getting blamed for things that are not my fault.

if I screw something up I have no problem taking the blame. When I do my job correctly and then someone else blames something on me, that is annoying.

10/25/2012 3:55:16 PM

boss tells me to go figure out why the sump pumps don't work right and the pit floods even after they put in new level switches. go ask the planner, who informs me that they switches haven't been wired up yet.

10/29/2012 10:01:59 AM

Main office in NJ gets half day today and tomorrow completely off but I have to come in when it snows down here no matter what

10/29/2012 10:11:21 AM

I'm annoyed that I have to go to work.

10/29/2012 10:12:29 AM

Today we had a meeting on how duties will get handled while I'm on maternity leave. Apparently they were under the impression they would just hire some temp off the street and didn't take into consideration most of my job duties take at least two months to train on. Now they're asking me if I can do some "light" duties while on maternity leave

10/29/2012 10:40:05 AM

fuck, need more inventions

This is gonna be a busy and stressful winter

10/29/2012 11:07:57 AM

The office sends an email to the every employee making some kinda announcement. My supervisor then forwards me the email. This happens constantly filling up my inbox.

10/29/2012 11:42:33 AM

^ lol our HR rep does that shit all the time.

10/29/2012 12:01:41 PM

Same here. It gets even more ridiculous when someone sends out an email to lots of people *and I am in the original distribution by name* and I still get it forwarded to me by someone saying something like "thought you might like to see this."

I know with large emails sometimes it's going out to a group or everyone in BCC'd (even then, you should know it's an email that everyone is getting), but when you can look at the list of recipients and see my name, why are you forwarding it to me?

[Edited on October 29, 2012 at 12:08 PM. Reason : ]

10/29/2012 12:07:53 PM

haha I get forwarded 3 times about my time sheet

10/29/2012 12:26:24 PM

haha this just happened to me about power outages up north.

10/29/2012 3:25:46 PM

we got the bad liquid nitrogen bottle again and shit has been whistling all morning. we can bleed it off sometimes to stop it for awhile, but the pressure builder kicks in and makes it go off again.

also, I hate when Chinese papers have lab results that directly go against papers with field results. shit is annoying and I don't know who to trust.

10/30/2012 10:16:35 AM

Coworker just assured some of us under-thirty women that if the right man comes along we'll stay home to raise babies.

10/30/2012 10:18:03 AM

Quote :

"we got the bad liquid nitrogen bottle again and shit has been whistling all morning. we can bleed it off sometimes to stop it for awhile, but the pressure builder kicks in and makes it go off again. "

nothing like poking around the shop and having that thing blast off when it's dead silent


today's annoyances:
- sales went rogue and is quoting a job that management said 'no' to; then we'll get bitched out from sales when we get the job and lose our ass on it
- meetings keeping me from having meetings

10/30/2012 10:36:32 AM

Quote :

"Coworker just assured some of us under-thirty women that if the right man comes along we'll stay home to raise babies. "

I guess at least it wasn't the manager

10/30/2012 10:42:05 AM

Quote :

"we got the bad liquid nitrogen bottle again and shit has been whistling all morning. we can bleed it off sometimes to stop it for awhile, but the pressure builder kicks in and makes it go off again."

These are great for scaring the shit out of unsuspecting undergrads. Hopped on a freight elevator with a fresh dewer and a couple girls were in there, pressure release goes off and they damn near have heart attacks. I assure them that it's probably not toxic, so we should be ok.

10/30/2012 10:46:36 AM

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""Coworker just assured some of us under-thirty women that if the right man comes along we'll stay home to raise babies. "

This isn't true?

10/30/2012 10:54:41 AM

I don't like when everyone around the office uses "verbiage" to simply mean wording. Up until I got into the working world, verbiage was always viewed as being a BAD thing. Basically equivalent to fluff or verbosity.

Now at work everyone says stuff like "add some verbiage to this document about blah blah."

10/30/2012 11:14:56 AM

^^^^He is a manager but not my direct manager. He was also hesitant to train another (mid-twenties, married) worker to use particularly harsh chemicals in the lab because "you know she'll be pregnant with a year".

She's not actually planning on getting pregnant but it would have been inappropriate of him to ask.


^^OH YEAH I CAN'T HELP MYSELF

[Edited on October 30, 2012 at 11:40 AM. Reason : ^^]

10/30/2012 11:38:51 AM

Hey assholes, don't send me outlook invites when you can see that i have a fucking conflict on my calendar and then complain when I decline.

10/30/2012 12:06:21 PM

This is the 4th desk move where they've put me at a left-handed cube. Luckily I didn't know the difference.

^Can't you decline and propose a new time? That way the invite is still valid...as opposed to them having to do up a whole new one.

[Edited on October 30, 2012 at 11:51 PM. Reason : a]

10/30/2012 11:47:06 PM

Quote :

"He is a manager but not my direct manager. He was also hesitant to train another (mid-twenties, married) worker to use particularly harsh chemicals in the lab because "you know she'll be pregnant with a year". She's not actually planning on getting pregnant but it would have been inappropriate of him to ask."

Damn, lab I used to work in a guy got fired for saying even less than that about the female lab workers. Surprised no one has filed a formal HR complaint against this guy yet.

10/31/2012 8:50:24 AM

If the right woman came along, I'd stay home and raise babies (and build robots).

10/31/2012 9:43:19 AM

My co-worker got here an hour ago and is already asleep in her chair. Thankfully I can leave in a few minutes and not have to hear her snore anymore.

