The Workplace

[MTK]

My workplace gripe of the day, the woman next to me eats and drinks all day, loudly too. Like a cow. She also does this weird thing where she swishes water around in her mouth like mouthwash, at least that's what it sounds like. I have no idea WTF is going on over there. Someone just please shoot me.

[firstdown]

Originally Posted by Mattyk

My workplace gripe of the day, the woman next to me eats and drinks all day, loudly too. Like a cow. She also does this weird thing where she swishes water around in her mouth like mouthwash, at least that's what it sounds like. I have no idea WTF is going on over there. Someone just please shoot me.

Thats funny. I own my office and when we built the office I put the bathroom and storage room in the back. Figured that would give the most private area for the bathroom. Boy was I wrong. It seems everytime I go back to let one rip everyone in the office needs something from the storage room or to pull a file. I mean they can go all day without needing anything but the minute I walk back there its like they decide to have an office party right outside of the bath room door. I have even moved the fax machine and copier to the front of the office and that did not even help.

[GhettoDogAllStars]

Haha, firstdown owns the office and can't get any privacy to take a doogan. I'm laughing at you right now buddy.

When I used to work in an office my gripe was everything about the actual office itself: crappy florescent lighting, ugly dull colors, shitty artwork, no natural light, no plants, peeling paint, etc. Walking into that place made me sick.

[KLHJ2]

How about the guy who has to say everyones name out loud on the way to his desk.

Hey Ben, Sup Marcia, Kevin, How ya doin Thomas, Is that Harry, Dick, Good to see you Marry, Jane!

[mredskins]

Originally Posted by Angry

How about the guy who has to say everyones name out loud on the way to his desk.

Hey Ben, Sup Marcia, Kevin, How ya doin Thomas, Is that Harry, Dick, Good to see you Marry, Jane!

Oh we have one it is a soccer mom and she rooms the hall all morning screaming good morning to everyone like we are her teenage kids that need waking up.

[CRedskinsRule]

Originally Posted by Angry

How about the guy who has to say everyones name out loud on the way to his desk.

Hey Ben, Sup Marcia, Kevin, How ya doin Thomas, Is that Harry, Dick, Good to see you Marry, Jane!

Oh, man, I might be "that guy". I am always at my desk first, but I always say a Good Morning as everyone comes in.

[KLHJ2]

I gotta new guy in here he is wearing an electric blue shirt with the word "Aero" on the front and his collar is popped. Best of all he looks exactly like JP from "Grandma's Boy".

I cannot stop f***ing laughing at this douchebag right now.

[mredskins]

^ God I love that movie!!!!

[over the mountain]

Originally Posted by mredskins

^ God I love that movie!!!!

lol yeah that movie was a sleeper comedy. saw it one day on comedy central, pretty f'in funny. i remember i saw a trailer for it in the movie theater but i think they pulled it before they it actually got shown so straight to dvd and cable i believe.

shoot, i too am a friendly talk to everyone say hi person.

my work problem is that the other 2 similarily situated attorneys (30 something assocaites) have taken a shit ton of time off this summer. ive been here everyday except for 5 days i took off for abdominal surgery last month.

so i had court 2 days ago and yesterday. yesterday being the biggest moment so far in my career in arguing an appeal to a 3 judges of the md court of special appeals. ive been working hard all week on this as well as all my other cases. i have been into work early, staying late, spent all night wed preparing.

so yesterday comes, i do real real well with the appeal (but we lose anyway). i woke up at 6 that morning, we get back to the office, i check in with the other law firm i work for, do some work for my main law firm, i tell one of the associates (who has taken off more days than she has worked the past 2 months, no exagerration) that i am going to try and sneak out of here. its about 2:30. she has the f'in nerve to give me shit about it. i tell her that ive been holding down the fort while she and the other associate has taking off weeks at a time.

get into work this morning, guess who isnt here? she isnt.
guess who has a 1 pm pretrial? she does
guess how she comes into work? in jeans
guess who has to go to the pretrial? the other assocaite which i actualyl wish wa sme b/c then i could go home afterwards instead of waiting for a client to show up at 4 for our 3 pm meeting.

come to find out, she left a half hour after i did yesterday. she came into work at noon today in regualr clothes.

when i come in late (which happens b/c of my long commute and traffic) like today b/c 495 was jammed and i had to take back roads where traffic signal lights are still out, the boss says "hey look who finally decided to show up". if i dont wear a tie, he says "hey look who must be going to the beach cuz he certainly doesnt look like hes here to work"

she shows up at freakin noon and not a word is said. she shows up in jeans a couple days a week, he will literally bust on me for not wearing a tie while she sits there in jeans. WTF!

i guess since im a decent working, if theres something that needs to get done ill do it type who doesnt complain while she will coplain about anything to teh point the boss walks on eggshells so she wont flip out over being assigned a task and just leave for the day.

not to sound shovenistic but every place i have worked there has been a person who slacks the most yet complains about others the most. everytime that person has been a woman. having her give me crap about leaving a few hours early after i spent literally this entire summer working my ass off with the culmination being that appeal, i deserve some time off. she takes weeks off every month now. i havent taken a day off not related to surgery since april. and that was one freakin day.

god damn im so ****ing pissed now typing this shit out. to work hard and then she has teh audacity to call me out for leaving at 2:30 only to have her leave at 3? then coming in at noon. then not even going to your own pretrial? if i did that i would get cursed out. maybe i need to bitch and moan and complain and when i dont get my way just storm out for the day so someone else has to do my work.

[Monkeydad]

Originally Posted by over the mountain

i guess since im a decent working, if theres something that needs to get done ill do it type who doesnt complain while she will coplain about anything to teh point the boss walks on eggshells so she wont flip out over being assigned a task and just leave for the day.

