^haint nothing wrong with Calibri.

Winter weather is my gripe of the day-

1/6/2014 1:43:04 PM

It looks terrible and at the font size isn't as easy to read

1/6/2014 1:45:45 PM

when the building owner / tenant gets too involved in a project who doesn't know jack shit about architectural or MEP design.

[Edited on January 6, 2014 at 2:02 PM. Reason : .]

1/6/2014 2:01:44 PM

Quote :

"I'm sure that I've mentioned this before, but sending simple text-based info as an attachment (e.g. tomorrow's bell schedule). Just paste the text into the message, you're actually doing more work and adding an extra step between us and the info. Drafting said attachment in Calibri instead of Times New Roman."

x2

1/6/2014 4:06:26 PM

For the last couple of months, anytime there has been a hint that it might get cold/nasty weather, the company has reminded us that we just follow the Wake County schools. So if they have a delay or cancel school, then we will have a delay or close for the day.

Well earlier today Wake County schools issued a 2 hour delay for tomorrow But I just got an email saying the roads will be fine and they're just doing it for the cold temp so they expect us to be there at normal time

1/6/2014 4:23:26 PM

Girl at work is the worst editor. She used a paragraph symbol instead of a simple break. And used the word parenthesis instead of quotations. WTF? Making her edits is double the work due to translating her weird editing marks.

1/13/2014 10:47:53 AM

This guy in the cube next to me is listening to opera. Fucking opera!

Luckily the other guy in my area is out today or I'd be hearing the faint voice of Rush Limbaugh in 30 minutes.

I need a new job.

1/13/2014 11:34:10 AM

yeah it would be frustrating to be teased by rush but not be able to actually hear him.

1/13/2014 11:47:29 AM

on lawd i can only hope you're kidding/trolling

1/13/2014 11:51:04 AM

I listen to rush and hannity every day. sorry i'm not liberal enough for you.

1/13/2014 12:03:54 PM

I really don't understand how anybody could listen to either of them for any extended period of time. And while they're faux ultra-conservatism is annoying, that's not even the reason I say that. It's because they're loud, brash, annoying and extremely arrogant. I can't stand people like that, regardless of whether they're conservative or liberal. Quite simply, they're annoying assholes.

1/13/2014 12:09:02 PM

^and yet people like my father worship his BS

1/13/2014 12:15:33 PM

Working with people in other time zones...emails/calls to work mobile at undesirable times.

1/14/2014 9:18:26 PM

ed schultz is the liberal rush limbaugh, except 1% as popular

1/14/2014 9:21:34 PM

My husband used to get tons of calls after hours from California. Luckily they transferred that guy to Raleigh.

1/14/2014 9:23:39 PM

Quote :

"I used to work in marketing for a small design firm and can attest that it's best to have a policy that's "You can have X,Y & Z in the signature and nothing else" We used to have some designers with pages of crap they had added. Some would see legal text at the bottom of e-mails from clients, like it and copy and paste it onto theirs. Our "green" designers wanted to push every eco friendly thing we did into marketing materials and would have different color fonts all over their e-mail signature promoting shit. And don't get me started on the Acronyms."

This is my signature:

Quote :

"Save our in-boxes! http://emailcharter.org/"

I don't always end up following the charter; in particular I neglect to use EOM, NNTR, and status-category labels.

1/15/2014 8:48:36 AM

Working for a Chinese company with offices in NC, China & Japan, I too have the pleasure of odd-hour calls.

Monday: 9-10pm
Wednesday: 9-10pm (always goes until at least 10:30)
Thursday: 7:30-9am AND 8:30-10pm

I'm lucky enough to have a manager who understands that some days I'll only be in the office 7-8 hours due to this extra time at night, plus it helps motivate me to get all my work done during regular hours so I'm prepared for the calls. Still, it blows having to make sure I'm available at these times.

1/15/2014 8:49:27 AM

Any time we have a call open with Microsoft Premier Support (unfortunately not uncommon) we have the pleasure of asynchronous working hours. They all seem to be in other time zones (primarily central and mountain) and all work until 6 PM. Can get annoying to someone who generally leaves at 5:30 Eastern, especially the ones who are 2 hours behind us.

1/15/2014 9:11:57 AM

Managers who are lazy and just sit and talk to certain associates ALL DAY LONG. Especially when you need something urgent and you call them **no answer** or page them on the walkie **no response** and you walk to their office to find them watching videos, on FB, or texting on their phone.

1/15/2014 3:05:29 PM

sounds like management

1/15/2014 3:19:43 PM

sounds like retail or something

1/15/2014 3:21:42 PM

I'm a big fan of EOM

1/15/2014 4:01:19 PM

MY COWORKER MAKES FUN OF MY DOG A LOT



RUDE

1/15/2014 4:23:25 PM

Coworker didn't bother to read a three sentence email that I sent her. Then calls me into her office to ask me all these questions about the document attached to the email.

Thanks for wasting my time... the answers were in the three sentences that you couldn't be bothered to read.

[Edited on January 15, 2014 at 4:46 PM. Reason : also, ^ ha, ha. Lexi is fat (j/k, not really)]

1/15/2014 4:46:26 PM

I'm administering an EOC today. The teacher of the class had her student teacher label the desks with student names so that I could easily alphabetize the test sheets. If my desks are in vertical rows, why would you distribute the names horizontally?

