Irritating Office Behavior

PJSiren

Came in this morning to a pile of keys and a note from Rudy, the sup that makes me want to scream....saying he didn't have time to hang the keys...it took me 10 minutes to separate and hang ALL the keys, that was his pile and my own pile from drivers getting back this morning...it was like seriously, in the time it took you to write the note you could have hung your keys....he's just a lazy ass!

RKCNDY

when it's my day off, that means I don't want to talk to you...I don't want to talk about work, or your life, or my life...I want my day off to be about me.

RKCNDY

I'm charging you time for this call since you are talking about work and you said "this will be really quick" and it's been half an hour.

HughFreakingDillon

RKCNDY said:

I'm charging you time for this call since you are talking about work and you said "this will be really quick" and it's been half an hour.

do what I used to do when I worked shift and would sometimes be called in........don't answer the phone.

hedonist

Back when we still had a landline at home, a chick I used to work with (she had no idea that leap year existed, so that'll give you some semblance of her mindset/capabilities) called me four times after hours over some silly shit that could've waited. First time, OK. I get it. Fourth time, I bordered on rudeness. It's 6:30pm, for fuck's sake! Figure it out yourself or wait till tomorrow.

Ironic how we're now in a time when people are tethered to their phones, and it's so much easier to "miss" calls or blow them off altogether.

Phone was charging, was in the other room, no connection, etc.

RKCNDY

HughFreakingDillon said:

RKCNDY said:

I'm charging you time for this call since you are talking about work and you said "this will be really quick" and it's been half an hour.

do what I used to do when I worked shift and would sometimes be called in........don't answer the phone.

I tried that, she called like 6 times in one day "will you please call me back? I'm worried about you, I haven't heard from you since Friday..." It was Monday.

I've already told her I cannot stand talking on the phone, text is better. She texts, then I reply (at least half an hour later) then she calls.

See? She just called in the middle of me posting...I can't even pee in peace.

HughFreakingDillon

RKCNDY said:

HughFreakingDillon said:

RKCNDY said:

I'm charging you time for this call since you are talking about work and you said "this will be really quick" and it's been half an hour.

do what I used to do when I worked shift and would sometimes be called in........don't answer the phone.

I tried that, she called like 6 times in one day "will you please call me back? I'm worried about you, I haven't heard from you since Friday..." It was Monday.

I've already told her I cannot stand talking on the phone, text is better. She texts, then I reply (at least half an hour later) then she calls.

See? She just called in the middle of me posting...I can't even pee in peace.

is right.

PJ_Soul

RKCNDY said:

HughFreakingDillon said:

RKCNDY said:

I'm charging you time for this call since you are talking about work and you said "this will be really quick" and it's been half an hour.

do what I used to do when I worked shift and would sometimes be called in........don't answer the phone.

I tried that, she called like 6 times in one day "will you please call me back? I'm worried about you, I haven't heard from you since Friday..." It was Monday.

I've already told her I cannot stand talking on the phone, text is better. She texts, then I reply (at least half an hour later) then she calls.

See? She just called in the middle of me posting...I can't even pee in peace.

And we now know that RKCNDY posts on the boards while peeing.

dankind

There's that asshole who drums along to 10 Club Radio on his desk. What an annoying d--

Oh, wait. That's me.

ldent42

PJ_Soul said:

RKCNDY said:

HughFreakingDillon said:

RKCNDY said:

I'm charging you time for this call since you are talking about work and you said "this will be really quick" and it's been half an hour.

do what I used to do when I worked shift and would sometimes be called in........don't answer the phone.

I tried that, she called like 6 times in one day "will you please call me back? I'm worried about you, I haven't heard from you since Friday..." It was Monday.

I've already told her I cannot stand talking on the phone, text is better. She texts, then I reply (at least half an hour later) then she calls.

See? She just called in the middle of me posting...I can't even pee in peace.

And we now know that RKCNDY posts on the boards while peeing.

i generally assume everyone on here is sitting on a toilet while they are posting. It would explain a lot of things.

chadwick

what about having escaping gas while in one's cubical? can we hear some good passing of the gas stories?

RKCNDY

...at least I don't talk on the phone whilst peeing.

oftenreading

RKCNDY said:

HughFreakingDillon said:

RKCNDY said:

I'm charging you time for this call since you are talking about work and you said "this will be really quick" and it's been half an hour.

do what I used to do when I worked shift and would sometimes be called in........don't answer the phone.

I tried that, she called like 6 times in one day "will you please call me back? I'm worried about you, I haven't heard from you since Friday..." It was Monday.

I've already told her I cannot stand talking on the phone, text is better. She texts, then I reply (at least half an hour later) then she calls.

See? She just called in the middle of me posting...I can't even pee in peace.

So is this your boss, a coworker, a client, or what? I can't fathom why she feels she has the right to call you on your day off and natter about minor things, while also saying she's "worried" if she doesn't hear from you.

If you're not in some way obligated to answer her calls (for instance, you're contracted to provide some on-call hours, or some such), then just don't answer and don't respond to texts. No reply, ever. That's it. She'll eventually stop calling if you never respond, but if you respond even once after 20 calls she just learns she needs to call 20 times to get you to answer.

I've nipped all of these similar situations in the bud right away. Then again, I'm not generally considered a very nice person

RKCNDY

^^^this is my boss...she's...uh, ummmmm....'eccentric' to put it nicely.

Quick phone calls I can deal with, but it's like when she calls, she has no idea what she wants to say and fills up time with mindless yapping while trying to figure out what she wants to say...all while eating...with her mouth open.

Everything she calls about can be said in a text. I need to really make sure she understands this.

oftenreading

RKCNDY said:

^^^this is my boss...she's...uh, ummmmm....'eccentric' to put it nicely.

Quick phone calls I can deal with, but it's like when she calls, she has no idea what she wants to say and fills up time with mindless yapping while trying to figure out what she wants to say...all while eating...with her mouth open.

Everything she calls about can be said in a text. I need to really make sure she understands this.

Okay, boss makes it a little more dicey. I'm guessing you want to stay employed. Maybe only respond to any issue by text. If she phones, let it go to message and then text back your answer, if it deserves an answer. When she tries to phone back, don't answer.

HughFreakingDillon

a girl in our alberta office....constantly calls me to apparently ask me a question.....she is NEVER prepared with what she wants to ask. it's like she looks at a piece of paper, decides "oh HFD will know what this is!", she calls me, mumbles the entire time like she's talking to herself trying to figure out what the effing problem even is, all the while saying "hold on just a sec, I've got it here somewhere". Today, like many times, it's "oh nevermind, I figured it out! sorry". other times I sit and wait for her to mumble her way through the problem until she finally asks me. jesus. be prepared before you call someone! doesn't she know I'm in the middle of posting in AMT????

hedonist

Your end comment made me

Lately I've had a couple people dropping the ball and expecting me to fix it.

NO. I'm not boarding that train, lest they get complacent and think, "oh, she'll take care of it".

If I can catch errors, so can they. Dammit.

FrankieG

dankind said:

There's that asshole who drums along to 10 Club Radio on his desk. What an annoying d--

Oh, wait. That's me.

I caught myself do that today

HesCalledDyer

The laziness extruded by damn near everyone in my office on a daily basis just blows my fucking mind.

HughFreakingDillon

FrankieG said:

dankind said:

There's that asshole who drums along to 10 Club Radio on his desk. What an annoying d--

Oh, wait. That's me.

I caught myself do that today

if only 10 club radio wasn't x-ed out on my screen. I'd love to be able to tune in every day.