WebEx, Adobe Connect, and probably any other common videoconferencing software, as corporate and related environments where input from multiple participants is expected are a lot more likely to encounter people with phones than people with computer-connected microphones.
These are pre-recorded lectures, not live webinars. Even if you record them via the conferencing software, you can’t call into the recording.
OK, I’m going to complain about free donuts.
Every year we have a basketball tournament pool. It’s small. The winner usually gets around $100. One of the stipulations is that the winner has to buy donuts for the office. That’s 2 dozen donuts.
This year the Big Boss won our basketball tournament pool. He lives near two of the best independent donut shops in the city but he invariably buys the cheapest mass-produced donuts available. His selection was glazed, chocolate covered, and old fashioned. It’s like he tried to be as boring as possible.
I’m the only person here who likes old fashioned donuts, but I don’t want 6 crappy mass produced, tasteless slugs of flour and fat. If I’m going to eat a donut I want it to be worth my while!
In the words of Dennis Miller (back when he was funny) “Two of shit is shit. If they really want to screw you they’ll give you three.”
TL;DR version: I want my free donuts to be good!
I just sat through a rather vivid convo between several co-workers about the relative merits of vaginal birth of twins. In an open floor plan, where most agents are on the phone at any given time.
Looks like I’ll be plugged into my white-noise loop for the rest of the day.
I’m going to complain too…specifically, I’m going to complain about the people who think it’s just fine to slice into a filled donut to inspect the filling, and then leave the whole mess (plastic knife included) in the box. I also have a problem with people who slice a piece off of a donut and leave the rest behind. I could understand that (maybe) if the donuts were old, but I’ve seen this done to fresh donuts.
I’ll use a knife to slice a donut in half and take only half, leaving the other half behind - my reasoning is that I only want half a donut, and perhaps there is someone else in an office full of women who also want only half a donut. I will also take half a donut if someone before me has sliced one in half and left the other half.
I don’t get the problem with doing this - the other options are have no donut (when I do want some donut), or take a whole donut and throw half in the garbage.
ETA: I don’t just mess with a donut and leave it there, though. That’s just barbaric. 
FUCK!!!
I work in an IT Helpdesk. We used to have 5 full time agents. Same old story, budget cuts. We have less agents and the ones we have are also assigned other things.
Then one goes on Leave of Absence (LOA) for a shoulder surgery. Then another goes on LOA for stress (and resigns two weeks later), and our supervisor (who is supposed to help out on calls but actually doesn’t know how to do anything) goes on LOA for some hush-hush medical problem.
Now its me, one other agent who cannot work a full week because allergies give her the sniffles, and one unseasoned temp, who also seems to get the sniffles. So , far too often, it’s just me.
And I am about to fucking SNAP!!! 
Classic e-mail chain today, paraphrased:
That last pair are the best. Fully aware the e-mail is going to people who don’t care about it and don’t want to see it, idiot L still spams everyone and adds individual names for good measure. Then, in a supremely meta move, E spams everyone to tell them they’ve been spammed.
Try this one; maybe people will get the point:
(this after you’ve posted the chain to tumblr.)
[quote=“Cat_Whisperer, post:7667, topic:560401”]
I’ll use a knife to slice a donut in half and take only half, leaving the other half behind - my reasoning is that I only want half a donut, and perhaps there is someone else in an office full of women who also want only half a donut. I will also take half a donut if someone before me has sliced one in half and left the other half.
QUOTE]
We have a woman here who takes a half a donut. Then comes back an hour later and cuts a third off the remainder. Then comes back again and cuts the scrap in half, which leaves what, 1/6th of a donut? Christ in a Donut Shop woman, just eat the fucking donut!
Dammit, now I want a good old fashioned cake doughnut. Or a jelly filled doughnut. But I’m at home with no bakeries anywhere near, sigh…
Life isn’t fair
No, no it ain’t. Now thanks to all this donut talk I have a craving for a couple of glazed ones from Spunky Dunkers - the world’s best donuts in my opinion. 
I lost my shit today at work and cried!!! I am the only one in my group with a manager on site. Everyone else is spread across the state. We had a frustrating scan call in which I voiced my frustration and my manager came barreling through my closed door advising me to basically shut up during future scan calls. I was taken so off-guard that I burst into tears the second she left. But then I had to meet someone at the front desk so I paraded my humiliated self through the entire building. Ugh!!!
I know better than to seem frustrated during scan calls. But I have never seen her so pissed. And I am pissed at myself. But seriously, when trying to cover a shit-ton of brand new material that everyone has questions about, can we not have a reasonable time in which to discuss it? And can the ass-kissers and teacher’s pets get told to shut up, too? Just because I am the only one you can micro-manage, can you try to lay off of me for one effing second??!?!?
Okay. Thank you for this place and this space. I need to go put my makeup back on. And apparently I need to get a grip, too. Damn!!!
Okay, I don’t do that.
I’m sorry to hear that. Here, have a donut - your favourite kind!
Yum!! Thank you!!!
This is what happens at my workplace…someone cuts a 1/10th slice off the donut, or trims a little sliver off the top (always on one of the chocolate or sprinkled ones). The donut continues to be attacked until it’s gone. I have no way of knowing if it’s just one person doing this though. And these are standard-size Krispy Kremes – they’re not excessively large, in my opinion.
It would be completely different if they were just halving the donuts! 
All of these people should be fired. They are obviously too stupid to work anywhere.
This morning I got treated to listening to the snowflake who sits behind me discussing her son’s diarrhea in graphic detail. We also have an open floor plan, and we’re right next to the call center where people are always on the phone. There’s only a half-wall separating us from the call center, I’m sure they could hear her too.
I once worked at a company where one department was a chronic offender in sending emails to “ALL EMPLOYEES” which were irrelevant and distracting to all but a few people – mostly because they were too lazy to look up the emails of the relevant people and send only to them. But we had a boss who got sick of this, and responded:
This pointless email was sent to All Employees, instead of jsut to the relevant department that deals with this. The 32 people in my department wasted about 30 seconds each opening & deleting it. Should I have them charge this time to YOUR regular department cost code of xxx, or do you have a special code for the time spent on this? And then he actually had people in out department charge time against that other department!
We heard later that this led to a big blow=up at the monthly Managers Meeting in front of the big boss, when the manager of that other department complained about our manager making ‘unauthorized’ billing charges to his department. Only to have several other banagers defend our, attacking the other manager for the constant, time-wasting email broadcasts from his staff. The bib boss was not pleased to hear about this, and she made that clear to every manager present. This led to a noticable decrease in the number of broadcast email blasts in the company – one of the few times something useful came out of the monthly Managers Meetings!
My Annoying Coworker just about drove me over the edge today. I treasure the days that I don’t have to do anything with her. It’s so peaceful. But not today. She asked me to print something for her, and led me to believe she needed it by tomorrow afternoon. But then about 3 she finally let me know that she needed it this evening. :mad: I had about a zillion other projects to work on today, and I didn’t really have time to do it, but I did get it done (with some help from other people). It would be so nice if I could just tell her no, but then I’ll get in trouble with my supervisor. She always waits until the last minute to ask me to do things and she doesn’t understand why her little projects aren’t my top priority. Sorry, dude, I have big projects that need to get done.
Two more days, and the week is over. I really enjoy weekends because I don’t have to deal with her!