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"Coworker, looking at service history: "You did." "

Ahaha.

4/11/2012 5:00:08 PM

^

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"Posts : 1227 (43.9 per day)"

u dnl?

4/11/2012 7:14:06 PM

No, just joined during our Sweet 16 run. If you took away my Sports Talk posts, I'd only average about 10 per day. Used to be higher, it lowers every day now.

[Edited on April 11, 2012 at 7:17 PM. Reason : And you definitely have a higher ppd than I do... ]

4/11/2012 7:16:59 PM

i have 5,500 unread emails

4/11/2012 8:03:08 PM

I have 10,083

4/11/2012 8:05:07 PM

The person I was going to hire today, that didn't bother to call to tell me she would not be able to attend our meeting. I set this meeting up around her schedule (she's awesome at what she does and I wanted her here) and it was well outside of my "normal" hours (flex time).

4/11/2012 8:05:39 PM

Just now...

The vender supplied cleaning lady telling me about her food stamps.

4/11/2012 8:10:34 PM

Just got back from participating in a focus group on workplace annoyances with a specific focus on teamwork issues. Should be interesting to see the results of their study.

4/11/2012 8:14:49 PM

people asking if I have the "bandwidth" do so something.

4/11/2012 11:10:44 PM

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"people asking if I have the "bandwidth" do so something."

I've noticed this recently. People using 'bandwidth' to mean the resources/time/energy or whatever. But generally speaking I hate the buzzwords that make their way around, just say it in plain English.

4/11/2012 11:12:33 PM

^^^ Did you use this thread for ideas?

4/12/2012 9:03:53 AM

Freshmen girls are so damned catty with each other

4/12/2012 9:05:42 AM

My deskmate. He's always talking to me and interrupting my work. And since we're on the same project he's not getting his stuff done either, which puts me behind even more.

4/12/2012 9:31:49 AM

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"Freshmen girls are so damned catty with each other"

Some women never grow out of it (which is my workplace annoyance).

[Edited on April 12, 2012 at 9:33 AM. Reason : ]

4/12/2012 9:33:41 AM

Ya, I mainly teach freshmen though. My sophomore girls seem to keep to themselves mostly.

4/12/2012 9:45:28 AM

Just found out everyone in my office is taking tomorrow off. Temptation to work from home rising.

4/12/2012 9:51:51 AM

It's a Friday, and it should be nice out. You should work from home.

4/12/2012 9:52:22 AM

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"Just found out everyone in my office is taking tomorrow off. Temptation to work from home rising."

That's the best time to be at work, I'm most productive when certain people are out.

4/12/2012 9:57:10 AM

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"^^^ Did you use this thread for ideas?"

No, but one guy at the focus group did say everyone likes a circle jerk, and the facilitator desperately tried to get him to explain that term to her, and his continued refusal only made her try harder. It was a little surreal in an otherwise very formalized research setting.

4/12/2012 12:13:38 PM

The woman in the cube next to me just murmurs into her phone all day, complaining and whining about something. Just under her breath, enough that I can catch the occasional word but not all of it.

I wish she would just shut the hell up.

4/12/2012 12:50:26 PM

^^ lol nice.

^^^ While true, working remotely on a Friday sounds more fun

4/12/2012 12:57:40 PM

Manager talks really loud to customers, so I can't focus while reading my book

4/12/2012 3:09:54 PM

the giant attention whore who is CONSTANTLY shrieking or making some other noise.

4/12/2012 3:41:51 PM

My peers are a bunch of herpaderps

4/12/2012 4:08:52 PM

Who the hell schedules a teleconference with a client to start at 5:00 on a Friday when the office closes at 5!

4/13/2012 1:07:06 PM

West coast people?

4/13/2012 1:18:18 PM

^

4/13/2012 1:19:58 PM

Nah, client who lives down the street, and doesn't currently have a job, so sits at home all day and could call in freaking whenever.

[Edited on April 13, 2012 at 1:20 PM. Reason : ]

4/13/2012 1:20:37 PM

maybe they have plans today for once?

4/13/2012 1:21:22 PM

It's next Friday. He shouldn't have plans because he's supposed to be wheelchair bound and unable to leave the house. There should be no reasonable excuse. And I literally have a wide open week next week for this kind of stuff.

[Edited on April 13, 2012 at 1:25 PM. Reason : Hence, why it's an annoyance vs. par for the course here.]

