# 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:** 99
**Author:** ![StarvingButStrong](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/starvingbutstrong/32/335_2.png) [@StarvingButStrong](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/StarvingButStrong)\ **Post date:** [August 21, 2011, 4:33pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/workplace-griping-anyone/560401/1961 "2011-08-21T16:33:31Z")
> [@rockle](#): > > I swear to Og, you just described the man who lives across the street from me, and now I wonder if we are neighbors or something. Dunno – your location says ‘stuck in traffic’ so it’s highly possible. 😃 Thank god I’m NOT one of hs neighbors. Or work directly with him. I only have to endure him at meetings or lunchroom encounters. I made the mistake of loaning him ten bucks the first week I worked here, before anyone had warned me, but at least that was the end of my supporting his way of life. Not that he hasn’t asked me for money/the use of various stuff since, but I just tell him I made it a rule NEVER to lend anything to someone who already owes me, and by the way, do you have the ten bucks I lent you? And he mumbles something and then slinks away, grumbling. HAH! ---
**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:** [August 21, 2011, 11:31pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/workplace-griping-anyone/560401/1962 "2011-08-21T23:31:48Z")
> [@](#): > > What do you say we just go ahead and make ‘loonies’ official? But the cute name AND the colorful bills would make your currency all the rage, and Yanks like me would abandon our suddenly-boring dollars, and start sneaking across the border to stock up on Loonies. And then you’d run out of dollar coins, and then bills, and have to start using back bacon as legal tender and … … and I can’t go on. It’s the collapse of Western society. Into back bacon. ---
**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:** [August 22, 2011, 3:34am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/workplace-griping-anyone/560401/1963 "2011-08-22T03:34:09Z")
> [@](#): > > I just tell him I made it a rule NEVER to lend anything to someone who already owes me, and by the way, do you have the ten bucks I lent you? And he mumbles something and then slinks away, grumbling. HAH! More people should live by that rule. Especially the bit about asking to be repaid. How many times has he tried to touch you up again since you told him that, by the way? Is he just a mooch, or stupid as well? ---
**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:** [August 22, 2011, 3:39am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/workplace-griping-anyone/560401/1964 "2011-08-22T03:39:15Z")
> [@StarvingButStrong](#): > > You know what’s worse than a Congenital Moocher? > > A Congenital Moocher who is constantly – CONSTANTLY – whining about the quality of the stuff he mooches. > > \ > > And, of course, he mooches money. Doesn’t complain about the quality of that at least. :rolleyes: Next time he mooches a quarter off you, make it a Canadian one… ---
**Author:** ![Nava](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/n/da6949/32.png) [@Nava](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Nava)\ **Post date:** [August 22, 2011, 8:48am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/workplace-griping-anyone/560401/1965 "2011-08-22T08:48:58Z")
> [@Flutterby](#): > > Why don’t we name our money something else so they know it’s not real money? I’m sorry to inform you that I’ve seen that same crap pulled when the local currencies involved were pounds, pesetas and euros. I’ve also heard reports of in in lire and francs. The idiot, it just hurts. ---
**Author:** ![StarvingButStrong](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/starvingbutstrong/32/335_2.png) [@StarvingButStrong](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/StarvingButStrong)\ **Post date:** [August 22, 2011, 3:05pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/workplace-griping-anyone/560401/1966 "2011-08-22T15:05:59Z")
> [@Lynn\_Bodoni](#): > > More people should live by that rule. Especially the bit about asking to be repaid. > > How many times has he tried to touch you up again since you told him that, by the way? Is he just a mooch, or stupid as well? Three times. First for the loan of my car. The second was for the use of something that is work supplied, but which I’m responsible for replacing if it gets lost/damaged. The third time was money. But I had to laugh: when I automatically followed up on no with asking for my ten bucks he looked aggrieved and pointed out, ‘Why would I be tryin’ to borrowi lunch money if I had ten bucks?’ He had a point. 🙂 But he still didn’t get any money from me. Hey, he’s at least thirty pounds overweight, skipping a lunch wouldn’t hurt him. Oh, and as to stupid – not in the main sense (he did manage a college degree after all) but in the socially inept and clueless way, definitely. ---
