Old dude continues to pee on the toilet seats instead of using the goddamn urinals.

5/21/2014 3:09:50 PM

We have a dude who has a major issue of urinary retention. He only pees in the stalls, and never the urinals. It's pretty sad.

5/21/2014 3:13:32 PM

Yeah, I assume it has something to do with that, although from hearing it, he doesn't seem to have too much trouble. And using the toilet just makes it louder and more pronounced, so I don't understand why he won't use the urinal. There's privacy walls on them. And he keeps peeing on the seats!

5/21/2014 3:16:29 PM

territorial markings

5/21/2014 3:26:18 PM

I think you mean...

5/21/2014 4:07:17 PM

boss gives me a solicitation from a company who specializes in technical documentation (backstory: equipment manuals/docs are the bane of our existence, management always looking for some fix for it)

so, for this prospective option I would have to basically do the work twice - once submitting it to company, second when reviewing - because nobody gets that shit on the first try. Then hope they actually correct my mark-ups on the final submission....for every project, because we always make different equipment



I live and breathe the "I'd rather just do it all myself"....because when someone else assists me, I have to either show them how to do it, and then watch them do it, or just assume they can do it and go back afterward to fix.

[Edited on May 22, 2014 at 3:47 PM. Reason : -]

5/22/2014 3:47:20 PM

most of the computers have the older versions of office still on them

so, people say they have already looked at the files i sent them, i ask when i can expect to hear their reply,

so a few days later, they ask me how to open a .docx file

"you should know since you already looked at it a few days ago!!!"

i love catching people in lies

5/22/2014 10:24:02 PM

we are off monday and so a huge number of the staff decided to take a half day this afternoon, so a bunch of teachers are losing our planning periods to cover their classes.

5/23/2014 9:14:17 AM

someone gives me a hand drawn cartoon and tells me to put it in CAD; ok, bullshit, but I do it... 2 years later, I get a permit document based on my sketch of a cartoon with exact coordinates shown. A PERMIT FROM A CARTOON? ARE YOU EFFING KIDDING ME? To top it off, the lat/long are way off

5/23/2014 11:57:13 AM

who the fuck embeds PDFs and Powerpoints into individual excel cells?

Make my life harder and harder to track down information.

5/23/2014 4:31:07 PM

It peeves me to no end to get to a job site and discover that my project items have arrived without everything I need.

Especially when that job site is in Africa. And the goddamn items in question are Swagelok fittings...IN GODDAMN SAE SIZES. I don't know where in the fuck I'm gonna get these bitches.

Our folks really need to come to terms with being a global presence.

5/24/2014 12:23:59 PM

^overnight international fedex.

5/25/2014 4:03:24 AM

That shit is criminally expensive. And you don't get it overnight. Or even in 2 days unless you grease some palms. Customs is often a pain in the ass, especially in third world countries.

I found a workaround though.

Previously in the week, I had have shipped a 120 pound crate. It took two days to clear customs after it got to Harare, which is actually quick. That cost 2 grand. But we had to have the machine up and running.

5/25/2014 6:49:20 AM

go to store to buy beer. cash register guy is student.

5/25/2014 11:33:13 PM

Drunk people

5/25/2014 11:44:50 PM

at work on Memorial Day


also, getting copied on correspondence from a PM (on-site doing start-up/debug) and controls specialist (at the office) - which is essentially a slathering of 1-lined emails ..... why you no talk on the phone?

5/26/2014 10:14:31 AM

The fucking supposed DBA's who run our MSSQL Cluster don't know what the difference between SQL Authentication and Windows Authentication and they won't give ME sysadmin privileges on an instance.

Incompetent assholes.

5/27/2014 4:02:04 PM

lazy fucking electrical engineer doesn't want to do any of his own damn work. AIN'T NOBODY GOT TIME FO DAT.

5/28/2014 4:50:47 PM

Jut because I don't want to have even a conversation with you some days, doesn't mean something is wrong or I am mad at you. God I hate that. Grow some testicles and stop being so paranoid about what other people think of you.

