^^ hahahaha

5/15/2012 12:39:16 PM

5/15/2012 1:05:37 PM

Quote :

"ThePeter, what kind of lab do you work in?"

The lab I was on exhibit in was for plasma deposition

5/15/2012 1:12:30 PM

Quote :

"^^ haha back when I was teaching they would do an annual open house where they would march potential students through the teachers' office room. We felt like a bunch of zoo animals having these middle school kids stare at us while the tour guide talked about the office."

why did they bring students into teacher work rooms?

5/15/2012 1:46:04 PM

Apparently I work across the hall from goddamn Jacob Silj.

5/15/2012 1:55:23 PM

for some insane reason, we still use CVS for version control. I just did 3 commits, all of which failed, and all of them are now in the repository. and I'm OK with that.

5/15/2012 1:57:57 PM

Hah, I feel your pain.

5/15/2012 2:15:53 PM

^ 4 I asked once and never got a real answer. Basically, "Well they'll need to know where you are once they're students..."

5/15/2012 4:58:36 PM

^ 4 I asked once and never got a real answer. Basically, "Well they'll need to know where you are once they're students..."

5/15/2012 4:58:58 PM

boogers on the wall behind the urinals

considering I don't work in a preschool, I don't see why this is an issue

but alas.

5/15/2012 5:13:22 PM

Ha, I found a booger the other day on the toilet seat. Thought it was a turdlet until closer examination. Needless today, I held my dump.

5/15/2012 5:16:23 PM

We have assigned parking spaces in our parking lot... the woman who parks in the spot right in front of my car ALWAYS pulls her car too far into her space, and is all up in my parking spot.

This is not a sometimes thing... this is an EVERY FUCKING DAY FOR THE PAST TWO YEARS thing. (and she gets to work super early so she is usually there before me )

[Edited on May 17, 2012 at 8:18 AM. Reason : ]

5/17/2012 8:17:46 AM

Can't you report her or just throw rusty nails in her space or something?

5/17/2012 10:36:42 AM

I'd leave a post-it note on her widow EVERY DAY

5/17/2012 10:51:24 AM

why can't some people just say "good morning" and get on with the day? the awkward small talk is unbearable. i dread walking by this lady's office every morning.

5/17/2012 11:01:16 AM

yes

5/17/2012 11:01:45 AM

"Can you compile a report based on the results of the exit survey. I need it by this afternoon."

"Sure, do you want it in Excel, Word, or Powerpoint?"

3 hours later no response

5/17/2012 11:02:54 AM

I can't stress this enough. Who the fuck clips their finger nails at work? Everybody can hear that shit!



[Edited on May 17, 2012 at 11:28 AM. Reason : oops]

5/17/2012 11:04:45 AM

Quote :

"Can't you report her or just throw rusty nails in her space or something?"

it's not worth the inevitable awkward moments if I ever had to collaborate with her on something work related. it's just an annoyance.

5/17/2012 11:26:30 AM

having to design something based on old design, with outdated proposed work, pre-hurricane existing work (hurricane caused major changes), and no new surveys coming in any time soon.

fun

5/17/2012 11:36:20 AM

Quote :

"We have assigned parking spaces in our parking lot... the woman who parks in the spot right in front of my car ALWAYS pulls her car too far into her space, and is all up in my parking spot. "

Get yourself one of these:


It'll be the only one in the entire parking lot.

5/17/2012 11:39:24 AM

^ hahaha I know where you can find one that isn't bolted down

5/17/2012 12:23:57 PM

leaving the super psycho crazy bitch in a few weeks....

needless to say, i'm sure there will be frustrations in the new job BUT at least i know the management situation i'm getting into

5/17/2012 12:25:42 PM

when projects have to be done yesterday by the standard, but the standards suck

5/17/2012 3:28:55 PM

Oh yeah, could you do this for me? I've been meaning to get around to it but you know how busy I am.


[weeks later]

Thanks for stepping up to the plate and taking so much weight off my shoulders. But I would have done this differently.

5/17/2012 6:49:14 PM

This hideous woman on my team always has a booger hanging out of her nose.

5/18/2012 3:16:08 PM

oh look....I get to pretty up yet another excel file

because no one knows how to format worth a shit

how are they making the big bucks again?

5/18/2012 3:51:09 PM

Feels like the heat is on.

...or at least the AC isn't working.

5/18/2012 3:52:02 PM

The heat in my office has been on for the past week. There's a 15 degree difference between my office and the hallway. The Facilities guy was told to come investigate it, and he stood in my office and said "it doesn't smell like the heat is on" and left it at that...

