# Workplace griping, anyone? **URL:** \ **Category:** The BBQ Pit\ **Created:** [November 12, 2010, 6:39am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/workplace-griping-anyone/560401 "2010-11-12T06:39:59Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 48
**Author:** ![purplehorseshoe](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/purplehorseshoe/32/2996_2.png) [@purplehorseshoe](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/purplehorseshoe)\ **Post date:** [March 24, 2011, 6:35pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/workplace-griping-anyone/560401/941 "2011-03-24T18:35:13Z")
I gave up making that joke, myself. ---
**Author:** ![The\_Devil\_s\_Grandmother](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/74df32/32.png) [@The\_Devil\_s\_Grandmother](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/The_Devil_s_Grandmother)\ **Post date:** [March 24, 2011, 6:39pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/workplace-griping-anyone/560401/942 "2011-03-24T18:39:32Z")
> [@kaylasdad99](#): > > So have one. > > I gave up self-denial, myself. šŸ˜ƒ I will, on Sunday. Iā€™m just having a crappy week, and most of my comfort foods involve meat (cheeseburgers, or potstickers for example). ---
**Author:** ![Shot\_From\_Guns](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/ccd318/32.png) [@Shot\_From\_Guns](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Shot_From_Guns)\ **Post date:** [March 24, 2011, 7:09pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/workplace-griping-anyone/560401/943 "2011-03-24T19:09:02Z")
How about a veggie cheeseburger? ---
**Author:** ![purplehorseshoe](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/purplehorseshoe/32/2996_2.png) [@purplehorseshoe](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/purplehorseshoe)\ **Post date:** [March 24, 2011, 8:54pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/workplace-griping-anyone/560401/944 "2011-03-24T20:54:54Z")
Cabbage-and-onion stuffed potsticker? (Wait ā€¦ is this the Pit or the Cafe?) ---
**Author:** ![Bookkeeper](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/bookkeeper/32/281_2.png) [@Bookkeeper](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Bookkeeper)\ **Post date:** [March 25, 2011, 12:25am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/workplace-griping-anyone/560401/945 "2011-03-25T00:25:17Z")
> [@purplehorseshoe](#): > > Cabbage-and-onion stuffed potsticker? > > (Wait .. is this the Pit or the Cafe?) Ha! I just had potstickers for supper! with peanut sauce! Why did the financial people in the Ministerā€™s office decide that they need a bunch of new financial codes NOW to meet the new policy requirements that came into effect 3 months ago with lots of preliminary notice? Not to mention that they need to be implemented before our year-end date next week, and, after 3 months of review of the policy by them, the changes they asked for donā€™t actually, you know, _meet_ the new requirements. Thereā€™s a reason that we tell the group finance people to talk to corporate at the \*beginning \*of the process, instead of springing the whole thing on us as a surprise right at the end! ---
**Author:** ![Cat\_Whisperer](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/cat_whisperer/32/4839_2.png) [@Cat\_Whisperer](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Cat_Whisperer)\ **Post date:** [March 25, 2011, 3:29am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/workplace-griping-anyone/560401/946 "2011-03-25T03:29:53Z")
> [@Shot\_From\_Guns](#): > > \ > Well, an accident would mean that you wouldnā€™t have to deal with him anymoreā€¦\ It wasnā€™t my PHB - it was some other fool who apparently doesnā€™t understand why all the stuff up high in the warehouse is on skids and there is a forklift in there. I actually talked to my safety officer husband about this incident, and he says absolutely, you have to report seeing a co-worker doing something dangerous like that. > [@The\_Devil\_s\_Grandmother](#): > > I think \*\*Cat Whisperer \*\*doesnā€™t want to have to clean up the blood and goo, or fill out the forms, or take the inevitable ā€œhow to prevent the horse from falling out of the barn againā€ training that would result. \ I donā€™t want to do any of those things, plus being traumatized by watching a fool fall to his death (and yeah, death is a real possibility at that height - thereā€™s a 50% chance of death from a 10 feet fall, and he was well over that). ---
