Annoying people at work...

[SuzeQuze]

I have to tell you what Blurt did yesterday, the guy who stole my promotion. He took some memory out of a woman's computer here a few days ago. She asked him if she could have it because she needed it but would give it back when she was done. He said he needed it for next week and no she couldn't have it. So she went and asked another guy we work with if he had any memory because Blurt wouldn't give hers back. He said he didn't and why wouldn't Blurt just give it to her. Then my boss said, "Just give it to her!" Someone from outside the department even came over and said, "Is there a problem?". So he finally said "I'm sorry, I'm being difficult." WTF??

[WelshWitchPMD]

Originally Posted by SuzeQuze

I have to tell you what Blurt did yesterday, the guy who stole my promotion. He took some memory out of a woman's computer here a few days ago. She asked him if she could have it because she needed it but would give it back when she was done. He said he needed it for next week and no she couldn't have it. So she went and asked another guy we work with if he had any memory because Blurt wouldn't give hers back. He said he didn't and why wouldn't Blurt just give it to her. Then my boss said, "Just give it to her!" Someone from outside the department even came over and said, "Is there a problem?". So he finally said "I'm sorry, I'm being difficult." WTF??

I am sorry about Blurt, Sue. He sounds like a really big a**hole. Why do these people get all the great jobs? That would piss me off, too!
I work for a union so we are all equally underpaid.

[SuzeQuze]

Originally Posted by WelshWitchPMD

I am sorry about Blurt, Sue. He sounds like a really big a**hole. Why do these people get all the great jobs? That would piss me off, too!
I work for a union so we are all equally underpaid.

Squeeky wheel gets the grease? Arrogant people do well in corporate environments because it is mistaken for confidence. I don't know. I did read a study that said nice people are paid less. Sorry to hear you're also underpaid.

[all the same]

I am self employed and work from home. I annoy the crap out of myself sometimes! But it works pretty well. I used to work for The City...and still do, but from home now and there was this one guy... well, more like five people I didn't like, but this one guy in particular who had worked for The City for like 25 years as a "graphic designer". I say "graphic designer" because he has no training. He just sorta picked it up over his 25 useless years. Anyway, he rides his bike in every morning and changes out of his sweaty riding gear into his lumberjack clothes. Living in Calgary, so close to the Rocky Mountains, a lot of people tend to dress like mountain men and carry around bags of granola! Anyway, he always stinks because of those gross sweaty riding clothes. And he does NOTHING all day. He makes himself sound like he's busy by asking retarded computer questions to people like "how do I change my password?". He's one of those union employees that has managed to find a way to do absolutely nothing and get paid by tax payer dollars. Makes me crazy! All other design staff with The City have around 10 - 20 projects on the go at any given time. He takes only ONE at a time. Because he's been there forever, they let him. Dork! I could go on for pages. So, I should stop!

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[all the same]

Originally Posted by SuzeQuze

Squeeky wheel gets the grease? Arrogant people do well in corporate environments because it is mistaken for confidence. I don't know. I did read a study that said nice people are paid less. Sorry to hear you're also underpaid.

Really? Interesting that nice people are paid less. I hate arrogance. At this one place I worked, the manager died of a heart attack and the guy was a such an *sshole, you can't imagine. When he died I felt sad in the sense that he doesn't have a positive legacy. There are no good stories to reflect on his life. Just that he was horrible. Pretty sad, really.

[SuzeQuze]

Originally Posted by all the same

Really? Interesting that nice people are paid less. I hate arrogance. At this one place I worked, the manager died of a heart attack and the guy was a such an *sshole, you can't imagine. When he died I felt sad in the sense that he doesn't have a positive legacy. There are no good stories to reflect on his life. Just that he was horrible. Pretty sad, really.

I hate arrogance too and the fact that someone would find it a desirable trait in an employee still confounds me.

It is very sad about that man. My Mom once worked with a really awful man and it did a number on her. She also worked with someone who did nothing. There are difficult people everywhere. I worked from home on Friday. I found when I got laid off that I loved working from home. Even though technically I wasn't working I felt like I was. And I get to work from home occassionally with my current job. It's sooo much less stressful and any way I can reduce my stress I will!

[BTFLCHLD]

someone sent me these great ideas...


When two (or more) people are working a desks that are put next to each other, switch their telephone cords. With all those cables lying around it will take some time before they find that one out!

Put a peice of onion or a clove of garlic inside the mouthpiece of a phone. Give it some time for it to fester and build up a strong odor. Then call them and keep them on the phone for as long as possible.

It is allways a good habit to lock your computer before heading off for coffee or a smoke. When someone forgets and leaves a Word document or an email open, type a single word somewhere in the text. “f*ck” or so will do nicely. They’ll never notice and send it out.

Get a hold of someone's cell phone and change the greeting banner to say "NO SERVICE". Many cell phones have greeting banners on them that you can personalize to say whatever you want them to and it stays on there when you're not using your phone. Also, when there is no service where you are, most cell phone companies have a banner that pops up on your screen saying "no service".

Take a can of non gel shaving cream, and put it in a freezer. When it is frozen remove the bottom of the can and put it in co worker's drawer. When it melts it expands and explodes all over everything.

Go into MS Word or similar program on co-worker's computer, and add an entry to the AutoCorrect feature. This is a very simple prank that will send the novice user into a frenzy. Configure the AutoCorrect option to replace the word "the" with the phrase "you suck!". They will usually panick and start scanning for viruses.

Take clear tape and tape the underside of the mouse. Make sure you take the sticky end of the tape and apply it to the bottom of the mouse so it locks the ball in place. The victim will most likely check the connections in the back, reinstall drivers, reboot, etc., before they realize what has happened.