5/18/2012 3:54:24 PM

Sounds like you missed a golden opp to quote Glenn Frey

5/18/2012 3:55:56 PM

PDQ in Newport, RI is very very lucky I don't google them, find an online review place, and slam the shit out of their crappy little operation. Very lucky. Because I'm too tired right now and will loose interest by the time I am rested.

5/21/2012 9:20:56 PM

I just got my first spam fax at this job. I used to get a lot like ten years ago at my first summer office job but none anymore.... until today!

5/23/2012 9:51:02 AM

We sometimes get travel agency spam faxes. I have to wonder if it ever works.

5/23/2012 9:52:46 AM

yeah, this was a travel agency fax. sucks because this fax is my printer and I'm really low on ink and I dont want to go to staples until my boss gets back from CA

5/23/2012 10:01:20 AM

i don't know much about faxing, but isn't there a way to approve/disapprove incoming faxes?

5/23/2012 11:33:12 AM

Coworker: Can you watch this process for me? I'm going out for lunch
Me: Alright, so its 30 minutes till I have to do something, but I have to get lunch too. When will you be back?
Coworker: Oh I don't know, I'm going out with [office friend].



Bitch, lunch breaks are an hour, so you'll be back in an hour

Also annoying is that my boss told me to write this report but didn't really say what to put in it, so I'm having a hard time focusing on the very vague assignment.

[Edited on May 23, 2012 at 12:52 PM. Reason : lkj]

5/23/2012 12:51:34 PM

^^ I guess you could use call block to block certain numbers? I have no idea.

5/23/2012 12:52:24 PM

our new IT-ish guy came to my office to ask me some questions. He's been pretty socially awkward and by the middle of one of his statements, he was turned around and talking to the wall outside of my office. wtf

Seems able to do his job otherwise though

5/23/2012 1:03:12 PM

The new woman keeps stealing my parking space. Only been here 3 days and she's parked in it 2 of those.

5/23/2012 1:05:30 PM

it came up as "No Info" and I cant Decline it because it could be a students application paperwork or the paperwork for a huge grant we just got accept for.

5/23/2012 1:09:58 PM

Me: Hey boss this ceiling tile is obviously getting soaked from the AC should I call someone to come take a look at it?

Boss: No that's normal when it starts getting hotter

Me: Yeah but I mean in the six years I have worked here that tile has never gotten any water on it just a small spot on the one beside it.

Boss: Don't worry about it its fine go back to work

This morning I come in and now three tiles are soaked, the AC isnt even working anymore and its about 80 degrees in here

AC guys are on their way

5/24/2012 9:47:21 AM

Man how did I get sucked into the party planning committee for my work? I do not want to go to this meeting this morning to plan baby showers for people I don't even know.

5/24/2012 9:51:22 AM

Trash in the recycle bin, recycling in the trash bin. God. Damnit.

5/24/2012 10:00:25 AM

^^Haha, I had almost the same thing happen to me. I noticed some tiles and reported them, nothing happened...2-3 weeks later the AC guys are here

5/24/2012 10:11:06 AM

I don't understand why most people in my lab can't treat this work place like they would in their own homes.

They are messy and very WASTEFUL. The sink is never cleared of glassware, etc. The workbench is another story. Shit thrown everywhere, uncapped tubes, pipettes boxed opened,etc.

Oh and don't get me started with hoarding. Do you really need histo slides from 2007?

5/24/2012 11:05:46 AM

when someone comes into your office or calls you on the phone and says:

"Quick question" or "Got a question for ya"


JUST ASK THE MOTHERFUCKING QUESTION YOU FUCKING RETARD!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

5/24/2012 11:07:23 AM

Someone took the top half of a sandwich thin from the fridge today. It was in a shopping bag next to my turkey and alfalfa sprouts, so it was obviously personal property.

That's after someone took half a homemade muffin a week or two ago.

And half of a piece of leftover pizza a couple weeks before that.

Who the fuck regularly steals other people's food, but doesn't have the balls to take the whole thing?

5/24/2012 11:57:49 AM

^Isn't your office fairly small? Do a stake out

--

I'm two offices down from this one girl, and the front desk woman comes down to gossip for a lot of time every day. Shit gets annoying.

5/24/2012 12:06:27 PM

Quote :

"I don't understand why most people in my lab can't treat this work place like they would in their own homes."

here's a scary thought, but they probably are treating their work place like they do their home. At home they probably have a SO who cleans up behind them so they just dont care. or don't learn to.

5/24/2012 12:09:34 PM

I am seriously ready to choke a bitch. Stupid motherfuckers changing their mind at the last minute on what they want this project to say and then acting like it's somehow my fault. Why can't it be Friday

5/24/2012 1:36:34 PM