**Author:** ![Scuba\_Ben](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/278dde/32.png) [@Scuba\_Ben](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Scuba_Ben)\ **Post date:** [March 25, 2011, 2:06pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/workplace-griping-anyone/560401/947 "2011-03-25T14:06:13Z")
I found out this morning that some of our end users got caught smoking on the job. Why am I bringing that up here? Our customer sites are coal mines. The end users were smoking inside the mine, right where coal is being dug. Coal seams emit methane. Smoking involves a controlled but open-ish flame. Flame plus methane = BOOM! ---
**Author:** ![purplehorseshoe](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/purplehorseshoe/32/2996_2.png) [@purplehorseshoe](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/purplehorseshoe)\ **Post date:** [March 25, 2011, 2:57pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/workplace-griping-anyone/560401/948 "2011-03-25T14:57:11Z")
Yabbut ā€¦ WHAT were they smoking? šŸ™‚ ---
**Author:** ![Scuba\_Ben](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/278dde/32.png) [@Scuba\_Ben](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Scuba_Ben)\ **Post date:** [March 25, 2011, 3:06pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/workplace-griping-anyone/560401/949 "2011-03-25T15:06:08Z")
As the story played out, they were smoking for pink slips. The miners got busted by a government regulatorā€™s raid (MSHA), the mine got shut down, and the miners were sacked. You do NOT fuck around in Hadesā€™s domain ā€“ he WILL try to kill you, and unlike Poseidon it IS personal. ---
**Author:** ![Nava](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/n/da6949/32.png) [@Nava](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Nava)\ **Post date:** [March 25, 2011, 3:09pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/workplace-griping-anyone/560401/950 "2011-03-25T15:09:18Z")
And being the lord of the dead, he gets to do it againā€¦ and againā€¦ and againā€¦ ---
**Author:** ![Lynn\_Bodoni](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/e47c2d/32.png) [@Lynn\_Bodoni](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Lynn_Bodoni)\ **Post date:** [March 25, 2011, 3:11pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/workplace-griping-anyone/560401/951 "2011-03-25T15:11:27Z")
> [@Scuba\_Ben](#): > > I found out this morning that some of our end users got caught smoking on the job. > > Why am I bringing that up here? > > Our customer sites are coal mines. The end users were smoking inside the mine, right where coal is being dug. > > Coal seams emit methane. Smoking involves a controlled but open-ish flame. Flame plus methane = BOOM! Think of it as evolution in actionā€¦ ---
**Author:** ![Scuba\_Ben](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/278dde/32.png) [@Scuba\_Ben](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Scuba_Ben)\ **Post date:** [March 25, 2011, 3:14pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/workplace-griping-anyone/560401/952 "2011-03-25T15:14:35Z")
> [@Lynn\_Bodoni](#): > > Think of it as evolution in actionā€¦ That was in fact my comment when I heard this: ā€œTalk about a Darwin Award attempt!ā€ ---
**Author:** ![The\_Devil\_s\_Grandmother](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/74df32/32.png) [@The\_Devil\_s\_Grandmother](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/The_Devil_s_Grandmother)\ **Post date:** [March 25, 2011, 4:33pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/workplace-griping-anyone/560401/953 "2011-03-25T16:33:40Z")
> [@Shot\_From\_Guns](#): > > How about a veggie cheeseburger? Iā€™ve eaten those things in the past, and IMHO theyā€™re pretty vile. Iā€™d much rather have an honest falafel. I will not even discuss Cabbage as a meat alternative \. I ate a big tuna steak for dinner last night and feel better today. Maybe I just needed some protein. Sorry for the food hijack. Back at the office, I just found out weā€™re going to move to a new building. I hate moving. Maybe Iā€™ll just work from home for a while. ---
