“Hey (co-worker), if (boss) tells you do to something, do you do it?”
“well of course”
“So when his/her boss tells you do to something, should you do it? (Hint: the answer is not ‘No’)”
I would have done that if it had been physically possible, but it was all over email. We’re in multiple locations.
Why the fuck does it take you fuckers three weeks to process my invoice , then tell me that I forgot a friggin semi-colon, or an OK from the janitor, or some other such bullshit, so now it’ll be another three weeks before I get paid.
I’m with you. Some of my coworkers travel in on Mondays and then travel home on Fridays, so while they’re here during the week they don’t really have anything else to do. One of them in particular likes to try to bully people into doing things he wants done when he wants them done, regardless of whether or not it’s perfectly fine to do them the next day or even next week. I have answered many of his "Why not?"s with “Because I have stuff to do that isn’t here.”
(Surprisingly, he doesn’t like it when I do that.)
Flicker bulb update: the damn thing burned out this morning! 
Today was also the day that maintenance replaced the light panels that had completely burned out. Panels like mine that still have a few bulbs burning were left alone. 
They are in the process of transitioning to LED fixtures; I’m guessing they had only ordered enough for the completely dead panels?
Trip over something. And hit your head.
I’m so over people with grant deadlines waiting until the day before it’s due to ask for stuff. Yes I have the raw data. No I don’t have it compiled as there’s a new system coming and damned if I plan to have to put this stuff in two different places. But since the person who’s supposed to implement the new system hasn’t yet (and probably won’t because he’s a lazy fuck who talks great talk and does nada), now I have to compile it all tonight so someone else can use it. And this apparently will need to be done monthly going forward.
Well, fine, I have no problem doing this monthly - as long as the “new” system either doesn’t ever come into play or someone else will enter it there. I’m NOT doing this twice because other people can’t get their shit together.
There are only 2 full time employees in my department. We have a Keurig in the front office. I buy the coffee supplies. We don’t spend a lot of time there, mostly we are behind locked doors in the warehouse, so we don’t always know if there is someone there unless they ring the bell.
I don’t mind if someone from a different department wanders in and helps themselves to a cup of coffee. What I do mind is the jerk who comes in, makes coffee, makes a mess on the counter (slopping coffee around while adding sugar and creamer which also gets liberally sprinkled on the counter), leaves the pod in the machine and doesn’t refill the tank.
Idiots like this are why nobody can have nice things. Now the front office is going to be locked at all times which will only add to our feeling of isolation.
XD
Update for today: the receptionist noticed me walking to my office holding the lamp, and asked about it. She was aware of the flickering fluorescent tube situation, and was appalled that it wasn’t addressed yesterday. In fact, she was so appalled that she took it upon herself to notify maintenance of the burned out tube.
The head of maintenance showed up in my office about an hour later, offering a bulb for the lamp.
That’s just perfect.
Don’t look up the symptoms of concussion on your work computer.
I take it you’ve already tried having the Coffee Fairy leave out a sign asking the (self-invited) “guests” to conform to the general rules of common courtesy?
Has even one of those signs ever worked?
Adults know their supposed to clean up after themselves. If there’s a sleaze who won’t in the office (and there always is), nothing will change them, including catching them in the act and shaming them.
Two people brought doughnuts today.
Unfortunately, they’re also the only people in “client services” who showed up today, which means I’ll be helping do their job instead of mine. I’m the only person who does my job, so it will just pile up as it waits for me. Doughnuts do not make up for this, not even if we eat nine apiece. Which we could. Because you jerks don’t come to work!
Those signs work much better set in Comic Sans with clip art animals in the margins.
Whoa, there’s even a site called *Passive-Aggressive Notes! *Fourth one down is the classic Comic Sans office note… with management’s rebuttal.
Why do parents just seem to give up entirely on disciplining their kids? There are two kids here in the office this morning (yay!) and I don’t mind the playing or the talking, or any of that, but I do mind the running up and down the hallways. And neither parent is stopping them anymore, so every 30 seconds I hear them stampeding down the hallway again.
I don’t want to be the bitch and come out and say “Make them stop running” especially since I am the only childless one here, but god good almighty. I shouldn’t have to. You’re the fucking parent, you are subjecting me to your rugrats, you should be on them, making sure they don’t run!!!
So that’s why the Coffee Fairy’s sign didn’t work! Not enough clip art animals :smack:
I was talking to the receptionist about the reason for the change and she is pretty sure that she knows who the slob is. Every company has at least one, and they are known by the people who have to clean up after them.
Nope. The “wipe up the counter” sign in the restroom is routinely drenched (along with the surrounding counter space), and the Arial “NO USED PAPER PLATES NO USED PAPER CUPS” sign over the recycle bin is almost always ignored. The best sign I ever saw involved a massive wad of gum that had been pitched into that recycle bin. Someone had scooped the gum wad onto a piece of paper and tacked the whole mess to the wall along with a hand-written note reading, “Does this look recyclable to you???” It stayed up there for almost a week before someone crumpled it up and put it in the recycle bin. :smack:
I only use my work computer for looking up part catalogs/manuals and researching potential future employers. 
Look, Miss Trainee Manager:
When in doubt, check or even double check the obvious places first. Especially if you weren’t the one who checked them in the first place. Double especially if the person who checked the first place was a member of Management, and not a Subject Area Specialist, so to speak.
And to Other Person, on separate issue:
You know, your complaint is valid. But space is at a premium right now, and I don’t have the mental energy to worry about whether Other Department is doing their job the right way or the lazy way, even if the lazy way theoretically makes more work for me.
And to Person in Charge of Scheduling:
This whole fake schedule and real schedule thing is dumb-- and annoying, since I can’t in practice get my schedule when I’m supposed to be able to.
At least my real schedule is predictable.
Have you consider investing in a bag of caltrops?
Nah, they’d just play games with them. and then leave them around for unsuspecting adults to step on.
-DF