Hour long ISO meetings on things that don't necessarily concern me.

8/15/2012 12:08:03 PM

there is one thermostat for all of the offices here

apparently somebody is cold, because they adjusted the temperature and now it is 9000 degrees in my office

8/15/2012 1:48:28 PM

i am annoyed at people who don't have their pictures attached to their work IM account. i want to see what you look like!

8/15/2012 2:18:29 PM

ugh they added our badge photos to our email. Now every time you read or send an email, you see someone's crazy eyes staring through your soul

8/15/2012 2:20:29 PM

Oh man, if only you could change the photo out yourself

The school year's starting up again. No more going to sleep at four am.

8/15/2012 2:48:37 PM

I easily lose at least two hours a day waiting for my computer to do the simplest tasks due to the encryption on the HD.

8/17/2012 10:00:19 AM

Clerks who have nothing better to me than to yap on about office politics. Here let me go ahead and assign you some busywork.

8/17/2012 10:18:53 AM

People that say No to your idea, and 10 minutes later, paraphrase your idea and pretend it's their own.

Executed Plan 'Call Them Out Immediately Regardless of Position' - Mission Successful.
Collateral Damage - Labeled as a Dick.

8/17/2012 10:22:55 AM

seriously, I'm not here for one day and everything goes to hell in a ham basket!








(yes, I know it's handbasket, but I'm hungry and ham is on my mind and I don't feel like changing it)

8/17/2012 10:22:59 AM

Ham basket, hand basket. Really it's just a moo point.

8/17/2012 10:29:34 AM

Emails from project management that are similar to:

"Hi I know this is the last week of a couple month long project, but we just decided/found out that there is this [insert *major* change to the project that has significant impact and tons of rework for me that is not in my scope] that we would like/the client is requesting. The deadline is still this Friday. We figure this shouldn't be a big issue for anyone but let us know if this is a problem for you! Thanks"

8/18/2012 12:51:23 PM

- coworkers that swing imaginary clubs and/or bats.
- coworkers that swing imarinary clubs and/or bats and try to 'teach' you how to swing

8/20/2012 1:57:13 PM

^those should be fire-able offenses

8/20/2012 1:58:57 PM

yeah, as an engineer and lifetime gear-head I could care less about anything non-ACC sports related

8/20/2012 2:56:56 PM

lol reading some post-doc Resumes

Quote :

"Working on the association of schizophrenia with CCK-AR gene, the experimental method was RELP-PCR. Using the SNP as a gene marker to analyze the gene frequency and genetype frequency. The association analysis was a statistical method to calculate whether there was association between the CCK-AR gene and the schizophrenia. The result showed that the love illusion was associated with CCK-AR gene."

What is this 'love illusion' in schizophrenia?

8/21/2012 11:44:03 AM

Steel panther's "Weenie Ride" is currently blasting through the office here

can't wait to leave this job

8/21/2012 2:01:07 PM

people standing in front of an often used door and when you open it and hit them they look at you all like ಠ_ಠ

8/21/2012 2:11:57 PM

8/22/2012 8:36:48 AM

People who leave their cubicle area to make personal phone calls next to my cubicle area.

8/22/2012 10:07:11 AM

What is with this "so and so requested a response when this email was deleted" crap?

8/22/2012 11:08:13 AM

People keep drinking my fucking drinks! My solution:

The case of drinks appears to be sealed, right?


Most people aren't asshole enough to open a sealed container of something. $profit!


[Edited on August 22, 2012 at 11:22 AM. Reason : .]

8/22/2012 11:18:37 AM

Quote :

"People who leave their cubicle area to make personal phone calls next to my cubicle area."

that happens to me a lot because i sit next to the window and some of the cell phone carriers don't have great service in this building.

8/22/2012 11:22:53 AM

It's so annoying when people use "whack" instead of saying backslash.

8/22/2012 11:27:50 AM

^^ Yeah, that's exactly where I sit.

Who the hell says that? I don't think I've ever heard anyone say that.
I always thought it was funny when people said bang instead of exclamation point.

[Edited on August 22, 2012 at 11:34 AM. Reason : ]

8/22/2012 11:32:33 AM

that's just kickin it old school. dos, vax, commodore, etc

i still have to use bang addressing on some of the older systems i encounter

yay old distributed control systems


my workplace annoyance for today: climbing distillation columns to track down instrumentation.

it's windy today. those things sway in the wind. it's not exactly awesome.