**Author:** ![digs](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/digs/32/14889_2.png) [@digs](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/digs)\ **Post date:** [March 25, 2011, 11:06pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/workplace-griping-anyone/560401/954 "2011-03-25T23:06:04Z")
> [@Cat\_Whisperer](#): > > Then we had the guy climbing on top of the 20 foot shelving units todayā€¦ Sorryā€“that was me. But Iā€™m going to keep doing it ā€“ because itā€™s a **blast**! Scramblinā€™ around up above everyone else, jumpinā€™ from shelf to shelfā€¦ tomorrow Iā€™m racinā€™ Scott up to the top. Cā€™mon, were you never a ten year old boy? _See, my dad never built that tree house with me like I wanted to in fifth gradeā€¦_ ---
**Author:** ![kaylasdad99](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/kaylasdad99/32/3398_2.png) [@kaylasdad99](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/kaylasdad99)\ **Post date:** [March 26, 2011, 1:33am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/workplace-griping-anyone/560401/955 "2011-03-26T01:33:38Z")
> [@Lynn\_Bodoni](#): > > Think of it as evolution in actionā€¦ Had they already reproduced, though? ---
**Author:** ![Cat\_Whisperer](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/cat_whisperer/32/4839_2.png) [@Cat\_Whisperer](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Cat_Whisperer)\ **Post date:** [March 26, 2011, 6:23pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/workplace-griping-anyone/560401/956 "2011-03-26T18:23:00Z")
> [@digs](#): > > Sorryā€“that was me. But Iā€™m going to keep doing it ā€“ because itā€™s a **blast**! Scramblinā€™ around up above everyone else, jumpinā€™ from shelf to shelfā€¦ tomorrow Iā€™m racinā€™ Scott up to the top. > > Cā€™mon, were you never a ten year old boy?\ No, actually. šŸ™‚ ---
**Author:** ![Lynn\_Bodoni](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/e47c2d/32.png) [@Lynn\_Bodoni](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Lynn_Bodoni)\ **Post date:** [March 26, 2011, 7:51pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/workplace-griping-anyone/560401/957 "2011-03-26T19:51:51Z")
Iā€™ve never been a 10 year old boy either, but that never stopped me from doing 10 year old boy stuff. ---
**Author:** ![saje](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/saje/32/3631_2.png) [@saje](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/saje)\ **Post date:** [March 26, 2011, 8:46pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/workplace-griping-anyone/560401/958 "2011-03-26T20:46:03Z")
Is it bad that Iā€™m 49andahalf and not male and Iā€™m _still_ doing 10yo boy stuff? ---
**Author:** ![Scuba\_Ben](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/278dde/32.png) [@Scuba\_Ben](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Scuba_Ben)\ **Post date:** [March 28, 2011, 7:09pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/workplace-griping-anyone/560401/959 "2011-03-28T19:09:37Z")
> [@kaylasdad99](#): > > Had they already reproduced, though? I try not to think about it. These people work in coal mines, where rock dust and coal dust get into body crevices and soft tissues _you didnā€™t even know you had_. Ick. ---
**Author:** ![Anaamika](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/5f9b8f/32.png) [@Anaamika](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Anaamika)\ **Post date:** [March 28, 2011, 7:50pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/workplace-griping-anyone/560401/960 "2011-03-28T19:50:50Z")
I am in a veritable minefield of pettiness right now at the office, and 98% of it is coming from one coworker. But here is the pettiest thing: Coworker A - the petty one - doesnā€™t like another coworker. This other coworker - coworker B - is hard to get along with admittedly, but she is rarely in this office and thus we hardly have to deal with her. Still, she is part of the team. I was working on ordering nametags for the office and Coworker A said I shouldnā€™t order any for Coworker B, seeing as she already has one from the other office she works in. Seriously? You are that fucking petty? We have seven people in this office. How do you think itā€™s going to be when everyone else has a similar nametag and she doesnā€™t? Itā€™s a goddamn nametag, get over yourself. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/workplace-griping-anyone/560401.md?page=47) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/workplace-griping-anyone/560401.md?page=49)