paper towels on the floor behind the door drive me nuts too. The trash can is 2 steps away, but no...they have to use the paper towel to help them open the door to avoid getting germs, & then toss it on the floor rather than take it back to their desk to throw it in the trash. :rolleyes:

I'm sure I'll think of more later...

[Sazoo]

Oh! Just thought of another one! We hired a new employee recently, & he has some odd habits.

First, he is WAY too gracious about all of the training & help I'm giving to him. He's constantly thanking me for every single little thing I do - & I'm not going above & beyond to help him, I'm really just doing my job. Sometimes his gratitude makes me uncomfortable, in a way...how many times/ways can I say "thanks" or "you're welcome" or "no problem" or "just doin' my job"?

Second, he always stops & looks at what I'm doing when he walks by my desk. He reads what's on my computer monitor, etc. Then, if it's not obvious what I'm doing, he'll ask "So what are you working on right now?" What do you care, dude?!? I'm working, doing my job. Unless I'm working on a file that involves you, why do you need to know? :rolleyes:

Third, he acts like every little thing we (my co-worker & I) do around here is the most amazing thing since sliced bread. He's constantly saying "wow!" "cool" or "that is so AWSOME!!" whenever we do things like show him something simple like how to use the copy machine. :confused:

He is a nice guy, but he is also very strange.

[ObscureDame]

That is too funny...i know how that is. I mean i'm a trainee right now...and so is this other lady. Now don't get me wrong i appreicate everything...and i plan on saying thank you when i'm on my own. But this lady first off talks way too damn much. Is too loud...and is just wierd...i mean she seems nice...but a lil' off, yanno? She real...what's the word...hmmm.. ugh.. "Perky" that's the word. I'm a nice person and show gratitude but not every milisecond of the day, yanno? Does get pretty annoying..and i'm getting annoyed. Sometimes i want to turn around and just say.."Shut up!" ...but ..of course i won't. *smiles*

[ZoeGirl]

Argh...current rant: my dear (sarcasm) boss can spend the entire workday avoiding me, not answering my questions or giving me anything to do. Then, FIVE MINUTES before I leave, there will suddenly be a Major Crisis and I'll end up working late. These are not crises that have just popped up. He will come back from an 8 a.m. meeting and wait until 4:42 to tell me that something discussed in the meeting necessitated this particular change in plans.

[ObscureDame]

Oh one other peeve I have with Supervisors or Boss's... When things are happening at work. I mean when people are getting innocent people into trouble or things are being done that shouldn't be done and the Supervisor states they will take care of the issue and they don't. Things are still happening and infact! progressing to worse but nothing gets done. Good example... I recently got into trouble for something i was accused of that i never did. My employer got upset with me because he was told that i had said i could not speak one of my languages and i was shocked. He said the reason why he hired me was for that reason that i was able to speak that particular language. I informed him that i never mentioned that i couldn't speak it...who ever told him that flat out lied. So instead of believing me he involved another co worker and called him into the office and asked him to spark up a conversation with me just to prove to him that I could understand and speak the language. I was so furious that i didn't allow the coworker to speak i started rambling off in our language and infact he started to laugh because of how fast i spoke it then turned around to look at our employer and said, "yeah ..she can speak the language." ... All this happened just because some one doesn't like me. The funny thing is i've only been working at this place for one month..have minded my own business...not spoken about anyone..and yet this enemy has now made an enemy of me. But i hear around the office that this particular person tends to get many innocent people in trouble and wonder why she still even has a job there. Go! Figure... And i've seen this person in action...she talks about every person...even those she calls her friends...she smiles then literally turns right around and says something bad about them.

[faerycloud]

i am not interested in hearing you whine for hours about all the things you lost on your computer because you got a virus form playing games all day!!!!

[pride&prejudice]

I hate it when people who have been doing the job for over 2 years all of a sudden decide that its not in their job description. Ugh, then I have to spend 3 weeks working it out, just so I can have someone to do the job. But when I threaten to just do it myself, ohhhhh no. THey won't let that happen. Go figure.