40° is one of those exaggerations that really confuses the C/F issue. I had to reread a couple of times because 40° is hot even for the heat loving me 
Yeah, sorry, I meant 40°F. Which is possibly an exaggeration, but seriously: I can keep ice cream cold and mostly solid on my desk for an hour. It’s cold at my desk, and I have a south-facing window cube that is in the sun all day long. But I just put on a sweater and deal - I’d rather be cold than hot. Nobody wants to see me in any state of deshabille.
I really wish someone would do something about that cooling unit, though. It’s gone from just being generally loud and awful to sounding like an aircraft carrier giving birth over the loudest bullhorn ever.
I don’t know when, and I don’t know how, but someday, I’m gonna find a chance to use this phrase.
That might be the first time someone has EVER used that phrase in reference to him.
As for the frozen can of soda, I wouldn’t move it to the fridge. I’d move it to the countertop, or possibly just to the trash can. And deny all knowledge of how it escaped the freezer.
Somehow I mis-read this as “one of the building’s A/C cunts*…” - changed the whole meaning for me! :eek:
*You know, the menopausal women who turn the A/C up to hotel freezer levels because THEY’RE hotflashing all the time.
It is entirely possibly that this is why it is freezing cold in my cubicle. The “facility manager” is One Of Those Women, and her office is in my sector.
And seriously: CALL HVAC SERVICE ALREADY. That air conditioner is MOOING. Industrial machinery is NOT SUPPOSED TO MOO.
Although -40° is not
I don’t know if this counts as a workplace or general minirant, but a coworker sent the email, so hey.
It boggles the mind that people send on UL emails with a Snopes link at the bottom that debunks the UL. Do they think, like, because there’s a URL it must be true? Counting on people to not actually follow the link?
I’m half tempted to respond to the email with an offer of $1 for every coworker who can tell me what the Snopes link says, but getting into stupid little pissing matches over non-work issues is always a bad thing.
Speaking of stupid emails from coworkers!
A year or two ago, I helped set up a tracking database for a specific kind of report that we prepare for some of our clients. Currently, my only involvement is to run a report once a month to see who submitted requests last year with due dates two months ahead, and I then send those people reminders to submit this year’s request if they haven’t yet and the timeline is the same.
The email is very short and simple. It has a line that clearly states that ALL replies should go back to the tracking database mailbox, which is where I send the reminders from. You have to literally **try **to only get a reply sent to me. The name of the mailbox is also **IN BOLD **in the email.
Guess what happens every. single. fucking. month? Some retard who can’t fucking read replies to me, personally, alone, and tells me something like “I’m not on this client anymore.” Guess what, dipshit?* NOT MY FUCKING PROBLEM. *I don’t care, and the email *said *I didn’t care, and the email told you who *does *care. So STOP FUCKING SENDING ME THIS SHIT.
I’m going to need to think up a karmic penalty for people like this (also for people who keep spelling my name wrong in emails, when it’s there for them to see one inch below where they’re typing). A year of excessive, uncontrollable flatulence, maybe?
I’m tired of people who expect me to do elementary school math for them. She’s my replacement, I’ve trained her and I did some cheat sheets on how to do things and ok, I expected her to come and ask me things since I didn’t get to show her everything but DAMMIT LADY! We do this every month you look at the list of everything the plant in another country shipped us, from that list you tell me the lbs and dollar value of everything we have NOT received. The total they shipped this month is at the bottom, subtract what we received and TADA!
Or hell, do it the long way. Add up the data from containers not yet received. Either way, you get the same damn answer. And guess what? Excel can do the work for you so you don’t have to worry your pretty head beyond what was received!
She keeps coming to me, I thought she was a helluva lot more flexible. I’ve done 4 jobs in this place and only 1 have I not had to fly by the seat of my pants to get it to work, did because I did it first mean that you can shut off your brain and ask me how to do every little thing? I really don’t care about that job anymore except as how it was experience and when it abuts my job now and this things sure as hell relates to my job now!
And I found one more thing today that I didn’t need to see right now. So I left work. We’ll deal with it on Monday and maybe the last thing will sink in when it’s not end of the day before a long weekend ( wherein some of my frustration comes since I was trying to clear some of Mondays plate today to save me a headache then).
If she can’t get it… Well who knows. I can do it in about two minutes what took me an hour and multiple phone calls to try and explain. Beer o’clock here I come.
Bonus points if they’re doing both in the same email.
(You have my sympathy. My name is one letter off from its usual American spelling - although quite common in other countries - and I get this ALL the time.)
My employer just initiated a new corporate rah-rah campaign, all about how much the company cares about the individual employee. They even sent a little announcement flyer to us via snail mail. I found it highly amusing that feedback on the internal company homepage has been about 90% negative. Nice to know there are a bunch of other non kool-aid drinkers out there.
My coworkers are trying to drive me completely batshit crazy. Every day, there’s some fresh new insanity to make my work life miserable. One CW has taken it upon herself to critique some of my work. She does not outrank me, so I’m not sure why she thinks this is appropriate. Today, she somehow started out as a compliment, but magically around the middle it turned into a backhanded insult. And the things she’s being so critical about are things I do much better than she does. So it doesn’t bother me too much, but if she keeps doing it, it’s going to be an issue. Once is okay, twice is a pattern. If she does it a third time, we’re going to have a problem.
I will save my many other stories about crazy coworkers for another time. There are so many. Like the time my supervisor made me stay late on Friday to finish something, and then it turned out it didn’t need to be finished until Monday. :mad: Grrrrrrr.
I am so glad this is a holiday weekend! Three days without my annoying coworkers! Wheeeeeee!!!
Is that you, Dyck?
Oh, and we get a new corporate rah-rah campaign every year, with Motivational All-New Annual Acronyms. Last year, the MANAA Initiative was introduced by the Top VP, spotlit on the stage, in his Armani suit …with his banjo.
One of my co-workers is named Carissa, which isn’t a terribly common name but not hugely unusual either. 90% of our clients will call her ‘Clarissa’ including in email replies to information she has sent them, with her signature on every single email that leaves her computer. We even had another guy in the office that did it for a while. :smack: It drives me crazy on her behalf.
AUGH, YES. My first name is Megan, which not-infrequently gets me called Meghan. Always *especially *fun when it’s by someone thanking me for pulling their ass out of the fire. (Maybe you could show your gratitude by taking two seconds to copy-paste my name from the address field so you can be sure you’re not fucking it up.) Added bonus: my surname is a fairly rare variation on a much more common name, with the second syllable sort of anagrammatized. It’s so rare for people to get it right the first time that I will often praise them for it.
Not that I’m perfect, but as far as I know I’ve always caught my error just after I’ve sent the email, and I immediately send a follow-up to the person whose name I misspelled with a correction and apology.
Maybe it’s just because my name is so frequently misspelled or mispronounced that I’m extra-sensitive to ensuring I’m always referring to others correctly, but I’d like to think it should be a universal gesture of respect.
Rule of thumb: If you need a big campaign to tell your employees how much you care about them, you do not actually care about your employees.
If I were you, I’d be bringing this up to my manager already. “Hey, Coworker X has been critiquing my work recently. Has there been some change in structure such that she’s overseeing me now? Otherwise, I’m kind of confused about why she feels that’s her responsibility. It’s distracting to get conflicting feedback about my work from someone whom I don’t report to.”
Hell, I’d say she’d be perfectly justified in just saying the bolded part directly to the co-worker.
THEN bring a supervisor into it, if it doesn’t improve.
Try sending those monthly emails from somebody else’s account. Preferably the account of the person who “does care.”