5/29/2014 7:50:44 PM

wife asks what i want for lunch instead of automatically knowing and having it ready

5/29/2014 10:13:05 PM

The guy in my department just told my supervisor that I slack off everyday, while I was typing in an order that was important. The other week he stood at the water cooler next to the belt and did nothing for 15 minutes until the other guy returned from break because he felt it wasn't his duty to unload the belt. I hate all of the people around me who duck working like this.

5/30/2014 3:21:07 PM

internship season = workplace annoyance

5/30/2014 6:36:47 PM

^^you surf myspace while working at UPS? yeah you are a workplace annoyance.

5/30/2014 11:27:17 PM

Quote :

"internship season = workplace annoyance"

Yup. Got one coming in on Monday.

5/30/2014 11:44:09 PM

Fucking morons in the "build engineers" department fucked up our release last night, again, so people had to stay until 9pm, because the fucking idiots can't copy and paste shit into the right place on a web-form. Seriously, how hard is it to put "x.y.z.a" into the "deployment location" field (which always is a version number) instead of "CR905430", where "CR" stands for "change request." These fools make 50k a year and can't copy and paste. if it weren't for gov't regulations, they would have been automated out of a job ten years ago

[Edited on May 31, 2014 at 4:41 PM. Reason : ]

5/31/2014 4:40:25 PM

changes in my dept:

boss: hey let's add on some useless measures to satisfy the higher-ups
me: ok sure
[months later]
me: so can we stop doing that additional stuff?
boss: OK i will consider it. Let's test it for 2 months
me: we've been doing it for 6 months and everyone knows it's useless
boss: well, we've been doing so well, I don't want to change it just yet
OR
boss: well, we've been doing so poorly, I don't want to throw another variable into the mix
me and everyone else: FUUUUUUUUUUUUU

5/31/2014 5:29:30 PM

I'm part of a volunteer group that's planning a convention in Raleigh for 2015 & 2016. We set a date for 2015 in October and a former project manager on our team has taken it on to leading the committee organizing this. He gets us set with meeting space and transportation while another volunteer begins getting quotes for hotels in the Raleigh area.

Hotel guy comes back a month ago with a list of rates for area hotels, and our #1 pick (Marriot) was in our price range and definitely the best located for this event. He then proceeds to set up a site visit and proceed with getting a contract together.

We get an e-mail from him today that they are all set to sign us for the first weekend in September. When we asked him why he didn't get a rate for the weekend we had planned, he told us the rates were better in September. I could hear our fearless leader facepalm all the way form Michigan.

6/2/2014 1:09:14 PM

Quote :

"^^you surf myspace while working at UPS? yeah you are a workplace annoyance."

No I don't play on the internet at work. That is another guy in my department. He doesn't do it as much anymore now that he has been caught. As for the lazy guy in my department, today he was told by the supervisor to do something and he said "I don't want to." Then a few minutes later the supervisor came over and yelled at him and told him to do what he said. I really wish management would stand up to him and be more demanding and strict. I'm getting sick of him avoiding working by working on whatever is easiest. He hasn't done shit in about 3 years!

[Edited on June 5, 2014 at 12:26 AM. Reason : .]

6/5/2014 12:26:32 AM

Computer crashed today at work because the stupid Pointsec decided to scramble my hard drive for no reason over the weekend. Did I mention that my machine is behind 3 layers of physical security? if someone got that far, you're already fucked, so reading shit off of my developer's machine is the least of your concern.

6/10/2014 12:30:02 AM

Separate leaders and mtext. Why not just use mleaders? Except for the rare occasion, when is a separate leader and mtext better than an mleader????/

6/20/2014 11:21:04 AM

if you guys have any questions about my coworkers cats feel free to ask, because I'm an expert now

6/20/2014 11:22:12 AM

The older generation of folks who refuse to embrace technology. Evernote could solve so many information organizational problems if they would just sit down and learn what they could do with it.

6/20/2014 1:45:51 PM

OneNote > Evernote if your office uses Outlook and Office

6/20/2014 1:49:23 PM

I had to walk all the way to the kitchen to get a cup then back to the drink fridge for beer.

