# 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:** 90
**Author:** ![kushiel](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/bbce88/32.png) [@kushiel](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/kushiel)\ **Post date:** [July 28, 2011, 5:15pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/workplace-griping-anyone/560401/1781 "2011-07-28T17:15:32Z")
All the clients are gone on summer vacation. This normally wouldn’t bother me, but I need to keep track of my time in 15 minute increments. Poor, empty billable hours slots… ---
**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:** [July 28, 2011, 6:13pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/workplace-griping-anyone/560401/1782 "2011-07-28T18:13:26Z")
> [@Shot\_From\_Guns](#): > > Yes, my response was not confusion about the initialism but incredulity at the _request_. I just assumed you were drunk at work and fell off your chair. 😃 ---
**Author:** ![perfectparanoia](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/a5b964/32.png) [@perfectparanoia](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/perfectparanoia)\ **Post date:** [July 28, 2011, 6:18pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/workplace-griping-anyone/560401/1783 "2011-07-28T18:18:58Z")
> [@Zyanthia](#): > > 1. You cannot modify any existing software. > 2. You cannot create any new software to fill in the gaps. > 3. You cannot use any extra CPU time to accomplish the new task. I have a solution for you: manual interface. It’s funny how when we suggest that to clients, suddenly they are willing to compromise. ---
**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:** [July 28, 2011, 7:07pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/workplace-griping-anyone/560401/1784 "2011-07-28T19:07:50Z")
> [@Cat\_Whisperer](#): > > I just assumed you were drunk at work and fell off your chair. Sigh. Sadly, not today. ☹ ---
**Author:** ![Morgyn](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/morgyn/32/3041_2.png) [@Morgyn](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Morgyn)\ **Post date:** [July 28, 2011, 8:36pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/workplace-griping-anyone/560401/1785 "2011-07-28T20:36:26Z")
> [@Shot\_From\_Guns](#): > > Sigh. Sadly, not today. ☹ Happy Birthday! I always take my birthday off. When I’m working. Which I’m not right now, and that irks me no end. Anyway, I hope you have either one hell of an evening planned, or one hell of a weekend. 🙂 ---
**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:** [July 28, 2011, 8:49pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/workplace-griping-anyone/560401/1786 "2011-07-28T20:49:17Z")
Out tonight–there’s an excellent band playing that I’ve been charged to attend by a friend who lives in Oakland, so I’m going to see them with some friends. \*Tomorrow \*I am taking off work. ---
**Author:** ![Bri2k](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/48db29/32.png) [@Bri2k](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Bri2k)\ **Post date:** [July 28, 2011, 9:53pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/workplace-griping-anyone/560401/1787 "2011-07-28T21:53:10Z")
I’ve been holding off posting here…there’s so much I could talk about, from process flows with holes big enough to drive semis through to system “upgrades” that make it even more impossible for me to do my job, but one thing today has finally pushed me over the edge. For the love of all things holy, please **flush the toilet** when you’re done! Four-year olds can flush. Heck, I’ve worked with homeless guys that always flushed. But you, noooo you’re too important to flush or maybe your wife flushes for you at home, I have no idea what the issue is. Over the past year, I’ve kept an informal “batting average”. On a good day, I might hit .330 which means that _two-thirds_ of the time when I go to use the can, I get greeted by someone’s leftovers. Ewwww. Not my idea of “employee satisfaction” or “teamwork”. Thanks. I can only hope there’s a little something extra in your check this week. Like a wage garnishment or a pink slip. Bri2k ---
**Author:** ![WolfpackJeep](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/wolfpackjeep/32/2921_2.png) [@WolfpackJeep](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/WolfpackJeep)\ **Post date:** [July 28, 2011, 11:09pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/workplace-griping-anyone/560401/1788 "2011-07-28T23:09:44Z")
> [@purplehorseshoe](#): > > _sparkle_ Gah!!! A new rant: **Get out of the doorway, motherfucker!!!** Two people have to share this office; one of them would like to get some work done. ---
