Workplace/Office Pet Peeves 2.0
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edith head said:any work email that has sentences that end with multiple questionmarks like this?????
I like the mix of "?" and "!" for emphasis. ??!?!??!!!?
I like the mix of "?" and "!" for emphasis. ??!?!??!!!?
If you are my secretary then please don't get all sour and cop an attitutde when I ask you to do something for me! 
asue: It is your job!
If you do not like to have people tell you what to do, I suggest pursuing other career paths!
asue: It is your job!If you do not like to have people tell you what to do, I suggest pursuing other career paths!
One memorable co-worker experience was this dude sat on the next desk who was having a conversation with his mum which suddenly turned into him screaming MOM IF YOU SAY THAT ONE MORE TIME I SWEAR I WILL NEVER SPEAK TO YOU EVER AGAIN! [click]... returns to his work. I stare intently at my screen. I thought about telling him to not do that in the office but I figured he was going to be leaving soon anyway.
I had a guy in the office across the hall, his mom had recently died and he was trying to get his brothers and sisters to agree to hold onto her house rather than sell it and take the money right away, and it quickly devolved into him yelling at them - a grown man "mommy wanted us to keep the fucking house" - and calling his sisters the "c" word really loud. Family shit always breaks down into the old rivalries with a quickness.
froz1 said
B_Cooper said:froz1 said:The following phrases:
"at the end of the day..."
"for all intents and purposes..."
X 1000
Every day
Both useful phrases. What's your problem with them?
Fixed.
Ah. Fair enough. I guess my pet peeve would be the ongoing passive-aggressive note battle on the office fridge door that ended up with someone throwing away EVERYTHING including my fresh salad and a jar of home-made pickles I had just brought to share with the office.
B_Cooper said:froz1 said:The following phrases:"at the end of the day..."
"for all intents and purposes..."
X 1000
Every day
Both useful phrases. What's your problem with them?
Fixed.
Ah. Fair enough. I guess my pet peeve would be the ongoing passive-aggressive note battle on the office fridge door that ended up with someone throwing away EVERYTHING including my fresh salad and a jar of home-made pickles I had just brought to share with the office.
musica said:If you are my secretary then please don't get all sour and cop an attitutde when I ask you to do something for me! asue: It is your job!
If you do not like to have people tell you what to do, I suggest pursuing other career paths!
Now this one happens all the time at my job. I think we have the laziest so called support staff I have ever seen in my life.
asue: It is your job!If you do not like to have people tell you what to do, I suggest pursuing other career paths!
Now this one happens all the time at my job. I think we have the laziest so called support staff I have ever seen in my life.
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musica said:If you are my secretary then please don't get all sour and cop an attitutde when I ask you to do something for me! asue: It is your job!
If you do not like to have people tell you what to do, I suggest pursuing other career paths!
This can depend on what you ask them to do, I suppose, and what they were hired to do. I think people who treat secretaries like shit are right down there with corrupt prison guards on the Asshole List.
I saw a guy once who'd stepped in a deep puddle on the way in to work. He peeled off his socks and told his secretary to wash them off in the sink. What a prick.
Later I found out he'd been fired for bumping up his expense reports.
asue: It is your job!If you do not like to have people tell you what to do, I suggest pursuing other career paths!
This can depend on what you ask them to do, I suppose, and what they were hired to do. I think people who treat secretaries like shit are right down there with corrupt prison guards on the Asshole List.
I saw a guy once who'd stepped in a deep puddle on the way in to work. He peeled off his socks and told his secretary to wash them off in the sink. What a prick.
Later I found out he'd been fired for bumping up his expense reports.
sweatshop said:behemoth said:when people come to work deathly ill like they are gonna get extra money or something. al stuffy and throwing up going "it's ok i have to get work done"
assholes!
+1
-1
when i'm ill i'm not wasting a sick day by staying at home. i need those sick days for when i'm well and want an extra day off.
assholes!
+1
-1
when i'm ill i'm not wasting a sick day by staying at home. i need those sick days for when i'm well and want an extra day off.
this truly makes me grateful I don't work in an office. I will deal with an income that I can't always predict , filing sales tax, angry DMV employees, shoveling the driveway all winter, disgruntles employees, customers, etc. just as long as I don't have to deal with office life
