mo' coworker pet-peaves
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- kerus
i work with some people need to turn the SIMPLEST tasks into the biggest, longest winded, most utterly F'ing painful tasks ever.
instead of simply doing this 15 second task themselves.. they have to inflate their sense of self-importance and spend 45 minutes explaining something so i can be like "you just wasted half my morning and all you were saying was to email a god damn jpg to the client???"
if that wasn't painful enough.. its a serious of 50,000 umm-uhhh umm well's.. and backing up to rebegin each sentence a thousand times.. SPIT IT OUT!!!
work with anyone like that?
- exador0
yep...
gotta a sales guy like that..must be in his 50's...
has only a vague idea of what goes on around here...
is not bad as far as a suits go..and can be moderately amusing ....
but damn if he fucks my time up ...
comes by my office at around 15 minutes to 5 a few weeks ago and hands me a ton of docs to go over and have a look at regarding a new client we're pitching...
so i tell him..well...it's 5...so i'll take a better look at them on monday...
nope ...not good enough..
wants me to go over it all by sunday, and send him my new comps by sunday night..so i do...
ruins my weekend..
only to find out on monday that i have 2 weeks to do the comps i just finished...
arrrrgh...
what the hell was the rush for..ruined my freaking weekend for nothing...then i found out he didn't even look at them till tuesday...
t'was then that i had a weird spasm that ended with my ball point pen in his neck..
i swear you honour...it was an accident..
;)
- unknown0
I hate meetings that go on for hours when you have deadlines to meet, especially when everyones just repeating themselves...
- kerus0
typical style sentence:
"well its the umm,,, the um.. you see the graphic placement.. is ummm. umm.. (pause) the graphic placement is a little... well.. the um.. "
SPIT IT OUT
- unknown0
"I dont agree with that pink and my wife suggested purple....."
FUCK OFF
- o0o0
my worst pet peeve is in the bathroom. Thank god we have two... cause every damn day SOMEBODY goes in to one of them and drops the most putrid smelling shit bomb you can imagine. I swear whoever it is is rotting from the inside. You walk in, and there's a couple of seconds where you haven't inhaled yet... then it hits you like a wave... makes your knees weak... Maybe they can't help it, but they could at least turn on the FAN for cying out loud!
- k0na_an0k0
got a sales guy here exactly like that. what makes it worse is that he was a lawyer for 12 years.
talk about a fucking nightmare. every conversation we've had i feel like i'm on the stand defending myself.
a direct quote from him obviously trying to up his self worth by speaking what he thinks is a good thought "i don't know about that 'explosion' thing happening there. looks a little too much like anthrax exploding to me." my response. "and you've seen anthrax explode?"
then he calls a meeting to discuss some options for a huge expo they're going to next week. he literally talks for 2 hours. at the end of the meeting i haven't a clue as to half of the shit he's said but all i say is "so you want an html mailer, a tri-fold leave behind brochure, and a tabletop print piece all designed from this 2 page word document you have here? right?" he says "yep" and i say, in front of the owner of the company, and the v.p. "so you've kept us all in here for 2 hours when i just said all that was needed to say in 5 seconds?!! he sat there not saying a word and i could see a smirk growing on the owners face that as quickly turned to a look of anger.
god that guy is such a fuck.
- unknown0
o0o, at least you have a fan... the smell here can linger for days