OT: Work Place Irritations

[formerlurker]

When I graduated, my Dad pushed me to take an outside sales job I was offered from a Fortune 500 consumer products company. Company car, expense account and work from a home office. 22 years later I thank him every day because I have never once worked in an office and eventually started my own company 12 years ago. I've booked more business walking around my kitchen, scratching my balls than I think I would have in a cubicle or corner spot.

That being said, the office pools suck and I've been jerking off the same guy for the past 12 years. But, he's the boss so there's always that.

 

[Dove]

Why do I get irritated seeing coworkers park in the same spaces every day. MIX IT UP PEOPLE!!


(I'm a nail clipper)

 

[JMick]

I hate when my coworker sits down and talks to me about videogames for 20 minutes. I'm only a few years younger than he is, so I guess it makes sense he would talk to me about it. But then he goes and talks to management about all the "special suits" he picked up online all weekend and I can just see the pain in their eyes while they placate him. It's a prime example of knowing your audience, and knowing that 50 year olds don't want to hear about your weekend spent on PS4

 

[mauconnfan]

Well, he's a sales guy....but a lot more of a drunken orangutan than he is someone doing Ironman rides.

Oh I work more than 6 hours I promise, and it shows as the Ironman workouts haven't been happening for a while. Reminds me..

 

[Edward Sargent]

Teleconferences are a blast. People who forget how to use the mute button can make for fantastic bloopers, especially if they are on travel and using a personal cell phone vice a desk phone. We had one a few years ago where a guy was dialing in from a remote area on his cell phone. Ten minutes in to the telecom we hear "Here's you sandwich and hash browns. Do you need any creamer or ketchup?". Dude was going through the drive through and forgot to put his cell phone on mute.

Worse is the guy taking a crap while on the cell phone with all the sounds emanating from the surrounds

 

[Edward Sargent]

Roast beef with horseradish. Delicious. I've been hoping another sandwich named Brett would appear again but alas, nothing yet.

August you cannot keep showing that avatar and talking about delicious sandwiches!! Please

 

[Dogbreath2U]

August you cannot keep showing that avatar and talking about delicious sandwiches!! Please

I find something odd about that avatar and want the old one back. Or a new one. Get on it mau. She has kind of a zombie look that just doesn't do it for me.

 

[mauconnfan]

I find something odd about that avatar and want the old one back. Or a new one. Get on it mau. She has kind of a zombie look that just doesn't do it for me.

Holy crap what the hell happened? Didn't even notice who the hell did that? Something very Fishy going on around here.

 

[Chin Diesel]

Why do I get irritated seeing coworkers park in the same spaces every day. MIX IT UP PEOPLE!!


(I'm a nail clipper)

One of the guys I work with gets spooled up over divers who back in to their spaces vice noaing the car in to spaces. We have plenty of parking available and the loy is plenty big enough to manuever any vehicle around it so there's no benefit to either method. But he gets hot under the collar over back-ins. Needless to say, I back my car in to a spot.

 

[UconnFanNVa]

Worse is the guy taking a crap while on the cell phone with all the sounds emanating from the surrounds

Guy was in the stall next to me some time ago on his phone... He had the volume up and i was hearing some sounds, followed by chicken choking sounds. I couldnt finish and get out of there quick enough. Horrible experience.

 

[bobbygt]

That being said, the office pools suck and I've been jerking off the same guy for the past 12 years. But, he's the boss so there's always that.

Formerlurker has the worst irritation hands down . . . and the worse job.

I'm sorry to hear about your situation.

 

[Huskybass]

Not sure exactly why, but "The Nibbler" by CL82 fascinates me. Is it because they solved the mystery with a sting operation? That the perp was sorta hot? Or that the nibbling was such odd behavior in the first place? I guess I will never know, but I genuinely enjoyed the story.

 

[pepband99]

@August_West I never pictured you like this...



(signed the nerdy IT guy who occasionally resembles this too...