11/4/2012 8:18:54 AM

Guy who cuts his nails at his desk

11/4/2012 8:30:51 AM

I just watched by boss print out a 20-page set of full-size drawings from a PDF so that he could scan 2 pages to send to someone

11/5/2012 11:19:06 AM

Quote :

"Original Action Completed Goal Date: 11/30/2016"

mmmmk.

11/5/2012 11:33:31 AM

That's a problem for future Homer. Man, I don't envy that guy.
(Homer empties a bottle of vodka into a jar of mayonnaise, chugs it, and passes out)

11/5/2012 11:35:53 AM

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11/5/2012 11:36:01 AM

Doing some contract work for a major firm and I need to log-on to their online system to access documents...

Unfortunately their system isn't compatible with Firefox. Only works with IE Version 7 and up...of course I have a Mac. Call them up and they give me an allowance to purchase a laptop at Best Buy and get newest version of Office.

Get back to the office and try and log into system...isn't compatible with Windows 10. Been on the line with Tech Support for the past half an hour. Waiting to hear back from their IT Manager in a few minutes.

How fucking hard is it to develop these programs that are compatible with new shit??

11/5/2012 12:57:09 PM

^lol, I don't have quite that trouble, maybe 1/10th of it, but annoying as shit.

11/5/2012 12:58:46 PM

Not annoying, but it's easy to tell who is camping out in the stalls in the bathroom. You're not fooling anyone buddy.

11/5/2012 1:12:21 PM

haha jbrick that sucks

11/5/2012 1:22:46 PM

I also thought I was going to be at the office for only an hour to set this bitch up, print some shit off, and get back to the house and do work. So I only put in enough quarters for an hour at the meter...

Of course I lost track of time dealing with tech support and now I have a $14 ticket.

11/5/2012 1:25:04 PM

Quote :

"isn't compatible with Windows 10"

?

11/5/2012 1:50:58 PM

Meant Windows 8.

It's fine with IE 10...but not Windows 8.

Heading back to Best Buy to get one of their reject laptops that has Windows 7. Fucking annoying...

11/5/2012 1:54:30 PM

Install Windows 7 on a partition

Fuck getting a windows 7 laptop in todays wonderful touchscreen laptop world of Windows 8.

[Edited on November 5, 2012 at 2:00 PM. Reason : .]

11/5/2012 1:59:31 PM

they have the janitors come during the days now

dude makes small talk and makes my office smell like onions and b.o., while getting the trash

11/5/2012 5:13:45 PM

Just wear headphones and ignore.

11/5/2012 5:36:50 PM

I hate it when Goldenrod is always trying to say stuff in that prissy voice. He's all like "The odds of successfully navigating and asteroid field are less than 3023 to 1" so I'm like "never tell me the odds"

Then when we make it through alive does he appreciate it? No. Then he starts cockblocking me talking about how he managed to complete this one unimportant thing while I'm trying to have a private conversation with my boss the princess.

11/5/2012 6:29:13 PM

Pretty sure the AC is on in here... it's pretty cold. And that's not an easy thing to do, as my comfortable operating range is quite large...

11/9/2012 8:56:41 AM

^Do you sit in an interior portion of the building? If so, it's highly likely you sit in an area with no heat period that serves your actual area.

11/9/2012 9:04:33 AM

^yeh, but there are ceiling vents all throughout the area, inlcuding 4 within 10' of my cube

11/9/2012 9:06:35 AM

Right, but that doesn't mean that you have any heat,that just means you are getting air from the main system. Cooling is done back at the main unit and then heating is done locally in boxes above the ceiling just before the ceiling diffusers over your head. However, most buildings only have heat on the exterior zones (areas within 10' or so of exterior walls and windows) since that is where heat is lost. Thus the diffusers serving interior areas like where you sit don't have any heat in them.

There is also a minimum amount of outside air that spaces have to get at all occupied times due to code (in other words, commercial units don't typically turn on/off like our house units do). This overrules thermostat set points. So, this time of year if the internal box doesn't have heat, you sometimes get into the situation in early mornings where the unit is forced to pull in outside air (and the air is very cold), it mixes with the return air and is then delivered to the space with no heat added so it tends to feel a little cooler than normal.

It's not really the "AC" being on as much as it is not having heat.

What some buildings do is they put re-heat on the interior boxes as well solely to prevent subcooling (what you are probably experiencing) due to these minimum outside air requirements. But, that costs more money upfront when designing and constructing a building and it costs more to operate so it often does not get implemented or used.

[Edited on November 9, 2012 at 9:15 AM. Reason : ]

11/9/2012 9:13:13 AM

eh, maybe far beyond my HVAC knowledge. I do know that during winter, these people set the thermostat on hell and burn me out of here.

11/9/2012 9:22:05 AM

ugh

11/9/2012 9:30:02 AM

^^ just letting you know how it probably works in your building. Plus, if you ever have to call the facilities guys about temperature in the winter you'll understand more about how it's (most likely) set up there.

11/9/2012 9:35:05 AM

lol just got this phone call.

Random person (I don't even know where and how they got my phone number): "I'm trying to get into the conference room A and it's locked."
Me: "Umm.... okay? Who is this? Why are you calling me about this?"
Random person: "You need to come and unlock conference room A."
Me: "Well, I don't have the keys for the building but I can give you the phone number of the facilities manager."
Random person: "WHY WON'T YOU COME UNLOCK THE DOOR " ::hangs up::
Me:

11/9/2012 10:06:19 AM

Having to go to work in the first place.

11/9/2012 1:32:24 PM

literally a waste of electricity for me to be here

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11/9/2012 1:37:45 PM