I just wanted to pop in here to share this with you all: the woman I was describing in my first post in this thread has now been away from her desk for two and a half hours. My boss had a lunch meeting, and the door had barely closed behind her when my office-mate zipped away to wherever the hell it is she goes.
Meanwhile, I’m in the middle of a giant mailing project that this twit should be helping me with; if I didn’t take a break every so often to read a thread or two, I’d go insane. She’ll get away with it, too, because the boss has no idea when either of us went to lunch, and therefore no idea that Ms. Lacks a Work Ethic has been M.I.A. all afternoon.
There have been so many times when I’ve wanted to rat on this woman, but I can’t, I have no right to-- we’re the same grade level, and though we work for the same boss, it’s in slightly different capacities so 9 times out of 10, as much as she irritates me, she doesn’t add to my workload. It’s just so very frustrating to see her getting away with murder because our boss is either blind to it, or too nice to want to deal with it… sigh… back to the mailing labels… argh…
A guy in a cubicle near me spends hours talking about professional wrestling. Like it’s real. Like these guys getting their belts means something. Like the fixed bad guy-good guy crap is real. Did I mention he does this for hours? When he isn’t doing that, he’s on the phone solving all of his friends’ emotional problems.
Do I care about any of this? And why does he think I do?
He drives me insane.
We have this girl at work. She’s a total “Me Too”-er. She’s 23 years old, and has no opinion of her own about any subject. When she started working with us (a year ago), she didn’t smoke. Most of us are smokers. Now, when we would go out to smoke, we invite our non-smoking co-workers to walk outside with us, if only for the company. After a month, she started smoking. She does not inhale. When asked why she “smokes” if she doesn’t inhale, she shrugs. We pointed out that she can stand there with us without a cigarette. She insists on smoking. When I quit smoking, she did. :rolleyes:
A typical conversation with her:
Me: So, did you see [name of movie]?
Her: Yeah, it was great!
Me: You think so? I didn’t really like it.
Her: Yeah, it was kind of stupid.
Me: Hey, how about [make up a name of a movie that doesn’t exist]?
Her: Oh, it was awesome!
Me: (stifling laughter) I think so, too.
She’ll agree with just about anything that anyone says.
Furthermore:
She can sneak up on you so quietly, you never know she’s there until she’s practically standing on your foot.
She can disappear very well at the exact moment that you need her. And it’s not like you’ll look around and find her. Her car will still be in the lot, but she will have dematerialized. It’s freaky.
If it’s snowing too much (we’re near Chicago), she cannot drive to work because she’s too scared. Her dad drives her.
We work with mentally challenged adults. I would honestly rather put some of our clients in charge of stuff rather than count on her.
Tell me that you wouldn’t want to smack her right upside the head.