[Edited on December 2, 2014 at 9:53 PM. Reason : sportstalk]

12/2/2014 9:51:14 PM

I would like to start by asking richtofen to elaborate

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"empties the trash cans at odd times"

what is considered an odd time to empty a trashcan? ps I totally get that you miss your old cleaning lady, I know how that feels, especially when you have OCD and realize you are cleaning up after the new person because you cannot handle the way they "clean". That is why when you find that you have an awesome cleaning person, be sure to show your appreciation



and this is an interesting question acraw, I have no idea and I am interested in the possible answers

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"I have a lead on a job. But when asked if I have been terminated, I don't want to lie, I know HR can look that stuff up. To anyone who has been in my position before ( and this is the first time for me), how can I put this in a nice package?"

12/2/2014 10:39:53 PM

The whole fucking Christmas season.

12/3/2014 12:41:04 AM

Office Christmas music that started in early November............and when lazy ass advisors call me to do THEIR job.

[Edited on December 3, 2014 at 12:57 AM. Reason : .]

12/3/2014 12:57:09 AM

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"I listen in on a Department of Homeland Security call every month and there is a guy on there that talks like Ned Flanders He is way too happy sounding to be discussing Cyber Security attacks"

Please tell me his last name isn't VanAlstine...

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"I have a lead on a job. But when asked if I have been terminated, I don't want to lie, I know HR can look that stuff up. To anyone who has been in my position before ( and this is the first time for me), how can I put this in a nice package?"

Well, definitely don't lie about being fired. If you felt your boss truly was micro-managing, it wouldn't be a terrible thing to say that, but frame it as you not fitting in with the management culture, you could have done some things differently, but it's probably the best for all involved because blah blah blah. It's good in an interview for your potential boss to know the kind of leadership styles to which you respond well, and if he's a micro-managing dickhead, then you don't want to work for him anyway. I'd definitely bring up that your previous performance reviews were excellent, it's just this one instance where you didn't fit in, and painfully so (three weeks is obvious). Be honest, but do it in a way that acknowledges that you share some of the blame for it, even if you don't think you do. Hell, it might not even be a bad thing to say that you and your boss didn't get along, because people understand that. If you have a pattern of that, then, sure, it looks bad. Once? Fuck it, maybe her boss really was a dickhead. The main thing is DON'T bad-mouth your last boss. It makes you look really bad.

12/3/2014 1:01:21 AM

^ Jeff Ashcraft

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"NERC is a workplace annoyance for me"

lol, NERC is my entire job

12/3/2014 9:53:19 AM

I believe if Dante rewrote the Inferno for contemporary sins, there would be a level devoted to people who schedule meetings before 9 am.

[Edited on December 4, 2014 at 8:41 AM. Reason : ]

12/4/2014 8:41:04 AM

I had a meeting at 6:45am the other day.

12/4/2014 8:42:31 AM

have to split a drawing set into 2 volumes at the last minute.

all because paper is too damn heavy.

12/4/2014 9:38:09 AM

We just hired a "power point expert" that started this week. Yesterday he asked me how to change the padding in a table cell.



I am not looking forward to the next month...

12/4/2014 11:42:45 AM

wait, their job is power point or you hired someone for a certain functions who is supposed to be good at power point?

12/4/2014 11:45:32 AM

We hired someone for certain functions who is supposed to be good at power point...

Only he is making me wonder how much he exaggerated his power point skills.

12/4/2014 11:49:40 AM

when I go postal, it will look something like this:



[Edited on December 9, 2014 at 7:04 AM. Reason : AND IM SUPER CLOSE]

12/9/2014 7:03:54 AM

Y'all are a bunch of whiny hitches. I have a meeting every fucking day at 7:15 am. Get your sorry asses in gear.

[Edited on December 9, 2014 at 9:34 AM. Reason : lol autocorrect]

12/9/2014 9:18:39 AM

Prepping for this EPA audit next month

12/9/2014 9:58:43 AM

Group Policy

12/9/2014 10:02:48 AM

loud talkers

no concept of an inside voice

people who have to miss work because their spouse is missing work

12/9/2014 2:37:57 PM

People who don't know how to mute themselves on conference calls

I'm Krallum and I approved this message.

12/9/2014 2:38:42 PM

^

12/9/2014 2:57:49 PM

when co workers look over my back at what i am browsing and comment

12/9/2014 3:49:31 PM

boss has been doing this thing where he dials our office extension on speakerphone

office: *phone rings and we pick up* hello?
boss: (still in conversation with others in his office...)
office: hello?....
boss: (conversation)
office: ...
boss: hello? blah blah blah

12/9/2014 5:31:19 PM

http://www.bustle.com/articles/45274-15-workplace-etiquette-rules-everyone-should-follow-according-to-reddit

12/10/2014 12:55:45 PM

^^ i used to hate that shit when i worked in an office setting. my boss did it all the time.