8/22/2012 11:42:10 AM

Quote :

"What is with this "so and so requested a response when this email was deleted" crap?"

i hate this.. everybody else in the office does this with their emails. i always get the "notify John that you've read his message?" and i always click [NO] just to stick it to the man

8/22/2012 11:47:47 AM

^thought that was an outlook setting?

my outlook sends read receipts automatically. Anyway, I could get nothing done without read receipts because people like to read emails and not respond to the inquiry until days (or weeks later), so it's a 'gotcha' if they instantly read it and do not respond... next day I do a follow up phone call and BAM.

8/22/2012 1:02:25 PM

^^ read receipts are one thing. Delete receipts are fucking weird.

8/22/2012 1:03:45 PM

This is the first one I got

8/22/2012 2:07:20 PM

Quote :

"Who the hell says that? I don't think I've ever heard anyone say that."

old people.

8/22/2012 2:08:19 PM

Hah nice.

Is that a MSFT thing? I've never seen it in Lotus Notes.

8/22/2012 2:08:32 PM

8/22/2012 2:12:33 PM

LOL Lotus.

We have an old computer here that still runs Lotus Word Pro from like 1996

8/22/2012 2:13:58 PM

Having a one hour meeting for stuff you could have told me in an email so that the entirety of our staff can complain about established policies.

8/22/2012 2:17:03 PM

Being told by your boss to stay in your office because a somewhat unstable coworker is being escorted out by the police.

8/22/2012 2:39:31 PM

aren't you a freakin cop? yall are all disturbed

8/22/2012 8:24:16 PM

we're waiting for a batch of ~100 new PC's to be distributed after IT gets off their asses (currently XP with a bunch of things runing on AS400 etc). The new computers arrived in January and IT is supposedly swamped with other crap. Otherwise, they say they'd have the upgrades done in 3 days. It's a 600-employee manufacturing plant, how swamped can you be?? On another note, the damn american big wigs (japanese company) are scared of the IT guys, so they can't pressure them either :beatuP:

My PC is especially shitty. It's an old compaq P4 1.7ghz (circa 2001) with 504mb RAM (how it got 504 instead of 512, I have no idea) trying to run god-damned libre-office

[Edited on August 22, 2012 at 8:52 PM. Reason : about 50% of the plant's PC's are like mine. the rest are just slightly less crappy.]

8/22/2012 8:51:33 PM

haha. you have 504MB of RAM because 8MB was scavenged by the mobo for its "integrated graphics". damn, haven't heard about shit like that in a while

8/22/2012 8:53:21 PM

A)How big is your IT department if they can deploy 100 PCs in 3 days? That's one hell of an accomplishment unless you're talking about labs or something similar.
B)The above is completely nonsensical if they haven't had time to even start the process since the computers were delivered in January. January? Really? 7 months of warranty wasted with the computers sitting still in their boxes and 7 months of productivity lost while users were dealing with creaky old machines. Nice job guys.

8/23/2012 1:23:14 AM

construction on additional office space adjacent to mine... hammer drilling and nail guns all day long

no work getting done today

8/23/2012 11:29:31 AM

^^They'll be obsolete by the time they deploy.

8/23/2012 11:39:34 AM

total 10 toilets in men's restrooms in this building. every. single. one. is. occupied.

8/23/2012 1:20:53 PM

Yeah, I miss our old building with several smaller restrooms since it's annoying when the cleaning people close the one big restroom in this building which they seem to always do right after lunch.

8/23/2012 1:40:48 PM

ARE YOU FUCKING KIDDING ME RIGHT NOW



[Edited on August 24, 2012 at 8:50 AM. Reason : TGIF because i will choke a bitch]

8/24/2012 8:50:05 AM

Losing a 1/2 days worth of work because the new IT person decided to go in and switch around people's authorization and permission profiles...

8/24/2012 9:22:44 AM

People requesting completely unsupported configurations (hay guise I want to dual-boot linux and windows and I want you to set it up for me by the way I've never used linux before that's cool right) and then acting surprised when we say we can't do that.

8/24/2012 10:48:53 AM

Quote :

"How big is your IT department if they can deploy 100 PCs in 3 days?"

well the winxp -> win7 compatibility bugs can be worked out in "3 days." For my part, I will go myself to pick up and install my PC

"IT" is 4 people: manager, an asst manager, a girl who only works on some of the software, and a guy tech. The manager and asst manager have done nothing but shoot down ideas and automate biweekly "system maintenances" as far as I can tell. Otherwise, IT is locked up behind windowless doors only they have access to. Ahhh.. they've got it made

8/24/2012 4:33:44 PM

working Monday night, mandatory company pep rally Tuesday from 1pm-5pm and working that same night.

Quote :

"Don’t forget to bring your ID badge and your enthusiasm."

8/27/2012 2:46:18 AM

Thanks for sharing that hold music and your phone conversation with the whole floor.

8/27/2012 9:29:06 AM

set em up

8/27/2012 9:32:12 AM