**Author:** ![Sierra\_Indigo](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/f0a364/32.png) [@Sierra\_Indigo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sierra_Indigo)\ **Post date:** [July 28, 2011, 11:10pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/workplace-griping-anyone/560401/1789 "2011-07-28T23:10:56Z")
> [@Bri2k](#): > > Thanks. I can only hope there’s a little something extra in your check this week. Like a wage garnishment or a pink slip. > > Bri2k Or a turd. Also, welcome! Grab a beer, take a load off, share with us your process holes and pointy-headed-bossitude. ---
**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:** [July 28, 2011, 11:51pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/workplace-griping-anyone/560401/1790 "2011-07-28T23:51:45Z")
**Bri2k** , I can understand the very occasional leftover from someone forgetting to flush, but all the time? That’s got to be someone doing it on purpose. Jerk. ---
**Author:** ![Alice\_The\_Goon](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/ed8c4c/32.png) [@Alice\_The\_Goon](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Alice_The_Goon)\ **Post date:** [July 29, 2011, 1:15am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/workplace-griping-anyone/560401/1791 "2011-07-29T01:15:26Z")
I didn’t know whether to put this in the mini-rants thread or here, but then I decided to put it here, because it happened at work, and because of stupid “rules”, I couldn’t kick this guy in the balls as hard as I could. A coworker and I were chatting with this dude about people that get DUIs and stuff, and he shares about his cousin, who was charged with being a child molester. Then the guy laments how people that get multiple DUIs will get a slap on the wrist, but someone like his cousin, who was just having fun with his daughter, gets a lot of prison time and it ruins his life. What the fuck?? ---
**Author:** ![Rebo](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/rebo/32/13005_2.png) [@Rebo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Rebo)\ **Post date:** [July 29, 2011, 2:09am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/workplace-griping-anyone/560401/1792 "2011-07-29T02:09:11Z")
> [@Alice\_The\_Goon](#): > > I didn’t know whether to put this in the mini-rants thread or here, but then I decided to put it here, because it happened at work, and because of stupid “rules”, I couldn’t kick this guy in the balls as hard as I could. > > A coworker and I were chatting with this dude about people that get DUIs and stuff, and he shares about his cousin, who was charged with being a child molester. Then the guy laments how people that get multiple DUIs will get a slap on the wrist, but someone like his cousin, who was just having fun with his daughter, gets a lot of prison time and it ruins his life. > What the fuck?? 😕:eek:😕 :(:(☹ ---
**Author:** ![Sierra\_Indigo](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/f0a364/32.png) [@Sierra\_Indigo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sierra_Indigo)\ **Post date:** [July 29, 2011, 2:38am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/workplace-griping-anyone/560401/1793 "2011-07-29T02:38:28Z")
> [@Alice\_The\_Goon](#): > > but someone like his cousin, who was just having fun with his daughter [What is this I don’t even](http://s3.amazonaws.com/kym-assets/entries/icons/original/000/005/545/OpoQQ.jpg?1302279173) ---
**Author:** ![Nava](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/n/da6949/32.png) [@Nava](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Nava)\ **Post date:** [July 29, 2011, 4:08am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/workplace-griping-anyone/560401/1794 "2011-07-29T04:08:13Z")
> [@perfectparanoia](#): > > I have a solution for you: manual interface. It’s funny how when we suggest that to clients, suddenly they are willing to compromise. I use digital dataloads a lot, as well. ---
**Author:** ![BaneSidhe](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/c5a1d2/32.png) [@BaneSidhe](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/BaneSidhe)\ **Post date:** [July 29, 2011, 4:46am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/workplace-griping-anyone/560401/1795 "2011-07-29T04:46:49Z")
I work with a woman who I swear to Og has the IQ of a drunk hamster, but is smart enough to play the “oh, I’m such a frail and fragile thing, I’m not smart enough to do ANYTHING but if you tell me how…” card when she either wants something done or to get out of work. Today I hit my limit with her BS and hit it hard. To sum up a very long, long rant, she thought since I apparently “don’t do anything” that she could dump a bunch of work on me that was her responsibility and got upset when I told her that I was up to my eyeballs in my own work and that short of the office being on fire, there was no way on this Earth I was going to help her do anything. Our boss would have to tell me to do it first, and that was that. This woman drives everyone insane. She constantly says she’s so dumb, and if you try to explain even the most uncomplicated thing to her, she will look at you with this bovine expression and say, “But…I don’t understand…” Oh yeah, her older sister is the company’s HR director, so now I’ve really got to worry that I don’t upset Miss Idiot too much as someday I might need HR and don’t really want to piss her sister off. ---