1/16/2014 8:27:03 AM

^^ I have reached the point where I have no problems telling someone to read the email, or refer to a previous part of an email chain for answers that've already been documented. Does that make me a dick? I don't know...but people don't ask me as many questions anymore

My managers assuming that I instinctively know how to do managerial parts of my job that they were supposed to brief/train me on.

1/16/2014 8:32:44 AM

> adds 20% to the project scope
< how can we shorten the schedule by 3 weeks

1/16/2014 8:33:45 AM

Quote :

"> adds 20% to the project scope < how can we shorten the schedule by 3 weeks"

yeah, fuck that shit.

1/16/2014 8:57:10 AM

the overly religious guy who blares screaming preachers and gospel music. get some fucking headphones.

1/16/2014 4:10:12 PM

I feel like a dick for this, but there's a guy at work who has an extremely wispy voice that sounds like he always has phlegm stuck in his throat and it drives me absolutely insane every time he comes over to the desk beside mine to talk to my co-worker. His voice sounds almost exactly like a fly or mosquito flying right past your ear. He's been working with my co-worker on some stuff the past couple weeks, and I can't take it anymore, so I can't get any work done because I have to get up and walk away every time he comes over.

1/18/2014 4:54:36 PM

Headphones, homey. It's the only way I can deal with my co-worker who has a bad and constant case of snort, snort, sniffle, snorfle, snork, sniffle, snort... all day long. He gets going, headphones go on. Otherwise it drives me up the wall.

1/19/2014 3:02:32 AM

I wonder how my boss will react if I ask for soundproof bathrooms, because this one girl at work has IBS, and I feel her pain (not actually but it sounds terrible), but every freaking morning is just explosive diarrhea

1/21/2014 3:23:27 PM

haha you work next to the bathroom

1/21/2014 3:30:16 PM

it's a small office, we all work next to the bathroom.

1/21/2014 3:31:20 PM

a small office probably cant afford such a sophisticated bathroom

why dont you grow up



[Edited on January 21, 2014 at 3:37 PM. Reason : -]

1/21/2014 3:36:28 PM

[Edited on January 21, 2014 at 3:37 PM. Reason : I don't need your judgement]

1/21/2014 3:37:23 PM

I just LOVE hearing the little trumpet fart sound effect every time you click on something. Who the fuck thinks that this is kosher? I want to throw my headphones on but i have a fuck ton of phone calls coming in


[Edited on January 22, 2014 at 11:20 AM. Reason : .]

1/22/2014 11:19:03 AM

lol someone in your office has a fart sound effect that goes off when they click?

1/22/2014 11:21:44 AM

that's unacceptable. do you people ever directly address these annoyances? if their computer is making fart sounds that's more than just an annoyance... it's unprofessional.

1/22/2014 11:37:12 AM

Its a trumpet/fart mixing noise. some generic computer sound.

1/22/2014 11:52:06 AM

Quote :

"that's unacceptable. do you people ever directly address these annoyances? if their computer is making fart sounds that's more than just an annoyance... it's unprofessional."

1/22/2014 12:26:02 PM

Why can't people make a decision for themselves? You're an adult that's approaching 40, you should be able to pick between A, B or C without having to get opinions from everyone. If a consensus was needed, we would have all gotten together to decide, I asked you to do it because its your project and I didn't want to waste a bunch of time trying to pick webpage background colors, or where we should go to lunch.

1/22/2014 5:56:03 PM

this fucking shithead i used to kinda work for got run off from the company. now he's a salesman for an OEM for some of our major equipment. i hate his fucking guts and try to just avoid him. my boss accepts his lunch invitation and then dumps the shithead off on me.

1/23/2014 8:10:51 AM

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DYu_bGbZiiQ

This is 90% of my day from 9 to 7

1/24/2014 5:29:52 PM

hahaha awesome

1/24/2014 6:22:31 PM

^^Ahaha, thats eerily close to how our concalls seem to proceed as well.

On a different note, I was doing roving training sessions to customers and our sales guy decided to sell them on training for a product that I had no fucking clue about and without telling me until the day we were supposed to set up at site. Pulled some shit together on my laptop on the way over but was nervous as hell. Went to connect their video cord to my laptop and there must have been a short in one of them because all I saw was a bright flash and heard a loud pop and my laptop released the magic smoke. Luckily there were other hands-on training demos from my coworkers because after that my 2-hr presentation/ training turned into a 15 minute regurgitation of the little product knowledge I knew.

1/25/2014 2:15:04 AM

i work every other saturday. Had a 3 day weekend every other week for over 6 years. now i get 3 out of 4 days off every other week

1/25/2014 1:34:49 PM

Can you remove these 9 items from [this] database table so it won't show in Filemaker?

2 months later: Can you add {that} entry back into the table? IT WASN'T THERE TO BEGIN WITH! You deleted it from Filemaker yourself!

TLDR: Filemaker isn't used correctly in our office.

1/27/2014 3:48:39 PM

Your first problem is using Filemaker

1/27/2014 11:02:00 PM

^

1/28/2014 9:21:29 AM