She needs to be fired. Period. There are plenty of capable people who would gladly take her job right now.

[firstdown]

Originally Posted by over the mountain

lol yeah that movie was a sleeper comedy. saw it one day on comedy central, pretty f'in funny. i remember i saw a trailer for it in the movie theater but i think they pulled it before they it actually got shown so straight to dvd and cable i believe.

shoot, i too am a friendly talk to everyone say hi person.

my work problem is that the other 2 similarily situated attorneys (30 something assocaites) have taken a shit ton of time off this summer. ive been here everyday except for 5 days i took off for abdominal surgery last month.

so i had court 2 days ago and yesterday. yesterday being the biggest moment so far in my career in arguing an appeal to a 3 judges of the md court of special appeals. ive been working hard all week on this as well as all my other cases. i have been into work early, staying late, spent all night wed preparing.

so yesterday comes, i do real real well with the appeal (but we lose anyway). i woke up at 6 that morning, we get back to the office, i check in with the other law firm i work for, do some work for my main law firm, i tell one of the associates (who has taken off more days than she has worked the past 2 months, no exagerration) that i am going to try and sneak out of here. its about 2:30. she has the f'in nerve to give me shit about it. i tell her that ive been holding down the fort while she and the other associate has taking off weeks at a time.

get into work this morning, guess who isnt here? she isnt.
guess who has a 1 pm pretrial? she does
guess how she comes into work? in jeans
guess who has to go to the pretrial? the other assocaite which i actualyl wish wa sme b/c then i could go home afterwards instead of waiting for a client to show up at 4 for our 3 pm meeting.

come to find out, she left a half hour after i did yesterday. she came into work at noon today in regualr clothes.

when i come in late (which happens b/c of my long commute and traffic) like today b/c 495 was jammed and i had to take back roads where traffic signal lights are still out, the boss says "hey look who finally decided to show up". if i dont wear a tie, he says "hey look who must be going to the beach cuz he certainly doesnt look like hes here to work"

she shows up at freakin noon and not a word is said. she shows up in jeans a couple days a week, he will literally bust on me for not wearing a tie while she sits there in jeans. WTF!

i guess since im a decent working, if theres something that needs to get done ill do it type who doesnt complain while she will coplain about anything to teh point the boss walks on eggshells so she wont flip out over being assigned a task and just leave for the day.

not to sound shovenistic but every place i have worked there has been a person who slacks the most yet complains about others the most. everytime that person has been a woman. having her give me crap about leaving a few hours early after i spent literally this entire summer working my ass off with the culmination being that appeal, i deserve some time off. she takes weeks off every month now. i havent taken a day off not related to surgery since april. and that was one freakin day.

god damn im so ****ing pissed now typing this shit out. to work hard and then she has teh audacity to call me out for leaving at 2:30 only to have her leave at 3? then coming in at noon. then not even going to your own pretrial? if i did that i would get cursed out. maybe i need to bitch and moan and complain and when i dont get my way just storm out for the day so someone else has to do my work.

Your hard work is going to get you somewhere and her lack of work will leave her in dead end jobs always working for someone else. I always welcome slackers because they will make you look better and not the person the company will look to when promotion time comes around. I work for myself so that not as true today but I love when other insurance agents are slackers because they drive their customers into our office. You really think your boss would make her a partner or you the hard worker the partner.

Throw all this out the window if she is hot and giving it up to the boss.

[mredskins]

F...losing your best work friend. Buddy of mine moved on last Friday and today was the first day without him here. Really kind of sucks.

He was the only other Redskins fan in the office! Ugh.

[ArtMonkDrillz]

If the woman in the cubical connected to mine doesn't learn to use her indoor voice soon I think I'm really going to lose my mind!!!

A few months ago they moved some people around in our office and in doing so they put this chick in the cube across from me that had previously been empty for 3 years. Luckily she mainly works from home, but when she's in I have to spend half the day listening to her yell into the phone. Sometimes its about work, sometimes its about how much money her mom stole from her dad before she fled to Florida to live with married boyfriend, but it's ALWAYS annoying.

My office is usually very quiet so how this chick doesn't get that she is extremely loud is beyond me. The only good news is that we're moving to a new building in a few weeks and she's in a unit that is going to a different division in a different location so I don't have to hold off flipping out for much longer.

[mredskins]

Originally Posted by ArtMonkDrillz

If the woman in the cubical connected to mine doesn't learn to use her indoor voice soon I think I'm really going to lose my mind!!!

A few months ago they moved some people around in our office and in doing so they put this chick in the cube across from me that had previously been empty for 3 years. Luckily she mainly works from home, but when she's in I have to spend half the day listening to her yell into the phone. Sometimes its about work, sometimes its about how much money her mom stole from her dad before she fled to Florida to live with married boyfriend, but it's ALWAYS annoying.

My office is usually very quiet so how this chick doesn't get that she is extremely loud is beyond me. The only good news is that we're moving to a new building in a few weeks and she's in a unit that is going to a different division in a different location so I don't have to hold off flipping out for much longer.

Same problem here, got this lady that thinks it is fine to talk through cube walls vs. getting up and going to talk to the person.

Last Friday I said to her please get up and go speak to the other person you are distracting us all form our work. No word of lie for the next half hour I got about 15 thank you emails from folks around me.

[ArtMonkDrillz]

Originally Posted by mredskins

Same problem here, got this lady that thinks it is fine to talk through cube walls vs. getting up and going to talk to the person.

Last Friday I said to her please get up and go speak to the other person you are distracting us all form our work. No word of lie for the next half hour I got about 15 thank you emails from folks around me.

She started doing that earlier today but the person she was yelling to had enough sense to walk over and talk face to face.