**Author:** ![flatlined](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/eb9ed0/32.png) [@flatlined](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/flatlined)\ **Post date:** [July 29, 2011, 4:59am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/workplace-griping-anyone/560401/1796 "2011-07-29T04:59:49Z")
> [@Bosstone](#): > > :smack: > > You did it! You went and tempted fate! **flatlined** is screwed now. _shakes fist at_ **Shot From Guns**! You did it!!! I hope you step on gum tomorrow, you terrible, evil person!!! Warm body is just that, a warm body. A warm body who likes to spend the hour he’s covering for my lunch chatting with SG and checking the sport scores online. While I didn’t think that WB would really do anything useful, now there are _ **2** _ (where are the big font and colors) people wasting taxpayer’s money while I’m at lunch. FLIPPING TICKS ME OFF AS A WORKER AND A TAXPAYER!!! Oh dear, was I shouting? Says it in a different way…if I ever get a tree chipper in my hands, I will have to spend a lot of money on cleaning products. AND, the Music of the Alley is gone. ☹ ---
**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:** [July 29, 2011, 6:06am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/workplace-griping-anyone/560401/1797 "2011-07-29T06:06:58Z")
OK, now I know what to get **flatlined** for Xmas this year. ---
**Author:** ![Nava](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/n/da6949/32.png) [@Nava](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Nava)\ **Post date:** [July 29, 2011, 7:03am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/workplace-griping-anyone/560401/1798 "2011-07-29T07:03:59Z")
> [@flatlined](#): > > While I didn’t think that WB would really do anything useful, now there are _ **2** _ (where are the big font and colors) people wasting taxpayer’s money while I’m at lunch. Edited to make it look more or less like **flatlined** wanted. Those hide under “Advanced”. **Lynn** , got a paypal or similar so I can pitch in for **flatlined** ’s present? ---
**Author:** ![Nava](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/n/da6949/32.png) [@Nava](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Nava)\ **Post date:** [July 29, 2011, 12:46pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/workplace-griping-anyone/560401/1799 "2011-07-29T12:46:28Z")
So I got a call from an agent yesterday; I’ve just started a new project, but since the actual jobs are still being defined and seem to be going in a different direction than I’d like and was told, I’m open to hearing other options. I asked him to drop me an email. Big pharma company yadda. I write back asking whether it’s my Swiss client. That Swiss client whose name makes my fingers twitch, longing for a flamethrower; that Swiss client whose business practices made me feel sick and whose Big Blue Database system is the biggest fuckup I’ve ever seen since I work with the Big Blue Database. Dude calls me again today, says it’s not that company, we talk, set rate, he’s going to put me forward. At the end he mentions the name of the client. I think “wtf? Isn’t that a wholly-owned subsidiary of my Swiss client?” I check. Yes, it is. Sent him an email back withdrawing from the process. Dude, if someone asks “is it this company I already worked for?” that does not necessarily mean they’d love to go back there. In fact, ten times the rate we talked about, plus college funds for both Nephews, would not be enough. Fuck lying agents. ---
**Author:** ![Bri2k](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/48db29/32.png) [@Bri2k](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Bri2k)\ **Post date:** [July 29, 2011, 4:20pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/workplace-griping-anyone/560401/1800 "2011-07-29T16:20:48Z")
> [@Cat\_Whisperer](#): > > **Bri2k** , I can understand the very occasional leftover from someone forgetting to flush, but all the time? That’s got to be someone doing it on purpose. Jerk. It’s actually more than one person. I’m an auditor by profession so I’m paid to notice details. How anyone could use a public toilet and walk away without flushing is beyond me. Especially when there’s some one else in the same restroom. This, along with the fact I get sick everytime I eat at the work cafeteria may be signs I need to polish up my resume or think about a career delivering pizzas. Bri2k [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/workplace-griping-anyone/560401.md?page=89) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/workplace-griping-anyone/560401.md?page=91)