6/20/2014 1:49:32 PM

The coffee at our home office is better than the coffee at the client site. I'm at the client site about 99% of the time.

/FWP

Also the entire company had to go to anti-harassment training because one idiot, who wasn't even on my team, had to go and get himself fired for harassment.

6/22/2014 2:06:59 PM

PM arguing with me about deliveries and schedules that are beyond my scope of responsibility

6/26/2014 9:52:42 AM

client spec'd a piece of equipment from Holland with few domestic suppliers. we advised against it. equipment delivery was delayed for 6 weeks but we finally installed and its not working correctly. client is mad at us for delay and problems and is not releasing our retainer until we resolve the problem.

6/26/2014 9:59:15 AM

How many times do I have to tell you that you should not create objects and blocks with individual properties and that all properties should be by layer. It's not that fucking hard. Your shit makes my drawings looks like ass and I have to edit your shit each time you give it to me so my drawings don't look wonky.

6/26/2014 10:35:02 AM

this dude clears his through literally 2-4 times a minute. should i be concerned for his health?

6/27/2014 8:17:46 AM

Screwed up something with work on Friday. Nothing that would put my job at risk, just an innocent mistake. I'm sure to get a stern "talking-to", but I expected it this morning and it still hasn't happened. Hate waiting around for these things...

6/30/2014 11:34:12 AM

me: don't reference that file into yours.
sub: we aren't referencing that file
me: the information shows up in that referenced file only, so you have to be
sub: we aren't referencing that file
me: look, it's even in your file's list of references, you are referencing it!
sub: ::crickets::
sub: oh, there's an issue with the reference, the name is one thing but the reference path is another, here's a correct version
me: what you just sent still references that file
sub: (sends another file)
me: what you just sent still references that file, you've just hidden it from display

/care I'm tired of this game.

[Edited on July 1, 2014 at 1:12 PM. Reason : .]

7/1/2014 1:04:43 PM

"Hey, let's write thousands of lines of identical code in multiple applications that always have to change together, all so that we don't put one extra field into a message, just so we can keep blindly following the pattern that we already admit doesn't fucking fit this scenario!"

7/2/2014 12:09:31 AM

me: I'm having a technical issue
boss: OK, ignore it this time and let me know if it happens again.
...

me: That technical issue happened again.
boss: OK, ignore it this time and let me know if it happens again.

ad infinitum

7/2/2014 3:09:41 PM

the amount of facebook stalking is ridiculous. glad it's not actually my workplace anymore.

7/2/2014 3:13:07 PM

I've never realized the depth of the problem of ghost writing recommendation letters until I recently considered it for myself because my current boss travels a lot and his directing/leadership role keeps him pretty busy. Plus, after being with him for almost 7 years, I know he likes to outsource things to other people ( secretary/ staff scientists) because it's one other thing he doesn't have to do. So I asked his secretary if she could send me past letters he has "written" for people to get some ideas. People ask him all the time for a letter because his would carry a lot of weight to wherever/whatever you're applying for.

I am genuinely surprised that some of the letters were for people who he has very little interaction with and wouldn't even know if they truly are that good. There are some people who actually deserved that letter and I know are very intelligent, but you have to be careful, of this is the way the system works...you are letting incompetent/lazy people slip through the cracks. And I have seen this happen many times. They have tapped into their inner psychopath and is able to manipulate and also kiss ass.

http://online.wsj.com/articles/what-corporate-climbers-can-teach-us-1404862389?mod=e2fb

7/12/2014 10:51:57 AM

Conference calls scheduled for every Tuesday at 5 pm at my new job...that sounds fun.

(And that's after having a conference call with those exact same people every Monday morning)

[Edited on July 14, 2014 at 10:47 AM. Reason : s]

7/14/2014 10:46:18 AM

Everyone but you is using full-size drawings. Why? And here I thought I was ready to wrap up this submittal.

7/16/2014 4:28:19 PM

ugh, I hate full size drawings

7/16/2014 5:47:45 PM

One of my coworkers is slurping his oatmeal. How do you even do that?

7/17/2014 8:58:54 AM

you can make it very runny by adding lots of water or milk

7/17/2014 9:11:21 AM