12/10/2014 5:12:10 PM

Fuck yes...momma and screaming baby are out in the next month or two. Another girl also just moved out. I'm going to try and fill these rooms with like-minded attorneys and not dumb bitches who played stupid music all day.

12/11/2014 3:38:49 PM

Asking the client for data dictionaries for the data they're giving us:

"Sorry, we don’t have data dictionaries for the xxxxxx files because we don’t need them."

fuuuuuuuuuu

12/11/2014 5:56:47 PM

got to work this morning and checked my email... inbox filled up with newest "reply all fest"

12/12/2014 7:53:29 AM

^^^ Of her own accord or because she was asked to leave?

12/12/2014 8:23:51 AM

people who schedule mandatory parent meetings after school on a friday

12/12/2014 9:46:50 AM

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"^^^ Of her own accord or because she was asked to leave? "

I imagine it was on her own accord. I never said anything to the landlords and they aren't the type of guys who would kick out a tenant because they have a crying baby. I think she's probably just going to work from home now.

12/12/2014 10:09:32 AM

PTSA provided lunch for teachers today and gave us a spread of lasagna, etc. BUT they didn't label the lasagna and I didn't notice until I got to my room that I had a big ol scoop of the vegetarian lasagna

[Edited on December 12, 2014 at 11:37 AM. Reason : ]

12/12/2014 11:35:36 AM

parent group put baklava bags in our boxes... opened it and there was glitter on the ribbon tying the bag shut. glitter is now all over my damn desk

12/12/2014 2:06:10 PM

Which will get on your hands, then to your face, then your woman will ask why you have been around strippers!

12/12/2014 2:37:59 PM

people who use Thx as an email salutation instead of Thanks

12/12/2014 3:11:48 PM

Smath needs a few beers tonight

12/12/2014 3:36:32 PM

People who send me "High Importance" emails because they need urgent help with a client issue, I respond immediately, and they disappear for the next 4 hours.

If you need urgent help, don't leave your computer for 4 hours.

12/12/2014 3:48:06 PM

^^done. (and yes, i guess those posts might have been more at home in 1st world problems)

12/12/2014 11:45:27 PM

^^^^Do you prefer ty?

12/12/2014 11:48:44 PM

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"People who send me "High Importance" emails because they need urgent help with a client issue, I respond immediately, and they disappear for the next 4 hours. If you need urgent help, don't leave your computer for 4 hours."

Along the same lines, people who submit trouble tickets with a high priority (meaning we have a certain amount of time to resolve it per SLA) and then disappear. Or, groups who receive a high priority ticket, then let it sit in their box until the SLA timer is almost up, then transfer it. Which makes it our fault when it goes over, unless whoever is doing the auditing troubles themselves to open the ticket and look at its path through the system.

12/14/2014 12:56:28 PM

Fieldwork is increasingly looking like it MUST be completed on Monday, we are getting close but it is still a full day's work. Coworker can't meet to leave (the site is about an hour away) until 930. How in the fuck???

12/14/2014 2:52:15 PM

Guy does #1 in the bathroom stall when all 3 urinals are open AND proceeds to not wash his hands

12/18/2014 1:55:19 PM

rolled out some more resumes today. this shit is tiring.

12/18/2014 7:52:50 PM

^word. Anyone work for the state...or city of raleigh?

this whole government jobs.com website is cool, but sucks for real info.

12/18/2014 7:59:58 PM

12-14 hour days

12/18/2014 8:15:15 PM

flurry of urgent emails at 10pm on a Saturday night (we have a crew working a robot swap during a critical shut-down), then a 5am email that requires me to have to go to the damn office.

12/21/2014 8:42:41 AM

Being required to be at work on Christmas Eve while there is literally NOTHING to do.

12/24/2014 6:03:36 PM

Asshole PM emailing me 30 mins before I was planning to leave, asking for (3) sets of field drawings for a project.... an hour later I'm finishing up that task.

12/24/2014 6:47:22 PM

A lot of my work has settled down, and I'm now trying to do some really basic shit at work connecting to a new system to try and get ahead of some upcoming requirements. I seem to have been given incorrect connection information. Absolutely no one on the team responsible for the system I need to connect to has been at work for the past week, and none will be back until January 5th. I sure hope the system doesn't go down.

12/30/2014 12:23:06 AM

ITIL....

nuff said

12/30/2014 6:31:30 PM

What could possibly be frustrating about ITIL?

I'm Krallum and I approved this message.

12/30/2014 6:32:48 PM

Not going to go into that, or our broken rememdy system, lack of any integration, and a process team that thinks increasing the amount of processes counts as productive work.

Or a change management system, with no CIs in it.

12/30/2014 6:39:59 PM