Do a "Print Screen" of the user's desktop, and then paste the image from the clipboard to a photo program, and save the image as a bitmap. Then, set the 'snapshot' of their desktop as the actual desktop wallpaper. (You'll have to hide the Windows status bar, and move all their desktop icons into a folder, which you can hide conspicuously in the corner or something.) The user will see their desktop as always, but everything on it will appear to be frozen when they try to click on it...sending them into a rebooting and virus scanning fit!

This will mostly only work with people with very little PC knowledge. Stick in a floppy in there floppy drive. They will be unable to boot up windows until the disk is out. This is fun to watch.

Try to find a very obnoxious CD laying around. Preferably a reggae or rap CD. Pop it in their CD ROM. Put up the sound full blast by double clicking on the volume control on the bottom right. On normal configurations the audio CD will autoplay when windows first starts up. The person starting up there PC in the morning will definitely be embarrassed.

This is for that special person you just cant stand in the office, the one who talks on the phone all day with their boyfriend/girlfriend and gets personal e-mail all day. Go into their e-mail and change their defaults to autmatically "blind carbon copy" their boss or supervisor. Heads will roll!

Change the coffee in the office coffe maker to decafe. Wait about three weeks(or untill you think everybody has gotten over their caffine addiction)and switch to expresso!

Try "password securing" someone's screen saver. First I suggest changing the screen saver to "scrolling marque" and inserting your own word or phrase, "Mr. Jones (president or supervisor) eats SHlT" or something to that effect.

With someone who is on the phone a lot during work - This works if you have phones that the handset comes apart. Take the handset apart and put scotch tape over the mouthpeice inside. They can still be heard, but they have to talk loud to be heard. The next day take it off, and put it in the earpeice. Usually they will be yelling to the other person on the line the next day, and won't be able to hear them. When they complain about the phone, and get a replacement, do it on the next phone. After about a week you will notice the calls to be down considerably.

Depending where you are at you may have a cafeteria in you place of work. Every week most of them put out a menu so you know what they are serving. Usually it is done on Word or Excel, and not extremely fancy. With a little work, matching fonts, and images you can make your own menus, and post them by your desk. We had one co-worker avoid the cafeteria for 2 weeks because of the selection "fish head stew" etc... before he caught on. Works great with picky eaters.

Simply pop out the 'm' and 'n' key on someone's keyboard and reverse the two. Any flat tool will work. Just pry it with little pressure and they will easily come right off. Then just sit back and watch the confusion.

[wondergirl9847]

Try "password securing" someone's screen saver. First I suggest changing the screen saver to "scrolling marque" and inserting your own word or phrase, "Mr. Jones (president or supervisor) eats SHlT" or something to that effect.

We used to do this to each other on my last job!

Also, right before we shut down, I had a Rumours album cover desktop.

[SuzeQuze]

Omigod thanks for the laugh! I'm seriously chuckling at my cube! These are the ones that really got to me and I'm so going to do one!

Originally Posted by BTFLCHLD

someone sent me these great ideas...


...

Go into MS Word or similar program on co-worker's computer, and add an entry to the AutoCorrect feature. This is a very simple prank that will send the novice user into a frenzy. Configure the AutoCorrect option to replace the word "the" with the phrase "you suck!". They will usually panick and start scanning for viruses.

Depending where you are at you may have a cafeteria in you place of work. Every week most of them put out a menu so you know what they are serving. Usually it is done on Word or Excel, and not extremely fancy. With a little work, matching fonts, and images you can make your own menus, and post them by your desk. We had one co-worker avoid the cafeteria for 2 weeks because of the selection "fish head stew" etc... before he caught on. Works great with picky eaters.
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[desertangel]

Originally Posted by BTFLCHLD

someone sent me these great ideas...

Awesome!!!! Next time I get really pissed off at someone from work, I'll do something from this list instead of smoke 85 cigarettes in 10 minutes!

Thanks!!!

Laura

[SuzeQuze]

Is 10:30 to 5:30 full time? 7 hours? Grrrr. I hate this frikkin place sometimes. [/end rant]

[Janet]

I work at Dominos Pizza as a manager. You could imagine some of the people I work with, some who just can't get a "real " job.

One guy will come up when he isn't scheduled. He smells bad and he will follow me around and flirt and even when I ask him to leave, he laughs and think it's funny. Funny thing is, when he is supposed to work, there is always a problem. He is late. Bad thing is, I am so understaffed I can't fire the fat *uck.

I have another guy who LOOOOOVES to yell at me whenever I tell him which deliveries to take. He will pretty much say I am wrong and take what he wants.

I AM THE boss. There is no one higher. Yet I am at the mercy of these 40 year old men who treat me like **** because I am a 27year old women in charge of them in a job they don't want to be at.

I wish I had the balls to fire people and *uck it but I can't.

[SuzeQuze]

Originally Posted by Janet

I work at Dominos Pizza as a manager. You could imagine some of the people I work with, some who just can't get a "real " job.

One guy will come up when he isn't scheduled. He smells bad and he will follow me around and flirt and even when I ask him to leave, he laughs and think it's funny. Funny thing is, when he is supposed to work, there is always a problem. He is late. Bad thing is, I am so understaffed I can't fire the fat *uck.

I have another guy who LOOOOOVES to yell at me whenever I tell him which deliveries to take. He will pretty much say I am wrong and take what he wants.

I AM THE boss. There is no one higher. Yet I am at the mercy of these 40 year old men who treat me like **** because I am a 27year old women in charge of them in a job they don't want to be at.

I wish I had the balls to fire people and *uck it but I can't.

Wow. I shouldn't even be complaining. That really really sucks. Fire them anyway. Or one of them. The worst one. Easier said than done I know.

[BTFLCHLD]

[SuzeQuze]

Originally Posted by BTFLCHLD

Frikkin' awesome!