coworker pet peeves
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- kerus0
our company dog farts a lot.
- MobyGrape0
I hate everyone, all of you and myself
- KME0
...people who want us all to know how cultured they are by having cell phones that play something like "Fur Elise" when a call comes in. I've also noticed that these people often wind up in meetings all day long and leave said phones at some desk entirely out of ear shot, as presumedly the other people in the meetings don't want to hear that shit either....
- mikeyf0
Can you make it look like:-
2advanced and praystation and world domination design and can you do a flash version a director3d version and an html version that works in every fucking browser including AOL and my TV web box.No. I can't. fuck off.
- mitsu0
i have an annoying coworker who insists on clipping his fingernails here at work. teh problem is that he clearly has too much protein in his diet which results in industrial strength fingernails that when clipped sound like a game of pencil wars being broadcast on a loud speaker. grrrrr n' arrrr!
- ridg00260
We have hardwood floors in our office -- this one guy comes back from every lunch every day on some sort of sugar high and proceeds to stomp his feet uncontrollably to whatever shit music he's listening to. Its like listening to a retarded production of STOMP every day at 12:30, and this continues then for the rest of the day. Pretty sure he also struggles for several minutes to open ANY bag of chips, and has never met a desk drawer that he didn't slam shut.
- twokids0
I used to sit near this guy who played the exact same U2 cd every morning...without headphones. We had a problem for awhile until I made him stop....
I recently sat near this older developer who who have this really smelly soup at exactly 11:30 almost every days and would 'slurp' each spoonful very loudly. Unbelievably loud. Whenever he had lunch, I had to leave. It was intolerable. Then at 3 he would have a snack - something that he crunched, again, loud as hell. Nice guy, but geez.
I also sat near this guy who would coughed loudly, uncontrollably all day. Unbelievable. I finally went over to him and said 'need a coughdrop? because I cannot work with your coughing.' He apologized and muted it somewhat. When I got back to my desk about 5 people were IM'ing me thanks.
- ********0
I have a guy who works under me who literally comes up to me every hour and asks what I am working on. Being the nice fucking guy I am, I resist the urge to say, "THE SAME THING I WAS WORKING ON AN HOUR AGO, FUCKER."
He also plays Death Cab For Cutie, Incubus, Sublime and Wiz Khalifa on repeat every single fucking god damned day. I hate having to wear headphones.
- mg330
there's a guy at my office who sites in a cube in a very highly-trafficked area, and often he's got so many plates of food scattered around. There was a hunk of Thanksgiving turkey leftovers sitting on a paper plate yesterday for at least 4 hours as the gravy congealed into hardened shell around it. So sick.
- NegativeSpace0
There are so many I can relate to from my past job. The guy stomping his feet reminds me of a girl who used to wear heels and tap her feet to music all the time. Occasionally she had to do cold calling campaigns for clients, and she would put the phone on speaker, dial the number, wait for the ringing, and only pick up the phone once someone answered. Do that on repeat, while she taps her long as nails on the desk, with the same bloody script "Hiiiiii, this is so and so calling on behalf of ShitCorp, I am calling to offer you...", for about 5 hours while you are trying to debug and tweak web code.... UGHHHH
Where I am now I have fairly few annoyances. It's hard to believe because I am easily bothered. People seem to keep to themselves for the most part and listen to music on headphones (no one wants to hear your shitty music outloud).
Only annoying thing is there is a lot of meetings that take time away from doing actual work. And when its a big meeting, we meet to discuss what we are going to present, and then meet again to prep for the meeting, and when said meeting gets pushed out by a day, PM's try to raise the expectations to utilize the additional day we had to prep for the meeting by of course, booking a second meeting prep meeting. UGH.
- Ultimately I am just thrilled that we don't have an office dog.NegativeSpace
- doesnotexist0
i hate it when people do their job here. soooo annoying.
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i have no complaints :/
- mg330
I used to work with someone who took horrible attorney head shot photos. She was adamant that she always needed natural lighting for the photos, which ended up looking like old shoe leather in black and white. I had to clean them up in PS every single time. If using studio lighting was good enough for like every other photographer who took head shots, it astounded me that she felt natural light was the best. What a pain: always had to take photos in a certain office at a certain time of day to get "the right light" and have someone hold up a damn white poster board behind the attorney's head.
- nadanada0
"can you move that over like, a quarter of an inch? maybe like a touch more?"
no, it'll fuck up my pristine and well-designed grid. that's what those lines are. they aren't going to show up when we go to print, no.
"the client sent you a jpeg of their logo. can we just use that one? why is it taking so long for you to just put that on the page?"
it's a 72 dpi RGB super-tiny logo. no, that doesn't work. no, i can't just throw it into a layout as-is. it would look awful. unspeakably awful. look, can i just have the log-in for their assets site? no? well, then i'll have to hunt for it online in .eps. that'll take me a while.
...i am so glad i work for myself now.
- monospaced0
Chewing ice. All...day...long.
*crunch crunch
*shake cup
*crunch crunchRepeat.
- bulletfactory0
I generally like my coworkers. Everyone has their moments, including myself, I'm sure.
But a coworker and I created Whiskey Wednesdays, so all is right with the world..... err, it will be at 6pm.
- +1 .... I think I might steal this idea.ridg0026
- We have Whiskey Wednesdays too! Fuck yah.********
- Whiskey Workdays, you say?melq
- well... whiskey after work.bulletfactory
- ridg00260
these make me feel better. moar!!
- CALLES0
producers to pretend to befriend you just so they can come in and ask for last minute things over his fellow producers. i love telling them no
- benfal990
Iam good with Photo Shop
- Amicus0
Anyone, anywhere that would snuffle humungous amounts of snot back into the lungs at about 100db.
Ever heard of a smegging tissue, it'll do wonders for your health.
- DRIFTMONKEY0
You know, just because we are getting coffee at the same time on Monday morning doesn't give you an obligation to commence in meaningless banter regarding what I did on my weekend. If I like you well enough, and I actually engaged in an interesting activity over the past two days, I would likely come forth with the information regarding such activities without being accosted by your shallow attempt to pry it from me because you are too uncomfortable to be in the room with someone for more than 10 seconds in silence.
- wow, you sound like a really fun, nice guymonospaced
- That's what they tell me. =)DRIFTMONKEY
- did it ever occur to you that this person is trying to be nice?monospaced
- Go on. LOL.DRIFTMONKEY
- if any coworkers are reading this, i think driftmonkey just needs a hug on monday morningssine
- I ask people that. But restrict the convo to the amount of time both of us are there anywayProjectile
- lol, mono getting mad at the internets again.********