**Author:** ![Muffin](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/muffin/32/4341_2.png) [@Muffin](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Muffin)\ **Post date:** [August 22, 2011, 4:03pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/workplace-griping-anyone/560401/1967 "2011-08-22T16:03:31Z")
> [@kaylasdad99](#): > > Next time he mooches a quarter off you, make it a Canadian one… A US quarter is not worth more than a Canadian quarter. ---
**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:** [August 22, 2011, 4:20pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/workplace-griping-anyone/560401/1968 "2011-08-22T16:20:20Z")
Artificial maple fucking stinks. Take your toxic-smelling instant oatmeal somewhere else already…may I suggest the loading dock, or maybe the designated smoking area? ---
**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:** [August 22, 2011, 4:27pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/workplace-griping-anyone/560401/1969 "2011-08-22T16:27:55Z")
> [@Muffin](#): > > A US quarter is not worth more than a Canadian quarter. But you get such funny expressions from US Americans when they get Canadian money. 😃 ---
**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:** [August 22, 2011, 4:37pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/workplace-griping-anyone/560401/1970 "2011-08-22T16:37:02Z")
Cut your goddamn nails at home, you fucking pig! I’m eating lunch right now! ---
**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:** [August 22, 2011, 4:44pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/workplace-griping-anyone/560401/1971 "2011-08-22T16:44:13Z")
> [@Muffin](#): > > A US quarter is not worth more than a Canadian quarter. But a US vending machine will accept it. The Canadian one? Not so much. ---
**Author:** ![Flutterby](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/6f9a4e/32.png) [@Flutterby](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Flutterby)\ **Post date:** [August 22, 2011, 5:50pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/workplace-griping-anyone/560401/1972 "2011-08-22T17:50:32Z")
> [@Nava](#): > > I’m sorry to inform you that I’ve seen that same crap pulled when the local currencies involved were pounds, pesetas and euros. I’ve also heard reports of in in lire and francs. The idiot, it just hurts. Thank you for ruining my fantasy. 😛 I got into an (minor) argument a couple weeks back with our head office, when our dollar was worth about 1.06 USD. I was saying we overpaid a bill because we paid it in CAD not in USD as the bill said to (a whole other gripe, it’s been happening lots since they took over the processing of invoices). They kept insisting that we underpaid, until I sent them a screenshot of the exact amount translated from CAD to USD. Now they want to know if the difference has been applied to another bill. ---
**Author:** ![Dr.Girlfriend](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/dr.girlfriend/32/193_2.png) [@Dr.Girlfriend](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Dr.Girlfriend)\ **Post date:** [August 23, 2011, 4:50pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/workplace-griping-anyone/560401/1973 "2011-08-23T16:50:57Z")
Seriously, boss and branch manager? Didn’t anyone ever tell you it’s fucking rude to talk when someone else is trying to give a presentation. I know you two have seen all this training stuff before and you’re “experts” and all, but this is new to me so STFU so I can hear already! Why were you even in the meeting room? 2+ hours of listening to you two gossip and blather on about nothing instead of being able to hear the trainer. Even after the trainer tells you to shut it you still carry on. Jesus, if I had done that you’d probably fire me. ---
**Author:** ![Roderick\_Femm](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/roderick_femm/32/14875_2.png) [@Roderick\_Femm](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Roderick_Femm)\ **Post date:** [August 23, 2011, 5:27pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/workplace-griping-anyone/560401/1974 "2011-08-23T17:27:47Z")
> [@Dr.Girlfriend](#): > > Seriously, boss and branch manager? Didn’t anyone ever tell you it’s fucking rude to talk when someone else is trying to give a presentation. I know you two have seen all this training stuff before and you’re “experts” and all, but this is new to me so STFU so I can hear already! Why were you even in the meeting room? 2+ hours of listening to you two gossip and blather on about nothing instead of being able to hear the trainer. Even after the trainer tells you to shut it you still carry on. Jesus, if I had done that you’d probably fire me. My boss’s boss is bad at this too, and I always wonder why he feels that it’s ok for him to indulge in this behavior; it wastes everyone’s time and effort when they can’t focus on the training or presentation or whatever it is. When it happens, I just get up and move closer to the speaker so I can hear. I do it as quietly as possible, but it always makes a slight disturbance, enough to make my point without being confrontational. Roddy ---