4/13/2012 1:22:40 PM

My clients used to try that bs "decline meeting"

4/13/2012 1:41:58 PM

Look people if it's not your water pitcher don't use it...and if you must, hows about you refill the damn thing?

4/16/2012 9:23:35 AM

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"Who the hell schedules a teleconference with a client to start at 5:00 on a Friday when the office closes at 5!"

I hate when that happens. Last Friday I had someone try to schedule a 4:30pm meeting when they know damn well that I'm usually out the door by 3:30pm every day. If it had been any other day of the week I probably would have said screw it and logged overtime to stay for the meeting but I just wasn't in the mood for it last week.

4/16/2012 9:26:58 AM

coworker just came up to me:

Her: So you're gonna be here on Friday right?
Me: You can't drop these bombs on me on a Monday morning!!!!!
Her: Well I'm having a yard sale in 2 weeks and I just don't have time on the weekends to do anything so I need to take the day off.
Me:

4/16/2012 9:38:02 AM

lol wtf how hard can it be to throw a bunch of junk on your front yard and sell it to people? I know whenever I've done a yard sale I didn't take a day off of work as a result.

4/16/2012 9:43:05 AM

Well apparently it takes two weeks to prepare and at least one of those days during those two weeks will require an entire day off work.

[Edited on April 16, 2012 at 10:29 AM. Reason : -]

4/16/2012 10:28:48 AM

She could at least take a Monday off and not Friday.

We have double logs on Fridays so things are always a shit storm, and now we're in the political season so things can get nuts.

UGH

4/16/2012 10:33:02 AM

Why don't you just take off Fridays too?

4/16/2012 10:45:06 AM

Anyone here use Qualtrics? We just started using it in my office and I love that it has skip logic and what not built in. But now I have people that will take a survey and then send me a bitchy email when their answers to the demographic questions make them ineligible for the rest of the survey.

4/16/2012 10:50:00 AM

If I asked off on a Friday, or any day for that matter, for something like that my boss would laugh at me and assume it was a joke. It's hard enough to get a Friday off for a legitimate reason. I am not sure who grants people days off where you work, but you have that person to blame as to why people think it's fine and dandy to pull things like that.

4/16/2012 10:50:52 AM

^^I know...I feel bad leaving people with a lot of work to do though.

I will take a Monday off in a heartbeat.

4/16/2012 10:51:04 AM

Don't you all have vacation days as well? What's up with all the hatred for people wanting to use their vaca days?

4/16/2012 10:54:11 AM

I have vacation days, I guess it depends on the job and size of the company. If I miss a day it makes a difference most of the time so taking vacation days for something like getting ready for a yard sale isn't something I would do or even ask. Like Diva said if you just need a day to get ready for that then take a Wednesday or something not a day when you know is more busy than other days.

4/16/2012 11:00:09 AM

Fuck Wednesday. Three day weekends ftw.

4/16/2012 11:00:39 AM

Agreed but again she is prepping for a yard sale in two weeks. Dicking over the rest of your coworkers for something like that is pretty shitty. If she was going to the beach for the weekend then yes three day weekend and no one will argue.

4/16/2012 11:02:13 AM

I don't see a difference.

4/16/2012 11:02:55 AM

Well then you are probably one of the people who everyone at your workplace secretly hates lol

4/16/2012 11:04:40 AM

I could understand if you had a huge deadline one Friday a quarter, but if I had to do XYZ every single Friday, then yeah, I'd pretty much take off Friday with no hesitation even if I just wanted a break to prepare for a yardsale.

4/16/2012 11:06:01 AM

if you're going to leave your phone in your office while you're somewhere else, put that shit on vibrate

nobody wants to hear your phone ringing all day long

4/16/2012 11:12:27 AM

I get what you are saying my job is that way at least in my bosses head. Friday is always our "busy" day so getting Friday's off are always harder. I just try to let my boss know what days I would like off and what days I need off. If I am scheduling a vacation then those are days I need off and if one is a Friday then he will just have to suck it up. If I am trying to take off the day to watch the NCAA tournament I let him know I want that day off and if things arent too crazy he will let me leave.

Sure, I would love to just say it doesnt matter what I am doing I have X amount of days left this year I should be able to take them for whatever I want. However, I also know the difference between really needing a day off and just wanting to take one because of some stupid reason. To each their own I suppose I cant really argue if that is your company's policy for days, but as we have seen it doesn't exactly create a happy work environment.

4/16/2012 11:12:44 AM