It is amazing to me that with all the senseless restrictions and other decisions from IT, we can download any browser we want.
We used to be able to install any browser, though we had to get permission from IT to make it the default. Now, everything except IE10 is blocked. Even the extensions are blocked! I was running Chrome with Ad Blocker and Ghostery…
When we were on the worse-than-useless ‘work programme’ that’s supposed to help people on jobseeker’s allowance get jobs (but doesn’t), their computers’ OS and IE were so out of date that I couldn’t even download job applications to fill them out there. I would have to go home to do that anyway, so why waste the time and effort (and patience and mental health) going to their stupid bloody office to search for the jobs in the first place? Pissed me off.
I’ve been on vacation since Thanksgiving and I go back to work tomorrow. I’m in a new department now where people aren’t normally supposed to contact me directly, we have a general mailbox that gets doled out amongst the team. So in theory I shouldn’t come back to 300+ unread emails like the last time I went on vacation even though someone was supposed to be monitoring my inbox. We’ll see.
Oh gods, there’s more than one of her? :eek: You have my deepest sympathy. Some day maybe they’ll end up working together, and the world will collapse into a black hole of annoyingness.
My Annoying Coworker is a tattler. As a bit of background, I was never the kind of child that called anyone else a tattletale. But she is. It’s like being back in kindergarten again. The real problem is not so much how she acts, because I can handle problem coworkers, but my supervisor (who is NOT her supervisor) will take her side and want to do things her way, and that is just too much. She can say whatever she wants, but when it makes my job more difficult, that’s when it’s a problem. I will be so happy when I leave this job and I never have to work with her again. It will be the happiest day of my life. I’m going to get a very nice bottle of champagne and celebrate, celebrate, celebrate! (We should have a little tipsy smiley with a party hat)
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We had what they called ‘Active Shooter Training’ one time and the presenters were just a little too enthusiastic. It was like they wanted it to happen and dreamed about it every night so they could play hero with their little pistols.
The woman who sits across from me only works in the office about 2 days a month. I wish it was less, because all day she’s YELLING INTO HER PHONE.
Bitch had the gall to complain to someone that she hated working in the office because it was too loud. :smack:
Only when you’re here, bigmouth. :mad:
My part-time workplace has been sold. New owner has to re-do all the employment crap and I have to try to find my passport that I haven’t needed since 2004. The email was just sent this evening with a Thursday deadline. Um. OK. I don’t work there again until Saturday and I’m NOT making a 2-hour round trip just to drop off my proof of employability where I’ve been working for the last 11 years. Y’all already have copies of the same shit. I’ll fax it and leave you the originals when I’m there on Saturday.
Yeah, I don’t know about Active Shooter Training, but it would be nice to have clear maps to the nearest exist in main corridors, an effective company wide communication system other than the fire alarm, rally points NOT the in the path of emergency vehicles or under four levels of concrete, automatic unlocking of secure rooms, general shelter in place instructions … even reminders on how to call out to 911 would be a help.
My last company had a one person HSE department who did a better job.
I had a crappy day. Sometimes I really hate working on computers.
Hope tomorrow’s better. If it helps, I just had a coworker from another department have to come back to work to finish a project because her PC at home may have gotten fried by a power outage. It was already a long day, she went home to finish the project (deadline tonight) over the phone with the 3rd party, and couldn’t finish. Once she got back here (after calling me to make sure she could get into the building since I’m the only one ever here after 8pm), she got back on the phone with the 3rd party and that person’s computer crashed. Was able to recover, but she just left at 12:20am. She started work at 7am.
Whatever you do, don’t let that person anywhere near your computer.
I’ll admit right up front that this isn’t a huge deal, but OMG, stop already with the Pumpkin Spice air freshener in the ladies’ room!!! I don’t like artificial scents anyway, whether in cleaning products, potpourri, or spray cans. I especially don’t like fakey food scents, and when they’re confined to a small space, they’re overpowering and gross! Whatever you’re doing in the stalls can’t possibly smell that disgusting.
I need to go outside and inhale some jet exhaust to clear my nose.
Not really a rant, but if I’m a salesman who put together a 3-page pitch / offer to a company, where I’m trying to sell my software that will automate and ensure quality control over data, I’d do my damnedest to make sure I refer to my potential client correctly throughout the document, and proofread it to verify I don’t accidentally refer to them by their competitor’s name at some point.
Someone at my workplace will occasionally leave the ladies’ room smelling like a cross between rancid fried food and seriously rotten fruit. Also, the only available deodorizers are Gain-scented.
