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11-23-2006, 08:20 PM
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Mark
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ARGH! Co-Workers!!!
With the long holiday weekend ahead of most of us, I was thinking about how much I love to just get away from the office. I had a big "to-do" with a co-worker and I'm glad to be away for several days.
I know there have been threads where we talk about annoying co-workers, but I just gotta start a topic...what is it that annoys you about your co-workers? and for the spin, what is it that you do that you think might annoy your co-workers?
The one thing that drives me up the wall is when people leave their cell phones at their desk when they're not in their office - All day, I gotta listen to their dumb-ass 'custom' ring tones and constant beeps from voice-mail notifications. 
and as far as what I do that annoys people - I have control over the Heating/Cooling, and since I like it cold, I know my co-workers are always cold when they are in my area of the building. 
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11-23-2006, 08:24 PM
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Yee Ming Lim
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Re: ARGH! Co-Workers!!!
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Originally Posted by MarkHastings
The one thing that drives me up the wall is when people leave their cell phones at their desk when they're not in their office - All day, I gotta listen to their dumb-ass 'custom' ring tones and constant beeps from voice-mail notifications. |
Heh, I suffered through that once. Someone's ringtone was Toccata and Fugue in D Minor, and much as that is a brilliant piece of music, you can only hear a shrill midi rendition of it so many times before you flip. What made it worse was that the dumbass caller didn't get the hint that the phone owner wasn't near the phone, and each time the call was disconnected, called again. The phone must have rung for something like 5 minutes nearly nonstop (between each disconnect and redial) before it finally stopped. |
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11-23-2006, 11:59 PM
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Re: ARGH! Co-Workers!!!
He's not really a co-worker....more like a peer who holds the same position I do. His office and mine are back to back, and they're large cubicles, with no complete walls.
Anyway, he comes in every morning at 7:55, and listens to "I Can See Clearly Now the Rain is Gone". The same song. Every day. For 2 1/2 years.
Far as what I do...I listen to my voicemail messages on speakerphone so I can do other things while I listen to them.
Carl
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11-24-2006, 01:25 AM
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Re: ARGH! Co-Workers!!!
Toccata and Fugue in D Minor, "I can see clearly now...", ya got to admit, there are worse songs to endure.
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11-24-2006, 01:43 AM
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Re: ARGH! Co-Workers!!!
Things that drive me nuts are:
1. Starting up a conversation with me about politics, and acting all offended when I give my honest opinion about something. If you want to hear your own beliefs, PLEASE record your own and play them for yourself!
2. Gossip - I really don't give a flying %$#* about who is sleeping with whom, or who is kissing the boss's behind.
3. Other people's music - I don't care if someone does not have the same taste in music as I do. After all, different strokes for different folks. But for crying out loud, keep YOUR music to YOURSELF.
4. Non-supervisory know-it-alls telling me my job. Micro manage someone else!
Things I do that drive people nuts:
1. Like Mark, I prefer cold, and I have a tendency to tell people that if THEY are so damned cold, then they should dress appropriately in cooler weather.
2. Office parties or other celebrations - I'd rather pass and sit at home. I am not what one could call a social butterfly.
3. I am usually cranky at the beginning of my day. No amount of "up" talk is going to get me out of it unless I have time to wake up.
4. Newbies will ask me a question, and I have a tendency to be brusque, because I get distracted from my own job.
The shape I\'m in you could donate my body to science fiction! - Rodney Dangerfield, \"Back to School\"
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11-24-2006, 04:06 AM
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Re: ARGH! Co-Workers!!!
Two people in my office, one male, one female, think saturating themselves in a cheap scent is a good idea.
Smokers who stand in an outside door, holding it open.
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11-24-2006, 05:48 AM
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Re: ARGH! Co-Workers!!!
There's a secretary who has an penchant for wearing light colored skirts where you can make out whether she's decided on a thong or g-string if you look hard enough  |
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11-24-2006, 07:04 AM
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Re: ARGH! Co-Workers!!!
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That's awful! You should not have to put up with that!
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11-24-2006, 07:41 AM
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Jay
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Re: ARGH! Co-Workers!!!
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There's a secretary who has an penchant for wearing light colored skirts where you can make out whether she's decided on a thong or g-string if you look hard enough
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Chu, I advise you to take up some kind of engineering work, be that electrical, mechanical, or even software, you wont have that problem anymore... 
Jay
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11-24-2006, 07:56 AM
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Mark
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Re: ARGH! Co-Workers!!!
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Smokers who stand in an outside door, holding it open.
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That reminds me, my office is near the front door, so when a lot of co-workers need to talk to me, they'll go outside for their smoke, then they'll stop in my office on their way back upstairs - so I'm ALWAYS getting their conversations right after their smoke. They come into my office and are like "Hey Mark!!!...." as they spew their freshly smoked cigarette breath at my face. (PUKE!)
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