**Author:** ![Steophan](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/steophan/32/9595_2.png) [@Steophan](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Steophan)\ **Post date:** [August 24, 2011, 12:59am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/workplace-griping-anyone/560401/1975 "2011-08-24T00:59:39Z")
Dear workmate who won’t shut up about conspiracy theories - I’ve heard them all before, and you are wrong. Yes I do, in fact, know more about it than you. No, the random person you watched on Youtube is not a high ranking CIA agent. Shut the FUCK up. ---
**Author:** ![Nava](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/n/da6949/32.png) [@Nava](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Nava)\ **Post date:** [August 24, 2011, 11:10am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/workplace-griping-anyone/560401/1976 "2011-08-24T11:10:13Z")
> [@Dr.Girlfriend](#): > > 2+ hours of listening to you two gossip and blather on about nothing instead of being able to hear the trainer. Even after the trainer tells you to shut it you still carry on. Jesus, if I had done that you’d probably fire me. I was that trainer once… the students were my old boss (who’d gotten a “lateral promotion”) and the guy who was replacing him. After one hour of the kind of jokes which would be acceptable from a 3yo, I told the factory manager I was willing to train grown-ups, not kindergarten. She reminded them that “refusing to be trained in the new system, or showing inability to be trained in it” was grounds for termination. She’s still one of my favorite bosses. ---
**Author:** ![flatlined](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/eb9ed0/32.png) [@flatlined](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/flatlined)\ **Post date:** [August 25, 2011, 4:28am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/workplace-griping-anyone/560401/1977 "2011-08-25T04:28:54Z")
I was so excited about something happening right at work that I posted it in the wrong folder. To make up for it, I will do a wrong post here. The javalina invaded my back yard. They ripped my garden up and then put snooty piggy snot on my windows as they looked in and freaked my cats out. Now I have no tomatos and cats that are afraid to look out of the windows. ---
**Author:** ![Daerlyn](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/898d66/32.png) [@Daerlyn](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Daerlyn)\ **Post date:** [August 25, 2011, 1:01pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/workplace-griping-anyone/560401/1978 "2011-08-25T13:01:26Z")
The guy I’m training as my backup announced, after our Tuesday afternoon session in which he had to map out the current flow of calls for one of our only-moderately-complex setups, that he hated my job and would not do it for all the tea in China. At last, _someone_ understands why I’m so irritable all the time. ---
**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:** [August 25, 2011, 2:25pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/workplace-griping-anyone/560401/1979 "2011-08-25T14:25:17Z")
- sniff \* - sniff \* Did … did somebody _paint their fucking nails_ in the office suite? - sniff \* Why, I do believe somebody did. I may have to choke a bitch. ---
**Author:** ![Flutterby](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/6f9a4e/32.png) [@Flutterby](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Flutterby)\ **Post date:** [August 25, 2011, 4:01pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/workplace-griping-anyone/560401/1980 "2011-08-25T16:01:43Z")
Someone keeps turning their music up WAY too loud. I work on a floor with very few people, lots of space and really quiet with us all spread out so it’s easy for me to play a radio on low and not bug anyone else (and keep me from climbing the walls from the quiet). Heck, I can’t hear it if I walk more than a few feet from my desk… So why am I hearing a radio from across the office and louder than my own? Grr. No one else has to listen to mine, I don’t want to listen to yours! [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/workplace-griping-anyone/560401.md?page=98) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/workplace-griping-anyone/560401.md?page=100)