So if you’ve ever wondered what it would be like if someone did #2 in the laundry detergent aisle at the grocery store…
Dear Newly Ex-Co-worker:
Don’t let the door hit ya, etc.
But did ya hafta quit NOW?
(Retail sucks this time of year. Being shorthanded sucks any time of year. The amount of turnover we’ve had lately is annoying. I doubt we’ll replace the person in question until after New Year’s, and I think we’re about to lose another one because they are being a pain in Boss’s neck. I don’t know details, I’m just tired of the string of new names on the schedule and new faces passing through).
Dear Unloved Co-worker:
I do not understand how you can feel so uniquely put-upon for the amount of work you put in today. You seem to think that unreasonable things were asked of you, and you went above and beyond the call of duty, and frankly, I don’t see it.
And when you ask me a question, I never feel like you understand the answer I give the first time. (And I can’t believe you’ve worked here as long as you have and not picked up on my scheduling quirks, although it’s probably not actually fair to judge you for that).
But I reserve the right to judge you for being slow as molasses and way too willing to talk to whomever about nothing and refuse to pass messages to someone for you.
And there’s a reason I showed up to be helpful after you left, and not before. It’s 'cuz I don’t like you.
I’m sure that if we had an active shooter drill, it would look like one of those whomp the gopher games. People’s heads would just keep popping over the tops of cubes to see what was going on because nobody read the damned emails or understood what was going on.
Yesterday morning, I asked my boss for something to do because I’d finished everything he’d given me. He said “Take a break” and that was the last I saw of him. I did get a couple of small tasks from the engineer I’ve been working with, but they didn’t fill more than an hour.
I had about an hour’s work waiting for me when I came in this morning. I went to my boss - almost FOUR HOURS AGO - to ask for some work. Nothing.
When I was in the limbo of waiting for my computer accounts to be set up and all that early-job silliness, I heard a lot of talk about backlogs. I thought I’d be busy. But for the most part, I waste a lot of time, like now. I’ve got one resume out and I’m thinking of sending out a few more. I don’t have to work, being retired, but I want to work because I was bored being around the house all day. Now I’m bored in a cubicle.
This sucketh mightily!
“You’re leaving already?”
Yes, because I can’t friggin hear my clients over your yammering. I was in office for only 90 minutes and heard about Santa picture woes, your dislike of ham, your husband’s dislike of turkey, who all is coming over for Xmas, what you bought for Xmas, the cleaning you need to accomplish between now and then… you haven’t SHUT UP since I sat down. I can’t get anything done.
Christ. Management wants to see our bright, shining faces at least once a week. That’s fine. IF work is accomplished on that day, not catching up with everyone you haven’t seen forever.
That’s my corporate experience also. I’m very well organized and make efficient use of time, so I finish tasks quickly. I’ve tried the tactics of asking the boss for more work, asking coworkers if they need help, finding my own useful tasks to do… all of it just results in a few minutes of work followed by hours of sitting around waiting for the next task. I spent a few years evaluating if I was doing something wrong because coworkers are constantly whinging about having too much work to do while I sit around mostly and work about an hour a day. I’ve pretty much concluded that it’s the difference in efficiency. I don’t waste a lot of time socializing at work, and as I said, I’m very organized so my tasks get done way, way faster than everybody else.
I also had the experience at one place where I did all the work that a slacker coworker wasn’t doing, thinking that I’d shine and get promoted, or at least recognized as a rock star. Nope. Just exploited - no recognition, no raise, no bonus, not even a thank you. So I don’t do that anymore. If a coworker is allergic to work so his assignments back up, that’s on him. (I do help coworkers who get behind through no fault of their own. Just not the deliberate slackers.)
I have another rant to add to this thread. After close to 30 years I thought I’d encountered every flavor of good and bad coworker/boss. But now I’m experiencing a new one. A coworker who is stalling, delaying, doing everything in his power to not do a project and deftly making it look like my team is delaying him. He’s quite good, but I’m getting so sick of it that I’m ready to nail him to the wall. Going to get my boss to handle him, though, just to “play nice” in this stupid corporate world. First, it shouldn’t be his project and I don’t know how it got dumped on him. However, it was so he should get it done. He started out making it sound like my team was the bottleneck so he asked us to get a head start on our part of the work. We did and gave him feedback. He tried to make it sound like my team were the decisionmakers when we’re not. But we humored him and made a decision. Now he’s pushing back on that decision and questioning it. Delay, stall, stall, delay. Leave an email trail that looks like we were the problem. :mad: