I hope you weren’t being sarcastic.
Because, God, I hate looking for a new job. I so desperately want out of this place, but I hate looking for work so much that I can’t get off my ass to look for a different job.
But I need a new job because I’m going to kill somebody if I have to keep working this one.*
*Yes, I’m aware that this post will be evidence in the event that I actually kill somebody, in the unlikely event that I can get off my ass to actually do it.
My main workplace gripe on every job for the past 14 years
“Moody women”
Ah, my long-lost twin. I’ve been looking for you.
Moderately common workplace hazard. The vast majority of people are capable of controlling their emotions, and there are probably as many ‘moody’ men as women. But you occasionally run into women who allow themselves free reign to be assholes for several days each month, such as one of my co-workers. We can pretty much count on her sticking her nose into other people’s tasks and problems for 2-3 days once per month and being a complete raging bitch about stuff that is none of her damned business. We’ve complained about it a few times and the worst of it seems to have been dialed back by our management, but it still happens.
Our manager has been grooming her for bigger and better things. I’ve straight up advised him that he’d better never put her in a leadership position if he wants to retain the rest of the team.
Free REIN.
That is all.
The TV in the breakroom used to be set to CNN News. While it got annoying frequently (how long CAN you talk about one single friggin’ airplane?) at least I could catch a bit of current events on the crawler.
TPTB changed it to ESPN for the World Cup. Fine. However, I’m given to understand that the World Cup match is, yanno, over, and it’s still on ESPN. I can’t believe my workplace is making me long for CNN News! 
Oh, Og, with my luck, they’ll switch it back to news. Fox News. OK, forget I said anything! Stick with tennis and golf! :eek:
ETA: I hate feeling like I have to sweet-talk my computer to do anything. "C’mon, baby, you can open that file. It’s only a couple KB, it’s not that big, you can do it … "
I work in a call center and the power went out in the whole building today. So I learned that NO computers in the place have a UPS for that contingency. :eek: WTF?
Ah, well, some of us were scheduled for some additional training that did not need to use a computer anyway, so we went early. You would think that they would have enough handouts already printed for everyone who would be completing the training that day, right? Nope. They were printing a batch before each class, and they were doing about six classes today. Unbelievable. :rolleyes:
You are not alone. Although me killing someone is unlikely.
And I have hope that they are going to switch me back to my old department, where my boss loved me and where there are enough people that I won’t feel guilty asking for the occasional Saturday or Sunday off.
But I feel very bad for the person who is “replacing” me, since she is almost as badly undertrained as I was six months ago. And CHANGE is coming to the department. And I don’t know the details.
And frankly-- six months ago I was bored and cranky and thinking about looking for something else, when I was offered a new position. So I took it, not realizing what I was getting into.
This week has sucked, and I’m not really sure why,. But today I lost my temper with two co-workers-- the new one who was complaining about things that I’ve kinda gotten used to, and another one who is annoying me by failing to work what he’s scheduled-- half an hour late here, leave early there, take an extra long break/lunch . . . .
But when I talked to my Old Boss, soon to be my Boss Again, I didn’t fuss about any of that. I just said that life in the Old Department couldn’t be worse than life in the New One. And we went our separate ways.
I haven’t come across moody men on the jobs I held for the past 14 years
grrrr
Are we describing men who fly into an incoherent rage over seemingly minor things as “moody”? If that’s the case, I’ve encountered a few moody men in the workplace.
Succinct, but not particularly informative…
Likewise. As well as one who would practically throw tantrums; he would stomp his foot while loudly exclaiming that something wasn’t acceptable, demand you fix it/break the laws of physics/make the other department do likewise, demand phone numbers to call so he could bitch to whoever he thought needed it, and so on.
Sounds like our customer service manager…except he flaps/waves his arms instead of stomping his foot. He also likes to call vendors and yell at them when a problem pops up. One of my interactions with this guy actually drove me to seek career counseling from my university’s alumni association…I had gone through a lengthy engineering review of a defective part, and filled out all the proper paperwork to have the problem corrected, only to have him very loudly override and belittle my decision in front of the customer service cube farm. (He thinks the engineering department takes too long to accomplish anything.)
My annoying coworker is listening to messages on speakerphone, which apparently is turned up as loud as it will go. :rolleyes:
I was getting something out of the fridge this morning, and she rushes up and says “oh let me put this in there real quick” and sticks her hands right in front of me just as I’m reaching in to pick something up. So, you can’t wait a few seconds until I get done? I guess her time is just more important than mine. Next time I might just “accidentally” hit her on the arm if she tries that trick again. Rude bitch.
We had one who was a manager whose production unit was in “crisis” for months*. We had twice daily meetings, at 7am & 2pm, which usually had the former go so long it ran over into the latter. (plus nightly conference calls.) Every meeting we had all the unit supervisors, every technical expert in the company on that product, and all their managers at the table. He sat in the corner, arms crossed, glaring and fuming at the world. Occasionally he’d erupt into actual stomping-his-feet temper tantrums. It was unbelievable.
He later “voluntarily” demoted himself. Still moody and annoying as hell, though.
It’s 11:10. My door is open. How long will it be until my annoying coworker starts doing something noisy?
I predict she will start clipping her nails in about 5 minutes. Loud gum cracking will come later this afternoon.
My worst gripe about the tantrum-thrower was that the first time I saw him do this, he did it in earshot of a representative from a company we were working with. It was so unprofessional I wanted to sink through the floor.
My Annoying Coworker was strangely quiet yesterday. I’m sure she’ll make up for it today. I’m so glad it’s Friday.
My supervisor wants me to put 2" worth of text in a space that’s 1/2" tall. I just love when she makes my job more difficult for no reason. It’s really easy to tell just by looking that it’s not going to work, but she does it anyway. :rolleyes: And it will happen again.
I’m going to be out of the office having surgery on a Friday later in August, returning the following Tuesday.
My boss has scheduled me to help with a system upgrade that weekend.
:smack:
Nope, not happening. I’ll be home recovering from surgery, not logging in and working.